Ma Lin said, "I'm listening, and I'm full of curiosity."
"Aike, this demon, he really cares about his image, but he has a flaw—he's bald. He's particularly sensitive about it and dreads any mention of it," the Egg said.
"Lord Egg, it seems you're also bald. Your head looks just like an egg," Ma Lin said.
The Egg said, "Both he and I are bald, but everyone says my bald head is very cool and mesmerizing to girls, while his is considered sleazy and detrimental to his image, which is why it annoys him so much."
"Why is that?" Ma Lin asked.
The Egg said, "As long as you're handsome, what does being bald matter?"
Ma Lin remembered the Egg's true form, which was a goat-headed demon with bulbous eyes, a goatee, and a shiny bald head—quite the sight for sore eyes. But the demons' sense of beauty was strange; maybe the Egg's look was considered quite handsome in the eyes of his fellows.
