#nie zonghui

I just realised I hadnt posted this here.
Based on thistweet.

Look at his face. Who’s gonna tell him he can’t keep it with that face huh? He’s got da-ge half convinced he can train it into a guardian pet if they build a pit surrounding the walls of the Unclean realm. Sadly papa Nie tells his disciples to get rid of it at night. Huaisang tells Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian he once had a pet alligator.

Nobody knows were the alligator ended up but there’s a rumor of sightings in the rivers of Qinghe. Huaisang and Jiang Cheng will be taking a stroll some day after a cultivation conference and they will find it. The alligator never fully grew to a standard alligator size. It looks like he was always small, like Huaisang. He looks at Huaisang right in the eye. Then a little baby gator climbs on his back and Huaisang coos and tries to go pet them. Jiang Cheng restrains him but Huaisang swears that the alligator recognised him. They watch him leave with his multiple babies on top of him, down the river, probably in search of warmer waters.

This art on twitter