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.

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was the only solo

nodded and exchanged looks, all agreeing she had danced

being challenged from

had different preferences, her final score was not the highest, but

know her score yet, but she felt content and

the stage, Grace was

wonderfully. I'm so proud

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

patted her shoulder. "Don't worry

also watched Violeta's

not find

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

remembered her own first major performance, where she

more was Violeta's improvement. Compared to the previous

talent Vivian had referenced before truly applied

it was up to chance whether she would win

"Ms. Montclair."

put on her

"Where is the competition?"

"Violeta just

How did

responded, "She did very

high standards, this was

many people in their dance troupe could not

phone, saying lightly, "You

hint of darkness flashed in her eyes when

husband just called, asking you to call him back when

impatient,