After the eldest daughter was reborn, the whole family knelt down and begged for forgiveness

"This time the goods are good, and the girl is from a wealthy family. It only costs one thousand taels."

"One thousand taels is crazy, the maximum is five hundred taels!"

In the dream, when she was eleven years old, she was separated by the crowd. No one came to her aid in the chaotic street to carry her back to the horse and send her back to the mansion.

She fell into the hands of human traffickers, was drugged, and sold to a brothel in Jiangnan like a commodity.

Overnight, she went from being the legitimate daughter of a marquis's mansion to the lowest singing girl in a brothel.

She refused to accept her fate and tried to escape, but was caught by the brothel owner, who beat her severely and tied her up in the prostitute's room in the brothel, making her witness with her own eyes how the prostitutes entertained the men of the lower class every day.

The dirty and muddy smell, the sharp screams, the vulgar words, and the figures that swarmed like reptiles. They swarmed over those women, but their eyes were looking at her. If it weren't for the two thugs around her, she was sure that those people would pounce on her without hesitation and tear off her clothes.

Those three days became a nightmare that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

It was then that Xiao Xuetang realized how terrible the outside world was. No matter how mean the old lady of the Marquis' Mansion was, and how scheming among the sisters was, it could not outweigh these evils in the slightest.

She compromised.

The madam treated her as a rare commodity, and when she grew up, she was sent back to the third floor, and the courtesan taught her some skills, so that she could be sold at a good price when she grew up.

She appeared to be obedient, but she never gave up the thought of escaping from this devil's den.

First, she made up a pitiful lie about a poor little girl from a wealthy family who lost the protection of her biological mother and was abused by her stepmother and sold to a brothel. After the madam let down her guard, she was given the freedom to move around freely inside the brothel.

She was good at making all kinds of powder and novel makeup. The girls in the building were willing to let her serve her, so she endured it and stayed beside the courtesan to inquire about the news of the guests who had come from Kyoto.

At that time, Xiao Xuetang never gave up hope of returning home, and she also believed that her family was looking for her, until that day...

"The world has changed in Kyoto recently. The new emperor ascended the throne, and many noble families were implicated. Even Old Master Xie's family was exiled back to Dongshan."

"But the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion is lucky. The Yong'an Marquis's adopted daughter saved the former Princess Lin, the Empress. Now the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion is a hot new noble in Kyoto."

"I heard that the eldest daughter of the Marquis's family is ill and has been sent to the farm to recuperate. I also heard that the Third Prince, who was previously engaged to her, is planning to cancel the engagement..."

In an instant, the sky fell and the earth collapsed.

She knew she would never get anyone to rescue her from the fire.

What the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion needs is a daughter who can be useful and bring honor to the Mansion, no matter if she is legitimate or illegitimate, biological or not. They don't want a biological daughter who has fallen into a brothel and got lost. She must save herself!

This year has worn away her ridiculous naivety and made her character more resilient.

But before she could figure out a way out, reality quickly pushed her into despair...

A wealthy businessman from southern Xinjiang with a special hobby took a fancy to her and bought her with a whole box of pearls.

A whole box of pearls could even buy the entire Mingyue Tower.

"I still want to keep you as a prostitute for a few more years... This is fate!"

Is this fate?

Was it her fate to be abandoned and sold into a brothel? Was it her fate to have no one to save her?

She refused to admit it!

She had three days, three more days, enough time for her to put the collected poison powder into the food and drink of the pimps, thugs, and businessmen whose bodies were stained with the lives of countless girls.

During the winter solstice, the weather is cold, so it is suitable to eat venison.

She used the money she earned from making facial cream to secretly buy fresh venison from the market and sent it to the kitchen, where she cooked it into a nourishing venison soup.

The stew pot in the kitchen had been simmering over low heat since last night. The rice was thick and fragrant. The mountain people had sent a whole deer, a lot of venison, so everyone in the building could have a bowl of venison soup.

Among them, the first portion will be sent to the madam's room, and the rest will be given to her four trusted thugs. Only after they are full will the servants get their share.

She spent the past year mixing all kinds of rouge and powder for the girls in the building, and it was not difficult for her to hide some herbs without anyone noticing. These herbs were non-toxic when put together, but they were extremely poisonous when mixed together.

While waiting for redemption day after day, she accumulated these poisons, perhaps she had a premonition of the arrival of this day.

One bowl, two bowls, five bowls in total are just right, and she will keep the rest for tonight!

"laugh"

Suddenly, a laugh came from outside the window.

Didn't she send the people in the kitchen away? How could it be...

She held the spoon and turned around woodenly, only to see a young man in black clothes sitting cross-legged on the tall banyan tree outside the window.

He was wearing a strange mask, revealing only half of his face. His eyes were dark and bright and very beautiful.

"You can just put the poison directly into the pot, one bowl at a time. Why bother with so much trouble?"

She looked at the strange boy steadily, and saw that he didn't seem to have any intention of exposing her. She calmed down a little and replied, "This will kill other innocent people."

"Tsk, a woman's kindness..."

The young man looked at her with disdain, and there was something strange in his eyes.

After one night, all the people in Mingyue Tower were dead!

They all drank the poison prepared by Xiao Xuetang. From the culprit, the madam, to the courtesan who once had pity on her and secretly sewed clothes for her, and the mute woman who secretly brought her food, all died.

The tragedy alarmed the government, and she was taken away by soldiers...

"Vicious woman!"

"Kill her..."

She did not feel any pain despite the sounds of abuse in her ears, the whips and all kinds of terrible torture instruments being used on her. Instead, she felt a sense of relief and wanted to die.

I have been living a miserable life these past few years. Perhaps death would be better. But am I going to die anyway?

Only, only the look in the eyes of the jailers that occasionally fell on her skin exposed after being whipped made her feel scared.

"He's young but in good shape, and he's been sentenced to death. Why not..."

She curled up in a corner, not daring to close her eyes all night, for fear that if she closed her eyes and opened them again, the woman in the nightmare would become her.

The night before the execution, she did not hear the drunken curses of the jailers, but heard screams.

A moment later, the young man she had seen on the wall that day appeared in front of her, covered in blood: "Do you want to live?"

On the day she was sold to a brothel, why didn't she follow the example of the woman in the Biographies of Women and bite her tongue to commit suicide, but instead chose to run away?

Why didn't she gouge out her own eyes after seeing such a dirty thing, but instead chose to be so servile and try to please the madam?

Because she wants to live!

She wanted to return to Kyoto alive and ask her parents, her brother, and her childhood sweetheart, why they all didn't want her anymore...