The Cinder Short Story

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“Cinder”, a third person viewed story, starts with a youthful and gifted girl, Linh Cinder, being described as the best mechanic in New Beijing, China. But many people didn’t know she was a cyborg, as she tended to hide all the robotic parts of herself. During an evening when Cinder was working, the prince of New Beijing, Prince Kaito, came to Cinder to get his android fixed. Since then, Prince Kaito “Kai” flirted with Cinder several times, even when his own father was affected with the plague, a very deadly disease that was spreading through New Beijing, which also murdered Linh Peony, Cinder’s sister. Prince Kai decided to make the “first move” by asking Cinder to a ball that was coming up. But, she rejected him due to the fact that she was

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