Killer Nights

Chapter 86: Li Hongbin's Deal

Inside the nightclub, Cui Jing followed Li Hongbin and his southern clients into a private VIP room and sat down on one of the plush couches.  

The citywide crackdown on prostitution continued unabated, which meant sex workers were a lot harder to come by outside of the alley.  Back in the day, throngs of scantily-clad women would have darted in between the dance floor, hallways, and VIP rooms; now, they were nowhere to be seen.  However, this didn’t necessarily mean the nightclub had suddenly become some sacred ground of purity and chastity.  In every VIP room, the exchange of money and flesh went on.  True, there were no longer any women waiting for customers at the nightclub itself, but that didn’t prevent clubgoers from bringing along escorts they had already paid for.  Nightclubs weren’t like restaurants; they didn’t turn down customers who brought in “outside food and beverages,” to put it euphemistically.  As long as the nightclub wasn’t the one hiring the women,...