Kapitel 240: Chapter 38: The Young Widow Hides It Well

Many naive young girls from later generations, influenced by harmful movies, literature, and anime, add a rainbow-colored starlight filter to their impressions of ancient women, especially the courtesans of ancient brothels.

They imagine that by time traveling back, with the original host's beauty that brings calamities, and the interesting soul of a transmigrator, they could easily win the favor and adoration of various sons of nobility and gentry, flitting amongst a crowd of handsome men, and ultimately be forcefully married off by a domineering young master with a wave of his silver note, thus starting the drama of domestic battles…

In reality, such good fortune is rare.

Last year, the government's special crackdown rescued a large number of fallen women from the brothels; most of these women were young, even underage, and it was rare to see anyone over twenty-four, and most of them were the kind of skilled "famous courtesans" that young girls fantasized about.