"The person isn't here with me." The king spoke calmly, then snapped, "At the first sign of trouble, you rush in here instead of guarding outside. Are you deliberately trying to disturb my rest?"
Everyone hurriedly knelt again, trembling with fear.
"Get out. No one is allowed in without my permission."
"Yes!"
Once everyone had left, Chu Han finally crawled out and immediately asked, "Explain this clearly. How has Bai Yun'er been in Tianyun Kingdom for twenty years?"
The king wore a strange expression. "You didn't know she'd been gone for so long? Isn't she your wife?"
Chu Han thought that was impossible to explain, so he could only force himself to say, "My fiancée!"
The king no longer doubted him and slowly told Chu Han how everything had unfolded.
It turned out that Tianyun Kingdom had not been as prosperous as it was now twenty years ago. It had merely been an utterly insignificant little country, and all its changes had begun with Bai Yun'er's arrival.
Her first act had been saving the king's life. Immediately afterward, she had been appointed the Heavenly Maiden of Tianyun Kingdom!
Bai Yun'er had served as Tianyun Kingdom's Heavenly Maiden for twenty years. During that time, she discovered that the stone bricks used to pave the ground throughout Tianyun Kingdom were unusual. By sheer coincidence, they were Star Jade!
The situation was similar to Jialan Kingdom's, except the Crown Prince of Jialan Kingdom had merely stumbled upon a Thousand Moon Stone mining area by chance, while Tianyun Kingdom was a place rich in Star Jade.
It was practically everywhere. There was so much of it that the people of Tianyun Kingdom simply used it as paving stones.
After discovering this, Bai Yun'er launched an earth-shattering plan.
She wanted to build a spaceship!
Because