Letter from a Fish's Belly

"Sea Market Master's younger sister, Hai Yun?"

Liang Qu frowned deeply.

Li Shoufu nodded. "That's what she said when Lord Wei asked. I heard it loud and clear, true as steel. In any case, there was no shortage of goods, and everything checked out.

"Though Hai Yun isn't a match for Sea Market Master, she's still a Grandmaster-level Great Demon. Lord Wei's meaning was that we should continue our business as usual and stay out of the Sea Clan's internal affairs."

Strange.

The business had been going perfectly well. Why switch fish for no reason at all? Liang Qu knew more inside details than most. The Octopus King enjoyed the blessings of two wives, which always made him feel there was more to the matter. He had even imagined some palace-drama farce in which the favored pink octopus sister forcibly seized the blue octopus elder sister's trade route.

Previously, with the Dragon Lord missing and the Jiang Huai Great Marsh overlooked like discarded scraps from the edge of a table, the turn had fallen to Sea Market Master. Now, with the Da Shun Imperial Court added in, demand across the entire land for seafood had multiplied heaven knew how many times over.

Especially in the middle of this year, Wei Lin had fulfilled his promise of twenty times the goods. That must have stunned the Sea Clan, not to mention that Liang Qu had helped connect them with General Yuan's plantation.

Had what was once overlooked scraps turned into a juicy slab of meat, only for the younger sister to snatch it away?

Liang Qu was deeply worried.

Strictly speaking, he and Sea Market Master had met only a handful of times, yet he truly felt close to her.

Others might not have known her well and thought changing to