If that were all it was, though, Zhao Changhe felt that Chichi’s choice of going to a brothel to gather information was the wrong way to do things.0

After all, this was a city of criminals.0

The women in the brothel might not really be prostitutes. The woman she was talking to could very well be a vicious female criminal with her identity hidden. At the very least, the owner of the brothel had to be something of the sort, and these women appeared to all be trained subordinates of some powerful expert. For example, Qianqian was easily able to tell that he had designs for the nobleman next door and was eavesdropping on them, but she did not show any sign of concern. To them, such things were probably very common.0

Does she really expect these women to give her any genuinely useful information? Does she really think these women will help her? Is she trying to use the same strategy she used to find Ruyan in Yangzhou?0

No, no, Chichi almost never tells the truth. She must have other intentions. She’s most likely just pretending to be a newbie as she probes for information at the start. It’s even possible that her target is the brothel itself and she’s just misleading others into thinking that she’s after other information.0

Just as this thought flashed through his mind, he heard the woman who was with Xia Chichi ask, “Young Master Luo, if you truly have a target, you can just...0