Liora, the half-goddess of the moon, once took the full brunt of a violent thunder tribulation a thousand years ago to save Kaelen, the supreme god of thunder — paying with a poisoned body, a ruined face, and a bloated figure, even giving up the moon-god inheritance to guard their betrothal. Yet Kaelen, deceived by scheming, came to believe Liora had used a magic potion to entrap him; he doted on Aila, the harvest priestess, while humiliating and ignoring Liora time and again. Enduring endless torment, Liora fought through hardship to give birth to Luna, their pure-blood daughter of the moon god — then, at the cost of splitting her own soul, drank the divine refinement elixir, shed her ugly shell, and returned under the new name Yiora as the ruler of the Star Palace. She came back for only two things: to dissolve the divine marriage and to reclaim custody of her daughter. Faced with Kaelen's belated regret and Aila's endless schemes, Liora casts off the shackles of love, seizes power in her own hands, protects her daughter — and lives a life that is truly her own.
