If there really hadn't been such a place, ordinary people would have found it hard to believe that such a huge ancient mansion could exist in this dense forest. Although the old house had been completely abandoned and reduced to a pile of ruins by more than two hundred years of time, Hao Ren could still make out its former splendor and magnificence from the surviving structures.
The thoughts of rich people were truly impossible to fathom. Why build such a thing in the middle of a forest?
The surviving ruins of the old house stood on a small hill less than five kilometers northeast of the village, surprisingly close to it. It was a large estate consisting of a main house and two outbuildings, but for various reasons, both outbuildings had completely collapsed. Only the eastern side of the main house remained relatively intact. Surprisingly, however, there was a very tall tower behind the main house, and it had been preserved even better than the house itself. It even looked quite sturdy. From the standpoint of normal architecture, it was difficult to understand why a family estate would have such a tower, especially one built more solidly than the main house. This made Hao Ren take a few extra looks at it.
The estate itself had been built on a small hill, while the tower was the tallest structure here. If there were no trees around the village blocking the view, someone standing atop that tower might be able to look down over the entire village.
"No matter how glorious it was back then, in the end it became nothing more than ruins," Vivian said with a sigh as she looked at the remains of the buildings, now completely overrun by vines and shrubs. "I just don't know whether