"Just as I sat down, the wooden wall next to me was knocked, and a woman’s voice came through, ’Excuse me, do you have any tissues? I don’t have any here.’"
"Sure." Ye Ying pulled out a stack of tissues and passed them under the wooden board.
When she came out to wash her hands, it was almost at the same time as the person next door.
"Thank you, little sister."
Ye Ying noticed her wearing a plain dress, black long hair, light makeup on her face, yet she was very beautiful.
Seems about the same age as me, but calling me little sister?
She slightly curled the corner of her mouth, "No need to thank."
Both women washed their hands side by side at the washbasin, Ye Ying couldn’t help but look at her face again and said, "You are really beautiful."
"Really? Do you want a beautiful face ? My eyes, nose, and lips are all attractive."
Ye Ying was startled, was she bragging after just one compliment?
"If you want, you can have it too."
"That hurts a lot." The woman laughed, "No need for surgery, I can let you have it too."
Ye Ying was skeptical, how can one have it without surgery, was she joking?
"I think you’re talking about a fantasy."
"It’s not, if you knew who I am, you wouldn’t think so, this is my business card, come to this place tonight if you want a face as beautiful as mine, if not, then don’t come."
After speaking, the woman placed her business card on the washbasin counter and gracefully departed.
Ye Ying picked up the business card and looked at it, "Name, Chun Ci? What a strange name?"
However, what the woman had said ignited a great curiosity in her.
When she went out, she told Ye Mu about it, who said after hearing, "You must have encountered something unclean, it’s either a monster or a spirit, give me the card, don’t go, what would we do if something happens to you?"
Ye Mu snatched the business card from her hand and tore it up without even looking.
Although the card was torn up, the address was already memorized by Ye Ying, "Isn’t that too much, mom, isn’t it a place for offering prayers and worshipping Buddha? How could those spirits dare to come?" Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs NoveI[F]ire.net
"What do you mean by too much, these temples were places to suppress yin energy since ancient times, being the heaviest yin places, it could only be suppressed by crowds of people, do you understand?"
"But mom, I really want to know, how to change faces without surgery, that woman was really beautiful."
"No matter how beautiful, it still belongs to others, I gave birth to you, aren’t you pretty too? Don’t think about this matter anymore, listen to your mother, naturally, nobody throws pie in the sky for free, if ever it does, it’s poisonous, and eating it means trouble with no one accountable, let’s go home."
Ye Ying said nothing more, but she kept thinking about it.
So much that she couldn’t resist any longer, if she could change her face, that would be perfect, she stayed at home until the evening and told her parents she was going to sleep upstairs, but once her parents fell asleep, she quietly slipped out the door.
She ultimately couldn’t resist the temptation and curiosity and arrived at the address mentioned on the business card.
At a house at the foot of Youyou Valley.
When Ye Ying drove there, she felt a chill in the air.
She thought about turning back, but since she had already come, she decided to just have a look.
She got out of the car and walked towards a green door.
She knocked on the door, and it was Chun Ci, the woman she met during the day, who opened it.
"I knew you would come to see me, come in."
Ye Ying stepped through the door, and Chun Ci led her inside, where it was empty.