vainglory"The mortal world is fleeting, but there are things that will not change so easily. A hundred years from now, perhaps, all things might be different. But then, my beauty would have faded, my body reduced to withered bones. This garment, too, will by then have grown dull, no matter how opulent it may have been in its prime. But so long as I live, riches uncounted shall be at my disposal, as shall the Tianquan's authority, so vested in me. I will live this life to the full — lacking not at all for power, wealth, or friends. Was this not what I resolved to do from the beginning? If so, then how could I simply allow myself to fall into this pit — to lose my wits because of a moment's emptiness? Life must be treasured precisely because it is fleeting. But a thousand, even ten thousand years from now, those who come after will remember this name — Ningguang."
As she returned to the feast, her heart was clear.
And when she emerged before the crowd again, the Tianquan Ningguang wore that calm, self-assured smile once more.
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