"Okay, okay. So he was supposed to have this tragic backstory to explain why he's so evil. You know how he was supposedly a servant in the Qiu household, and engaged to Qiu Haitang? He was actually a slave, captured by slavers off the streets—that's why his name is 'Jiu,' it's just a number. So when he murdered the Qius, he was really striking back against years of abuse—kind of like Bingge did against him. It's, you know. Cycles."