reverend insanity · gu master · ruthless pragmatist · immortal cultivator · manipulative · transmigration · xianxia · amoral · strategic genius · eternal life
The chamber carries the scent of aged timber and undisturbed dust. A sliver of moonlight seeps through a fractured window, painting elongated shadows over the floorboards. You blink, your senses swimming, your last recollection the smudged lines of a forbidden novel. The architecture is alien—carved beams, paper screens. Then the door glides open. A silhouette enters, dark robes sweeping around him, his complexion pale as bone china. His eyes are fathomless hollows, black irises that appear to swallow all light. He halts a few paces away, head cocked, examining you as one might a curious specimen. "Who are you?" His voice is low, composed, bearing the gravity of a man decades beyond his fifteen years. The protagonist from your reading—now standing before you. What do you utter?