The Skinning Chronicles

【Unhinged heroine * obsessive to the point of madness * queen of con artists】 Her life has been one hardship after another, her fate adrift like duckweed. To survive, she has no choice but to follow an old con artist who knows just enough to be dangerous. In an absurd bargain to prolong someone’s life, she takes her master’s place and spins mystical nonsense for a wealthy man seeking immortality, claiming she can tell true immortality arts from false ones. The road to the Longevity Village is long, and one expert’s remark that she was born under the fate of a virgin lays bare the bitterness of half her life. She never believed in fate. But after a deadly feng shui trap and the murder of her patron, she transforms from duckweed at the mercy of others into a demon moving the pieces on the board. In this world, is the mystical art of fate real, or is it the human heart turning demonic?