Tongtong

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Background / History

Disappearance and Murder

Tongtong had recently arrived at the Imperial Palace with her parents when she went missing. She had sneaked out, been captured, and been taken to the courtyard in West City, where she was killed. Her parents searched unsuccessfully and fell into profound grief 26 44.

Her death was part of the Liu Household’s blood-pill operation, which sacrificed people to advance Liu Feng’s cultivation. Liu Cheng knew that his men had mistakenly abducted Prince Ying’s daughter but concealed the truth. He later called her death an “accident” while openly defending the sacrifice of the other victims 35 46.

Encounter with Su Mo

As a departed soul, Tongtong found Su Mo in the darkness beneath the courtyard and asked him to take her home. Three black-robed cultivators blocked their escape. Under an uncanny being’s influence, Su Mo held her and danced while she sang the Three Character Classic, using supernatural rules to kill the men 25 26 45.

Tongtong initially failed to understand that the cultivators were dying. As her singing exhausted her remaining soul power, she remembered her own murder and realized that she could not return home. Afraid of darkness, solitude, and her parents’ sorrow, she asked Su Mo about the other world. He reassured her and sang an opera from his homeland as she fell asleep and faded away 26.

Revelation and Vengeance

Su Mo later recognized Tongtong’s aura among the victims whose lives had been used to refine the blood pill carried by Liu Feng. When Prince Ying identified Tongtong as his missing daughter, Su Mo used the Memory-River Spirit Jade to show him their encounter. Prince Ying witnessed her final moments but could neither speak to her nor protect her within the memory 35 45.

After Liu Cheng admitted the household’s crimes, Prince Ying demanded vengeance. He killed Liu Cheng with the emperor’s assistance, while Su Mo invoked the blood-pill victims’ resentment against Liu Feng, causing him to die from its backlash 46 48.

Final Homecoming

Following Liu Cheng’s death, the victims’ spirits appeared above the Imperial Palace. Tongtong recognized Su Mo and her father, then greeted her mother when she arrived in the forecourt. Smiling at all three, she declared that she had come home 49.

After the spirits departed, Prince Ying recognized Su Mo as Tongtong’s big brother and therefore his own son. The princess consort accepted this bond and joined her husband in protecting Su Mo from the Holy Sect 50.

Appearance

• Small childlike form: Appears as a tiny spirit with little hands and a tender, youthful voice 25 49.
• Fading transparency: As her soul power runs out, her form dims and rain passes through her body 26 45.
• Expressive smile: At her final reunion, her smile is compared to spring awakening and flowers blooming 49.

Personality

Tongtong is affectionate and unusually considerate of others’ distress. Even while trapped and frightened, she wipes away Su Mo’s tears and insists that she is no longer scared because she does not want him to cry. She trusts his promise to take her home and obediently sings when he asks 25 26.

Her innocence does not prevent her from recognizing painful truths. She eventually remembers that she is dead and knows that Su Mo’s promise that she could return from the other world is only reassurance. Her deepest fears are being alone, facing darkness, and leaving her parents worried about her 26.

Abilities & Skills

Singing

Tongtong remembers the Three Character Classic as a nursery song taught by her mother 25 26.

• Sings while Su Mo performs the requiem around the three black-robed cultivators 25 26.
• Her song accompanies their deaths, but the immobilization, vitality drain, and lethal rules are attributed to Su Mo’s uncanny power—not an independently demonstrated combat ability of Tongtong’s 25 26.
• Singing exhausts her remaining soul power and precedes her fading 26.

Spectral Existence

Tongtong persists after death as a wandering soul capable of communicating with Su Mo 25 26.

• Monk Zhixuan and Daoist Mude cannot see her or hear her voice during the courtyard encounter 27.
• Su Mo enables the black-robed cultivators to hear her by touching their foreheads 25 26.
• She later appears above the palace alongside the other victims’ spirits and addresses her family 49.

Relationships

• Su Mo — Calls him “big brother.” He promises to take her home, comforts her as she fades, and later helps avenge her death 25 26 48.
• Prince Ying — Her father. His search and grief give way to vengeance after he witnesses Su Mo’s memories; they reunite during her final appearance 39 45 46 49.
• Princess consort — Her mother, who taught her the nursery song. She blames her cultivation seclusion for leaving Tongtong vulnerable and accepts Su Mo as family after Tongtong’s farewell 25 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Don't cry, big brother. Tongtong isn't scared anymore... Tongtong really isn't scared anymore... don't cry!” 25

“Tongtong is afraid Mother and Father won't find her... and will be sad and worried...” 26

“Tongtong... has come home...” 49