The Masked Man [The Legend of Qin / Tian Xing Jiu Ge / Kojiki]

[The main story is complete. Extra chapters and notes on the writing will be updated from time to time, so read without worry!]

The next story is The Ghost-Faced Man. The long extra chapter, The Black Qilin's Diary, can be found at:

The Legend of Qin: The Black Qilin's Diary

Guiguzi may be a good teacher, but he is definitely not a good father.

To the so-called father who was absent from the first fifteen years of her life, then forcibly locked her up at home and demanded that they act like a loving father and daughter, the Ghost Girl declares that she will never forgive him.

But, well, a child is innocent...

Staring at two little rascals who aren't even as tall as her shoulders, the tough-as-nails, more manly-than-men, genuine tomboy Ghost Girl thinks hard: Should she beat them, raise them, or beat them while raising them?

While beating and raising those first two little rascals, the Ghost Girl has no idea that she will meet more and more of them in the future, and that much of her tragic life will be spent entangled with these little brats...

Whether she raises them into disasters or comedies, that's up to fate.

A few things to know before reading:

1. No transmigration or rebirth. The original female lead is from the same era and has no romantic pairing. She's a plot-filling, storyline-connecting tool character, as well as a full-time matchmaker.

2. The plot and filling in the blanks come first, with romance as a secondary focus. Several main pairings are relatively serious, while many of the rest are crack ships...

BL pairings: Wei Zhuang X Nie Gai (main pairing), Yan Lu X Zhang Liang (fourth pairing), Mo Ya X Bai Feng, Guiguzi's fellow disciples, Ying Zheng X Cheng Jiao, the former head of the Confucian School X the Nameless One (don't ask me, I don't know why either), Gan Mao X Lu Buwei (?? Why is this happening...), Ji Yihu X Han Yu (a ghost-marriage pairing, ahem...);

BG pairings (most are canon pairings, except the last three): Xuan Jian X Xianxian (second pairing), Han Fei X Zi Nu (third pairing), Tianming X Gao Yue, Shaoyu X Xiaoyu, Bai Yifei X Mingzhu, Lord Xiang X Lady Xiang, Jing Ke X Gongsun Li, Yan Dan X Dong Jun, Gao Jianli X Xue Nu, Zhang Han X Xiao Meng, Liu Ji X Tian Yan, Duke Zhuang of Zheng X the first head of the Yin-Yang School (what the heck?!), Xing Hun/Susanoo X Kushinadahime and Kamunochi and the White Fox...

GL pairing: Black Qilin X Shao Siming (help!)...

[Isn't this just a random ship-making machine...]

3. My original ideas will avoid contradicting the source material as much as possible. Wherever Xingyun hasn't provided an answer, I'll let my imagination run wild. I take no responsibility if this conflicts with any future episodes of The Legend of Qin: Nine Songs of the Sky 3 or The Legend of Qin 6, Part One. (Although Nine Songs of the Sky and The Legend of Qin are parallel worlds, I'm trying to make them one world = = Whenever the timelines just can't be reconciled, I'll use the time-travel trick to patch the plot holes = =)

4. I've paid tribute to a few widely circulated bullet-screen jokes. I don't know who came up with them originally, so my thanks in advance!

5. Director Shen makes a cameo to vent some personal grievances...

Most important of all: this is entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! I'm saying it three times because it's important!

The original idea for this story was simply that The Legend of Qin and Nine Songs of the Sky had too many plot holes, and Xingyun was updating too slowly. I couldn't accept the way a few characters I loved had been treated, so I decided to let my imagination run wild and fill in some gaps. But then my imagination got away from me, and the story kept going until the twenty-first century...

Theme: People struggling to survive in troubled times each have a fate they cannot escape. But their belief is simple: I want to live!