The so-called Desperate Scholar was just an ordinary Scholar in front of Mu Can.
When the Desperate Scholar was still a poor Scholar named Di Ying, he secretly pledged his life to a daughter from a minor clan. When they were planning to elope but got discovered, he had no choice but to flee alone. However, he was ambushed at Yunlong Mountain.
The Clan Leader Han recognized his literary skills and let him join the group. Di Ying, feeling hopeless in achieving success through the imperial examinations, settled down on Yunlong Mountain, but he never forgot the young lady of that small clan.
After going down the mountain and finding out that the lady he had sworn his life to had married a Cultivator, he immediately rushed back to Yunlong Mountain and led Clan Leader Han and his men to massacre her entire clan.
He then raped the lady in front of the clan leader and finally stabbed him to death.
