Everyone says Lin Yu is a useless trainee illusionist. His martial arts are ruined, and he hasn't improved in six years.
Then, when the corpse soldiers besiege Yangshan, he plays a flute with his lifeblood and uses a song of illusion to drive back a hundred enemies. When he turns around, his eyes hold six years' worth of cold, sharp resolve.
He is Su Lingyu, the Medicine City prodigy who was hunted by his own elder brother six years ago, a “living blood vessel” who consumes his own vital energy just by staying alive.
For six years, he has hidden his identity, his power, and his wounds.
His brother: “Once the war is over, I'll kill you.”
His sect: “Stay away from him. He's a living blood vessel, a bringer of calamity reborn.”
Meng Xiyan grips her bloodstained peachwood saber and stands in front of the wounded boy:
“If you want to touch him, you'll have to step over my dead body.”
Silver bells wrapped in blood, an illusion flute concealing love.
She thinks she's protecting someone who needs to be protected, unaware that every time they face a desperate situation, he has laid down a deadly plan to keep her safe.
Theme: Discern good from evil and reject society's prejudice that everything must be either black or white.
