"!!!"
Lu Renjia was furious.
He swung his fist and smashed it into the young man's face, causing him to bleed profusely from his head.
The people drinking nearby and the madam exclaimed in surprise, "Master Lu, what are you doing?"
"Brother Lu, it's just for a woman, how can you slap your brother in the face?"
"Hey Lu, you can't take a joke, can you? How old are you? Don't you know your place? You just have a little money. No matter how much money you have, this woman still won't look at you, you old codger. Don't you know you're old and smelly? And you still dare to hit me?" The young man who was hit shouted angrily.
"You..." Lu Renjia's eyes turned red with anger, and he grabbed the young man's clothes, about to hit him.
However, they were pulled back by the people next to them, and the two sides were at a stalemate.
Lu Renjia noticed that the top courtesan, Xiao Fendie, whose face was as beautiful as a snow lotus from Tianshan, did not show the panic of the others. Instead, she had a smug look on her face, as if she was watching a good show.
Enraged, Lu Renjia ignored the young man, spat on the ground, and said, "You little brat, do you know who I am? Do you really think that in a place like this, a little bitch like you can call the shots? As long as I pay, whether you like it or not, you have to sleep with me!"
When Lu Renjia got angry, he no longer cared about his usual hypocritical demeanor, and his words became extremely vulgar.
However, what he said makes a lot of sense.
When the madam heard that he was going to pay, her face lit up with joy. Everyone in the red-light district knew that Lord Lu's family had nothing but money!
"Lord Lu, my daughter is still young and innocent." The madam wanted to boast a bit more and take the opportunity to ask for more money.
Unexpectedly, the little pink butterfly, who had been so aloof just moments before, suddenly smiled with her eyes crinkling, clapping her hands and saying, "Alright, give me the money! The more money you offer, the more I'll follow you!"
"It's just a little silver! I have plenty!" Lu Renjia shouted. "Wouldn't ten thousand taels of silver be enough for me?"
"Only ten thousand taels..." Little Pink Butterfly shook her head, tugged at her collar, revealing a glimpse of her skin: "Not enough, not enough."
"Is 100,000 taels of silver enough for you, old man!" Lu Renjia looked at that milky white shoulder, swallowed hard, and raised his voice even louder. His eyes were glaring at the little pink butterfly, almost popping out of their sockets.
Lu Renjia felt as if someone was banging a gong and drum inside his ears, making his ears ache, and he also felt pain in his chest and blood vessels.
But he only stared at the beauty before him, while many indistinct voices echoed in his ears: "Not enough, not enough!"
Lu Renjia thought he was probably drunk, and everything was becoming a bit blurry. He kept shouting higher prices, and finally won the beauty's smile again, and took the hand of that icy beauty.
Lu Renjia was extremely excited. It was as if he had abandoned his old body and returned to the carefree spirit of his teens and twenties.
He happily grabbed the pretty girl's hand and rushed into the room, whispering sweet nothings: "My beauty, you are so beautiful, more beautiful than all my concubines. As long as you are willing to follow me obediently, I am willing to redeem you no matter how much money it costs... From now on, you will follow me and will not have to serve other men anymore, okay?"
The little pink butterfly looked at him, her face still bearing the same smile, but her eyes had turned into sharp, piercing knives.
"Didn't you just say you'd seen me before? Don't you recognize me anymore?" the little pink butterfly said.
“I recognize you, of course I recognize you! I recognized you at first glance. You must be my wife in my past life, that's why I still think about you so much at this age.” As Lu Renjia spoke, he started to take off his clothes while bringing his mouth close to Little Pink Butterfly’s face.
The little pink butterfly slapped his face away, looked at him and smiled, saying, "Yes, it was in my past life, my past life. Back then you said you wanted me to be your wife, you said it, how could you lie to me?"
As she finished speaking, her fair and delicate face crumbled like porcelain, piece by piece. But beneath the broken skin lay bright red flesh, a dark, almost blackish red, its intense color resembling rotting flesh. White bones supported the falling pieces of decaying flesh, and tender, white maggots crawled out, their soft texture landing in Lu Renjia's hand.
"Ahhhhhh—" Lu Renjia screamed in fright, his body instinctively trying to escape, but he couldn't push her away. The beauty he had just been holding tightly in his arms could only sit down on the ground with a thud.
"I don't know you... I don't know you! You've got the wrong person!" Lu Renjia watched in disbelief as a beautiful woman transformed into a terrifying ghost in an instant. He was so frightened that his heart nearly jumped out of his chest.
The sweet talk I was just about had completely vanished from my mind. I wished I could slap myself twice and get as far away from this idiot as possible.
But the rotting corpse, supported by white bones, refused to give up, still speaking in that cold, desolate voice: "How could you forget me? Lu Lang..."
"You promised me! You promised me that you would marry me after you said goodbye to your parents! Whether your parents agreed or not, you would definitely marry me. You sold me into that kind of place to raise money for your journey, didn't you? Now you don't need the money for the journey, so why haven't you come to redeem me? Why haven't you come to marry me!"
"I don't know you at all! Where did you come from? You've got the wrong person! Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt its debtor. Go find someone else, don't come to me. I haven't offended you." Lu Renjia's lips trembled with fear, but he still had to defend himself, trying to run outside while explaining to the ghost.
However, it was obvious that he, a living person, could not outrun this crazed ghost.
He could only watch helplessly as the terrifying demon smiled at him, revealing its bright red and black gums, its teeth falling out one by one, and white bone fingertips climbing up his shoulder.
The female ghost's hair fell off in clumps, revealing a strange and terrifying smile to him.
"Lu Lang, how could you forget? How could you forget me? I am your Meng Lanxin, I have come all the way from Hangzhou to find you." The little pink butterfly smiled at him, and an eyeball fell out of its empty eyes and landed straight in Lu Renjia's arms.
Lu Renjia screamed in fright, but finally remembered the name Meng Lanxin.
He remembers that name!
Meng Lanxin was a respectable young woman who was sold into a brothel by him more than forty years ago.
"Don't come any closer!" Lu Renjia shouted shrilly.
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