Song Qingshi

**Overview**

Song Qingshi is a medical student from the modern world. He dies and is transmigrated into a Xianxia setting of a novel "The Exceptional Furnace" and told to find the protagonist with the description that they were a man, a beauty, and suffered a terrible fate. He is supposed to save this man from being a slave, buying him at an auction and fixing the terrible original story. He manages to narrow down the options to just two people, Yue Wuhuan whom he met by a river when he first awoke after transmigrating, someone who had been a slave since childhood and was deeply abused, or Bai Zihao, a newly enslaved innocent looking young man. Due to Song Qingshi's lack of genre awareness, he incorrectly chooses Yue Wuhuan, who in actuality only appeared in the original novel three times as a minor villain.

Song Qingshi is determined not to fail his mission, which he thinks of as an 'exam' and goes to great lengths to try to heal Yue Wuhuan of his physical and psychological injuries.

Song Qingshi has two sacred fires inside of him, the Red Lotus Fire for refining pills, and the Underworld Ghost Fire for killing people. He uses the Cold Jade Technique to control them, this makes him have an unusually cold body temprature. He is also known in Medicine King Vally as "Medicine King Xianzun". He has a single water-type spiritual route, which makes him very desirable to people wanting to dual cultivate. He has been cultivating for nearly a thousand years by the time of the main story, at least 900 of which were spent inside his home and the remaining time spent gathering medicine in mountains or secret realms.

Physically, he is not very tall and relatively thin, pale, and described as having "clear eyes".

He enjoys sweets and is not good with money. He has minor mysophobia, disliking things which are unsanitary due to his medical knowledge of diseases and bacteria. He almost always wears white, including the modern styled night clothes he had custom made near the beginning of the book. Though he wears white to avoid looking frail, he prefers bright colors. He has a habit of reciting medical scriptures in his sleep.

**History:**

Song Qingshi is a medical student from the modern world. He was sickly and asocial, having no friends and dedicating all his time into studying. When he dies from his chronic sickness, Lou Gehrig's Disease, he is transmigrated into the Xianxia Novel "The Exceptional Furnace". It is later revealed that this world is not a novel at all, but that this story was just an excuse for the system to give tasks.

Song Qingshi is his modern life had a mother, father, and sister. His mother was an internationally renowned pianist, because of her, music became his only hobby outside of studying during his modern life. He uses his memories of this family to help him interact with the world, such as remembering his sister telling him not to ask women about their weight, and her giving business advice about selling to investors. His elder sister raised an Alaskan Malamute, which was very unruly, and Song Qingshi gives An Long the nickname "Alaskan Malamute" because of it. She was also apparently also inclredibly clever, beautiful, and rich, so was sought after by a great number of men wanting to marry her. He also mentions that his father told him that in order to have a happy marriage, his partner is always correct, and if they are not, refer to the first part of the advice. This sentiment was supported by his mother and sister. When Song Qingshi and Yue Wuhuan finally begin their relationship, he tends to follow this idea.

In his "current life" at the beginning of the story, Song Qingshi got his inheritance accidentally in a hidden realm. He only ever learned his master's surname was "Song" and given he had no surname at the time, took it out of respect. His master is described as a man who likes to question everything. Authority, knowledge, the nature of the world, anything and everything. Master Song didn't want to be respected as a master, but for his knowledge and abilities. He was taught because of his inherent talent for medicine and poisons, as well as the two spiritual fires he was born with. Song Qingshi in this life was orphaned due to the violence and massacre going on around the time of his birth.

800 years before the start of the story, Song Qingshi found a dying half-demon child who had three poisons inside him. This was Song Qingshi's first complex patient, and he took him to a broken mountain temple to hide as he healed him due to the stigma around half-demon children. After two years, he sent the child to live with Ci Bei Xianzun, but the child ran away not long after.

Song Qingshi originally started as a white stone which had been refined with red lotus fire by the heavenly emperor. It was sued to suppress the flames of the underworld and was forgotten about. However, in suppressing the underworld flames, it saved billions of lives, and this mixed with the fact it began to be worshiped by mortals due to the Phoenix God (Yue Wuhuan) coveting the stone for its beauty and often visiting it, which made mortals speculate and suspect the stone was once an immortal, eventually earned the stone enough merits to ascend as a god, gaining consciousness and becoming Song Qingshi. When Yue Wuhuan the Phoenix God was trapped in the mortal realm by demons and none of the other gods succeeded in freeing him, Song Qingshi volunteered to try. Though none of the other gods believed the simple rock who could not even speak was capable of saving the phoenix god, no one tried to stop him as they believed it would be no harm. Song Qingshi proceeded to repeatedly attempt to save Yue Wuhuan for just over 1350 lifetimes.

**Personality:**

Song Qingshi is highly intelligent, but extremely emotionally unaware and uses logic to try to reason out people's behavior and what his reaction to it should be- often coming to strange or incorrect conclusions. He is content to be alone for the most part, though he is curious about other people, and fulfills himself with his work. He cares very deeply about the white mice uses for his research, taking good care of them. He cares very little for people's opinions of him, having a reputation as the strange and eccentric master of Medicine Valley.

Song Qingshi is extremely stubborn, never giving up once he has made up his mind to do something. He believes failure is a necessary part of the process of living, and that every failure should be documented so it can be avoided.

When Song Qingshi and Yue Wuhuan eventually have a relationship, Song Qingshi is aware of his own inexperience and does various research in romance and sexual novels in order to prepare, even going so far as to memorize lines the characters say. Due to this, he is very adventurous, even so far as to give Yue Wuhuan a few surprises despite his experience.

**Connections:**

Yue Wuhuan: Daoist Partner, Husband

An Long: Friend

Song Jincheng: Friend

Xiao Bai: Son (adopted)

Medicine King's Valley: Home

**Chapter 1-4**

When Song Qingshi awakes after death, he is faced with the system, asking him if he would like to accept a mission fixing the plot of a bad romance novel. Wanting a second chance at life, Song Qingshi lies saying he is extremely experienced in reading novels and will be the perfect choice to fix one despite never having read any at all. He then wakes up in a forest, he stumbles around for a while, overwhelmed at his new body and life. He is found weeping near some water at his reflection by Yue Wuhuan, who mistakes him for a fellow slave who is attempting suicide. Yue Wuhuan gives Song Qingshi some advice, as well as telling him about how he will be freed that night, which Song Qingshi does not understand.

Song Qingshi is told to find the protagonist with the description that they were a man, a beauty, and suffered a terrible fate. He is supposed to save this man from being a slave, buying him at an auction and fixing the terrible original story. He manages to narrow down the options to just two people, Yue Wuhuan, someone who had been a slave since childhood and was deeply abused, or Bai Zihao, a newly enslaved innocent looking young man. Due to Song Qingshi's lack of genre awareness, he incorrectly chooses Yue Wuhuan, who in actuality only appeared in the original novel three times as a minor villain.

To save Yue Wuhuan, Song Qingshi first stops him from being killed by a tiger as he performs, which is revealed to have been a set up by Yue Wuhuan with the intention of ending his life. Yue Wuhuan is knocked unconscious as he is saved and Song Qingshi buys him from Jin Feiren. He then takes Yue Wuhuan back to the Medicine Valley to begin receiving treatment.

**Chapter 5-18**

Song Qingshi brings Yue Wuhuan into the Medicine King's Valley, his priority is to heal Yue Wuhuan and make him a solid physical and psychological treatment plan. The first thing he does upon Yue Wuhuan waking is explain to him how he plans to help heal him physically, being as direct as possible (a skill he learned from medical school to help compensate for his lackluster beside manor). Yue Wuhuan is very obedient, believing that Song Qingshi will be a master like every other he has had, and Song Qingshi is reassured that he found the right sweet, innocent shou. He consistently proves to Yue Wuhuan how he will not take advantage of him, reassuring him of his worth and right to dignity and respect. One main way he does this is with the Six Meridians Rejuvenation Medicated Bath, during which he shows through giving Yue Wuhuan privacy and insisting that if he does not like to be looked at while he bathes, then he should not be. Song Qingshi searches hard during this time for a solution to the Acacia Seal, believing Yue Wuhuan can never fully recover with it still on his body.

Song Qingshi begins teaching Yue Wuhuan about medicines as part of his psychological treatment, having him pursue his interests and find healing through his love of learning. Yue Wuhuan is a natural prodigy and studies extremely hard, Song Qingshi is endlessly impressed by this and dotes on him. Song Qingshi also tries to build a good working relationship so he can provide rational emotive therapy to Yue Wuhuan, he uses his experiences from his previous life to attempt this, wanting to bring a book he doesn't understand to Yue Wuhuan so they can research it together. He brings him Floating Life in the Jade Terrace, and extremely flowery-worded smut book. This is extremely embarrassing for Song Qingshi, but Yue Wuhuan realizes it was a mistake and does not hold it against him. At one point when Yue Wuhuan is sorting books, he comes across The Nie Clan's Poison Scriptures. He expects to not be allowed to study this, but Song Qingshi surprises him by saying he may study whatever he likes. He even encourages the study of poisons so Yue Wuhuan can avoid being bullied. During his medical training, he also gets vengeance on Yu Qing, given as a cadaver to Medicine King Valley, and She Yun, who is taken in as a patient after being found on the side of the road. Song Qingshi was not aware of either of these incidents, but would not have been against them if he was aware, being of the belief that one should repay kindness with kindness, and cruelty with cruelty.

At one point during this time Song Qingshi commisions modern pajamas and tries to cut his hair, thinking it too much trouble, but is stopped by Yue Wuhuan who explains all the reasons he shouldn't. From this point on, Yue Wuhuan promises to always comb his hair for him.

Yue Wuhuan has an extremely poor reputation outside Medicine King Valley due to Jin Feiren forcing him to pose for an erotic collection of prints known as Beauty of the Golden Age, which became very popular and widely known. Song Qingshi learns this while on a shopping trip to Lecheng, where he sees the prints in a store with Yue Wuhuan. He assures Yue Wuhuan that they will find some way for him to live normally without people always looking down on him. He also buys many trinkets and treats for Yue Wuhuan during this outing, and punishes two cultivators for speaking poorly of Yue Wuhuan, claiming he seduced Song Qingshi.

Song Qingshi gets his little white mice in chapter 18, and from this incident Yue Wuhuan tells Song Qingshi how they are actually having some financial troubles. Song Qingshi, who had been the privileged son of a rich family before and didn't think much about money, felt very embarrassed he didn't know, and Yue Wuhuan takes over the Valley's finances from then on.

**Chapter 19-26**

The time An Long is first in Medicine King Valley (during the story). He invites An Long so they can make a business partnership which will improve the financial situation in the valley. An Long teases him very ruthlessly while there, but makes sure to never go so far Song Qingshi cannot forgive him. He gives An Long 126 rules to follow when interacting with Yue Wuhuan so that he won't cause trouble. At one point, Song Qingshi makes extremely terrible sweets for An Long because he doesn't want him eating the food that Yue Wuhuan made. An Long says they aren't bad, and tricks Song Qingshi into eating them despite tasting awful as a way of teasing him.

Song Qingshi believes that An Long and Yue Wuhuan are starting to become friends, and is suspicious but supportive. This is turned around when An Long uses the Fantasy Gu on Yue Wuhuan, unintentionally causing him to relapse with his mental health. Song Qingshi decides not to enter a partnership with An Long, instead making one with the Night Rain Pavilion, to avoid An Long's trouble. He does give him the Purple Flower Dew in exchange for the Emotion Locking Gu though.

**Chapter 27-32**

Song Qingshi tries to learn more about Yue Wuhuan, but struggles due to his patient's closed off and apprehensive nature when it comes to sharing about himself.

Song Qingshi goes to Yanshan Sect and kills Xie Que, freeing the children who were there and taking many in as disicples, including Qing Luan, Ming Hong, and Rong Ye. He then uses the Quintessence of All Souls to free Yue Wuhuan from the Acacia Seal, gives him Xie Que's soul in a Soul Lamp, and returns the box of pretty stones Yue Wuhuan kept in childhood, all three as birthday gifts.

Yue Wuhuan begins his breakthrough to foundation building after the seal is removed, but very unusually has to go through a heavenly tribulation. There are nine strikes of lightning, the type fit for a Nascent Soul Cultivator's tribulation. Song Qingshi is barely able to save his life by taking the final ninth strike in his place, falling into a coma.