My Daughter, Discarded Like Trash

In the revered matriarchal magical House Valerius, baby Ella, bearer of the supreme Pure Gold Bloodline, was destined to be their prophesied Queen. But her jealous aunt Morgan bribed the priests to frame her as the cursed omen that would destroy the clan. Her cold grandmother ordered her to be burned at the stake. Ella’s birth parents, Duchess Octavia and her husband Edmund, helplessly watched their own child bound for the flames. At the last moment, Bram — the simple-minded cleaner shunned by the whole empire — charged into the fire and rescued her with his badly burned hands. Ella’s god-tier magic was sealed by a toxic curse, and her heirloom Star Pendant turned into dull, charred coal. Six years later, magicless Ella is the outcast “magicless trash” of the magic academy, living with her adoptive father Bram. Cruel fate strikes: Ella is brutally beaten by her own blood brother Julian. Duchess Octavia, still grieving for her “dead daughter”, sees the ragged little girl and feels nothing but disgust. She hurls Ella against the sacred blood-test stone. The stone briefly blazes with magnificent golden light, only for the curse to snuff it out. Enraged, the Duchess lets her son try to kill Ella. To protect her, Bram’s spine is savagely severed, left on the brink of death. Desperate for just one gold coin to buy medicine for her dying father, 8-year-old Ella endures humiliation and leaps into the freezing glacial lake amid her brother’s taunts. The frigid water cleanses the charred Star Pendant, reviving its faint ethereal blue glow. When she climbs ashore clutching the lifesaving coin, she comes face-to-face with the Duchess. At the sight of the relic around Ella’s neck, the Duchess is stunned speechless… When Ella’s supreme Pure Gold magic finally shatters the seal and shakes the empire, when the brutal truth is laid bare, the lofty ducal family will drown in endless regret. Battered and wounded, Ella holds her adoptive father’s hand. To her kneeling, weeping bloo