She was running out of time, and she had to find a way to survive within this month.
Xu Youqi is the current emperor's son-in-law, Shen Congyan is the current Prince Su, and it goes without saying that the Princess Su is also from a prominent family.
Each of them is someone that Jiang Yi cannot afford to offend. It can be said that if they want Jiang Yi to die, it is as easy as crushing an ant.
At first, Xu Youqi probably didn't think of doing it himself.
Because he thought that someone with Jiang Yi's personality would be tortured to death in a brothel.
So nothing happened to Jiang Yi in the brothel.
Instead, danger came when she escaped from the brothel.
She couldn't leave the brothel for the time being.
So facing the threats and inducements of the madam, Jiang Yi easily chose a path that would allow him to suffer less.
She said, "I can agree to your request, but I have a condition. I want to sell my art but not my body."
The madam wanted to sneer at him, but Jiang Yi said quickly, "Of course this is temporary. She only sells her art but not her body. That's to earn a higher dowry!"
The madam then smiled, "With such a captivating face and figure, even if you just stand there, you'll attract many men. If you can capitalize on it, you can fetch a high price."
"It's just that you didn't think it through before, but now you have, it's all good."
"It's a good idea to use the gimmick of selling art instead of body as a publicity stunt."
So that night, Jiang Yi drank the Meiyin pills and Meizi pills.
On the second day, Jiang Yi performed on stage.
Her moving singing voice and beautiful dancing instantly attracted many people's attention. She even became the most popular courtesan in Baihua Tower in just three days. Everyone in the streets and alleys of the capital was talking about Jiang Yi.
No one has ever seen Jiang Yi's appearance, but because of this, people are more interested in this mysterious courtesan.
Many people are willing to spend a fortune to see Jiang Yi's true face.
This matter also reached the palace. The emperor had been on the throne for seven years. He had been poisoned since he was young and was therefore often sick. Although the emperor looked sick, he was indeed a diligent emperor. He was not interested in women and there was only one queen in the harem, who was married for political reasons.
It would be more accurate to say that she is a pawn used by the queen's mother's family to restrain the emperor.
Naturally, the emperor would not be interested in such things. The reason why he paid attention to Jiang Yi was because of Prince Su and his son-in-law Xu Youqi.
The emperor was adopted by the empress dowager since he was young, and Prince Su was the prince born to the late emperor's most beloved imperial concubine.
Originally, the late emperor wanted Prince Su to ascend the throne, but the Empress Dowager's maternal family was powerful and supported him to become emperor.
From then on, Prince Su concealed his brilliance and became an idle young man in the capital. He even traveled around for a while and became a teacher in a remote village in the north.
But the emperor never relaxed his vigilance against Prince Su. He always had people keeping an eye on Prince Su, so he knew that Prince Su had brought a woman into the capital, and that woman was the prince consort's ex-wife.
Princess Fengyang was the empress dowager's biological daughter and his nominal sister. However, this princess had always been arrogant. Even though she knew that Xu Youqi was not honest, she did not say much.
What made him feel even more amused was that Prince Su openly allowed Jiang Yi to be his concubine and even doted on her in every way, but privately, Prince Su used Jiang Yi as a handle to threaten Xu Youqi to do his bidding.
Before this, the emperor was planning to make use of Xu Youqi. This son-in-law came from a humble family but had great literary talent, and perhaps he could be a knife in his hand.
However, Xu Youqi was not threatened by Prince Su, and even told the princess he had just married about Prince Su's concubine.
Princess Su was born in the Duke of Huguo's Mansion. Her father held military power and guarded Xiangyang. Prince Su married Princess Su naturally to take advantage of the power of Princess Su's family.
Princess Su was very picky, so she sold Jiang Yi to a brothel without telling Prince Su.
From the beginning to the end, Jiang Yi was just a victim.
Jiang Yi's fate was foreseeable, but the emperor did not expect that the woman who sounded very weak and had no opinion of her own could live a happy life in a brothel. He became a little curious about her.
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