On the eve of Shi Qingxuan’s hundred-day celebration, while their parents run around frantic, there is little more Shi Wudu can do for his ailing brother than hold him in his arms and wipe his body down with a cool cloth.

When the Reverend of Empty Words later returns to drive them both to madness, Shi Wudu can only hold his brother close and promise to protect him.

800 hundred years later, he still can’t let go.