「Suzhou.」
A desolate and uninhabited suburb.
A tattered figure walked slowly, her steps frail and her form staggering as if from utter exhaustion. Her hair was unkempt, her face smeared with dirt, and a foul odor emanated from her. She was even barefoot. All in all, she looked like a savage who had just run out of the deep mountains. Many passersby who saw her quickly ran away.
She seemed oblivious to their gazes as she lifted her head slightly, revealing a face etched with fatigue and hardship.
It was Alice!
But now, Alice had lost the haughty demeanor of a noblewoman. Instead, her expression was resolute, her eyes filled with determination. For three months, she had walked from Jiangling to Suzhou. She had traveled a thousand li on foot, without any means of transportation and not a single penny to her name. No one knew how she had arrived here, nor what she had encountered along the way.
