"To think that I once claimed that Mei'er was more beautiful than the princess herself... Heavens above, punish me!" A young man's arms hung weakly by his side. In comparison to the princess' beauty, his beloved Mei'er seemed like nothing more than the mud against the backdrop of the sky.0

Mei'er lifted a cutlery knife to her face. "You've all claimed that I'm more beautiful than any mortal there was, a beauty hardly seen once in a century, even the top beauty of the third realm—but compared to her, I'm ...0