Ever since she could remember, Yin Yin had lived in her family's garden.
She still remembered looking at the world beyond the farm two years ago, when she was six, while sitting on her father's shoulders. Her father had asked how she felt about it. After thinking for a while, she had shaken her head and said that although the outside world was vast, it was still far inferior to the garden within their estate.
She also remembered that her father had seemed to laugh heartily before saying something else. She could no longer recall the exact words, only that the meaning had been that the forests, mountains, and plains outside would soon become part of the farm, and that they would have an even larger estate.
And by then, she would go from being a farmer's daughter to a kingdom's princess.
At first, she had not understood her father's thoughts, until she later learned the word ambition from her tutor.
Yet she was still puzzled. That idea clearly did not sound bad, so why did everyone want to escape from here? Why had her father been forced to take children around her age hostage, including one who had been her friend?
Of course, that was only one of her many doubts.
What puzzled her even more was that the idea clearly did not sound bad...
But why, after that day, was the world outside the fence still the same barren wasteland, while the world inside the fence became more and more like the outside with every passing day?
When she opened her eyes again, she saw a pure white space. Gentle light fell on her delicate eyelashes, yet it did not feel glaring in the slightest.
She looked around blankly.
She found herself in a completely white space.
"Where...