"What's this? Wasn't it a gift from some British prince?" Veranica asked, struggling to remember.
Xiao Ran peeled Milcery off the candy box, then picked it up for a closer look.
Through the wrapper, he could see marshmallows in all sorts of shapes: hearts, squares, stars... Twelve differently shaped marshmallows were arranged in three rows.
They turned the box over and examined the ingredients.
"Fruit from Appletun's body? Tsareena's fruit syrup? Vespiquen's honey? Hand-whipped cream made from Miltank's milk? Blended inside Shuckle's shell?" Xiao Ran read through the ingredient list one item at a time, and everyone grew more astonished as they listened.
"That prince of Great Britain really seems to care about you!" Yun Mengqiu said in surprise.
"Well, I really didn't pay much attention! So many people send me things. I probably just tossed this box of candy in here back then, didn't I? I never gave it another thought!" Veranica studied the candy box curiously, sounding helpless.
"Tsk! What a blatant flex!" Xiao Ran said, curling his lip.
"Appletun's fruit alone probably costs hundreds of thousands, right? And Tsareena's fruit syrup is on a completely different level from Bounsweet's. An entire colony of Bounsweet might not produce even one Tsareena, let alone get her to secrete fruit syrup."
"By comparison, hand-whipping Miltank's milk into cream and blending it inside Shuckle's shell are much easier. But Vespiquen's honey is hard to come by. After all, she isn't a Combee. She doesn't normally go out gathering nectar."
"Add in the other rare ingredients, and this one box of candy must cost millions, right? And you couldn't buy it even if you had the money!"
Xiao Ran spoke slowly. Any one of these ingredients on its own was rare, but not impossible to obtain. Gathering them all together, however, was