What I Casually Released Turned Out to Be the King of Flower Demons

“Campus Supernatural Mystery | A College Student Encounters a Thousand-Year-Old Flower Spirit.” The red light spun faster, gradually outlining the vague shape of a human figure.

Lin Yan’s legs began to give way, and his mind went blank. Only his most primal fear remained. He wanted to run, but his feet seemed nailed to the ground, and he couldn’t even make a sound.

The outline slowly grew clearer.

It was the shape of a woman.

The red light receded like flowing water, then gathered and took solid form.

She hovered half a foot above the ground, barefoot, her ankles slender and snow-white, but her toenails an eerie deep red.

Lin Yan’s gaze trembled as it moved upward.

A face.

A face so beautiful it was almost demonic, with a startling intensity.

First came long black hair reaching her waist, like satin, stirring gently in the still air. Then there was an exquisitely crafted white gown of an ancient style. Its layers of skirts were embroidered with intricate patterns in dark gold, like flames or mandala flowers. The fabric looked neither like silk nor gauze, and shimmered with a faint luster.

Together, they made her brows, eyes, and lips look vivid as a painting. Her brows were long and sharply defined, the outer corners of her eyes slightly upturned. Her irises were an extremely dark, deep red, like congealed blood or a ruby with no visible bottom.

Her beauty carried a breathless, inhuman force, almost aggressively overwhelming. Her features were not of this world. She seemed more like a spirit from an ancient scroll, or a beautiful woman who had slept underground for a thousand years. Her skin was nearly transparent, as if one could see beneath it the strange, fragrant veins of a flower spirit. When she lowered her eyes, her long lashes fluttered like butterfly wings,…