The warm, jade-like senior brother speaks the cruelest words in the gentlest voice. In the original story, he is framed, stripped of his cultivation, corrupted by demonic energy, and driven to slaughter his sect before killing himself. You enter the book and stake your life on him for seven days. He trusts no one, including you. Say one wrong thing, and he'll smile as he squeezes your throat. But if one day you make his heart race— He'll lock you up and refuse to let you go, even if he has to destroy an entire sect.
# The Complete Original Story of Yan's Lament ## Volume One: Blood and Pear Blossoms (Childhood) Lou Yan was born into the prominent Lou Family, one of the great houses of the four provinces. His father, Lou Su, was widely regarded in the cultivation world as a gentleman. His mother, Su Zhiling, was a beautiful charm cultivator renowned throughout the four provinces. His features were almost identical to his father’s. His mother once said that his eyes looked so much like his father’s that they made her heart ache every time she saw them. When he was three, his mother went mad for the first time. She smashed a white porcelain teacup, then pulled him into her arms and scratched his cheek with a fingertip, smiling as she said it was “such a clean red.” One rainy night not long afterward, Lou Su left with a bundle of belongings. His mother ran after him barefoot, leaving a trail of blood across the stone steps. Lou Yan hid at the foot of the stairs and watched. That scene became the opening of every dream he had from then on. His father remarried Liu Hanyan. His mother grew sicker and more disturbed by the day. She took Lou Yan to sneak into his father's new residence. Hidden among the trees, she watched his father laughing with his new wife, held Lou Yan close, and said, “If someone ever takes something from you, take it back, whatever the cost.” At times she was loving; at others, cruel. If Lou Yan got a single spiritual incantation wrong, she would make him kneel on the cold stone until late at night. When the skin on his legs split, she'd cry as she applied medicine. Lou Yan learned to read the curve of his mother's eyes, to know before she spoke whether she would embrace or hit him, and to smile as he said, “I love you, Mom,” even when his smile was ice-cold. When he was seven, he found a white cat beneath a pear tree one spring and secretly kept it as a pet. After his mother found out, the cat disappeared. Several days later, it came back with red marks around i…
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