Her head full of white hair was messy like boiling water, scattered and unruly. Beneath that tangled hair, her aged face was covered with deep, mottled wrinkles even more weathered than the tree bark. Her thin, dry hands gripped a skull-headed cane polished to a shine, resembling a witch from 18th-century Europe.
“Xiaoji”
Moxiaoji stared unblinkingly as her grandmother rose tremblingly from the ground, leaning on her cane. Beneath her sunken eye sockets, her grayish bulging eyes, like those of a dead fish, bore an indescribable eeriness as they fixed on Moxiaoji standing beside the pine tree.
Moxiaoji knew nothing about the grandmother who had raised her.
For instance, no matter where Moxiaoji secretly stood in the courtyard, her grandmother would immediately know she had returned home. Sometimes she wondered if her grandmother might truly be a witch.
Her grandmother’s gaze on Moxiaoji grew increasingly strange. Though Moxiaoji was accustomed to this look since childhood, she still felt goosebumps all over. She remembered how her curious classmates would always be scared away by her grandmother’s terrifying eyes, unanimously saying that her grandmother’s dead fish eyes looked like those of a man-eating old witch.
Under her grandmother’s compelling gaze, Moxiaoji reluctantly and slowly walked into the wooden house, took off her shoes, and obediently knelt before the table like her grandmother had, though her eyes secretly wandered, looking at the hanging deity.
However she looked at it, he didn’t seem like an immortal at all, yet made her kneel and burn incense for him daily. In her heart, Moxiaoji cursed his ancestors eight generations back.
Look at him – what about him resembles an immortal, except for being slightly more handsome than an ordinary person?
Evil Youth
A beautiful face, sword-like eyebrows sweeping into his temples, narrow elongated eyes, black eyes carrying an evil spirit, with an upward-curving elegant angle, a straight and attractive nose bridge, thin lips as beautiful as jade, black hair tied up with a jade hairpin, wearing a white, snow-like flowing silk robe, with a white belt of the same color around his waist.
