Chapter 41
Black Pine Ridge did not immediately descend into chaos. At least, not on the surface. After the first whistle came […]
Su Muichen had always felt that his life was a joke.
His mother died young, his father despised him, and even his name had been chosen carelessly.
When he grew up, he relied on himself to get into medical school. After finally graduating, he was preparing to begin work at a hospital.
But then he suddenly received devastating news.
His father, stepmother, and younger half-brother had fled overseas to escape their debts, only to all die in a plane crash.
What they left him was not an inheritance, but tens of millions in debt.
And an ancestral run-down shop that was about to be auctioned off by the court—the Guichen Studio.
On the very first night after he took over the shop,a man dressed in ancient-style clothing, covered in blood and holding a long sword, suddenly broke into the store.
The man’s name was Xiao Yuan.
He came from a dynasty that did not exist anywhere in recorded history.
What Su Muichen did not know was—from this night onward,a transaction spanning a thousand years was about to change the fate of two worlds.
Black Pine Ridge did not immediately descend into chaos. At least, not on the surface. After the first whistle came […]
Xiao Yuan finally sat down. Not because his injuries were particularly serious, but because Su Muchen’s expression was simply too
When Xiao Yuan returned to Dasheng, the wind and snow had still not stopped. The door closed behind him, the
Inside Returning Dust Hall. Su Muchen gathered the documents scattered across the table, putting them into the file folder one
Dacheng, Qingshi Village. By the time Xiao Yuan returned to camp, it was already well past midnight. The wind and
A layer of extremely faint gray-white had begun to spread across the horizon of Qingshi Village. At some point, the
After Xiao Yuan left, Guichen Studio became unusually quiet. It was not the kind of quiet where there were no
At Guichen Medical Hall, Su Muchen was staring blankly at the computer. Several documents were open on the screen: the
On the eighth day, the door still had not opened. Su Mu Chen sat behind the counter, with the letter
Midnight. The Return-to-Dust Studio had long since turned off its lights. The old wooden curtains on the first floor were
When the army left Hanchuan, the sky was still dark. Qin Feng stood at the city gates, watching the dark-colored
Pei Yi sat inside the simple military tent, his left arm held down by a soldier. He actually did not
“Are you saying that the First Military City of the Northern Frontier has now been renamed Linbei City?” Inside Returning
When Xiao Yuan returned to Linbei City, the sky was already beginning to lighten. The wind and snow, however, still
After nightfall, the council hall finally fell quiet. Pei Yi went to patrol the city walls, carrying a lantern, its
“It’s too strange.” Early in the morning, after Chi Banyue came out of the council hall, she went straight to
Morning in Linbei City was unusually free of snow. The wind was still cold, but it no longer carried fine