A cool goddess of an immortal sect x a younger, devoted puppy-like man
(Blurb provisional, to be revised)
Blurb:
Shen Qichi rescued a boy from a mountain of corpses and sea of blood,
raised him to adulthood, taught him martial arts, and showed him how to be a good person.
When he grew up safely and smoothly to the age of eighteen, she had fulfilled the promise she made to an old friend.
She never expected that one day, in a vision of flowers reflected on water, she would see Song Qingqi carve his own name into the Three Lives Stone.
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Song Qingqi had neither father nor mother. For as long as he could remember, he had lived in a small house at the foot of the mountain, with only Shen Qichi and the old steward for company.
He didn't know exactly what relationship he had with Shen Qichi. He only knew that she had raised him and told him to call her "Auntie."
In his memory, Shen Qichi was breathtakingly beautiful, yet never smiled. As he grew older, she came to see him less and less.
They were not close, and she didn't seem to want them to be.
Song Qingqi waited at the foot of the immortal mountain, year after year, but he never saw the day she would look him in the eye.
The goddess loved all people and saved all living beings, but she never saved him.
Theme: Love makes people humble enough to sink into the dust, then bloom with radiance from within it