The lab was dead quiet, except for the rhythmic clack of Red Widow's mechanical keyboard.
The flickering monitors cast a ghostly blue glow across her face — unreadable, but focused like a sniper's aim.
Aurora High's server had finally opened
It had taken weeks of ghost routing, virus layering, and backdoor decoding.
But she was in.
And now?
She wasn't looking for gossip.
She was hunting truth .
> "Student files. Grades. Medical reports. Ugh. All distractions," she muttered.
Then she found it — buried beneath three encrypted firewalls.
A folder marked : AURORA'S LEGACY PROJECT
Her fingers hovered over the enter key.
Something about it… felt off.
But Red Widow didn't hesitate.
She cracked it.
The screen flashed, and rows of data unfolded like blades.
**Velasquez. De León. Aragon. Bautista.**
Old money. Bloodlines. Empire.
She scrolled past student records and into something labeled *PRIVADOS: CONFIDENCIAL*.
That's where she saw it.
> *"Contract No. 77-B: Velasquez/De León — Strategic Merger via Matrimonial Union."*
She froze.
Read it again.
No. She wasn't hallucinating.
There it was:
> **Seraphina Isolde Velasquez, heiress of Velasquez Group**
> and
> **kairo Andres Dè Leon, successor to De León International**
> *To be engaged by age 18. Married by 21. Terms: full consolidation of corporate assets, media control, and joint stock integration.*
Red Widow's throat tightened.
This wasn't just a secret.
It was **a sentence.**
She slammed her hand against the table.
> "They planned her life like a business deal."
She opened another tab — hacking into the internal camera system.
She pulled up Sera's dorm.
There the girl was: quiet, calm, deadly on the outside…
but Red had seen that stillness before.
**It was the kind right before someone snaps.**
Red sat back in her chair, jaw clenched.
This wasn't what they agreed to.
Sera wanted revenge, yes — but not this kind of cage.
> "They made you their pawn before you were even born," Red whispered to the screen.
> "No wonder you chose to burn the board."
But deep down?
This wasn't just about Sera.
**Red had her own reasons** for breaking Aurora's secrets.
And this marriage contract?
Might be the key to **burning the entire empire.**
She cracked her knuckles, launched a new encryption sequence, and sent the file to Sera's private drive.
No message.
Just the truth.
> *Let the queen see her chains.*
And let the world watch her set them on fire.