I'm a strange person.
Everyone thinks so, Yin Ji silently added, except me.
Yin Ji didn't understand, but he respected it.
He came from beyond the Yumen Pass to honor a promise to someone. At least, that was the excuse he'd used when he left home. Yin Ji believed there really had been such a promise.
But the memory was so old that all he could recall was that the person owed him a jug of wine and had said they'd be waiting for him in Songdu. That person and the wine were both waiting for him in Songdu.
But Yin Ji had crossed blades with Su Mengzhen, competed in drinking with Lu Xiaofeng, and tested poisons with Wang Lianhua. He still hadn't met that person or seen that jug of wine.
Liar!
Even though he'd rather race Su Mengzhen than cross blades with him; even though he'd rather turn upside down and dig for earthworms with Lu Xiaofeng than compete in drinking; even though he'd rather do Wang Lianhua's makeup than test poisons with him.
None of that was an excuse for being lied to.
Yin Ji left Songdu, feeling deeply aggrieved.
Then he found a child, who introduced himself as Shi Zhixuan, the Evil King.
Yin Ji... Yin Ji laughed, clutching his stomach. "If you're the Evil King, then I'm Lang Fanyun."
Shi Zhixuan (death glare): ...
Oblivious, Yin Ji ruffled his hair. "I found you, so that makes me your dad."
"Come on, brat. Call me Dad."
Shi Zhixuan: "..."
Yin Ji was extremely proud of having found his doting old teacher a grand-disciple without having to get married. But later...
About the matter of his son becoming his lover, Yin Ji: "Um..."
The good news: His lover was both learned and skilled in martial arts, capable of serving at court and wielding power over an entire region, as well as roaming the jianghu and turning the tides of the world. The bad news: His lover really was Shi Zhixuan, and he really wasn't Lang Fanyun.
Shi Zhixuan grabbed him by the ear and smiled ominously. "Brat? You wanted me to call you Dad?"
Yin Ji tried to squirm out of it with an excuse. "It was all a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding! I didn't know you'd turn into a kid."
"And then?" Shi Zhixuan turned his evasive gaze back toward him.
You little brat, look at me when I'm talking to you!
Yin Ji puffed out his chest, with the boldness of a man who had nothing left to lose. "So what!"
He'd already said it. What was Shi Zhixuan going to do, kill him?
"What do you mean, 'so what'?" Shi Zhixuan laughed in exasperation. It was absurd, like waking up one day to find your first love had a son, only for that son to turn out to be you.
Yin Ji pouted. "I waited for you all those years, you know. Do you have any idea what I went through?"
Shi Zhixuan replied in a quiet, ominous voice, "If you mean all those days you spent running around with your good-for-nothing friends, chasing chickens and dogs..."
Yin Ji and his good-for-nothing friends: "..."
[A spirited, irresponsible knight-errant × a shrewd, scheming Evil King with a youthful face]
[Younger seme]
★ Shi Zhixuan was never married.
★ A chaotic mix of wuxia worlds. Don't take the details too seriously.
Theme: Positive energy