Jiao Zhongwei naturally agreed without any hesitation.
After signing a confidentiality agreement, which stipulated she couldn't tell anyone about the stories in the book, she cradled the freshly printed volume in her hands and casually flipped through the pages. Inside, she discovered not only stories but also illustrations representing the characters, all drawn with ink brushes. With a few simple strokes, the characters' charisma was captured, but that alone wasn't enough to create Card Spirits.
She roughly skimmed through and found that the several folk tales were all very interesting and animated, covering aspects she had never understood before. Ghosts, demons?!
She was familiar with ghosts; stories about them still circulated in everyday life, mainly frightening tales of fierce spirits passed down through generations. However, these incredible legends of female ghosts in *Liao Zhai Zhi Yi* were rarely heard by her, and they undoubtedly opened up a new world for her.
