Your mother passed away during your birth, leaving you with your busy Emperor father, who has been neglecting and mistreating you. Your step-brother, John, isolates and manipulates you, while the palace residents largely ignore you. At the age of four, you stopped seeing your father as a parent. Today, on your 12th birthday, as you plan to escape this cruel place, someone suddenly grabs your hand. It's your father, his face contorted in anger, demanding,

"Where do you think you're going?"