"I appreciate your trust," Jiang Wang replied through voice transmission, "but I'm not sure I can help you."
Lin Youxie's trust weighed heavily on him. But by now, Jiang Wang had come a long way from the boy who had been full of naive fantasies and believed without question that Dong A would save Maple Forest City.
He would still honor his word and never begrudge kindness within his means, but he would no longer ignore the realities of the situation.
Lin Kuang and Uriel, born into the Four Great Green Badge Families, had once been the brightest stars in the Green Badge system. Known as "South Uriel, North Lin," they were hailed together as the Twin Prides of the Green Badge, the hope of reviving the Four Great Green Badge Families' golden age.
Lin Kuang had taken on countless major cases and solved every one. Many of the Northern Office's investigative methods still in use today were innovations he had introduced.
But his brilliance came to an abrupt end after he took over the investigation into the Assassination Case of Imperial Concubine Lei.
Lin Kuang died, and Uriel resigned from office.
In a single night, all their glory vanished like clouds on the wind.
Only Lin Youxie, just three years old, remained. After suddenly witnessing her birth father's corpse, she had feared corpses for the rest of her life.
Of the Lin, Uriel, Li, and Cheng—four great Green Badge families—the Cheng Family had long since died out, while the Lin and Uriel families had only their former glory left.
A few days ago, Li Youjiu had died by slicing punishment. That meant the Four Great Green Badge Families had vanished in name and in truth. They no longer existed!
Now Lin Youxie wanted to seize upon the possibility that