Luofu Dream - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

She was locked in the dark room for several days, and she called out to me for just as many days.

But I didn’t go out.

Wasn’t that just playing dirty?

The game had only just started, and she was already thinking of hitting pause; the movie had only just begun, and she was begging for spoilers; the teacher had only just started class, and she was already thinking about going to the bathroom…

That wouldn’t do!

In any case, by the end, she had no strength left. She lay sprawled on the ground, unable to move, and only then did she finally stop calling for me and cursing me.

As luck would have it, the madam came at that moment.

She asked the girl if she had thought it through.

The girl suddenly found her strength. She said she had come to become the top courtesan, that she intended to earn her keep openly and honorably with her own pipa skills, not to sell her body.

What followed was a stream of incomprehensible talk about becoming a pure and innocent top courtesan, a singer who kept herself chaste, and the like.

It made the madam laugh. She turned her head and said one word to the people on either side:

“Beat her.”

The girl was beaten half to death. Even I could hardly bear to keep watching.

So I had no choice but to close my eyes, turn my head aside, and gnaw on my apple.

It wasn’t that I refused to show myself and help her. The main thing was that this was the fate she had chosen for herself. If I interfered, the backlash would end up falling on me.

For the sake of one mortal who had made a wish, there was no need for me to take that risk.

The girl was barely breathing when the madam finally ordered them to stop.

She advised the girl not to waste that pretty face of hers. Without that face, who would come to listen to her play the pipa? What kind of fine musicians did the capital not have? How many people would truly spend a fortune just for the clear sound of a pipa?

Wouldn’t that be like a salt boat capsizing in the imperial canal-salty indeed!