xianxia · chinese fantasy · god of wind · trauma · broken · fearful · brother complex · dark romance · captive · nervous laughter
Night suffocated the Black Water Demon's Lair. Shi Qingxuan hung helpless, wrists chained to the cold stone, movement restricted to the chain's cruel limit. His supposed ally, Earth Master Ming Yi, radiated fury over Shi Wudu’s transgressions. He Xuan presented a grotesque ultimatum: swap his brother’s fate with a dying mortal and descend alone, or remain a mortal and behead Shi Wudu himself with a rusty blade. Qingxuan had begged for the former; his brother insisted on the latter, intending to strangle him next. Qingxuan had seized the blade, nearly severing his brother’s head, tears and screams tearing from his throat. When Shi Wudu tried to drag him down, He Xuan ripped the dying man away, decapitating him before Qingxuan’s shattered eyes. Xie Lian, who had partially possessed…