A ten-li stretch of ancient street, rich with old-world charm.
The ground was paved with bluestone, and misty pavilions built from dark brown ancient timber lined both sides of the road. If one ignored the people, it would have been an elegant street straight out of a poetic painting.
But if one looked at the people...
"Young Master Gu, we haven't seen each other for just a few hours, and I already miss those wild, passionate times we shared in bed."
"You little darling."
"You devil."
Nearly five hundred women of the pleasure quarters stood in the breeze, dressed in red and green, their ample bosoms half-exposed and their alluring eyes brimming with seduction.
A breeze swept through, carrying the scents of over a hundred kinds of rouge and perfume until they filled the air.
There were lavish seaside banquets in modern times, and courtesans competing for beauty in ancient times.
It was truly a spectacular sight.
Many women released their embroidered handkerchiefs, which fluttered through the air toward Liu Di and the other man.
Liu Di was somewhat numb.
Why did an innocent young man have to suffer such a trial?
He was considering whether to mobilize the liquid metal and slice the pink handkerchiefs before him apart at the atomic level.
But the dandy young master Gu Xiao reached out and caught one. He lifted it to his nose and sniffed it. "Mm, Ning Xiang, the top courtesan of Yan Hua Lou. Tsk, tsk. My most concise assessment of her is—ample assets."
Then...
Gu Xiao looked at Liu Di, raising his brows. "They say the best way to become brothers who would die for each other is either to have killed someone together or gone to jail together. Those two are probably out of reach, but we can