Re-life: Life as a demon patriarch

Chapter 48: Undercurrents

Deep into the night at the Cui Clan's assembly hall, a lively banquet was playing out when an irritated voice came from the side of the hall,

"Now that we're done with this, why don't we go into the real reason we're here".

A deafening silence lingered in the air as everyone looked at who had spoken so rudely.

When they saw who it was though, they just wore wry smiles on their faces.

The person soon added to his words saying, "I don't have all night, besides I don't want to breathe the same air with these profiteering merchants".

Laughing filled the hall except  for the mocked merchant families who weren't even meant to be in their gatherings on a normal day.

Cui Shu Lan held a feathered fan as he watched the situation play out, after all this people were beginning to get cocky and they were actually beginning to compete with the noble clans for resource