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"Wow--!!!"

Little Douzi stared wide-eyed in surprise, and couldn't help but let out a small gasp.

"Godfather, over here..." She stopped and pressed her face against the huge glass window, her little face almost touching it, squeezing the plush goose in her arms flat.

Looking at the "toys" inside, which they had never seen before and could not even imagine how to play with, their big eyes were filled with pure curiosity and amazement.

"So many toys... little houses, teddy bears, toy cars..."

Lin Ye walked over to her, squatted down, followed her gaze to the shop window, and smiled: "Want to go in and take a look? Pick out some things that Xiaodouzi likes to take home and play with."

"Is it okay?" Little Douzi turned her head, her eyes shining brightly.

Everything she experienced today felt like a dream to her: first the beautiful clothes, then the fantastical "paradise," and now this magical toy castle...

"Of course." Lin Ye stretched out his hand, palm facing up.

Without hesitation, the little boy placed his hand on it and clenched it tightly.

Lin Ye took her hand and pushed open the door that seemed to lead to another world.

Ding dong! Welcome!

A crisp electronic sound rang out.

Inside the door lies a toy ocean that is ten or even a hundred times more stunning than what you see in the shop window!

The space is high and spacious, and the lighting is brighter and warmer than outside.

The shelves are designed in various cute shapes such as castles, trees, and caves, and tens of thousands of toys are displayed on them in a dense and categorized manner!

The plush toy section has everything from palm-sized hamsters to giant brown bears that reach the ceiling.

The doll section not only features dolls of various styles, but also matching clothing, furniture, jewelry, and even pets.

The model area was filled with cars, airplanes, tanks, and Transformers, with details so exquisite they were almost unbelievable.

The building block area is a paradise of color and creativity, with building blocks of different sizes and shapes packed in transparent boxes and stacked into colorful walls.

There are also remote control toy area, science experiment toy area, pretend play toy area, outdoor toy area...

The air was filled with the smell of new plastic, printing ink, and a faint, distinctive odor of "brand new toys."

The background music is a light and cheerful cartoon melody.

Shop assistants in uniform are pushing multi-tiered carts and organizing the shelves.

Many parents were leading their children around inside, and the children's excited discussions and exclamations rose and fell.

Little Douzi stood at the door, the goose in her arms almost too big to hold, her mouth agape, completely stunned.

Everywhere here was shining, drawing her gaze.

"Come on, let's take our time looking around," Lin Ye said gently, leading her into this dreamy toy castle.

……

The Great Flame Kingdom, beneath the heavens.

Dead silence...

Then came a massive, overwhelming barrage of comments!

[Commoner Zhao Wen: My God! That bear! That bear is taller than my door, and it's so furry! How much fur must it have taken?!]

[Commoner Niu Wu: My eyes are going to explode! Red, green, yellow, blue... How can this kid have so many things!?]

[Lu Li, the court craftsman: Hiss—that house! That little house! It has doors and windows, and even a staircase! The carving…only a master of micro-carving could do this! Just…just for a child to play with!?]

[Liu Xiuyuan, manager of Jinyi Pavilion: Those dolls' clothes! How can the fabric be so crisp, the patterns so delicate and vibrant, the embroidery... no! It doesn't look like embroidery, it looks like it's printed on, yet there's no blurring... How... how is this done!?]

[Yu Ji, Director of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Works: Good heavens! This place is more than ten times larger than the children's clothing store we just visited! Those shelves look like iron!? But... castles, trees, caves...!? Can iron be bent like that? Even the best blacksmiths in our Great Flame Kingdom couldn't forge such smooth curves!]

[Hanlin Academy Academician Yang Feng: Playing with toys is a waste of talent! Such exquisite objects, not used for proper purposes, are instead made into children's toys—what a waste! Absurd! Utterly absurd!]

……

Lin Ye led Xiao Douzi into the toy store.

Then he bent down and asked her softly, "Which one does Little Douzi want?"

The little boy turned his head back and forth, unable to see anything, unsure which one to look at first.

Her gaze shifted from the teddy bear to the robot, then from the robot to the building blocks, from the building blocks to the toy train, and from the toy train to the puzzle...

She was overwhelmed by what she saw, her finger gesturing wildly in the air, unsure of which point to make.

"That...that bear..." she hesitated, pointing to the enormous plush bear.

"Okay," Lin Ye said to the shop assistant, "I'll take that bear."

"That...that one that lights up..." she said, pointing to the robot again.

"Okay, I'll take that too."

"That...that train..."

"I bought it."

"That...that colorful building block..."

"Take it."

Lin Ye nodded each time Xiao Douzi pointed to a picture.

The shop assistant followed behind, and the number of toys in the cart increased from a few to a dozen, and from a dozen to a pile. She had to call another shop assistant to push another cart to help.

In the end, they were followed by more than a dozen shop assistants, pushing more than a dozen carts!

……

In front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Imperial Palace.

The nine-linked rings in Shu Rou's hand fell to the ground with a "crack" and shattered into pieces.

The sound of the jade ring shattering was crisp and piercing, and fragments flew everywhere.

She didn't even glance at it; her eyes were fixed on the sky.

Her eyes were fixed on the sky, on the dazzling array of toys, on the scene where Lin Ye nodded without hesitation every time Xiao Douzi pointed, and on the toy cars that were lined up in a long queue and piled up like a small mountain.

"No...no..." Shu Rou's throat made a hoarse, broken bellows-like sound, and tears rolled down her cheeks without warning.

That little beggar is holding a toy!

Each one is more exquisite than hers! Each one is more fun than hers! And there are more varieties and quantities than hers!

Dozens of times more! Hundreds of times more!

They took more than a dozen cars, not just one or two toys!

She gets whatever she wants!

So many! So beautiful! So much fun!

And! You can take them all home!

The shop assistants were still taking things off the shelves and loading them into the car one by one, all with smiles on their faces.

Lin Ye was still saying, "This one too," "Wrap that up too," without even blinking.

She lowered her head slowly and deliberately, like a rusty robot, and glanced at her feet—

A pile of fragments of the Nine Linked Rings.

Let's look at the long table again.

A few items, including a white jade nine-linked ring, a rosewood tangram, a music box, and a Luban lock, lay there.

They were still exquisite, still expensive, but in Shu Rou's eyes at this moment, they seemed so...

Shabby!

Extremely shabby!

It's like the few copper coins a beggar has in his bowl being placed in front of a national treasury overflowing with gold and silver.

"Waaaaaaaahh ...

Shu Rou's cries erupted again, louder, sharper, and more heart-wrenching than ever before.