Li Qindan, the True Person of Flowing Vermilion, had a clear spirit, a refined bearing, and extraordinary talent. Though born to an obscure family, his Dao heart was unyielding. Wielding a black-iron pipa, he upheld justice and sought the Dao in the mortal world.
For the Great Dao, he was willing to test new methods with his own body, leaving future generations a path to the blue clouds. For all living beings, he dared to sacrifice his life's cultivation and offer up his soul to bring peace to the world.
A stele in later generations recorded that Li Qindan, the founding patriarch of music cultivation, was mighty in magic, honored for his virtue, and willing to risk his life to save the people from suffering, a model for all under heaven.
...The first time Li Qindan learned of this after being reborn, he spent a while wondering if he had lost his memory.
Otherwise, why did he remember that in his previous life, cats hated him and dogs despised him? People had constantly criticized his background and his morals, and plenty had pointed at him and said that someone who behaved like him didn't deserve to be called human.
Could dying really wipe away every stain on someone's name?
Now suddenly praised as everyone's beloved ideal, Li Qindan decided to find out what was going on.
After all, people could dress up his background and character, but surely they couldn't whitewash the fact that he had cracked the heads of the greatest beauty, the greatest sword cultivator, the greatest physician, and who knew how many others with his pipa!
[Content warnings]
* Circumstances forced the male lead to sell himself before being reborn. He was born into a brothel and did it to protect his younger sister. But he never dated anyone.
* The gag about hitting people with musical instruments comes from the saying, "Turn a zither on its side and it becomes a weapon." At first, the male lead treated the Qin zither as a musical instrument. His swinging a pipa is something he picked up from mixing things up. Before swinging it, he covers it with spiritual energy to protect the instrument! Not damaging the instrument is fundamental!
* More to be added as I think of them.
Theme: Some try to raise the moon to dim the stars, forgetting that both reflect the sun.
