角色故事•一（解锁条件：角色等级20）
在工炼房里旁观父亲炼剑时，剑炉喷薄的燥热会让她肚子饿得出奇得快，往往一两个时辰后就不见了身影——她要偷跑一趟集市，填饱肚子后才能好好观瞻学习。
「这家肉龙肠出食总比别家快，师傅串肠的手法干净利索，竹签一下串进肠心，不歪也不斜。如果他去练剑，剑风一定爽利。」这么想着，她排在了队伍末端。
胡麻饭团的铺子以往总是老板娘当厨，今天却是她的丈夫。他小臂的肱肌要比膀子肉更紧实，看着像是练过刀，因而抓起饭来也颇有大破大立之感——饭团一个顶平时三个大。她立马凑近：「两份，多抓点饭。」
青衣小哥卖的炸糖藕发挥总不稳定，但今天做得尚好，甜而不腻，外酥里脆。她吃完一个，没走远，站着又看了会儿。小哥今天边糊着糖汁，边有规律地转着手腕…居然是练剑的动作，他是几时学会的？「嗯…看来厨艺中亦有剑术……」
等她吃饱回到家，已是黄昏。院子里戴着铁盔的男人从父亲手上接过一把崭新的剑。
「多谢含光大师，鄙人定将…除恶务尽。」落晖渲染着那人汹涌的坚毅，却也添了份薄暮的无望。
残阳却未落入云璃眼中，她只注意到铁盔男人明明魁梧有力，腰胯壮健，这把剑却剑体轻薄，剑尖从坡度明显大于普通利剑，这样的构造更利于应对不同方向的敌人…但那男人接过剑后，第一件事却是检查剑缰的韧力……
「他是冲锋的骑兵，对吗？这么轻的剑却还寄望于剑缰使剑不离手，一看就像会临阵脱逃的样子…而且骑术还不错。他配不上你的剑。」
含光讶然地看着云璃。
「吃那么多东西，不就是为了练眼力嘛。」
Character Story: Part I
• Unlocked at Character Level 20
Watching her father refine swords in the workshop would always stimulate her hunger — more so than usual — probably because of the intense heat emitted by the furnace. As a result, she typically disappears within a few hours, sneaking off to the market to fill her belly, apparently so that she would be in a better frame of mind to observe and learn from her father.
"This shop serves up meat sausages faster than their competitors. The chef easily skewers the sausages with mastery, piercing right through their centers with perfect symmetry. Hmm, if he were to learn swordsmanship, he would probably adopt a brisk style of fighting." She thought to herself as she joined the back of the queue.
The sesame rice balls at this shop were usually prepared by the proprietress, but her husband took over the job today. His forearm was a lot more toned than his upper arm, possibly from regular blade training. Because of that, the way he squashed the rice together had a hint of almost destructive force in it — But each rice ball ended up three times larger than their usual. On noticing this, she eagerly walked over to place her order: "Two rice balls. More rice please~!"
The fried sweet lotus root sold by the guy in green was never consistent in quality. But the one that was sold today turned out to be quite decent: Sweet but not cloying, and crispy on the outside while still retaining its crunchy bite. She had walked a short distance away by the time she finished the one she bought, that was when she stopped to observe the guy. He seemed to be rotating his wrist in a rhythmic fashion while coating the snack in syrup... He actually knew a move used in swordplay! When did he pick that up, though? "Hmm... Looks like the swordsmanship can be applied in cooking too..."
It was already sunset by the time she had her fill and returned home. In the courtyard, her father handed over a brand-new sword to another man in an iron helmet.
"Thank you, Master Hanguang. With this blade... I shall eradicate all evil." That man's raging determination shone bright in the afterglow of the sunset, yet was colored with the hopelessness of twilight.
However, Yunli did not notice the setting sun. Instead, her focus was held by the man in the iron helmet. Before her was clearly a burly and robust man, yet he was given such a lightweight sword. The sword's tip was also broader than that of an average sword's. Such a design would be advantageous when fighting enemies from all sides. But strangely, after accepting the blade, the first thing that man did was to assess the tensile strength of the sword's tassel...
"That man's an assault cavalry, right? Hmph, the sword's already so light, and he's still hoping to grab onto the tassel to keep his sword from flying...? He seems to possess decent horsemanship, but he also looks like someone who would flee on the eve of a battle. He isn't worthy of your sword."
Hanguang stared at Yunli in surprise.
"All that snacking is just for acuity training!"
