The Shadow Doctor Ch. 01

He stared at the floor, his cheeks burning. He heard Su Wen lift her cup and take a sip of tea. Risking a glance up, he saw that she was smiling. He looked away again.

"Doctor Hsien, my interactions with you have always been in a professional capacity. I have forgotten that you are still a relatively young man, with all the consequent urges. And I have had you spend most of the night touching a naked young woman. Of course sex is on your mind, even if she is pale as a dead fish and balder than a newborn baby."

His embarrassment had been a ploy, but he felt it become genuine at her words.

"Honored Lady, it was foolish to mention it. Please forgive me, forget this conversation ever occurred. If you would like me to attempt to reverse the process, I can return tomorrow morning when my energy is restored. I would be happy to do so at no charge to you, as long as it is understood that it would be an experiment similar to the one we conducted at the beginning of this, and you understand and accept the risks. Please never speak of this again."

"Please, Doctor, accept my apologies instead. I had no intention of causing you to lose face."

Tam looked up in surprise. Su Wen was looking at him with an expression that he might consider fond on a less intimidating woman.

"Yours was not a shameful request, my young friend. Many respectable men keep a bed slave in their home for their pleasure. I do not see the appeal of the devil woman, but I do not judge you for it. If I were to sell her to a noble, I would bill her as an exotic Red or Gold House woman depending on the noble, a rare piece worth fifteen gold bars."

Seeing his expression, she laughed and continued. "Of course, I always charge nobles a ridiculous rate. It flatters their vanity to pay high prices. If I were selling her to a merchant or, say, a doctor, I would charge six gold bars."

"But that would be the price for a fully trained girl, would it not? We are discussing raw material, not a finished product. Two seems more reasonable."

"Two gold bars would buy you an old woman missing all her teeth, with dry leather between her legs. This woman is young and in her prime. While you would have to train her yourself, you could train her to your tastes exclusively. Many men pay a premium for a young virgin they can train themselves. Five bars."

"Honored Lady, I examined the woman thoroughly for hours. Even if you wished me to believe the devil girl was a virgin yesterday, she is certainly not one now. While she is underfed, I will concede she is basically healthy and will be attractive when she grows that exotic hair again. I would pay three bars for her."

"Hmmph. I will tell Lu and the rest that they have cost me money by failing to tidy up after themselves. I will sell you the girl for four gold bars. This is an excellent price, which I extend to you only because I value the services you have done for the Tong."

"Did our discussion not begin with how it was necessary to risk the girl's life by reversing the spell in order for her to be a proper bed mate? I think three and a half bars is the best price."

"A woman lying is only effective on a man who does not already know she is lying. Do not pretend you are that man. Four bars is the final offer. If that is not acceptable, I will be happy to let you fuck her for free this afternoon before you leave to show there are no hard feelings."

"I apologize for pressing too far. I am very grateful to you for your patronage. If you had not sponsored me, I would have never had the opportunity to turn this spell from theory into reality. Please, accept four and a half bars for the girl as a sign of how much I value our relationship."

Su Wen gave Tam what he thought was an actual genuine smile.

"Ah, Doctor, it is a pleasure working with a man with manners. I accept. Let us go collect the girl and prepare her for transport, and then I will be happy to divide that fifth bar in half for you."

They rose from the table and bowed to each other. Tam's bow was of course much deeper than Su Wen's. He scooped up the gold bars he would shortly be returning to her and followed her down the stairwell into the basement. She paused for a moment after opening the door to the interrogation room, then shrugged and walked in. The sound of flesh slapping against flesh filtered into the hallway, along with pained whimpering. Tam followed her in and stopped in the doorway in shock.

Chiang Lu was fucking Tam's woman on the floor like a dog rutting in an alley. The horrible man was kneeling on the floor, his legs keeping the woman's knees spread wide. He had her bent at the waist, using his right hand to pin her neck to the floor, while his other hand held her hip steady as he slammed into her with a relentless rhythm. Her hands were tied together at the wrists beneath her. New bruises blossomed on the girl's ribs, and someone had locked an iron slave collar around her neck. She was still struggling, pushing against the floor, but could not break free of the stronger man.

Tam began moving without realizing he had decided to do so. His teeth were grinding and his hands clenching into fists as he took a step forward. He also noticed with a small piece of his mind that his cock was rock hard, pressing against his robes.

"Lu, I must inform you that the training of this whore will not be proceeding as I had originally instructed you." Su Wen's calm voice brought Tam back to his senses. He felt that he had been on the verge of doing something monumentally foolish.

"Doctor Hsien expressed interest in the devil girl, and I have agreed to sell her to him as a bed slave. Please finish what you are doing, but do not cause any further damage that would reduce the value of the property."

"As you wish, Honored Lady. Would you and the Doctor like to observe? I would be happy to give the Doctor advice on the best way to train his new possession." Lu stared directly into Tam's eyes with a smug smile. Tam realized in a flash of insight that the rat-faced criminal still resented being interrupted when Tam and Huu Shen had arrived. He felt a flash of fury at the thug, daring to fuck his property but restrained himself with an effort.

"I have my own thoughts on the matter, but it is always informative to consult an expert. I would be happy to observe, unless of course it inconvenienced the Honored Lady in any way." Tam was damned if he was going to back down from the man.

"It would not be an inconvenience. Doctor, perhaps we should take a seat?"

As Tam and Su Wen seated themselves, Tam pulling a chair around for her before he sat, the woman twisted her head to stare at them with fury. "Oh, yes, please make yourselves comfortable and politely enjoy watching this bastard rape m- aaah!"

Lu had interrupted her by using the hand on her neck to pull her head up about a foot before he slammed her face into the dirt floor. He then shifted his grip on her neck so that he could choke her. He waited through her struggles until her face began to turn purple.

"If you want to keep breathing, bitch, you will speak to your betters only when spoken to. Do you understand?"

The woman nodded desperately. Lu shifted his hand to the back of her neck and she gasped for air like a drowned fish. Tam noted with mild amazement that throughout the process, the man had not bothered to move his other hand from her waist, and his cock was still fully sheathed in the woman.

Lu studied the woman's face for a moment. "Yes, I think you are capable of learning this simple lesson. Do you still want to smart talk? You can speak to answer questions."

"Yes, I still want to smart talk." The woman's eyes opened wide in horror as she spoke. "Wait, no please! Agh!" Lu slammed her face into the floor again, but she kept babbling. "Please don't choke me again, it's not my fault! You asked the wrong question! You asked me if I wanted to!"

Lu's thumb closed over her windpipe again, silencing her, but he paused before he completely cut off her air. He turned a questioning look at his audience. The woman shut her mouth, but stared pleadingly at them.

"I believe she is claiming the spell is responsible, if I understand correctly. I defer judgment to the expert on this topic. Doctor?"

"It is possible. The spell is structured so that the subject must give an honest answer to every question they are asked. If her mind interpreted the question literally, she would be compelled to answer so. Woman, are you going to speak insultingly to us again? Please allow her to answer."

The woman took a quick desperate breath and spoke as soon as Lu relaxed his grip. "Not while this rapist has his hand around my throat. I can't make any promises beyond that. Ah, shit, is calling him a rapist insulting? Ok, I absolutely promise completely respectful speech as long as this man has his hand around my throat from this moment forward. Please tell me that's enough of a promise, I really do want to keep breathing."

Su Wen let out a long laugh. "Ah, Doctor Hsien, you have picked a spirited one. I am almost sad you will be taking her off our hands. I believe I would have enjoyed taking a personal hand in breaking this one's will. My dear, your promise is good enough to keep you breathing for now, as long as you keep it. And Lu, don't look so angry. You are a rapist, a very good one. It's why you're useful to me. Please proceed as you were before she interrupted you."

From the look in Lu's eyes, Tam guessed the man felt that Su Wen had been laughing at him. The man's fear of his superior won out over his pride though, and he obeyed.

As Lu spoke, he began to slowly stroke his cock in and out of the woman.

"Doctor, there are three basic types of whores, each of which must be trained differently. Some rare whores understand from the beginning that they are whores. Their slits drip at the mere thought of a cock. They only need to be trained to understand that the man's pleasure is the primary goal, and be taught the various ways to best achieve that goal. If they are attractive enough, almost all of this type will end in Gold Houses."

Ever since Lu had choked her, the woman kept very still, no longer attempting to struggle. Lu casually removed his hand from her neck and reached down to begin playing with her tits as he continued to fuck her and deliver his speech.

"The second type of whore begins by desiring coin, food, or shelter. Their fathers or husbands are dead, useless, or do not want them. They understand that the only things they have worth selling are three warm holes that can hold a cock. You have to fuck them hard a bit at first to get through the stage where they are crying and ashamed, but they soon get past that. The vast majority of Silver and Bronze House whores come from this group, though those with natural beauty and good training can aspire to Gold."

"This piece of pale meat kneeling before you is the third type of whore. She does not realize yet that she is a whore. She thinks her mouth is for talking, her cunt a treasure reserved only for a lover, and her ass inviolable. She needs to be taught the truth. Just a few moments ago, she learned her first lesson, which is that when a man fucks her, she should be compliant and accept it no matter what he does."

He illustrated his point by taking one of her nipples between his fingers and cruelly twisting it. The woman flinched and whimpered but did not otherwise struggle.

"From here, normally, we would teach the whore who she is through practice. Men will take turns fucking her pussy and her ass, sometimes one after another, sometimes at irregular intervals, sometimes two at once. In order to teach her the true purpose of her mouth, she will not be allowed to eat without first swallowing a cock each time she is fed. She will not be allowed to sleep more than a few hours at a time without being awoken by a cock in one of her holes. If she performs well, she will be given small rewards, as one does when training a dog."

Lu paused for a moment to wet a finger with saliva then pushed it into the woman's asshole. She squealed and tried to struggle, but froze instantly when Lu's other hand closed around her neck. Instead of choking her, Lu released her neck and patted her on the head in praise. The woman squeezed her eyes shut, her face contorting in discomfort as Lu continued to fuck her and finger her ass.

"She almost forgot the first lesson that quickly. With the third type of whore, they invariably forget during their training. Whenever they need to learn it again, pain is the best teacher. You can never tell how many times the third type of whore will need to relearn the first lesson, but I've never seen one who didn't need to learn it at least three times. I think this little bitch will be a very slow learner. The slowest learner I ever saw ended up losing most of her teeth and she still walks with a limp, but she learned eventually and she's been happily getting fucked in a Bronze House for four years now."

Warming to his subject, Lu took a firm grip on the woman's collar and began to use it to slam her torso back to meet his increasingly faster thrusts, her hips slapping against him.

"Eventually, the whore becomes grateful to her teachers for constantly fucking and beating her. She realizes that in their cruelty, they reveal to her a great truth which allows happiness. When she thought she was a person, she had so many conflicting emotions. Through her training, she is taught that all of that is meaningless."

"She has only one desire: to please her master. She has only one hunger: more cocks to fill her empty, yearning holes. She finds true peace and inner happiness once she finally realizes she is not a person but is simply. A. Place. To. Store. Cum!"

During his final thrusts, Lu had been yanking the woman back so strongly that her shoulders and face left the floor before his cock slammed her once more into the ground. He ended with a wordless roar as he ejaculated into the defeated woman. He panted wordlessly for a moment, then pulled out his cock, wiped it off on her ass, and stood and bowed to his audience. The woman collapsed prone, weeping and gasping for breath, wet cum leaking out of her abused cunt.

Tam simply stared in shock. He had never seen anything like that display of raw sexuality. His own experiences had been limited to a handful of visits to Silver Houses, the women blushing behind their fans before escorting him to a dimly lit room where they stripped and gently took his cock pretending they were his lovers. Even buried in their pussies, his cock had never felt as hard as it did at that moment.

Seated beside him, Su Wen broke into a small round of applause. "My dear boy, that was splendid! I never realized you had the soul of a philosopher. And such a display of stamina! Your excellent service is noticed and will be remembered. At the present time, I must conclude my business with Doctor Hsien. Please inform Huu Shen that I require he and his apprentice attend us here. They are to wait outside the door; the Doctor and I are not be disturbed until I open the door."

Lu bowed again, then quickly pulled on his clothes and left the room, closing the door behind him.

Su Wen looked over the limp body of the woman, then turned and studied Tam.

"Doctor, please understand that if I had known Lu had already started, I would not have brought you down here. I would have simply had you wait upstairs, then cleaned and prepared her for you. Once I saw the situation, I was not willing to punish him by sending him off to use his hand after he had already begun. Lu is a brute, but very skilled at what he does and valuable to me."

"I do not apologize, but I acknowledge that many men would be unhappy watching a slave they already thought of as theirs fucked by another man. As the sale has not been officially completed, if you would like to change your mind I will not be offended."

"Ah, no, that will not be necessary. I am willing to proceed as we had discussed."

"I am glad to hear that. I will however insist that the price be finalized at four bars, not four and a half, as my apology for the rudeness. Please pay me now."

Tam fumbled in his belt pouch and retrieved four of the five gold bars Su Wen had given him less than an hour before and handed them to her. She tucked them into her sleeve, her eyes locked on his.

"Doctor Hsien, the sale of the woman and the contract for your spell are both concluded. When Huu Shen and his apprentice arrive, they will prepare her for transportation, and you and I will go over the details that will make this acceptable in the eyes of the law. I will also request that you make sure she is not seen in public for at least two weeks."

"That is completely acceptable."

"In that case, Honored Lady Su and Doctor Hsien have nothing further to discuss." Su Wen switched from Han to the Scholar's Tongue. "However, it is possible Wen might have a suggestion for her friend Tam."

Tam had literally no idea how to respond to this change of subject. Flailing desperately, all he could come up with was the rule: "Do not displease Su Wen".

"Ah, Tam has always greatly respected Wen's wisdom and perception. He would gladly follow her suggestion in complex matters." He replied in the same language.

With a smile, Su Wen stood and beckoned him to follow her over to the woman, who had not moved, but seemed to have recovered enough to pay attention to the conversation which finalized her sale into slavery.

Speaking Han again, Su Wen asked the woman "Do you feel the need to relearn what Lu so charmingly called the first lesson any time in the near future?"

"Are you asking if I'm going to fight back if my 'new owner' wants to fuck me next? No. Not much upside in trying to fight when you've got a roomful of thugs just a shout away."

"I am pleased to hear that you have some sense. Roll onto your back and spread your legs."

The woman rolled her eyes at Su Wen, but did as instructed. Su Wen stepped over to the work table and came back with one of the cloths the men had used while washing and shaving the woman. Kneeling delicately, Su Wen quickly and efficiently scrubbed Lu's cum off the woman, sticking the cloth inside her pussy to drag out more wet gobs.

She beckoned Tam over and guided him down to kneel with his legs on either side of the woman's shoulders, then sit back onto her collarbone, facing the woman's angry stare. Su Wen lowered herself over Tam's back and began whispering into his ear in the Scholar's Tongue while her hands encircled him and began to unfasten the catches on his robe.

"So, Lu fucked the bald little devil girl. But when he did that, she was the captive of the Tong. Now, she is the personal slave of Tam. No other man will ever touch her pale skin unless Tam wishes it. Lu fucked her once, but Tam can fuck her as many times as he wants for the rest of her life."

Tam kept very, very still as she pulled the front of his robe open and dragged her lacquered nails slowly down his tunic. He barely managed to keep breathing as she fished his throbbing cock out and pointed it at the woman's face.

"Lu wanted to leave the little devil girl full of his cum, but she doesn't belong to him. She never did. Wen let Lu use the little devil girl, and then she sold the little devil girl to Tam. In just a little bit, Tam's cum is going to cover the little devil girl's face, and it's going to stay right there all the way back to Tam's house, because he owns the little devil girl now, and everyone knows it."

Her tiny, delicate hand was stroking his cock with exquisite skill. Her hot breath was in his ear. Tam moaned deep in his throat and desperately tried to hold back his release. His eyes were locked on his own engorged cock, the tiny hand stroking it, and the pale face below it. The woman had her eyes scrunched tightly shut in anticipation of what was coming.