The Glass Weaver of Olenka

For nineteen years, Anja Mrazova has known only the cold bite of her stepfather's belt and the sharper sting of her mother's disdain. Trapped in a soot-stained attic with her frail younger brother, her only solace is her secret art: crafting delicate sculptures from scavenged shards of glass. One bleak morning, a lacquered box arrives containing a single, perfect teardrop of obsidian sand and a cryptic summons to the prestigious Zorya Academy of Luminal Arts. There, she discovers her suffering has awakened a long-lost magic - the power to spin solidified emotions into breathtaking glass tapestries. With this newfound ability, Anja begins to weave a cold, calculated revenge, aiming to shatter her family's reputation and fortune. Yet, the more she pours her pain into her art, the more she realizes the Academy's patronage is not a gift, but a cage. Why did her childhood friend, the enigmatic Lord Kasian, orchestrate her entry into this gilded world, and what is the true, devastating cost of weaving her sorrow into power?