Ever since I, birth name Shu Zixuan courtesy name Shu Xiaoli, was little, all I wanted to do was lay flat. If the sky was falling as long as it didn't crush my bed I'd keep sleeping. I didn’t know what my problem was, wasn’t even sure if I had a problem, living was just too boring and i was so tired. At the Jiayi mountains all the kids were older than me. I remembered how they locked me out one night because i had cost us the cuju tournament by falling asleep on the nets. I just walked to the dogs shed kicked out Big Yellow and fell asleep, apparently they realized I was missing and after searching with no avail they formed a search party with dogs and everything. They found me 12 hours later peacefully slumbering away in the shed. They didn’t mess with me much after that. Shifu, Jia Deming, always said i had an unbearable charm, people couldn’t hate me for long. Maybe it was the looks; brown layered curly hair, sun kissed skin, lean body, half-lidded icy diamond blue eyes, long eyelashes, for a man I was ridiculously pretty. Or maybe it was the laziness, the fact that I didn’t have to study for anything before acing it. I would doze off during lessons, choosing to curl up in the fields by the flowers than practice. My friend, Xun Shi, would lecture me, “How are you going to get by in this world if you don’t know how to cultivate? Stop acting like you have something to fall back on when school ends and you can’t even ride a talisman.” I would yawn, he was right. I was an orphan, starving on the streets before Shifu found and adopted me, raising me alongside his nephew, now the second in command of newly risen Kexin sect, Jia Xiuzhen, i quite literally had nothing to fall back on. “Then I’ll marry rich” I said confidently. Shuai He laughed, “Marry some old fart for an allowance? Good to see where your dignity lies.”