[ First, a woman of ill repute, biding her chance to relieve a merchant's wares.
Then, to shed her clothes, as concubines do.
Now, to lure men to the vendor's possessions, perhaps through the batting of lashes or the fresh flush of her cheeks, or the simple persuasion of a well-balanced body, carefully splayed beside fruit and stone.
There is a riddle to Lan Wangji's new companions to which he is not entirely certain he means to see the solving. Mouth slow, still gasped, he struggles to worm more than utter the proposition, then the objection, both into diffused being. Hesitates, finally, until he betrays himself enough to touch the girl's arm with the tapping of two fingers, to nudge it up, so her sleeve might fall and stretch and illustrate: ]
Offer him the trim.
[ Lace or fair stitch work, finery. A wretched thing, to sell part or whole of the clothes on one's back, but here they find themselves — negotiating pieces of their dignity. ]
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Then, to shed her clothes, as concubines do.
Now, to lure men to the vendor's possessions, perhaps through the batting of lashes or the fresh flush of her cheeks, or the simple persuasion of a well-balanced body, carefully splayed beside fruit and stone.
There is a riddle to Lan Wangji's new companions to which he is not entirely certain he means to see the solving. Mouth slow, still gasped, he struggles to worm more than utter the proposition, then the objection, both into diffused being. Hesitates, finally, until he betrays himself enough to touch the girl's arm with the tapping of two fingers, to nudge it up, so her sleeve might fall and stretch and illustrate: ]
Offer him the trim.
[ Lace or fair stitch work, finery. A wretched thing, to sell part or whole of the clothes on one's back, but here they find themselves — negotiating pieces of their dignity. ]