Chapter 166 - 56: The Prince’s Dirty Secrets
Let’s turn back the clock by half a day, to the night before Yue Jinghua and Fa Xiaoyi went boating on the lake.
Clashing goblets, rouge and fragrant dresses, various lewd tunes played amidst the mingling shadows of red lanterns and willow trees, igniting one’s wildest fantasies.
As the saying goes, when warm and well-fed, thoughts turn to lust. With Shang Kingdom flush with wealth for years, its citizenry hoarding substantial riches, Polo City and its environs are home to many dens of vice and pleasure. Among these places, one is quite unique, filled with handsome young boys. In ancient times, such a place would be called the Dianlong Pavilion, and within Polo City lay one, hidden in Qingliu Lane.
A setting where youthful beauties indulge with patrons, inseparable through nights of spring passion beneath brocaded canopies—such is the best depiction of this alley.
Within the largest Dianlong Pavilion in Polo City, that night saw the arrival of two extravagant guests.
One of these guests was fair-faced with a hint of shyness, evidently still a fledgling. The other, half his face masked, the revealed half peerlessly handsome.
The handsome guest was generous with his money, scattering dozens of Gold Coins to each person as soon as he entered, as if the money were not his own.
This immediately won the favor of the establishment’s matriarch, Madam Cui,
As Madam Cui fawned and stepped forward to inquire if the handsome guest would like to select a few comely child prostitutes to serve him, he repeatedly shook his head and whispered a few words into Madam Cui’s ear in a hushed voice.
Madam Cui, upon hearing his request, wore a look of utter disbelief.