Tang Lu

Master's Wife of the Tang Clan, Tang Zhongling's Junior Sister, and his wife.

Twenty years ago, when the Supreme Bliss Cult was ravaging the Wulin, she was struck by the "Corpse Heart Pill" and came under another's control; it is suspected that Tang Zheng was born during this time.
Tang Zhongling later rescued her, and though the great mistake was already made, he still proposed to her and promised her his life.

Some years after the marriage, she was blessed with Tang Moling, yet she remained silently joyless. After entrusting Tang Moling to Zhao Huo, she threw herself from a cliff.
For ten years Tang Moling has not missed a single day; every night she folds paper cranes by the window, filling them with her longing for her mother.

She once gave Tang Buyi a Panacea Pill and a glass flower, which was in truth the Tang Clan Hidden Weapon, the "Formless Arrow".

Appearance

• Writer Bear's description of Tang Lu:
  (Like ,) similar brows and eyes, her long hair gathered up in a rather dignified style.
  She wears a long robe, is fairly tall, always speaks little, and wears a sorrowful look.^[1]
• If you bring to Nangong Yuan's Birthday Banquet, Nangong Yuan says closely resembles Tang Lu.
  • From this we can see that the Tang Clan's lolicon streak runs back to the previous generation.
  • Nangong Yuan also says Tang Lu was a beauty of the Jianghu, with many suitors in her day.
  • hits on the idea of a portrait of herself grown taller, to remember Master's Wife by. But Writer Bear says won't grow any taller.
• If you bring to the Wulin Assembly, when you face Shangguan Sun after he is caught by Lady Wen's Sound Wave Skill, he mistakes Junior Martial Sister for Tang Lu.
• In the 2026 birthday video, the twin-tailed Junior Martial Sister is mistaken by Shangguan Sun for Tang Lu.^[1:1][2]
  • That video's "memories that never existed" for Shangguan Sun hide a grayscale portrait of Tang Lu.

Personality

• Judging back from the traits Tang Zheng and Tang Moling share, Tang Lu's temperament seems to have been very gentle and considerate.
  • After all, the berserk side of Little Lamb Tang Moling clearly comes down from .
• In Shangguan Sun's "memories that never existed", Tang Lu's manner of speaking is much like Tang Moling's, gentle and innocent.^[2:1]

Medicine

• Tang Fang describes the Tang Clan's line of medical teaching as follows:
  • Tang Lu ⮕ Tang Fen ⮕ Tang Zheng ⮕ Tang Fang ⮕ Tang Moling
    • But Tang Moling's Medicine is about LV 0. From this we can see that the Tang Clan's medical tradition has been steadily degrading.
  • Tang Lu seems to have been the Tang Clan's finest physician of her day; otherwise Tang Zheng, as the current Second Senior Brother, would surely have learned medicine from the best.
• The original Tang Clan Pharmacopoeia has been lost; the version that survives today is a miscellany the Second Senior Brother wrote from his own experience and understanding.
  • Tang Lu seems to have held the original Pharmacopoeia.

Relationships

Zhao Huo

• Before leaping from the cliff, she entrusted her to Zhao Huo rather than to any other female disciple or her —she trusted the little outsider disciple immensely.
  When Master's Wife picks her son-in-law, how can you call it guarding the henhouse?
  • According to the other female Tang Clan disciples: 's childhood fell in the Tang Clan's war years, when , Tang Buyi, and Tang Zheng were all away fighting,
    and Zhao Huo became one of the few reliable choices.
    And so word spread that the Young Lady of the Tang Clan's wet nurse was an ugly man.

Tang Zheng

• Though Tang Zheng is her own son, he was earlier left behind by Li Yuanqi at the Thousand Lantern Tower, and the story rarely touches on how Tang Lu and Tang Zheng interacted.
• The jade pendant Tang Zheng wears was passed down from Tang Lu.^[3]
• She dotes enormously on her half-sister ; even in a fury, a pat or two settles her.

Shangguan Sun

• One of Tang Lu's suitors. Seeing , he mistakes her for Tang Lu almost every time.
  • From this we can see that the Shangguan Family's lolicon streak runs back to the previous generation.
• At the Bottom of the Tang Clan's Valley you may pick up someone's dark history: a string of pure gold prayer beads carved with "The falcon comes from the eastern sea, hunting the deer of the western hills."
  • In Shangguan Sun's "memories that never existed", he admits the golden prayer beads are his.^[2:2]
• When was young, he chased a foppish young nobleman who had behaved improperly toward Master's Wife a thousand li; chased him all the way to Southern Songshan Temple, frightening Shi Ming into an Inner Demon.
  • When Shangguan Sun learns that has kidnapped ,
    he is so afraid will come hunting to his door that he makes return .^[2:3]
  • Southern Songshan Temple and the Shangguan Family are neighbors. The foppish young nobleman's identity is so hard to guess.
• In Shangguan Sun's "memories that never existed", after seeing he wants to adopt , not .^[2:4]
  • He even swears on it to mend his ways and support the Tang Clan. Tang Lu and have tremendous purifying power.

Notes

• The Heirloom Small Sword you may pick up at the Bottom of the Tang Clan's Valley is her relic.^[4]

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