To correct this imbalance, his female mentor, Shi Po, suggests that he buy a white slave and milk her for her yin. His theory is that his excessive yang is interfering with the process. He has reached the penultimate stage to immortality, but ever since an altercation two years ago that resulted in the death of an Englishman on his property, he has gotten nowhere in his practice. But lately, Ru Shan’s progress has stalled entirely.

So surprise, surprise, within a couple of hours of arriving in Shanghai, our beautiful Lydia finds herself sold to a brothel, drugged and tied up.Ĭheng Ru Shan is the owner of a struggling clothing store and a practitioner of a rather exotic branch of Taoism, one in which you attain Heaven and immortality through sex. Not too shabby for a blonde English chick in 1898. And as a bonus, she buys passage on a ship that offered the cheapest rates, and makes sure to mention to the captain several times that she’s all alone, her fiancÃ© isn’t expecting her and nobody’s going to meet her when the ship docks. Or telling her snooky-wookums she’s coming so he can meet her at the harbor. Lydia Smith, in a particularly bright (snerk) moment, decides that The Thing To Do is to go to Shanghai to visit her fiancÃ©, Maxwell. If this bothers you, read only at your own risk. Warning: Commentary contains more spoilers than usual that we didn’t bother to white-out.

Desperate Tigress by Jade Lee