"Just got back," Li Qingxian said.
"When you have time later, let's get together. Recently, bad luck has been clinging to me, so I didn't come looking for you. Don't take offense."
Li Qingxian sighed.
The two had met through Shen Xiaoyi. At the time, Qiu Ye had wanted to cooperate with the Jiangnan Merchant Association to open a mine.
But Shen Xiaoyi's divination had yielded murky, uncertain results. Later, they had even encountered the Night Guard and witnessed Nether Mountain being blasted apart. Li Qingxian and the Night Guard had been buried, and Shen Xiaoyi abandoned the partnership.
Without a partner, the Qiu Family's mining venture had been shelved.
Afterward, Qiu Ye and Li Qingxian entered the Azure Cloud Examination, gained benefits, shared in Fortune, and rose in one stroke to Sixth Rank.
He could originally have built merit and a career at the border, but who could have expected disaster to strike from the blue? He was falsely accused of betraying his comrades, and had only recently cleared his name.
Li Qingxian bade everyone farewell and left Fate Arts Teahouse first with Guo Xiang.
After reaching the Night Guard, Li Qingxian parted ways with Guo Xiang and traveled beneath the stars and moon toward Liuyang Duke's Estate.
After announcing himself, Li Qingxian followed the gatekeeper inside, looking around as he walked.
In the pitch-black night, roof tiles were occasionally broken, paint peeled from pillars everywhere, wooden windows along the covered corridors were cracked, and weeds in the garden obscured the flowers.
Before long, the gatekeeper arrived before the entrance of a small courtyard and said, "This is my young master's courtyard."
"Thank you."
Li Qingxian thanked him and entered the courtyard.
After only a few steps, he heard Qiu Ye's voice from inside.
"Father's Illness is hard to