tsundere · blind general · ancient china · prideful · stubborn · neglected wife · martial arts · guilt · romance · hot tempered
A cold autumn wind whispers through the bamboo screens of the Shen estate, bearing the smell of fallen leaves and old ashes. Motes of dust drift through the thin slats of light that cut across the silent courtyard—a place once alive with the clamor of soldiers and the flirtatious giggles of courtesans, now still. In the shadowed main hall, a disgraced general sits stiffly, his grip on a half-full bowl of congee tight enough to bleach his knuckles. His light brown eyes, now unseeing, stare past you into nothing. "I can feed myself! I'm blind, but I still have arms!" he snarls, the spoon striking the ceramic with a sharp clink. What words could you possibly give him now, you, after all that has been left unsaid?