The corners of her eyes watered when she saw her own reflection in a mirror, with the thunder that had been seen several times from the sky looming over her. She didn't light enough, other than a trident-like candle that she put beside the mirror—making it seem like she was in another world or one of the parts of the creatures that humans fear.

She didn't rub the tears on her cheeks and let the tracks slip through, not caring that his appearance would look so messy. Footsteps approached her room, and without moving, the brown-haired woman still stared at herself in front of a mirror.

"Again you left your room dark and stood in front of the mirror as if giving yourself one last goodbye, Katherine." The chubby woman walked around the room by turning on the lights, making Katherine's room look alive with white and gold predominance.

A luxurious room, with Katherine's beautiful face, could still make her sad to lock herself in a room without any light. "I'm contemplating, mother," said Kath, this time wiping her tears slowly. She then turned to the side of the bed and sat there.

The mother approached her and caressed Kath's cheek affectionately, even though the feeling didn't reach Kath's heart at this time. "I don't want you to be like this, honey. Leaving yourself alone in a room with darkness will make you sadder; that's definitely the wrong way to reflect," said her mother, though her perception was conflicting for Kath.

"So what's going on this time?" Kath diverted the topic of their conversation, not wanting her mother to interfere with her personal matters too much. The girl's feet were now leading her to a grand piano, which was located right in the middle of her bedroom window.

"Oh dear Kath, don't play the piano in the middle of thunder like this." But Kath didn't heed it; she kept pressing the piano keys following her heart's desire even though the flash in the sky was right at her window.

"Go see Viscountess Russell; your sister needs you." Kath stopped playing the piano instantly; the woman she called her mother behind her had just asked her not to play the piano in the middle of thunder that would soon pour down heavy rain outside, for fear of endangering Kath herself.

But a few moments later, the woman instead asked her to take a long trip to her beloved daughter's mansion in the middle of the pouring rain out there. "Okay." There was nothing Kath could do other than comply with her mother's request; after all, her older sister—more precisely, her stepsister and stepmother—had volunteered to take care of her since she was small.

While Kath was changing her clothes, the woman was pacing back and forth cleaning Kath's room, which was a bit messy, saying that her daughter Eleana Russell was again fighting with her husband, Viscount Thomas, who allegedly still loved his former lover from Glasgow, the daughter of the most respected baron James Orva, so he often left the house, leaving Eleana, the sister of Kath who was pregnant, to be left in her mansion alone.

"I can't stop thinking about that temptress; she's not even as beautiful as my daughter Elea." Her words stopped suddenly.

Kath turned her attention to her mother when she was about to put on her coat because she was surprised by the behavior of her mother, who suddenly stopped their conversation. A well-dressed man stood in front of Kath's open room, flashing a smile at her mother.

The mother was silent because she was amazed at the figure of a man who was maybe ten years younger than her. "Rowenaa." called the man in a disgusting tone, then stretched out his hand with a rose in his right hand. The mother, Rowena, ran into the man's arms. They didn't even hesitate to do a hot kiss in front of Katherine's room.

"Don't sleep in my room," Kath said, reaching for the lock on the back of the door and turning to lock it from the outside. Kath was moving past them when the man from Rowena gave Kath a wink in the middle of his kiss with Rowena. Kath only returned him with a cold stare—actually quite embarrassed by the behavior of the mother, who looked like a woman who had no self-esteem, not to mention the men who came without knocking on the door could have done evil deeds and abused Kath if Rowena wasn't there.

The raindrops made Kath stop for a moment and look up at the dark sky. Sighing, she resumed walking on a white horse that would accompany her to her sister's mansion. During the endless journey, Kath cursed her fate that she had to live with Rowena and Eleana. The two women arrived at her house when she was about eight years old and Eleana.

The father argued that Rowena was the wife of a friend who had to live with them while Rowena's husband was out of Europe for work. It had never crossed Kath's mind that the two women would wreak havoc on her family, nor did she realize that her resemblance to Eleana was a line passed down from her father.

Until then, Kath's biological mother cried every night, forcing her to die in an unnatural way, and she was unable to get evidence of her mother's death, which at that time was full of servants saying that Rowena was involved in it.

Kath didn't know what Rowena's kindness motive was for taking care of her since she was little, even though her father was no longer among them. Now that was Kath's only reason for staying with Rowena as a return. Kath's white horse ran very fast; it was alleged that it was the raindrops that made the rider race at a speed above normal.

Her white horse slipped several times while crossing the slippery road that had been drenched in rain, but that didn't necessarily shake Kath's balance, which several times was out of her mind while riding.