He has more than my love, [ huaisang says quietly, eyes fixed on the portrait of his brother, at his stern features, and yet he seems to look at something beyond that simple picture. ] He has my loyalty.
[ and the loyalty of the nie is no small thing — they're known for their sharp justice, their blades that ever have dealt it for them, but also for this: they are loyal, fiercely so. huaisang's men have not always understood him, but they would follow him to the ends of the earth. it is no coincidence qinghe has stood at the edges of the cultivation world for the past ten years; not a coincidence few of their disciples have visited other sects, that the only one to continue to make appearances in conferences and outside them has been their useless sect leader, followed by his small retinue of men, always watching.
in his loyalty to his brother's legacy, huaisang has both shattered the good repute he may have had, but also protected his own. their own.
in his loyalty, there has been little he has been unwilling to do. ]
He will. [ there is no movement to him as he speaks, nothing of the little brother continually in motion, fluttering and crying and shouting and laughing, fidgeting with nerves or twirling in delight. he stands still like the mountains that surround his home; a saber would not look out of place on his back. ]
I will bring da-ge back. I don't care if I have to move mountains to do it.
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[ and the loyalty of the nie is no small thing — they're known for their sharp justice, their blades that ever have dealt it for them, but also for this: they are loyal, fiercely so. huaisang's men have not always understood him, but they would follow him to the ends of the earth. it is no coincidence qinghe has stood at the edges of the cultivation world for the past ten years; not a coincidence few of their disciples have visited other sects, that the only one to continue to make appearances in conferences and outside them has been their useless sect leader, followed by his small retinue of men, always watching.
in his loyalty to his brother's legacy, huaisang has both shattered the good repute he may have had, but also protected his own. their own.
in his loyalty, there has been little he has been unwilling to do. ]
He will. [ there is no movement to him as he speaks, nothing of the little brother continually in motion, fluttering and crying and shouting and laughing, fidgeting with nerves or twirling in delight. he stands still like the mountains that surround his home; a saber would not look out of place on his back. ]
I will bring da-ge back. I don't care if I have to move mountains to do it.