I'd spent years learning the craft, and my master always said I'd blow a hole through the mountain sooner or later, yet he still wouldn't let me leave.
Until I stole two of his most treasured possessions...
The incomplete scroll of The Stone Mountain Miscellany and the “Ugly Mirror,” a version that could copy, preview, and rewind, then slipped down the mountain in the dead of night.
But I hit trouble from the start!
At the foot of the mountain, I ran into a sinister, ugly man burying a corpse. He gripped my neck and sneered, “Meeting Miss Gu is truly a stroke of luck.”
Before long, a handsome man burst through the door to save me, except he was an idiot!
...Good grief. One was vicious and ugly, the other handsome and dim-witted.
As the most talented disciple of the 68th generation of Stone Mountain's lineage, I had an epiphany on the spot:
If I put the ugly man's brain in the handsome man's head, wouldn't I get the perfect man, with both top-tier looks and intelligence?
