Seeing she steadfastly refused to take clients, the madam directly had someone drug her with an aphrodisiac and send her to a patron's bed, which happened to belong to Fat Brother.
For some unknown reason, Fat Brother developed feelings for Lixiu and took out all his silver to book her for a year, also planning to earn the One Thousand Taels of Silver needed to buy her freedom in the following year.
Among the dozens of people kidnapped during the Lantern Festival, if it weren't for the unexpected appearance of Mo Yan, Fat Brother would have made his transaction successfully and bought Lixiu's freedom.
By that time, he had already decided that after redeeming Lixiu, he would quit the underworld and live a quiet life. However, one cannot escape retribution by engaging in too much evil, and he was never meant to be with the person he loved…