Tough Princess : Once Upon a Brothel

"Zijin, how do you think I should draw my eyebrows?"

"Come closer, Sister Chazi. Let me draw for you." Yang Zijin, dressed in men's clothing, held the charcoal pencil. She squatted casually down on the table and leaned to Chazi to draw her eyebrows.

There were Yanhong, Xunhuan, Junle, Youqing and Lvshui around Chazi. They were scantily-clothed with red faces and stared at the movement of Yang Zijin.

"Look! How about now?" Yang Zijin raised her chin with pride. She shook her hairdo, rolled up the sleeves of the black robe, picked up a box of face powder with a grin and said, "Now, who is the next one?"

"You little bastard! You wanna play the make on your sisters with no growing-up?"

Yang Zijin shook her head and said in earnest, "No, you're wrong, Sister Junle. I grew up in Spring Breeze and you're my mother's girls. So you're mine too, right? By the way, I'm 16 years old now. Why don't you come with me to the bed and see if I am grown up?"

Junle widened her eyes with a thin fan in her hand, and then laughed amorously with the fan covering her face. "Look, look! Our Spring Breeze's Young Master has known so much now!"

The girls all laughed, but Yang Zijin suddenly felt bored. She curled her mouth and came down from the table. Before she stood steady, she saw Lu'an rushed in with a badly beaten face.

Yang Zijin was so nervous and asked urgently, "Lu'an, what happened?"

"Young, Young Master, something terrible happened!"

"What?"

Lu'an said incoherently, "Front, in the front..."

Yang Zijin became serious and said while walking, "Stay here!"

When she walked to the front room of Spring Breeze, she saw Madam Yang and other girls kneeling down the stairs and shivering. There were two bloody male corpses lying on the stairs, and both were servants in Spring Breeze.

Looking up again, she saw a man holding a sword on the second floor, with his hair hanging down loosely. He only wore a robe, showing off his firm muscle lines.

Yang Zijin shook her head. It was not the right time to be infatuated with men.

"Sir, I don't know..."

The man suddenly raised his head. With only one glance, it shocked Yang Zijin.

It was Shuo Ling!

Shuo Ling was the youngest and coldest Lord in Jing City. Nobody dared to provoke him!

Few years ago, Old Marquis Shuo, who was famous all over the world, sacrificed on the battlefield. He left his only son, Shuo Ling, just 16 years old. The Emperor was sorrowful. And, he hated that he couldn't treat Shuo Ling who had inherited the peerage as his own son, so he just protected Shuo Ling very carefully.

It didn't matter. Most important was that Shuo Ling was famous for his neat freak and bad temper. In Jing City, nobody dared to provoke him. When encountered on the street, nobody dared to look at him.

And this Marquis Shuo also had a famous taboo, which was, never infatuated with women.

If anyone's daughter coveted his look or identity and wanted to have a sexual relation with him, she would be kicked or even killed. No matter what family she came from, she would be treated ruthlessly.

But, such a guy, why did he come to Spring Breeze?

And look at his absent-minded eyes. Was he drugged?

"Mom, call the doctor!" Yang Zijin whispered, and she kept walking backwards. "Sisters, close your doors, and stop discussing!"

"Zijin..." Madam Yang said with trembling.

But this word seemed to be piercing Shuo Ling's nerves. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Yang Zijin, gazing a while, and then said hoarsely, "Come on."

Yang Zijin wanted to turn around and run as soon as possible. Who dared to stay in front of Shuo Ling at this moment?

"Come on now. If you don't, then your mother is the next!"

"I'm coming. I'm coming..." Yang Zijin bit her teeth bitterly. When she tilted her head, she blinked her eyes at Lu'an who was peeking at the door. Zijin saw that Lu'an ran out quickly, and then she had to step forward.

When she didn't reach the second floor, Shuo Ling suddenly flew towards her, holding Yang Zijin and lowering his head to kiss her...

Madam Yang screamed loudly, "Zijin!"

She had protected Zijin for 16 years. Since the day she found Zijin, she taught her to dress like a man and protected her carefully.

Madam Yang was afraid that Zijin would be molested by her guests in Spring Breeze. She was also afraid that Zijin would be like other girls, ending up her miserable life in the brothel.

Today, she was unexpectedly... by a man.

Although Shuo Ling was a noble Lord, he would slaughter all people in Spring Breeze afterwards.

Crackling!

Madam Yang didn't breathe for a while and fell to the ground.

At that moment, other girls gasped and panicked. They didn't know Yang Zijin was a girl. They just knew that they had seen something terrible. Marquis Shuo made out with the Young Master of Spring Breeze.

Screwed!

Yang Zijin was shocked. She was dressed like a man. No matter how strong the medicine in Shuo Ling's body was, he shouldn't hold her...

"Uh-uh..."

Shuo Ling's body was boiling hot. He hugged Yang Zijin and breathed hard, refusing to let her go.

Shuo Ling used to learn Kung Fu, which made Yang Zijin unable to escape and could only allow him to do what he wanted to do.

He carried her in his arms and turned back to the room. He then kicked the door with a loud "bang" to close it.

Yang Zijin wanted to cry but without tears. In the past 16 years since she travelled time and space to this world, she had always lived a peaceful and smooth life. Why fate played such a joke on her now!?

Shuo Ling seemed to be impatient to wait. He suddenly threw Yang Zijin onto the bed and then pressed himself on her body....

"Wait!" There was tears in her eyes, "Your Lordship, calm down. I am the son of the shopkeeper of Spring Breeze. I was born dirty. How can you spend the night together with me? You'd better calm down, and I'll get a doctor here at once. I promise I will keep my mouth close and never let a word out!"

Shuo Ling squinted his eyes: a man?

Really?

He looked at Yang Zijin. She had beautiful eyes and eyebrows, delicate skin, and a small mouth on her small face. She was a small, thin creature who was likely to be blown down by a gust of wind. This was a woman!

But...

Shuo Ling tried to keep his mind clear. He grasped her hands and pressed them over her head with one hand and stretched out the other hand directly into her clothes and groping on her body....

"Man? Huh?" He sneered, "How dare you lie to me!"

"Fuck you!" Yang Zijin shouted. She suddenly raised her head and knocked on Shuo Ling's forehead, which made him lose strength.

But Yang Zijin herself also felt dizzy.

Yang Zijin took a long breath. She could tolerate this man for making trouble at Spring Breeze, anyway they couldn't afford to offend him for his status.

But how dare he blatantly harass her??

If it hadn't been for fear of getting other people in Spring Breeze involved in trouble, she would have killed him!!

That was still not enough!

When Yang Zijin was taking a long breath, Shuo Ling moved again, "How dare you..."

"You are still awake!" Yang Zijin was shocked and turned pale. She got up and grabbed a wooden stool beside the table and hit him on the back of his head....

Died?

Yang Zijin flustered. She then quickly turned over his body and felt his breath.

It was lucky! He was still alive.

"Why are you making trouble here? Now I am going to be dead." Yang Zijin gnawed her lower lip. After thinking twice, she simply untied the ropes on the curtain to tie up Shuo Ling.

"I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Tie the man and run at once!" thought Yang Zijin.

...

Lu'an ran all the way, and finally arrived at Shi Weiming's courtyard.

Shi Weiming was a regular guest of Spring Breeze. But he never called a girl as a companion. Every time he went there, he only drunk and played with Yang Zijin. They enjoyed a good relationship.

"Young Master Shi, Spring Breeze is in trouble. Please save us!" Lu'an knelt outside the door with his head banged on the floor.

After a while, a mild-mannered young man came out. He looked at Lu'an's bruised face without too much surprise. He only asked, "What happened?"

"It's Marquis Shuo! He suddenly appeared in a room of Spring Breeze and shouted to kill people after waking up! Please, Young Master Shi, save us!"

There were other strong powers who were backing up Spring Breeze in fact, but those officials certainly dare not offend Shuo Ling. The only person who might interfere could be Shi Weiming! He was a mysterious person.

Shi Weiming slightly raised his hand, motioning Lu'an to stand up. He asked, "Is Zijin fine?"

Lu'an didn't know that Yang Zijin was a woman, and he also didn't see her being harassed by Shuo Ling, so he didn't think of the thing in that way. He said, "He is always smart. He must be safe now. But everyone knows that Marquis Shuo has a bad temper! If we go there a little late, all of us will suffer!"

Shi Weiming frowned, "You go back at first. I want to help, but I'm powerless. I need to make a detailed plan and ask some people of high status for help."

"Right! It is! But please, Young Master Shi, be quick!"

Seeing there was hope, Lu'an hurried back.

But Shi Weiming smiled without anxiousness.

Spring Breeze.

Yang Zijin tidied up her clothes and rushed out of the door. She still felt uneasy, so she went to prepare a pot of knockout drops so as to make enough time for everyone.

At this time Madam Yang was also waked up by pressing her philtrum. She opened her eyes and saw Yang Zijin. There was deep concern in Yang Zijin's beautiful eyes. Madam Yang immediately grabbed her hands and burst into tears, "Zijin, you, you..."

"Mom, I'm fine." Yang Zijin held her up, looking at the crowd, "We all cannot escape but die if things go on. I made Marquis Shuo in a coma. He will wake up soon or people in his family will come here. You'd better to pack up your thing hurriedly. Wufu, I need you to buy a carriage and a few more horses right now!"

"Yes, I'm going!"

"Young Master, are we going to be beheaded?" Linglong, the most popular woman in Spring Breeze, asked.

Yang Zijin said quietly, "What's done is done. Let's escape quickly."

"No!" Linglong shouted, "We can't escape!"

All were astonished. Linglong said, "Marquis Shuo appeared in Spring Breeze, but it has nothing to do with us! And Young Master, you are the one who knocked Marquis Shuo over. How can you expect us to be on a vagrant life? What's more, we are all women. How can we escape away from officers and men!?"

"Yes, yes..."

Yang Zijin looked slightly colder, "Do you think we can stay here safely? The one upstairs even dared to kill the daughter of a Minister. Won't he kill you?"

Noticing that things were in a bad way, Madam Yang hurriedly pulled Yang Zijin to the room in the backyard, fished out a small wooden box under the dresser, and handed it over to Yang Zijin seriously. She whispered, "My child, do you remember the manor that I bought secretly several years ago?"

"I remember it."

"Good for that!" Madam Yang held Yang Zijin's hand tightly, and said, "Hurry up. Take these and ride a horse. Escape from Jing City at once. Stay in the manor and don't go anywhere. If you haven't heard from me for a month, then you dress up as a girl, change your name, and never come to Jing City, understand?"

"Mom!"

Yang Zijin had already thought about it. Shuo Ling's temper was too bad, and it would be impossible to beg for mercy. Now Spring Breeze was taken advantage by someone and it wouldn't be clean anymore.

"In this case, things would be better if I let Shuo Ling sleep for a longer time, then lock the door, and escape with all the sisters together. Then Shuo Ling will wake up in an empty brothel. He can't do anything," she thought.

Anyway, they had money in hand, and could start a new life somewhere else.

"Sweetheart!" Madam Yang held Yang Zijin's small face with tears in her eyes. "Linglong is right. We can't run far. Rather than caught back and tortured cruelly by officials, it's better to make things quick!"

"I won't go! At least, I won't abandon you to leave alone!"

It was impossible for Yang Zijin to do such perfidious things.

She didn't care whether Linglong left or not, but she would take any girl who wanted to leave!

Seeing Yang Zijin rushing out in a hurry, Madam Yang followed her in a hurry, but just arrived at the door, she saw the panicked Wufu.

"Madam Yang, woke up...he woke up!!"

"Quick, find Young Master at once and let him leave here quickly!" Madam Yang felt dizzy as if her whole world had been about to collapse. She finally calmed down after holding the door frame for a while. She rushed to the front room.

Before reaching it, she heard horrible screams.

"Spare me! Your Lordship, please spare me!"

"Someone is killing people!"

"Someone is killing people! Help..."

Madam Yang took a deep breath. Her first reaction was to escape quickly, but at the thought of the girls who had followed her for so many years, she gnashed her teeth, and rushed in.

"Marquis Shuo, spare us!!" Madam Yang shrieked and fell to her knees, begging for mercy again and again, "Your Lordship, we are innocent. We don't know anything! I beg you to show mercy and spare us!"

"Oh, you don't know that?" The voice was so cold like the God of Death from heaven.

Bang!

A beautiful, undressed woman was thrown in front of Madam Yang. It was the most beautiful girl in Spring Breeze, Miss Linglong, also known as Fairy in Painting.

"Madam Yang, help me! Help me..."

"You, weren't you just..." Madam Yang thought for a moment, and got it. Linglong, as the number one, was always proud and arrogant. Now she knew that Shuo Ling was here. Of course, she would try best to climb onto his bed.

Shuo Ling sneered, "What else will you say?"

Madam Yang kowtowed as hard as she could, "Your Lordship, Your Lordship! Although Spring Breeze is a shameful place, we all stick to our own duty, and have never crossed the line!"

"Today Linglong just lost her mind. I'll send her to the nunnery to be a nun tomorrow and won't allow her to bear such a thought anymore. We have offended you by accident, Your Lordship! I only ask your mercy to spare our cheap lives!"

Madam Yang felt very scared in fact though she said so, and she did not know what Yang Zijin did to Shuo Ling. She just wished Zijin had run away.

The others also joined in kowtow. The hall rang loudly, as if it hadn't been heads that hit the ground, but a group of blacksmiths making iron.

There was no trace of emotion in Shuo Ling's eyes. He raised the sword in his hand and pierced it into Linglong's chest without hesitation.

Puff...

The warm blood was spattered all over Madam Yang.

"Where is she?"

Madam Yang trembled. "Is he looking for Zijin?" she thought.

She bit her lower lip tightly, and just kept kowtowing for mercy mechanically.

Shuo Ling glanced around, carrying the sword, and walked to Madam Yang.

"Stop!" Yang Zijin shouted quickly, rushing in with a pot of wine. But looking at the situation in the hall, she could not help standing still.

After a pause, she rushed to stand in front of Madam Yang, staring at Shuo Ling bravely and perversely.

At this moment, there was a bruise on Shuo Ling's forehead, which was obviously the one she had bumped.

But Linglong...

As a man, he spent a good night with the most precious Linglong in Spring Breeze. It was not too bad, right?

But was it necessary that he killed her afterwards to get it over??