Lou Qingwu left the side wing and returned to her own room .
Just as she walked in, as expected, she saw Thousand Faceās haggard and tired silhouette.
When he heard the door opening, he turned around, wearing a strangerās face.
But that smile was definitely Thousand Faceās.
āMaster, Iām back! Iāve already investigated that affair.ā
āOh? How was it?ā
āThat Mu Yunqing did have a lover who he was engaged to at birth at Jiangyin. It was only a pity that after he finished his studies, he didnāt get back to his hometown before his fianceeās dad forced her to marry someone else. When he returned, she was already married off far away and no matter how hard he chased, he couldnāt chase her back. Furthermore, she was married off hastily too, they randomly found an out-of-town businessman and married her off.ā
āA businessmanās daughter?ā The centre of Lou Qingwuās eyebrow twitched, this was a bit different to what she thought.
āYes, itās apparently a well known and prestigious family in that town.ā
ā...ā Lou Qingwu became silent, there was something fishy about this.
If that girl in the side wing was a business manās daughter, then how did she end up in prost.i.tution?
Even though the embroidery shopās shopkeeper was a bit inappropriate and his words were harsh, there was a hint of truth in his words.
No matter how hard the girl tried to hide it, there was always an air of something that followed girls who had entered prost.i.tution.
After they pa.s.sed through training in that area, their auras and demeanours change.
Lou Qingwu thought and uncertainty asked, āThen what was the business manās daughterās name?ā
āSu Sheng. Reed and song in the moonlit night, that āShengā [reed].ā
The name was right and with the āShengā on Mu Yunqingās rosary beads, that definitely was Su Shengās āShengā.
But if she had already been married off, how could Su Sheng fall into prost.i.tution?
āThatās right, Iāve also brought a painting of Su Sheng. I heard that she was well known in the town for her beauty and when I entered the Su residence, I wasted a lot of time and effort to get her painting. Furthermore, there was something strange, that is, when I entered the Su residence, everyone was tight-lipped about Su Sheng. It was only after I heard from an old housekeeper that back then, when Miss Su was married off, Su laoye had driven her away and cut off their father-daughter relations.ā
Thousand Face spoke as he unfurled the painting scroll, revealing a beautiful girl with a light purple brocade silk robe, holding a reed pipe to her mouth. The bamboo forest behind her seemed to sway and it was so life-like that it seemed like sheād walk out of the painting any moment now.
The paintingās girl was extremely beautiful, and in just an eye, Lou Qingwu confirmed that it was the girl in the side wing.
Even though half of her face was disfigured, her eyes, eyebrows were the same, apart from the look in her eyes.
Lou Qingwu looked at the painting and became silent.
The girl was obviously Su Sheng but she still didnāt know why she had fallen into prost.i.tution.
āMaster, I heard you brought a girl back?ā
āEn, she should be Su Sheng.ā
āAh? How could that be?ā Didnāt they say that Su Sheng had married someone?
How could she appear in the capital? Would that Su Sheng really be the Miss Su that he was investigating?
āIt should be her. But, her circ.u.mstances and what you found out, are different. Back then, she hadnāt been married off, but had been sold into prost.i.tution.ā
ā....ā Thousand Faceās whole body was shocked.
He looked at the girl in the unfurled painting, then rubbed his ear lobes, confirming that he hadnāt misheard her.
His facial expression changed, āHow, how could that be?ā
A young miss who was naive and unknown to the ways of the world, how could she sold into that type of place?
Just thinking about it filled him with feelings of despair and pain.
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TL note:
Who couldāve sold off that pretty girl into prost.i.tution?
I really should be translating more orz
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