Phoenix Rising: From Heartache to Heroism

Chapter 299 Violeta's Performance

At the front, Violeta finally took the stage.

Irene happily started recording and watched her daughter perform with joy.

Initially, she was delighted, but as she watched, her eyes filled with tears, and she covered her mouth, overwhelmed with emotion.

No one understood better than Irene what it meant for each minute on stage to represent ten years of hard work offstage.

Her daughter danced so beautifully; how much hardship had she endured in private?

Irene was past the prime childbearing age when she was pregnant with Violeta.

To protect the pregnancy, she endured numerous injections, eagerly awaiting her daughter's arrival.

After the birth, the baby was taken away for cleaning.

When she was returned, Irene's first instinct was that the child was not hers, but her efforts to investigate led nowhere. Misunderstandings had kept her and her daughter apart for many years.

Irene often felt a deep sense of guilt towards her.

The one solace was that Violeta's adoptive parents were not struggling financially.

Yet, after Violeta returned home, Irene often sensed that she was different from other girls from wealthy families.

Irene did not need a daughter who was already so mature, but she could not change the past.

As Violeta danced gracefully on stage to the sound of applause, Irene alone cried beneath the stage.

...

the only

and exchanged looks, all agreeing

being challenged from any angle, she maintained her composure,

her final score was

know her score yet, but she

stepped off the stage, Grace was there, waiting with enthusiastic

you danced wonderfully. I'm so

Parker." Violeta hugged Grace and said, "I just don't know

shoulder. "Don't worry about it. Go and

also watched

not find any

to the industry, Violeta's courage to take the stage without any stage

major performance, where she

was Violeta's improvement. Compared to the previous Moon Festival, Violeta was clearly superior this time, reaching

talent Vivian had referenced before truly applied

would win an award.

"Ms. Montclair."

on her coat and

"Where is the competition?"

"Violeta just finished

How did

"She

high standards, this

people in their dance troupe could

"You think so, too? Then it must have been quite

of darkness flashed in her eyes

called, asking you to call him back when you

bit impatient, did not