Although she did not take the opportunity Fu Hua spoke of seriously at all, in her current situation, she had no right to choose.
After hesitating for a moment, she still told Fu Hua her real name.
Red Jade was not her real name, but a stage name she had used in the pleasure house. Many women in such places gave themselves simple, pleasant-sounding stage names.
She had taken the name Red Jade a few years ago...
She looked at the "man" before her, who had made her heart flutter before but now made her want to bite him, hesitated... and spoke her original name. "Ge Ye."
"What? Ge... Ge Ye?"
Fu Hua stared at the young woman in astonishment, as though she thought she had misheard.
The name Ge Ye could not exactly be called renowned, but neither was it unfamiliar.
When people familiar with Eastern Island yokai and onmyoji heard the name Ge Ye, the first person they thought of was the mother of the famed onmyoji, Abe no Seimei.
The Tale of Ge Ye recorded the sorrowful love story of Ge Ye, a "white fox immortal" who had taken the form of a beautiful woman, meeting Seimei's father before leaving without farewell six years after giving birth to Seimei. She was Eastern Island's most famous female lead in a romance and intermarriage between a human and a fox of another kind.
But in the story, Ge Ye was supposed to be a fox immortal who had cultivated for many years in Shinoda Forest of Izumi Province in Eastern Island. So how could this...
Or was it merely a case of the same name? After all, Abe no Seimei would not be born for another two or three hundred years, and they were not even in the same