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Elegant life, they said. Yes, that was what the people of the bygone era called it... living an elegant life.
Of course, people also held extremely unrealistic fantasies about masculinity back then. Not only was a man expected to down a keg of wine and chase after the skirts of every pretty woman, such a behavior was actively recommended if he wanted to be acknowledged as a 'real man' in that era.
It might be unimaginable now, but back then, a man in a lofty position like the demon cult leader not drooling after women was seen as a deep character flaw.
Which was a problem considering Kang Jin-Ho just couldn't bring himself to... 'like' the women of that era.
A woman was all about her looks? Kang Jin-Ho could decisively say that wasn't the case.
On average, the outer appearances of Zhongyuan's women fell behind that of their modern-day counterparts. No one would argue against this. Since getting a good, balanced nutritional diet was difficult back then, many people didn't physically develop correctly, and the much-lower standards of hygiene meant the womanly charm would often be buried under layers of dirt.
Of course, you'd still get those anomalies, the exceptions to the norm. Even back then, quite a lot of women were beautiful enough to cause a huge stir in the modern era. And the women were also incomparably more docile and submissive than their modern-day counterparts.
Even so, Kang Jin-Ho couldn't view them as women. Any physical attraction he might have felt from their looks would dissipate like melting snow...
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