Characters / Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi - Lan Clan of Gusu

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi - Character Index
Main Characters: Wei Wuxian | Lan Wangji
Five Great Clans: Lan Clan of Gusu | Jiang Clan of Yunmeng (Jiang Cheng) | Jin Clan of Lanling (Jin Guangyao) | Nie Clan of Qinghe | Wen Clan of Qishan
Other Characters: Other Clans | Yi City Group | Miscellaneous Characters

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Lan Clan of Gusu | 姑苏蓝氏

^{Click here to see the Lan Clan's sigil in the Japanese audio drama art} 

^{Click here to see the Lan Clan's sigil in The Untamed} 

Leader: Lan Xichen (current), Qingheng-jun (past)
Location: Cloud Recesses | 云深不知处 ^note the literal translation is "somewhere unknown deep in the clouds"
Region: Gusu | 姑苏 (based on modern Jiangsu)

One of the top four families in the cultivation world, the Lan Clan of Gusu was founded by a monk-turned-minstrel Lan An centuries ago, and is famed for its many, many rules, the elegance of its uniform, and for producing handsome and talented disciples each generation.

Their motto is "righteousness". Direct disciples (those with actual relation to the Lan Clan founder) wear a cloud-patterned forehead ribbon; whereas disciples of other families, guests and associates wear a plain white forehead ribbon.

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General Tropes

• Can't Hold His Liquor: According to the author, the Lans' inability to hold their liquor is genetic. This leads to Alcohol-Induced Idiocy, which starts with a specific pattern: fall asleep with one bowl, and then wake up drunk after a while, run wild, and fall asleep when the biological clock takes over to make them sleep.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The Lan Clan uniforms are primarily white with blue details (such as the cloud motif embroided on the blood descendents' forehead ribbons). Wei Wuxian compares the white uniforms to mourning clothes.
• Generation Xerox: Despite the clan's conservative ways, Qingheng-jun and his sons all have a fiercely loyal and passionate side when their loved ones are involved. This seems to go all the way back to the first leader Lan An, who found the Lan Clan after meeting his cultivation partner; he came up with the clan's forehead ribbon and its significance when touched by a Lan cultivator's "fated person", and returning to the temple for the remainder of his life after his partner's death implies he was devastated.
• Hidden Elf Village: Downplayed. While the other clans tend to be more integrated in their local communities and centered in busy towns, the Lan Clan live in isolation thanks to the Cloud Recesses being at the top of a mountain behind a magical barrier that can only be bypassed with a jade token. However, the Lan Clan otherwise fulfils their cultivation duties and send out their clansmen for missions, and will accept guest or visiting disciples.
• Meaningful Name: The Lan clan's surname comes from "伽蓝" which refers to a Buddhist temple, indicating their ancestor's origins as a Buddhist monk.
• Musical Assassin: The clan specialises in utilising music as a cultivation weapon, with the guqin and flute being the two known instruments used by their clansmen and former disciples. A few notes alone can cause devastating damage, and playing certain songs can help subdue and worsen malicious energy.
• Officer and a Gentleman: The ancient Chinese version. As cultivators, the Lan Clan strictly upholds righteousness/elegance as its motto.
• Plain Palate: The clan follows a strict vegetarian diet that focuses on its nutritional and medicinal properties. As a result, their meals come off as plain and bitter. Although the clansmen are more than happy to indulge in other foods outside the Cloud Recesses, the plain diet can have an effect their tolerance for stronger foods such as spicy food.
• Shared Family Quirks: A low tolerance for alcohol and acting bonkers after consuming any is genetic in the Lan Clan. Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen become nonsensical in different ways after mere sips, and the donghua even shows Lan Jingyi being an obnoxious drunkard while appearing far more wasted than the others.
• The Teetotaler: Because of the clan's intolerance to alcohol, they completely abstain from drinking it. There's even rule that forbids drinking alcohol in the Cloud Recesses. The younger generation aren't above trying to sneakily drink some outside the premises, though.
• Veganopia: Downplayed. One of the rules of their clan states that killing livestock is forbidden, and Wei Wuxian observes that all of their meals are purely vegetarian. However, they can consume meat outside the Cloud Recesses when eating outdoors, as those meals don't require them to kill any animal.
• Warrior Monk: The Lan Clan are akin to an order of monks due to their practices in asceticism and self-discipline. However, they're still well-known for being deadly combatants and Musical Assassins.

Lan Huan (蓝涣) - Xichen (曦臣) - Zewu-jun (泽芜君)

Voiced by: Jin Xian [animation], Wang Kai [audio drama], Yan Meme [audio drama, as a child], Ling Fei [web series] (Mandarin) ^{Click here for other languages}  Toshiyuki Morikawa [animation, audio drama, web series], Ayumi Shindo [audio drama, as a child] (Japanese); Kim Yeong-sun [animation] (Korean)
Played by: Liu Haikuan [web series], Shen Yifeng [web series, as a child]

Height: 188 cm
Weapons: Shuoyue | 朔月 (jian), Liebing | 裂冰 (xiao)

"We rely entirely on our own understanding of another, our own trust in their words. [...] You trust your own judgement. Why can I not trust my own judgement too?"

The current head of the Lan Clan, and known for his warm and refined personality, as well as his sincere and gentle nature. He is Lan Wangji's older brother; together, they are known as the Twin Jades of Lan, especially since they are very similar in appearance. He swore an oath of brotherhood with Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao, and he is the middle brother. Together, they are called the Venerated Triad.

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Tropes that apply to Lan Xichen in general

^{Click here to see Lan Xichen as a teenager} 

• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: In the finale of the donghua, Lan Xichen is shown to be in grief from knowing the truth about Jin Guangyao's crimes and subsequently losing him, with some of the people commenting that it will take time for him to recover from what had happened. However, his emotional turmoil is not too crushing that he needs to go into seclusion (yet) like his novel counterpart, and on the same night of the incident he's still willing to put his grief aside to attend the Lotus Pier banquet and later talk to Wei Wuxian about his brother's scars.
• Animal Motifs: In a series of animal-themed official artworks from the donghua staff, Lan Xichen is shown with a deer. Deer are seen in China as symbols of longevity and wealth and are admired for their graceful nature, which fits both him and his clan.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lan Xichen is one of the most genial characters in the story, but his patience still has its limits.
  • He opts to play peacemaker more often than he should, but Lan Xichen is still a powerful cultivator. If needed be, he won't hesitate to raise his blade when he knows it's his only remaining option. His dearest friend learns this the hard way.
  • No matter what situation Wei Wuxian gets involved in with Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen always treats the former civilly. Which is why it's jarring to see him show outright anger at the former when he tells him about the events at the Nightless Immortal Capital and what Lan Wangji went through for him, even telling him point-blank that he's the only mistake his younger brother has ever made.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • He's protective of both his younger brother Lan Wangji. In fact, his mistaken assumption that Lan Wangji's feelings were being toyed with by Wei Wuxian is one of the few things that visibly angers him in the story.
  • He's a dependable older brother figure to his sworn brother Jin Guangyao, always speaking up for him when others mock him for his lowly origins. It's his concern for him that makes him unwilling to believe the horrible truth about his friend.
  • He has a soft spot for Nie Huaisang (the younger brother of his older sworn brother Nie Mingjue), as he looks after him once he becomes clan leader and tries to help him with any of his problems. In the audio drama, Wei Wuxian remarks that Lan Xichen has spoiled Nie Huaisang to the point that he's become useless on his own.
• Broken Ace: Lan Xichen is powerful and wise, and he's highly regarded as the best cultivator of his generation, as well as a shining example of what a Lan cultivator should live up to. However, finding out Jin Guangyao has done a lot of crime stresses him out and sends him into turmoil as the story progresses. By the epilogue, he's a grieving recluse due to his sworn brother's demise, with Lan Wangji noting he's not doing so well. In the "Banquet" extra, Wei Wuxian observes that Lan Xichen seems to be neglecting his health and has become somewhat absent-minded.
• Conflicting Loyalty:
  • Part of the conflict Lan Xichen is faced with as the plot thickens is whether he should side with his biological brother or his sworn brother, as he's close to both of them. While he would never go against Lan Wangji, he's also reluctant to confront Jin Guangyao since it would mean admitting that his closest friend is an evildoer.
  • Flashbacks of the Venerated Triad shows Lan Xichen was faced with the friction between both of his sworn brothers and handled it badly due to his close friendship with each of them. His attempts to make peace only resulted in him being played into Jin Guangyao's hands by preventing Nie Mingjue from acting more decisively, and Jin Guangyao used the songs he taught him to help kill their eldest sworn brother.
• Cool Big Bro: Lan Wangji greatly respects and trusts his older brother due to his kindness and wisdom, and even confides to him about his troubles sometimes.
• Cuteness Proximity: Downplayed. In the "Lotus Seed Pod" extra, Lan Xichen found his younger brother's rabbits to be adorable.
• Depending on the Artist: Lan Xichen's appearance changes the most compared to other characters depending on the adaptation. The donghua and official illustrations depict him looking slightly older and his hair slicked back with no bangs, while the mobile game and a few audio drama illustrations depict him as nearly indistinguishable from Lan Wangji with similar bangs.
• Despair Event Horizon: After Jin Guangyao's death, Lan Xichen completely shuts himself off from the world. When Lan Wangji visits him, not even he's certain how long it will take for his brother to recover.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Downplayed. Lan Xichen seems to usually have control over the nearly-supernatural arm strength that's common among the Lan clansmen. However, the audio drama shows that he doesn't know how to apply the right amount of strength whenever he washes his clothes, causing him to accidentally tear them.
• Family Theme Naming: The Lan brothers share in their birth names the water radical (氵). Their titles also have an association with light; 泽 (ze) means "lustrous", while 光 (guang) means "light". As the jewels of the Lan Clan, they are called the Twin Jades of Lan.
• Fatal Flaw: Lan Xichen is a trusting person who tries to see the best in everyone, but in the harsh world of politics this trait can cause more harm than good. His centrist outlook causes him to be complacent with many things even if they go against his moral fiber, because of his reluctance to speak on behalf of only one side. This is what keeps him from fully grasping the evidence that Jin Guangyao is responsible for many misdeeds, with his bias towards his sworn brother not helping things. When he does finally start seeing that he's made a mistake in this matter, by then it's already too late to do anything about it. As such, his choice to go into seclusion in the ending reflects his difficulty in reconciling with his faults and his guilt about his misplaced trust.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Downplayed. Both he and Lan Wangji are usually responsible, and he trusts his younger brother to lead their clan when he isn't around. Once Jin Guangyao is involved, however, he's the less reasonable of the two siblings due to the aforementioned matter bringing in the issue of partiality.
• Freudian Excuse: It's heavily implied that his parents' history — which details how his father was torn between defending his love and his clan — influenced Lan Xichen's aversion to starting any conflict or picking a side, even if doing so is the right thing to do.
• Generation Xerox: He repeats many of his father's actions, from leading the Lan Clan, to being involved with a loved one who has a murky past, to not being able to live with guilt, all the way to imposing himself in near-total solitude.
• Good Is Not Soft: Despite his reputation for his kindness, Lan Xichen — as a cultivator and one of the leaders in the Sunshot Campaign — has spilled blood before and will be ruthless against his enemies if necessary.
• Head-in-the-Sand Management: Downplayed. The protagonists realize that it's hard for them to get through to the Lan Clan leader whenever they discuss Jin Guangyao's schemes, since the latter is very good at hiding their true colours. While Lan Xichen doesn't write them off, he hesitates to fully believe their claims as he trusts the sketchy figure in question too much. After Jin Guangyao is exposed and endangers his sworn brother and everyone else, Lan Xichen is so overwhelmed with grief that he secludes himself after his death.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Downplayed. He has unrelenting belief in Jin Guangyao even when the evidence stacks up against the latter's innocence, right up until he's captured and held hostage by the very character. However, this mistake in judgement isn't completely unreasonable, as many other men (including Nie Mingjue at first) have also been fooled by Jin Guangyao due to the latter's masterful acting and manipulative ways.
• Hypocrite: At Guanyin Temple, he warns Jiang Cheng to not listen to anything Jin Guangyao says since the guy is silver-tongued and can turn someone's words against them. Minutes later, he ignores his own advice, which both his brother and Wei Wuxian call him out on. He persists anyway, and while it doesn't get him killed, it still backfires on him badly.
• Keet: He becomes over-enthusiastic when drunk, and his every sentence would end with three exclamation marks.
• The Kirk: A deconstruction among the Venerated Triad. The rational and friendly Lan Xichen tried to play peacemaker between his sworn brothers, who had clashing personalities (Nie Mingjue being temperamental and Jin Guangyao being pragmatic). However, his inability to pick sides did more damage than good to the trio's relationship, with Jin Guangyao getting away with plotting Nie Mingjue's death.
• Morality Pet: Despite all his crimes, Jin Guangyao has never thought about harming Lan Xichen.
• Nephewism: While he was able to see his parents on a limited basis, he was otherwise raised by his uncle due to both parents being preoccupied.
• Neutrality Backlash: Lan Xichen's reluctance to pick sides and take decisive action works out poorly for him in the conflict between his two sworn brothers. He attempts to peacekeep to little effect, and Jin Guangyao eventually uses the song Lan Xichen taught him to kill Nie Mingjue. Not only does Lan Xichen learn of this years later, but he's also tricked into killing Jin Guangyao as vengeance for Nie Mingjue. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't take this well, and he goes into seclusion at the end of the story.
• Nice Guy: Lan Xichen's defining mark is his kindness to everyone regardless of their social status. This gets deconstructed as he would rather play peacemaker than properly solve conflicts and is made the perfect Unwitting Pawn for Jin Guangyao to manipulate.
• Nice Mean And In Between: When the Venerated Triad was around, he was the nicest member of th trio. As a result, he often had to mediate the conflicts between Nie Mingjue (who was the brash type) and Jin Guangyao (who meant well but often angered his eldest sworn brother whenever he faltered in the Jin Clan's matters).
• Not So Above It All: While he's not a stick in the mud, the jovial and larger-than-life personality he exhibits while drunk hints that he wishes to let loose and have fun once in a while without worrying about his clan's rules.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's patient and diplomatic to everyone, which is what earned him his popularity. Even when he has partialities about certain issues, he'll still try to keep an open ear and mind. However, he's also a deconstruction of the trope since while he's congenial towards anyone he meets, it doesn't mean he always knows what to do nor does he always take the proper course of action in dire situations.
• Red Herring Mole: There are a few scenes in the novel that seem to hint at him being on Jin Guangyao's side the whole time and is merely feigning innocence. It doesn't help that he's the first figure of importance that Wei Wuxian sees at Guanyin Temple, and none of the monks and the Jin cultivators stationed there are treating him like a prisoner or an intruder. Except that, no, he's actually being held hostage there, and he's only one of Jin Guangyao's Unwitting Pawns.
• Selective Obliviousness: Some of his dialogue hints that deep down he had long suspected that Jin Guangyao may not be who he seems to be, but he always ignored his own — and everyone else's — misgivings since he didn't want to accuse his friend. In his defense, Jin Guangyao has been doing a splendid job fooling him and everyone else, which just helps fuel Lan Xichen's disbelief.
• Shipper on Deck: Downplayed. Lan Xichen was aware of Lan Wangji's interest in Wei Wuxian and encouraged him to befriend him in the past. Although he later became resistant to the idea of the two being romantically involved, he still calls Wei Wuxian out for not knowing about Lan Wangji's feelings for him sooner and doesn't object when the two confess to each other and become a couple, implying he's willing to be more open to it.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Unlike his cool and aloof younger brother, Lan Xichen is more sociable and approachable.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He and Lan Wangji look so alike that Wei Wuxian remarks that there's two "Lan Zhans" when he first met the older brother and saw the two of them together.
• Universally Beloved Leader: He leads the Lan Clan and everyone likes and respects him, even the antagonists. For all the atrocities that Jin Guangyao has done, he's never once thought about betraying Lan Xichen.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While he meant well, one can only wonder the many things that could have ended differently had Lan Xichen never suggested that Nie Mingjue take up an oath of brotherhood with him and Jin Guangyao, which made it easier for the latter to manipulate and poison the former.
• Unwitting Pawn: While Jin Guangyao has never hurt Lan Xichen and truly cares for him, he still uses their friendship and treats him as a tool in his plans without the latter's knowledge. In particular, he used the songs and knowledge Lan Xichen taught him as a weapon against his enemies.
• What Does She See in Him?: In one of the gacha extras of the audio drama, Lan Xichen comments how it would be a shame if "Mo Xuanyu" — Lan Wangji's newest companion — ended up being similar to Wei Wuxian, showing that he doesn't think the latter was worthy of his brother's love. As it turns out, the egg is on his face...
• Worf Had the Flu: Lan Xichen is one of the strongest cultivators in the series and can easily subdue his opponents. In the climactic arc of the donghua, however, he has to regain his spiritual powers by forcefully breaking the seal prior to encountering Nie Mingjue's corpse, leaving him to struggle during the fight due to his injuries and lack of usual strength.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Gender-inverted. He's at the top of the list of cultivator gentlemen in his generation, and it's stated both he and Lan Wangji top the list partly due to their good looks (with Lan Xichen edging ahead because he's more sociable).

Tropes that apply to Lan Xichen in The Untamed only

• Adaptational Badass: While he's stated to be an all-around skilled cultivator, he gets a few more opportunities to show off his abilities in the adaptation. For example, when the Wen Clan barge into the Cloud Recesses' lecture uninvited and swords are drawn, he uses his xiao to magically disarm everyone.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed. In spite of Jin Guangyao being more than Obviously Evil in the adaptation, Lan Xichen is just as oblivious to Jin Guangyao's deceptive and sinister nature like he is in the novel. While the novel justifies him being fooled because Jin Guangyao displays his true colors in a much subtler manner and takes every measure to blindside everyone around him, the removal of this nuance in the series also removes the justification he has for not seeing Jin Guangyao for who he really was much sooner.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He's already a Nice Guy in the novel, but the plot changes in the Live-Action Adaptation results in Lan Xichen having a considerably warmer reception to Wei Wuxian after realizing he's alive once more. He's also calmer when he tells Wei Wuxian about Lan Wangji's whip scars and instead of blaming him for the scars and telling him he's a mistake, he says — without any hostility or anger — that he trusts Lan Wangji's decision to defend Wei Wuxian and choose him as his soulmate.
• Character Tics: Lan Xichen tends to close his eyes and sigh or take a deep breath whenever he's faced with a stressful situation.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: He has a sharp and squared jawline, which is befitting of a kind and heroic authorative figure.
• Never Gets Drunk: In this adaptation, while the Lan Clan's inability to hold their liquor is kept, Lan Xichen learned to avoid getting drunk by using his golden core to dispel the alcohol's effects in situations where he's required or forced to drink.

Lan Zhan (蓝湛) - Wangji (忘机) - Hanguang-jun (含光君)

The second young master of the Lan Clan, and brother to the current leader Lan Xichen. For more information, refer to his character page.

Lan Qiren (蓝启仁)

Voiced by: Liu Cong [animation], Song Ming ^note credited as Baomu Zhongyang [audio drama], Zhang Wentian [web series] (Mandarin) ^{Click here for other languages}  Mitsuhiro Sakamaki [animation, web series], Tarusuke Shingaki [audio drama] (Japanese); Lee Chang-min [animation] (Korean)
Played by: Huang Ziteng [web series]

^{Click here to see Lan Qiren in The Untamed} 

"If one is proud and arrogant, unruly and divergent simply because of a false reputation earned from defeating simple mountain spirits, then it invites nothing but future humiliation."

The elder of the Lan family and uncle to the Twin Jades of Lan. He is stern, pedantic, and a strict teacher who has brought up outstanding students. His fussy nature make people avoid him, but his rigid yet successful teaching ways makes parents try everything to get their kids into the Cloud Recesses for a period of study. The only stain on his otherwise pristine record is Wei Wuxian.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: His choice to subject Lan Wangji to 33 lashes by the discipline whip for injuring 33 clan elders was harsh but not unreasonable for the clan's standards. In The Untamed, however, he had Lan Wangji hit 300 times wth the regular whip — not for attacking his own clan, but for merely defending Wei Wuxian's lair in the Burial Mounds from the Jin Clan.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • He remains stern in the donghua but is less unpleasant, and he's given more facets to his character than just being the archetypal pedantic, strict, and uncompromising mentor and uncle figure.
    • In the donghua, while Wei Wuxian's antics drove him up the wall as a teen, Lan Qiren was less harsh towards him while he taught him at the Cloud Recesses. He also approved of Lan Wangji's decision to find and shelter him and the Jiang children after the Wen Clan's attack on Lotus Pier which showed he had at least some level of concern for the young man.
    • In the present timeline, he's not as obstructive towards Wei Wuxian as he is in the novel; during the Second Siege he remarks that he should have known sooner that "Mo Xuanyu" was Wei Wuxian but otherwise shows no hostility towards him, and in the finale he even takes his and Lan Wangji's advice seriously and helps foil Jin Guangyao's plans by disabling the arrays around Yunping City.
  • While Lan Qiren scolded Lan Wangji for repeatedly visiting his mother's house even long after she's dead in the novel, in The Untamed he was more sympathetic with his nephew's grief and gave him a pat on the shoulder instead.
• Ascended Extra: He's given more to do in the donghua:
  • In the Sunshot Campaign, he expressed his worries that the Wen Clan would soon become trouble and was one of the first to advocate for fighting back against the Wen Clan when they start making their move.
  • In the climactic stages, thanks to Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji relaying their suspicions and findings to him beforehand, he disables the giant array that Jin Guangyao tries to form with his watchtowers in Yunping City and thus foiling the latter's plans to unleash an army of fierce corpses in the area.
• Beautiful All Along: Downplayed. He looks younger and more handsome without his beard according to Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, but this is only implied in the novel at best as he's very attached to his beard (if his anger when Wei Wuxian cut it off in an audio drama extra is any indication) and never seen without it. However, a quick manhua flashback panel does show him clean-shaven when his nephews were young children, and he looked similar to how his nephews (who are considered the most handsome men in-universe) would turn out as adults.
• Berserk Button:
  • Any signs of divergence from his standards of either cultivation practice or etiquette will incur his wrath. A certain son of Cangse-Sanren is the walking embodiment of aberration in his eyes, hence why Lan Qiren is always about to suffer a heart attack whenever he sees him. It only gets worse for him after Wei Wuxian marries his younger nephew and joins their clan.
  • Don't think of doing anything to his beard. It's why he even hates a certain mother-son duo in the first place.
• Butt-Monkey: Downplayed. He had his hands full when he briefly taught Wei Wuxian, who caused him no end of grief. And this same man's presence comes back to annoy him permanently once he starts living at the Cloud Recesses as Lan Wangji's husband.
• Character Tics:
  • The man sure loves to stroke his beard.
  • He tends to break into a coughing fit when he gets stressed enough.
• Education Mama: He took care of both his nephews since they were born, and was nothing short of strict on them to ensure that they grew up well-taught and well-mannered (and wouldn't end up like their father). However, he's also expecting them to always be the ideal Lan Clan disciple, which places a strain on their well-being before they're even aware of it.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He served as the Responsible Sibling to his older brother's Foolish Sibling. Following Qingheng-jun's marriage and subsequent seclusion, which caused him to neglect his duties as both a clan leader and father, Lan Qiren took over his brother's duties. Not wanting his nephews to repeat their father's mistakes, he worked hard to raise them as well-mannered and logical cultivators.
• Grumpy Old Man: Lan Qiren's main trait is that he's the easily irritated mentor and older familiar figure to his nephews and students.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Lan Qiren assigned Lan Wangji to Wei Wuxian's class to keep an eye on and discipline the rebellious teen into becoming a model student. Not only did this fail, but it also has the opposite effect as the latter becomes "tainted" in his eyes when he eventually falls in love with Wei Wuxian, learns to question and even ignore his sect's rules for him, and becomes somewhat of a Rebellious Spirit like his most hated student.
• Honor Before Reason: He usually prioritises honor over anything else no matter how absurd he's being, although he'll take a step back in life-or-death matters where he knows acting on his prejudices would only worsen the situation.
• Hypocrite: While he's not the worst one around, Lan Qiren can still be self-contradicting in some ways.
  • He's vocal about upholding his clan's motto of "righteousness", but he only sticks his neck out when a common enemy is involved and won't do anything that puts him or his clan in danger, even if that "anything" is doing what's right. While this may be less out of bias or convenience and more out of worry for the safety of his clansmen, it's still something one wouldn't expect from someone who preaches about the righteousness of his clan and its rules.
  • Lan Qiren is strict with himself and others about following the rules of his clan... so as long as it works in their favor. For example, as far as the majority of the Lan Clan knew, Madam Lan never left her house because she suffered an illness, which isn't the case. However, Lan Qiren didn't do anything to clarify the matter even though their clan forbids dishonesty, since the truth was much more politically scandalous.
• Ironic Name: The qi in his name translates to "to start" or "to open" while the ren translates to "benevolence". Together, his name means "to open benevolence". While he's not a morally corrupt character, he is biased and completely set in the old and narrow-minded ways, which plays a part in the strict manner he raises his nephews. While it's well-intentioned and comes with some benefits, it also has its fair share of negatives, as his nephews are left almost completely ill-equipped to properly handle more complex scenarios that require in-depth social knowledge and understanding of human nature. This does not bode well for them later on, as reflected in Lan Wangji's difficulty in properly getting himself across to Wei Wuxian and Lan Xichen's near-blind trust in Jin Guangyao.
• Irrational Hatred: Downplayed. While he will listen to Wei Wuxian if he raises a fair point, it doesn't change his extremely negative opinion of the younger man no matter the situation. Said negative opinion is formed from Wei Wuxian's incorrigibility and his own belief that he's a bad influence on Lan Wangji, even when the plot has shown multiple times that he's the exact opposite of a bad influence.
• Karma Houdini: Downplayed. He was one of the participants of the First Siege, an event that saw the deaths of both the Wen survivors and Wei Wuxian (a man he still demonizes in the present). However, like everyone else, he doesn't get any legal or karmic punishment for it (putting aside Wei Wuxian's constant presence annoying him once again in the epilogue after he marries Lan Wangji and starts living the Cloud Recesses).
• Love Is a Weakness: Implied. Part of the reason he's strict on his nephews is because he doesn't want them to suffer the same fate as his brother, who fell into ruin because of his feelings and loyalty to Madam Lan, suggesting he's worried that romantic love will have a bad influence on them.
• Never My Fault: Lan Qiren believes that, as someone who always sticks to the rulebook, he can never do nor say anything wrong. According to Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, this behavior was around even in his adolescence, as he refused to admit he nearly cost Jiang Fengmian and Wei Changze's lives when it was his insistence on sticking to the rules that endangered them.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: He already had a huge dislike of Wei Wuxian when he was a student at the Cloud Recesses, and after Wei Wuxian marries Lan Wangji, Lan Qiren's dislike grows even more as he immediately adds new rules to the wall that forbids the juniors from talking to Wei Wuxian.
• Old Soldier: He's one of the oldest cultivators known to the readers, but his training of both his nephews in swordplay and the impressive way he fights at the Second Siege shows that he himself is still a capable fighter.
• Parental Marriage Veto: Attempted. Lan Qiren didn't approve of Wei Wuxian as a student, and he doesn't approve of him as Lan Wangji's cultivation partner either. While he reluctantly acknowledges their marriage, he still shows his disapproval by creating the rule where no one is to talk to Wei Wuxian, although this is a futile effort.
• Parents as People: Lan Qiren was the one who raised his nephews and is one of the few parental figures that isn't abusive. He successfully made them talented and well-mannered cultivators, and Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji in return always show their respect to him. However, the expectations Lan Qiren placed on his nephews when growing up left them repressed and unable to let loose once in a while, which negatively affects them in the long run. Lan Wangji gets better from this issue thanks to Wei Wuxian's influence, but Lan Xichen doesn't as he was never prepared for the possibility of experiencing severe mental trauma. While Lan Qiren isn't unsympathetic to their predicaments, he tends to worry more about how his nephews are no longer the "perfect children" in his eyes.
• Perpetual Frowner: His constant scowling shows that he's certainly not a mellow and happy guy.
• Pet the Dog: He's inflexible and close-minded, but he's not heartless.
  • He's anything but fond of Wei Wuxian even in the present timeline, and it doesn't change after the younger man's marriage to Lan Wangji. But while it takes a lot of convincing on his nephew's part, Lan Qiren eventually acknowledges him as part of the Lan family (even if reluctantly) by inviting him to their family banquet.
  • Although not much is known about it, he was a participant in the First Siege. However, in spite of his initial anger, he let Lan Wangji officially adopt Wen Yuan into the Lan Clan.
• Pride:
  • He fits the character archetype of the grouchy old man who's stuck in the teachings he grew up with and doesn't consider new or improved ideas. He's also not someone who's willing to admit that he's wrong and there are some things he should improve upon or adjust to.
  • He feels proud of his nephews, given how they're regarded by almost everyone else as the "embodiment" of perfection. Unfortunately, raising them to be ideal and perfect causes them to restrict almost every honest thought and emotion they have to uphold their flawless reputations, yet he never becomes aware of this.
• Principles Zealot: Aside from his stringency about his clan's rules, he strongly advocates for doing the right thing. However, the moment someone breaks the rules to do that, he immediately sees them as a traitor.
• Promotion to Parent: Given how the mother never went outside because she was under house arrest and the father was in seclusion up until his death, Lan Qiren essentially raised Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji.
• Properly Paranoid: In the donghua, he was suspicious of the Wen Clan's intentions and feared war between the clans breaking out. His fears were later proved true.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: At least most of the time. He may be grouchy and has very rigid viewpoints, but in times of duress he is fair in his judgment, even when in the same room with the people who get on his nerves the most.
• Sadist Teacher: Downplayed. While his strict teachings aren't unfair and have their benefits, Lan Qiren wasn't above targeting Wei Wuxian when he briefly taught him, even when the latter was fulfilling his student duties or if other students were involved in the issue.
• Skewed Priorities: While he genuinely loves his nephews, he's also borderline obsessed with making sure that they continue to meet his standards for an upstanding disciple. This tends to take precedence over more pressing matters, making him oblivious at best and indifferent at worst to his nephews' personal struggles. In the climactic arc, even when Guanyin Temple is a mess and the two men have emotional events to deal with, all Lan Qiren laments is that his once-perfect nephews are no longer listening to him.
• Stern Teacher: He's infamous amongst his students (both the clan and visiting students) for his strict ways, but his reputation for bringing up excellent students shows that he's still an effective teacher.
• Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: Lan Qiren was strict when raising his nephews in order to ensure that they wouldn't make the same mistakes their father made. However, his efforts are futile in this matter as Lan Wangji elopes with Wei Wuxian and Lan Xichen goes into seclusion after the death of his beloved friend.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Even though Wei Wuxian helps save him and the other cultivators during the Second Siege twice over, Lan Qiren still suspects that he has evil intentions and only barely tolerates him because of the larger situation at hand. Even long after the events of the epilogue, he continues to see him as a horrible influence on Lan Wangji in spite of the two eloping and making their marriage official.
• Younger Than He Looks: Downplayed. Although he's only a generation older than the main adult cast, the novel narration states that it doesn't feel wrong to call him an old man thanks to his stiff personality. The facial hair doesn't help.

Lan Yuan (蓝愿) - Sizhui (思追)

Voiced by: Chenzhang Taikang [animation], Xian Piao [animation, as a child], Qian Wenqing [audio drama], Qian Wenqing [audio drama, as a child], Yu Shuhan [web series] (Mandarin) ^{Click here for other languages}  Shimba Tsuchiya [animation, web series], Yūsuke Kobayashi [audio drama] (Japanese); Nam Do-hyung [animation] (Korean)
Played by: Zheng Fanxing [web series], Jiang Yiting [web series, as a child]

Height: 172 cm

^{Click here to see Lan Sizhui in The Untamed} 

"It feels like there's no need to be scared of anything if either one of them [Mo-qianbei or Hanguang-jun] is around."

Lan Sizhui is one of the younger generation cultivators that Wei Wuxian first meets after he came Back from the Dead. The Nice Guy, he immediately inspires good feelings in Wei Wuxian, who thinks that Lan Sizhui is just the latest of the Lan Clan's famously strict education.

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• Amnesiac Hero: He has no memories of his early childhood, meaning he doesn't remember his Wen family and being under Wei Wuxian's care. Granted, getting a high fever as a toddler would have encouraged that. He finally gets his memories back after they're triggered by the sight of Chenqing in the finale, and accompanies Wen Ning to the Nightless Immortal Capital to bury their family's ashes and build a cenotaph for Wen Qing.
• Animal Motifs: He's pictured with a swallow in the animal-themed series of official artwork from the donghua team. Swallows signify happiness, and not only is he a fairly cheerful teen but he's also Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji’s "joy" since he's the closest thing to a son for them; and they signify new life, much like how he was once Wen Yuan, then was taken in by Lan Wangji after the First Siege and lived from then on as Lan Yuan. Swallows are also associated with peace, loyalty, and most importantly, love — all of which play a part in Lan Sizhui's personality, backstory, and connection to the main protagonists.
• Ascended Extra: Unlike in the novel, he becomes involved in the events of Guanyin Temple in The Untamed. The first of the two sequel movies The Living Dead also focuses on him and Wen Ning going a night-hunt which takes place after the series finale.
• Big Brother Worship: He saw Wei Wuxian as an impressive older brother figure as a child, and he also quickly grew to admire Lan Wangji in the short time he knew him pre-amnesia.
• Butt-Monkey: Downplayed as Wen Yuan. While Wei Wuxian loved him and doted on him, he also liked to tease the boy and made him a frequent victim of his antics. This is played for all the comedy it's worth in The Founder of Diabolism Q.
• Character Development: Downplayed. His time with Wei Wuxian causes him to be a bit more expressive about his thoughts and feelings, especially after he regains his past memories.
• Cheerful Child: Not that he lost his cheerfulness when he grew up, but when he was a toddler he was quite the happy child despite the dire circumstances he was in as a Wen survivor.
• Children Are Innocent: Lan Sizhui — Wen Yuan at the time — is the best example of how the Wens survivors had no blood on their hands and didn't deserve the cruelty that was inflicted on them. In the audio drama, Lan Wangji convinced Lan Qiren to let him adopt Wen Yuan by reminding him that the child was innocent.
• Cuddle Bug: When he was still a child, he would latch himself onto anyone he liked by hugging their legs.
• Cuteness Proximity: Implied. As a child, he squealed happily when Lan Wangji took him to feed the rabbits and play with them.
• Does Not Like Spam: One of the audio drama extras reveals that he doesn't like radishes. This is hinted to be due to the influence of his childhood, as radishes were one of the few things that could grow in the Burial Mounds and Wei Wuxian would argue with Wen Qing about whether to plant radishes or potatoes.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he's courteous and gentle to everyone, he's not immune to feeling annoyance towards people who exhibit terrible behavior. In the "Intrusion" extra, he expresses his negative but honest opinion about his client, and was dissastified that said client only received one punch from he fierce corpse he once wronged.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Wei Wuxian and Lan Sizhui actually knew each other from years ago. Until the ending, the older man doesn't know that Lan Sizhui is Wen Yuan, or that the kid who liked to chew on his flute was still alive after the First Siege.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Befitting a young man with good manners, Lan Sizhui usually speaks in a formal and polite manner. In the Japanese dubs this is retained by having him using formal Japanese speech patterns.
• Green Around the Gills: He's easily gets seasick, even though he lives up a mountain. The fact that he's the only Lan Clan disciple to have a case of seasickness hints that he's not really of Lan blood.
• Hairstyle Inertia: In the donghua he retains the hairstyle he had as a child all the way up to his teens.
• Happily Adopted: He doesn't remember his parents, who died early, and was raised by Lan Wangji from childhood. Lan Sizhui describes him to be a father and brother figure and has fond memories of growing up under his care. Turns out he wasn't just taken in by Lan Wangji but by the Lan Clan as whole, as he was the only surviving Wen from the First Siege. By the epilogue he also appreciates Wei Wuxian as a parental figure after the man marries Lan Wangji, turning to him for advice and being overwhelmed with Tears of Joy when he remembers the same man was also his caretaker when he lived at the Burial Mounds.
• Improbable Infant Survival: He was only a toddler when the First Siege occurred, and he's the only Wen who wasn't killed. Not out of mercy, however, but because he was hidden away in a tree at some point.
• Last of His Kind: He's revealed to be the last surviving member of the Wen Clan.
• Like Father, Like Son: After Lan Sizhui reveals that Lan Wangji helped raise him as his parental figure when growing up, his good manners and attitude make more sense as it's clearly a result of the older man's influence.
• Living Emotional Crutch: He was implied to help Lan Wangji keep it together in the past. After Wei Wuxian died, Lan Wangji could not find any trace of him, but he managed to find a gravely ill Wen Yuan. While he still mourned his loved one's death and even scarred himself in anguish, the audio drama leaves hints that the child's presence helped him grieve in a healthier manner, since while he would still mourn, he would also make sure to properly raise Wen Yuan — now Lan Sizhui — and give him a good and happy life.
• Meaningful Name: Sizhui means "to remember and long for". Lan Wangji was the one to give him his courtesy name, and it hints at his status as the last Wen and as Wei Wuxian's relic.
• Nice Guy: He's gentle and mannerly to everyone, a trait that impresses Wei Wuxian since he initially thinks every Lan cultivator is stuffy and strict.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Lan Sizhui is the nicest out of himself, Jin Ling (the rudest and most temperamental) and Lan Jingyi (friendly but also often runs his mouth).
• Not So Above It All:
  • He's respectful of his elders, but he sometimes shows his amusement at Wei Wuxian's expense. Such examples include laughing when the latter's cooking is insulted and when he jokes about the older man being too broke.
  • While he's normally one of the more composed juniors, he can exhibit a more childish side. There are times when he fanboys along with the rest of the younger Lan disciples whenever Lan Wangji is involved, and not even he's immune to joining a brawl.
• Odd Friendship: While he's calm and polite, Lan Jingyi is rather abrasive and loud. The two of them get along nevertheless and are usually partnered up together on night hunts. It's even implied in an extra that he lets Jingyi copy off of his papers.
• Older Than He Looks: Downplayed. Lan Sizhui is actually a few years older than Jin Ling even though he's the same height as him and looks young enough to be the same age. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu revealed that his height is stunted due to suffering from malnutrition during his childhood.
• Only Sane Man: When he's with the other juniors, he's the most rational out of the bunch and most of them usually defer to him when Lan Wangji or other clan leaders aren't around.
• Raised by the Community: During his time at the Burial Mounds, he was raised by his grandmother, the other Wen survivors and Wei Wuxian.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Downplayed. As the Blue Oni he's calmer and and more polite than the snappy Red Oni Lan Jingyi.
• The Reliable One: Wei Wuxian considers Lan Sizhui the most reliable out of the juniors due to his maturity, composure, kindness, and an open mind.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He's refined and mannerly and is a model disciple of his clan in every sense of the word. However, like his mentor Lan Wangji, he'll always prioritize doing the right thing regardless of what anyone else may say about it.
• Shipper on Deck: He's not particularly fazed about Wei Wuxian (as Mo Xuanyu) obsessing over Lan Wangji like everyone else is and respects their growing relationship throughout the story, such as giving them space when he realizes they want to be alone. He's more overtly supportive in the manhua, such as happily giving Lan Wangji a thumbs up when the latter glances at him before heading upstairs with Wei Wuxian at the inn they're staying in.
• The Spock: Lan Sizhui is the more patient and sensible boy among his fellow junior disciples Lan Jingyi and Jin Ling. Whenever the other two are close to blowing their tops, he'll always try to calm them down and act as the voice of reason.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He's said to strongly resemble his birth father. It's because of this resemblance that both his grandmother and Wen Ning easily recognize him as one of their own when they get a good look at him, even though they last saw him 13 years ago.
• Third Wheel: Being the Happily Adopted kid he is, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji tend to drag him out for extra training. Most of this extra training comprises leaving his mentors alone for their time together, making excuses to irate clients, tending to the donkey, and lying about when his mentors will rise for the day... everyday.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: He holds himself up with great maturity and has a good handle on how to interact with adults in strenuous situations. He's also the de facto leader amongst the juniors whenever the other adults aren't around.
• Wistful Amnesia: In The Untamed, he has instances of recalling the blanks in his memory and not being able to figure out what or who he's forgotten.

Lan Jingyi (蓝景仪)

Voiced by: Wang Chenguang [animation], Cao Xupeng ^note credited as Xiahou Luofeng [audio drama], Liu Kang^note credited as Liu Sicen [web series] (Mandarin) ^{Click here for other languages}  Soma Saito [animation, web series], Hiro Shimono [audio drama] (Japanese); Jeong Joo-won [animation] (Korean)
Played by: Guo Cheng [web series]

Height: 168 cm

^{Click here to see Lan Jingyi in The Untamed} 

"I'd rather be gnawed to death by a monster during a Night Hunt than starve to death here!"

The second younger generation cultivator that Wei Wuxian meets. Cheerful but brash, Lan Jingyi tends to end up talking without a filter.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: Downplayed in The Untamed. Lan Jingyi is still the same Hot-Blooded young boy, but there is an extra layer of sass added to his personality.
• Book Dumb: Downplayed. He's not a terrible student, but he's implied to be less bright than his peers according to the Lans' strict standards. In the "From Night to Morning" extra, his reports are graded yi^note the Chinese equivalent of "B" and Wei Wuxian's comments imply that he's the only one to get that score when said reports were already the revised version. In the "Iron Hook" extra, Jin Ling refers to him as the dumb one and it's hinted that he copies off of Lan Sizhui's papers. He nevertheless keeps up with the juniors during their adventures and behaves as one would expect from a Lan cultivator.
• Brutal Honesty: He's completely frank about his opinions on anything and anyone, and he'll even say them straight to their face (such as directly referring to Jin Ling as the Young Mistress).
• Combat Parkour: He incorporates flips into his fights in the donghua, such as when he jumps over Jin Ling, flips and then kicks him in the back.
• Cowardly Lion: Despite his fear of ghosts, Lan Jingyi never walks away from his cultivation duties.
• Deadpan Snarker: Unlike the other Lan disciples, Lan Jingyi makes constant sarcastic remarks especially when it involves people he doesn't like.
• Hero-Worshipper: He highly respects the heroic Lan Wangji and frequently brags about his talents and feats. He even gets upset when he mistakenly thinks that Wei Wuxian doesn't have the same opinion.
  Lan Jingyi: Of course Hanguang-jun is awesome; he just doesn't like to flaunt it everywhere. He's super low-profile, am I right?!
  Wei Wuxian: [confused] Why ask me? What's that got to do with me?
  Lan Jingyi: [angered] You don't think Hanguang-jun is awesome?!
• Hidden Depths: While he can be a bit Book Dumb and oblivious, there are times when he's fairly observant. He suspects that "Mo Xuanyu" may not be crazy after all, and he's also the first to note that the "blind" ghost girl in Yi City might not be actually blind because of how fast she moves (since real blind people usually have to watch their steps and walk slowly).
• Hot-Blooded: He's quite excitable, expressive, and has a short fuse, making him a rather atypical disciple of the Lan Clan.
• Hypocrite: He tends to berate Wei Wuxian for breaking rules when he's unknowingly doing the same thing himself. One example is him shouting, "Noise is prohibited in the Cloud Recesses!"
• Ironic Fear: Despite being a cultivator who slays monsters and evil spirits for a living, he is afraid of ghosts. But he can set aside his fear when fighting.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. He's outspoken and quick to anger, but he's not really unpleasant nor does he act like an ass to others for the heck of it. Despite being often annoyed or exasperated with Wei Wuxian, Lan Jingyi acknowledges his skills, appreciates his help, and never hesitates to speak up for him or defend him from other people.
• Kid Has a Point: His lack of filter tends to have him drop quite a few indisputable truths despite his young age.
  • He defends Wei Wuxian from a second strike from Jiang Cheng's Zidian by stating that Zidian wouldn't fail to expel a spirit from the body its possessing with its first strike. He's not wrong, since Wei Wuxian's spirit isn't technically possessing Mo Xuanyu's body as it was Mo Xuanyu's choice to summon Wei Wuxian back into the mortal world.
  • In The Untamed, Lan Jingyi reminds Jiang Cheng that nothing was found of Wei Wuxian's body and soul after he died. Jiang Cheng retorts how he's so sure that the latter is truly dead, to which Lan Jingyi simply counters that the former should know since he was the one who killed him. The part where Jiang Cheng is responsible for Wei Wuxian's death is half-true at best, but it's still hard-hitting enough to stun the Jiang Clan leader into silence.
  • While his words are said with absolutely no tact, no one can contest his statements about Su She copying the Lan Clan. While Lan Sizhui does try to get him to take it down a notch, he didn't necessarily disagree with anything his friend says. Even his senior clansmen do not make any effort to correct or hush him.
• The Kirk: He's Hot-Blooded but also often acts as a voice of reason. He balances out the composed and sensible Lan Sizhui and the easily irritable and emotional Jin Ling.
• Nice Mean And In Between: While Lan Sizhui and Jin Ling are the kindest and meanest (respectively) out of the trio, Lan Jingyi is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• No Indoor Voice: Even though he's from a clan that's been raised all their lives to restrain themselves, Lan Jingyi is said to have a distinctively loud voice.
• Not So Above It All: While he's vocal about following the Lan Clan's rules at the Cloud Recesses, Lan Jingyi is actually eager to try things that he wouldn't be able to do back home, such as drinking wine and gorging on meat.
• Odd Friendship: Lan Sizhui is patient and diplomatic, whereas Lan Jingyi is impulsive and blunt with his words. Nevertheless, the two get along well and never argue.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Downplayed. He's one of the very few characters who doesn't have any personal baggage, and his Hot-Blooded and candid nature provides several of the story's moments of levity. However, he also gets involved in several hairy situations and pulls his own weight almost as much as he mouths off priceless remarks.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Downplayed, but as the Red Oni he's far more hotheaded and temperamental than the calm Blue Oni Sizhui.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: While Lan Jingyi is adamant about reminding people (especially Wei Wuxian) what isn't allowed at the Cloud Recesses, he'll go against the etiquette and rules to do what he thinks is honourable. This is demonstrated best in the Second Siege, where he's not afraid of saying the truth or defending a person who's widely hated by the public, even if it means going against the wishes of his elders.
• Shipper on Deck: While Lan Jingyi initially doesn't like how Wei Wuxian keeps on harassing Lan Wangji, he doesn't object when he sees that the two may actually have eyes for the other, and at one point he even expects them to act more like a lovey-dovey couple.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Lan Jingyi is unimpressed by Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji's mundane parting words at Yi City and brings up more romantic and cliched lines that he was expecting between the two of them. Wei Wuxian cringes at how corny they are.
  Wei Wuxian: Hanguang-jun, I'm leaving this in your hands! We're going on ahead!
  Lan Jingyi: That's it? Nothing else?
  Wei Wuxian: What? What more do you want me to say?
  Lan Jingyi: Why didn't you say 'I'm worried about you, I'm staying!'? Then he'd say 'Leave!' Then you'd cry back 'No! I'm not leaving! If we have to leave, we leave together!' Isn't that the script?
• Tsundere: Mild example. He's concerned for his companions but tries to hide it behind his usual brash demeanour, such as when he brags that he knew Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji would be fine at Guanyin Temple when it's pointed out he was actually stressed with worry the entire time.
• Undying Loyalty: He's very loyal to his clan and to anyone he considers a friend. He'll go out of his way to protect them, both physically and verbally.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: While they won't acknowledge it easily, he becomes friends with Jin Ling over time and it's shown through their several snark-filled conversations.

Qingheng-jun (青蘅君)

The previous leader of the Lan Clan, and the father of the Twin Jades of Lan. He died some time before the start of the Sunshot Campaign — and even when he was still alive, no one saw him much.

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• Conflicting Loyalty: Lan Xichen says that Qingheng-jun secluded himself because of the guilt he felt from protecting the woman he loved, as she had also killed the teacher he greatly respected.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Qingheng-jun's marriage is what lead to him secluding himself and putting his wife in another house for the rest of their lives. He fell in love with Madam Lan, but she killed his teacher. Heedless of the repercussions, he brought her back to the Cloud Recesses, did the ceremony, and threatened the elders to take her over his dead body. Then, Honor Before Reason made him seclude himself in the Cloud Recesses and never share a bedroom with her. Consequently, the rest of the Lan Clan believed his romantic prusuit of Madam Lan was madness.
• Marriage of Convenience: While Qingheng-jun was in love with Madam Lan, the main reason he married her was to shield her from his clansmen and warned them at that, as her husband, they would have to kill him first if they wish to kill her.
• No Full Name Given: Surname and title aside, his courtesy and birth names are never revealed.
• Posthumous Character: He is already dead when the story begins, as he succumbed to his injuries from the the burning of the Cloud Recesses in the flashback arc. The Untamed takes it a step further by making him already dead when Wei Wuxian started studying in Gusu.
• Unnamed Parent: He is the father of the Twin Jades, but his name is never stated.
• Unwanted Spouse: Downplayed. Madam Lan didn't love him back but still had a Marriage of Convenience with him since she would had otherwise been hunted down by the Lan Clan. It is unknown if she ever returned his feelings during their marriage and after the birth of their children, considering the limited time they spent together due to her house arrest and his seclusion.
• Worf Had the Flu: Qingheng-jun was a master in cultivation according to Jin Guangshan in the donghua, yet he easily succumbed to his wounds when the Wen Clan razed the Cloud Recesses. This is because he spent the later stages of his life in seclusion (and not to strengthen his cultivation), which meant he wasn't in his prime when the Wens attacked.

Madam Lan (蓝夫人)

Voiced by: Yue Yeqiao [audio drama] ^{Click here for other languages} Kae Oki [audio drama] (Japanese)
Played by: Unknown [web series]

^{Click here to see Madam Lan in The Untamed} 

Qingheng-jun's wife, and the mother of the Twin Jades of Lan. Like her husband, she was rarely seen by anyone even within the Lan Clan. Her life proves that even the righteous Lan Clan has its own share of dark secrets.

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• Action Girl: She was said to be a rogue cultivator prior to her marriage to Qingheng-jun, and she was good enough with a blade to kill her husband's teacher.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: She lived in a seperate cottage from her family, and her sons still use it after she's gone (such as hiding Wei Wuxian there while he recovers from his stab wound). In The Untamed, however, the Quiet Room was originally her residence, and Lan Wangji started living there some time after her death.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Bloody past aside, she was kind and gentle to both her sons despite only getting to see them once a month. In return, while both know of her history, they have nothing but good memories of her. Despite being one of the few good parents in the story, she died when her children were still young.
• Flower Motifs: She lived the rest of her life in a house surrounded with gentians. These flowers are said to symbolize sweetness or loveliness, and Wei Wuxian concluded that she seemed to have been a gentle woman from the little he was told about her. On the other hand, gentians can also represent injustice, which is thematically implied in her backstory.
• Marriage of Convenience: Although she didn't return Qingheng-jun's love for her, he married her to protect her from his clan's wrath after she murdered his mentor. However, guilt drove him to placed her under house arrest, and she could only see her children once a month up until her death.
• No Full Name Given: She is only known as Madam Lan.
• Posthumous Character: She was already dead prior to the beginning of the story, flashback arcs included.
• Unnamed Parent: Despite being the mother of one of the protagonists and another major character, she is only referred to as Madam Lan.

Lan Yi (蓝翼)

Voiced by: Lu Gengyi [web series] ^{Click here for other languages} Yuko Kaida (Japanese) [web series]
Played by: Lee Yeuk-Tung ^note credited as Carman Lee [web series]

The third and only female leader of the Lan Clan. She is the granddaughter of Lan An, the clan founder.

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• Action Girl: She is the only woman in the Lan Clan to become its leader, and created her clan's signature Razor Floss technique. She is also the only other known female cultivator besides Baoshan-Sanren to become a clan leader.
• Advertised Extra: She was one of the 24 characters who got a promotional poster in The Untamed. However, in the series proper she only appears for two episodes with about half an episode's length of screentime.
• Ascended Extra: As a Posthumous Character she has no presence in the novel, but she makes an official appearance in The Untamed in the flashback arc where she encountered Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian in a cave she trapped herself in.
• Friend to All Living Things: In The Untamed a few rabbits kept her company in the cave she trapped herself in, implying she was a gentle woman that the rabbits were fond of.
• Posthumous Character: As the third founder of the Lan Clan, she died well before the story, and her name is only brought up a few times when Wei Wuxian brings up either her invention or her reputation. While the teenage Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji met her in The Untamed, she was only there as a spirit.

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