Su Mu slowly regained consciousness, propping herself up on a brocade-covered soft couch while holding her forehead.
“Chief! You’re finally awake.”
A maidservant who had been waiting nearby for a long time quickly stepped forward upon seeing the beautiful, pink-haired woman finally rise.
Chi-chief? Have I become the leader of the martial world?
With the maidservant’s support, Su Mu put on the intricate, luxurious gown, all while sorting through the chaotic thoughts in her mind. Tang Nai drugged me? Huh? Wasn’t I supposed to be eating? Did Tang Nai put something in the food?
She wished she could catch that gray-haired girl right now and give her a piece of her mind. The next moment, Su Mu finally recalled Tang Nai’s words and was instantly filled with righteous indignation: You really did drug my family’s meal!
Sensing the magic power within her body, Su Mu was sure her strength wasn’t restricted. With just a casual flick of her sleeve, the maidservant was sent staggering backward by the force, nearly falling. It was only because Su Mu used threads to steady her in time that she finally snapped out of her panic.
The one embraced by the threads was a little girl in a green dress. Her dark green hair was tied into cute little braids. At that moment, she looked as if she were drunk, her purple eyes spinning dizzily, unable to stand steady, and she was wailing nonstop.
Su Mu took a closer look and couldn’t help but inwardly curse her luck. What can looks do? Why is my personal maidservant Sun Chuan? And in this loli form…
Just like in reality, Sun Chuan now seemed to possess no strength at all, just an ordinary little girl, petite and easily knocked over with a light push.
Seeing Sun Chuan repeatedly thanking her, Su Mu raised an eyebrow. “Who are you?”
“Thank you, Chief, thank you…”
Judging by the loli’s reaction, she seemed to have no memory of reality at all. Sun Chuan blinked, and then suddenly, tears welled up in her eyes as she spoke with a sob.
“Wah… Chief doesn’t remember me…”
As she spoke, Sun Chuan was about to throw herself on the ground and roll around. Seeing this, Su Mu quickly stepped forward, grabbed her cheeks, and pulled them hard to both sides.
“Stop crying!”
Being scolded so sharply, the little loli immediately fell silent, not daring to speak, just staring blankly with tear-filled eyes, at a loss for what to do.
“I… I was just testing you, okay? You’re Sun Chuan, right?”
Having no other choice, the little girl could only gently comfort her. But the next moment, the loli burst into loud sobs.
Su Mu coughed deliberately, putting on a serious air as she explained, “Alright, Jing’er, don’t cry. I remember.”
“Wah… Chief doesn’t remember Jing’er…”
“I… I was just worried about you, Chief. A few days ago, when you were eating at the Suitable Spring Tower across the street, you were accidentally drugged by a scoundrel from the Heaven’s Secret Tower. You’ve been unconscious ever since…”
Listening to Jing’er’s story, Su Mu couldn’t help but laugh in anger.
Damn Tang Nai, you even copied the backstory? So you’re that scoundrel?!
And how did I, the esteemed Chief, get drugged without noticing? That’s just too pathetic…
Wait, what do you mean a courtesan is also called a chief?
Sorting through the memories in her mind, Su Mu was nearly driven to a stroke by anger. First, she slammed her palm down hard, shattering the nanmu tea table by the bed into pieces, scaring Jing’er so much her little face turned pale. Then, she suddenly calmed down again.
One freak after another, and so the martial world entered an unprecedented period of turbulence, developing rapidly and splitting into one mansion, two towers, and four great sects. From her memories, the current time was around the late Ming dynasty. The emperor… wait, isn’t this courtesan doing the work of the Imperial Guards? Oh, this courtesan doesn’t have to entertain clients? Well, that’s a relief…
They kept each other in check, constantly fighting.
Su Mu belonged to one of the “Two Towers”—the Flower Full Tower—and she was its Chief.
Calling her ‘Chief’ sounds nice; calling her ‘Top Courtesan’ doesn’t. Anyway, the reputation outside isn’t great. While secretly it’s an assassination and intelligence organization, on the surface, it really is just a brothel.
But anyone who dares to call her ‘Courtesan Su’ is simply tired of living. As everyone knows, our Chief Su Mu has never been a promiscuous woman.
Just look at her casually shattering the tea table with a palm strike. It’s clear she has at least twenty years of pure, virginal foundational training, a woman of pure yin internal energy…
What nonsense is this? Tang Nai, are you addicted to writing scripts? Isn’t this just magic power?
As for the other of the “Two Towers,” the Flower Full Tower’s old rival, the Heaven’s Secret Tower, they also deal in intelligence work. As the saying goes, those in the same trade are enemies. Since their establishment, they have been engaged in all sorts of simple, unadorned business warfare.
One day, Chief Su leads the pure courtesans of her tower to wipe out a Heaven’s Secret Tower branch in one go; the next day, the bad women of Heaven’s Secret Tower dare to drug Chief Su while she’s eating…
Drugging her isn’t the first time either. Before, it was either laxatives or the ‘Laughing Half-Step Madness’ poison, tormenting her endlessly.
Thinking of this, Su Mu also realized who the boss of the Heaven’s Secret Tower was.
“Tang Nai! You—”
“Chief, don’t be impulsive! Your body has just recovered; you mustn’t get angry…”
Arriving at the Flower Full Tower’s meeting hall, Su Mu sat in the main seat with a look of indignation. Seeing her arrive, none of the women present dared to make a sound.
According to the Flower Full Tower’s hierarchy, from top to bottom, there were three divisions: the Book Residence, the Tea Room, and the Grass Stage. For example, the meeting hall belonged to the Book Residence. Only the Chief and the various pure courtesans with exceptional martial arts could have a seat here. Even the red plaques from the Tea Room couldn’t enter. The hierarchy was strict.
Those above the Tea Room were women with literary talent or martial skills. The Grass Stage was purely made up of ordinary girls gathering intelligence outside, which was the main reason for the Flower Full Tower’s bad reputation.
But without these women of easy virtue who could easily extract information from the mouths of high officials and nobles, the Flower Full Tower wouldn’t have its current scale.
However, Su Mu didn’t care much about the dream world’s setting. After all, it was made up by Tang Nai; the loopholes were probably not few. To have this ‘Courtesan Su’ as the centerpiece, she could wrap such a big dumpling. She really is something.
“Chief, may I ask what you intend to do?”
Seeing Su Mu had no intention of talking more and was about to leave, one of the pure courtesans quickly bowed and asked. Su Mu took a quick look and found her somewhat familiar.
Huh? Isn’t this a certain witch I tricked in the dream world? The one who wears particularly revealing clothes.
Yes, it was the Exposure Witch. Not only that, when Su Mu looked back, this group of pure courtesans was actually identical to the group from the Yanyu Tower.
For a moment, Su Mu found it hard to tell what was real. After all, in the last dream about the rat and rabbit, only a few characters she remembered deeply appeared. Logically, there shouldn’t be this many people.
Puzzled, Su Mu casually responded:
“Don’t worry. I’m just going to the Heaven’s Secret Tower to find that bitch and get my payback.”
She didn’t know what drug Tang Nai had given her this time. According to the dream’s memories, she had been unconscious for over ten days straight.
“Chief, please reconsider. You are no match for that woman… Besides, the effects of this drug are still unclear. What if you’re walking right into a trap? Why not let me disguise myself as you and test her depths?”
Hearing this, Su Mu’s eyes lit up slightly.
Quite loyal.
She tentatively guided a thread, probing into the Exposure Witch’s body, and was surprised to discover that her magic power was circulating neatly within her body in the manner described by the techniques Tang Nai had fabricated, as if she were truly treating it as internal energy to wield. The key point was that her magic power actually existed. Unlike last time, which was all bluffing and special effects, this was the real deal, with solid C-Rank strength. At this level, what’s all this talk about the martial world? Couldn’t you just flip the imperial palace over?
“Chief, what’s wrong? Do you not trust me?”
Su Mu shook her head.
“I’ll still go. Don’t worry.”
Su Mu wasn’t worried about what Tang Nai might do to her—in other words, if Tang Nai wanted to do something, she couldn’t stop her anyway. Besides, if she went to all this trouble just for a bit of fun, Su Mu would really laugh in anger.
Speaking of which, what’s the deal with this so-called drug effect? I don’t feel anything wrong… Whatever, I’ll go find Tang Nai first and get things cleared up.
Thinking this, Su Mu left the Flower Full Tower alone. The women in the meeting hall started making noise again. Among them, a sharp-eyed pure courtesan came to the spot where Su Mu had been sitting, tilted her head in confusion, and looked up at the ceiling.
“Huh, is it leaking…”
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