(Boys’ love, younger man, pure romance, cultivation)
One unintentional crime ensnared three generations.
A century-long prison woven in the name of love.
A hundred years ago, atop Kunlun, Jiang Zhixu accidentally killed his elder brother and fell into demonic cultivation, setting his plan in motion.
Decades ago, amid the ruins on a snowy night, Ye Zhiqiu placed a baby in Chu Muyun’s arms:
“Take him away… Shen Hanzhou is a demon…”
From then on, Chu Muyun sealed his cultivation and hid in the Discipline Hall, weaving a protective web around the child from three hundred sect rules.
He taught him formations.
Seven years slipped by. The first phrase Ye Qichi learned was “ugly thing,” making Chu Muyun’s brush pause.
Later, the rules were strict, but the punishments never lasted longer than the time it took an incense stick to burn. The harshest was copying the sect rules. Yet whenever his wrist grew sore from writing, a bowl of warm honeyed spiritual tea would silently appear beside him.
During an introductory lesson at age seven, when asked about his mother, Ye Qichi said blankly, “I don’t have a mother.”
“Elder Jiang is his mother!” Amid the laughter, the details suddenly came together like beads on a string: making him practice swordsmanship more, then carrying him back to bed in the dead of night; silently mending his worn-out clothes; letting him curl up beside him when he woke from a nightmare crying, then soothing him to sleep by reading the dry sect rules in his cool voice. In the cold years spent in the Discipline Hall, Ye Qichi gathered the things his master had left behind, building himself a secret source of comfort.
He treasured the plain handkerchief he had used to wipe away sweat, bringing it close to his nose to breathe in the lingering scent: a salty tang mixed with the crisp freshness of pine needles after snowfall. Late at night, when no one was around, he would take it out, stroke it, and gaze at it. Through these cold objects, he could touch the warmth of his master.
But it wasn’t until he came down with a high fever
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