There Is Snow in the Clouds, and There Is a Moon in the Sky

Xianxia Cultivation | Tiantiantian | Deep sadomasochism | Reunion | Chasing his wife in the crematorium | Qiangqiang | HE | Running in both directions | 1v1 | Shuang Jie | Vest | Cool article Warning before reading: There is abuse, but the ending is happy. Go in both directions, pull to the extreme, don't be afraid of the knife, the end is sweet. Copywriting: Bai Wangshu had three names in his life. The first one was the princess, who was lost in the fire. The second was the young apprentice, who was shattered under the sword. The third one is the Demon Lord, who has been walking alone in the darkness for three years and never wants to look back. The year Xiao Qiyun accepted her as his disciple, she knelt in the sword sect's hall and took over the sword engraved with the word "ask the heart". He said that those who hold this sword have a clear conscience. She took this sentence as faith. Until she was falsely accused of collaborating with the enemy and taken to the execution platform. The sword that pierced her chest had water drop marks on the sword that she had rubbed countless times with her own hands. The sword was engraved with Master's handwriting - Asking the Heart. She thought the Master had tacitly approved of the execution. On the night when the power of chaos broke out and she fell into a demon, Xiao Qiyun broke through three space barriers and arrived. He held the execution document stamped with a forged private seal, looked at her back being nailed by the water sword, and said, "I didn't sign it." She didn't hear it. Later, he voluntarily removed his sword and entered the demonic realm, staying with her as a prisoner. Cooking for her, giving her medicine, sitting by the bed every night when she had insomnia, waiting for her to wake up from the nightmare. She asked him: "What are you doing here?" He said: "Pay off the debt." "Is it over yet?" "Not leaving." Intention: One day, the Tao of Heaven said that there is good and evil in the world. The righteous ones are immortals, and the evil ones are demons. Immortals are bright and demons should be punished. Therefore, those who cultivate immortality use the way of heaven as their ruler to measure all living beings. Slay demons and demons regardless of the reason. Kill demons when they see them, regardless of good or evil. They called this "justice" and called this "the great road". They drove all dissident forces into the darkness, and then announced that the world was bright. But under the light, the power in the darkness never disappears, but becomes stronger and stronger. If yin and yang are out of balance, the extremes of matter will be reversed. The more prosperous the law of heaven is, the stronger the demon clan is. The confrontation between good and evil has fallen into an endless cycle. Everyone thinks that the demons are inherently evil, but no one asks - who has used tens of millions of years of suppression to force them into this state? The conflicts in the world are never because one party is wrong. Precisely because no one thinks that they are wrong, everyone thinks that they are just, and everyone thinks that they are doing justice for heaven. So prejudices are passed down from generation to generation, and hatred piles up until everyone forgets that the original dispute was just that one side was too strong, and the other side had nowhere to go. The light in the fairy world is too bright. So bright that no shadow can be left. But if there is no shadow, how can it not be a greater darkness? 2. The human heart is the best ruler and the most easily tampered scripture. We often ask ourselves: Am I righteous? Am I correct? Am I on one side of the avenue? Then we try our best to convince ourselves that yes, I have a reason to do this. I slay demons because demons deserve to die. I sacrifice a few to preserve the majority. I am silent because the overall situation is the most important thing. So we all felt that we had a clear conscience. But the truth is: a clear conscience is the most easily exploited quality. All you need is a high-sounding dogma, an unquestionable authority, and a set of self-consistent logic - you can sincerely feel that you are righteous after doing evil. You can stab your most important person with the sword engraved with "asking the heart", and then say to yourself: I have no choice but to do it. There is no room for demons in the world of immortality. But who defines "devil"? It's the way of heaven. It is a strength attribute. It is a set of order that has been passed down for thousands of years and has never been questioned. But power is just power. Chaos is not evil, it is just another existence. People in the world kill demons not because they have done bad things, but because they are born demons. Some of those creatures who are called "demons" do indeed do evil - but that is not because the demons are inherently evil, but because they have been forced, alienated, and shaped into what the world thinks they are during thousands of years of suppression. What Bai Wangshu saw was not the labels "devil" and "immortal". What she saw were people. He is a young child infected by demonic energy but still conscious, a half-demon child imprisoned in the Demon Suppression Tower as an experimental subject, and a demon mother with tears in her eyes during the prisoner exchange. Her sincere heart is illiterate, does not understand dogma, does not understand the "big picture", and only recognizes one thing - when she is unable to distinguish between good and evil, she can at least not harm innocent people. But this sincerity is exactly what the world of immortality cannot tolerate. Because her existence itself is evidence - proving that the standards of heaven are wrong. As long as she is still alive and uses her kindness that does not distinguish between races to touch objects defined as "deserving of death" by heaven, the order of good and evil on which the entire world of immortality depends will be shaken. So they have to kill her. Not because she is guilty, but precisely because she is innocent. 3. The word "asking the heart" was engraved on the water-asking sword by Xiao Qiyun. His original intention was to warn his disciples: Those who hold swords should have a clear conscience. But he forgot to ask himself: Have you really asked about your heart? He believed in justice for hundreds of years and showed his ferocious fangs on the execution platform. The order of heaven, which he was so proud of, killed the people he cared about most. They used the swords he had given him to stab through the disciples he had raised. And until that scene happened, he never learned to ask: Do those who lay under his sword deserve to die? Ask the heart. Whose heart is asked? Ask yourself? Or ask about the heart of the man who was nailed to the sword? What you are asking is not your conscience, but the truth of your heart. Conscience can be educated, disciplined, and persuaded by the "big picture." Conscience can make you feel like a victim after you kill someone. But the truth of the heart does not. The truth of the heart is in the instinctive trembling when every old wound is touched again, in the late night when you know you should hate but can't, and in the moment when you see the scars on her body and your hands unconsciously relax. Bai Wangshu never asked about his heart. She just follows it. From letting go the demon children who didn't deserve to die at the beginning, to killing only those who had done something on the execution platform after falling into the devil, she never needed to ask, because her heart had never lied to her. And Xiao Qiyun had been asking for a lifetime. It was not until he saw his sword piercing the child who had called him master for six years on the execution platform that he finally heard his own heartbeat - it was not the law of heaven. It was the jade bracelet that the seventeen-year-old girl was still clutching in her palm when she fell from the execution platform. The jade is broken, but I am still picking it up. This is asking the heart. The truth of the heart is not in the scriptures, the precepts, or the so-called righteousness of the world. It is only in the moment when after stripping away all the labels of immortals and demons, you still can't convince yourself to do harm. At that moment, you face another complete, living life, not a "devil", not an "alien", not an "enemy" - a human being. This is "disappearance". Break away from the "devil" label and see the person inside. Break down the barriers between "righteousness" and "evil" and see the complex and lonely desires that exist in every living being. She fell into the devil's path, not because she became a devil, but because she discovered that the devil's path is more real than the right path. At least the devil doesn't pretend. At least Mo Dao admitted that he was angry, unwilling, and hurt. As for the right path, even the wounds must be described as "righteousness." 4. There is no absolute order or absolute chaos in the world. Lone Yin does not give birth, Lone Yang does not grow. Heaven and chaos are two sides of the same entity when the universe first opened. The Order of Tiandao, the Lord of Chaos changes. Only when the two coexist can life be endless. However, the desire of Heaven has been overwhelming, and it has suppressed chaos for thousands of years in the name of "good and evil". As a result, Yin and Yang have become unbalanced, and the world has become chaotic. This is not a battle between good and evil, but the price of imbalance. Bai Wangshu and Xiao Qiyun, one is the successor of the power of chaos, and the other is the agent of heaven. They are not enemies - they are each other's absence. The light he represented was too pure, and her chaos was too complicated; his justice was once the shield of hegemony, and her pain was the mirror of order. The way to truly return to their respective places is not who defeats the other, but who recognizes the other. He taught her order, and she taught him compassion. He made her understand that light is not the lie itself, but that people who lie for too long forget what it originally warmed. She made him understand that righteousness was not entirely hypocritical, but that someone needed to rescue it from the dead dogma. Rebuilding order has never meant eliminating chaos, but accepting chaos; it has not meant abolishing the way of heaven, but letting the way of heaven learn to bow its head. A truly fair order is not one without shadows, but one that can tolerate shadows. It does not mean that no more mistakes will be made, but that after making a mistake, someone is willing to bend down and pick up the broken things piece by piece. Just like Bai Wangshu picking up the broken jade bracelet on the execution platform - that is not admitting defeat, that is rebuilding. 5 So, what is true inquiry? It's not about asking "Am I righteous?" It's not about asking "Did I do something wrong?" The question is: after stripping off all identities and throwing away all labels, what I face is not "fairy" or "demon", not "righteous way" or "wrong way", but a life like me - what else will I do? The answer never lies in heaven. Not in dogma. Not in the so-called "big picture." The answer lies deep in the heart, that softest place covered with layers of prejudice, dogma, and fear. That is where the sincere heart lies; it is also the place where all "fairies" and "demon", order and chaos, can finally get to know each other again. Bai Wangshu has never lost this heart. Even if she falls into the devil's path, even if she is let down by the world, she will still only kill those who deserve to be killed, she will still suffer from the death of innocent people, and she will still bend down on the ruins and pick up the broken things one by one. The way of heaven is clear, but it cannot illuminate people's hearts. Only the heart can tell us what to do.