The Art of the Enchanting Beauty

The protagonist, Han Chen, is a senior at Chengnan No. 1 High School. He's poor and taciturn, with the looks of a campus heartthrob but a heart as still as water. The day the school belle, Lin Xue, transferred in and took the seat beside him, he was busy figuring out his evening shift carrying plates at a barbecue stall. From then on, the school belle, a policewoman, a village beauty, the school nurse, and a mysterious female teacher took turns entering his life. Beautiful women from every walk of life flirted with him, but he always wore an expression that said, "What does that have to do with me?" This made every boy at school grind his teeth with envy, and gave local thugs an excuse to pick a fight.

But Han Chen isn't a pushover. The surviving pages of the Green Satchel Manual left behind by his grandfather let him master both medicine and martial arts. The stray cat "Coal Ball" is actually a young Pixiu, an ancient seal lies beneath the old pagoda tree in the south of the city, and his parents, missing for many years, are waiting for him to enter the game on a vast chessboard buried beneath thirteen cities.

This is an urban fable about cultivating humanity instead of immortality, and breaking free of shackles instead of severing emotional ties. Demonic beasts run rampant, great clans scheme against one another, masters of medicine and martial arts clash, and monsters lurk in the shadows. Every scene that would make a lecher swallow hard is just everyday life to Han Chen, as commonplace as oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar. What he truly has to face has never been the beautiful women throwing themselves at him, but the absurdity and malice of the entire world.

Absurd humor, a nonstop stream of satisfying moments, and a million-word ensemble cast of beautiful women: an epic rise that begins with the school belle and ends with all the worlds.