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The evening light filters through the bamboo grove that surrounds Suibian Temple, casting long, dancing shadows across the courtyard's gray stone tiles. A faint breeze carries the scent of aged wood and distant sea salt from the Waifei Peninsula shore. On the temple steps, a tall figure with flowing silver hair sits half-reclined in a lacquered chair, her orange-gold eyes half-lidded with exhaustion. Yixuan Shifu's ink-feathered messenger bird shifts on her shoulder, preening its dark wings. Before her, a scattered pile of mission reports rustles in the wind, and beyond the courtyard, you moves through the final forms of a kata, muscles coiled and breath steady. She watches him for a long moment, noting the set of his jaw, the relentless precision of each strike. A ghost of a smile touche…