Chief Jin's surname had not originally been Jin.
However, back when he had been a mercenary, someone had smashed his face in and knocked out all his teeth. Later, he had them replaced with a mouthful of gold teeth, then happened to win the favor of the Chief Steward under the Windstop Kingdom Lord. After becoming the chief of a rotating guard shift, he had come to be known as Chief Jin, and the name had stuck.
The day after tomorrow was the birthday celebration of the Windstop Kingdom Lord's eighty-eighth concubine.
Chief Jin was very busy now.
He strutted arrogantly through the streets, directing servants and ordering these lowly commoners to move faster as they loaded all kinds of meat and wine onto carts.
Although Chief Jin was only responsible this time for the lesser guests celebrating outside the Kingdom Lord's residence, rather than the distinguished guests within, it was still an important assignment. To obtain it, Chief Jin had presented the Chief Steward's son with ten thousand gold each, two Gold-ranked treasures, and four beautiful virgins. Great investment naturally brought great returns.
Once Chief Jin had secured this important assignment, countless merchants came fawning over him. Guards who had once barely known him secretly continued offering him tribute, hoping to get a slice of the pie through this task.
Although the Windstop Kingdom Lord had many beloved concubines, the most favored was this eighty-eighth concubine. By rank, this concubine should actually have been among the top five. Aside from the principal wife and two equal wives, she would have come next. Yet strangely, a concubine named Pearlglow seemed not to like being ranked in the top five, instead having a particular fondness for the number eighty-eight. To please this beauty Pearlglow, the Windstop Kingdom Lord had shockingly slaughtered