Xia City of the Night Sui Kingdom lay shrouded beneath the night.
The He Estate blazed with lights, inside and out.
Today, the estate gates stood wide open, lanterns and colored banners adorning the grounds. Servants ran about spreading the news: "The Second Miss has returned!"
The young servants and guards in the courtyard all wore delighted expressions. Every time the Second Miss returned home, rewards were sure to be distributed, and the estate naturally became jubilant and bustling.
The He Family alone had eight hundred guards, all of them strapping, vigorous men.
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And that did not include the hired workers in their other enterprises: craftsmen who stoked furnaces and refined pills, farmers who cultivated spirit tea, laborers who hauled lava from volcanic craters, fished at sea, and gathered pearls in deep waters... all told, there were nearly three thousand people.
Yet even such a scale amounted to less than a fifth of the He Family's holdings.
The He Family also ran countless businesses throughout Xia City: blacksmith shops, restaurants, taverns, gambling houses, and rows upon rows of storefronts. It could be said they had everything under the sun.
Yet all these enterprises belonged under a single name: the He Family's Second Miss.
Though this noble young lady possessed no talent for immortal cultivation, she was deeply beloved by Master He and born with extraordinary business acumen. West of Xia City had once been a notoriously barren land, yet under her management over the years, it had become one of Xia City's lifelines.
Beyond her skill in commerce, what made people even more wary was her background.
She had a younger sister born of the same mother, the He Family's Third Miss, who was now an entry disciple of the