Lan Xi transmigrates into a book as a minor villain, a painted-skin ghost whose mission is to seduce men with her beauty.
The trouble is, she’s hopeless at painting. Even after transmigrating, her skills remain just as bad: the faces she paints have features flying in all directions, with crooked mouths and lopsided eyes.
Every man runs at the sight of her. Each attempt at seduction ends with another terrified man fleeing, and her prospects look bleak.
Until she meets a handsome scholar in a ruined temple in the wilderness.
Wearing the freshly painted skin of an abstract beauty, she approaches him shyly.
The scholar looks up, pauses, then smiles. “Miss... you are very beautiful.”
Lan Xi rejoices inside. “He’s blind! He really is blind! I’ve finally met a handsome man who’s blind!”
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Lan Xi decides to try every day to win the scholar over.
At last, she manages to make herself his wife, but their life together is always a little strange.
The scholar never asks where she came from or tries to earn an official title. He simply often comes home late at night.
The monsters who bully Lan Xi are found dead at their doorstep the next morning.
Everyone around her says her husband is terrifying.
Passersby who walk by their home turn pale with fright and flee in disarray.
Everyone urges Lan Xi, “Run away!”
But to Lan Xi, her husband is just an ordinary scholar, and they live an ordinary life together.
Their life is a little strange, but Lan Xi thinks, “It’s so hard to find a considerate husband who’s blind. I might as well keep pretending not to notice.”
Until the day the protagonists who have been hunting her down arrive. Lan Xi thinks her identity has been exposed.
Afraid of dragging her husband into it, she grits her teeth, shoves a divorce agreement into his hands, and runs.
When they meet again, it is in the Hall of the Netherworld, where ten thousand ghosts bow their heads.
The man sits high upon a throne of dark bone, clad in black robes. His face is as familiar as ever, but his aura is murderous.
Lan Xi has long since changed into a new face, yet he recognizes her all the same.
He walks toward her step by step and pulls her into his arms. Obsession surges in his eyes, his voice at once mournful and reproachful:
“Didn’t you say... you would spend your whole life with me?”
“Why did you leave me behind and run away?”
A terrible painter of faces, the ghost heroine × the villainous Ghost King
Reader’s guide:
Not a strong female lead, not a wish-fulfillment novel
Theme: Love the true nature of your soul
In fact, I was attracted by the introduction. The first few chapters looked harmless, and I thought it was a long and sweet story. After ten chapters, the plot started to be suspenseful, and the rest is very interesting. The author's writing is very good, everyone in it is flesh and blood, and he is very good at shaping the characters. It feels like a group portrait. I would like to ask the author if he can speed up the update!!" Lan Xi stood next to him, but felt... "This is a big bug for the author~
I feel that many of the actions of the male and female protagonists are too purposeful, as if they are just to follow the plot, so it doesn't feel natural when done this way. The author's writing style is quite good, but the male and female protagonists are like puppets being manipulated to follow the plot. Especially the female protagonist, many of her actions are not very reasonable. It feels like she is selectively ignoring some obvious things in order to follow the plot.