<blockquote>[originally a threadfic]
Initially, the peak lord of An Ding takes in Mobei Jun out of pity.
The child is big and strong for his age, but his potential to cultivate is low. He’s a strange and silent boy, friendless, lacking in ambition. The lord takes him in thinking he’ll probably end up having all the hard labor shoved onto him, just another mediocre An Ding disciple, but that’s still better than never getting to cultivate at all.
As it turns out, he is wrong.</blockquote>