When dawn broke the next morning, Scholar Lv was jolted awake by the pain from his wounds. With no money for an inn, he'd spent the night huddled with Tao'er under the eaves of a building. Now, he felt both cold and hungry.
He was starting to regret wasting the money he had won. If he had saved even a little, he wouldn't be in this situation. What made him truly desperate, however, was not knowing where to go next. He couldn't return to Niuxin Village, and he had nowhere else to go.
"Master, why don't you pawn me out as a concubine...?"
"No way!" Scholar Lv refused without a second thought. "Letting you have another man's son? Where the hell would that leave my dignity!"
A rare sadness appeared on Tao'er's face. "I don't want to be sold either, but if we have no money for food, we'll starve. My father only sold me because he couldn't afford to feed me..."
