I wasn't born with anything.
No bloodline.
No power.
No special talent worth mentioning.
In a world where power and legacy shaped the rules, my family had neither of them.
Do you know what that was supposed to mean?
I was never supposed to dream big.
In this world, people like me could only exist; we could work, breathe, but never rise. We could never be seen.
The rules here were kind enough to let us live, but cruel enough to make sure we stayed small.
I worked hard enough till my bones ached, but still saw the reward being handed to someone better born.
I saw efforts losing to bloodlines.
I saw fate reward those who already had everything.
And after living fourteen long years in this world, I learned something that no one ever bothered to tell me—
This world never cared about us. All it ever cared about was power. Raw and merciless.
And... I accepted it. Because what else could I possibly do? I endured because that was all I was permitted to do!
But everything changed that day, when a single opportunity knocked on my door; an academy invitation letter that I was never supposed to receive.
Maybe... fate had mercy for me!
Maybe that was why a door suddenly opened enough for someone like me to slip through.
And that day, I made a decision.
If everything in this world could be taken, why couldn't it all be mine?
If this world expected people like me to disappear, I'd refuse to fade quietly.
If this world insisted that I deserve nothing, then I'd take everything.
Because even an underdog could have it all.
And no one ever said that I had to play fair.