Woo, new series by Sal Jiang! Off to a nice start already. Presumably the woman in the last panel is the Jirai-ke girl from the title art, and also the main love interest. If so, I'm excited to probably see what her deal is next chapter.
One thing I enjoyed about her previous series, Black & White and AyaHiro, is that they featured noticeable shifts in plot direction and tone around the end of volume 1/beginning of volume 2, and it was fun to see the transition. I wonder if this will follow the same pattern, and if so, what direction it's planning to go in.