At Wanhualou, the vast majority of guests in the private rooms stay overnight.

Manager Zhu had stayed overnight many times in the past.

The dancers and pianists had left, and the private room returned to silence.

The servants carefully cleaned the main room, trying not to make a sound.

Then close the door to the private room and send two maids to stand guard at the door, waiting for the guests to wake up the next morning so they can be served.

It also prevents other guests from accidentally entering.

To avoid causing trouble.

So all those novels where the female protagonist disguises herself as a man and bravely storms into a brothel, only to get drunk and accidentally enter the male protagonist's room and end up sleeping with him, are complete utter nonsense.

If that's the case, brothels can forget about opening.

In another room, Yan Xia lay on the bed with her eyes closed; she had long since fallen asleep.

He had taken off his outer and inner garments, leaving only a thin inner garment.

Feng Shi lay to the side, his face turned to the side as he looked at Yan Xia.

He remained silent.

A moment later, he covered himself with the blanket and they both fell asleep.

Nothing was done.

Tonight is indeed his birthday.

He's eighteen this year and has been a prostitute for three years.

He was already tired of this kind of life, so he didn't touch Yan Xia. He just snuggled up next to her and slept together.

That way, he won't be lonely.

The usual customers were either fat, big-eared old women or men with homosexual tendencies.

He had no choice but to accept it, whether he wanted to or not.

Almost all his customers would try to take advantage of him, but he always stuck to his principles and refused to sleep with anyone. He was once the son of a third-rank official in the capital, but because his father refused to associate with corrupt officials, he was slandered by villains.

He was beheaded at Caishikou.

His mother hanged herself, and his elder brother was beaten to death with sticks.

He should have been exiled, but his childhood friend's page knocked him unconscious, dressed him in women's clothes, and threw him into the maid's room. Because his appearance hadn't fully developed a few years ago and he looked somewhat feminine, he got away with it. The page put on his clothes and set fire to his room. After the fire was extinguished, the page was burned to a crisp. The soldiers saw the jade pendant on the corpse's waist and confirmed his identity. The maid was then sold to a brothel in the capital.

Overwhelmed with grief, she fell into a coma and did not open her eyes for three days. Her pulse was weak, and the thugs at the brothel thought she was going to die.

They lied and claimed they had dumped her 'body' in a mass grave.

After carrying him out of the brothel, they secretly sold him to a brokerage firm for three taels of silver.

The brokers, seeing how handsome he was, took a gamble, bought him, and then drugged him, finally bringing him to his senses.

She was sold again to a brothel in Jiangnan for a full thirty taels of silver.

A woman with his looks is worth a lot of money.

But a man is a man after all, and the next day, the brothel madam exposed him.

Because every woman sold into a brothel had to undergo a physical examination before receiving customers.

See if she is a virgin.

The price difference for the first night with a virgin and a non-virgin is too big.

After being discovered, the madam wanted to confront the broker, but she hesitated because Feng Shi was truly stunning.

It just so happens that brothels also have male prostitutes.

So they gave him a different identity to serve customers.

Shi Jingyu changed his name to Fengshi.

Born at the right time, or born at the wrong time.

He was skilled at playing the guqin and was also knowledgeable in poetry.

He attracted many customers who wanted to sleep with him, but he would rather die than sleep with them.

Seeing that he earned quite a bit and had a strong personality, the brothel had no choice but to compromise and let him live peacefully for three years. But just two days ago...

A woman who preferred virgins spent a thousand taels of silver to buy his virginity.

The two madams frantically attacked him, trying to brainwash him.

It is said that even if he dies this time, he must sell his virginity before he dies.

Feng Shi's temperament had long been worn down to be smooth and tactful. He couldn't die; he hadn't avenged his father yet.

After three years of navigating the world of various influential figures, he had already learned that the current magistrate of Jiangnan County was the same villain who had slandered his father, and that Jiangnan County was the most prosperous place.

Even the top scholar in the imperial examinations wouldn't qualify you to be the magistrate here.

Every previous county magistrate had connections.

They either have powerful connections or influential people in the government.

Xu Wenyan, the magistrate of Jiangnan County, was originally from a farming family. How did he manage to get this position?

Isn't it just that he helped his superiors remove obstacles?

That obstacle was naturally his father.

Since that lady only played with virgins, he devised a plan to make everyone think that he had lost his virginity.

Years of habit had made the male mother no longer wary of him.

After bribing several servants, he carried Yan Xia to the room.

He didn't come out all night.

The two were already asleep, their shallow breaths mingling together.

Sometimes the rhythm is consistent, sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slow.

The sun had already climbed high in the sky, and a blinding ray of sunlight pierced through the paper window, shining on Yan Xia's face. She let out a soft moan and gradually came to her senses. The slight pain in her head told her that she had blacked out from drinking the night before.

Yan Xia slowly opened her eyes and observed her surroundings.

Suddenly, she saw a man sleeping beside her who looked as exquisite as someone from a comic book.

His eyelashes were long and curled, and his profile was completely free of any excess fat. Up close, you could see the man's excellent skin, which was somewhat pale, indicating that he rarely saw the sun. His lips were naturally red, and his shallow breathing proved that he was still asleep.

Isn't this the perfect time?

Depend on! ! !

She actually slept with Feng Shi!

This kid looks like he's only eighteen, right?

Would you say she's an older woman dating a younger man?

Oh no, oh no, my reputation is ruined.

The original owner was already thirty-two years old.

If I had given birth a year earlier, I could have had the baby at the right time.

Original owner, please forgive me. Anyway, you're divorced now, so it's good for you to enjoy yourself, right?

Yan Xia looked embarrassed.

She has no memory of what happened after she blacked out last night.

I only remember drinking the wrong wine, then Fengshi pulled me aside to chat, then my head became more and more dizzy, and then my memory ended up like this.

Yan Xia had never slept in the same bed with a man in either of her lives. She carefully lifted the quilt, stood up from the bed, stepped past Feng Shi, got out of bed, stood there helplessly for a few minutes, quickly dressed, put ten taels of silver on the table, and was about to leave when she felt that ten taels was a bit too little.

After all, there's a huge age gap between them.

This kid got the short end of the stick.

He simply put the forty taels of silver from his purse, along with the purse itself, on the table.

Then she quietly opened the door, intending to leave.

Two sleepy maids stood outside the door. Just as they were about to open their mouths, Yan Xia quickly put her index finger to her lips.

"Shh-"

She went out and gently closed the door.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't wake him. He must be exhausted from last night. Let him rest. I'm leaving now. Where's Manager Zhu?"

"Sir, Manager Zhu is still sleeping in the next private room. Would you like to wait for him? Why don't you have breakfast downstairs first?"

The maid was very tactful, speaking in a voice as soft as Yan Xia's.

"No, no, I'll go back first. Have you settled the bill?"

The maid smiled and said, "Not yet, sir."

"Oh, then you can settle with Manager Zhu. I'll be going now."

She gave all fifty taels of silver she had on her to Fengshi, and let Manager Zhu handle the bill, since he said he would treat them anyway.