To Serve The Public is the Aim

To Serve The Public is the Aim is a short story set in the 琅琊榜 Nirvana in Fire (TV) and the Montague Egg fandoms. It is the first in the series Every Salesman Worth the Name .You might like to refer to their suggested reading order, chronology & series information.

Peng Mingjun, traveller in wines for Li Brothers of Jinling, arrives at an inn deep in the jianghu. From the outset he has a sense that all is not as it should be.

Warnings: The author chooses not to warn.

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to caulkhead for betaing and encouragement. Inspired by this Tweet and the brilliant thread of which it forms part.

The original central cover image is made up of a Chinese seal by quashe (shutterstock.com/g/qushe) with Nirvana in Fire & Wine in Chinese characters. The fonts used in this book are from the Source Serif Pro font family by Frank Grießhammer.

The images and fonts were used under license detailed on their respective website pages at the date of this book publication.

As usual, Russ from shoes for industry designed the book cover, produced the books and compiled the on-line work.

The opinions, prejudices, faults and spelling herein are all my own work, and I apologise in advance for them.

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This short story is rated PG. You might also like to consider other books set in the Nirvana in Fire or Montague Egg fandoms or read more books in the Every Salesman Worth The Name series.

- First Edition: 11th Apr 2021
- 2nd Edition: 18th May 2021
- 3rd Edition: 31st Oct 2021

This work is created as a transformative work on a not-for-profit basis. All rights in the underlying properties are those of their respective holders.