Gu Miaomiao

**Gu Miaomiao** (谷妙妙, *Gǔ Miàomiào*) was the youngest disicple of the Immortal Physician Valley, the wife of Wen Ruyu and mother of Wen Kexing.

## Appearance

As a disciple of the Immortal Physician Valley, Gu Miaomiao wore basic white robes according to the uniform. Outside of the uniform, she wore robe light blue in colour, and had red petals patterned on the entirety of it.

During her stay at the small farm that Qin Huaizhang hid them in, she wore basic cyan robes with no patterns.

In her disciple uniform, she had her hair down, elsewise, Gu Miaomiao mostly keeps her hair up with loose bangs at the front.

A unique physical trait Gu Miaomiao had were her shoulderblades, they were beautiful and easily recognisable by her son anywhere.

## Personality

Gu Mioamiao was shown to be timid and shy, casting her eyes downwards when Shen Shen called her the beauty of the Immortal Physician Valley. She is contains a degree of level-headedness, where she was calm during the revelation of Rong Xuan's poisoning and refrained from throwing direct accusations.

On the other hand, Gu Miaomiao has high willpower, moreso concerning her family, as she went through hardships after their exile from the Immortal Physician Valley, carrying her critically injured husband on her back while also fending off hunters who chased them down for the key of the Liuli Armour. Gu Miaomiao keeps her thoughts to herself and only reveals her plans when she is aware that she has the upper hand.

As a mother, Gu Miaomiao is loving and affectionate, comforting her son despite being in danger and spoilt him. She often carried him on her back.

## History

### Background

Gu Miaomiao was a disciple of the Immortal Physician Sect. She met and married Wen Ruyu and together they had Zhen Yan.

Zhen Yan was a child who preferred to play and refuse to study, despite Gu Miaomiao and Wen Ruyu wanting their son to become good at martial arts and medicine, they had spoilt him sweet.

### The Five Brothers

Gu Miaomiao acquainted herself with the five brothers of the Five Lakes Alliance, as they were friends with Rong Xuan, whose wife was Yue Fenger‏‎, a senior disciple of her sect.

She was present alongside her husband when Gao Chong scolded Zhao Jing for his incompetence concerning being seen taking scrolls from the Mount Tai Sect.

### The Forbidden Tome

> How come the triple corpses poison appears here?
>
> Gu Miaomiao

After gathering herbs, Gu Miaomiao and Yue Fenger came on time to see Rong Xuan duelling the five brothers all at once. As Rong Xuan rose victorious, everything seemed natural until he suddenly collapsed. Which caused everyone to run at him, While Yue Fenger was panicking over her husband, Gu Miaomiao, suspecting foul play, took a swipe of Rong Xuan's wound and smelt it, recognising the wound to be tainted with the Three-Corpse Poisoning. Because of the wound being inflicted by Gao Chong, he was the suspected perpetrator.

After this incident, Yue Fenger cut ties with the five brothers, and Gu Miaomiao did not see them again. However, Gu Miaomiao suspected that Gao Chong was innocent, and instead, framed by Zhao Jing.

As the Three-Corpse Poisoning is lethal, Yue Fenger was desperate to save her husband, which led her to steal the Yin Yang Tome to bring Rong Xuan back to life. With the aid of Gu Miaomiao, Wen Ruyu and Long Que, she successfully transplanted the heart of a Ghost in Rong Xuan, which brought him back to life. While Rong Xuan lived, his qi was highly unstable and became in a state of frenzy, destroying everything around him and fleeing.

Because Yue Fenger stole the Yin Yang Tome, she was not allowed back to the Immortal Physician Valley again. so instead, she gave the armoury key to Wen Ruyu for both safe keeping and to find a cure for Rong Xuan. However, Yue Fenger was killed by Rong Xuan accidentally in his state of madness, which made his state beyond saving.

### The Battle of Qingya Mountain

> They thought Senior Zhen would surrender under such a circumstance. In the dilemma of protecting his family and being righteous, brother Zhen would rather die than give away the secret of the armory.
>
> These so-called righteous clans in the world of martial arts excused that good and evil were at daggers drawn and forced the then valley master to place righteousness above family loyalty.
>
> Long Que

After the eventual death of Rong Xuan, the masses did not find the key to the armoury, so instead they hunted down the Wen family in the name of hunting down the man who defended the demon Rong Xuan, when in truth, they sought out the key for themselves. After Wen Ruyu had woken up, he was attacked by all the sects present at Qingya Mountain, and his body was tossed into the Immortal Physician Valley, demanding the Old Master of the Immortal Physician Valley to make them turn the key over, banish them or else they would attack the Immortal Physician Valley under the guise of harbouring criminals. With Wen Ruyu's persistence to protect the key, the Old Master had to banish the Wen family, despite Gu Miaomiao's pleads.

To cover up the incident, rumours spread that Gu Miaomiao and Wen Ruyu colluded with bandits, and when caught, the Old Master abolished their martial arts and kicked them out of the Immortal Physician Valley.

### Hunted

Without a home, without friends as the five brothers had long abandoned them and even without allies of the same interest, the Wen family were forced to fend off for themselves. Gu Miaomiao had to carry Wen Ruyu, whose meridians were severed and still in a critical condition, and take care of Zhen Yan, who was far too young to handle anything, while providing for them food, supplies and protection.

The news of the Wen Family's banishment reached Long Que too late, as Gu Miaomiao had already disappeared by then.

One night, she was completely overpowered by a group of six hunters, and tried to remain strong for the sake of her husband and son. Before they managed to attack her again, Qin Huaizhang appeared and killed them all at once, saving the Wen family from an almost certain demise.

### Refuge in A Farm

> Don't be afraid. I'm here.
>
> Gu Miaomiao to Zhen Yan

After finding and saving the Wen Family, Qin Huaizhang took them to a small farm faraway from people. When he was tending to Wen Ruyu's wounds, Zhen Yan mistook him for hurting Wen Ruyu, which caused him to run and try to "save" his father from being hurt again. Gu Miaomiao ran and carried Zhen Yan away from Qin Huaizhang and lightly scolded him, stating that Qin Huaizhang is their friend, not an enemy, regardless, she comforted her son and told him that now they are safe and in more danger.

Qin Huizhang had brought his disicple with him, Zhou Zishu. Gu Miaomiao was highly amused by Zhou Zishu's seriousness and discipline despite being a kid near her son's age. She let Zhen Yan play with him until she and Wen Ruyu can discuss what to do at the moment. Both of them decided that Zhen Yan will become a disciple of the Siji Manor under Qin Huizhang, while they live in the farm, completely isolated and out of danger range.

In the meantime, Qin Huizhang taught Gu Miaomiao some basic disguise skills.

Qin Huizhang at the time was occupied with important affairs, thus he promised Wen Ruyu to come back to the farm and take Zhen Yan to the Siji Manor after three months.

### An Unwelcome Guest

The Wen Family kept a low profile, living in the farm and waiting for the three months to pass by.

One day, Zhen Yan was being bullied by a couple of older kids who kept trying to take Yiguo away from him. He was found by Zhao Jing, who proceeded to shoo the kids away and gain Zhen Yan's trust by saying that he was a close friend of his parents. Zhen Yan then led Zhao Jing to the farm where they live in, where Wen Ruyu and Gu Miaomiao greeted him quite warmly. Gu Miaomiao asked Zhen Yan to go out and play a little while they talk.

Once Zhao Jing asked about the armoury key, Gu Miaomiao suspicions were confirmed, and raised her opinion of Zhao Jing back then and now, saying that she knew that Gao Chong was not the type of person to commit such a crime, but Zhao Jing was. Gu Miaomiao stood her ground against Zhao Jing, and smacked his hand away when he wanted to touch her inappropriately, yet he took advantage of her husband's weakness, and threatened her by her family.

> Second Brother, forgive me for not able to see you off.
>
> Gu Miaomiao to Zhao Jing

Unbeknownst to Zhao Jing, Gu Miaomiao had already predicted Zhao Jing's wickedness, and poisoned the tea that he had drank with the knowledge of Wen Ruyu. The poison would cause an eventual visceral organs breaking, and requires constant medication. One of its permanent effects is limiting ones martial arts, which is what Zhao Jing suffers from for two decades. Zhao Jing left furious and defeated, deciding to ally himself with the Ghost Valley and expose the whereabouts of the farm to them. Zhen Yan runs and cries to his parents, feeling guilty over bringing Zhao Jing to their safe place.

### Death

Once the location of the farm was known, the Ghost Valley moved to the Wen Family to snatch the armoury key. They were met with resistance from Gu Miaomiao, who died by getting pierced in the chest. Once they moved to Wen Ruyu, he had bit his tongue and committed suicide, and proceeded to die by his wife's side.

Wen Kexing was in the farm house as his parents battled, and got out to see the sight of his parents corpses, which he tried to wake up both of them.

According to Wen Kexing, he managed to recognise her body through her shoulderblades, as her hair was in disarray and face covered in blood.

### Legacy

While rumours circulated about their banishment, Wen Ruyu and Gu Miaomiao were still respected figures among the Jianghu Sects.

## Novel Difference

In the Novel, Gu Miaomiao was the last descendant of the Old Master, titled as the **Divine Doctor**. Gu Miaomiao was known for her beauty and broke many hearts once the news of her marriage were out. Since Wen Ruyu's name was never *Zhen Ruyu*, Gu Miaomiao was in the Wen family, and Wen Kexing retained his name as it is.

The events of the key happened thirty years ago, before the birth of Wen Kexing. Since there was no poisoning incident, there was no banishment from the Immortal Physician Valley.

Gu Miaomiao did not assist Yue Fenger in the surgery of reviving Rong Xuan. Her involvement with the key is tied to Wen Ruyu, where he was the one entrusted the key, and the couple decided to stay out of danger range despite not known the story of the key. They lived in a small mountain village away for ten years, in which they Wen Kexing. Wen Ruyu and Gu Miaomiao attempt to teach Wen Kexing martial arts and medicine despite being born outside of a sect, however, he was spoilt, and preferred to play instead.

When Wen Kexing was nine, Gu Miaomiao and Wen Ruyu sensed trouble when the villagers were being harmed, and decided to send off Wen Kexing in the night so he would not be caught in the crossfire. Both Gu Miaomiao and Wen Ruyu vowed to fight for the death to protect the key. They were eventually overrun by the Ghost Valley. Gu Miaomiao's corpse was completely mutilated beyond recognition; her hair disarray, the colour of her robes gone, her nose cut off completely, her features unclear, and a staff pierced in chest and prodding out from her back.

Rumours spread after their sudden disappearance that Gu Miaomiao and Wen Ruyu went travelling in seclusion as Daoist companions, their true fate unknown to the public.

## Trivia

* Gu Miaomiao's name is a homophone for "*Grain Sprout*".
* In one of the deleted scenes in *Word of Honor*, Zhou Zishu precesses his forehead to Wen Kexing, similar to when Gu Miaomiao pressed her forehead to Wen Kexing to calm him down.

## References

1. ↑ Web-Series, Episode 06
2. ↑ Web-Series, Episode 14
3. ↑ Web-Series, Episode 19
4. ↑ Web-Series, Episode 29
5. ↑ Web-Series, Episode 20
6. ↑ Web-Series, Episode 11
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Novel, Chapter 23
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Novel, Chapter 77
9. ↑ Novel, Chapter 29