Pingjiang City, Southern Courtyard.
By the time Zhou Dao arrived home, it was already the second watch of the night, and there were fewer and fewer people on the streets.
The southern part of the city was originally a poor district, filled with all sorts of people, from peddlers to soldiers. Other than a few street vendors who had just set up their stalls, very few people would be out at this hour, with most already in bed with their wives, having made love several times.
As for the bachelors who didn't have wives, those with a little spare change would go to Wild Donkey Alley to vent their desires.
That place was like a poor people's pleasure district, home to many prostitutes - mostly coquettish widows and married women driven by financial need to secretly earn money on the side without their husbands knowing.
