"engagement?"
Char repeated the other person's words and glanced at the elegant and decent butler in front of him: "I thought you came here to settle accounts with me because I exposed the Sinful Thorn Club..."
"How could that be? Master Xia, you are worrying too much."
Lille still maintained a humble smile: "That kind of extravagant and decadent den is not tolerated by the world and should have been eradicated long ago."
"In fact, some people in the family have always been dissatisfied with the chaotic public security in Diwell Port, but we don't have the power to enforce the law after all. If you and the military can send people to eradicate it, it will undoubtedly make us feel more at ease."
"By the way, Master Xia, please wait for a moment."
After bowing to Char with impeccable manners, Lill turned around and walked back into the carriage.
Then, he walked out holding a wooden box in his hands.
"Master Xia, please accept it."
...
...
Char glanced at Lil, who was a title-level beastmaster but called himself an old servant, and took the wooden box and opened it.
Inside the wooden box is a letter with a red cover and a scarlet rose in the lower left corner, indicating that it comes from the Borgia family, the "Scarlet Rose".
In the upper right corner are three cherry red roses.
In the aristocratic circles of the Foresta Empire, such a mark on a letter means that it is a marriage certificate.
Generally speaking, when the heads of the two noble families have completed negotiations and weighed the pros and cons and reached a consensus on interests, they will issue such a marriage certificate to both parties of the engagement.
On the cover of the letter was written a line of gold-plated fonts - "To Char Ingulite"
Char frowned and looked up at Lil in front of him.
"My last name is not Ingullet."
"Besides, I never remember ever having made an engagement with the eldest lady in your family..."
…
"That was the marriage contract that Master Xia's elder arranged for you when my eldest daughter was just born."
"You were only a few months old at the time, so naturally you don't remember it."
Lill looked at Char with a kind face, like a kind elder.
"When Borgia and the Ingulite family made an engagement, I also went to Ceylon with the head of the family..."
"Besides, I also held you, Master Xia, when you were still in your cradle. But you didn't remember it at the time, and you may have forgotten it long ago."
There was a trace of deep regret and sorrow in Lil's old eyes.
"Our head of the family and your father, Master Xia, have agreed that the terms of the marriage contract will be announced to you when you and the eldest lady are both seventeen years old."
"only--"
“No one could have imagined that such a horrific tragedy would happen in Ceylon.”
"We had originally agreed to drink wine together as relatives at the wedding of Master Xia and Miss, but now, it has become a farewell forever..."
As he spoke, Lill took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the corners of his eyes.
"At that time, everyone thought that no one in Ceylon was left alive in that tragedy..."
"But I didn't expect that Master Xia would miraculously survive."
His face became more solemn. "I know that you were still very young when the great change happened, Master Xia. You may have even suffered a mental shock due to the disaster, and thus lost some of your memories."
"And all these years, you have been living on your own, even changing your last name to avoid getting into trouble."
"I also know that you lost the protection of your family, and you have achieved your current success entirely on your own. Under such circumstances, you must be extremely wary of everything in the outside world, and you may not trust what I say."
"but--"
Liel's words became serious and sincere: "Even though the former "Winter Flower" has been broken, we, the Borgia, are definitely not a family that would forget our principles and betray our oaths for the sake of profit."
"Although our family's power is small, we still have our own dignity. We don't need to rely on marriage to maintain our strength."
"Although it has been more than a decade, the Borgia family will continue to honor the original marriage contract."
As he spoke, he bowed deeply to Char.
"In seven days, Miss Histalia will return to the Imperial Capital from the Holy Court of the Theocracy."
"The Borgia family will hold a grand banquet for you, Miss, and Master Xia."
"The invitations to the banquet have been sent out to all the nobles in the kingdom, and will be published in all newspapers. Even many members of the royal family will be invited—"
"At that time, I hope Master Xia can be present to discuss the specific date of your wedding with Miss."
"in addition……"
Lil lowered his voice slightly.
He came to Char's side and whispered quietly.
"Over the years, as a member of the Oath Family, the Borgia Family has never given up on hunting down the murderer who destroyed Ceylon."
"Also, I can tell you that we have already caught the other party's heel."
"I know that Master Char will definitely want to kill the culprit himself, so on the day of the banquet, we will definitely give Master Char a surprise."
"Then please allow me to take my leave."
After saying all this, Lille put on his hat again and saluted to Char. Char looked deeply at Lille, who was smiling warmly.
Look very deeply.
All I can say is that he is worthy of being the butler who is in charge of most affairs in the Borgia family.
Even Norton would feel ashamed of himself for his ability to lie with his eyes open.
He can really turn black into white, and he doesn't feel embarrassed at all.
If I really suffered protective amnesia due to the strong mental shock in Ceylon, I might really believe the other party's lies.
but--
The last words that Liel said, the so-called surprise prepared for Char, actually made him feel a little surprised.
Char watched as Lill boarded the carriage they had just come in, and soon disappeared at the end of the street.
…
The intersection of the Foresta Empire and the Golden Plains.
Deep blue collar, gray and white hills outside the border city of Resa.
After a long period of excavation by the Black Eagle Guards sent by the imperial officials, an entire ruins of the ancient Cang Ting Kingdom was excavated and cleared.
But at this moment, there was only one person standing on the ruins of the entire Cang Ting capital.
She was a witch with pure silver hair. The dusk was rushing around her, enveloping the entire ruins of the royal capital.
Sylvia stood like this on the land where she was born and raised. Today, she changed out of her somewhat worn-out black gauze skirt and replaced it with a rather trendy women's dress that came from the Black Lily District of the imperial capital.
There was no emotion on her pretty, pale face. The huge, ancient book was frozen in the dusk, remaining open in mid-air.
Lines of light golden handwriting appeared on the thick book.
“I’m back here again…”
"After becoming a legend, I have returned to the capital of Cang Ting countless times to investigate, but the descent of many mythical creatures in the capital at that time erased all clues about that night."
"Now that more than five hundred years have passed, there is naturally no useful information left here."
"However, I do sense the turbulence of time. Not long ago, the echoes of history must have appeared here."
"Brother Char, did you come to the time and space where I am through the remnants of history?"
"As expected, if we want to find out the truth, we still have to go to the imperial capital. Although... I'm actually a little scared of meeting Brother Char..."
"Or rather, I was actually afraid that his answer to me would not be what I expected..."
The light golden handwriting slowly paused.
A white jade bowl appeared in Sylvia's hand, with brown roasted fish in it.
This kind of food did not meet the aesthetic requirements of nobles and large hotels because its production process was too simple and crude. It took Fioren a lot of effort to find it in a small street shop.
She picked up a piece of grilled fish and put it into her mouth with wooden chopsticks in an elegant manner. This was a skill that Char taught her when he was free. More than five hundred years have passed, but Sylvia has never forgotten it.
After the food entered her mouth, Sylvia closed her eyes and seemed to be frozen in place, not coming back to her senses for a long time.
The corners of her mouth sometimes curled up and sometimes twitched, but there was more joy than melancholy.
Pale golden text appeared on the book.
"The heat, seasoning, ingredients, marinating and cooking methods... are all countless times better than the grilled fish we had back then."
"But it still can't compare to the smell by the campfire on that winter night."
After an unknown amount of time, Sylvia's beautiful eyes opened, with silver light flowing in them, as bright and clear as the full moon.
The joy and melancholy intertwined in her eyes disappeared, and in just a moment, she turned back into the peerless blue silver witch.
There were light footsteps, and Fioren, wearing a metal mask, rolled down from the black-scaled dragon and walked to Sylvia's side.
In Fioren's hands was a brand new newspaper, published by the Royal Newspaper Company.
She handed over the newspaper and said, "Your Highness Sylvia, as you instructed, I will inform you as soon as I receive news from Xia Egut."
Fioren looked at the silver-haired witch in the frozen dusk before he spoke cautiously, "I think you might be interested in what's up there..."
Sylvia took the newspaper from Fioren with some confusion and glanced at him with a cold gaze.
With his legendary mental strength, he could know all the information in a newspaper word for word with just one glance.
The next moment——
Snap——
The newspaper was torn violently by the white hands of the Blue Silver Witch.
On the book, the originally neat and tidy light gold handwriting suddenly became messy.
"Char-nii-san...are you getting married?"
——Excerpt from "The Diary of the Blue Silver Witch", page 705, Holy Calendar Year 903, the Month of Germination, the 3rd day.
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