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 Rose is paired with the light green Lisianthus, with exquisite packaging and a fragrant aroma. This flower is a valuable, romantic and expensive gift in the empire today.

Lin Yuan took a look and wasn't too 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 is very happy. Jiang Xiaochan and the others will come to play with her today, so she can 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 in a bouquet as well. She said she saw it when she was pruning the branches. I don’t know who put it outside the door.

It was a huge bunch of all kinds of candies wrapped in bouquet paper.

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up at the dazzling array of sweets. He licked his lips and took the bouquet of candy flowers.

Xiaosuo craned her neck to look.

The young lady has been receiving various beautifully wrapped gifts these days, but she doesn't take most of them seriously and just deals with them on her own.

Guo Suo secretly 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. No matter what gift you give her, she will be more pleased than candy.

The bouquet was unsigned, a bunch of candies dotted with stars, with only one of each flavor, carefully packaged, 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."

Except Xiaoyu, no one would give her such a gift.

Lin Yuan placed the handful of candy by the window.

Outside the window, the sky is a deep blue, contrasting with 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 seem that he would be able to eat them for a long time.

It's a pleasure to look at.

After breakfast, I packed up my garden and headed for the White Pagoda.

Use your ID card to take the elevator to the upper floors.

As the elevator went up, we could see royal soldiers in training and the Orientation Academy taking flower lessons on each floor. Everything in the White Tower seemed to be the same as before, with no changes at all.

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 over 200 kilograms. On weekdays, he would rather lie down than sit.

When he saw Lin Yuan, he was able to jog along, shouting, "Sister, sister."

He said that he and Lin Yuan both had royal blood, so naturally he should call Lin Yuan "sister".

He also regretted 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 praised by the queen, his relatives suddenly appeared in large numbers like bamboo shoots after rain.

It seemed as if all of a sudden overnight, those many princes, nobles and important ministers of the empire all became Lin Yuan's relatives and treated her with great affection.

"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."

"During this period of time, I specially asked someone to pack it up." He stuffed the thick bag into Lin Yuan's hands, and said with a serious look, "I'm handing it to you in one piece. See if there's anything missing?"

Lin Yuan opened it and shook out several pages of papers and receipts, including ownership certificates, share agreements, and income flows, all carefully and comprehensively organized.

Lin Yuan flipped through the file bag and found a page of records with photos attached.

The photo was taken 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 floors of the White Tower.

No matter what season it is, it always looks like spring with flowers in full bloom. 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 lurked in her dark eyes, and she lowered her head and stared at the photo motionlessly.

That was where her childhood nightmares 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 all died in this snowy villa.

Lin Yuan held the photo motionlessly.

The building in the photo was completely burned down. Among the charcoal-black ruins, there were black windows that stood wide open, like ghosts who had died with their eyes open.

What Victor saw? The little girl didn’t look at the property certificate or the bank statements, she just 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 next to it, which also belong to you. It is a mountain of gold. I will 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, not letting him touch the information bag again.

Victor shuddered subconsciously.

He was the finance minister, 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 just like the feeling you get when you're facing that person.

Lin Yuan's attitude was cold, but Victor didn't get angry and continued to follow her with a smile.

The chubby face was filled with a sweet smile, and no one would want to be too cold to such a person.

But Lin Yuan never uses facial expressions to understand other people's emotions, and she is not very good at it.

She only relies on reading the other person's leaked mental state to judge whether this person has good intentions towards her.

The person in front of me smiles in such an artificial way, but the emotion behind this face is 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 smelly creature?】

[I don’t want to stay even a second longer]

"Wait? 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 don't have anything to do recently, don't run outside."

He looked around and lowered his voice, "Recently, there have been rebels."

Lin Yuan paused.

When she was in the White Tower, she had never heard of words like rebel, traitor, etc.

The empire is so powerful and beautiful. There are no rebellious people or things.

But she has been walking between various outposts in the past two years and has seen those who are struggling at the bottom of society and are barely able to survive.

Therefore, she also vaguely knew that there were many people in this world who were dissatisfied with this dark empire and unwilling to endure this deformed system any longer.

They have suffered too much oppression and injustice, and have suppressed hatred and anger in their hearts. They lurk in the dark night, dotted like stars, and spread all over the corners of the empire.

They wanted to fight against this huge monster and overthrow this rotten and smelly white tower.

These people are called rebels and rebels.

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 white tower that harbored filth and dirt could be torn down soon.

"It's true. The world has been a bit unstable lately. There are bandits everywhere, even in Kyoto." Victor looked worried.

For these nobles who live permanently in Kyoto, contaminated areas and mutants are not something to worry about. Instead, they are tools to gain wealth.

The truly formidable enemies are those traitors who sneak into Kyoto and cause trouble in front of them, committing assassinations.

"I can't let go of my sister running around outside when I think of you. 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 could only dream of.

He didn't understand, since Her Majesty liked Lin Yuan so much, why didn't Lin Yuan stay with her more and try to please her?

A guide, running 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 rare for them to rack their brains to meet Her Majesty.

"A few days ago, the Royal Guards caught a thief." Victor approached Lin Yuan and boasted about his source of information.

"I heard that His Majesty is personally conducting the interrogation, and even Luther was questioned. You must be careful when you go up there this time."

Lin Yuan climbed to the top of the tower.

The palace on top of the tower was the same as always, empty and silent, filled with the unique aura of His Majesty.

There was a very faint sound in the hall, a bit like a moan, but also like a whisper, accompanied by a sticky twitching sound.

An extremely painful emotion spread to Lin Yuan's feet like a tide. Lin Yuan stopped subconsciously.

The queen was still sitting on the huge throne, wearing a white dress, 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 lately."

"How is it? Multiplayer collaboration? Have you adapted to the combat?"

"In the contaminated area, have you gained anything special?"

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.

It was too dark in that corner to see clearly, but inside the iron cage there seemed to be the abdomen of an insect, human limbs, and struggling and flapping wings.

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.