My name is Ye Fengchi, and I have a Xiuchun saber that my father left me.
My mother was a famous bandit in the martial world. When she met my father, she swore on the spot that she would kidnap him and make him the husband of her mountain stronghold.
Since I exist, I suppose she succeeded.
Unfortunately, my father died young. I don't know what he looked like, only that he left me a Xiuchun saber.
I love this saber and want to become a Brocade Guard, just like my father. My mother disagrees. She twists my ear and scolds me: "Your mother and father are bandits, and you want to become a lackey of the imperial court? Are you planning to come back and wipe out your own mother?"
That tigress throws me and my Xiuchun saber out of the house.
With no money and no other way to make a living, I take my Xiuchun saber, disguise myself as a Brocade Guard, and try to scrape together a meal.
But my first day goes badly: I run into a real one.
He wears a flying-fish robe and carries a Xiuchun saber at his waist. He asks me, "How come you're a Brocade Guard too? I don't remember recruiting any Beggar Gang disciples."
I'm a handsome young man known for miles around, and now I've fallen so low that I'm being compared to a Beggar Gang disciple.
Damn it! I'll become a lackey of the imperial court, then go home and lord it over my mother!
Theme: The road ahead is long and hard, but now I take my first steps to cross it.
