Divine Medicine Valley, inside a finely decorated bamboo room.
Mandy sat at the edge of the bed, carefully examining the bracelet in her hand. On the edge of the bracelet, two tiny characters were engraved—Bertram.
Her tears quietly rolled down.
"Bertram… Even if you do not love me, even if you refuse to be with me, even if you love Ina and Ida instead, I wouldn't care. But why did you abandon me? Why did you leave like that… without even saying goodbye?"
Tears flowed, drop by drop, as Mandy gently wiped them away, her exquisite eyes softly closing.
As memories of her days with Bertram surged back, her heart felt like it was being torn apart.
It was a day more than thirty years ago.
She had gone to the Southern Barbarian Tribe to gather herbs and encountered the Barbarian King, Bertram Jaak, while he was out hunting.
