The prince stepped on me to get to the top, I angrily flirted with the enemy's hostage

Su Rou opened her mouth, and a hoarse voice came out of her throat with difficulty.

"I can."

She cleared her throat and asked again, "Ahem! Where...is this place?"

The madam looked at her kindly, "Jingzhou."

A trace of surprise flashed in her eyes. How did she appear here?

She remembered that before this, she had her hands and feet broken and thrown off a cliff by the guard beside the Ninth Princess.

She raised her hand and grabbed the air tremblingly.

Her hands were fine and could still move, but the arm muscles that she had worked so hard to build up had become thinner again.

And it seems that he is even thinner than before.

The madam asked, "Do you remember your name? Where are you from?"

Su Rou said, "My name is... you can just call me Ah Rou... It's fine. Did you save me?"

The madam reached out and smoothed the loose hair that fell on her forehead.

"No, the person who brought you here was an older woman. She sold you to me. Don't blame her. If she hadn't done that, you wouldn't have survived last winter. It cost the girls in our building a lot of money to save you."

Su Rou grabbed the edge of the bed and tried to get out.

But her body was like a rusted weapon that hadn't been used for a long time...

The madam supported her arm and said, "You have been unconscious and slept for too long. There is no need to rush to get out of bed and walk around slowly. There are many girls in my Hongluan Building. You don't have to feel unfamiliar."

Su Rou wanted to go out and see what was going on outside, but she didn't dare ask the madam too many questions for fear of exposing her identity.

Jingzhou belongs to the northern territory. Did the southern kingdom forget about this place when it attacked?

When I walked out of the room, it was not as noisy outside as I had imagined. On the contrary, I could faintly hear the sound of piano coming from each room.

A guest on the first floor came in excitedly, hugging a beautiful woman with a worldly air.

Su Rou glanced at the madam.

Hongluan Tower...

Brothel?

The madam said, "Since you have entered our Hongluan Tower, you are now our Hongluan Tower member. In Jingzhou, as long as you tell others that you are from Hongluan Tower, no one will dare to do anything to you."

The fact that she dared to say such words showed that the madam was very confident in her abilities.

But Su Rou was even more puzzled about one thing: who sold her in...

She had no recollection of what happened. She only remembered that when she fell off the cliff, the wind was so strong that it made her feel cold all over. Then she fell into the icy lake and lost consciousness.

The door opened with a creak and a man came out. The moment he raised his eyes, he saw Su Rou.

She clearly noticed that the man's breathing stopped after he saw her book.

Then he snorted coldly at Su Rou with a look of disappointment on his face, waved his hand, and quickly walked in another direction to avoid her.

Su Rou heard the man muttering, "How can there be such an ugly girl in Hongluan Tower? It's so scary."

Su Rou: “?”

Who did he call ugly?

She raised her hand and touched her face.

The madam's voice came to my ears, "Don't worry about what others think. If it weren't for the scar on your face, you would truly be a first-class beauty."

She felt a hard scab.

My heart instantly became tense.

"Is there a mirror?"

The madam frowned and looked at her with concern. "Yes, it is, but you'd better not look at it, otherwise you will definitely feel sad."

At that time, the Ninth Princess also scratched her face. Su Rou did not care about her appearance, but just wanted to see what her face looked like now.

The madam said, "Even if you take good care of the scar on your face, it will eventually leave a scar, and it will be difficult for you to get married in the future."

When the madam spoke, her tone was filled with regret for the new scar on her face.

Su Rou looked at her reflection in the bronze mirror. There was a centipede-like scar on her thin face.

That Ninth Princess is truly hateful!

When she saw her appearance, she couldn't help but get angry.

Her thoughts were in a state of flux, and she finally turned her gaze towards the madam beside her. "You saved me, and I will help you make money. But I want to know what the woman who brought me here looks like."

The madam said, "She must be your mother, right? She takes time every month to come and check on you and give you a cleanse. Last month, she even brought you some flowers from the mountains. She takes very good care of you."

The madam recalled the woman's appearance, "She was quite pretty, and sometimes she was accompanied by a boy."

Su Rou was completely confused. Even after such a description, she still didn't know who the other person was.

She shook her head. "I don't know who you're talking about..."

The madam touched her head and said, "When you were brought here, your limbs were all broken. I called a doctor to reattach them to you. You can move around the building as you please, but don't go into other rooms or do any heavy work. Rest for a few days until your bones have healed. When the woman arrives, I'll have you meet her."

Su Rou nodded obediently. This madam was surprisingly easy to get along with and didn't force her to sell her body or perform for money right away.

She had seen the women in the brothels of the capital before, when they were sick and wanted to rest for a few days, but the madams refused to let them, so they were forced to hang them on the upper floors for passersby to watch...

She got up to pour a cup of tea and heard rustling sounds outside the door.

Before she even sipped her tea, she walked to the door to take a look, and saw a woman, one big and one small, squatting at the door of her room, acting suspiciously.

The little girl was stunned for a moment.

The other woman, who was about the same age as her, smiled at her foolishly.

"We... wanted to see what you looked like, but they... didn't let us see. We didn't mean to disturb... you." The little girl stammered as she spoke.

Su Rou realized that perhaps it was her face that scared the child.

She turned her face away and turned the scar away from the girl, "Oh oh... don't bother me."

"Gurgle~" Her stomach growled at an inopportune moment.

She feels hungry...

The girl stretched out her chubby little hand, and on her palm was a piece of osmanthus cake that was even bigger than her hand.

"Sister, eat."

Su Rou took a look and said, "You eat it. I won't fight with other children for food."

The girl shook her head and forced the cake into her hand.

"We are a family, it's not considered robbery."

Su Rou looked at the pastry and put it in her mouth and chewed it without hesitation.

The older woman looked at her and said, "I'll go get some food."

Before Su Rou could swallow the osmanthus cake in her mouth, the woman got up and left.

At this moment, she caught a glimpse of the girl out of the corner of her eye and saw that she seemed to have only one hand.

And the girl had just handed her the pastry with her only good hand.

"What's wrong with your hand?" Su Rou asked cautiously.

The girl smiled sweetly at her and said, "When my mother was fleeing, she threw me to the bandits. They chopped off my arm, and then it was my mother who saved me from them. She also treated my illness and told me it wouldn't hurt."

Su Rou felt mixed emotions, and she had no appetite to continue eating the osmanthus cake she had just taken a bite of.

The mother this child is talking about is the brothel owner?

Escape...

The only thing she could think of was when the North and the South went to war.

The little girl looked at Su Rou innocently and asked, "Sister, although your mother sent you here, she also abandoned you. Can you please not forgive her?"

Su Rou raised her hand and touched the girl's head, "What's your name?"

"My name is A Tian. My mother said I had a very hard life before, so she changed my name to this."

When two countries go to war, the people will inevitably be involved.

Su Rou ate the noodles and her stomach was barely filled.

The woman looked at Su Rou's clean bowl and said, "The noodles I gave you are still not enough. Is it enough for you?"

Su Rou said, "That's enough."

She drank up the soup as well, so she was lying about her appetite.

She wasn't full at all.

But she didn't want to eat anymore. She wanted to go out for a walk and see what was happening on the street outside.

The woman nudged Ah Tian and said, "Then ask her to play with you for a while, and then have noodles with you later, okay?"

Su Rou is not picky.

Perhaps she had been hungry for too long, and she felt that this bowl of noodles was more delicious than any other delicacies.