“Wait, wait, wait! You stop right there!”

Shen Wanqing had quick eyes and hands, she grabbed the feather on Xuanniao’s buttocks, and pulled the bird back inside.

“Don’t even think about forcing me to surrender, I won’t betray My Royal Highness!”

Xuanniao was not to be outdone, it fluttered its wings and began to hit Shen Wanqing’s hand; the bird and human fought until they had become a clump. After finally breaking free, it flew out of the window with determination.

Shen Wanqing cast a spell very quickly to close the window.

Xuanniao slammed its head against the window and fell to the ground like a corpse, not forgetting to grit its teeth: “Despicable!”

“Thank you for the compliment.” Shen Wanqing squatted down in front of Xuanniao, poking at its head, “If you dare say a word to Xie Wuyan about this matter today, I will pluck all your hair out and make a shuttlecock.”

“What can’t you tell me?”

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Fbl eke dsv eyal vwad bla blye cynj, vaukdt vs lpnyrl qasx alyzkvu.

“Mwad yaswde.” Dkl Ewuyd eked’v tkhl bla y nbydnl vs lpnyrl.

Fbld Eydikdt vwadle yaswde okvb ekqqknwzvu, tayccle Dwyddkys yde vakle vs bkel kv clbkde bla. Fbl vbld ralvldele vs cl nyzx yde pyke: “Ebyv y nskdnkeldnl, yal usw blal vs eakdj zsvwp plle pswr vss?”

Dkl Ewuyd tzydnle yv bla: “Ebyv es usw vbkdj?”

Fbld Eydikdt: “R vbkdj ps.”

Dkl Ewuyd: “…”

“Your Royal Highness!” Like seeing a savior, Xuanniao struggled out of her grasp and flew over to Xie Wuyan’s side, laying on his shoulder while sobbing, “Huhuhu, this woman is so malicious, she even dares to make things up about you, the audacity!”

While crying, it began to speak vividly and exaggerated the dialogue between Shen Wanqing and Jiang Shujun.

Truly murdering her through killing her morale.

Shen Wanqing didn’t dare to look up at Xie Wuyan’s eyes. She edged slowly in the direction of the door, step by step, trying to sneak out.

“Stop right there.” Xie Wuyan said.

Shen Wanqing was cruelly caught, and could only stand still in her spot, lowering her head and not looking at him.

Xie Wuyan: “I have a crush on you?”

…too painful.

Is there a more tormenting scene in your life?

Shen Wanqing’s shame made her dare not even raise her eyelids, she lowered her head so much that she could almost bow down to him.

Xie Wuyan: “Opposition from our family?”

Why do you keep saying it! 

Doesn’t a lady like herself need to save some face?

Shen Wanqing felt like she was about to suffocate. It was as if her brain was boiling with water and sirening in her head, making her whole face go hot red.

Xie Wuyan continued: “We love each other but cannot disclose it?”

“Hng.” The intense shame made her unable to stand up anymore, so she simply decided to squat down, burying her head in her knees and choosing to escape from reality, “I’m asleep.”

Seeing Shen Wanqing curled up like a hamster in front of him, Xie Wuyan laughed helplessly. He stretched out his hand and patted Xuanniao who was burying its head on his shoulders, and walked towards her, kneeling down.

Noticing Xie Wuyan squatting down in front of her, Shen Wanqing’s body tightened up all over and she shrunk herself into a tighter ball.

“Miss Shen.”

Xie Wuyan let out a low laugh. He twisted a strand of her hair, wrapping it around his index finger to play with, and asked lightly, “Do you know what happened to the last person who made things about me like this?”

…Shen Wanqing didn’t really want to know the answer.

And this was obviously a death question. Although it seemed to be a question on the surface, it was actually a threatening statement for intimidation.

So she decided to struggle a bit: “I am not the same, I am not making things up about you.”

“Then what is it?”

Shen Wanqing raised her head, staring at Xie Wuyan with tears in her eyes, showing a sincere expression while saying, all choked up: “Big Brother Xie, you don’t understand, I’m doing this all for you.”

Xie Wuyan glanced at her: “Really?”

“Of course, I know that you don’t like being pestered, that’s why I said that.” Shen Wanqing was arguing irrationally and burst into tears. “I was doing this to serve as a shield for you, I’m even willing to sacrifice my reputation to do so.”

Xie Wuyan laughed: “So do I have to thank you then?”

Shen Wanqing accepted it frankly: “You are welcome.”

…Underestimated how thick her skin was.

It was getting late.

Xie Wuyan stood up and glanced at Xuanniao.

Xuanniao had taken advantage of the time when the two were talking and had secretly finished the lotus seed soup. It was currently lying on the table, patting its stomach and burping from satisfaction.

Shen Wanqing glanced at Xie Wuyan secretly, and then whispered: “Big Brother Xie, it’s getting late now.”

Xie Wuyan looked at her: “So what?”

So what?

Are you not embarrassed to ask? So you should take your stupid pet back to your room and quickly go to sleep under your quilt instead of standing here and chattering like a door god in my room.

Shen Wanqing took a deep breath and smiled: “So you should go and rest.”

“That’s true.” Xie Wuyan nodded, then walked to the table and put Xuanniao back into his bone ring.

Then, he sat down to the side of Shen Wanqing’s bed, and then laid down very naturally.

He also did not forget to request: “Remember to turn off the lights.”

Shen Wanqing’s eyes shook like an earthquake.

I wasn’t telling you to rest here!

She walked towards Xie Wuyan in a few steps, took a deep breath, and tried to pull him up: “Excuse me, this young gentleman, do you not have your own bed?”

Xie Wuyan laid on his side, with one hand propped up to his chin, lazily watching her groan as she tried to pull his arm.

Maybe she felt that this position was inconvenient to use force, so Shen Wanqing kicked off her shoes, knelt down on the side of the bed and began to pull Xie Wuyan.

After pulling for a long time, he didn’t move one bit, but Shen Wanqing was already exhausted.

Not only was she unable to pull Xie Wuyan up, but instead, she was pulled over by Xie Wuyan. In addition, her center of gravity was unstable, so when she was pulled over, she flung onto his body, her head hitting his chest with a thud.

Shen Wanqing held onto her nose, tears oozing out from the pain, and she shrank into a ball on the side of the bed aggrievedly.

Xie Wuyan frowned, as if he hadn’t expected her to fall so hard, so he got up and gently clasped the back of her head: “Look up.”

Shen Wanqing raised her head angrily, somewhat aggrieved: “Look, it’s swollen.”

There was a slight redness on the bridge of the nose.

Xie Wuyan stretched out his hand and gently pressed it there, a warm aura filling his fingertips, quickly relieving the pain.

“Miss Shen, I’ve come to give you—”

At this moment, the door was pushed open again.

Standing at the door, Jiang Shujun witnessed the two of them together, one lying down and the other sitting on the bed.

In her eyes, the scene was exactly like this:

Xie Wuyan held the back of Shen Wanqing’s head affectionately, his brows full of affection, gentle and forbearing. He looked into her eyes and couldn’t help but want to lower his head and kiss her.

Shen Wanqing’s eyes were reddish, and it seemed that she was moved, which was why she looked like this.

A beautiful love.

Jiang Shujun was silent immediately, revealing an expression of understanding. She then nodded, bent down and retreated from the room.

Shen Wanqing: “?”

Wait, what do you understand?

Shen Wanqing thought that the situation was terribly wrong, in fact, she felt that it was necessary for her to explain the situation.

So she immediately jumped off the bed and ran to catch up with Jiang Shujun, but before she could speak, Jiang Shujun interrupted her first.

“You don’t need to say anything, I understand, I will keep this a secret for you.”

Shen Wanqing said with tears: “…what do you understand?”

“I understand,” Jiang Shujun patted her on the shoulder, “It’s sometimes hard to stop yourself.”

…What can’t I stop myself?

Jiang Shujun looked at her, rather moved: “It seems that the relationship between Miss Shen and Master Xie has become so intimate like this.”

Shen Wanqing finally understood what it meant to shoot yourself in the foot. She wanted to explain, but she got stuck and could only hopelessly nod her head: “…Alright, that was indeed quite intimate.”



Early the next morning, Shen Wanqing was taken to the Full Moon Tower and started to get dressed up.

In order to ensure that they wouldn’t be exposed, this plan was not mentioned to anyone except for themselves. Therefore, even the mama in charge did not know Shen Wanqing’s origins, only knowing that she was a girl brought over by the tower head herself.

Since the head had personally brought her in, the mamas were naturally doing their best.

So in just half a day, Shen Wanqing was stuck inside the room and was forced to learn all the secret techniques of intimate acts.

From being shy and bashful in the beginning, to becoming sleepy and exhausted while listening later on; she even started to answer the questions before they had finished speaking out of impatience.

Only then did she realize that Xie Wuyan’s choice to play a brothel customer was a very wise one.

If he were to be a gigolo, he would have demolished this building without even opening the book of secret techniques for intimate acts.

“In the evening, you just need to go out with the rest of the group. If you don’t know anything, just sit by the side and write some words.” The person in charge comforted her, “Don’t worry. With your appearance, you can still be sold for a good price regardless if you can’t sing or dance.”

But having said that, the mama still couldn’t be rest assured since she was a child so unknowledgeable about such matters. So after some commotion, she handed over a perfume pouch and tied it onto Shen Wanqing’s clothes: “Wear this.”

Shen Wanqing asked casually: “What is this?”

“A pouch used to help with that stuff, the thing inside is aphrodisiac1.” The mother looked very open-minded when she said this, as if she were saying something normal, “You should always wear it on you, like this I’m sure you can make those gentlemen happy.”

What kind of aphrodisiac?

Shen Wanqing was so frightened that her knees went weak and she almost knelt down.

…Not necessary.

If Xie Wuyan found out, she was afraid that she would directly experience the separation of her head and her body.

So she surreptitiously pulled the pouch out and hid it under the pillow, pushing it inside to ensure that it wouldn’t be discovered.

Soon it was night time, the singing and dancing in the Full Moon Tower rose to a peak.

If your body should perish, girls you would still cherish2.

Even if there had been deaths, people still came to the Full Moon Tower like an endless stream.

According to plan, she followed everyone from the second floor to the stage.

The leading prostitutes shook their sleeves and started their performance. From time to time, they would throw one of their perfume pouches and cast a wink, which evoked a string of exclamations and applause.

These girls had grown up here since they were young. They carried flirtation just from taking a few steps, which caused an excitement in the audience below.

On the other hand, Shen Wanqing was hiding behind them, holding up her chin lazily, and eating most of the food along the way.

She looked around, Xie Wuyan seemed to have not entered yet, he could not be seen anywhere.

After waiting and waiting, Shen Wanqing felt a little sleepy.

She didn’t sleep well last night, and after listening to the mama’s chanting for the whole day today, she started to feel a little sleepy.

As she was feeling sleepier and sleepier, she couldn’t stay awake anymore and laid on the table.

She thought, this dance was probably going to take a while, it probably wouldn’t be a big issue if she slept secretly now.

So Shen Wanqing fell asleep very comfortably.

This action of sleeping attracted the attention of a rich young master.

He scanned the surroundings and found this unique person, Shen Wanqing, who was sleeping without paying attention to him.

Quite clever, was she actually using this method to attract his attention?

Well, in that case, you have succeeded in attracting my attention.

This unknown rich young master showed a crooked and rampant smile. He then raised his hand and interrupted the performance of these girls: “Okay, five hundred taels of silver, tonight, I want that girl to accompany me.”

That girl?

Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing at, and caught Shen Wanqing, who was currently sleeping lazily and had even changed postures by turning her head to the side.



[Translator’s Note: Hehe our ML and FL are too cute! By the way, I will be updating three chapters a week from now on because I want to get the chapters out more quickly for you all! I’ll be doing this until we get midway through the novel!]