How to become a Taoist priest starting from a brothel

"Yinrong, are you happy today?"

Liu Yin opened her eyes groggily and looked at the boy in front of her who was holding her and waiting for her answer, but she did not reply.

She looked around; it was a small, exquisite, and tranquil courtyard. Then she looked down and saw a pair of tiny feet, no bigger than two or three years old, wearing embroidered shoes. Was this a dream?

Liu Yin stared blankly at the seemingly familiar place, then unconsciously reached out and hugged the boy who had picked her up. Looking at his face, she involuntarily said, "Second Brother."

"Wow, Yinrong can actually call me Second Brother! I'm going to show off to Father, Mother, and Big Brother!" The boy couldn't hide his joy as he happily carried Liu Yin through the exquisite garden, across the beautiful corridor, and through several archways with different patterns before finally arriving at a magnificent courtyard.

"Mother, Mother." The young man carried her quickly into the house.

"Nonsense, running so fast while carrying your sister." A woman sitting in the middle, who looked like a goddess, glanced at him before taking Liu Yin into her arms. "Yinrong, I am your mother."

As Liu Yin looked at her, the dream she had long ago immediately flashed through her mind. This was her mother, Princess Anning.

"Mother, my sister called me brother today." The boy looked at his mother with a smug expression.

"Is that so?" Princess Anning looked delighted and picked up Liu Yin, turning her to face her. "Yinrong, Rongrong, I am your mother, you can call me... Mother."

Liu Yin felt that her reaction in the dream was very slow. She stared at Princess Anning for a long, long time before slowly saying, "Mother... Princess..."

"My dear Rong'er, you really can greet people now." A tear glistened in Princess Anning's eyes.

"Mother, I knew it! My sister isn't stupid. I'll kill those bastards who spoke ill of her later." The young man couldn't hide the tenderness he felt for his sister.

"What are you going to do now?" A dignified voice came from outside.

A refined-looking man in casual clothes walked in with a young man: "Cui Tianyu, have you gone out and caused trouble again?"

"Your Majesty."

"Father."

After exchanging greetings, Cui Tianyu looked pitifully at Princess Anning. After Princess Anning coughed several times to remind him, he scratched his face with his fingers and said unhappily, "I knew those bastards would come to complain."

"Alright, what exactly caused you to beat those sons and grandsons of court officials like that?" Prince Anning couldn't help but roll his eyes at him.

"They actually dared to call Rongrong a fool!" Cui Tianyu's face still couldn't hide his resentment when he said this.

"He deserves a beating!" Prince Cui Tianyi, who had been silent until now, spoke coldly.

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about unpleasant things. Do you know that Rongrong can call people now..." Princess Anning saw that even her usually composed eldest son looked eager to try, so she quickly changed the subject.

“Is that so…” The group surrounded Liu Yin, who had been watching them.

The scene then seemed to shatter, causing Liu Yin to feel dizzy before the surroundings brightened again.

"Rongrong, what did you mean by saying 'we should pay attention to sustainable development' yesterday?" Prince Anning asked, holding his youngest daughter with curiosity.

Liu Yin was deeply shaken; the concept of 'sustainable development' was not something that existed in ancient times.

The shock may have broken down some kind of barrier, and Liu Yin was in a daze as the scene changed again.

"Rongrong, stay with your wet nurse, okay? Escape and don't come back." When she came to her senses, Princess Anning, her face full of anxiety, hugged her and gave her instructions.

Before she could react, she was pulled away from the embrace by a pair of large hands. As the surroundings receded, she seemed to see her mother, who always maintained her dignity, calmly facing the enemy's blade after tidying herself up.

A flash of fire, followed by the sound of a sudden collapse, and she immediately fainted.

"Young mistress, don't blame the wet nurse, don't blame the wet nurse." The large hands that should have been protecting her handed her to another pair of hands full of wounds and calluses.

The air was filled with the sounds of people trading: "Alright, this girl has a good appearance, she can fetch a good price, give her more."

In the end, all that remained for her were a pair of eyes filled with guilt and greed...

After that... she went from being with one person to being with another...

"This guy's an idiot? What a waste of his looks..."

"Nice appearance, but can't you speak properly?"

"You speak quite fluently, but why are you so dark and thin? Less, less..."

……

Then another voice rang out: "The master said to arrange for her to go to a brothel; that's where she'll end up."

"After that day..."

"No need to keep an eye on her. She's just a girl; she can't survive in a place like that..."

“Good girl, it’s my destiny to meet you. My daughter died, but I found you on the way. It seems I’m destined to get rich. You’re not bad looking, so you can earn some money for me in place of my daughter.”

"Mom, isn't this girl nice? How about ten taels?"

"Five taels."

"Seven taels, seven taels, how about seven taels..." The man's fawning voice filled her ears.

"Alright, alright." The female voice approached her. "From now on, you'll be a maid in my Qingyin Hall. Let's just call you Qingyin..."

"Ah!" Liu Yin woke up with a start, as if from a dream.

"Miss!" Mei Wu hurried over with a candlestick, and seeing that she was covered in sweat, he asked, "What's wrong, Miss?"

“Mei Wu…” Liu Yin looked at her face as if from another world, and it took her a long, long time to come back to her senses.

"I'm fine, you can go now." Having regained her composure, she shook her head at Mei Wu.

"...Alright, remember to call me if you have any problems, young lady." Seeing that she was indeed alright, Mei Wu could only put down the candlestick and leave with a worried expression.

After everyone left, Liu Yin took a deep breath and then threw herself onto the bed.

"I am Cui Yinrong, and I am not only Cui Yinrong..." Liu Yin's face was full of disbelief; she remembered everything...

When she first opened her eyes in this world, what she saw was not the brightly lit Qingyin Hall, but a pair of eyes that deeply loved her mother.

She was Cui Yinrong, the young princess of the Prince of Anning. In the emperor's eyes, she should have been killed and burned to death in the Prince of Anning's mansion, just like the other people in the mansion. But her family, who loved her deeply, paved a way for her to live with their lives.

Unfortunately, this path to survival was ultimately destroyed by human nature. Her supposedly loyal wet nurse handed her over to human traffickers, and she gradually forgot her past as she wandered from place to place until someone deliberately bought her and deliberately sent her to a brothel.

"Mother... Father... Brothers..." Liu Yin's eyes blurred with tears. She stared at the gradually blurring curtains, filled only with remorse. "I'm sorry, I forgot, I actually forgot... How could I forget, how could I..."