The Drummer

**The Drummer** is one of **11** Devils currently featured in *Soul at Stake*.

He was introduced as the Devil of Lament of the Lovers, a DLC released on 23 December 2019.

## Lore

This is a drum. Probably because of the age, the drum surface has been a little yellow, with a purple butterfly flying against it. The drum frame is round and rough, but it has cracks.

On the drum, small characters are engraved: Drum of Love.

Even if it is placed in an inconspicuous corner of the room, it cannot hide its strange beauty in the slightest. Over the years, there were too many loves, hates, and farewells on the drums.

Lu Fusheng stretched out his fingers, stroking the thin and smooth drum surface carefully. He couldn't help but flick it with his fingers, and the drumhead gave a "beep", a low voice, but it seemed to knock on his heart.

Qiuya shook his arm and whispered in his ear, which brought him back to life. He reached out and took Qiuya in his arms, with tenderness in his eyes.

They wished they could look good together and never separate, but they knew they were going to separate soon. Lu Fusheng is about to set off on his way home and has to say goodbye to his beloved for the time being.

From the beginning, this departure was destined. Their identities are so different that they can even be said to be the wrong combination. Lu Fusheng is the son of a wealthy businessman and Qiu Ya is a girl in a brothel in Qinglou. The encounter and love of the two is an accident in itself.

Lu Fusheng was sent by his father to buy tea with heavy money. Gu Jia, a tea vendor who has cooperated with the Lu family for many years, arranged for Lu Fusheng to visit the famous local tobacco powder place in order to protect the friendship of the landlord.

Lu Fusheng used to be very strict in tutoring. Now that he is away from the constraints of his father, he is curious in his heart. There Lu Fusheng slapped the famous prostitute Qiuya.

The first time he saw her, she was stroking a snare drum, and with a bang, she was imprinted on his heart and could not be erased.

Qiuya Bingji's jade bones are like bright moon and black hair curled up around Yunshan, and Qiushui's eyes can not tell you all kinds of styles. It is said that everyone who has met her thinks about it after returning, she doesn't keep her soul, and the countless wealthy merchants and giants who come and go here all spend a lot of money for a pro-Fangze. When Qiuya saw Fu Sheng, she saw it as usual, and the two talked more and more enthusiastically, going up to Tiannan Haibei, and down to their children, they said nothing. Unconsciously, the night had come to an end, and the tea room came to hold the lights, and the two hung the curtains to spend a good night together.

On this night, their hearts were connected like glue.

Qiuya is famous, and the guests who come here are in a constant stream every day. Lu Fusheng spends a lot of money on Qiuya, so that she no longer receives any guests, and he is inseparable from Qiu Ya. Lu Fusheng only felt that he had lived in vain for the past two decades. He had never been as happy as he is now, and he was intoxicated in the gentle village all day long.

The days of the gods passed day by day, and Lu Fusheng spent his days with Qiuya on the mountains and fun, spending money just like running water. When he returned to God, the money he took away was also spent.

Only then did Lu Fusheng realize that he had made a great mistale. The money was used for the purchase of tea, but wasted by his extravagance. What makes him face to face his father, who is entrusted with his heavy responsibility? Qiuya also blame herself deeply for this, take out the ocean and gold and silver jewelry she has accumulated over the years, and let Lu Fusheng take the tea to buy a home and make a business trip.

Lu Fusheng was so touched that Qiuya was in the place of the wind and the moon, saving money and saving this money, must be prepared for the future redemption, and now to give it to him, it is equivalent to breaking his own retreat, is to have all of his own Entrusted to him.

Fusheng promised that when he went home to plead with his father, he would surely marry Qiuya as his wife. With Qiuya's tears of farewell farewell, Lu Fusheng embarked on a journey home with a full load of tea.

The shopkeeper is quite satisfied with his son's performance, and the Lu family is even more feasting. Although Lu Fusheng was thinking of Qiuya in his heart, he didn't know how to speak in the presence of his father and relatives. For several months, the shopkeeper was busy preparing new tea every day. The tea shop was too busy to deal with. Lu Fusheng couldn't find the opportunity to speak, and was anxious and suffering. Until he was tortured by the love of Acacia and was going crazy, he couldn't help it, he decided to show his father a showdown.

Unsurprisingly, the shopkeeper was furious, but what he didn't expect was hat he got mad because of his son. After raising him for more than 20 years, he not only learned to walk around the kiln, but also married a prostitute. He felt that the entire Lu family had been humiliated, and he could not allow such absurdity to happen.

Lu Fusheng's heart was as dead as it was, thinking that it would be difficult for him to meet his lover, and it was boring to live. Although the shopkeeper was annoyed, Fusheng still his son, so he only order the servant to keep Fusheng in the house and put him under house arrest.

In the days when he lost his freedom, Lu Fusheng was almost going crazy. His heart is even more determined than his father's. He doesn't want to eat a meal, even if his parents go to see him, he is reluctant to say a word, just staring at the distant world every day, like a dead man.

The stubbornness and decadence of his son also made the shopkeeper sorrowful. The accumulation of depression have turns into illness, causing the shopkeeper bedridden.

Fusheng didn't go to see his father. On the one hand, Fusheng was not allowed to leave the backyard. On the other hand, Fusheng seemed to be almost crazy. He left nothing to himself, and the only hope in his heart was to write down his thoughts on Qiuya through letters. Entrusted to the nearby people secretly sent out. Even if he couldn't escape this home, he still looked forward to conveying his love and care to Qiu Ya.

Qiuya, who was thousands of miles away from waiting for the landing to return, could not know all this. She endured the torment of loneliness and acacia, but did not look forward to the news of love.

Qinglou is not a matchmaking business. It is definitely not allowed to not pick up customers. Qiuya won herself for a while, she couldn’t cover her own life, and she ran out of money. She had to find Gu Yao—the only person who could help her and Fusheng.

Gu Yao has a lot of sympathy for Qiuya. It is really difficult for her to imagine that she is a prostitute who is attached to the only man, which may not have any good results in his opinion. But no matter what, the Lu family was a big patron. With the wealth of the Lu family, he could not rely on this silver, and he gave money to Qiuya to redeem him.

Qiuya misses and loves Lu Fusheng far beyond Gu Yao's imagination. Even in loneliness, Qiuya still believes her lover. At that moment, this attachment to love made Gu Yao a little moved, and even had some pity for Qiuya.

Ever since Lu Fusheng left, Qiuya didn't think about tea and sleep, and the whole person was confused. Seeing that she was losing weight. Gu Yao often visited her, spoke with her, and took her out to relax. In the relative day and night, Gu Yao's love for Qiuya became stronger and stronger, and he gradually began to feel that she should not be so attached to such a person who is futile.

Gu Yao received a letter from Lu Fusheng. He didn't know what Lu Fusheng said to Qiu Ya in the letter, but he vaguely felt that it might be a ruthless distinction, and Lu Fusheng would abandon Qiu Ya after all. Such a letter would be sad and sad for Qiu Ya, so he hid the letter and did not give one to Qiu Ya. Only when Lu Fusheng and Qiuya broke off their contact and no longer contacted was the best result. Maybe he didn't realize that it was his selfishness.

Qiuya was suffering from acacia, but never received a message from Lu Fusheng, her heart became cold gradually. Perhaps from the beginning, she should have realized that this was a false wind and snow, and it was wrong to hold expectations.

How could she know that Lu Fusheng, who was far away from the heavy mountains, was suffering.

The shopkeeper was getting more and more ill. After all, he failed to survive, and he died in depression. This was a big blow to Lu Fusheng. He knew in his heart that his father's death was inseparable from him. Apart from regret and sadness, this is an excellent opportunity. Without his father's control, he can finally be free.

After the purchase of the funeral of his father, Lu Fusheng remained calm on the surface, but quietly packed up his luggage with everyone in his pocket, and brought the silver two, intending to leave home in private, to find the lover who thinks day and night. But found out by his mother.

Mrs Lu looked at this unconvinced son, tears could not stop falling, she kept counting how Lu Fusheng disappointed the old couple.

As his mother said more and more choked, Lu Fusheng didn't felt comfortable either. Lu Fusheng comforted his mother, and promised to take over the ancestral business of the Lu family first, take care of the business, wait for everything to be on track, and then make plans in the future.

In this way, Lu Fusheng became the big shopkeeper of Lu's Tea Shop. He is busy with business every day, and has no time to take care of other things. Only in the dead of night, he confided his thoughts in letters and sent them in trust. It is only in the past few years that he has sent numerous letters, but none have been answered.

He didn't know that none of his letters had reached Qiuya.

In the emptiness waiting day after day, year after year, Qiu Ya was almost dead. Not only was her body extremely weak, but her heart became cold. Had it not been for Gu Yao, she would never have lived today.

Although Gu Yao doesn't have Lu Fusheng's aristocratic elegance, he is a very talkative person, and can always find topics that interest her, from Tiannan Haibei to strange things. There is nothing he does not know. Qiuya has always been very grateful to him, but he never entered his heart, where it was filled with floating life.

Recently, Gu Yao saw Qiuya getting weaker, and felt sorry for her. In order to make her feel better, she took her around to play, rafting on the lake during the day, watching the blue waves, and drinking at the pavilion at night, and admiring the jade mountains. happy. During this time, Qiuya felt that the appearance of floating life became more and more blurred, but Gu Yao's face became clearer and clearer. On Qiuya's face, Gu Yao also saw a smile he had never seen in years.

At that moment, Gu Yao and Qiuya found that they seemed to be in love with each other.

This is very incredible, Gu Yao feels.

When Gu Yao put hundreds of letters in front of Qiuya, he thought, maybe this is the end of everything. He lowered his head and was afraid to look at Qiuya's face.

Looking at the box full of stationery, Qiuya's head was confused, and she tried to calm herself down and try to understand what was happening. When she understood it, she felt that even her soul had been taken away, and she had no energy at all. Her heart seemed to be pierced through a big hole, she felt no pain, but was extremely empty.

Her thoughts of Lu Fusheng have all but disappeared, but trust and dependence on Gu Yao is just another illusion?

She shivered and opened the letter one by one, reading it word by word. Between the lines, there was both Lu Fusheng's affection for her and the pain of separation. The memories that once drowned Qiuya.

Her heart began to ache, and her breathing became laborious. The severe pain spread, and she opened her mouth and spit out two blood.

Over the years, she has been depressed and unhappy, she has fallen in love with each other and she is ill. At this time, she suddenly collapsed under the sudden stimulation.

As Qiuya died, she entrusted her last will to Gu Yao. She hoped her skin can be made into "Drum of Love" with Lu Fusheng's bones.

Women's skin, men's bones, and acacia become lover's drums.

The men and women in love are lingering. When the water and the milk are mingling, the skin of the woman is used as the drum head, and the ribs of the man are used as the drum rack. Therefore, the lover's drums are as loud as lover's mutual complaints and lovesickness.

She couldn't stay with her lover during her lifetime, at least after she died.

When Lu Fusheng learned of Qiu Ya's death, he felt sorrow and madness. He hated his weakness and blamed himself for failing to keep his promise. He could no longer listen to anyone's persuasion, and no longer cared about any ancestral family business, he had to go to the last side of Qiuya.

Across the mountains and mountains, Lu Fu rushed to Gu's home on his birthday night. He didn't meet Gu Yao. It is said that he went to Qiuya's hometown to bury Qiuya, and he never returned.

Qiuya's hometown is an ancient village. It seems to have been deserted for a long time. He found Gu Yao, who was described as dying, in a dilapidated hanging building. The body of Mid-Autumn Ya in the coffin was still perfectly preserved, and the looks were the same as when they first met, Lu Fusheng immediately burst into tears.

Gu Yao told him that Qiuya had long forgotten about Lu Fusheng, and her last wish before death was to use her human skin and Gu Yao's bones to make a lover's drum, and she would never die again. Qiuya hopes that Lu Fusheng will complete this drum for her, and it can only be done by him.

Of course, Lu Fusheng was unwilling to achieve the similarly close ending of Quan Qiuya and Gu Yao. But he couldn't help but follow Qiuya's last wish. This was Qiuya's last request to him. This time, he couldn't let down Qiuya anymore.

Autopsy, bone removal, skinning ...

When the drum was made, Lu Fusheng had completely lost his mind, and his soul had fallen into madness forever. He did not hold back his love with Qiuya, but he let her and others' souls last forever.

Gu Yao's lies are punishment and curse.

From that day on, Guzhai was shrouded in strange mists all year round. It is often rumored that I have seen a mad man with a weird drum and knocking while walking. The drumming sounded heartbreaking, yet it was sad and heartbreaking, and couldn't stop crying.

It is said that this weird drum is made of human skin. On the drum surface of Bai Ruhaoyue, a pair of charming purple butterflies stretch their wings, and the red paint on the drum is as bright as blood staining. Sen Bai's skeleton is embedded on the outside of the drum body, which is strange but elegant.

The girl reached out and stroked the drum, as cool as water. She couldn't help but flick it with one finger, making a soft sound of "咚", whose sound was extravagant, just like a lover rubbing her ears and whispering softly, which made her heart throb.

Suddenly, someone patted her shoulder, and then she woke up, turned her head to look at a handsome man, her eyes flowed.

The man couldn't help but stretch his fingers to rub the strange drum. On the drum, small characters are engraved: Drum of Love.

## Overview

**The Drummer** can beat his Drum of Love to confuse the Gamblers. Each time a Gambler hears the drums, they will give themself a hard time because of love.

## Abilities

### **Love Curse**

Gamblers within a certain range of The Drummer will suffer from the Love Curse, which can be superimposed in two layers, each with different negative effects. The Gambler loses one layer each time they take damage. Gamblers can use any items to remove "Love" on them.

* First layer: Heartbeat

My heart is full of love, so that my heart suddenly moves, even if there is no Devil around, frequent violent heartbeats still occur.

* Second layer: Blind

Falling in love, with the exception of the Devil, Gamblers cannot see other's existence.

#### Ability notes

* **Love Curse** has a cooldown of **10** seconds.
* The range of the **Love Curse** is **15** meters.

## Cheats

*The Exclusive Skill of The Drummer.*

## Tips

Playing as **The Drummer**

Playing against **The Drummer**