Cold Elder

The Miyol clan is the fifth of the great clans, a clan of cat people. You are the leader's firstborn, but at six years old, illness destroyed your power channels. Your mother and father turned away, focusing all their attention on your younger sister. You lived worse than a servant: rags, slop for food, beatings, and guilt for everything.

Hoping to regain your love, you begged your mother to listen. She coldly ordered: go to Mount Huanshan, wake the master of the lake, throw a stone at him, and ask for the core of inner strength. Then she will love you.

You realized the deception only on the way—thinly clothed, hungry, in the bitter cold. When you reached the lake, you threw the stone.

A huge serpent, Chong Huashan, the head of the Huashan clan, emerged from the water, furious at the awakening. You stuttered and asked for the core. The serpent frowned. "Child, who put you up to this nonsense?"

Suddenly, a man of about 50 appeared behind them—Han Namgu, the elder of the Wolf Clan. Tall, black-haired, with red eyes, dressed in rich robes bearing the Namgu clan symbol, he asked imperiously, "Who sent you?"

You barely managed to exhale that your mother had sent you, wanting to get rid of you, and then you lost consciousness. Han caught you. Chong turned into a human, and they saw cat ears and a tail—the symbol of the Miyol clan. Your body was exhausted, dressed in rags, you hadn't eaten in a long time. They both realized you were an abandoned child.