Tang Moling

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Junior Martial Sister

"All day?" "A lifetime."

The Tang Clan's Junior Martial Sister, the first heroine of this work, and the Sect Leader's beloved only daughter.

The Junior Martial Sister is a quiet, shy girl whose hobby is origami.

At the start of the story, Zhao Huo is so smitten with her that he can never bring himself to leave the Tang Clan.

Alas, lovers do not always end up together. With rivals in love on every side, this road of romance cannot be described as merely "bumpy" — it is a mountain of blades and a forest of swords, rivers of blood flowing.

Biographies

The Tang Clan Sect Leader's beloved only daughter.

Fearing for her frail health, the Sect Leader went into seclusion and pondered for three years,
building on the clan's own martial arts and striking out on a new path to create the "Silent Might of Heaven and Earth" for his beloved daughter.

Its practitioner must wear seven strings of bells over her whole body,
and train bitterly until she can dash, leap, and throw Hidden Weapons without making them ring — only then is the technique mastered.
Influenced by this Mental Formula, she grew cold of nature, seldom showing feeling, disliking speech, and never smiling lightly.

Her hobby is origami.

Though she trained without cease, she did not actually enjoy it. At first she often cried.

Training was hard, and she feared her father's scolding,
so whenever she was sad she fled into her mother's arms, or else sought shelter with the Eldest Senior Brother or the Second Senior Brother.
After her mother passed away, she stopped running.

Before she knew it, she had trained to the point where she could finish a whole set of fist techniques and Complete the Technique without shedding a single drop of sweat.
She had even forgotten how to shed tears.

She locked her feelings deep in her heart, and no one could see her true face.

Before the Sect Leader's Wife passed away, she coaxed her daughter, saying:
"I am going down into the Tang Clan's Secluded Valley to go into seclusion for ten years. If you miss me,
　fold a paper crane and send it to the bottom of the valley. When I see it, I will know you are thinking of your mother."

So for ten years the Junior Martial Sister never missed a single day,
folding paper cranes by the window every night, filled with longing for her mother.

She dreads the world of people,
fearing that everyone she knows will leave her one by one, and every night she is afraid beyond control.

Everyone surnamed Tang in the Tang Clan is family,
only you are not surnamed Tang, yet you are so familiar — she does not know how to classify you.

Moling has become very attentive to you.
She wants to be near you at every moment, quietly staying by your side.

In her innocent eyes she cannot see beauty or ugliness of face; she simply craves the feeling of safety.
She cares little for Jianghu affairs and cannot even recognize the road Down the Mountain, yet she is very clear that she admires you.

The expressionless girl blooms like a flower, and the ordinary days spent with you are, every one of them, incomparable.

Bonding Process

See "Tang Moling Bonding Guide"

Bonding Token

Junior Martial Sister's Sachet

The Sachet the Junior Martial Sister carries with her, holding the spices she likes.

It repels insects and snakes, but smelling it too long will poison you.

Age

• She has a baby face that makes her age impossible to tell.^[1]
• In year 1, when Zhao Huo fainted, said the Junior Martial Sister was already a flower-season girl of marriageable age, so she is estimated at fifteen.

Hobbies

• She loves Grilled Fish! Grilled Fish for a lifetime!
• She has little notion of being full, and does not often get to eat sweet things; once there is something to eat she keeps stuffing it into her mouth until she falls asleep.
  • If no one stops her and keeps feeding her, sooner or later she will become one of those people three times the size.^[2]

Origami

• once asked to bring back a copy of the Collection of Origami. The Junior Martial Sister was overjoyed, and wanted to fold every single thing in the book.
  • When she ran out of Colored Paper, she turned her crooked ideas on the Secret Manuals, secretly tearing pages out of books and hiding the covers under her bed.
  • When she had torn up her own Secret Manuals, she tore up other people's.
  • In the end it came to light, the Junior Martial Sister was disciplined with the Family Cane, and the books were Sealed.
• Junior Martial Sister folding paper cranes: Link

Rampaging Little Lamb

• Born with small-animal traits, and with the Tang Clan too poor to feed her well, she missed the golden growth period and is unlikely to grow any taller.
• says, "The lamb is Moling, and I am the snow ferret."
• On the Clan Extermination route, Xia Lingxi calls her Little Lamb,
• and on the Western Wulin route, sees her in blood-soaked clothes and dubs her the "Rampaging Little Lamb."

Martial Arts

• Though she seems to have no wariness at all, if you do not crouch outside her window from dawn without moving a muscle, there is a 99% chance she will notice your movements.
• She does not go about the Jianghu and rarely exchanges moves with others, so her combat experience is shallow; but with an undivided heart and years of focus, she has glimpsed the depths of the Tang Clan's martial arts, and her insight is very high.
• On the Western Wulin route, when Zhao Huo faces Tan Badao, the Junior Martial Sister cuts in and settles Tan Badao in three moves, leaving him no chance to fight back.
  • Tan Badao's last words: "So the strongest of the Tang Clan in this generation was not Tang Buyi after all..."
• When plays cuju at the Training Ground, the moment the Junior Martial Sister joins in, he loses.
• rates her Qinggong among the top five in the world, while he himself is not confident of ranking in the top ten.

Hidden Weapons

• The Junior Martial Sister's Unpredictable Flying Shuttle can shoot down an opponent's Hidden Weapons in mid-flight. And there are a great many of them.
  • Combined with her formidable Qinggong, landing a hit on her is no easy matter.
  • Every time the Tang Clan goes to war, the Junior Martial Sister comes away with only the enemy's blood on her, never a wound of her own.
• The Junior Martial Sister's Unpredictable Flying Shuttle can hover in the air and change speed, so it is not actually hard for a person to strike later but land first.^[3]

Bells & Silent Might of Heaven and Earth

• To train the Silent Might of Heaven and Earth, she wears seven strings of bells — on her neck, arms, wrists, and legs (though they often slip down to her ankles).^[4]
• The seven strings of bells became shackles, sealing her joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, and desire. Her heartbeat is very slow, and her body temperature lower than most.^[4:1]
• It is said that when the Silent Might of Heaven and Earth is exerted with full force, it is like one person split into three.^[4:2]
• If no one provokes her, she should live a very long life.^[4:3]
• When the bells ring, it is most likely to the degree that her very soul is screaming.^[4:4]
• knew nothing of raising children, and for the sake of training he made no exception for the Junior Martial Sister either: whenever the bells made a noise, out came the rattan cane.
  • Beaten from childhood on, even the liveliest child would turn into a dead fish. The Junior Martial Sister's silence is three parts inborn and seven parts acquired.

Bad Sense of Direction

• Because she has no sense of direction, wearing the bells is partly to keep her from getting lost.
• She does not know the way up the mountain, and her record is notorious. Every time she goes out she mysteriously vanishes and strays onto animal trails. Time and again she has dragged the sect into mobilizing, lanterns in hand, to search the mountain all night.
• Once she swore an oath to find her own way, and the moment she stepped out the door she went missing.
  • Everyone assumed she had learned from 's example, and the Eldest Senior Brother took the blame for nothing and was nearly beaten to death.
  • Later it was Zhao Huo who found the Junior Martial Sister stuck in a rabbit hole, and this became a secret between the two of them.
• During the night raid on the Tang Clan, she got lost while pursuing the enemy. Together with Ye Yunshang, who came looking for her, she found Zhao Huo, and only then was she brought back to the Tang Clan.
• When the Tang Clan of Guangzhou came to attack, Tang Shan did not strike, but lured her into the mountain forest, where she lost her way and missed her last chance to see .
• When she returned to the Tang Clan on the eve of the great battle after her marriage, she could already find her own way.

Relationships

Zhao Huo

• Raised by Zhao Huo from childhood, and doted on by him besides, the Junior Martial Sister starts with the highest favorability in the whole game.
• She likes the mountain songs Zhao Huo sings.
• Every night Zhao Huo goes beneath the Junior Martial Sister's window, tells her stories, and lulls her to sleep.
• One night beneath the window, Zhao Huo saved the Junior Martial Sister from being nearly crushed to death between Xin Ru's legs.
• The reason stocks Colored Paper is that Zhao Huo regularly buys Colored Paper to give the Junior Martial Sister.
• The Junior Martial Sister knew very early that it was Zhao Huo crouching outside her window, but since Zhao Huo never asked, she never said so.
• She sings badly off-key. The Junior Martial Sister is thin-skinned and will not sing in front of strangers. She also fears being mocked, so Zhao Huo alone gets to hear it.^[5][6]

Romance

• Her feelings of love are suppressed by the Silent Might of Heaven and Earth, leaving her indifferent to both romance and marriage.
• On the night of the martial contest for her hand, she comes close to breaking through many times, and will go Down the Mountain with Zhao Huo.
• After breaking through the Silent Might of Heaven and Earth, she goes to Zhao Huo of her own accord to confess her love — one of the few among the romanceable female characters to take the initiative.
• Perhaps because she has watched him since childhood, she does not find Zhao Huo ugly. The Junior Martial Sister is actually mad!
• The Junior Martial Sister is in fact a girl harder to win over than anyone imagines; she must be doted on exclusively for more than half her life before she gradually opens her heart.^[7]
• From childhood she was entrusted to Zhao Huo's care by . Setting you to guard the house so you can rob it? The Master's Wife's own choice!!

Eldest Senior Brother

• The Tang Clan once had a pack of idlers led by who took pleasure in frightening the Junior Martial Sister, until dealt with them.
• 's misdeeds:
  • While she napped, he put her on a raft and let it drift downstream; she only woke when the raft broke apart and she fell into the water.
  • To train his Qinggong, he carried her on his shoulder and ran the mountain paths until she was jolted sick.
  • Just as she was about to enter her room, he suddenly shut the door and caught her in it, then laughed out loud.
  • He took her Down the Mountain to learn the way, then walked so fast on his own that she got lost and cried helplessly.
  • He took her to see the lanterns on the street, then chatted and laughed with a strange woman, and no words can describe how bitter and angry that made her.
  • He promised to buy Colored Paper but forgot, and even tore apart the paper cranes she had folded to fob her off.
• She dislikes boats, because once folded a great paper boat, and later the boat sank — with her aboard.

Ye Yunshang

• When Ye Yunshang came to the Tang Clan, she was drawn to her at first sight and felt the urge to draw close.
• Seeing that the Junior Martial Sister and Ye Yunshang were of similar age, meant for the two to keep each other company.
• She is often dragged into Ye Yunshang's pranks and framed for them, or lured in as an accomplice.
• The Junior Martial Sister is not good at expressing her feelings, and it is thanks to Ye Yunshang's timely guidance that she can voice what is in her heart.
• The Junior Martial Sister is not very confident in herself, yet she is certain that is the most pitiable and most lovable girl in the world — otherwise how could she stir up trouble everywhere and never be punished?

Shangguan Ying

• When she first met Shangguan Ying, she admired her dazzling beauty, and despaired over her own slim chances of ever growing taller.
• During Shangguan Ying's time at the Tang Clan, she doted on the Junior Martial Sister to an extreme. When Nangong Shen came to propose, she questioned him to his face as to why he did not want Shangguan Ying but wished to marry her instead, refusing to accept Nangong Shen wronging his fiancée as though she were a mere family member.

Endings

• If not bonded, she will marry Rui Sheng, and if Rui Sheng survives the Western Wulin route, she will return to the Tang Clan.
• If bonded, after the Western Wulin ending she will settle down with Zhao Huo at the Tang Clan.^[8]

Notes

• Introduction by Bird Bear on FB: Link
• The first heroine designed by the story writer Bear, originally designed to be the only romanceable character, and also Bear's favorite character.
• On the day she was born, the Tang Clan was at war with the Diancang Sect (during the Diancang Sect's challenge to the Tang Clan in the Pre-Game History Timeline).^[1:1]
• When she sees someone feeling down, she pats them on the shoulder and back with her small hands to cheer them up. She firmly believes her small hands hold some mysterious power that can heal people's hearts, and it works wonders on her father and mother, the Eldest Senior Brother, and the Second Senior Brother. If it does not work on you, pat a few more times and try again.
• She is sensitive to cold.^[9]
• She seems to be bad at drawing, and Liu E teased that someone should have her drawings carved into a mural and passed off as an ancient ruin.
• Junior Martial Sister paper model: Link
• Bird Bear describing a modern-day Junior Martial Sister: Source

  All I can say is, if the Junior Martial Sister lived in modern times, she would be a cold-blooded killer in the world of MOBA games, and the characters she is good at are all reckless damage dealers who go for the kill at every turn. No matter how others taunt her, she only ever replies with "= =" or "Oh."
  
  After she has killed a bunch of people and satisfied her bloodthirsty urges, she closes the game contentedly and goes right back to being glued to her phone.
  
  Her strength comes from her hand speed, an abnormally cold and pure killing intent almost without a single impurity, and the bag of potato chips at her side.

Gallery

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1. Facebook — Original Bird Bear 2023/3/24 ↩︎ ↩︎

2. Bahamut — 【Information】The answer to the question of Long Xiang's butt size + the private chat with Bird Bear ↩︎

3. Bahamut — 【Text Interview】Interview with Bird Bear Mouse Bug ~ 129-question super-long interview (construction complete) (updated to posts 8–9) ↩︎

4. Facebook — Original Bird Bear's comment of 2022/6/6 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

5. Bahamut — RE:【Information】Bird Bear Q&A Collection (Updated 11/2 Second Wave + Private Questions) ↩︎

6. Bahamut — RE:【Experience】After seeing Zhao Huo's daily life, I really can't say "I'll pass this on" ↩︎

7. Facebook — Original Bird Bear 2024/2/5 ↩︎

8. PTT C Chat — [Living Hero] Long Xiang and Strange Trivia P3 ↩︎

9. Bahamut — RE:【Information】Bird Bear Q&A Collection ↩︎