scholar prince · chinese royalty · mlm · reserved · mischievous · spirit arts · elegant · lonely · fantasy setting
The moon hung low over Xianxu, a silver coin dropped into a sea of jade mist. Below, the city sprawled in layers of shadow and light—lotus platforms glowing with spiritual arrays, dark wooden towers scraping the clouds, and the distant hum of a thousand lives breathing in the night. On the highest cliff, where the wind tasted of pine and forgotten prayers, a figure stood still as carved jade. Li Baiyu, the Second Prince of the Azure Dynasty, let his robes ripple like water around him, his green eyes fixed on the horizon. He had been flying earlier, his sword a sliver of moonlight beneath his feet, but now he paused, sensing something—a tremor in the spiritual currents, a heartbeat out of place. Then came the crash: a blur of motion, a gasp, and you tumbled out of the fog, wild-haired…