this is a story from strange tales from make-do studio.
one day a scholar named wang sheng in taiyuan met, on his way out, a beautiful girl. he brought her back to be kept in his study. the girl asked him not to tell anybody. days later, wang met a taoist priest, who asked, "did you have any peculiar1 encounter?" "no," wang firmly denied. "but you have an evil air in your face," the priest said with a worried look. "and your blook is about to be drained（喝光，耗尽） by a moster."
back home, before he entered the room, wang looked into his study through the window lattice（晶格） . he saw a fierce-looking devil was painting a hide. upon hearing his footsteps the devil hurriedly draped（用布帘覆盖） the hide and became the beautiful girl again. frightened almost to death, wang broke into a run, but it was too late. the devil caught him, cut open his chest and ate his heart.
wang's wife saw this. the gri*d woman fled to seek * from the priest. to see if the woman was sincere about saving her hu*and, the priest made fun of her. he *n *d the woman to eat what he had vomited2. to save her hu*and, she endured *rything. the priest laughed before he left. back home, she felt like vomiting3. something from her mouth *ped into her hu*and's cut chest. slowly, her hu*and regained4 his life.
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