"Ying Renzhi soaked in the luxurious bath, shaking his head as he said, 'A masterpiece paired with a beauty, those fifty thousand taels were well spent. Heh, the Imperial Son-in-law certainly has some talent. Maybe I'll have a chance to buy a couple of poems from him for fun.'"
The concubine attending to the Third Prince was a young, pretty girl, though a shadow of jealousy lingered between her brows.
This concubine was Chunmei, a courtesan Ying Renzhi had bought at Baihua Tower in Da Tang. At the time, he had been competing in wealth with a merchant, and Ying Renzhi had bid a hundred times the merchant's price, forcibly buying her on the spot with hard cash. Later, he even threw down more money to make that merchant dance, thoroughly humiliating the man.
Chapter 332