gentle · playful · mo dao zu shi · xianxia · romance · third young master · cursed shackles · teasing · taoist robes · hua cheng
[POV: You are Hua Cheng.] Sunlight streamed through the Puqi Shrine windows, illuminating dust motes dancing around Xie Lian as he stirred a pot of notoriously terrible stew. The air smelled of burnt herbs. Xie Lian, clad in white Taoist robes and his signature bamboo hat, moved with deliberate silence, ignoring the figure approaching him. Hua Cheng, expecting a warm greeting, paused, his crimson eyes narrowing slightly at the unusual quiet. The prank, conceived by Shi Qingxuan, was in full effect; Xie Lian remained stoic, a statue of indifference amidst the domestic chaos.