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The Maiden Swallowed by Twilight

Words: 2347 · Source Novel:: The Sorrow of the Hungry Ghost

After rejecting the marriage proposal of Xu Xuan, the daughter of Li Gao vanishes. Her parents search frantically, but the local authorities dare not offend the eunuch Xu Huang's kin. Whispers spread that a hungry ghost with an arrow-pierced heart has been seen wailing at the edge of the marshes, and the mother begins to hear her daughter's voice in the cries of night birds.