The narrator tells us that there are two kinds of prostitutes in the city: prostitutes for officials, and prostitutes for the common people. The narrator says that he used to be a regular at the music ministry, but now he's afraid that the pimps will kick him out so he won't be able to do his dirty work. He's here to see the master of the family. He says that his younger brother is a "complete scapegoat" in the novel because he bit his tongue the first night after the family was raided. The younger brother was the only person in the family who loved him, but he was taken away to the ministry and killed the next day. This is tough, the narrator says, because the princess of the city, the eldest daughter of the emperor , has already booked the young master for the night before the family's raid. This means that the princess had already booked him before they were raided, and that's why she was able to book the master so quickly. She's the one who's in charge of power in peony city, and she's also the sister to the emperor's eldest daughter. If it were the princess who wanted it, she'd be the one to demand it, not the other way around.