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[Hey~, Miss~, remember "We"?]

She woke up and looked around her. Everything was white except the dark black tree which positioned in the middle. Did she just enter an afterlife? No, it wasn't. She looked at the tree profoundly. "How-...you again?" She stated shuttering.

[Yes, and "We" have a name miss. It's "We".]

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'Okay, that's easy to remember.'

"Why are you here? Didn't you say that our last time seeing each other was yesterday?"

[Yes, "We" know. "We" just wanted to give you the seeds that "We" had forgotten to give, remember?]

She tilted her head while brushing her hair to the back slightly. She muttered, "Ah, yeah, the seeds..."

[Yeah, so the seeds are in your inventory. You can open your inventory by concentrating.]

"What, am I going to use magic?" She asked curiously. Would she gain a power which forbidden in her kingdom, yet in here she could?

[No, this is not magic, but something special that "We" gave you, y'know. In total, there are thirty seeds, you just need to raise it, okay? Water it every day and maybe you will find many surprises.]

Eyes slowly lost interest in the topic, yet she still wanted to ask, "Surprises?"

[Yes. "We" couldn't believe that on the only day we were away, you already hurt yourself again. How pitiful are you? Sadly, "We" can't help you this time. But, don't worry, you will get better in no time because you have our blessing,.]

"Shut up."

The dark black tree, "We", giggled and departed. Then, in its place, appeared a glass greenhouse. However, there were no flowers or plants. Only a single bag of seeds without a name on it and several tools were left in the greenhouse. She looked at her first seed, which had a different color from the rest. It was glowing.

'Although I neither agree nor disagree, I think I have to do this so that I can repay that tree's debt. I would rather not owe anything.'

She inspected the glass house further. There were different types of equipment such as shovels, dirt, pots, and fertilizers. She looked familiar with all of this. It brought her memories from her previous world.

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How was she so well acquainted with those gardening tools? Wasn't she a Queen? How could encounter such tools? It was the only peasant who did it. Yes, in fact, she was actually a farmer when she was little.

Long story short, Tereza grew up in a loving farming family. She spent her childhood in the field, either helping her father to harvest the crops or playing with her sisters in the forest. Her father was a gentle, yet ordinary strong farmer. He could carry a fifty-kilogram bag of grains with his shoulder. For her, it was an amazing sight! She admired her father so much.

The village where she grew up in only consisted of her own family and a small number of other families. All of them knew how good and famous person he was. She always dreams to be a farmer like him!

However, due to an unfortunate event, he died while saving a crown prince from assassins. The Old King gave a hero medal to her dad. Memory for the dead, yet it didn't relieve her sad feelings. In truth, she didn't like it at all! She refused to have that medal! She just wanted to have her dad back!

The next thing she recalled, was her mother and sisters dying slowly, following her father to the grave. That year, the kingdom was overwhelmed by an epidemic that spread around the kingdom. Their last breath and changing the skin to green was frightening her, she even hid into the forest so she couldn't get the disease. It was something she regretted also, she couldn't believe that she abandoned her family. But it was sole for survived and her rest of family was in no condition being called alive again.

Fortunately, Tereza herself was alright. She didn't even know why she could survive that disaster. She remembered they said before ran to the forest was to live. She cried sadly along the way. Thus, in four days straight, she became a sole lone orphan.

Tereza, with her positive attitude, slowly grew up trading crops to merchants. She stayed in one of the small towns near the kingdom. Her father always told her to be optimistic, confident, and also humble at the same time. She used those personalities when trading with a lot of different people. She began to develop her habits of intuitive thinking and talking as a merchant. Because of her efforts, her delicious crops became the best selling in the kingdom.

After a couple of years, she became a noble whose title was bestowed by the king because of her contributions for stocking food when the wars came. She also became the number one merchant after selling crops and gold, which she coincidentally discovered in a mine within her territory.

People called her the richest noble in the kingdom.

The crown prince, who was now King, proposed to her and she soon became Queen. But, the story ended up twisted along the way.

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Tereza, finally, finished with her inspecting in the greenhouse. She closed her eyes, trying to leave the white space.

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Rustled sounded reaching her ears, she heard a man's deep voice. The source of the voice approached slowly, bent down closer to her body. He wore a green and black striped uniform. He seemed like a soldier. In fact, he was a soldier.

He tried to wake her but there was no response. He was just inspecting the area to check on the reports from the other soldiers. It said, one of the soldiers got poisoned by eating a strange fruit in the forest. At first, the strange fruit looked delicious, but it was actually a trap to lure you to eat it. In the next second, he was hot, thirsty and in heat. It was a drug. Coincidently, he met the unconscious woman.

'Did she eat the fruit?' He looked at the nearby fruit she ate. 'Yeah, I think she did.'

He tried to wake her up again. Pressing her shoulder and flapped her cheeks softly. She grunted, her face was blushing. He blinked his eyes a few times. He looked at her who slowly opened her eyelid. Finally, she showed a response.