Liaozhai: the Scholar Died Three Days Later Due to His Painted Skin

The scholar Shen Ci died three days later. After failing, he found that his classmates who returned from high school seemed to be a different person. The old wounds were gone, the handwriting had changed, and even the look in his eyes was as unfamiliar as looking at a dead person. That night, words appeared on a piece of paper, condemning him to death in three days. And Shen Ci saw with his own eyes that the rookie talent that everyone admired slowly revealed his face under the lamp. In order to survive, Shen Ci could only continue to investigate. But the deeper he investigated, the more he discovered that the most terrifying thing in the world was never the monster. The painted skin steals the name, the ghost contract locks the soul, the ghost book changes the life span, the bones are buried in the fox village, and the demon is raised in the court. Nie Xiaoqian is not a female ghost just waiting for someone to rescue her, and Ying Ning is not a fox girl who can only laugh. Those strange stories that have been circulated in the world are never stories, but judgments written to all sentient beings. Someone wants to write this world into a fairy tale. Scholars will be crazy, female ghosts will be resentful, fox demons will be in love, honest officials will die, and common people will suffer. What Shen Ci had to do was to tear up the book starting from his own fate of "die in painting in three days."