There are many strings attached to wickedness that you might not know.
No one was really born wicked. No, that's an insult to the interesting concept of 'free will.'
It's either there was no other choice that guaranteed survival or there was no other way to express one innermost self except through cruelty and rebellion.
But Mo Yuan was a startling exception.
Born in the heavens with no taste of mortal affection, sorrow and the cold, distant feeling of death. Assumed to be a monster right from birth, he took that calling seriously. More serious than any immortal will be drawn to the calling of a great destiny.
A few five thousand years back, the young prince sought more than just to be known as the emotionless, young lord of the demon race. Watching his father and other relatives try to change and 'cure' the wickedness in him was boredom.
There was much more than being told to be someone other than yourself.
