Episode 001August 12, 2026
蒲松龄 · Pu Songling1:27
Tonight’s tale
The Painted Skin
画皮
A lonely scholar shelters a beautiful runaway. When a Taoist warns that death is already at his door, one glance through a locked window reveals the terrible craft beneath her borrowed face.
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Sources & adaptation notes
This episode is a concise modern retelling, not a verbatim reading. Its sequence follows Pu Songling’s original Classical Chinese story and was checked against Herbert A. Giles’s public-domain 1880 translation.