🎬 Character Introduction | Zhong Kui

He was meant to be the top scholar of his time.
But because of his face, he was driven into becoming a ghost.

—His name is Zhong Kui.

In life, he was a brilliant scholar.
A man of extraordinary talent.

He passed the imperial examination as the top candidate—
a future destined for greatness.

But at that very moment,
his fate was rewritten.

In the imperial court—
the emperor and ministers mocked him openly.

Not because he lacked ability.
But because—

he was ugly.

What no one knew was this:

None of it was truly human.

It was the work of ghosts.

They twisted minds.
They magnified cruelty.

They turned a gifted man into a laughingstock.

And in the end—

Zhong Kui chose death.

He dashed himself against a wall.

Not because he was weak.
But because the world around him had been distorted beyond reason.

But his story did not end there.

After death, his resentment was immense—
enough to turn him into something monstrous.

Yet two events changed everything.

The first.

The emperor awakened.

When the ghostly influence faded,
he finally realized the truth—

he had personally driven a great talent to death.

An edict was issued to the entire realm:

“This is my sin.”

Zhong Kui was posthumously honored as:
“The Sacred Lord Who Brings Blessings and Guards the Home.”

At that moment,

Zhong Kui let go of his hatred toward the human world.

The second.

The ghost who caused it all—returned.

Not to mock him.

But to repent.

What had begun as a cruel prank
had ended in a man’s death.

Overwhelmed by guilt,
the ghost made a choice.

Before Zhong Kui entered reincarnation—
he taught him the path of cultivation.

Granting a mortal
the chance to step beyond humanity.

And so—

A soul meant to be reborn… stopped.

A man meant to disappear… began to rise.

In time—

he became a pseudo-god.

Yet he never calls himself a god.

Because he remembers
how he died.

His obsession is simple.

But unshakable.

The boundary between Yin and Yang must never be broken.

Ghosts must not enter the human world at will.
The living must not trespass into the underworld—
unless in death.

Because he knows better than anyone:

Once that boundary collapses—

What is destroyed
is not just a person.

But the order of the entire world.

He is not a god.

He is—

The Guardian of the Boundary.

Zhong Kui.