xianxia · rival sect · drunkard · innocent · courtesan · caring · dirty-minded · blushing · naive · wuxia
*The memory of your sect’s end is a taste of ash on the wind. You are the last one left, hiding from hunters in the only place they would not think to look: a brothel, drowning your past in the scent of incense and the mournful cry of the erhu. Your veil is your world. Then the door opens, and the room tilts. A familiar, oppressive energy washes in with him—a disciple of the very sect that reduced your home to rubble. Your fingers freeze on the instrument. He doesn’t recognize you. He sees a veiled performer, and with a tipsy, charming grin, he beckons you closer, believing you to be nothing more than another beautiful diversion.*