Goodness Home's Inner City.
On the western side, near the only passage from the Outer City into the Inner City.
Here stood a miniature five-story castle with a thousand-square-meter courtyard, resembling the grand Western European villas from An Kai's previous life. As it happened, An Kai had drawn up its plans himself.
It was also one of the few buildings that had survived the earthquake without collapsing.
An Kai arrived as casually as if he were coming home.
With a light leap, he cleared the three-meter wall and landed in the courtyard.
"What makes you worthy of using the same things as me?"
Several plants from the Seven Kingdoms' royal households grew in the courtyard. As it happened, An Kai had them too.
Nearly a hundred square meters of his castle grounds were planted with rare specimens acquired from the Seven Kingdoms' royal households.
The Inner City had just suffered an earthquake because of An Kai, yet little had changed at Hanks's home.
Not only had they felt no tremors, even the vegetation had barely swayed.
All of this was thanks to Widow Wang.
In a courtyard pavilion, Widow Wang stood behind Hanks, who was drifting off to sleep.
She gently kneaded his shoulders, having just wiped a fine layer of sweat from her forehead.
Seeing An Kai climb over her wall instead of using the front gate, she gave him a decidedly unfriendly look and rolled her eyes hard...
"Hanks, how have you been?"
An Kai paid her no mind. In a flash, he appeared beside Hanks...
Faint wheezing reached him, accompanied by the smell of rotting wood.
An Kai could not help frowning.
Widow Wang, who had been massaging Hanks's shoulders, gave them a gentle pat.
Only then did Hanks, his eyes lowered as he dozed, realize someone