Tan Guli sat at a small roadside stall, sipping wine alone with a slightly vacant stare.
Such roadside stalls could be found everywhere on Light Gauze Star. They were not necessarily low-end, but they were definitely not upscale.
Less than eight hundred meters away was the Careful Teahouse he ran. The teahouse was not particularly high-class either, but at least it had a courtyard.
As the owner of the teahouse, drinking in his own courtyard would obviously have been quieter.
But he simply liked having a drink at roadside stalls. Someone was watching the teahouse anyway, so he had nothing to worry about.
He took another sip and let out a long breath. He was getting old after all, and had grown fond of nostalgia.
No one knew why he enjoyed drinking alone at such stalls.
Only he knew that many years ago, this was how he had met the benefactor fate had sent him.
That year, his wife had been pregnant with their first child when she was suddenly involved in a car accident. The cost of treatment had been astronomical.
At the time, he had not served in the City Guard for very long. He had borrowed from everyone he could, but there was still no saving her.
With one corpse about to become two, he had sat before a roadside stall that day, drowning his sorrows in drink, when his destined benefactor appeared.
Tan Guli had thought Kong Sai had recognized his potential in the City Guard, and he had expressed his willingness to cooperate.
But why would someone of a Consair Lord's stature care about the repayment of a mere C-rank?
Later, the district Tan Guli was responsible for was worlds apart from Kong Sai's business territory. Even if he had wanted to repay him, he