Once, I wanted to be a good person

Especially in the past two years, many nobles have actually felt that the world is becoming increasingly "sticky" and "suffocating". This oppressive atmosphere drives people crazy and weighs them down.

Many who lived through the disaster fifty years ago believe that this situation is very similar to that time.

It seems as though the world, after being silent for fifty years, is slowly nurturing something once again.

Many are worried... the birth of a new nobility might be a harbinger of another disaster...

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After a night without conversation, Fang Ze woke up from bed the next day.

He yawned and then intended to freshen up.

However, upon getting up, he remembered that he was in a detention room and everything was very rudimentary; there was no place to wash up, so he couldn't help but sit on the bed and space out.

Just then, suddenly, his door was "knock knock knock" s on.

Fang Ze called out reflexively, "Come in."

After shouting, he remembered that this was a detention room, not his office.

As he was thinking this, the door to the detention room was pushed open from the outside.

An aide that Fang Ze had seen a few times walked in.

Upon arrival, he said to Fang Ze, "Director Fang, Lady Jin would like to see you. Shall we go?"

Hearing the aide's words, Fang Ze was startled.

Although Bai Zhi had mentioned the previous day that Lady Jin wanted to see him, Fang Ze always found it somewhat surreal.

After all, Lady Jin was different from Bai Zhi.

Bai Zhi's visit to Fang Ze was, after all, under the guise of official business.

But for Lady Jin to want to see Fang Ze, that was a private matter.

Especially since they were both suspects in the same case, wasn't the Defense Team afraid of them colluding on their story?

And judging from the fact that the aide personally came to pick him up now, they truly weren't afraid.

Frankly, there were times when Fang Ze really felt that the laws and rules of this world were particularly frivolous. They had none of the order of a grand unified empire, but rather resembled a sort of doomsday revelry.

Thinking this, Fang Ze nodded.

Then he picked up the suspect's jacket from his spartan bed, put it on, and said, "Alright. Let's go."

The aide smiled, nodded, and then led Fang Ze out of his cramped detention room.

Walking along, the aide seemed to sense something and took the initiative to ask, "Director Fang, you are a high-ranking Awakener, aren't you?"

Fang Ze was on guard, but still hummed an affirmation and said, "Yes."

The aide nodded and then asked, "No breakthrough?"

Fang Ze shook his head, "No."

The aide nodded again.

Since the place where Fang Ze and Lady Jin were staying was not far apart, after just a couple of exchanges, they arrived at their destination: Lady Jin's guest room.

At the door of the guest room, the aide signaled Fang Ze to wait a moment, and then knocked on the door.

In an instant, Lady Jin's voice came from inside, "Come in."

The aide pushed the door open and then gestured for Fang Ze to enter.

Fang Ze nodded to the aide and stepped inside, then... was stunned.

How should I put it?

Even though they were both suspects, and Lady Jin's suspicion in this case was even higher, the disparity between their treatment was as vast as the Mariana Trench.

Fang Ze's detention room was only about five square meters, barely large enough to fit a bed and stand in.

But Lady Jin's room... was easily seventy or eighty square meters, larger than where Fang Ze was currently living!

In Fang Ze's detention room, one couldn't even talk about a bathroom, there wasn't even a sink, brushing teeth and washing his face were out of the question, only to stay dirty.

And Lady Jin's room...

Just one look and Fang Ze knew it was at least a two-bedroom suite.

Let's not even mention a bathroom...

In the living room, there was even a bathtub.

As for the room decor, well, Fang Ze's place had nothing.

And Lady Jin's... not only was it adorned with various lavish decorations, but it even had famous paintings.

Just by looking at this room, anyone unaware would never imagine it to be aboard the Federation's dedicated combat Sky Mother Ship, but would think it's inside a five-star hotel!

Moreover, don't forget! Lady Jin is a suspect!

A suspect living this comfortably, enjoying such high treatment, is this really an interrogation, or is it a vacation?

Truth be told, at that moment, Fang Ze had just one thought in mind: Indeed, every world is the same...

The privileged class is the privileged class.

This privilege is not only manifested in glory but also in times of downfall, making them forever superior to others...

And whether she sensed Fang Ze's emotions or not, Lady Jin, who was then sitting at the dressing table, turned her head and looked over.

Seeing Fang Ze still standing at the door, she waved at him and then pointed to the sofa in the living room, saying, "Fang Ze, come, sit."

Hearing Lady Jin's words, Fang Ze retracted his thoughts and walked over to sit down.

Once Fang Ze had taken a seat, Lady Jin skillfully gathered her hair, twisting her smooth locks into a bun.

Then she took a hairpin, obviously of considerable value, and inserted it into her hair, immediately securing the hairstyle in place.

Having done all this, Lady Jin walked over and sat opposite Fang Ze, then began, "How have you been these past few days?"

Fang Ze looked at Lady Jin's appropriate and clean noble attire, then glanced down at his own wrinkled clothes and nodded.

Lady Jin asked, "I've heard they used Mind Power on you?"

Fang Ze hesitated for a moment before nodding again.

Lady Jin said, "But it didn't work, did it?"

Hearing this, Fang Ze, who had just been thinking about asking the adjutant for better treatment, couldn't help but be shocked.

He came back to his senses and then couldn't help but look towards Lady Jin.

When he lifted his head, he realized that Lady Jin had been watching him all along.

Their gazes met, and Fang Ze felt even more embarrassed.

While his face showed no change, internally his brain was whirling rapidly, pondering where he might have given himself away.

After a moment, he had a realization.

Lady Jin was part of the whole affair; she knew it related to him and might even have been briefed on Bai Zhi's plan from the start.

But after the Defense Team's Mind Power User had interrogated him and then lifted their suspicions, it showed that he had circumvented the mind interrogation.

Thinking this, Fang Ze couldn't help but sigh: Indeed... apart from Bai Zhi and Bai Ling, there were no fools in this world.

Such a simple piece of information, and yet she deduced such a huge secret about him!

While Fang Ze was thinking all this, Lady Jin's voice reached his ears, "After all, nobles are granted extra protection by the World's Laws; Mind Power is ineffective on them."

Hearing Lady Jin's words, Fang Ze, who had been seriously analyzing the situation, couldn't help but pause: What? Nobility?

He was momentarily bewildered. What did this have to do with nobility?

While he was thinking this, he couldn't help but look at Lady Jin again.

At that moment, Lady Jin looked at him, a smile breaking out as she said, "I'm not wrong, am I? A descendant of the Si Family. Let me think, what should I call you..."

"...Si Ze?"

Fang Ze: ...???

Honestly, at that instant, Fang Ze really felt utter disdain.

Putting aside any talk of identity, wasn't the name Si Ze a bit too ugly?! Couldn't it have been a normal-sounding name?!

And also...

A descendant of the Si Family?

Who? Me?

I thought it was supposed to be Miaomiao??

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