Cortana Lustre had always been an arrogant woman. She believed the world revolved around her. For as long as she has been born, the world indeed revolved around her.
When she was young, she was called the most beautiful woman in the thousand kingdoms.
With her blonde hair which gleamed in the sun like gold, and her emerald eyes which were on par with jewels, and her family wealth, which they sat upon a gold mine, a father who's both powerful and doting, it's impossible not to think so.
Her first setback came when she was eighteen.
The Drakon prince from the eastern empire was visiting, and a young Cortana naturally assumed he heard of her beauty and came to court her.
With one look, he would fall at her feet, with another look, he would start worshipping her, and with a kiss, he would be sealed as her slave, is what she thought.
Ofcourse, imagination is rich and reality is skinny.