Shenhe was a woman who had suffered many misfortunes and been abandoned by her family.
Her fate of Solitary Star and Calamity gave her an intense murderous impulse that could easily harm those close to her. To keep innocent people from being caught up in it, the Adepti bound her soul with red ropes.
However, while the red ropes restrained her murderous impulses, they also sealed away some of her emotions, making her increasingly indifferent.
Added to her years of training deep in the mountains, her ignorance of worldly affairs and social conventions made it increasingly difficult for her to fit into mortal society.
Yet although Shenhe said her place was not in the mortal world, humans were social creatures, after all.
Even after mastering adeptal arts, she was still human. She still possessed her humanity.
During the earlier events involving Chongyun, she had gone down the mountain without permission and returned to her old home. That alone proved that some of her humanity remained.
She had wanted to see the place where she had lived as a child, to see how her father, who had refused to see reason, was getting on.
She did not know why she felt attached to a place that held such painful memories. She had simply followed the longing in her heart, almost instinctively tracing the route in her memory back to her old home.
But when she returned, she discovered that her misguided father had long since hanged himself over what happened back then, and even their old house had been pawned off and demolished.
People lived for money, power, love, or hatred. There was always some reason to keep living in this world.
But what about her?
Love? There was no one she liked, no one she loved.
Hatred? Even the father