On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Sesshomaru rarely left the Peach Forest to return to the East Courtyard's Mingyue Residence, because this day was the Ghost Festival among mortals.
Every year on this day, Li Xiangyi's mood would invariably sink into a rare gloom, his usually bright and expressive brows drawing together in a faint frown.
No matter where he was on this day, Li Xiangyi would personally burn three stacks of joss paper. He had often spoken of this custom, and though Sesshomaru had assumed he paid it no mind, the great demon somehow seemed to find his way to this mortal's side with each passing year.
Chapter 34