Chapter Five 

Fan Zhong stood behind the tub that Ying Zetian was in. because Fan Zhong knew that his student is a girl so there was a screen separating her and Tang Wudi. But the screen is placed in a way that still allow Fan Zhong to freely move between both tubs so that he could use his needles as a campion treatment.

Fan Zhong warned Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi again of the perils of such treatment and give them both clean cloths to bite on as a precaution. Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi agrees to the treatment by putting the cloth into their mouth.

Both Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi is stubborn people, so they never scream. But the pain they felt is a jolt right to their souls like as if thousands of ants biting their heart. The pain was so much that Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi knew that without the cloth, they will definitely be able to bite off their tongue. Fan Zhong had prepared for this treatment for two weeks as it needed a strong body. So, for the past two weeks, Ying Zetian knew from her memories of Fan Zhong feeding her bitter medicine and forcing her to eat more like a pig.

Very soon, the medical treatment ended. Fan Zhong get one of his female students to bring Ying Zetian for bathing while he did the same for Tang Wudi. The medical treatment was so nerve wrecking for Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi that they almost fall to the floor without people supporting them.

It seems the pain was definitely a jolt even to her brain. Ying Zetian knew how dangerous it was for her to go right up to the brothel to find Tang Ying, so she needs to wait for her to come out of the brothel. Fan Zhong in consideration on how tired his students were after the bath released them from the school.

As usual, Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi change back into their clothes while rubbing mud on their faces again. While Tang Wudi and Ying Zetian walk slowly back to the temple. Tang Wudi as asked by Ying Zetian told her that Tang Ying like to go to a temple for praying before opening for business every night. Tang Wudi told Ying Zetian that it was almost time for Tang Ying prayers tonight. Ying Zetian knew that it was almost time, so she forces Tang Wudi to stay at the temple. While Ying Zetian walks towards the temple that Tang Wudi told her Tang Ying like to go to.

Having been in the capital for three years, Ying Zetian of course knew how Tang Ying looks like. After all, Ying Zetian frequently goes around the city while begging including to the brothels. Ying Zetian even walks past the house that was built on the original grounds of her mother's family home. Sometimes when the original Ying Zetian could not tolerate being dirty anymore, she will go to a deserted part of the river for a bath.

Thus, the original Ying Zetian knew that her features had grew out and that is why she dared to walk past her so called father new home without being recognized. The original Ying Zetian wanted to infrequently remind herself of the death of her mother and her grandparents' family. For the original Ying Zetian, life is just too hard and the only thing that is motivating her to go on is revenge.

And her so called father house that was built on the original grounds of her mother's house is the best way to remind the original Ying Zetian on why she needed to live on. while thinking, Ying Zetian had reached the temple that Tang Ying like to pray at. good, Ying Zetian said to herself when she saw Tang Ying going in the busy temple. From her memories, Ying Zetian knew from the gossip that she heard when she is begging, Tang Ying is a relatively good person. At least in her brothel, it was rumored that all the girls working there is all willing to work in this line.

Unlike a lot of other brothels in Changan, the girls were beaten into submission. This was what the original Ying Zetian heard from one of the servants of a compeitior brothel. The servant was throwing a body out of the back door of the brothel onto the rubbish dump.

It was another girl who was beaten to death as she was unwilling to work in the brothel. Thus, Ying Zetian, wanted to bet on Tang Ying. In a country that was rampant with unfairness where a human live is so cheap that people did not even blink at seeing a body. And Tang Ying could get praise from people and not to said it was the people of Tang Ying most staunch enemy.