The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

A weak but still cold female voice answered her in the darkness: "...You can't die."

The voice said: "I want to die, but they...ha, won't let me die easily."

Shiqi Niang was the youngest among the girls. She only understood half of what the woman said and tried to use things she was familiar with to understand her words: "They bring you food every day. They want you to eat well. Only when you are full can you survive. Just like in my family, my younger brother is the one who eats the most among all the children..."

Shiqi Niang rubbed her belly and said, "My brother is more valuable than me, and you are more valuable than me too."

The voice suddenly fell silent for a moment, then asked, "Why are you here?"

"I secretly put a stone on the door and injured the nanny." Shiqi Niang said. She didn't like the nanny who looked after her and the others because she was always beaten and scolded, and was asked to take off her clothes and pricked with needles.

"Why are you here? I heard from those sisters that you are the best and can make the most money... Why would they lock you up here?"

Shiqi Niang asked in confusion.

In that dark corner, there was a woman who was tied up and hung up, and who had been fed drugs that could relax her body. She was wearing a thin white dress, and faint traces of blood could be seen from the places where the ropes bound her.

"Because someone likes me." Yue Mingye's voice was full of indifference, "They want to give me to an important person, and that important person likes this... He likes my face, and he likes the way this face looks against the bloodstains all over my body even more."

"Ah?" Shiqi Niang didn't quite understand. She was too young to understand why someone would like others to get hurt. "Is this what glory is?"

"Mammy always said that if I was obedient, I could be as glorious as you in the future."

"But if Fengguang is like you, then I would rather never obey."

"Scenery?" Yue Mingye seemed to be amused by the little girl, "Ha! Scenery!"

"A prostitute, whose life and death and body can only be manipulated by others, is not even as good as the cheapest earthenware jar... scenery?"

Yue Mingye laughed a few times, and then his voice became lonely again: "...After all, the clay pot is broken. It is still clay and mud. What am I? I can't be broken, and I can't be broken into my original self."

"Ah?" Shiqi Niang still didn't quite understand. She just felt that her stomach was empty and she had been hungry for a long time, so she crawled a few times towards the direction of the voice, "Next time someone comes to bring you food, if you don't want to eat, can you share some with me... Why are you so sad? Mammy said that men are willing to spend money on you."

"My parents and grandma are only willing to spend money on my brother, and they only sell me and my sisters for money... Do those men like you, so they spend money on you?"

Yue Mingye looked at the little figure crawling on the ground. Some harsh words were on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed them down in the end. He regained some patience and said, "They are spending money for their own happiness, not for me. I am just a tool they use to find happiness. Tools can be destroyed, but tools do not need a self. Tools have the only destiny of being used..."

"Happy?" After climbing a few times, Shiqi Niang ran out of strength. "You will be happy only when you are full."

"Were you...eaten by them?"

"Komi was eaten by my brother and is gone. The chicken at home has to be killed and stewed before my brother can eat it... Why are you still alive after being eaten?"

Yue Mingye looked at the little girl and said, "I am no longer alive."

"So you are a ghost?"

"I really want to be a demon."

"It's just an evil ghost. It can do magic, right? I'm not afraid that it will kill me. Evil ghost, please be kind. I'm so hungry..."

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"Later, she was taken away, and before I starved to death, she asked a nanny to release me, and the nanny took me to see her." Mi Nian calmly narrated her past.

She said that she was just an ordinary girl who was sold to a human slave by her parents because of her good looks. She was not originally a slave, but because her parents wanted to get more money from her selling her body to save for her younger brother, they agreed to give her to a slave couple and turned her from a good girl into a slave.

After becoming a slave, Mi Nian could be sold to many places.

She and a group of girls from various backgrounds were sent to Tianwu Pavilion to be trained by the madams and pimps. As reserve prostitutes, the training methods they had to undergo were really hard to describe.

There were girls who kept resisting, girls who kept accepting their fate, and people who kept...dying.

"At that time, I thought that I would be like those sisters who were beaten to death, starved to death, contracted a disease, or bled too much to be saved. I would die, be burned, and my ashes would be thrown into the river..." Mi Nian's originally calm voice trembled slightly.

"But she saved me, but she didn't keep me with her. She just asked me to live with other girls as usual. But after that, I had enough food to eat and was not beaten so often."

However, one morning, not long after little Shiqi Niang had eaten a full meal, she saw a flower boat parked at the back door of Tianwu Pavilion, and Yue Mingye was carried down from the boat, covered in blood.

Her white dress had almost been completely soaked in red, and the wrinkled flesh was faintly visible at the edges of her wrists where the cuffs were exposed. Only her face remained as perfect and noble as ever.

"The adults were having so much fun that they went a little overboard."

"This girl is so disappointing. She really thinks that after receiving a few compliments from men, she can become the fairy in the moon. Little does she know that the more noble she is, the more cruel the adults will be to her."

"That's right, which brothel doesn't have prostitutes who have been fucked to death?"

"And in what year...are there no dead people on both sides of this river?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's her own bad luck. So many people have seen the pictures of beauties by the young master of the Qi family, and there are always a few who like to play tricks on people. It's also her fault that she is a prostitute and a slave. If she was a girl from a good family..."

"......If she is a girl from a good family, this would spoil the fun. Who wasn't a girl from a good family before?"