Seeing how well-behaved and cute he was, Mrs. Cai stopped letting him do chores outside and asked him to work as a servant in the study of the young master of the Cai family, helping him with writing and painting.
That was his first contact with books and writing.
For the first time, he realized that the ocean of books could be so addictive.
He followed the young master to school all day long. The teacher taught the young masters inside, and they, the book boys, waited outside.
He is different from other servants.
He would not go out and play around. He would sit on the ground outside every day and listen to the teacher teaching the young masters.
After returning home, when the young master was reviewing his lessons, he would stand obediently behind him, secretly glancing at the books, and comparing what he had memorized during the day with the books one by one.
Old Madam Cai and Young Master Cai were both very nice people. When they discovered that he was secretly studying, no one said anything and tacitly approved of his ambition.
However, when he was seven years old, a cousin from the Cai family came to stay at their house and brought a nine-year-old little girl with him.
At that time, everyone was praising the cousin's beauty. The young master of the Cai family didn't get along with her, so he pointed at Chu Yujie and said to the young lady that she was not as pretty as his servant.
The young lady turned around and saw that she was not as good as a boy, and she immediately became jealous.
Two days later, he was tricked into the back door of Cai's mansion, where he was knocked unconscious and taken away.
When he woke up again, he was in the wilderness.
Half of his face was covered with blisters from the boiling water.
For the first time, he realized how terrifying power could be.
As soon as the little girl, who was only nine years old, said she disliked him, many people rushed to help her teach him a lesson, causing him to suffer a great disaster.
After he woke up, he never returned to the Cai family.
He knew that the Cai family would never turn against his cousin just for a servant like him.
At most, he would scold the young lady a few words and then give him some silver to appease him.
But what happens after comforting?
How could the cousin let him off easy after being scolded because of him?
By then, he might not even know how he died.
With the blisters on his face already festering, he asked around in the town and found out that the doctor at one of the clinics was kind-hearted. So he knelt outside the clinic and begged the doctor to save him. After his injury healed, he would repay the favor by working as a helper at the clinic.
He knelt outside the clinic from morning to night before the doctor sighed and took him in.
The doctor applied medicine to his wounds, and after he recovered, he worked as a helper in the clinic.
In a blink of an eye, another two years have passed.
He is nine years old.
During these two years, he still did not give up studying. Since he could not go to school, he used the old doctor's medical book and recognized the words in the book by identifying medicinal herbs.
And this year, something happened in the old doctor's family.
The old doctor went to treat a patient, but unfortunately he was involved in a murder case.
It was obvious that the husband had an affair outside and felt that the old woman at home was blocking his way. So he poisoned his wife, but somehow, the old doctor, who was not well-trained, prescribed the wrong medicine and the patient died.
The official at that time was incompetent and did not conduct a thorough investigation. No matter how they cried out for injustice, the official still sentenced the old doctor to have his property confiscated and be exiled.
The old doctor's wife and son died early, his daughter-in-law remarried, and he only has a four-year-old granddaughter.
Now that the old doctor is gone, the little granddaughter has no place to go.
When Chu Yujie went to see the old doctor off, he promised the old doctor that he would take the old doctor's granddaughter to find her mother.
After seeing off the old doctor, nine-year-old Chu Yujie led his four-year-old child on a journey of thousands of miles to find his relatives.
After three months of hard work, he finally found Xiaowawa's remarried mother. That night, the two of them were sold to human traffickers by Xiaowawa's black-hearted stepfather.
The black-hearted stepfather was unwilling to raise two burdens in vain, so they lost their freedom.
Nine-year-old Chu Yujie was very good-looking. He was noticed by a middle-aged wealthy businessman who was fond of homosexuality. The businessman bought him and raised him in the backyard, planning to bring him into his house when he grew up a few years.
The rich businessman already had wives and concubines at home. They knew his habit and did not dare to go against him. Whenever he went out to do business, his wives and concubines would take out their anger on the handsome boys in the backyard.
A dozen boys, including Chu Yujie, were tortured by the wives and concubines of the wealthy businessman every now and then.
Chu Yujie was the most handsome, so naturally he was also tortured the most severely.
For the next five years, Chu Yujie felt like he was in hell.
He was often whipped by his wives and concubines, and his body was covered with scars.
He was punished by being forced to kneel on broken teacup pieces, his knees were bloody.
He was not allowed to eat. After he went hungry for three or two days, they would throw him some food from the slop and feed him like a dog.
Even though I was injured and hungry, I still had to do dirty and tiring work every day.
Whenever the rich businessman was about to come back, his wives and concubines would make him sleep in the stable, making him stink.
So every time the rich businessman came to the backyard to see these handsome boys, everyone else had the opportunity to cry, but Chu Yujie became more and more annoyed to the rich businessman.
By the time Chu Yujie was fourteen years old, even though he had the dirty smell of the stable, it could not conceal his stunning beauty.
The rich businessman looked at him with an increasingly strange look in his eyes.
The wives and concubines realized from the rich businessman's eyes that once Chu Yujie gained his favor, they would never be able to get rid of him because of his beauty.
So, one night, Chu Yujie was framed by a wealthy businessman's wife and was caught in bed with an unfavored concubine...
Can a wealthy businessman bear the humiliation of being cheated on by both his male lover and concubine?
He directly sold Chu Yujie to a brothel.
And now, we have come to the timeline where Chu Yujie was sold to a brothel.
"well."
Zhu Wuhuan took a sip of tea and sighed.
According to her memory, Chu Yujie was unwilling to surrender even when he arrived at the brothel.
After being tortured and beaten by the people in the brothel for many days, he chose another way to protect himself.
He showed the madam on the spot how stunning his beautiful face would be if he were disguised as a woman.
He tried hard to sell himself to the brothel owner, believing that he could earn much more money as a courtesan who only sold his art and not his body than as a lowly male prostitute.
After seeing him dressed as a woman, the madam was completely persuaded by him.
So from that day on, a peerless beauty who was all the rage in the capital suddenly appeared, driving all the young and old men in the capital crazy for her and spending huge sums of money on her...
But no one knew that it was a man.
Becoming an otaku is just the first step for Chu Yujie to protect herself.
After he became famous, many dignitaries came to see him in the brothel.
He flattered these dignitaries, carefully planned every step, and then successfully lured King Jin Feng Changjin.
He showed his photographic memory to Prince Jin, and then successfully left the hell of the brothel and became a staff member in Prince Jin's mansion.
He spent another four years reading poetry and books, and finally made a great breakthrough and passed the imperial examination with the third place!
What’s hateful is that when his life finally turned around, the fact that he dressed as a woman and worked as an courtesan in a brothel was exposed by people who envied him!
His reputation was tarnished, and the enthroned Prince Jin was unable to protect him, so he fell from being a top scholar to a commoner.
After such a blow, he was still not defeated!
It doesn’t matter if he can’t enter the official career due to his tarnished reputation, he can still give up writing and join the army!
He went to the border alone on horseback.
He found ways to get to know the young generals in the army, started as a military advisor, and from one victory to hundreds of victories, he finally became famous throughout the court and stood above the court as a military general!
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At this moment, Chu Yujie, the ghost-faced general who will be famous in the court in the future, is still just a poor little guy in hell, with whip marks all over his body.
The sarcastic old procuress was looking at him with contempt.
"The servant said there's a wealthy young man out there looking for someone to serve him. Be a good boy, clean yourself up immediately, and go and greet him with a smile on your face!"
The madam shook the whip in her hand and said, "If you don't go, I'll beat you to death!"
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