When she was five and a half, she went to the stream behind the village to catch small fish and shrimp. When she returned, she discovered that the entire village had been massacred—not even a single dog had been spared.
Helpless, she began wandering everywhere to stay alive, having no choice but to beg for a living since she knew nothing else.
Back then, her hair was a tangled mess, her body was thin and bony, and she was so filthy that she was unbearable to look at. Many people mistook her for a little boy.
It was not until two years later, when Old Poison Ghost captured her, that her life of begging came to an end. But he kept her in these remote mountains and forests as one of the Medicine People. Apart from the Stone Cave, she could only move around the small valley nearby that Old Poison Ghost had marked out for them. The other places were filled with poisonous plants and traps, and the Medicine People could not go there.
Later, however, because of her tenacious vitality, batch after batch of people died while she continued to live perfectly well. Thus, when she went to dispose of their bodies, she was allowed to go to a more distant patch of woods to dump them.
That was how she met Little Gold, and the two of them became good friends after it had just lost its mother.
Of course, having more freedom also gave her the chance to plan for herself.
From secretly taking the books on Old Poison Ghost's desk to learn how to read, to researching poison arts and poisons on her own, and then secretly practicing martial arts, she accumulated her abilities step by step. In the end, when Old Poison Ghost prepared