Volume Two, Chapter 36

"Hey! It took me forever to make you presentable. Where do you think you're going without staying by my side?" Longyang grabbed her wrist, trying to pull her back.

"Should I stay and wait for you to humiliate me?"

"Humiliate you? You're still wearing your clothes, aren't you?"

"That's not the kind of humiliation I meant!"

"This lord only uses that kind of humiliation on women."

"Then go find a woman who's willing to be humiliated by you!"

She suddenly shoved Longyang away, gathered up her little skirt, and ran into the crowd.

Longyang narrowed his eyes as he watched her retreating figure. This girl was getting quite a temper. He had merely teased her for having terrible taste in men, yet she actually dared to throw such a tantrum at him, despite the fact that he had leverage over her. Hmph... It was time to teach her a lesson. This was a bustling night market, and she wasn't dressed as a man now. The Yusha Gauze Skirt he had personally picked out accentuated her slender figure, while her lips were alluringly colored.

Didn't she know how dangerous it was to leave him?

The night market was dangerous—especially the areas near the brothels.

Zhu Bafu had originally planned to walk back to the Nian Household, but as luck would have it, she had to pass several streets lined with brothels.

It wasn't as if she had never walked down this street before. Back when she made a living writing letters, these pleasure districts had actually been the places she visited most often. Many courtesans couldn't read or write and would ask her to help compose letters to their families. But in the past, she had always walked in and out dressed smartly as a man. No man had ever looked