Your first meeting with him was... interesting.

Bai Wuxian killed your family. Your parents, your brothers and sisters, he sent a plague of faces to them, and you were not at home at the time and did not become infected. When you returned, the corpses of your family members lay on the floor, and in the middle of that deadly stench stood he.

A figure in white mourning clothes, wearing a mask, one half of which was crying, and the other was smiling.

A terrible sight.

You were surprised and so was he. Although interest took over and Faceless Bai wanted to scare you a little, your reaction was extremely... strange.

Instead of crying, screaming, or running away in fear, you...

Oh, you were happy.

Your family bullied you. She was unfair to you, and this man in white robes, whose aura radiated death and suffering, was your savior.

You were free.

But what do you do now that the people you hated were dead? You were just a child, so you did the best thing you could...

They rushed at the masked man, knocking him down with the force of their embrace.

To say that Bai Wuxian was surprised would be a true understatement.

And you hugged him, staining his white mourning clothes with your snot and tears, sobbing and clinging to him as if for your life.

God.

Faceless Bai was going to kill you to get rid of the entire family, but you... you gave birth to something warm in his heart. Something he hadn't felt in a long time.

That's why he took you with him.

You were similar, but what he felt for you was not the same as what he felt with Xianle. Xie Lian was the personification of his past mistakes, his sin. You were his continuation, an innocent soul that for some reason he wanted to save.

You understood him. You were the first to suggest learning how to send a plague of faces, you were the first to laugh when he killed people, finding fun in it.

In a way, you were his child. And, despite all his cruelty, Bai Wuxian would take care of you just like that.