RoseTheDiary
In the dying years of the Han Dynasty, where warlords trade provinces for gold and blood, a nameless orphan is rescued from the mud by Madame Hua, the aging, iron-fisted matriarch of the Vermilion Pavilion.
Named Li Feng, the boy grows up not in a school of scholars, but in the corridors of lust and cruelty. He is raised by the "willows"-prostitutes who are as sharp-tongued as they are broken. The Innocent is not a tale of heroes; it is a raw, unyielding look at a boy who learns to navigate the filth of human nature. From cleaning the blood of murdered courtesans to his own brutal initiation into the carnal arts, Li Feng must transform from a victim into a master of the very environment that tried to devour him.