Most people familiar with Guangling City's many walks of life knew Li Tanhua of Spring Breeze Tower.
This Li Tanhua was not the "tanhua" who had once outshone the crowd in the Golden Hall, risen above all the imperial examination candidates, and won the emperor's personal selection for third place. His name was simply Li Tanhua.
According to rumor, his grandfather, Elder Li Dehou, had loved Lord Wenchao's Three Tales of the Blademaster so much that he had wanted to name his son "Li Tanhua"—after the creator of Little Li's Flying Dagger, the deadliest master of hidden weapons under heaven.
But Li Dehou's father, the Li family's great-grandfather, had no taste for Three Tales of the Blademaster and refused to let his son give his grandson such a ridiculous name. Only after the old man had ridden a crane west could Elder Li Dehou put his plan to use on his own grandson.
Li Tanhua did not like his name. He preferred people to call him Young Master Li, or Little Brother Li.
After all, the hat worn by that Little Li of the Flying Dagger was rather vividly green. Worse still, he had put it on his own head...
The Li family had run Spring Breeze Tower and traded in flesh for three generations.
Li Tanhua did not like the flesh trade either. Plenty of people knew that.
Ever since his father, Li Hongfu, had lost his head to a Greenwood hero who preferred to remain anonymous, Li Tanhua had been pushing to transform Spring Breeze Tower.
Over the past few years, Spring Breeze Tower had steadily cut back its flesh trade and poured its efforts into its restaurant business. Now, when people spoke of Spring Breeze Tower, the first thing that came to mind was no longer its