The time was Xu hour.
"Bang!"
"Haha, the city has fallen!"
"Kill them for me!"
"I want to eat meat!"
...
Celestial River City.
Luo Mansion.
Luo Qiao had only one daughter, named Luo Zhen.
Born to him in his old age, Luo Qiao, already wealthy beyond measure, started to do good deeds in recent years to thank heaven's beneficence. He built a reputation in Nanyang County, known as the Great Philanthropist Luo.
His only daughter, Luo Zhen, determined to inherit her father's business and ensure he would have support in his old age, swore to never marry and learned commerce from him.
Because doing business required public appearances, and Luo Zhen was exceptionally beautiful and proficient in the arts, she earned the title of Nanyang's First Beauty.
In an ancient-scented room in the back courtyard of Luo Mansion, the sound of a zither occasionally drifted out, sometimes slow, sometimes urgent, the melody pleasing and intoxicating.
