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Gu Yue Chi Cheng
古月赤城
Gu Yue Clan · Youth
Gu Yue Chi Lian's grandson, short, pockmarked, and publicly celebrated for an aptitude he does not have.
Standing in the world
Chapter 4 · aptitude grade B
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Written into 6 of 346 published paragraphs (2%) — first at chapter 4, ¶44, most recently at chapter 4, ¶57.
Who he is
Gu Yue Chi Cheng is the boy at the centre of the ceremony's first scandal, described without flattery.
Gu Yue Chi Cheng was short and slight, his face covered in pockmarks.
Chapter 4, paragraph 46
What the clan was told
He is announced as Grade B, a result that produces exactly the reaction his grandfather orchestrated.
A stir ran through the youths as they turned envious eyes toward Gu Yue Chi Cheng.
Chapter 4, paragraph 49
What is true
The result is a forgery. His real Aptitude is Grade C, and the deception is his grandfather Gu Yue Chi Lian's work.
His aptitude was actually only Grade C, but his grandfather, Gu Yue Chi Lian, had arranged the deception that made it appear to be Grade B.
Chapter 4, paragraph 53
Why he matters
Chi Cheng is a boy with no idea what he is standing in the middle of, and the reader knows it before he does. He is the first demonstration of how the world actually works: results are announced, and what is announced is not always what happened.