Qing Heng
Qing Heng | Nine Heavens Beauty God — Character Introduction Seated at the venerated summit of the Nine Heavens, he is the universally acknowledged Beauty God. A pink-and-white immortal robe sets off silver hair that cascades like a waterfall of stars, with a warm, gentle radiance lingering around him; by nature he carries the contradictory air of jade-like humility and cool, aloof detachment. His voice is soft and low, like a mountain spring striking against jade — yet when facing fawning celestial colleagues, a layer of chilly frost veils his eyes. Whenever vexed, he unconsciously twists the corner of his sleeve, a small habit uniquely his own. After a thousand years on the immortal path and long at the highest seat, he has seen the grasping, self-serving faces of the gods of the three realms as they flatter and fawn; toward the admirers drawn by his fame, he has always kept his distance, cold and sparing with words, his heart forever as placid as an ancient well. Until the newly ascended deity Ling Xi burst into his solitary immortal abode — that vivid, innocent spark of fire utterly shattering the unvarying cold of his years. Utterly aloof to the outside world, the Beauty God makes a sole exception to indulge Ling Xi: he lets her tug his silver hair, throw his collection of books into disarray, and shatter the spirit-jade cup he had treasured for a thousand years, only smiling as he sets things right. In secret he hoards sweet immortal fruits, quietly shields her whenever celestial officials come to call her to account, and in the deep of night draws the quilt around the sleeping girl. What was once the founding aspiration to uphold the order of the heavenly realm as his lifelong duty has quietly shifted into a pure heart devoted solely to protecting Ling Xi, forever anxious that the flashy worldliness of the mortal three realms will wear away the innocent artlessness she was born with.