Industrial Cthulhu: Starting as an Island Lord - Chapter 226: Another One Who Only Listens Without Speaking

A Consort seeks prosperity.A Shepherd cloaked in yellow wages war.A Prosthesis-wielder cries out for retribution.Shadows tremble in the depths, encompassed worlds obscuring the many dangerous secrets of history. Might they be unraveled, all ways of life would be threatened. But to climb higher requires risks, to seek the light requires a Gambit of Lifetimes.Only when one determines themselves capable of risking it all, can all prosper.

Word went around that no one that had ever knocked on the esteemed Eleazar family’s doors seeking shelter were turned away.Fleeing the prince of Lustris no less, Arabella Sterling held out hope that those weren’t mere rumors as she crossed the border over to Umbraria, home to all creatures of the night. A land where noble blood like hers was a highly coveted delicacy.As such, she wasn’t turned away, but since the Eleazars ran no charity, Arabella was compelled to become the sole blood provider to the heir of the family in exchange for safety.Though never, in a million years, did she imagine that what had started as a simple trade off, could morph into a swirl of tangled passion when the cold and stoic vampire she served showed interest in the young woman beyond the crimson nectar coursing her veins.

She walked down the aisle for love.She walked into the fire for loyalty.Then she vanished — burned, broken, and buried by betrayal.Ally Miller gave up her crown for Nick Carter — trading wealth and power for a man who promised forever.But forever ended the moment he brought home another woman… pregnant with his child.And Ally? She was already carrying his.Heart crushed. Name erased.Left in the storm with nothing but a suitcase and a secret…She thought she'd hit rock bottom.Until a screech of tires stole her last reason to live — and shattered her face beyond recognition.To the world, she was gone.Dead. Forgotten.But Ally Miller didn’t die that morning .She was reborn.Seven years later, she returns as Samantha Bradley — stunning, ruthless, untouchable.A self-made billionaire with a killer wardrobe, a colder heart, and a name forged in power.He doesn’t recognize her.But she remembers everything.This time, she’s not here to cry.She’s here to ruin him.To expose secrets, tear down empires, and take back the life they stole.And she’ll do it wearing red heels — because nothing screams revenge like a woman who walks with purpose… and no mercy.

A lonely soul, which was placed under the care of the Lord Protector’s Manor, ended up having her lover stolen by the family’s eldest daughter and dying tragically the day before her wedding.

Somehow, she was reborn in the family as their 14-year-old first wife’s daughter, Ning Xueyan, with a startlingly familiar face.

Step by step, she will ruthlessly scheme to seek revenge as well as uncover the mystery of her tragic death.

Her former fiancee, the flirty crown prince and the bloodthirsty prince, will now bear witness to a vengeful Ning Xueyan becoming the peerless lady of her generation…

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