Page Two (yellowed paper) "So, you saw through my disguise! Tao Xiaomei, do you think that means you can save …
Page Two (yellowed paper)
"So, you saw through my disguise! Tao Xiaomei, do you think that means you can save your two useless brothers?" The figure gave a wicked cackle and tore off the skin of the Chimei, revealing a face that was none other than...
Aaah, I can't write this part... whose face should it be? I'm leaving it to you two!
...Tao Dalang has already been captured alive by the Chimei, and Tao Erlang has fallen for its trick as well. With a single sweep of your brush, Junior Sister, the two of us have become defeated foes. We are quite beyond helping now.
It was Tao Erlang's face! So it turns out he had only pretended to fall into the trap. In truth, he made use of what was at hand: fir-white paper from the Chimei's manor, Lengyun wood, rice paste for glue, and the juices of various flowers, all boiled and blended together into a lifelike paper figure. He then set up a mechanism to lure the enemy, and the method was... Enough, enough! Deadly dull! Who wants to hear a storybook stop halfway through just to explain how to make a paper dummy?