The golden sunset fell into the mountains and forests, dyeing the surrounding clouds with a golden outline. The sky is layered, turning from blue to white, then from white to red, and finally to the earth as an afterglow, turning the dense grass red.

At the end of the Gülen's territory is a raised dirt slope where you can see the houses, farmland, and woods that connect the valley at the same time. As a child, Nightingale liked to ride on her father's shoulders up the low slopes so that she could see the whole house. So when her parents' scarred bodies were returned and the servant asked her where she wanted to bury them, she didn't hesitate to go up the dirt slope.

At that time, although she was grief-stricken, she still didn't want to believe the sudden departure of her family, and only thought that if her parents could open their eyes again, no matter where she and her brother stayed at home, they would be the first to see them.

Now that she is back in front of her parents' tombstones, Nightingale has a completely different mood.

There wasn't much dust on the stele, and it was clear that there was still someone cleaning it here, so she leaned down and neatly stacked a stack of white paper in her arms in front of the two steles.

It was Viscount Somei's book of judgment.

Faced with irrefutable evidence, the viscount's defense soon collapsed, and after Roland promised to be inferior to his underage children, he not only admitted the fact that he sold dream water, but also explained all the causes and consequences of the annexation of the Gülen family.

It turned out that there was indeed a treasure hidden under the valley that separated the two families' territories, but it was not a vein of gemstones, but a suspected gold mine.

The person who discovered it was none other than the farmer of the Somei family.

Due to the different terrain, the valley was considered a ravine for the Gülen family, but it gradually leveled with the surface of the land in Somei's territory, and the farmers would often go downstream to fetch water and bathe. It wasn't until one day that a lucky man found a piece of gold sand from a flowing mountain spring and summoned others to rummage and loot it, that Dott Some caught his attention.

He immediately blocked the news and sent people along the valley to find the source of the gold sand.

However, he was disappointed by the return of his men.

Searchers did find more gold sand upstream, and it appears that rain erosion caused the valley walls to collapse and let the free coarse gold fall into the water, but mounting evidence suggests that the gold mine is likely to be on the Gülen's side, which has halted exploration operations.

Because of the special status of Silverlight City, the knights and clusters allowed by the nearby nobles have been more or less restricted, and it is impossible to rob them openly, and Viscount Suomei is really unwilling to give up this huge treasure, so he has to hit the abacus on Viscount Gülen's head.

His breakthrough point was old Gülen, a distant relative of the Gülen family.

The plan is simple, but ruthless. He took advantage of the weakness of old Gülen, who had neither a title nor a fief, to tempt the other party to cooperate with him, and promised that as long as a piece of land was given to him, Gülen's family could change owners. The latter, apparently unable to resist the temptation to become a true nobleman, agreed to his plot.

So Dort bought the rats and took advantage of the refugee riot to kill the Gülens, while the elder Gülen took in the underage Hyde and Nightingale in time and began to manage the territory on his behalf. As long as Hyde came of age, it would be easy to force him to give up all his fiefs and titles - an heir who has lost his protection is no different from a caged bird, and even if the other nobles are suspicious, they will only think that old Gülen is too greedy.

This was a foregone conclusion, but Nightingale's awakening made the plan flawed - she disappeared without a trace after killing old Gülen on her adult day, and the latter did not wait for the title he coveted until the moment he took his last breath.

Dott Somei had no choice but to change his plan - he could win over old Gülen, but he couldn't make everyone in Gülen's family fall to him, after all, there was only one title that could be used as a bargaining chip, and he had to use it on the blade.

Ironically, he ended up finding Hyde.

When Nightingale heard this, he only thought it was ridiculous - what was supposed to belong to Hyde was used as a bargaining chip, and the latter naively thought that the other party would help him, and agreed to the offer of the murderer without much hesitation.

With the support of the viscount, Hyde stood out from a group of relatives vying for power and eventually retained the title and became the official heir to the Gülen lineage. Subsequently, according to the agreement, he merged into the Suomi family. It's not that he keeps his promise, but that the family business is on the verge of collapse after the infighting, and the people have been lost, and he has no other way to go except to take refuge.

After ten years of long planning, the Viscount finally got what he wanted. Even the huge amount of principal needed to open the mine was accumulated little by little by smuggling dream water. By waiting until the location of the veins is discovered, the Some family will be able to reap the fortune that will last for hundreds of years.

However, Roland's appearance shattered his dream.

For the sake of a suspected gold mine, he murdered a nobleman of the same rank and broke up several families...... The vicious trick of nearly 20 people who died before and after was exchanged for a noose around the neck.

None of the time, he had ever seen the gold mine.

The nightingale took out the fire sickle and lit the Book of Judgment.

She had heard Roland say that there was an ancient way of mourning, which was to tie the paper into the shape of the object it was intended to pass on, and then burn it with fire so that the deceased could receive the object. Because fire can be psychic, fireworks with a special will have a certain chance to pass through the gates of the two worlds of life and death, especially at dusk when the two worlds are closest to each other.

Through such a ritual, the nightingale hopes to inform the souls of her parents that the murderer has been ambushed. Although Roland later added that he didn't really believe in the existence of the two worlds of life and death, she didn't care.

Because this move is not so much to comfort his parents, but more to comfort himself.

By the time she descended the dirt slope, it was completely dark.

Roland was waiting for her not far away, and it wasn't until she saw that familiar figure that her heart that she had nowhere to rely on suddenly fell to the ground.

"Is that really good? let that guy go unharmed," Roland pouted, "I've wanted to teach him a lesson a long time ago." ”

"Oh, in what capacity?" said Nightingale, raising an eyebrow.

"Uh...... "Uh," he coughed twice, "as a king, of course." ”

Nightingale smiled and shook her head, "His business is over and has nothing to do with me anymore." If you really want to, you can send someone to find him and beat him again. ”

"Since you've said so, forget it," Roland said.

"Well, by the way......" Nightingale suddenly stopped, knelt down on one knee, and saluted his chest as he had sworn allegiance for the first time, "Your Majesty, can you allow me to stay by your side and serve you all the time?"

"Why did you mention this all of a sudden," Roland was stunned, "Didn't you say it earlier?"

"But I want to hear you say it again," Nightingale insisted.

Roland shrugged his shoulders helplessly, turned around and walked to her side, touched her head and said, "Then you listen - well, yes, yes, yes, yes...... A hundred answers are all yes, are you satisfied?"

The strings of magic did not flutter in the slightest, as serene and soft as the earth in the night.

It was great to meet him.

Nightingale raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, "As you wish, Your Majesty." ”