Rumble~!
Glittering red lanterns lent fragrance to drunken peony blooms; lightning flashed through the carved windows of the brothel.
More than a dozen people in the quiet private room were still drinking, waiting for the rain to stop. The rain had clearly ceased, yet for some reason a sudden downpour had begun again. This elegant brothel chamber was certainly comfortable, though secrecy prevented them from calling in beauties to drink with them.
Footsteps sounded in the corridor outside, light and graceful. Martial arts masters and low-level cultivators with hearing beyond ordinary people knew that a woman was walking outside. It was a brothel, after all. Women were perfectly normal here.
The strange thing was that the footsteps stopped outside their door.
The private chamber was exquisitely furnished, with a beautiful sliding door. A silhouette of the visitor outside showed through the paper pasted over it.
Creak~ The door opened, and a White-clothed Girl entered. She was very beautiful, at least prettier than any of the supposedly pure courtesans and famed flower maidens outside. She possessed a pure beauty that made one reluctant to offend her. Cradling an ancient zither in her arms, she sat down and began to play.
Everyone assumed she was a songstress Brother Li, who had left earlier, had hired. She played well. Drinking wine while listening to music was wonderfully relaxing.
"Brother Li is truly a man of temperament, haha~"
"Let us drink this cup together~"
Cups passed back and forth amid lively revelry. Bai Yujun kept her head lowered, playing the zither by herself. For a short while, there had been eighteen distinct human scents in the room. Sixteen people were currently inside; the man surnamed Li had left early and died. That meant one more person was still missing.
To pull up weeds, one