The Yasori city-state is the largest city-state in the world of Minseton.
It is the most prosperous and the most corrupt.
In the city-state of Yasori, there is the most prosperous east district. The streets in the east district have the most complete sewers, and the roads are always clean and tidy. There are often nobles wearing bright silks speeding past in carriages.
The West End is the complete opposite.
It is full of sin and depravity, and has the largest slum in Mintheton. Walking on the road, not only have to beware of pickpockets that can be seen everywhere, but also have to be alert to the domestic sewage poured from the street at any time.
The whole street was filled with a fishy smell.
There is no one to clean up the feces and sewage.
And on this day, the West End, where few nobles are willing to set foot, ushered in a pair of strange guests—
A man and a woman.
The man wrapped himself in a cloak, looking mysterious, but the girl didn't hide it. She generously showed her outstanding beauty to everyone, with golden wavy long hair, skin whiter and more delicate than milk, and a pair of mysterious and cold blue eyes.
When those blue eyes looked at you, everyone's hearts couldn't help trembling and palpitations—
It seemed that at that moment, all the secrets in my heart could not be hidden.
They wandered leisurely through the chaotic West End, bearing casual aristocratic elegance, and wearing silk clothes that ordinary people daunted: everything was incompatible with this messy place.
People in the West End looked at them strangely.
They discussed excitedly in the dark, making up one bloody and exaggerated story after another for them.
"Oh, hell, why did these noble lords come to the West End? Could it be that the East End can't hold their noble bodies?"
"No, no, look at the clothes on them. They must be enjoyed by the most noble grand dukes... I used to work for Earl Anthony's house in the East District for a while, and the lady of the earl's family didn't have such decent and beautiful clothes. Like the clouds in the sky..."
"Sannie, look, they didn't wear thick pearl powder on their faces, nor did they wear noble wigs... Maybe, it's just that the young master of a certain noble family eloped with his girlfriend and came to hide in our East District for a while?"
"I like them!" one claimed, "not like those aristocrats with eyes that grow to the top of their heads, and they don't hold their noses and say 'oh these filthy filthy sewer bugs'..."
"Hush, that's a nobleman."
The dark conversation broke off.
"You said..." After a long time, someone asked softly, "Could they come for that...?"
"That? You mean the crack that appeared near the Dark Apostle's house?... There have been several waves of people from the East District... I remember the earliest people were from the Temple of Light, and they lost an entire cavalier team... Recently, a few nobles came Sirs? Their abilities are stronger, but it seems that two noble gentlemen were sucked into the crack... It's terrible... "
"I hope they are not, I heard that it is a conspiracy of the dark cultists..."
Thinking of the bleak situation when the light disappeared from the earth and the world was shrouded in darkness a month ago, everyone fell silent.
And Liu Yu, who is the central figure of the topic, carefully lifted the hem of his skirt and walked around a suspicious sewage road.
Of course, she was not as calm as people discussed, and when she first stepped into this street, she was almost suffocated by various mixed smells in the air.
It was like being put into a stinky fishbowl—
But all the discomfort was swept away when Gaia fell beside her.
She seemed to be lifted out of a stinky fish tank and put into a world of singing birds and flowers.
The tip of the nose is wrapped in the clear scent of youth like pine and snow.
But the dull feeling didn't go away.
It seems that even the sky in the West District is covered with a layer of dull gray. Most of the passers-by on the road are dressed in rough linen clothes with patches on top of each other, and even their complexions are gloomy. They seemed to be tortured by life and lost their temper. When they saw her, they either ran away from her, or they planned to make a fortune on these "fat fish" with their own ideas.
She looks aside.
The young man's whole body was covered in a gorgeous black gold silk cloak, only a white and delicate chin could be vaguely seen, and a strand of black hair was floating out—
When he came to the world of Minserton, he changed back.
"Mr. Leslie, I thought there would be no place like this in a world ruled by light."
"Where there is light, there is shadow."
The young man turned his head, and the lake green eyes met her in an instant—
Liu Yu was speechless.
He is so beautiful.
Especially when the distance is so close, Namei doesn't hide it, and even more rampant towards her——
And obviously, he himself knows this well.
Liu Yu moved his eyes away, but when his eyes fell to the dark place in the street—
A street girl was pressed against the wall by a rude man, her skirt was lifted high, and she could clearly see the transaction over there.
And along the way, she has seen many similar scenes.
After negotiating the price, you can have sex in any dark place. In the West District, it seems that even shame is a luxury.
Liu Yu even imagined that if she was not wearing Belia Fergus, not a viscount's daughter, but a daughter-in-law in the West District, even a full stomach would be a luxury—what would she do
"Sir, for a rupee, a rupee, you can do anything to me."
At this time, a street girl reached out to stop them—
To be precise, Gaia was stopped.
She looks good, but her skin is a little rough from the wind and sun all year round, and she has gray eyes.
When the eyes squinted to look at people, there was a special charm and coquettishness.
Probably very confident, but when his eyes touched the face under the cloak, he actually felt a bit ashamed.
The young man's cold gaze passed her, and he led the girl past her.
The street girl finally came to her senses, and quickly raised her skirt to catch up:
"Wait! Wait! Sir—"
Suddenly, a wind blew over.
The street girl was blinded by the wind and sand, and when she opened her eyes again, she couldn't see the shadow of the couple.
"Rotty, don't dream! Why would the noble masters in this world fall in love with you as a street girl?"
The street girl said viciously:
"Bah! There will always be a noble person who will willingly take me out of this damn West End! Oh, there are bedbugs everywhere... If I don't plan for myself, I will either get sick and die here, or I will be old and have no guests one day starved to death..."
After finishing speaking, the man already greeted a regular customer with a charming smile:
"Ten rupees a time, sir..."
She touched the other's chest suggestively, and the two tugged to the dark alley.
When the ambiguous panting sounded, Liu Yu had already turned to another street.
The further the street goes, the closer it gets to the slums.
And her mood became more and more gloomy, as if covered with a layer of dust that could not be wiped off.
Liu Yu found that the world was not as beautiful as she saw when she first traveled through time, nor was it as boasted by the Holy See of Light...
The poorer you are, the more sinful you are.
And the crime here, even the light can't cover it.
She saw with her own eyes a woman with her legs spread apart, giving birth to a thin yellow baby with blood in the middle of the road.
The woman left after giving birth, and the baby was just abandoned on the side of the road, kicking its legs and crying.
Pedestrians come and go, as if it is commonplace.
In the end, she took out a Holy Crystal of Light and asked someone to send him to a nearby orphanage—
"Orphanage? What's that place?"
Passers-by asked her strangely.
He was dressed in tatters, and his cheeks were sunken because of his thinness.
"It's where abandoned children can be raised."
"There is no place like that... However, there is a shelter in the East District, which is run by the temple. The shelter is full of widows working, and the nobles make jokes. The unwanted children are thrown into the shelter... 100 yuan a month Rupee, babies are more expensive, one hundred and fifty yuan... As for us, if we can meet kind-hearted people, we can live slowly if we give them something to eat... Otherwise, after a few days, they will be stinky, and they will be thrown with those stinky fish In the river..."
His face was numb.
"It's abandonment."
"Abandoned?" A passer-by shook his head, "It's still good, maybe some kind-hearted people will pass by and take him back...but some baby girls are strangled to death when they are born."
"why?"
Liu Yu's throat seemed to be blocked by a stone.
She thought of the girl in the tutu at Nathaniel's tavern.
"Girls are in trouble. When they grow up, they have to prepare a dowry... If you don't have one, you can't get married."
Liu Yu couldn't help but look at the dilapidated house with low and narrow eaves...
What kind of world is this
Tang Ying has been living...is this the place
But in his diary, life is full of sunshine.
"Take him to a shelter."
Suddenly, a beautiful voice sounded, and the young man's slender jade-like fingers under the black robe picked up the bright holy crystal in her palm and threw it into the passerby's hand, "Leave a full ten years of child support."
The Holy Crystal of Light is the most expensive and rarest currency in the world.
It cannot be measured in rupees—
Even if you have to leave ten years of child support, there is still a lot of money left over.
Passers-by were overjoyed:
"Of course, my lord, I'll send it right away."
As if he was afraid that they would repent, he ran out of the West District with the baby in his arms.
Liu Yu watched him run all the way out of the West District, and then looked away.
The man dared not deceive a nobleman.
"Berry..."
At this time, a fluffy, cotton candy-like thing stood in front of her.
"Marshmallow?"
Only then did Liu Yu realize that Gaia had stood in front of her at some point, holding a big pink cotton candy in his hand.
The gorgeous and rich gold silk cloak matched the gorgeous and delicate face of the other party, especially the black hair flowing down like satin—
But such a person is holding something that looks like it can coax a child.
"...you can name it that."
he said.
For some reason, Liu Yu heard a hint of joy from the calm tone of the person in front of him.
But looking up, the green eyes on the young man's pale and beautiful face were like a calm lake, with no ripples when the wind passed by.
He looked at her quietly.
"...Oh." Liu Yu took the bamboo stick, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, "Let's go."
The marshmallow was bitten into the mouth and turned into sugar water.
Sweet.
She remembered Gaia's declaration in the land of mist, he said, to be her mother, her father, friend, husband...
So, is this coaxing her with marshmallows
Liu Yu took a bite of the marshmallow, then looked at Gaia again, he was looking at her without blinking, with deep green eyes.
Facing those eyes, her heart felt like being bitten by an ant lightly, a little itchy, a little numb, and a little... trembling.
"I want to kiss you."
he said suddenly.
Liu Yu directly stuffed the marshmallow into his mouth and clapped his hands:
"Come on, honey—"
She dragged her voice: "Lai, S, Li, Mom, Mom."