The CEO WHO NEVER LOVE

The moment I returned home, I knew something was wrong. The usually peaceful courtyard was silent. Even the servants avoided looking directly at me. I stepped through the wooden doors and found my mother standing in the middle of the hall. Her face was pale. “Where have you been?” she asked. I lowered my eyes. “I went to the market.” She walked toward me slowly. “Don’t lie to me, Mei Lin.” My heart stopped. My mother rarely called me by my full name. “What happened?” I whispered. Before she could answer, a loud crash came from the room behind us. My younger brother ran into the hall. “Mother! The ancestral box is glowing again!” Everyone froze. My mother immediately grabbed my wrist. “Take me to it.” We hurried into the ancestral room. At the center of the room was an old wooden box covered in strange symbols. It had belonged to our family for generations. But tonight, something was different. A faint blue light escaped from beneath its lid. I stared at it. “I've never seen it do that before.” My mother looked at me with fear in her eyes. “That is because it has been waiting for you.” “For me?” She nodded. Then the box opened by itself. A gust of wind swept through the room, extinguishing every candle. And suddenly, I heard a man's voice. “The seal has awakened.” I stepped backward. “Who said that?” Nobody answered. Then a strange mark appeared on my wrist—the same symbol I had seen earlier that day. My mother gasped. “No…” “What is it?” She pulled my sleeve over it. “You were never supposed to meet him.” My blood ran cold. “Him?” She looked toward the window. “The man from the royal kingdom.” My heart began pounding. The mysterious man from earlier. The cold man whose eyes had made me feel something I couldn't explain. “You know him?” My mother didn't answer. Instead, she whispered, “He isn't simply a man.” Thunder shook the palace. And somewhere far away, a powerful figure opened his eyes. He felt it. The awakening. For the first time in hundreds of years, the ancient power had returned. And it had chosen her. Back in the ancestral room, I stared at my glowing wrist. “Mother… who am I?” She closed her eyes. Then she finally said the words that would change my life forever. “You are the last daughter of the Moon Bloodline.” I couldn't breathe. “And he,” she continued, “is the man your ancestors swore you would never love.” To be continued...