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Lin Residence.

Noon.

An antique rosewood dining table carved with ornate patterns was covered in a fine, soft brocade tablecloth.

The decorative patterns stitched with gold thread flickered in and out of sight beneath the morning light filtering through the windows.

Steamed fish with fermented black beans, red-braised pork, osmanthus candied lotus root, and five-spice braised goose.

More than a dozen exquisitely prepared dishes gleamed with oil and brimmed with the rich aroma of sauce.

The fresh flower bass was still faintly bubbling, its tail raised, whetting one's appetite.

"Worthy nephew, eat! Go on, start eating!"

Lin Zhenhai smiled as he looked at the black-clad youth seated to his left, calm and composed, his back ramrod straight, and could not help but sigh inwardly.

How long had it even been?

From a mere servant to a stable hand—right beneath the watchful eyes of his Lin Residence, he had originally been destined never to amount to anything.

Even if he became a martial artist and earned the favor of the young master of Fire Kiln Lu Estate, at most, at most, he would become a sword-bearing guard and live with a little more dignity.

When all was said and done, was he not still just a "runner"?

Without ten years or eight years of scrambling and struggling—and after having offended the Lin Residence's pride—he would not even have been worth sharing a table with me!

And yet...

In less than two short months.

This boy had leaped straight into becoming the hall master of a hall under the Wind and Cloud Association—and not just any hall, but the all-important Medicine Hall!

Heaven have mercy.

The Lin Residence had been built beside Fire Kiln. Their usual purchases, the procurement of medicinal pills, even the supplies he himself needed for Bone Tempering and