As Li Ming took care of Minghue Tea House's business, the little dragon accompanied her throughout the entire morning.

He was perched on her left shoulder as he slept there snuggled in her nape.

Li Ming had cast a spell around him so that he would be invisible to others, and also to save him from falling.

However, she knew exactly why he was sleeping there. After the training session in the early morning with Wen Guiying, her left shoulder was one of the body parts that was experiencing pain.

The potion that she drank took care of her body pains but even after that she was feeling a slight discomfort in her shoulders.

But since the moment Zhang Yong had snuggled there, his dragon heat was seeping into her shoulder, miraculously completely taking away the discomfort and pain.

Minghue Tea House had very soon become a popular teahouse throughout the Capital City of the Han Empire due to it's unique and rare varieties of teas, the special supplements that were a part of the teas, the customer service provided by the tea house, and for the beauty of the tea house.

It had taken Li Ming almost three months to built the tea house. The architecture was a mixture of ancient and modern crafts.

If people were surprised by the unseen decorations of the Black Jade Inn then the tea house almost took their breath away.

Nearly every single noble family of the Capital had already visited her tea house to taste the authentic taste of the teas.

Even some members of the Imperial family also visited the Inn during the last two months, including the Third Princess and Fifth Prince.

As noon appeared, Li Ming finally decided to leave the Minghue Tea House. Manager Yuan bid Li Ming goodbye as he followed her to the entrance.

Yuan was Zi Yan's twin brother. The twenty-year old youth had asked her to take him and his sister under her care when she had talked to him about his future plans.

Li Ming immediately agreed as she already liked the two of them. Zi Yan was a well trained martial artist.

She either accompanied her, Li Ming, during her important visits or mostly she worked as a coach for the younger children who wanted to learn martial arts.

Though Yuan too was a great martial artist but he wanted to do something different and peaceful in his life, therefore Li Ming proposed to him with the idea of taking care of the Minghue Tea House.

Yuan agreed immediately. He was even excited to start the work. During the three months when Li Ming was building the Tea House, she was also busy training a lot of people.

She trained nearly twenty five girls who were in their early or mid-twenties, about how to serve customers and how to remain professional during every situation.

Also, seven servants were trained to keep the Tea House clean and comfortable all the time.

There were eight men in their late twenties or early thirties whom Li Ming trained for the work of guards.

An entire team of ten cooks, out of which five were skilled in brewing all kinds of special teas, was also formed.

There were also six more people working under the chef team.

The fact that the entire Tea House was in the hands of fifty-seven young people and it was doing so well in business, was a miracle on its own.

Because of the opening of the Tea House, many children from the Dongji village finally got the chance to step forward in their lives.

Li Ming even made a new rule which stated that only fifteen percent of the income of the children would be allowed to hand over to their families back in the village and the rest would be left in their hands.

She had made sure that every family in the Dongji village was employed under her businesses.

She was even coaching their children without any charges. After all this, if they still wanted money from the hard work of their children then she was not going to support that.

All the fifty-seven people who were working in the Minghue Tea House were living in the three storey Inn that was standing right beside the Tea House.

Li Ming had booked the Inn for an entire year so that her employees didn't have to struggle for finding a place to rest during their break time.

The owner of the Inn, Madam Chen, an old lady in her mid-fifties had also become a close acquaintance of Li Ming in the past few months.

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Li Ming had barely set her foot inside the ward that was surrounding the Dongji village when a loud booming sound echoed throughout the area.

Without even checking, she already knew that someone had set off the booming balls.

As she walked towards the farmhouse where all the animals were kept, she saw three children being scolded by their mother for playing around with the booming balls.

"It's alright Madam Wu. The construction work of the seven shops is almost over. I'll take down the balls today. No need to be so harsh on them." Li Ming said as she ruffled the hair of the young boys who were seven or eight years old.

The boys immediately ran away towards the orphanage which was now a newly constructed four-storey Academy.

For the rest of the day, Li Ming helped the workers in completing the final touches on the seven brand new shops that were lined across the Academy.

By the time the watch on Li Ming's wrist stated 3:00 pm on it, the shops were already ready to start the business.

"Miss Li, thank you so much for this. We will always be grateful to you. You have given so much to us villagers that we would never be able to pay back even a short percent of this kindness."

The seven families who were assigned as the host of the seven shops were standing in front of Li Ming as they all bowed to Li Ming in gratitude and respect.

Li Ming nodded her head lightly, showing her acceptance towards their courtesy.

All the seven shops were two storey buildings, each with a basement. These seven shops were - Garments Shop, Furniture Shop, Jewelry Shop, Footwear Shop, Herbs Shop, and a Kitchen Utensils Shop.

The last one was actually a small restaurant as in the past eight months, a lot of visitors had started visiting the Dongji village to buy fresh vegetables and fruits rich with spiritual qi.

With a small opening ceremony among the villagers, the seven shops were opened for the public by 4 pm.

Li Ming entered into the farmhouse and went straight towards the clearing behind the stables.

The dragon which was sitting on her shoulders all this time flew straight towards the ground and the very next second, a handsome devil was standing in front of Li Ming.

A pair of strong hands pulled her in a warm embrace from behind as Li Ming felt her back hitting a firm chest.

"Missed you so much, Xingan." Ruoshsn softly whispered in her ears, making a smile appear on her rosy lips.

"You just spent the last night spooning me in your arms. How can you start missing me in such a small time?" Li Ming asked while making her voice sound a little strict.

However, the slight smile that was playing on her lips gave her away immediately, making Ruoshan squeeze her tightly in his arms.

"Why I can't miss you? It's been hours since I last saw you early this morning before you left to meet that Wen Guiying." Roushan replied with his purple eyes showing disgust at the Supreme Immortal's name.

Li Ming laughed after hearing the contempt in the Evernight Lord's voice towards the Supreme Immortal.

Nearly all her mates were angry at Wen Guiying and there were two reasons behind it. The first one was obviously due to the hard training that he was making her go through and the second one was because he restricted the Immortals from being too close to her.

According to him, Li Ming was still too young and the Immortals needed to keep some distance from her.

He almost restricted them from meeting her as they were only allowed to meet her once a month.

It was only when Li Ming confessed that she needed the physical touch from them to keep the bond balanced, did he allowed them to meet her twice a month.

However, they were still not allowed to do anything more than hugging and holding hands.

Of course, not all her mates were happy with Wen Guiying's decision.

Zhang Yong did a lot of begging and only after he promised to stay in his dragon form almost ninety percent of the time, did the Supreme Immortal allowed him to stay with Li Ming.

However, the others were not as lucky as the Shadow Lord and the worst part was when Lord Yueliang also agreed with the Supreme Immortal.