Shy and Reserved

"My… father?" Rui Ye repeated with a strange look on his face, and his tone… how to describe it? It was like he was utterly unfamiliar with that word, his tongue moving clumsily to vocalize it out loud. He slowly shook his head. "I don't know anything about him. My mother… she said she gave birth to me alone."

Sounds like the case of an irresponsible father, Song Zhuyu surmised. 

Before meeting Rui Ye, he had been convinced that it was simply the case of a woman conceiving a child out of wedlock, which led her and her son to be ostracized and secluded from the rest of the village. But now… he was no longer so certain. The wooden carvings in Rui Ye's room certainly did raise alarm bells, and not only that, he had also never encountered anyone who could be possessed by the demon. What was so special about Rui Ye's body that the demon chose him as a medium out of all people?