Hua

The Huas are a people from the novel The Langya List, the show Nirvana in Fire and the manhua.

They were exterminated by Liang three decades before the story. Many women from noble families were made servants in Liang, including the former princess Xuanji.

Novel
Qin Banruo leads a small group of spies, concubines in officials' manors and courtesans in Red Sleeves House.

Show
In the show, Princess Linglong is said to have helped the Emperor gain the throne during his rebellion. She is the birth mother of Xiao Jinghuan.

More Hua operatives are shown than in the novel, particularly in the inner palace, where xiao-Xin is a Hua, and several other Hua maids are shown when their network is dismantled and they are dismissed from service.