Qian Ci was the most aloof disciple of the Grand Elder, an immortal untouched by worldly dust atop a misty peak.
After his master stepped down and entered seclusion, Qian Ci followed his instructions and became the youngest person in charge of Xuanqing Peak, responsible for the affairs of Qionghua Hall.
As was customary, Qian Ci took the Peak Master's beloved darling as his disciple. Then he went down the mountain and brought a poor little thing into the sect. Later, a stray dog latched onto him, and he was forced to take on a third disciple.
He liked his second disciple best, because the boy always looked so pitiful that it softened people's hearts. He was the one Qian Ci had truly wanted to take in.
His first disciple was proud and arrogant, but obeyed his every word, going east when told to go east, and hanging himself when told to, rather than jumping into the sea.
His first disciple had a secret: he was in love with his master.
In his midnight dreams and in the first flush of youth, the person in his heart and before his eyes was always his beautiful, youthful master.
His second disciple was timid and easily startled, bullied at every turn, but sometimes sly and mean, deliberately bullying his senior brother to win his master's attention.
His second disciple also had a secret: he had once wanted to kill Qian Ci.
His third disciple was a stray dog, trash that Qian Ci wouldn't even glance at if it died by the roadside, an existence he loathed to the bone.
His third disciple's secret was known to everyone: he had used despicable means to force Qian Ci to accept him as a disciple, and the way they met had been far from respectable.
Qian Ci knew their feelings, of course, but didn't care and paid them no mind.
But in truth, he had a secret of his own.
He was in love with his own master.
Theme: Harmony is precious
