In Cangcheng, Just a Cloud Knight

My name is Wan Qiu, an utterly ordinary Cloud Knight aboard the Xianzhou. My hometown is the most prosperous of all the Xianzhou, a magnificent place known as Cangcheng. Also, a white-haired, red-eyed girl lives near my home. When I'm on leave, I sometimes see her, though she looks underage, carrying a basket of groceries back home. If our eyes meet, I wave and exchange a few casual words with her. She nods back, and after a little small talk, heads inside. I thought life would go on like that, one day after another.

Until the day I fell to mara and was put down by my fellow Cloud Knights.

But before that day arrived, I saw the demon star Luohou rushing toward us all, wailing and singing, with burning mountains and earth in its wake. In that moment, I understood that I probably wouldn't live to see the day I "died peacefully of old age."

..."My name is Wan Qiu. The name comes from the line, 'A thousand peaks clear beneath the brilliant sun, autumn's freshness stretching for ten thousand miles.'"

"And you?"