Everything I Carry (She has everything, except herself!)
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She is the eldest daughter of a powerful, traditional family-raised inside a mansion too grand to ever feel like home. To the world, she is the perfect child: disciplined, polite, brilliant in her studies, never faltering, never disappointing. Every smile she wears lights up her household, every achievement adds to her family's pride. She has been moulded like a project, taught how to behave, how to shine, how to never stray from the image her family crafted for her.
But behind closed doors, when she steps into her library, the mask slips. Her smile fades. The exhaustion seeps in. There, away from watchful eyes, she is not the perfect daughter-she is simply a girl suffocating under expectations, desperate to breathe, to be more than a reflection of what others want her to be.
This is the story of a girl who has everything-yet feels she has nothing of her own. A journey through silence, storms, and the search for a self that was never allowed to exist.
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