Cheong was utterly baffled.

“What is this? You’re saying you don’t want to be hated, but it sounds more like, ‘If you survive, go ahead and try.’ What kind of deal is this?”

“Couldn’t you ask me to do something more reasonable? Earlier, you said it’d be just a little bit, but do you even know what ‘a little bit’ means?”

“Oh my. Couldn’t the owner of Neungpami-bo easily slip away on their own? You don’t necessarily have to come to Hangzhou. Even if someone turns into a jiangshi, it would only be a change in their form. Their name, …