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Though, there was a difference between her and the other yaksha; as Jinpeng, she is the sustaining yaksha not swayed by the grudges of fallen foes, slaying them with no malice but bloodlust in her heart.
But as Xiao, she is an adeptus who went through great miseries, yet willingly gives her life to conquer evil in order to serve the god she is awfully smitten with.
This identity shaped her existence for the past few millennia. Now, she felt her mask crumble slowly, everything which Dijun gave her essence a meaning to becoming futile. Surely it was because of the karma wearing her bones down, or the annulation of the ancient contract giving her an unstable sense of identity.
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An alternative universe where the Traveler doesn't exist, Zhongli and Xiao present as women and their dynamic takes a different course.