To be honest, after entering through that curtain, surrounded by the thick scent of rouge, Duan Yun had the urge to transform into a divine constable and seal this place off.
Of course, he knew female divine constables did not handle this sort of work.
In this world, aside from Chivalric Land, eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling were all legitimate pursuits. No one would investigate them at all.
Even whoring had distinctions between high and low, safe and dangerous.
A place like this looked like the sort where one could easily get poisoned at a glance.
Duan Yun and Zi Yu followed the elder for roughly twenty steps before stopping.
This seemed to be an underground structure, vast and spacious.
Eternal lamps burned all around. Though they illuminated the outline of the building, the dark places only seemed even darker.
By the time they reached this point, the elder had begun smearing rouge on himself.
The rouge was as large as a bar of soap, and he slathered it onto his face as if it cost nothing.
At that moment, he signaled for Duan Yun and the others to smear some on as well.
Duan Yun found it utterly absurd and thought, Surely joining the Bloodthirsty Storytellers' Order doesn't mean I have to receive customers too?
He knew the Red Tower Women had had similar rules when joining. To enter, they first had to ruin a certain number of men. Some simply became brothel girls, taking the entrance test while making money on the side, spreading poison and knocking down droves of people.
But what did storytelling have to do with receiving customers?
Vocal tricks?
Duan Yun could not help asking, "Elder, why do we have to smear this on?"
The elder said solemnly, "The ancestors like this scent. Smear