Chapter 311: One Hundred and Sixty-Eight: Anna's Treasure

Lu Li never asked Anna about her past, knowing only that her mother was called Ann Lei and seemed to come from noble lineage.

In fact, calling them nobility wasn't quite accurate, unless the term was prefixed by "destitute". By the time Anna was born, her family no longer held noble titles, possessing only a manor and a sparsely visited gallery.

With an inexplicable sense of shyness, Anna divulged the aforementioned details.

A few months after Anna succumbed to an infectious disease, her not-yet-recovered mother also died, heartbroken and exhausted.

"Are there any other members in your family?"

The successive deaths of mother and daughter gave rise to more thoughts in Lu Li's mind.

Anna's eyes revealed a sense of desolation, "No... it was just me and Mother, and then..."

Then both she and her mother were gone.

Eliminating the possibility of relatives murdering for inheritance, Lu Li turned and asked, "What about that manor?"