The City of Pangu was divided into three distinct areas: the Main Circle, where the ultra-elites of society thrived, the Inner Circle, where the elites resided, and the Outer Circle, where the commoners struggled to survive.
"Save me! Someone—Anyone, help!"
In the Northern District of the Outer Circle, a young woman dashed into a dark and gloomy alleyway, her voice crying for help bouncing off the dirt-covered walls around her. In contrast to the surroundings, the woman was dressed rather wealthily. Her snow-white clothes were made of the finest silk, while glamorous jewelry adorned her slender wrists and supple neck. Her black hair was also neatly combed back while being held together by an exquisite-looking green jade hairpin in the shape of a phoenix.
With one look at her, one would have several questions pop into one's mind.
Is this young woman from the Inner Circle, or maybe even the Main Circle?
What is she doing here in the Slums?
Why is she turning off the main road and running into this suspicious-looking alleyway to cry for help?
Well, let's put those first two questions aside for now since the last question is being answered as we speak.
Following behind the young woman, a man turned into the alley chasing after her. The man had a naturally brutish air about him, but his coarse clothes and the scar under his right eye made him look even more barbaric.
The scar deformed as the man smiled wickedly at the young woman in front of him. The look in his eyes was that of a predator just before it bites into its prey.
Up ahead, the frantic young woman saw a small flight of steps that led up to a wooden door, causing her hopes to rise. However, despite having a head start, the young woman only managed to reach a few meters away from the steps before the man caught up.
Grabbing the young woman's slender wrist, the man spun her around forcefully. The young woman became unbalanced, and she tripped, with the man falling on top of her.
Backed up against the wall, the young woman's terrified screams resounded in the alleyway as the man grabbed at her snow-white silk dress and ripped it apart to reveal her equally snow-white chest.
"No! Don't touch me, you lowly commoner!"
Having her chest exposed, the young woman's struggle intensified, her finger aiming to claw out the man's lust-filled eyes. However, the man's calloused palm clamped over her mouth and forcefully kept her at a distance, as he barked.
"Shut your mouth!"
With a crazed expression, the man then reached out and ripped apart the young woman's waist belt, exposing her corset, which he also tore from her body.
Tears flowed from the young woman's mouth as she grabbed at the man's hand that was still covering her mouth.
After fully getting rid of the young woman's clothes, the man's eyes roamed over the young woman's ample chest, pale torso, and smooth front garden.
Unable to hold back, the man used his free hand and hurriedly loosened the cloth string around his waist. Afterward, he pulled down his pants, revealing his— "Sigh..."
A sigh was suddenly heard from the side, which caused the man to pause; however, it was only for a brief moment before his actions continued right after.
The struggling young woman could not resist as the man entered her and began ravaging her like the brute he was.
By the side, a skinny middle-aged man and a lanky young man, who looked to be in his late teens, were observing the two.
The skinny middle-aged man was seated on a wooden chair, and his face held a hint of a frown as he watched both the man and the young woman with an assessing gaze. One could tell he was dissatisfied with something about them in particular.
The lanky youth was standing on top of the steps in front of the now-opened door. He was holding a disk-like object that was large enough to hide his entire chest as he held it in front of him. The front of this disk-like object was somewhat cone-shaped, and at the tip was a white, crystal-like object; meanwhile, the side facing the lanky youth was flat and smooth as jade.
As the lanky youth was holding the disk by the indented hand grooves at its side, he made sure to aim the crystal-like object at the pair on the ground next to the steps. His face flushed red, and his legs were trembling slightly as he stared at the smooth surface of the disk, which was displaying the man and the young woman.
After a few minutes with only the young woman's muffled screams echoing in the alleyway, the skinny middle-aged man grunted in disapproval as the woman's voice went from muffled struggling to moans of pleasure.
Clicking his tongue, the skinny middle-aged man waved his finger at the four small disk-shaped objects floating around the man and woman. With that motion, the disks rearranged to capture the pair from different angles.
Even though he had spent a month with these two to make sure they understood his vision before the recording, they still made several mistakes.
Just the money he spent on these mid-quality image recorders and the young woman's attire slashed his budget in half, and this didn't even include the cost of securing this production site, which he had to borrow capital to afford!
But even though he was displeased with the performance of these two, the execution of his idea can still make up for it. It will surely make waves in the market.
His idea was simple, but it was something that had never been done before in this line of business. The main image recorder will be used by his assistant to shoot from the perspective of someone stumbling upon the assault of a prominent lady by a lowly commoner. While the four smaller image recorders he controlled would shoot it from a more neutral perspective.
But that wasn't all, he also had smaller image recorders strapped to those two to get the perspective of the attacker and the one being attacked.
This one recording session was essentially four productions in one!
He was sure any one of these productions would sell like crazy in the Outer Circle. After all, which man in the Outer Circle hasn't imagined what it would be like to pin down a haughty daughter of an Elite Clan in the Upper Circles?
The skinny middle-aged man especially anticipated the release of the man's perspective; the demand for it was too high!
Meanwhile, the perspective of the bystander and the neutral perspective together should sell around the same amount, but a bit lower than the man's perspective.
As for the perspective of the young noble lady being attacked, he had heard rumors that some of those innocent-looking young noble ladies actually fantasized about these kinds of scenarios and even went as far as to hire servants from the Outer Circle to secretly fulfill them. It was a gamble, but he could try to find a market in the dark underground of the Inner Circle. Who knows, maybe this perspective could strike a chord with a niche community and outsell the others.
The skinny middle-aged man began to eagerly anticipate the end of this hour-long recording session.
However, just as the recording session was about to come to an end, a person appeared at the entrance of the alleyway.
Both actors paused. After glancing at the person, they looked at the skinny middle-aged man in confusion.
The skinny middle-aged man was busy glaring at the person at the entrance of the alleyway with an enraged expression.
The figure at the entrance of the alleyway paused at the sight before him; however, he eventually continued forward and acted as if he hadn't seen anything.
The skinny middle-aged man was huffing at this point, and he immediately bellowed at the person as soon as he approached.
"You damn brat! Didn't you see the sign at the entrance that says there is a production in progress?!"