They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 366: Strange Girl

Her brother had always been an excellent judge of character, and Juliet trusted his instincts, even when she did not want to admit it.

Maybe she had miscalculated.

And maybe, just maybe, it was time to let go of the whole revenge thing.

She turned on her heels and walked away before any of them could respond. She did not need their acceptance. As long as she did not run into Nnenna again, she would move on.

The three girls were left standing, stunned. The whole thing had taken less than a minute. But they didn’t dwell on it for long, they had somewhere to be.

They were off to celebrate Nnenna’s upcoming move to university, and time was short. She still had to pack.

Juliet’s half baked apology didn’t change much, but it didn’t ruin anything either.

They headed to a nearby restaurant and ordered quite a bit of food. Thankfully, Lilian and Kosi were genuinely hungry, it was their lunch break, after all.

Nnenna, on the other hand, could barely touch her meal. She had just eaten at the old man’s shop earlier, and her stomach was still full.

But that worked in her favor.

She kept her mask on the entire time, using her full belly as an excuse not to eat. Before now, she always had to awkwardly remove the mask while eating, then rush to cover her face again. Now, she could simply keep it on. No questions asked.

After their meal, Lilian and Kosi walked her part of the way, chatting and teasing her about university life, before bidding her farewell with warm hugs and promises to stay in touch. Nnenna smiled, waved, and turned back toward the castle.

But instead of taking the usual route, she took a longer path, through the lively market she had discovered the first day she exited through the castle’s hidden passage.

felt like a lifetime

air buzzed with noise, vendors shouting, children laughing, the scent of

maybe it was just the

So much had changed.

to Lionara after school? Would this place

She wasn’t sure.

Her second and fourth brothers still treated her like she didn’t belong. And with the king, the person who adopted her, gone, the castle sometimes felt colder

down, she

to find a

could never forget the newly built bond she now shared with her

in a place where she still didn’t feel

if she didn’t return, right? She could stay in touch, visit now and then… distance didn’t have to

a quiet storm as she strolled through the

Then

“Look out!”

shout snapped her

thinking, Nnenna leapt to the side just as a wild horse thundered past her, hooves pounding against the ground like drums of war. Dust flew up into the air, and before she could even breathe, the rider, a young woman, was flung off the

Nnenna gasped.

roadside hard, tumbling across the dirt. Nnenna didn’t hesitate. She rushed forward and knelt beside her, her hands careful as she assessed her condition. “Are you

her breath and slowly sitting up.

for signs

or something. Maybe it’s blind in one eye, I don’t know.” She gave a small shrug. “Anyway, I

walk off, just like that. Still

she had only stumbled on a pebble?