Chapter 982: Jiang Ran Comes to the Tattoo Studio

After finishing these three, the Trendy Young Woman was still choosing.

But this time, she looked for a while and still couldn’t find a design she was really satisfied with.

The Boss said, “Where are you thinking of getting it? I can recommend something.”

The Trendy Young Woman said, “I want one on my back. A full-back piece.”

The Boss’s eyes widened. “Are you sure?”

“Of course! I definitely want a full-back piece. Otherwise, how am I supposed to show off in front of my friends?! These few temporary tattoos just aren’t enough.”

“Fine, then. I’ll recommend one for you.”

The Boss flipped to the last few pages of the catalog he had brought out for the Trendy Young Woman and picked a design.

It was pink, featuring a cartoon character: a beautiful flower fairy.

The moment the Trendy Young Woman saw it, stars practically shot from her eyes.

“This one! I want this one!!!”

“Mm, all right. But first, you’ll need to bare your back so I can take a look.”

The Trendy Young Woman didn’t hesitate. She took off her black tight clothing, revealing her snow-white back.

Of course, the Trendy Young Woman was wearing underwear.

Even if she was generous, she couldn’t be that generous.

Besides, the Boss had already drawn the curtains over the shopfront and everything else.

The Boss began examining the Trendy Young Woman’s back. Although he claimed he only needed a look to determine where to place the design and how large it should be, so he could make it perfect and give her the result she wanted, his eyes were clearly sizing up and admiring her snow-white back. He wasn’t really doing it just to figure out how to apply the temporary tattoo.

But strangely, even though the Boss was obviously examining and admiring her, there was no lustful desire for the opposite sex in his eyes.

There was only pure appreciation.

Before long, however, he spotted a large, pale birthmark on the lower right side of the Trendy Young Woman’s back. It ruined the beauty of her whole back.

The Trendy Young Woman seemed to sense the intense gaze on her back and urged him, “Boss, have you decided yet?”

The Boss replied with something completely unrelated: “You have a pretty big birthmark on your back.”

The Trendy Young Woman was in a hurry. “Will it affect the tattoo?”

“No.”

“All right, I’ll do it for you now.”

The Boss then began preparing to cover her entire back with the design.

He worked with great skill and finished in less than ten minutes.

The Trendy Young Woman looked at the tattoo photo of her back, then stood in front of the Floor-length Mirror in the shop and looked back over her shoulder. She was very pleased. After taking a bunch of selfies, she got dressed, paid the Boss, and prepared to leave. Before going, of course, she repeatedly stressed one thing.

If any of her friends or anyone else asked whether it was a temporary tattoo or a real one, he had to tell them it was real. The Boss smiled and agreed, promising not to reveal their secret.

Perhaps afraid that the Boss might eventually let it slip, the Trendy Young Woman gave him another kiss, as reassurance for herself.

The Trendy Young Woman left the tattoo studio.

The smile on the Boss’s face as he stood inside the shop gradually faded.

He returned to where he had been before, to the space behind the tattoo studio.

The space was very simple.

The Boss went to his work area.

He looked up at a piece of snow-white skin hanging on the wall.

The skin was very white. And smooth.

Its pores were tiny, and it felt wonderfully soft to the touch. No matter how he looked at it or touched it, it seemed just like human skin.

It really was human skin, and it was the skin from someone’s back, cut off in one intact piece.

Moreover, the owner of this skin had been a very young woman. Otherwise, it couldn’t have been so tender, with skin so smooth.

After staring at the human skin for over a minute, the Boss went through a doorway to another place. It was another small room, and many pieces of human back skin hung on its walls, each covered in all kinds of painted designs.

Most common were the magnificent, exquisite images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas covering the backs.

These were human-skin thangkas.

Something that had been very popular among the rulers of ancient Tibet.

Every one of them had been made by this Boss.

They were all his works.

He kept some here to admire, but mostly he sold them for profit to wealthy people and collectors who appreciated them.

What the Trendy Young Woman hadn’t known was that the pale birthmark on her back had saved her life.

If it weren’t for that birthmark, the Boss would have taken a liking to the skin on her back.

And once he took a liking to someone, that meant death.

After all, could anyone survive being skinned alive?

……

Alice Apartment.

Jiang Ran was still wrapped in thick white bandages, especially around his head.

He was already completely used to getting injured every so often, and badly enough to need a trip to the hospital and be wrapped up like a mummy or half a mummy.

As long as he didn’t die, that was all that mattered. As for whether his injuries would leave any aftereffects, he hadn’t noticed anything yet.

It was now ten thirty in the morning.

Jiang Ran appeared in the bike shed at Alice Apartment and got on his electric bike.

He twisted the throttle and rode out through the gates of Alice Apartment. Then he followed the road, turning left and right and going straight, riding for around forty or fifty minutes.

He arrived at a rather deserted street.

He took out his phone and checked the map.

This was the right place. He followed the directions until he reached a shop tucked into a corner.

The shop was called Ghost Face Tattoo Studio.

He parked outside, looked up at the sign, and thought that this was his first time visiting a tattoo shop.

The shop was open. He pushed the door open.

A wave of fragrance washed into Jiang Ran’s nostrils.

Following the source of the scent, Jiang Ran soon spotted a lovely figure with her back to him.

She was getting a tattoo.

Jiang Ran walked over and stood nearby.

He looked down at the man in the shop, who was tattooing the lovely figure.

The tattoo was on her arm.

It wasn’t a picture, but a line of text: “I will always love Jack.”

There was also a line of English beneath the Chinese, which probably meant the same thing.

Jiang Ran looked at it, his face twisting with disgust.

So many young couples fell madly in love and got each other’s names tattooed on their bodies to show their feelings and affection. But after they broke up, those tattoos became terribly awkward.

Someone suddenly stood beside her.

The lovely figure had been watching her phone while getting tattooed. She looked up.

She saw Jiang Ran, especially his face.

At first, she didn’t react much and only frowned. But the next moment, she sprang to her feet, interrupting the man’s tattooing and making him jump.

Jiang Ran was startled too.

He stared at the lovely figure in front of him, completely bewildered.