When Lin Yuan was having breakfast, Guo Suo brought her a bouquet of flowers, saying that they were sent by Jiang Yangshuo.
The expensive Black Knight roses are paired with light green lisianthus, with exquisite packaging and fragrant aroma. This flower is a valuable, romantic and expensive gift in today's empire.
Lin Yuan took a look and wasn't very interested. They couldn't be eaten, and they weren't as pretty as the flowers that Xunhua planted in the yard.
"Throw it away." Lin Yuan said. She was never lenient towards things she didn't like.
Xiaosuo was very happy. Jiang Xiaochan and the others would come to visit her today, so she could give the flowers to them.
The children could sell such large bouquets of flowers on the street and earn a lot of pocket money.
After a while, Xunhua came in and brought a bouquet with her. She said that when she was pruning the branches, she saw someone put it outside the door.
It was a variety of candies wrapped in bouquet paper and put together into a super big bouquet.
Lin Yuan's eyes lit up at the dazzling array of sweets. He licked his lips and took the bouquet of candy flowers.
Xiaosuo stretched his neck to look.
These days, the young lady often receives various beautifully wrapped gifts, most of which she doesn't care about and just lets herself deal with them.
Guo Suo hoped that she would not want the bouquet of candy flowers, so that she could keep them to treat the children who came to play with her today.
Unfortunately, she was disappointed this time. The lady happily held the huge bouquet and went up to the attic.
Who sent this gift, Xiaosuo wondered.
I think I have figured out Miss Lin Yuan's pulse. Nothing can please her more than candy.
The bouquet was unsigned, a bunch of candies dotted with stars, only one of each flavor, carefully wrapped, and quietly placed outside the courtyard gate in the early morning. It was picked up by the gardener.
Lin Yuan looked at the bouquet of candy flowers and remembered something someone had said to her in a dark maze.
"I'll give you candy, lots and lots of candy."
No one would give her such a gift except Xiaoyu.
Lin Yuan placed the handful of candy by the window.
Outside the window, the sky is azure blue, set against the colorful candy wrappers.
It was as if all kinds of sweetness in the world were collected and presented to her.
Why did Xiaoyu suddenly remember to fulfill his promise, and choose such a quiet morning
Lin Yuan counted the candies and thought that if he ate two or three a day, it would last him a long time.
It's a pleasure to look at.
After breakfast, I packed up my garden and headed to the White Pagoda.
Swipe your ID card and take the elevator to the upper floors.
As the elevator went up, we saw royal soldiers in training and a guide academy taking flower lessons on each floor. Everything in the White Tower seemed to be the same as before, without any change.
In the past few months, Lin Yuan has often received summons from the Queen. He has become accustomed to coming here and no longer needs anyone to lead the way.
Finance Minister Victor is a fat man weighing more than 200 kilograms. On weekdays, he would rather lie down than sit.
When he saw Lin Yuan, he actually jogged along, shouting, "Sister, sister."
He said that he and Lin Yuan both had royal blood, so naturally he should call Lin Yuan "sister".
It was also a pity that Lin Yuan never called him brother.
Lin Yuanbai had lived for more than ten years without any relatives around him. But after being personally commended by the Queen, his relatives suddenly appeared in large numbers like mushrooms after rain.
It seemed as if all of a sudden overnight, those many princes, nobles, and important officials of the empire became Lin Yuan's relatives and treated her with great closeness.
"I was just about to look for you." The Minister of Finance smiled and handed Lin Yuan a packet of information.
"These are all properties under your parents' names. Since you were still a minor, the Empire managed them for you."
"I've specially asked someone to pack it up during this period." He stuffed the thick bag into Lin Yuan's hands, and said with a serious look, "I'm handing it over to you in one piece. Can you see if anything is missing?"
Lin Yuan opened it and shook out several pages of papers and receipts, including property ownership certificates, share agreements, and income statements, all organized in a meticulous and thorough manner.
Lin Yuan flipped through the document bag and a page of records with photos fell out.
The photo was taken quite a long time ago. In a place with heavy snow, a completely burned down holiday villa suddenly appeared in front of Lin Yuan.
At this moment, Lin Yuan was on the upper floor of the White Tower.
No matter what season it is, it looks like spring with blooming flowers. There are spring flowers and autumn trees in the landscaped courtyard, and butterflies dancing among the flowers.
Lin Yuan twisted the photo with her porcelain-white fingers and felt cold all over.
Emotions were dormant in her dark eyes, and she lowered her head and stared at the photo motionlessly.
That was where her childhood nightmare began.
The burning house that she had dreamed of countless times over the years suddenly fell out of the bag and landed in her hands.
Looking at the photo, she could even remember which room she was playing in and how she was picked up by her mother who rushed into the room.
But in the end, my father, my mother and even the old servants in the family were all buried in this snowy villa.
Lin Yuan held the photo motionlessly.
The building in the photo was completely burned down. Among the charcoal-blackened ruins, black windows stood wide open, like wronged souls whose eyes were open after they died.
Victor saw that the little girl didn't look at the property certificate or the bank statement, but only looked at the photo.
I couldn't help but move closer and said, "Don't look at this. This house is burned down and worthless. But there is a vineyard and a winery over here that also belongs to you. That is a mountain of gold. I'll find it and show it to you."
After saying that, he reached out to help Lin Yuan search.
Lin Yuan raised his hand and looked over with his dark eyes, preventing him from touching the information bag again.
He was the Minister of Finance, held the financial power of the empire, and had royal blood flowing in his veins.
It has always been others who are afraid of him, but he has never been afraid of others.
I don't know why, but I sometimes feel intimidated in front of this young guide.
It's like the feeling I had when I was facing that person.
Lin Yuan's attitude was cold, but Victor was not angry and continued to follow her with a smile.
His chubby face was filled with a amiable smile, and no one would be comfortable being too cold to such a person.
But Lin Yuan never uses facial expressions to express other people's emotions, and she is not very good at it.
She only relies on reading the other person's revealed mental state to determine whether the person has good intentions towards her.
The person in front of me had such an artificial smile, but the emotion behind his face was disgusting.
While smiling like this, he was full of disgust, jealousy, contempt for himself, and even had some obscene thoughts.
[It stinks. It stinks.]
[Go faster, I'm going to vomit]
[Why would you want to talk to such a stinking creature?]
[I don’t want to stay even a second longer]
"Wait for me, Xiaoyuan." Victor shook his fat body and followed Lin Yuan all the way. "Don't walk so fast. Xiaoyuan, I'm worried about your safety. If you have nothing to do recently, don't run outside."
He looked around and lowered his voice, "Recently, there have been rebellions."
Lin Yuan paused.
When she was in the White Tower, she had never heard of words like rebellion and treason.
The empire is so powerful and beautiful. There are no rebellious people or things.
But she has been walking between various checkpoints in the past two years and has seen those who are struggling at the bottom of society and can barely survive.
Therefore, she also vaguely knew that there were many people in this world who were dissatisfied with this dark empire and were unwilling to endure this deformed system any longer.
They have suffered too much exploitation and injustice, and they suppress hatred and anger in their hearts. They lurk in the dark night, like stars, scattered in every corner of the empire.
They wanted to fight against this behemoth, to tear down this rotten and smelly white tower.
These people are called rebels and insurgents.
Lin Yuan heard about these people and some of the things they had done.
Lin Yuan didn't think they were bandits or thieves, he just hoped that their fire could burn faster, and that this empire that didn't distinguish between right and wrong and the filthy white tower could be torn down soon.
"It's true. The world has been in turmoil lately. There are rebels everywhere, even in Kyoto." Victor looked worried.
For these nobles who live in Kyoto forever, contaminated areas and mutants are not something to worry about. Instead, they are tools to gain wealth.
The truly terrifying enemies are those traitors who would cause trouble in front of them, carry out assassinations, and sneak into Kyoto.
"I can't put my mind at ease when I think of you, my sister, running around outside. Xiaoyuan, you'd better not go out."
His face was full of sincerity and he looked very worried, as if Lin Yuan was really his closest blood relative.
In fact, he was complaining in his heart that Lin Yuan was a fool and didn't know how to cherish his opportunity that others only wanted.
He didn't understand, since His Majesty liked Lin Yuan so much, why didn't Lin Yuan stay with her more and try to please her.
A guide runs around all day long and no one knows why.
People like them, even if they have royal blood, are not taken seriously by Her Majesty the Queen, and it is so difficult for them to even try their best to see Her Majesty.
"A few days ago, the Royal Guards captured a traitor." Victor approached Lin Yuan and showed off his source of information.
"I heard that His Majesty is personally interrogating him, and even Luther has been held accountable. You'd better be careful when you go up there now."
Lin Yuan climbed to the top of the tower.
The palace on top of the tower was as spacious and silent as ever, filled with the unique aura of His Majesty.
There was a very subtle sound in the hall, a bit like a groan, or a mumbling, accompanied by a sticky twitching sound.
An extremely painful emotion spread to Lin Yuan's feet like a tide. Lin Yuan subconsciously stopped.
The queen was still sitting on the huge throne, dressed in white, with her red lips slightly pursed, with no expression on her face.
Seeing Lin Yuan coming, she seemed a little happier and stretched out her hand to call Lin Yuan over.
"I heard that you've been getting along well with the Sentinels recently."
"How is it? Have you adapted to multiplayer combat?"
"Did you find anything special in the contaminated area?"
The queen on the throne asked gently as always, but Lin Yuan's attention was distracted.
In the shadow of the side hall corridor, there is a huge iron cage, which seems to contain some strange creature.
The faint, intermittent moans that I kept hearing came from that corner.
The corner was too dark to see clearly, but there seemed to be an insect abdomen, human limbs, and struggling wings in the iron cage.
Lin Yuan felt her skin tingling, as if a pair of blood-red eyes were looking through the darkness, staring at them.
The intense pain and hatred surged like cold waves, almost suffocating me.
(End of this chapter)