In the blink of an eye, June had come around again.
The faint heat of early summer had barely spread across the Sains Continent before demand for all kinds of household magic machinery suited to summer surged uncontrollably in cities throughout every country.
In previous years, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's household magic machinery division would receive a flood of orders from countless countries and regions at this time of year. It would begin preparations two months in advance to meet the summer sales peak.
Naturally, this year was no exception.
In the first ten days of June alone, the former household magic machinery division, which had recently been renamed the "Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild" and separated from the Xinfei Merchant Guild to operate independently, received orders for over a hundred thousand units of household magic machinery, including magic fans, magic-powered refrigerators, magic iceboxes, and more, worth over two million gold coins in total.
Together with the enormous orders worth over three million gold coins received in advance the previous month, the Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild's summer sales were expected to reach another record high this year, breaking through the staggering ten-million-gold-coin mark.
Compared with last year's total sales of 7.3 million gold coins over the four months surrounding summer, the Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild had undoubtedly made considerable progress this year.
However, three things that happened in succession after June began left everyone in the Xinfei Household Magic Machinery Merchant Guild unable to feel happy at all.
The first was a sudden series of accidents involving Xinfei magic fans in the Candel Empire's eastern province.
A batch of magic fans shipped to the Candel Empire's eastern province the previous month suffered widespread problems during use, with screws coming loose and causing their casings to