You Are Very Dangerous

Colorful Moon Tower.

The largest brothel in Yanjiao City, and the favorite gathering place for the city's literati and refined scholars.

Brothels and whorehouses in this world are distinguished. Whorehouses are simple and direct, specializing in selling bodies, and are mostly small in scale and hidden in location. Like the spider demon whorehouse Chu Liang destroyed last time, it was in an inconspicuous small place outside the city.

Brothels are more focused on performing arts, larger in scale, and have a stronger social gathering nature. Normally, the good girls inside just accompany guests for drinks and watch performances.

Of course, if you insist on making other requests, as long as the good girl agrees, it's not impossible.

However, it's difficult to get close to the popular courtesans. Even if you spend a lot of money, you can at most get some opportunities for polite conversation and banquets. It's not that easy to have in-depth exchanges.

Yan Xiaohu has recently been pursuing a popular courtesan at Colorful Moon Tower, a girl named Rou Yi.

All of this was told to Chu Liang by the gatekeeper of the Yan family. That uncle was warm-hearted, and when Chu Liang politely asked a few questions, he told him everything he knew.

As for the matter of Chu Liang politely giving two taels of silver first, there's no need to mention it.

It was already night.

When Chu Liang arrived at Colorful Moon Tower, there was already light singing and graceful dancing. On the stage in the lobby on the first floor, several women in soft gauze were dancing gracefully to the accompaniment of musicians.

The guests below were seated at tables of three or five, eating and listening to music accompanied by good girls. The second floor had private seats, with bead curtains separating individual compartments. The third floor had private rooms, places where generous and extravagant or shameless people would go.

Undoubtedly, Yan Xiaohu was both generous and extravagant, and shameless.

So as soon as Chu Liang entered the door, he followed the stairs up.

Immediately, an older woman fanning herself came up, her eyes shining, "Oh, this young master is clearly a new face. What, do you want to go upstairs and call for a girl?"

"Hello, I'm looking for someone," Chu Liang said. "Is Young Master Yan Xiaohu up there?"

"Oh, you're a friend of Young Master Yan? Please wait, I'll have someone take you there right away." The madam was also easy to talk to.

After all, Chu Liang was handsome and refined, clearly a gentleman at first glance, and didn't look like he was here to cause trouble.

She waved and called over a young attendant, who led Chu Liang up to the third floor, to the outside of a private room.

Outside the private room stood two burly men with bulging temples. It seemed they were Yan Xiaohu's new bodyguards, and their cultivation was clearly higher than the previous two.

"Young Master, please wait a moment. I'll go in and inform him for you," the attendant said.

"No need, I can go in myself." Chu Liang gently pressed his hand on the attendant, then walked forward himself.

The two bodyguards had a intimidating presence, and as soon as they saw Chu Liang approaching, they put on a stance that warned strangers away. But Chu Liang was not afraid at all, and still went over and said politely, "Hello, I'm here to find Yan Xiaohu. I'm his classmate."

"Classmate?" The bodyguard on the left furrowed his brow. "Young Master said he's not seeing anyone."

The bodyguard on the right was more direct, saying coldly, "Get lost."

"Is that so..." Chu Liang smiled slightly.

"When is Miss Rou Yi coming?"

In the private room, Yan Xiaohu's face was displeased. Two good girls in colorful skirts sat beside him, trembling, their expressions very flustered, afraid that this little tyrant would get angry.

"Sister Rou Yi is having a polite conversation with someone. She will be here shortly, Young Master Yan, please don't be anxious."

"I've spent thousands of taels of silver on her, and I still can't be first?" Yan Xiaohu's face was still bruised, and he said angrily, "I'm really pissed off right now."

It was precisely because he had been severely beaten yesterday and lost face at Nanshan Academy that he felt depressed and wanted to come here to relax. But when he arrived, he was told that Miss Rou Yi was busy and he would have to wait.

While he was fuming, suddenly, he heard a few bangs from outside the door. The door was kicked open with a crash, and two bodyguards tumbled in.

"Who's there?" Yan Xiaohu immediately stood up and shouted.

"Young Master, he insisted on coming in. We... we couldn't stop him," the bodyguards crawled up and wailed.

"In Yanjiao City, who dares to provoke me, Yan Xiaohu?" He was about to explode.

Then, Chu Liang walked in calmly.

"Ah..." Yan Xiaohu's anger instantly dissipated. For a moment, he was bewildered, then it turned into a polite smile. "Chu... Brother Chu, it's you."

He was afraid of Chu Liang now, not just because he couldn't beat him. It was because after his father saw the Sword Coin Chu Liang sent, he directly told him that they couldn't afford to offend someone like this. Don't even think about revenge.

It was quite frustrating when someone who could beat you also had a bigger background than you.

"I came to visit you, and they told me to get lost," Chu Liang said indifferently.

"They are truly too rude!" Yan Xiaohu frowned and shouted, "You two, get out of here!"

The two bodyguards were inexplicably scolded again and had no choice but to slink out, closing the door behind them.

"Hehe, Brother Chu, please sit," Yan Xiaohu said with a fawning smile.

"Thank you." Chu Liang leaned over and looked at the two lovely young ladies beside him.

The two young ladies were not old. In their perception, Yan Xiaohu was already the fiercest little tyrant in Yanjiao City. They never expected this handsome young man to make him so fearful.

So they became even more afraid.

But Chu Liang smiled gently at them, which quickly dispelled their fear.

A young man with such a beautiful smile couldn't be a bad person, could he?

"What's behind the two young ladies?" The handsome young man pointed behind them, looking puzzled.

"What?" The two young ladies turned their heads to look.

Thump, thump.

With two muffled thuds, the two lovely young ladies went limp and fell to the ground one after the other.

Behind them, Chu Liang held half a glittering golden brick in his hand, a look of disappointment on his face.

"Ah..." Yan Xiaohu, who had witnessed the whole process from the side, opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

He was a bit stunned.

The Yan family was considered to have a tradition of prostitution and gambling, and Yan Xiaohu had frequented brothels with his elders since childhood, having seen all sorts of props in them.

Only a brick, this was the first time he had seen one.

What kind of fetish was this?

Chu Liang weighed the golden brick in his hand, put it away, and said, "Don't worry, they're fine, they just happened to trigger a stun. But you are in great danger, do you know that?"

"I'm in danger?" Yan Xiaohu was startled for a moment, then nodded.

Yeah.

Aren't I in great danger with you here?

"Chen Da also died last night. Among the people who bullied Situ Yan, you're the only one left," Chu Liang said directly. "Situ Yan might have become a Painted Skin Demon, possessing the ability to transform into others. Anyone who gets close to you could be it in disguise."

"Ah?" Yan Xiaohu was shocked.

He had heard rumors before about things like Situ Yan turning into a vengeful spirit for revenge, but he hadn't taken it too seriously. That was because he was different from those few people; he practiced martial arts and had experts protecting him. An ordinary vengeful spirit couldn't kill someone in the Black Tiger Gang.

But...

If it was the legendary Painted Skin Demon, killing a mere first-realm martial artist like him would be very easy.

No matter how dangerous Chu Liang was, he would only beat him up. If it was a ghost, that would be life-threatening.

He immediately distinguished between what was important and what was urgent, and also realized that Chu Liang must have come for him. He immediately asked, "Brother Chu... can you help me?"

"I came to save you," Chu Liang said. "I suspect you've been targeted by the Painted Skin Demon, which is why I came to watch over you. I have a way to distinguish the Painted Skin Demon. Anyone who approaches you tonight, I need to examine."

"Okay, okay, okay." Yan Xiaohu nodded repeatedly, then pointed at the two good girls on the ground: "Brother Chu, quickly examine them."

"..." Chu Liang paused, then replied, "I've already examined them."