Immortal Music Gate, Golden Voice Queen Ru Meng!

After listening to the songs for a while, Jiang Wangzu found them extremely boring. They only made him want to doze off.

The dance halls of this era simply could not compare to the bars of later generations.

Those female DJs covered head to toe in runes.

Those explosive, fiery figures.

They were really damn exciting.

Then look at this so-called Immortal Music Gate.

This was it?

All you could do was peek at some legs through the slits of qipao!

"God, this sounds awful. If this is all it takes, I could do it too!"

Jiang Wangzu shook his head.

But after all, these were only the early years of the Great Xin Republic.

This kind of new-style dance music had only just been brought over from the West not long ago.

It was only in a metropolis like Shen City that one could hear it.

If it were any other small or medium-sized city, they probably would not even have heard of it.

Other places were still dominated by opera and shadow puppetry.

"This is Shen City's most popular song this year. You think it sounds awful?"

Just then, a clear, crisp voice rang out.

"Who the hell are you? Do you understand song and dance?"

At those words, Jiang Wangzu turned his head impatiently.

Only to see a pretty woman in a short-sleeved, floral, high-slit qipao, with long hair styled in big waves, looking at him with a bright, smiling expression.

That made him freeze. Sister-in-law was already a peerless beauty in the mortal world, but the woman before him was actually three parts more stunning than Sister-in-law!

Behind the woman stood two burly bodyguards in black suits, planted there like iron towers, intimidating at a glance.

"Kid, watch your mouth."

"Standing before you is Miss Ru Meng, the Golden Voice Queen of Immortal Music Gate."

"And what she is best at happens to be song and dance. Yet you actually say she doesn't understand song and dance?"

One of the bodyguards behind Ru Meng stared at Jiang Wangzu with a cold gaze and said in a deep voice.

"Look at you, dressed in rags. You don't look like you came in through the front door."

"Who exactly are you? What are you doing here?"

"If you snuck in, then you've broken the rules!"

At this moment, the other bodyguard also sized Jiang Wangzu up and down, then barked sharply.

The threshold for entering Immortal Music Gate was extremely high. Aside from Shen City's high officials and nobles, even middle-class people rarely came here to broaden their horizons.

And Jiang Wangzu was wearing an old, dust-stained gray long mandarin jacket. How did he look like a rich man at all?

"What?"

"Does your Immortal Music Gate practice discrimination now?"

"In Stories to Awaken the World, it was once recorded that an oil peddler painstakingly saved up ten taels of silver just to go to the brothel and see the courtesan he longed for day and night."

"I, Jiang Wangzu, painstakingly saved up one thousand silver dollars to come to Immortal Music Gate and see the courtesan who belongs to me. Is that not allowed?"

"You see only that I'm dressed in rags and come belittling me. Isn't that a dog's eyes looking down on people?"

"Then have you seen the gleaming white banknote in my hand?"

Jiang Wangzu directly pulled a one-hundred-yuan banknote from his chest and waved it before their eyes.

His gaze was calm as he looked with full confidence at the bodyguard who had spoken earlier.

"You!"

At those words, the bodyguard behind Ru Meng frowned and was about to flare up.

"A-Hu, don't be rude!"

Just then, Ru Meng spoke.

"Jiang Wangzu, was it? I wonder, have you seen the courtesan who belongs to you?"

Ru Meng looked Jiang Wangzu over with great interest, then said with a smile.

"I hadn't seen her before, but now I have."

The corners of Jiang Wangzu's mouth lifted in a faint curve. He met Ru Meng's eyes and spoke sincerely.

"Giggle, giggle, giggle."

At those words, Ru Meng let out a laugh like silver bells.

She ignored Jiang Wangzu's rustic getup and gave him another careful once-over.

She discovered that Jiang Wangzu was extremely tall, with swordlike brows, bright starry eyes, a handsome face, and a sunny air about him.

That one look actually made her maiden heart flutter a little.

Seeing Ru Meng's pure yet alluring appearance, Jiang Wangzu knew at once that his Succubus talent had taken effect.

The reason he had been able to hook up with his boss Chen Tai's wife, Xu Zhenzhen, while weeding and tending the yard at Chen Tai's home more than half a month ago was also largely thanks to this Succubus talent.

It was just that his Succubus talent mainly worked on women, and had little effect on men.

It could even make them hostile toward him because he was too handsome.

"But I'm only interested in people with a high mastery of song and dance. Do you know much about song and dance?"

Ru Meng leaned close to Jiang Wangzu, her fragrant breath like orchids, and spoke softly by his ear.

Jiang Wangzu only felt a wave of sweet fragrance rush over him. Looking at Ru Meng's smooth face so close at hand and her exquisite features, he could not help but feel his mind sway.

"I know a little, just a little!"

Jiang Wangzu nodded when he heard her.

"Then fine. Write me a song."

"If it's good, I can agree to one request within my power."

"If it isn't good, I'll have A-Long and A-Hu break your four limbs, cut out your tongue, and throw you out of Immortal Music Gate."

"What do you think?"

Ru Meng looked at Jiang Wangzu and spoke in a calm tone.

But Jiang Wangzu felt a sliver of biting cold.

This woman did not seem to be joking!

"Sure."

"If what I write is good, then you'll spend a night with me and give me another thousand silver dollars as a creation fee."

At this point, Jiang Wangzu could not back down. He stared straight at Ru Meng and spoke.

"Little man, those are two things!"

Ru Meng rolled her eyes at Jiang Wangzu with boundless charm, then said in annoyance.

She could not help but marvel that Jiang Wangzu really did have guts.

On ordinary days, even when the commissioner of the Shen City Police Department invited her to dinner, she was too lazy to do him the honor.

There were plenty of dignitaries and wealthy men in the Upper District who had fallen under her pomegranate skirt, but not a single one of them had succeeded.

And this little man in front of her thought he could have her?

What a fool's dream!

"I write you a song, you give me a creation fee. That is only right and proper."

"As for you yourself, that is the matter within your power that you mentioned."

Jiang Wangzu spoke with a perfectly serious expression.

"Fine."

"I'd like to see just what ability you, little man, really have!"

The coldness in Ru Meng's eyes deepened by a few degrees.

If it had been any other man who dared speak to her like this, she would already have had A-Long and A-Hu make their move.

But after all, Jiang Wangzu really was very handsome.

Toward good-looking people, she did have a few more measures of patience.

"Give me a quiet room, and then give me paper and a brush."

"I'll prove it to you!"

"Only, when the time comes, you'd better not say one thing and mean another and try to welch on the debt!"

Jiang Wangzu spoke with a calm expression.

If even that sister onstage singing such an awful song counted as singing one of the most popular songs in Shen City right now, then for him to plagiarize a few classic Republican-era-style songs from his previous life to move Ru Meng seemed truly not difficult.

"Fine. Then go to my room and write. I'll watch you write with my own eyes."

"Come with me!"

Ru Meng gave A-Long and A-Hu behind her a look.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

"What are you doing, what are you doing, what are you doing?"

"Men shouldn't touch each other so casually."

"I can walk by myself! Stay away from me!"

"Someone, help! I'm being molested!"

"..."

A-Long and A-Hu took up positions on either side and simply hoisted up Jiang Wangzu, who kept spewing cheap-mouthed nonsense.

Then they followed Ru Meng up to the third floor.

Immortal Music Gate had three floors in total, covering more than three thousand square meters.

The front hall on the first floor was a dance floor, with the kitchen in the back.

The second floor held a small banquet hall and a small private dance hall.

The third floor was a hotel.

Generally speaking, dancers and waiters were not qualified to live on the third floor.

But Ru Meng was one of the four queens of the Immortal Music Gate cabaret, and her relationship with the boss of Immortal Music Gate was far from ordinary.

That was why she was able to have a place of her own on the third floor.