Dawn of the Broken Sword (Saga of the Swordbreaker Book 1) by Kit Sun Cheah

Author:Kit Sun Cheah [Cheah, Kit Sun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

Li Ming spent a little extra time in the shower. He scrubbed himself down, thoroughly washed every square cun of his body, shaved off the beginnings of a beard and the hair that threatened to join his eyebrows. When he was finished, he mused that the military had taught him to bathe as quickly as humanly possible, to use as little water as he could get away with to ensure a minimum baseline of hygiene, but the jianghu had pulled him in the opposite direction.

Not the jianghu. A girl.

He dressed his best too. Or, rather, he chose the only clothes he had left for a day out in the town. Half-length blue tunic and matching pants. Wide belt. Swordbreaker on his left hip, folding knives clipped to his pocket. Blue jacket over the shirt. Raptor smartglasses.

He checked himself in the mirror, saw a gentleman-warrior properly armed and accoutered to escort a young lady down the daylight streets of Bao An.

He chuckled. He was dressing up as if he were going on an escort mission in a formal setting. But it never hurt to be overdressed, at least for something as casual as a date. He reached for his pack…

The military patterns and colorations stared at him.

He stared back.

They wouldn’t do. The rucksack was too huge. The assault pack was too martial, even among martial cultivators. As with his swordbreaker, he’d look out of place on the streets.

He added a backpack to his to-buy list. A pack tough enough to stand up to the harshness of biaohang duty, yet non-tactical looking. A gray man pack.

Maybe multiple packs. One when out and about, one to lug around huge loads. A third, also, a messenger bag, to better blend in with urbanites…

He shook his head. There truly was no end of things to buy.

Out in the living room, he found Ghazan lounging on the sofa, his scroll stretched out on the table before him.

Scroll. Did he need a scroll? All his life, he’d only needed one device, but now that he was a biaohang…

Ghazan cut off his train of thoughts.

″Good training today?”

″Yup,” Li Ming said.

″I wanted to join you, but you seemed to be enjoying yourself with Ms. Cai.”

″We’re not like that.”

″Sure, sure.”

″Really!”

″I totally believe you.”

″Wei.”

″Whatever you do, don’t forget: we work for her father.”

″I won’t.”

″Good. And speaking of work…”

He lifted his device.

″We’re on the Jianghu Times.”

Li Ming startled.

″What?”

Ghazan handed the scroll over.

″Here.”

A huge photograph splashed across half the screen. An aerial image of the highway of death. The shot centered on the yaoshu nest. The brood mother rearing up, teeth bared and claws out. Its lesser brethren, ready to swoop in. And two tiny figures flying towards the brood mother, the light glinting off their cold steel weapons.

Li Ming and Ghazan.

″What… How… I didn’t see any media around!” Li Ming exclaimed.

″They must have had a news drone in the area.”

″Wasn’t the district locked down?”

″The police and the jianghu have a special arrangement. This extends to the jianghu news services. Go on, read the article.

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