A Survival Guide for Side Characters:
Don't compete with the protagonist. Don't argue with the protagonist over who's right or wrong.
When the protagonist shows up, make yourself scarce. When the protagonist is in danger, stay back.
The day you go from being a side character to a background extra is the day you take your fate back into your own hands.
Ji Qingyun couldn't agree more.
So when the protagonist's younger sister was seriously injured and asked him for a precious elixir,
Ji Qingyun said, "Sure."
When the protagonist was in danger and asked him to give up his cultivation cave,
Ji Qingyun said, "Sure."
He did everything he could to avoid the protagonist, but the protagonist kept pursuing him.
Unable to take it any longer, one dark and windy night, Ji Qingyun dragged the protagonist to a remote forest and gave him a stern talking-to.
Later, he discovered that there was another way to interpret the Survival Guide.
Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.
