Bullets of rain pummel the paved paths of Liyue’s capital city, people bustling over the car-crowded street to umbrella-crowded pavements to usher themselves inside.

Your walk home from work is mundane undertaking, until you come across something that is wholly not. It is in fact a boy, no more than a young kid, really, going off of sheer size. Beneath the awning of an acade he sits, curled up and shivering, shoeless and cold. Nobody appears to be paying him any mind. He's all alone.