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CH 1 PART 1

"Powder and rouge are given to you by credit. Their costs will be taken from your commission, so keep that in mind."

The madame of the brothel curtly spoke to a kneeling EunSeo as she handed her some powder and rouge.

This woman had been the madame of the brothel for 30 years. She was a little over sixty years old. Still, her back was straight and her eyes were sharp.

It took a special kind of personality to successfully manage a business, especially one that only dealt with men like this brothel.
The madame had gone through many hardships and had just about seen everything throughout her life.

However, she still felt pity when she saw the daughter of a prestigious family like EunSeo fall to the status of a mere whore. Still, she wasn't planning on giving her special treatment.

When you have this kind of job, you'll meet all kinds of people with pitiful circumstances.
An older sister who had been sold to feed her younger siblings, a daughter sold to pay for a parent's medicine, a wife sold to pay for her husband's gambling debt. And the daughters of fallen nobility.

In Yoo EunSeo's case, she was the last survivor of a noble family that had been wiped out with the enthronement of a new king.

She had barely survived, but having lost her whole family and all of her possessions, she was handed over to the brothel.
The king had ordered,

'In this lifetime, you will live as a whore.'

This mandate wasn't exclusively for Yoo EunSeo. The new king ordered the same for all women and daughters of fallen noble households after his coronation.

The men were beheaded and killed. The women were ordered to live in humiliation and disgrace as whores. It was a cruel punishment.

Half of the women and daughters who received this mandate committed suicide to escape. They'd rather die than suffer the disgrace of becoming a common whore.

Therefore, everyone had believed that the proud Yoo EunSeo would do the same.
The madame of the brothel had no idea what Yoo EunSeo had been thinking, but either way, she wouldn't be bad for business.

A daughter of a noble family with outstanding beauty. Such a maiden fell from grace and became a prostitute. Quite a few men would definitely want to have her.

There was no doubt that there would be many men who would pay any price to become Yoo EunSeo's first man.
What a catch.

Even if they couldn't be her first man, once the news of her unfortunate fall from grace spread through town, there would be a line of men waiting to have a taste of her every single day.

They would tremble as they imagined untying her top, spreading her legs, and finally satisfying their lust with her body. As the madame of this brothel, she'd be making a huge profit out of her.

She received quite a big boon for bribing the government office so often. Of course, she didn't bring Yoo EunSeo here for nothing. She spent a lot of money to get her here from the authorities.

All the money she had used to pay for EunSeo would be taken out of her commission. Including the costs for her clothes, her powder and rouge, and her food.