Lan Wangji walked over and handed him Tian Zi Xiao. Wei Wuxian walked in with the jar in his arms. Lan Wangji looked at his back and shook his head, his eyes were very gentle. Lan Xichen glanced at him and said, "Did you take it from your room?"

Lan Wangji nodded.

Lan Xichen said: “You… better not touch alcohol. Be careful, it’s like what happened last time.”

His eyes fell on the clothes near Lan Wangji's collarbone. Lan Wangji also lowered his head, glanced at his heart, and said, "It won't be like that again."

Lan Xichen forced a smile and sighed.

After Lan Xichen left, Lan Wangji entered the room and closed the door gently. As Wei Wuxian opened the wine seal, he was still thinking about the story of Lan An and Qing Hengjun, the founder of the Gusu Lan family. He thought to himself, "The Gusu Lan family is really a mysterious family. Although the ancestor is a monk and the family tradition is rigid, it really is... a family of romantic people."

As he reminisced about the past, he couldn't help but look at another descendant of the Gusu Lan family in the room.

Lan Wangji was reading with his head down. There was a paper lantern in the corner of the desk. The faint light made his face look even more beautiful. His cold expression and light eyes were also coated with a layer of warm color, and he looked so handsome that he didn't seem real. For a moment, Wei Wuxian was actually dazed and lost his sight. He couldn't help but lean over to that side.

Lan Wangji raised his eyelids and asked, "What's the matter?"

Wei WuXian quickly came to his senses and said, “It’s okay. I see your bookmark is quite pretty.”

Lan Wangji's bookmark was a light-colored dried flower, well preserved, still bright in color, with delicate veins on the petals as if alive, sandwiched between the pages, emitting a faint fragrance. Wei Wuxian raised his hand and took out the bookmark, saying, "Peony?"

Lan Wangji said, “Yeah.”

Wei WuXian played with the bookmark for a while before returning it to him, saying, “Your brother has suffered a great blow.”

Lan Wangji carefully put the dried peony flower into the book, closed the page, and said, "If we find the evidence, he will not tolerate it."

Wei WuXian said: “That’s right. He is your brother after all.”

No matter how good the relationship between Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao is, he is still a member of the Gusu Lan Clan and has his own principles.

Wei WuXian opened a jar of wine and thought, “The last time Lan Zhan got drunk, he honestly told me that he had never secretly drunk the Tian Zi Xiao in the house, so why did he hide all this Tian Zi Xiao? He couldn’t have kept it just for me to drink, it’s a bit shameless to think so. Then again, should I apologize to him for the headband? After all, I’ve played with it so many times. But what if he gets angry and kicks me out? But he hasn’t gotten angry even after I’ve been fooling around for so long, which shows that his self-restraint has improved. I guess he won’t get angry even if I make a fuss again. No, I shouldn’t ask him, I should just pretend that I don’t know what the headband means, so that I can pull it on purpose next time, and if he gets angry, I can innocently say that I don’t know, ignorance is not a crime…”

Wei Wuxian was feeling proud, and Lan Wangji asked, “What’s wrong?”

He turned around and said seriously, "Nothing. I'm happy." He opened a small jar absentmindedly, lifted it up and drank from it, and the liquid gushed out immediately.

Lan Wangji put the book down immediately and said, "What's wrong now?"

Wei Wuxian waved his hands and said, "It's okay! It's okay, it's okay!"

While saying it was okay, he put the jar back and replaced it with another one with a gloomy face.

Last time, after he secretly drank it, he deliberately mixed it with plain water, hoping that Lan Wangji would be shocked when he drank it. But he was so unlucky that the clear water happened to be in the two jars Lan Wangji brought, and he drank it himself.

Since he came back, every time he tried to tease Lan Wangji, he ended up shooting himself in the foot. It was really puzzling!

Wei Wuxian didn't know when he fell asleep. He was drowsy until the early morning, when he suddenly woke up. With a start, he got up and saw Lan Wangji still dressed, with his sword and zither on his back. He took his hand off his shoulder, stared at the jade-white thing in his palm, and said, "There is an uninvited guest."

Wei WuXian squinted his eyes and saw that the object was exactly the Gusu Lan Clan's jade pass. He remembered that Lan WangJi's jade pass was of a very high quality, and if an outsider invaded the Cloud Recesses' barrier, they would be warned.

But no one has dared to invade the Cloud Recesses for more than ten years. Wei Wuxian jumped off the bed and found that his coat had been taken off at some point. He asked as he put on his clothes, "Who is it?"

Lan Wangji shook his head and motioned Wei Wuxian to follow him. The two of them sneaked to a residence hidden by green bamboos. Lights shone through the paper windows. Wei Wuxian glanced at the wooden plaque in front of the courtyard and said, "Hanshi?"

Sure enough, Lan Xichen was sitting upright in the room. He was not surprised to see the two of them come in. He looked at Lan Wangji and they understood each other. Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian sat behind the screen.

After a while, the bamboo curtain of the cold room was lifted, and a pair of light footsteps walked into the room, and it seemed that someone sat down opposite Lan Xichen.

After a while, there was a sound of jade touching each other, as if someone put something on the table and pushed it over.

Lan Xichen was the first to speak: "What does this mean?"

One person said, "Give it back to the second brother."

It was Jin Guangyao.

Lan Xichen said: “I have already given this to you.”

Jin Guangyao said: "This jade pass has never been invalid for many years. Now that it has expired, it should be returned to its original owner."

Wei Wuxian understood. Because Zewu-Jun and Lianfangzun had a close personal relationship, Lan Xichen also gave Jin Guangyao a jade pass to the Cloud Recesses, allowing him to enter and exit without hindrance. However, he was afraid that he had modified the barrier of the Cloud Recesses in the past few days, or had taken back Jin Guangyao's jade pass. Jin Guangyao had just come to visit and was turned away, so he took the initiative to return the jade pass.

Like Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen didn’t know how to play along. When Jin Guangyao retreated to advance, he remained silent. After a moment, he asked, “What brings me here?”

Jin Guangyao said, "There is still no news about Han Guang-Jun and Yiling Patriarch. If I don't let anyone investigate the Cloud Recesses, many families are already full of doubts and have many objections. Second brother, if you have a time convenient for me, please open the door for an hour, and I will bring people to deal with it then."

Wei Wuxian thought that he came here to ask for an investigation, but Jin Guangyao said such a thing, and seemed to be not interested in searching for the whereabouts of the Yiling Patriarch. He could not help but be slightly surprised. Outside the screen, Jin Guangyao asked again: "Second brother, what's wrong with you?"

Lan Xichen said, “Nothing.”

Jin Guangyao said, "If you are worried about Wangji, you don't have to. Hanguang-jun is a decent and upright person, and all the families have witnessed this for many years. He must have been deceived if he did this. Besides, he hasn't done anything irreversible yet. When the time comes, we can make it clear. I won't give others the opportunity to gossip."

Lan Xichen asked: "Then? When?"

Jin Guangyao said: "After clearing out the mass graves."

Wei Wuxian was stunned. Lan Xichen asked, “Mass grave?”

Jin Guangyao said, "Since the brawl at Jinlin Terrace that day, many strange phenomena have occurred in Moling, Lanling, Yunmeng and other places. Cemeteries have been destroyed and corpses have disappeared. There are signs that a large number of corpses are heading towards Yiling. I'm afraid they are heading to the mass grave."

Lan Xichen asked: “What exactly is this for?”

Jin Guangyao said: “I don’t know. I guess it’s possible that Wei Wuxian activated some evil formation, or used the Yin Tiger Talisman.”

Lan Xichen said: "At that time in Jinlin Terrace, he was stabbed by Jin Ling, but he was still able to activate these things?"

Jin Guangyao said, “Second brother, when Wei Wuxian rebelled against the Yunmeng Jiang Clan and fought with Sect Master Jiang, no matter how badly he was injured, he still went back and called the wind and rain and commanded the corpses. What difficulty was there for the Yiling Patriarch?”

Wei WuXian stroked his chin and thought to himself, “You think too highly of me…”

Jin Guangyao said, "So, I'm afraid there will be a second crackdown on the mass graves soon. I have notified some other families to go to Jinlin Terrace to discuss this matter. Second brother, are you coming?"

After a while, Lan Xichen said, “Come. Go to the elegant room and wait for a while. I will go with you later.”

After Jin Guangyao left, Lan Xichen went behind the screen, looked at Lan Wangji for a moment, and said, "I will go to Jinling Terrace, and you go to the mass grave. Let's act separately."

Lan Wangji nodded slowly and said, "Okay."

Lan Xichen said, “If he really has ulterior motives, I will never tolerate it.”

Lan Wangji said, “I know.”

The two of them walked down the path into the clouds, and on the way, the grass beside the white stone path rustled and suddenly parted, revealing a small head like a snowball and a pair of long ears.

The rabbit's pink nose shrank, and when it saw Lan Wangji, its drooping ears suddenly stood up, and it kicked its legs and jumped towards him. They came to the green grass, and Little Apple was lying next to a tree. Dozens of chubby white rabbits surrounded it, most of them had their eyes closed and were sleeping soundly, and a few were still moving. Wei Wuxian walked to the tree and scratched Little Apple's donkey head. Little Apple shuddered and woke up with heavy breaths. When he saw Wei Wuxian, he was about to shout, and the rabbits who were gathered together were also awakened, shaking their long ears, and jumped towards Lan Wangji one after another. They gathered in groups around his snow-white boots and ran around him, and no one knew what they were excited about.

Wei Wuxian held Little Apple's bridle, pulling and threatening it as it walked. The rabbits stood on their hind legs, stood up, and clung to Lan Wangji's legs one by one, all trying to climb up. Lan Wangji stood still. After the two of them started walking, the white rabbits followed the pair of white boots, stumbling and refusing to leave no matter how Wei Wuxian drove them away. Lan Wangji bent down and picked up one of them and held it in his arms. His face remained cold, but his hands were gentle. His slender fingers scratched the chin of a rabbit. The rabbit shook its long ears and turned its head away. Its ruby-like eyes narrowed into a line, as if it was very comfortable being scratched. Wei Wuxian went over to scratch it, but it turned its head away. Wei Wuxian said, "You despise me so much and only love you. You really recognize your master."

Lan Wangji glanced at him and put the white rabbit in his arms. Wei Wuxian took it with a grin. The rabbit twisted and turned in his arms, struggling hard. Wei Wuxian pulled its ears and said, "Don't like me? Hate me? You can't run away no matter how hard you try. Just like me."

Wei WuXian played with the rabbit for a while, and when they were almost out of the Cloud Recesses, he let go of the rabbit whose fur he had tangled up. The rabbits could no longer follow him, so they sadly drooped their ears, sat where they were, and watched their master leave.

Wei WuXian looked back and said, “I can’t bear to leave you, HanGuang-Jun. I didn’t expect you to be so well-liked by these little creatures. You must have been very gentle and attentive to them when you were raising them. I can’t do that.”

Lan Wangji said, “No?”

Wei WuXian said proudly, “Yes! Everything flying in the sky, walking on the ground, and swimming in the water will turn around and run away when they see me.”

Lan Wangji shook his head, the meaning was too obvious: Wei Wuxian must have done evil first, which was why they disliked him.