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    In the end, it had been the Yiling Patriarch’s stratagems and his fierce fighting which had turned the tide of the war. He had killed both Wen Ruohan’s sons, and floored the traitor so that Meng Yao could strike the final blow. His status as the strongest warrior on the field had been undeniable.

    Thus, the offer extended to him by the Lan court. Take his place as the Emperor’s consort, the only one permitted to lay hands upon the Emperor, the only one to share his bed with him while he sleeps, unaware and vulnerable. His last, best line of defense.

    Or: Forced by his court to accept a consort, Lan Wangji is certain he has seen enough of the so-called Yiling Patriarch to know what he's getting: an uncouth ruffian. Slowly, he begins to realise that even an emperor's assumptions can be misplaced.

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    20 Jan 2026

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    Since the Sunshot Campaign, the Cultivation World and Imperial Court have had an agreement of non-interference.

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    27 Dec 2025

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    Wei Wuxian smiles at him. Lan Wangji smiles back, helpless not to.

    ‘Don’t do that,’ Wei Wuxian says.

    ‘Do—?’

    ‘Smile like that,’ says Wei Wuxian, in a very how dare you!!!! sort of fashion. ‘How am I supposed to think when I know you can smile like that!’

    ‘Don’t think,’ Lan Wangji advises.

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    Wei Wuxian comes back to the Cloud Recesses for the winter months. He and Lan Wangji learn that emotional intimacy and physical intimacy are not (yet) quite synonymous.

    They have time to figure it out.

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    03 Dec 2025

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    Jin Ling hadn’t thought to keep track of Wei Wuxian.

    Clearly that had been a mistake.

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    12 Aug 2025

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    Nie Huaisang doesn’t expect Lan Xichen to consider him still worth liking after everything he’s done.

    (He also doesn't want to admit to himself how much he'd love to be proven wrong.)


    Nie Huaisang had painted, in the dark of night with only the light of a dozen candles and a luminescent pearl, a vast fire-scourged plain. In the midst, offset and growing out of a rocky shelter, he’d added a single shoot of green bamboo, tall and straight despite everything. Balancing the bamboo on the other side of the scroll were two lines of poetry: The grass is burnt but not destroyed by the prairie fires / When spring winds blow they bring it back to life.

    Rolled up in the painting’s scroll was a note that Nie Huaisang wrote right before committing to sending it.

    The note, which was even more terrifyingly honest than the painting, read: I will do my best to become worthy once more of being considered your friend.

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