#14. To Her Hometown (5)

Many stories circulated about why the Lily Palace had been given its name.

Some said it had been named to emphasize the purity expected of a woman of the Imperial Family—the greatest of her virtues.

Others said the first Empress, who had died young, had loved lilies so much that the Emperor named the palace after them in her honor.

Or perhaps, as the Imperial Castle’s first detached palace, it had simply been named after the lily in the Galatea Imperial Family’s crest.

Of course, the exact origin was unknown.

By then, ages had passed since the Lily Palace was built, and not even proper records of the detached palace from that era had survived.

There was only one thing.

One thing was certainly connected to its name:

Behind the Lily Palace stretched a vast garden, where lilies grew in profusion, befitting its name.

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