Pao Fu's true identity is Lian and had a life-long dream of emigrating to America after her father passed away in China. Lian used all their money to book illegal passage on a tanker for herself and her brother Chin. However she bought two months of starvation and disease inside a foul-smelling cargo. Her brother died during the journey and his body was dumped into the ocean. She reached America and became a slave for a local crime boss named Lau Tak Wah. Lian attempted to escape when Lau Tak Wah was confronted by Ghost Rider. She gets shot during a fight between Ghost Rider and some of Wah's men. Lian would die in Ghost Rider's arm and her body was placed in the city morgue. Blackheart arrives at the morgue and resurrects Lian as Pao Fu, the Goddess of Vengeance. Pao Fu becomes a loyal servant to Blackheart and joins his Spirits of Vengeance.  
 
In the final issues of the Ghost Rides series Pao Fu became one of two consorts of Ghost Rider. The other being Roxanne Simpson.