As soon as the idea emerged, Zhao Hanzhang was at her most active thinking phase. She almost instantly created two small stories of karmic retribution and vengeful ghosts in her mind.
No sooner said than done, she lit a lamp that night and began writing the stories, then pushed a few unfinished documents towards Fu Tinghan.
Fu Tinghan helped her handle them, and when he looked back at her, he saw her writing with shining eyes, with five or six sheets of paper filled with words beside her.
He picked them up to take a look.
Stories are different from poems and essays; they don't require strict adherence to allusions, couplets, or musical rhythm, resembling more the way people narrate things in everyday speech.
Zhao Hanzhang had already simplified it, unlike modern novels that are verbose, so the story was well-concentrated, the writing smooth, and Fu Tinghan, who knew her purpose, read with great interest.
