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Leona took a step closer to Madeleine.
“You probably don’t know, but I was later accepted into the
Santorian Dance Academy.”
Madeleine’s face was blank.
“Is that so? Well, congratulations.”
It was clear Leona didn’t come with good intentions, and
Madeleine didn’t plan on wasting any more words on her.
She planned to walk around Leona to get to her seat, but Leona
turned and called out to her.
“Madeleine.”
Her voice was much colder than before.
“I looked you up. You stopped dancing. Why?”
Those words struck Madeleine like a bolt of lightning.
Ever since she woke up with amnesia, this was the one thing
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Madeleine couldn’t accept.
She had lost the thing she loved most and had taken a path
completely different from the one she had imagined as a child.
After realizing this was the narrative control, an unavoidable
outcome, she could only keep telling herself to accept it.
She had just managed to come to terms with it, but Leona’s
words easily tore the scab right off.
Simply because it was Leona, the rival she had once respected.
When Madeleine didn’t answer, she narrowed her eyes and
asked again:
“I just saw you talking to a contestant. Are you… family?”
“None of your business.”
After a long moment, Madeleine stiffly forced out the words.
“Are you sure?”
Leona seemed to think of something, a slight smile playing on
her lips as she pulled a work ID from her handbag.
She was… a judge.
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Madeleine’s heart tightened instantly.
Leona was very satisfied with Madeleine’s sudden change in
expression. She dangled the work ID for a moment before
putting it back in her bag.
“So, is it still none of my business?”
Madeleine’s nails dug into her palms. From the years she’d
competed against Leona, she knew her well enough.
She wouldn’t make pointless provocations. By revealing her
identity now, Leona’s intention couldn’t be clearer.
She was using Minerva, who was about to perform, to threaten
Madeleine.
“What do you want?”
“Oh, nothing.”
She scoffed, “I’m just curious. Just how talented can a
contestant be to have the once high and mighty ballet princess,
Madeleine, personally watch over her? I’ll be… paying special
attention.”
“Leona!”
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Madeleine’s breath hitched, and she grew anxious.
“This is between us. Don’t drag someone uninvolved into this.
And,”
Madeleine gritted her teeth, “I always thought our relationship
was purely competitive, that there was no bad blood between
us.”
Even with the rumors back then, she had never schemed
against Leona because of them.
But Leona looked as if she had just heard a hilarious joke.
“A purely competitive relationship?”
Her body shook with laughter.
“Madeleine, do you really have the nerve to say that?
All those rumors about your family bribing their way through the
competition back then, you really think everyone forgot?”
“You said it yourself, they were rumors.”
Madeleine really didn’t expect Leona to remember it to this day.
She felt annoyed. Society was always like this; once your name
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was dragged through the mud, it was impossible to get clean.
Leona took a deep breath.
“Forget it, it’s depressing to talk about that stuff. It’s enough to
know you’re not qualified to be my rival anymore.”
She turned her head, looking at the stage in the distance.
“Back when you had the best resources and everyone put you
on a pedestal, you probably never imagined this day would
come, did you?”
Madeleine gritted her teeth, a tightness in her chest.
Words from someone who knew you best always cut the
deepest.
“If I had known back then that you were so fragile, not even
worthy of being my rival…”
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