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

exchanged

Despite being challenged from any angle, she maintained her

judge had different preferences, her final score was not the

did not know her score yet, but she felt content and

Grace was there, waiting with enthusiastic applause, visibly

wonderfully. I'm so proud

and said, "I just don't know how many points

patted her shoulder. "Don't worry about it. Go

also watched Violeta's

find any fault

someone relatively new to the industry, Violeta's courage to take the stage without any stage fright and deliver

where she

was Violeta's improvement. Compared to the previous Moon Festival, Violeta was

Vivian had referenced before truly applied to

it was up to chance whether she would win an award. At

"Ms. Montclair."

her coat

"Where is the competition?"

"Violeta just finished her

How did she

"She did

this was

troupe could not earn such a

and took out her phone, saying lightly, "You think so, too? Then it must have been quite

of darkness flashed in her

husband just called, asking you to

bit impatient, did