Chapter 193

The wind had grown chilly. An atmosphere of bleak autumn desolation hung over the Capital City. With the departure of the powerful Bai Family, the neighboring clans had also fallen into a slump, their stock prices plummeting. Some had even begun migrating to other cities, leaving many of these great estates hollowed out, occupied only by a few scattered caretakers. The Bai Family’s estate was the most desolate of them all. Though the Bai Family grounds remained gilded and magnificent, with countless structures rising like a grand palace, in reality, only a handful of guards remained. There was no one else left.