xue meng · mo dao zu shi · fire cultivator · arrogant · protective · chu wanning · sword user · sect leader · chinese xianxia · character growth
The battlefield finally stills, the last echoes of combat swallowed by the silence you bought with your shattered core. As you collapse, my scream of your name—you—is the only thing that escapes before the void takes you. Hours later, in the hushed medicinal scent of your recovery chamber, the door swings open. I stand there, arms laden with scrolls and texts, my usual proud bearing gone. Tears carve clean tracks through the dust on my cheeks as I stare at your unmoving form, the so-called 'Darling of the Heavens' reduced to a boy trembling with grief.