Aren't You Naughty, Young Master

"Young master, Miss Cao Qin invites you upstairs to sit with her."

A little maid in green quietly approached Xu Chunliang and pointed upstairs.

Xu Chunliang looked up and saw a girl dressed in red.

Their eyes met. The girl first gave him a sweet smile, then extended a slender, jade-like finger and gently beckoned him over.

Xu Chunliang raised his wine cup in a toast to the girl, then drained it in one gulp.

Then he walked upstairs under the envious gazes of those around him.

Fan City's pleasure district had an unwritten rule: popular girls had the right to waive the fees for men who caught their fancy.

If they got along well, the girls might even keep them company for free and sometimes give the men they loved a red envelope full of silver.

So when Xu Chunliang stood up, several people in the hall who had noticed what was happening couldn't help exclaiming in admiration and envy.

Little did they know that the people they envied more often than not ended up as food for the strange beings hidden in the brothels.

Watching the graceful sway of the green-clad maid's waist ahead of him, Xu Chunliang asked curiously, "Doesn't Miss Cao Qin have a guest today?"

"A young master was supposed to come, but he sent someone at the last minute to say he couldn't make it. Miss was going to rest today, but when she saw you from the window, she felt a certain familiarity and told me to come down and invite you up."

"Don't worry, young master. Miss never charges the guests she invites. You only need to talk with her. There's no need to be afraid."

Xu Chunliang shrugged and said casually, "Afraid? There's nothing to be afraid of."

He had already died who knew how many times and had even "seen" [Death] itself. He no longer knew what fear was.

He was numb to it all.

Even as he went upstairs, he somewhat regretted not fighting the hooked scale another three hundred and sixty thousand times to practice the other two knife techniques properly...

"Please, young master." The little maid in green pushed open the door and invited Xu Chunliang inside.

Miss Cao Qin was named Cao Qin, and naturally, she was an excellent qin player.

As soon as Xu Chunliang entered, he saw Miss Cao Qin behind a peach tree blossoming indoors. Dressed in red, her lips stained scarlet, she sat before a guqin.

"Shall I play a piece for you, young master?"

Xu Chunliang nodded.

She plucked the strings, and a melodious tune rang out.

With the green-clad maid attending him, Xu Chunliang sat on a brocade stool and closed his eyes to listen.

Killing a ghost to the sound of a qin was quite romantic.

He planned to draw his knife and kill the strange being once he finished listening to the piece.

"Ding~ dong~ ding..."

As the melodious qin music played, Xu Chunliang quietly fell asleep.

A red-clad figure drifted over, her robe instantly falling open to reveal her naked body.

Below her fair collarbones, a jagged maw stretching from her collarbones to below her lower abdomen sprang open.

Layers upon layers of sharp teeth nested together, surrounding a black hole piled with flesh.

Her body opened like a clam, and she bit Xu Chunliang in half on the brocade stool.

His fair arm was instantly reduced to minced meat between the teeth in her abdomen and swallowed.

Xu Chunliang raised his wine cup, and the little maid in green came up to him.

Once again, he walked upstairs under everyone's envious gazes.

He entered the room to find the woman in red still sitting before the guqin, gazing at him affectionately.

"Shall I play a piece for you, young master?"

Xu Chunliang shook his head.

Cao Qin rose in her red robes and stepped lightly forward.

"If I don't play the qin, what would you like to do, young master?"

Xu Chunliang held out his left hand, folding down his thumb and little finger to leave the three middle fingers raised. Smiling, he said:

"Take the three words 'don't play qin' and remove the first and third words. What's left is what we're going to do."

He folded down his index and ring fingers, leaving only his middle finger raised.

Miss Cao Qin froze, then her pretty face flushed. "You look so bashful, young master. I didn't expect you to take liberties with me as soon as you arrived."

Xu Chunliang laughed and reached out to put an arm around Miss Cao Qin's shoulders.

Then he looked behind her and said, "Look, who's that?"

The moment Cao Qin turned her head, Xu Chunliang pulled the small brass knife from behind his waist with his right hand and thrust it fiercely at her neck.

Clang!

Cao Qin's hand had appeared in front of her neck at some point.

She effortlessly stopped Xu Chunliang's knife. The clear moonlight flickering faintly within the black aura around her palm told Xu Chunliang his target's grade.

Moon Glow Grade.

"Aren't you naughty, young master."

Xu Chunliang drank that mouthful of apricot blossom wine again and leisurely picked up a peanut.

After cracking it open, he popped it into his mouth,

Then wrapped an arm around the green-clad maid's slender waist, stroking it as he walked upstairs.

The onlookers were utterly stunned!

"He even dares to molest the maid while he's at it, and he hasn't paid a thing!"

"Isn't he afraid Miss Cao Qin will get angry and refuse to receive him?"

"Can you sleep with the maids here too?"

A fat man who looked like a merchant froze, then caught on. He swung his thick, fleshy hand in a wide arc and slapped a passing maid hard on the buttocks.

Smack!

The crisp sound rang through the entire building, and everyone looked at him.

"Heh heh, heh heh..."

"That felt good."

He flexed his hand, looking very pleased with himself.

"Break his legs!" A cold voice snorted from within the building. In the blink of an eye, several men who were obviously guards came rushing out with clubs.

They dragged the struggling fat man out of the hall. When he was about to squeal like a pig, someone swung a club into his mouth, knocking all his remaining words back down his throat.

Xu Chunliang turned to glance at the fat man being dragged away, then looked at the green-clad maid in his arms and naturally reached out to squeeze her buttocks.

In a voice only the two of them could hear, he said, "It does feel good."

The green-clad maid blushed but didn't resist, and Xu Chunliang understood.

Of course, it wasn't because he was handsome. So there could only be one reason...

This little maid was a strange being too.

Good. He could just kill them both.

He entered, stopped the woman in red from playing the qin, and pulled the green-clad maid into his arms as she was preparing to leave. Smiling, he said:

"How about you stay too, little miss? We can all have a chat."

Miss Cao Qin looked steadily at Xu Chunliang, then nodded with a smile.

Xu Chunliang held the woman in green with his left arm and the woman in red with his right.

The three sat down at the table. Both women were strange beings, but they were also stunning beauties, so he decided to have a chat.

The little maid in green picked up the apricot blossom wine she had brought up from downstairs,

And timidly poured Xu Chunliang a cup.

Xu Chunliang smacked a kiss on her cheek, then picked up the cup and drained it.

Thud.

He slumped over the table.

The wine was poisoned.

Xu Chunliang died.

A person couldn't trip over the same stone twice.

But Xu Chunliang could.

After the agony passed, Xu Chunliang was once again sitting at the wine table.

Heh, this strange being kills with either her qin music or poison, but rarely uses her own Moon Glow Grade strength.

If I don't draw my knife, she won't use her palm?

Interesting.