Posthumous son of the former Crown Prince Xiao Jing Yu, and the adoptive son of Emperor Xiao Jing Yan, and disciple of Mei Chang Su. He feels great moral debt for the endings of his two blood brothers, Yuan Lu and Lin Shen (they were the group of 3 boys Mei Chang Su rescued from the slave prisons in Nirvana in Fire.
Xiao Ting Sheng adopted Yuan Lu's biological son, Xiao Ping Zhang and chose his adopted son as his successor over his own son. Despite commanding a powerful army capable of throwing a coup d'etat, Ting Sheng holds an unbreakable loyalty to his cousin, the Emperor of Liang, as they grew up together and share a close brotherly bond.
(Source: jolecole.blogspot.com)
