Eastern Xuan Province, Fengluan City.
A graceful young woman in white bent down and dropped a few copper coins into a beggar's chipped bowl. A gentle smile touched her lovely face, warm as a spring breeze.
"Ew~ It stinks!"
A little maid stopped a step away from the graceful woman, pinching her nose with one hand and holding a foot-long paper parcel in the other.
The little maid frowned at the filthy, foul-smelling beggars huddled in the corner, her face full of disdain.
"Miss, you're just too kind. The world's such a mess these days. You'll never be able to help all these beggars."
The woman smiled as she took the parcel from her maid and handed the piping-hot steamed buns inside, one by one, to the beggars by the roadside.
"Go on, eat while they're hot!"
The beggars looked at her with gratitude. Their grimy hands seized the buns, and they wolfed them down.
"Thank you, miss! Thank you, miss!"
A little while later, the two were walking down the street, and the maid kept grumbling.
"Miss, those beggars are insatiable. Haven't you noticed that there are more and more of them around here ever since you moved into that house south of the city last year? Who knows how many lazy freeloaders have mixed in among them!" the little maid huffed.
"You silly girl." The woman in white smiled. "My Xu family is one of the leading Aristocratic Clans in Eastern Xuan Province. My father dotes on me, and the steward sends me five High-grade Spirit Stones every month. Those copper coins and steamed buns are just mundane things. They won't make me poor, and they let those people have a proper meal now and then. What's wrong with that?"
The little maid frowned. "You can't put it