I enjoyed this story quite a lot. When Liren realized that his deception was responsible for his father's endangerment, and therefore also for his teacher's injury, he stepped up and did his best to make things right, taking risks and eventually sacrificing his own reputation to save his father's. I liked the bit about how he couldn't form a tiger avatar, never having actually seen a tiger, but he was able to turn his memory of lion dancers into his champions, supplemented by his father's verses and everyone joining him in chanting them. It was very satisfying.