Evil Spirit

I've hit a wall. The plot of The Half-Demon Era keeps circling around in my mind, but I just can't get it down on paper... While sorting through my documents, I found this very old short piece. I suppose it's the earliest rough draft of Shen Yi's backstory. I think I posted it on TOM.com, but later forgot my password and stopped posting there. (Sigh! I seem to be forever forgetting passwords. My first ID on Under the Banyan Tree was the same.)

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