The endgame for Wallis and her mother had always been bloodline integration, with their own children all groomed to be the next generation of Scholars.

Rachel was a product of the doctrine, groomed as a Scholar by her mother since she was a child, with a poison planted inside her body for insurance.

Being raised in the west, she almost instinctively resisted the doctrine, but Wallis told her that it was simply futile—that she'd just die for it. After all, if their cover got blown, the Qing E