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.

...

was the only solo

performance, several judges nodded and exchanged looks, all

skills. Despite being challenged

different preferences, her final score was not the highest, but it was still

score yet, but she felt content and without

was

danced wonderfully. I'm so

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

her shoulder. "Don't worry about it.

also watched

not find

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

first major performance, where she was nervous and stumbled in

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

referenced before truly applied to

up to chance whether she would win an award.

"Ms. Montclair."

put on her coat

"Where is the competition?"

"Violeta just

asked, "Oh? How did she

responded, "She did

this

troupe could not

out her phone, saying lightly, "You think

her eyes when she saw the

"Your husband just called, asking you to

bit impatient, did not