Chapter 525

Once the matter had been settled, it was naturally time to get things done.

But there were two parts to getting things done: public business and private business.

For the public business, Wood took North Wind to Glimmerstone City Hall and registered her identity.

North Wind was the illegitimate daughter of a count from the Gold Coin Federation. Back then, she had fallen in love with the painter Wood, but her father hated Wood and wanted to kill him. So Wood fled in panic, escaping to Glimmerstone Town, where he became a woodcarver. Several years later, she was married off by her father to the Thunder Duchy, becoming the wife of an overseas merchant.

Not long ago, that merchant had encountered a storm at sea. His ship was wrecked, and he had perished. North Wind sold off her property to repay the debts he had incurred because of the shipwreck. What money remained was not much, but if she spent it frugally, it would still be enough for her to live out the rest of her life in peace.

Over the years, she had never borne the merchant any children. Living alone in loneliness, she naturally thought once more of her old lover, Wood. After making some inquiries, she was astonished to learn that Wood had not died after all—and was even doing quite well. Most importantly... after more than ten years, he still had not married!

Since that was the case, she hesitated no longer. Taking all her possessions with her, she crossed more than half the Thunder Duchy, reached Void City through a teleportation array, then rode public carriages all the way to Glimmerstone City. At last, she saw Wood again.

This love story, spanning more than a decade and the entire main-plane continent, moved the young girl