Xi Manman suddenly laughed, raised her pipe, and slashed it through the air. "Everything was fated from the very beginning of the beginning.
Life is so hard... You can never escape the consequences of your own sins."
Lucimar and Mo Bi Chenxin both understood what she meant.
Whether Linde knew that his life had been a desperate struggle born from abandonment from the very start, or whether his birth had been influenced by the spiritual essence of some weapon that had wounded Helena, the moment he was born, he had been destined to feel nothing for and know nothing about his entire family.
Whenever he did anything, he thought only of his own interests.
The one person he trusted, Dieter, truly was the most innocent person in this matter.
Although Dieter had been excluded for various reasons and had only learned about some matters afterward, at least he had gained no direct benefit from any of it.
"After Countess Ster got what she wanted, she piled up all the spoils from that battle at the harbor and burned them—even the gold coins," Lucimar sighed. "No matter what you think of it, in the eyes of all Damboro's nobles, Lady Helena established her image as a wise and decisive woman at that moment.
That was why, despite being half-crippled, she could use nothing but messages relayed through the butler to seize control of the entire city for her family before Earl Ster returned to his territory.
You should understand that a butler's authority can only ever rely on the dignity of their master."
"Really? She burned it all?" Mo Bi Chenxin found it hard to believe. "There wasn't any weapon too precious to burn, or even impossible to burn?"
"When they were burned, the corpses of those thieves who had been