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Tianrui Holy City.
Lower City District.
This place is a mix of dragons and snakes, with all sorts of tea houses and taverns.
One particular street is the gathering place for various small grain and medicine merchants.
Dongye Fantian is the shopkeeper of a small grain store.
On this day, as usual, he opened the shop for business, gave a few instructions to his staff, and took a pot of tea to the grain shop across the street.
Compared to his shop, the grain shop across the street clearly wasn't doing well—there were only a few employees in the large store, creating a rather bleak atmosphere.
Inside the shop, a middle-aged man in a brown robe was busy working with his head down.
The robe he wore was of decent quality, but it had been washed so much it was a bit faded, with frayed cuffs, indicating it had been worn for many years.
