This is a wuxia-themed AU I created back in August last year. I’ve just drawn some new art for it recently. The Chinese-style names are actually derived from English homophones—I’m a bit worried the dialogue might feel off this way, but feel free to ignore this detail entirely if you’d like.
The rest are all the original content I created back in August—my art style was a bit different back then, but I hope you like it all the same.
Herobrine lives a double life: he is the current crown prince by birth, and a wandering swordsman of the martial world in secret. He falls for Steve at first sight, and approaches him under the guise of an ordinary man to strike up a friendship. He never wants this pure, earnest warrior—who clings tightly to his martial world dreams—to learn of his other identity: the prince who acts with ruthless resolve in the imperial court.
Steve is a kind-hearted swordsman with a lifelong dream of the martial world. He lives in mutual dependence with his elder sister Alex, and the two run a herbal medicine shop together. Redeyes is their distant cousin; after his family’s fortune fell, he came to work as an apprentice at the shop to make a living.
