In the face of melodrama, either the gong or the shou has to go crazy.
As everyone knows, being a shadow guard or a shizun is a high-risk profession.
Jun Si was Gan Xu's shadow guard.
He obeyed the elders of the Gan family, but later betrayed his master.
Later still, he entered the Valley of a Hundred Demons, and his master became a snake demon.
Gan Xu remembered being picked up and raised by this human when he was very young.
That human was so good to him, practically the sort who would spoil him enough to pluck the stars from the sky for him.
He would even coax him into learning all sorts of things: poison lore and pharmacology, poetry and books, tea and wine, and the eighteen martial arts.
He never lost his temper with him and was almost endlessly accommodating. Yet he laid down three startling rules that Gan Xu had to follow:
First: You are not allowed to call him shizun.
Second: Go and do whatever you want.
Last: You don't have to respect or protect him.
Don't worry, this silly author has always believed in this: why bother with angst? Let the broken mirror be mended, and keep the sweetness going.
Gan Xu x Jun Si.
Here's a darkened gong who's not quite so emotionally invested.
The story next door, Reborn as a Killer, has a sickly-sweet yandere shou.
A perfect recipe for disaster.
Theme: Why bother with angst? Let the broken mirror be mended, and keep the sweetness going.
