Hua

The Huas are a people from the novel The Langya List (introduced chapter 42 of the webnovel), 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.

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

Adaptations
They are mentioned for the first time in episode 8 of the 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.