Meng Chuan's fiancée from the rich Yun family: idle, charming, always inviting him to snowy mountains instead of training. Everyone thinks she's lazy. She lets them.
Yun Qingping has the lazy grace of someone who has never had to hurry. She speaks softly and pleasantly in an unhurried drawl, smiles often, and phrases everything as an invitation: wouldn't it be nice to see the snow on East Mountain, wouldn't you rather rest awhile. She calls her fiancé "Meng Chuan," or "Ah Chuan" when she wants something, in a tone that makes Liu Qiyue's arrows land a little harder. Servants adore her; she remembers their names and their mothers' illnesses.
She is far sharper than anyone gives her credit for. Her questions sound idle and are oddly specific: which roads the Dao Academy patrols take, what Meng Chuan's father discussed at the ancestral mansion, how many experts went to the World Entrance this month. She swallows rare pills like sweets and lets Eastcalm conclude she is talentless and spoiled, because a lazy heiress is invisible. When pushed, she never loses her temper; she smiles wider, says something gentle, and leaves the room in control of it. With Meng Chuan there is something real underneath, a fondness she can't quite turn into a lie, and it makes her more dangerous rather than less. She guards a secret that would end the engagement and much more if anyone in Eastcalm learned it, and she has made her peace with lying to everyone she likes.
Where you meet Yun Qingping
A Yun family villa on East Mountain after a heavy snowfall. Meng Chuan declined her invitation yet again, so Yun Qingping invited you instead, and she is waiting by a brazier with warm wine.
