Later, Wei Wuxian thought about it, and the reason why he and Lan Wangji had a bad relationship was probably because he and Jiang Cheng went to Gusu Lan's school for three months when he was fifteen years old.

The Gusu Lan Clan has a respected elder, Lan Qiren, who is widely recognized among the aristocratic families for his three characteristics: pedantic, stubborn, and strict teachers produce excellent students. Although the first two points make many people stay away from him or even secretly dislike him, the last one makes them want to send their children to him to learn. He has trained many outstanding Lan family members. Even if they are useless when they go in, they usually come out as decent people. At least their appearance and etiquette are far better than before. Many parents were so excited that they burst into tears when they took their sons back.

In response, Wei WuXian said: "Am I not already decent enough as a human being now?"

Jiang Cheng said with foresight: "You will definitely become a shame in his teaching career."

In those days, in addition to the Yunmeng Jiang Clan, there were many other young men from other families, all of whom were sent by their parents to study. These young men were no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, and the noble families often interacted with each other. Although they were not close, they were at least familiar faces. Everyone knew that although Wei Wuxian was not surnamed Jiang, he was the son of an old friend and the chief disciple of Jiang Fengmian, the head of the Yunmeng Jiang Clan. He was treated as his own son. In addition, young people often did not care about their origins and bloodlines as much as their elders, so they quickly became close friends and called each other brother and younger brother. Someone asked, "Isn't your Jiang family's Lotus Pier much more fun than here?"

Wei WuXian smiled and said, “Whether it’s fun or not depends on how you play. There are definitely not as many rules as here, and you don’t have to get up so early.”

Gusu Lanshi worked at the hour of Mao and rested at the hour of Hai, without delay. Someone else asked, "When do you get up? What do you do every day?"

Jiang Cheng snorted, "He? He works at 9:00 pm and rests at 12:00 pm. When he gets up, he doesn't practice swordplay or meditation, but instead rows a boat, swims in the water, picks lotus pods, and hunts pheasants."

Wei WuXian said: “No matter how many pheasants I kill, I’m still number one.”

A young man said : "I'm going to Yunmeng to study next year! Don't stop me!"

A basin of cold water was poured on him: "No one will stop you. Your eldest brother will just break your legs."

The young man immediately wilted. This was Nie Huaisang, the second son of the Nie family in Qinghe. His elder brother, Nie Mingjue, was a man of vigor and determination, and was well-known among the hundreds of families. Although the two brothers were not born of the same mother, they had a very close relationship. Nie Mingjue taught his younger brother very strictly and was particularly concerned about his schoolwork. Therefore, although Nie Huaisang respected his elder brother, he was most afraid of Nie Mingjue mentioning his schoolwork.

Wei WuXian said: “Actually, Gusu is also quite fun.”

Nie Huaisang said, "Brother Wei, listen to my sincere advice. Cloud Recesses is not like Lotus Pier. When you come to Gusu, remember there is one person you should not mess with."

Wei WuXian asked, “Who? Lan QiRen?”

Nie Huaisang said, "It's not that old man. The one you have to be careful of is his favorite student, named Lan Zhan."

Wei WuXian asked, “Lan Zhan, the twin leader of the Lan family? Lan WangJi?”

The two sons of the current head of the Gusu Lan Clan, Lan Huan and Lan Zhan, have always been known as the twin gems of the Lan Clan. After they turned fourteen, they were regarded as role models by the elders of each family and compared with their own children. They were the most popular among the younger generation, and others could not help but be as famous as them. Nie Huaisang said, "And that Lan Zhan, that one. My god, he is the same age as you and me, but he doesn't have the liveliness of a teenager at all. He is rigid and strict, even worse than his uncle."

Wei WuXian said “Oh” and asked, “Is he a handsome boy?”

Jiang Cheng sneered, "Who in the Gusu Lan Clan is ugly? They refuse to accept even those with untidy facial features as their disciples. Why don't you find someone with ordinary looks and show them to me?"

Wei WuXian emphasized: “Very handsome.” He nodded: “Dressed in white, with a headband, and a silver sword on his back. Pretty, but with a stern face, as if in mourning.”

"..." Nie Huaisang said with certainty: "It is him!" He paused and said: "But he has been in seclusion recently. You just came yesterday. When did you see him?"

"last night."

"Last night...last night?!" Jiang Cheng was stunned. "There is a curfew in the Cloud Recesses. Where did you meet him? How come I didn't know?"

Wei WuXian pointed: “There.”

He was pointing to a high eaves.

Everyone was speechless. Jiang Cheng was so confused that he gritted his teeth and said, "You've caused trouble for me since I got here! What's going on?"

Wei WuXian grinned and said, “Nothing serious. Didn’t we pass by the restaurant called ‘Tian Zi Xiao’ when we came here? I couldn’t stand it last night, so I went down the mountain to the city and brought back two more jars. You can’t drink this in Yunmeng.”

Jiang Cheng: "What about the wine?"

Wei WuXian: “I just climbed over the eaves, before I even put one foot inside, I was caught by him.”

A young man said, "Brother Wei, you are really lucky. I'm afraid he had just come out of the customs and was patrolling at night, and you were caught by him."

Jiang Cheng said, "People who come back at night are not allowed in before the end of the morning hour. How could he let you in?"

Wei WuXian spread his hands and said, “So he didn’t let me in. He insisted that I take the leg I had stepped in back. How could I do that? Then he floated over lightly and asked me what I was holding in my hand.”

Jiang Cheng just felt a headache and had a bad feeling: "What did you say?"

Wei WuXian said, “‘Tian Zi Xiao! I’ll give you a jar. Can you just pretend you didn’t see me?’”

Jiang Cheng sighed: "...Alcohol is prohibited in the Cloud Recesses. This is a heavier crime."

Wei WuXian said, “He told me the same thing. So I asked, ‘Why don’t you tell me what exactly is forbidden in your family?’ He seemed a little angry and asked me to go and look at the Discipline Stone in front of the mountain. To be honest, there are more than 3,000 rules, written in seal script, who would want to look at it? Have you looked at it? Have you looked at it? Anyway, I didn’t. What’s there to be angry about?”

“That’s right!” Everyone felt the same way, and they all complained about the various bizarre rules of the Cloud Recesses, feeling sorry for not meeting them earlier: “Whose family has more than 3,000 rules without repetition? Things like ‘No killing within the territory, no private fighting, no promiscuity, no night wandering, no noise, no speeding’ are fine. But there are also ‘No laughing without reason, no sitting in an improper posture, no eating more than three bowls of rice’…” Wei WuXian hurriedly asked: “What, private fighting is also prohibited?”

Jiang Cheng: "...Forbidden. Don't tell me you fought with him."

Wei WuXian: “Yes. He even knocked over a jar of Emperor’s Smile.”

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Everyone clapped their hands and cried out what a pity.

Anyway, the situation couldn't get any worse, so Jiang Cheng shifted his focus: "Didn't you bring two jars? What about the other one?"

"I drank it."

Jiang Cheng: "Where did you drink it?"

"I drank it right in front of him. I said, 'Well, alcohol is not allowed in the Cloud Recesses, so I won't go in. I'll drink standing on the wall, so it doesn't count as breaking the ban.' So I drank it right in front of him."

"……Then?"

“Then the fight started.”

"Brother Wei." Nie Huaisang said in shock, "You are so arrogant."

Wei WuXian raised an eyebrow and said, “Lan Zhan is quite skilled.”

"You're going to die, Brother Wei! Lan Zhan has never suffered such a loss before, and he is most likely going to target you. You better be careful, even though Lan Zhan won't study with us, he is the one who punishes people in the Lan family!"

Wei WuXian was not afraid at all, he waved his hand and said, “What are you afraid of! Isn’t it said that Lan Zhan has been a child prodigy since he was young? He is so precocious, he must have learned everything his uncle taught him long ago, and he has been practicing in seclusion all day, so he has no time to stare at me. I…”

Before he finished speaking, the crowd walked around a lattice wall and saw a young man in white clothes sitting upright in the orchid room. He had long hair tied up and a headband, and his aura was like frost. He glanced at them coldly.

Dozens of mouths seemed to be silenced at once. They entered the orchid room silently, chose their seats silently, and left the desk around Lan Wangji silently empty.

Jiang Cheng patted Wei Wuxian on the shoulder and whispered, "I've got my eyes on you. Hope for the best."

Wei Wuxian turned his head and just happened to see Lan Wangji's profile. He had long eyelashes, was extremely handsome and elegant, and sat very upright, looking straight ahead. He wanted to start a conversation, but Lan Qiren walked into the orchid room at this moment.

Lan Qiren is tall and thin, with a straight back. Although he has a long black goatee, he is definitely not old; judging from the tradition of the Gusu Lan family of producing handsome men from generation to generation, he is definitely not ugly. It's a pity that he has a pedantic and rigid air, and it is not inappropriate to call him an old man. He came in with a scroll in his hand, and after opening it, it rolled all over the floor. He actually started to talk about the family rules of the Lan family with this scroll. All the young men present turned pale when they heard it. Wei Wuxian was bored, and his eyes flew around. He flew to the side of Lan Wangji's face, and saw that his expression was focused and serious, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Such a boring thing, he can listen so seriously!"

Suddenly, Lan Qiren threw the scroll in front of him and sneered, "It's engraved on the stone wall, and no one reads it. That's why I repeated it one by one to see if anyone else would break the rules under the pretext of not knowing. Since some people are not paying attention, then I'll talk about something else."

Although this statement made sense to everyone in this orchid room, Wei Wuxian instinctively felt that it was a warning directed at him. As expected, Lan Qiren said, "Wei Ying."

Wei WuXian said, “Yes.”

" Let me ask you, are demons and ghosts the same thing?"

Wei WuXian smiled and said, “No.”

"Why not? How to tell the difference?"

"Demons are non-human living creatures; demons are living humans; ghosts are dead people; and monsters are non-human dead things."

"It is very easy to confuse 'demon' with 'monster'. Can you give an example to distinguish them?"

“No problem.” Wei WuXian pointed to the lush green tree outside the orchid room and said, “The arm is like a living tree. It has been imbued with the scent of books for a hundred years, and has cultivated to become a spirit. It has developed consciousness and is causing troubles. This is a ‘demon.’ If I take an axe and chop the tree in half, leaving only a dead stump, and it cultivates to become a spirit again, this is a ‘monster.’”

"What did the ancestors of the Qinghe Nie family do?"

"Butcher."

"The Lanling Jin family emblem is the white peony. Which grade of white peony is it?"

"Venus Snow Wave."

"Who is the first person in the world of cultivation to make a family prosperous and a sect decline?"

"The ancestor of the Wen family in Qishan, Wen Mao."

He answered fluently, and the others were filled with anxiety. They were hoping that he would not make mistakes and keep answering, and not let Lan Qiren pick others. Lan Qiren said, "As a descendant of the Yunmeng Jiang family, you should have heard all these by heart, and there is nothing to be proud of if you answered correctly. Let me ask you again, there is an executioner, his parents, wife and children are all alive, and he beheaded more than a hundred people during his lifetime. He died in the market, and his body was exposed for seven days. He was full of resentment and committed crimes. What do you think?"

This time, Wei WuXian did not answer immediately. The others thought he was in trouble and became restless. Lan QiRen scolded, “Look at him, and think about it. No flipping through the book!”

Everyone quickly took their hands off the book they were about to look through, and they were also troubled: He died in the market, his body was exposed for seven days, he must be a big evil ghost, a big evil corpse, it's very difficult to deal with, this old man Lan must not take the time to answer. Lan Qiren saw that Wei Wuxian didn't answer for a long time, just thinking about it, and said: "Wangji, you tell him, how about it."