Chapter 4168: The Princess from Six Hundred Years Ago

Wednesday morning, the sound of rain outside the window and the sound of Little Mia scratching the door woke Xia De. The girls who slept with Xia De were still sleeping soundly, and the sound of Winnie making breakfast had already come from outside the door.

The Day of the Red Butterfly was about to end, and Princess Lei Qianya left home in a hurry without eating breakfast. During breakfast, Xia De asked about Dorothy's physical condition again, and the writer felt she was very well:

"The situation last night should just be an accident during the story of the Chosen of Creation. As long as we avoid this period and don't merge with each other again, we should be fine."

But Xia De was still very worried about this, but currently, Dorothy and Princess Lei Qianya were indeed fine.

The activities Viga arranged today should all be outdoors. When Xia De said goodbye to the girls at home and prepared to set off, he hoped the City of Scholars wouldn't rain like Tobesk, but fortunately, outside the Blue Ink Library was a sunny spring morning scene.

Megan didn't leave last night. When Xia De came to the Fragrant Mansion this morning, she was still active in the mansion, clearly intending to enter the Council with Xia De and Viga at noon.

And the activities Viga arranged for herself and Xia De clearly didn't include Megan. The Chaos Witch had originally worried that Megan wanted to act with them, but the Edwards sisters saw through Viga's thoughts at a glance:

"Since you are looking forward to today's date so much, I won't disturb you. Don't you want your student to become my apprentice? I'll stay in your mansion today and chat with her."

"However, you two shouldn't play outside for too long. Come back for lunch at noon and then enter the Council. We have agreed on the time, so don't be late. It's nothing to let others wait a while, but if you meet the Speaker because of being late, that would be truly interesting."

The place Viga wanted to take Xia De for an outing was, of course, not Oakham Park; she wouldn't do such repetitive and boring things. After saying goodbye to Megan, Ajelina, and Eve who stayed at home, she and Xia De boarded the carriage and headed toward the high ground in the west of the Upper City.

The carriage drove toward the direction of the Astley family's ancestral home, but it didn't enter the mansion, instead circling to the back of the manor and finally stopping outside a field of wild azaleas.

This was a natural protruding cliff terrace behind the Astley Manor. The purple-red, pink, and snow-white flowers formed a strong contrast with the gray rock wall. There was an old stone fence at the edge of the terrace, from where one could overlook the roofs of the city, the Outer City below the mountain, and the majestic Gray Rock Pass fortress in the distance.

In the center of this terrace was a neatly trimmed lawn. Several huge beech and holly trees were located at the edge of the terrace, providing dense shade under the spring sun. There were also wrought-iron benches and a marble sundial under the trees.

A gravel path extending from the manor's garden wound through the flowers on this cliff terrace, connecting the lawn in the flowers with the fence at the edge of the terrace. Of course, the garden had a fence gate blocking the inside and outside of the manor, and this cliff terrace was not part of the manor.

Viga held Xia De's hand as they got off the carriage, smiling as she looked at the scenery before them:

"This place looks very nice, right?"

"The scenery is indeed nice."

Viga then introduced softly:

"During the ancient Delin-Or Kingdom period, this was actually part of the private garden built by the 7th King of Delin-Or. Later, this garden was bestowed upon the first Duke of Astley, and for the next two hundred years, it was always part of the Duke's manor's back garden."

"Later, Delin-Or was destroyed, and the area of our manor kept shrinking. This area was stripped from the manor and became a public area of the city. After all, it overlooks the city from a high position. After the Unification War, those who were wary of my family didn't want this place to become my family's private territory. However, after everything in Delin-Or vanished into smoke, my great-grandfather bought it back."

"He didn't extend the manor's wall here but was willing to share this scenery with local citizens. Sometimes when the City Hall receives important figures, they also rent this venue to hold outdoor cocktail parties. My father proposed to my mother here."

Xia De looked around:

"The weather is so good today, why hasn't anyone come over?"

Viga smiled:

"Of course it's because I posted in the newspaper in advance that I would be using this area for the past two days, so it is temporarily closed to the public."

She coughed lightly twice:

"Let's go, let's go to the fence and look at the scenery. When I was a child, adults forbade me from getting close to the fence, worried that I would fall off. But I still often ran over here secretly. Once, when I sneaked here at night, I looked up and saw the starry sky."

She had a reminiscent expression on her face:

"The starry sky that day was truly beautiful; that is the most beautiful memory of my childhood."

The location here was even higher than the Fragrant Mansion, so one could better overlook the scenery of Arcadia City. The two stood in front of the fence, Viga looked at the familiar hometown scenery and mentioned the future again:

"When Aurora recovers to be a normal person, let's bring her here too, okay?"

"Of course, no problem."

Although he knew he shouldn't talk about those serious things now, Xia De still asked:

"After the matter at the 【Skin-Object Hall】 ended, do you have any clues about the remaining two portions of life solution?"

Viga sighed lightly:

"I originally thought my mother would leave the next clue at the 【Skin-Object Hall】, but we only found one portion of the solution there. Even if my mother left other things, now that the hall cannot be entered, we can't get them either."

But Viga was not in a hurry:

"Compared to me, my mother is the one who hopes more for my sister's recovery as soon as possible. I have the patience to wait slowly; my mother will definitely find a way to reveal the next step of information to me. This is also an opportunity; those people who inexplicably appeared by my side are very likely disguised by my mother."

"Miss, someone is coming."

Miss Luo Lin had originally been arranging the area for the masters to rest on the lawn in the flowers with other maids. At this moment, seeing a carriage driving from afar, she immediately reminded them.

Viga was chatting with Xia De about the future and was, of course, quite unhappy about being disturbed at this moment:

"Who is it? Does this person not read the newspaper?"

And after the carriage approached, Viga saw that it was the Dawn Church's carriage. Miss Luo Lin immediately walked over to inquire about the situation, and the three who got off the carriage were two 9th-ring church female warlocks, and a girl Xia De and Viga both had a deep impression of—

The black-haired girl Xia De signed an agreement to exchange from the 【Skin-Object Hall】; she was the princess of the Delin-Or Kingdom six hundred years ago.

Miss Luo Lin's communication ended quickly. She nodded with some difficulty, then led the three to Viga and Xia De. Xia De had already disguised himself as the traveling writer and merchant from Willundale, and Miss Luo Lin had already informed the three from the church that her master was on a date today.

As for the three ill-timed intruders, their appearance here was not for any very special reason:

"This Miss Burgundy is a very important... guest to the church. She provided some precious information. This morning, she said she wanted to go around the city to see the scenery she had seen when she lived here in the past. Truly sorry, Miss Astley, for disturbing you."

The church's ring-warlocks were quite polite, so Viga looked at the black-haired princess, knowing that the other party was reminiscing about her previous life. And the church's willingness to let someone accompany her out to wander around locally was clearly also an acknowledgment of the value of the information she provided.

"Burgundy... a royal surname."

Viga said this, and the girl with an ordinary appearance looked at Viga, who had a similar hair color, with a complex expression:

"Are you a descendant of the Duke of Astley?"

The two female warlocks from the church warned the princess from six hundred years ago with their eyes not to talk nonsense. Viga pretended not to know anything and nodded. Facing the ancestor of her own bloodline, she didn't have much awe:

"Yes, but it's not really a Duke. Delin-Or was destroyed long ago, and the Astley family is just an ordinary family with a little money and power locally; we don't have a title."

The former princess had a quite complex expression on her face. Even the maids around Viga who didn't know the other party's story could feel the sourness, melancholy, regret, unwillingness, and almost imperceptible relief in that expression. After all, the bloodline hadn't been severed; she guessed the true origin of Viga's bloodline from Viga's hair color.

"Do you have other brothers or sisters in your family?"

She asked Viga again, and Viga pretended to show a vigilant expression. Viga didn't answer but looked at the two female warlocks dressed as nuns from the church, and they explained on Viga's behalf:

"Miss Astley has no brothers or sisters; she is the head of the family. She is a very famous philanthropist and merchant locally and has a very high reputation in the Arcadia area."

That Miss Burgundy nodded lightly and then asked again:

"Are you married?"

This time Viga spoke herself:

"You are really strange; who asks such questions when meeting for the first time? But I see you look familiar, so I'll chat with you a bit more. I am still young and am not married yet."

"Then you should get married as soon as possible; after all, your family's bloodline still needs you to pass it on."

The princess from six hundred years ago advised. Viga didn't really want to discuss this topic; after all, theoretically speaking, the Astley family's bloodline was about to end with her generation. Although she had already chosen a distant relative related to the family to inherit the family after she passed away, that was a distant relative after all, and the bloodline was not pure:

"Yes, I understand."

She glanced at Xia De:

"You see, am I not on a date?"

Xia De, who hadn't spoken, smiled. Miss Burgundy nodded lightly and then asked the two nuns beside her:

"I feel very compatible with Miss Astley; can I give her the pendant I am carrying as a gift?"