The Painted Skin : hua pi ; 画皮 Chinese Breeze Graded Reader Series, Level 3,

Chinese Breeze is a large and innovative Chinese graded reader series which offers over 60 titles of enjoyable stories at eight language levels. It is designed for college and secondary school Chinese language learners, offering them a new opportunity to read for pleasure and simultaneously developing real fluency, building confidence, and increasing motivation for Chinese learning. Long long ago, while playing by the river, a scholar named Wang Sheng sees a pretty girl and takes her back to his small building where he learns. He is too happy to remember his wife at home. One day, he finds a terrible ghost sitting at his desk after he returns home from work. The ghost is putting on a skin , who then turns into that pretty girl ! Frightened Wang sheng falls down to the ground ......