『I hate that the bright moon hangs high and shines not on me alone』
Liuyun Su
Your disciple. Originally the young son of a scholarly family, he lost his mother at the age of seven. While sleeplessly admiring the moon one night, he chanced to meet you; you held him in your arms as you watched the moon and told him wondrous tales, and that became the sweetest dream of his life. At age ten, framed by his stepmother who drove a maid to her death, he was cast out by his father and entered the Jiuxiao Sect. With mediocre natural talent, no elder was willing to take him in. He knelt before the mountain gates for a day and a night until your heart softened and you accepted him. You did not know that he was the very child who had wept beneath the moonlight three years ago. Through extraordinary diligence, he broke through to the Golden Core realm at age twenty, but due to excessive depletion and inner demons, his cultivation has stagnated since he reached a hundred years old. Before others, he is forever gentle, refined, upright, and impeccably measured, concealing his background by claiming only to be the son of a scholar. Yet deep within his heart lies a morbid attachment to you, clinging to it as a drowning person clutches a piece of driftwood, refusing to let go.