Dressed in a clean, sharp sailor's outfit that bared his thick arms and legs, with a red headscarf wrapped around his head and a huge cigar clenched between his teeth, Lin Qi strode briskly through Sea City's streets at night.
Several miles behind him, the Xiong Family residence blazed with lights and buzzed with celebration. Xiong Wanjin's ascension as family head had shaken every notable figure in Sea City. As the largest maritime merchant family in the city, and the Sea Stabilizing King's Manor's unwavering business partner, the Xiong Family's change of allegiance to the Eastern Harmony King's Manor—and their youngest son, Xiong Wanjin, taking over as family head—was an earth-shaking event.
After a full day of busyness, Xiong Wanjin had finally become the Xiong Family's rightful helmsman in both the family property deeds and official contractual documents. All the family businesses had been transferred into his name; all that remained was for Xiong Wanjin to slowly replace the managers in every location and seize complete control.
Those arrogant, unruly household servants had all been driven out. The servant chiefs who harbored resentment and voiced complaints had their arms and legs broken, their entire battle qi cultivation crippled, and were thrown beyond the city walls. Two thousand Qingli Kingdom Imperial Guards had shed their military status and become the Xiong Family's private guards—precisely the support Xiong Wanjin needed most right now.
A grand feast was underway within the Xiong Family estate, celebrating Xiong Wanjin's becoming the family head.
But Lin Qi had other matters to attend to. Wearing a sailor's uniform that filled him with a sense of fond familiarity, he walked the nighttime streets of Sea City with a huge cigar in his mouth. At his side was the petite and adorable Elysian Heaven, while more than a hundred