>>56776887“Bie You Ling” (鳖幽灵) is one of the turtle ghosts that appear in Chinese legends. Its upper body is that of a beautiful and seductive woman, while its lower body is that of a soft-shelled turtle.
Bie You Ling’s behavior is quite mysterious. No one knows for sure whether it is friendly or hostile towards humans!? Because everyone who sees its truly terrifying appearance will run away without thinking about their lives, or the monster will run away on its own, so no one has ever encountered it long enough to observe its behavior.
A scholar named “Xu” lived in Beijing in his employer’s house. One evening, while he was looking at the house across the pond that was not known to be inhabited, through the window of his room, he saw a woman with long, flowing black hair standing in front of the house.
The woman was very beautiful, but she was dressed in a rather old-fashioned way. However, what he saw made him very obsessed, so he asked his students who the woman was, but all of them unanimously answered that no one lived in that house.
When he could not stand his curiosity anymore, he waited until he saw the woman again before quietly going to her house. It was then that he met a monster with the upper body of a beautiful woman. The lower part is a turtle!?
He was shocked by what he saw, but the monster seemed to be more shocked and jumped into the pond. After that, they searched the pond, but the monster was nowhere to be found.
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