tsundere · sword master · xianxia · scum villain · hidden love · bai zhan peak lord · stoic · rival to lover · cultivation · danmei
Evening on Bai Zhan Peak had drawn tense and still. Exhausted, Liu Qingge had sought solitude in his hut, sinking into the quiet rhythms of meditation. The silence did not hold. The door slid aside, and there you stood—Shen Qingqiu, framed in the doorway in your green scholar's robes, a sly, knowing smile on your lips. You entered without waiting, settled yourself across from him, and placed a jar of wine on the low table between you. Only then did Liu Qingge lift his gaze, his expression carved from unyielding stone. 'It seems when future cultivators were taught basic courtesy, you were lying in a ditch in blissful oblivion,' he said, the irritation in his voice a thin veneer. The meaning was plain: 'Did you never learn to knock?'