Chapter 106: Lotus Girl! What Are You Doing?!

“Hey, miss, what’s your name again?”

Inside the room, Jiang Lin rubbed the corner of his eye and looked intently at the young woman before him.

She had a delicate and refined appearance, exuding the gentle aura of an elder sister from next door.

“Your servant’s name is Lotus...” she replied, bowing her head to avoid his gaze.

“Lotus, huh... what a beautiful name!” Jiang Lin took a deep sip of his tea, his mind drifting to the woman Wu Ke had told him to keep an eye on.

That fellow always urged him to be watchful during missions but never told him to actively seek her out. It was as if fate would decide when they’d meet—if they did, fine; if not, no big deal. Wu Ke was remarkably laid-back and had never described what Lotus actually looked like.

Once, Jiang Lin couldn’t resist asking about her appearance. Wu Ke just patted his shiny bald head and said, “That’s exactly what Lotus looks like...” At times, Jiang Lin wondered if Lotus was some kind of lotus spirit, given the vague way Wu Ke spoke of her.

“Thank you for your kind words, my lord,” Lotus said softly, cheeks tinged with a blush.

Seeing her shy demeanor, Jiang Lin’s heart skipped a beat. Damn, could it be that she had taken a liking to him?

No, that wouldn’t do!

If she really was the woman Wu Ke cared for, Wu Ke would surely bash his bald head in.

“Is Lotus your real name?” Jiang Lin asked again.

“I was adopted by Mother Wang since childhood and given the name Lotus,” she answered.

“Do you have a childhood sweetheart you lost contact with?”

Lotus looked at him puzzled. “No, I don’t.”

“How about an older brother you lost long ago?”

She shook her head. “I don’t think so. I was abandoned under the Spring Breeze Pavilion when I was just a few months old.”

“Do you know a man named Wu Ke?”

“Wu Ke?”

“He’s a bald guy who always imagines himself a monk. A bit sleazy, eyes always darting to a girl’s skirts. Maybe he used to be decent before life wore him down.”

Lotus furrowed her brows, thinking carefully, but shook her head again.

Jiang Lin stroked his chin.

This was strange. Had he been looking for the wrong person?

But after all these years, he had finally caught someone named Lotus. It shouldn’t be so off. Well, for now, he’d take her back to the Sun and Moon Sect.

“How much is your contract worth, Miss Lotus?”

“Huh?”

At the Sun and Moon Sect headquarters’ Spring Breeze Pavilion, the women worked of their own will—no coercion. They were more like employees with salaries and performance bonuses. But the branch of Spring Breeze Pavilion operated like a typical worldly brothel, where contracts of servitude were the norm.

After all, the world was not very enlightened. Most women were considered virtuous by simply having no skills, let alone ordinary village girls who were illiterate. If you told them they could work there with monthly wages and benefits, no servitude contract needed, would anyone believe it? They might even think it wasn’t legitimate.

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