When Su Yu opened her eyes, she found herself lying in a filthy, stinking stable, with four or five little girls sobbing nearby. She looked around. Everything felt unfamiliar, and she could not even remember who she was. Only after one of the girls spoke did she learn that her name was Su Yu, and that she had been sold along with the others to Mingtaige, the foremost pleasure house in the Five Kingdoms. Its grounds were as vast as a city, with a main building and four more towers to the east, west, north, and south. It housed both female and male courtesans. With her future uncertain, Su Yu only felt a little hungry. She was not the least bit afraid of what lay ahead...
