A new beginning

MY AU/VERSION

The rain poured down over Yiling's dark mountains, the night sky split with flashes of lightning. Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren stood back to back, their blades gleaming under the storm's fury.

"Stay behind me!" Changze shouted, though he knew his wife would never listen.

Sanren's laughter rang wild and bright, even as blood dripped from her sleeve. "You think I'd let you face them alone?"

The demonic cultivators surged again, their resentful energy twisting the air. Husband and wife fought like fire and thunder-until, at last, the storm swallowed them both.

By dawn, only silence remained.

And far away in Lotus Pier, a small boy waited for parents who would never return.

Wei Wuxian's story had only just begun.