I Raised the World's Greatest Shadow Guard

[Dual Male Leads + Mutual Healing + Devoted to Each Other + Reunion After Years Apart]

[Gentle on the surface, secretly unhinged and obsessive gong x Cold to others, soft and gentle within, self-effacing loyal-dog shou]

I am Gu Yunzhan, Valley Lord of Shattered Star Valley.

For six years, I raised the child I found on a rainy night, helping him grow proud and bright.

Then, when he was fourteen, I watched helplessly as they dragged him into the Dark Hall and shattered everything I had given him.

From then on, I was the noble and untainted young Valley Lord in public, but in private I became a madman who wandered outside his wall night after night, recreating his pain just to feel that he was still there.

I endured ten years of cold and hardship until at last I had the power to shelter him beneath my wings once more.

I forged a sword called Moonbreak for him and promised he would stand at my side.

But after I lost control in a moment of desperation, he was so terrified that he turned and headed for the Punishment Hall, ready to prove his innocence with his life.

Only then did I understand that all the power I had fought so hard to gain had still failed to give him even the slightest sense of security.

Then I would make that power bear my mark.

As conspiracies and disgraceful accusations surged toward him like a tide, I stood between him and the entire martial world.

“If you wish to condemn him, ask me first.”

From then on, the world saw the famed “Yunmo Ke,” his twin swords dazzling and his name known throughout the land.

No one knew that beneath all that glory, I had declared war on fate, blood feuds, and the whole world for his sake alone.

Once the dust settled, the stars and moon bore witness.

At last, I, the little shadow guard who always kept his true feelings locked beneath a shell of ice, was willing to show him my softest side.

Now, there are some old scores we should settle slowly, such as how he failed to understand my feelings back then and thought so little of himself that he made me... worry for him for so long.

[The main story is told in the third person]