Question about Lakan & the Madam of the Verdigris House
I'm rewatching the anime with my husband & he just asked a question that I've wondered about as well. Why did the Madam try to keep Lakan from buying Fengxian? He tells the Madam that he's willing to pay whatever. She keeps trying to get him away from Fengxian & to go back & buy one of the other courtesans. It's not until Meimei intervenes, that the Madam backs off. Is the Madam worried that if he buys Fengxian out it will damage the Verdigris House because it will become publicly known that a syphilitic patient was being cared for on the brothel's property? (I don't know if it actually was a secret that Fengxian was being cared for there, so I could be way off with this.) Or is it a more personal reason (i.e. the Madam still holds a grudge against him for what happened to both Fengxian & Verdigris House when Fengxian got pregnant)? It's clearly not an issue of money.
I have searched this sub (so if the question has been asked & answered I simply missed it in my search), watched the anime several times, read the light novels & the Nekokurage manga & I cannot figure out an answer to this question.