♫ "A girl walked in the dark night,
There was no light,
But she continued walking to look for her knight.
The girl kept walking in the gloomy night,
The dress was thin and white,
Her feet touched the cold weeds,
But the coldness couldn't even stop her from defeating the night.
The girl continued walking through the black of the night,
One or twice she stumbled and almost lost in the twilight,
But she didn't stop and kept walking with her eyes looking far ahead.
Why didn't she stop?
Why didn't she give up?
Did she want to run away and never look back?
Was she lost in the murky path?
The lonely girl kept walking in the night.
When would she stop and admit defeat?" ♫
A girl wearing a thin black hanfu that barely covered her skin was busy playing with a pipa while singing a song that was famous in Chang City at this time.
Almost everyone in town knew about the song, but it was the first time the original songwriter had sung it in front of the audience.
Within the large hall of the Tiantang House, she was seated on a chair on a small stage, while her audience was seated on more than a dozen seats in front of the stage.
The fingers were long and slender, and they danced gracefully on the four strings of the pear-shaped body and curved neck of the instrument.
The "pi" was made by plucking a string with any finger, from right to left. While the "pa" was the sound of the thumb plucking from left to right.
It was a famous melody, and it was "Lonely Girl Walking All Night" played by the girl in her black hanfu. Several other girls in Tiantang House often played and sang the song, but it was the first time that the girl in the thin black hanfu had performed the song even though she was the composer of the song.
People in fine clothes were sitting on chairs in front of the stage enjoying the melody as they slightly swayed their bodies, but then one of them leaned his body to the side before whispering to another man sitting next to him, "Who is that girl? I think I've never seen her in Tiantang House."
The man was wearing fine-looking dark brown robes, and it looked like he was almost half a century old, and he no longer looked young with a few strands of gray on his head and a few wrinkles on his face.
However, seeing how that man still dared to visit a place like Tiantang House tonight, it could be said that the man still had quite a bit of vitality in his body.
And perhaps it was true that the man still had quite the vigorousness in his old body as his eyes couldn't even leave the cleavage of the black-clothed girl on the stage even if he was talking to the man next to him right now.
"Aiyah! I heard she's the original composer of 'Lonely Girl Walking All Night.' Tonight is her first time performing the song, so it's no wonder that Tiantang House looks really busy right now," the dark green-robed man sitting next to him answered the question.
"Did Tiantang House announce it beforehand?" The brown-robed man asked again. "I just came randomly without knowing such an announcement, so I don't know about that girl."
The green-robed man wasn't young either, and perhaps he was even slightly older than the brown-robed man. However, it seemed that the two of them were still had quite an excitement when it came to beautiful girls.
"Yes, Tiantang House announced it yesterday," the green-robed man replied. "This song has been very popular in Chang City for a few weeks, but it was the other girls at Tiantang House who performed this song before tonight. Many people were curious about the original creator of the song, and Tiantang House decided to have a special show with the original composer tonight. Aiyah! You're lucky that you can still enter this building even though you know nothing about this event."
The brown-robed man smirked after hearing the explanation from the other man. "Of course, I can still enter this building," he replied haughtily. "Tiantang House only accepts rich men as well as men of high status in this empire, and I'm one of the rich men that the Tiantang House can't refuse."
The green-robed man snorted, but he didn't answer the arrogant remarks that came from the other man, and the two decided to continue enjoying the music the girl was playing on the small stage.
The brown-robed man's eyes once again focused on the girl's body which was barely visible beneath the thin, almost transparent clothing. The girl had porcelain-like skin, her breasts were round and firm, her waist was slender, and her hips were in perfect shape.
The brown-robed man was almost drooling as he continued to look at the expensive scene that was displayed before him, and his eyes were once again directed to the seductive cleavage peeking through the semi-transparent fabric.
"I want her tonight," the brown-robed man whispered in his deep, hoarse voice, indicating that he was being controlled by his lust now.
The man next to him managed to catch his whisper as he asked, "Haiz! Are you sure you want her tonight? I can see that her body is perfect, but we can't even see her face, so it's not a guarantee that she gets a pretty face either. What if her face is beyond ugly? Or maybe she even has a contagious skin disease or something."
This time, the brown-robed man could not immediately respond as he focused his gaze on the black-clothed girl on the stage who was still playing with her pipa. The other man was right. They couldn't even see the girl's face because it was covered by a black veil of the same material as her clothes.
The body could be perfect, but there was no guarantee that the face would also be flawless.
However, the brown-robed man smirked as he decided, "I'll be emptying my pockets tonight to see what kind of face she has under her veil."