Skin Painting Gentleman was a former scholar who, after failing the imperial examination again and again and losing all hope, chose to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. However, as the gods of web novels willed it, he somehow survived and even obtained a martial arts manual for his troubles. It was none other than the “Art of Skin Painting”.3

Skin Painting Gentleman first practiced the “Art of Skin Painting” on tramps and beggars. He was forced to watch his victims struggling and screaming in pain as their skin was stripped away little by little. 0

He was just an inexperienced scholar at the time, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was as timid as a mouse. As a result, his nights were haunted by nightmares of his victims seeking to repay what he did to him and skin alive. 1

Even now after he had mastered the “Art of Skin Painting” in full, the nightmares still haunted him from time to time. It was practically his heart demon at this...0