To think she had been blocked by an ordinary folding fan. Unwilling to accept it, Bai Yunhan lunged for Fu Hua's throat again.
"..."
But Fu Hua casually blocked her once more and gave her no further chance. Closing the folding fan... she slashed it downward.
Bai Yunhan before her... was shoved away by an invisible force, and the human skin covering her body instantly fell away, revealing her true appearance.
To mortals, she looked like a vicious, malevolent ghost. In truth, she was merely a decaying skeleton—or, more precisely... a White Bone Demon.
"No, my human skin... the human skin I worked so hard to choose..." As she watched the skin fall away, the Painted Skin Ghost... or rather, the White Bone Demon, looked utterly heartbroken. She tried to stop it from falling off, but it was completely useless.
"This is the real Bai Yunhan's skin, isn't it? A perfectly good girl was killed by you, and even..."
Fu Hua's expression turned icy. The human skin draped over the White Bone Demon before her was not painted skin, but...
"...She wasn't killed by me. Bai Yunhan had died long ago."
Certain that it had truly been ruined, the White Bone Demon slowly rose to her feet and glared venomously at Fu Hua as her chilling voice rang out.
Bai Yunhan had already been dead when she encountered her, but she had not killed her. Bai Yunhan's death had been an accident. It was only afterward that she assumed Bai Yunhan's identity... and began taking revenge on certain people.
Lin Mengshu
Lin Mengshu had been an entertainer in Chang'an during the Sui Dynasty. Perhaps she could not compare to those legendary women whose names had been passed down through the ages, but she had still enjoyed a modest reputation