Yu Lian had now been staying in the Sacred Tree Palace for nearly a week. To avoid provoking the Empire's high-ranking officials, he hadn't stepped outside the palace gates at all. In any case, although it was called a "palace," this was really just a fairly large space city, and its living quarters were hardly cramped.
After all, this space city was nothing more than the Su Liuqia royal family's residence in the imperial capital. There was nothing secret about it, and as long as he didn't leave the palace, nobody else could find anything suspicious about his presence.
Well, considering that this lord had been walking into Her Highness Brunhild's bedroom as naturally as if he were returning to his own home these past few days, even if there were any secrets here, they might as well have been laid bare to him.
The city also had every facility one could want. Beneath its dome, in addition to the space garden filled with flowers in bloom, there was even a sizable artificial lake, nestled in the embrace of the immense ecological dome.
The lake wasn't naturally formed. Instead, it was maintained by the most advanced purification and circulation systems, giving it a hue somewhere between sapphire blue and emerald green. Its surface was smooth as a gigantic, polished piece of corundum, perfectly reflecting the sky simulated by the dome overhead.
Occasionally, specially designed maintenance robots skimmed across the water. The larger ones looked like waterfowl, while the smaller ones resembled dragonflies. Their ripples shattered the reflections in the mist into shimmering, shifting patches of light.
The snow-white beach beside the lake was laid with fine-grained artificial mineral sand in a warm, gentle hue. Walking barefoot on it brought a perfectly comfortable warmth and texture.
Exquisite pavilions and waterside gazebos