Funny / Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi

aka: Mo Dao Zu Shi

Despite the many grim events that ensue, the whole book itself is a rollercoaster of funny moments.

All spoilers are unmarked.

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Main Story

Pre-Time Skip

Studying in the Cloud Recesses

• Jiang Cheng does a high number of Face Palming in the donghua thanks to Wei Wuxian's antics.
• The Lan Clan has a precise schedule of sleeping at nine in the evening and rising at five in the morning — very accurate and systematic. Wei Wuxian has a habit of sleeping at one and waking at nine — equally systematic, but four hours later...
• How did Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji first meet? Wei Wuxian evaded the curfew at the Cloud Recesses (despite having just arrived there for the study program) to buy two jars of Emperor's Smile, Gusu's famous wine. On his way back, while jumping over the wall, he was caught red-handed by Lan Wangji.
• When told by Lan Wangji that alcohol is forbidden in the Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian's compromise is to drink it while standing on the wall, because "that wouldn't count as violating the rules, would it?". Turns out it does count — so they fought, breaking a jar in the process.
• Wei Wuxian riles up Lan Qiren with his theory about using resentful energy. In the donghua, Nie Huaisang gets a scroll to the face because of this.
• The first description of the (then) 3000 rules of the Lan Clan, compiled into a book of two sections. Copying it just once (by hand, mind) would make the copier ascend to the heavens.
• Nie Huaisang asks Wei Wuxian for a favor in helping him for some pop quizzes that Lan Qiren was notorious for giving, in exchange for doing Wei Wuxian's punishment of writing the Lan Clan rules. He promises that nothing bad will happen — and then it cuts to Wei Wuxian solemnly walking up the stairs to take his punishment. In the donghua, it's made funnier by the music appropriately changing from easy-going to comedic.
• Wei Wuxian is made to carry out his punishment in the library while supervised by Lan Wangji. He proceeds to annoy the hell out of the latter during the entire punishment, and much hilarity ensues:
  • Lan Wangji gets so fed up with Wei Wuxian talking at one point that he puts him under the Silencing Spell. The donghua expands on this scene by having the latter try to apologize through writing, but Lan Wangji only looks away, causing Wei Wuxian to groan and pound the table in frustration. When Wei Wuxian tries to appeal to him by showing a drawing of a wolf and a chicken^note "wolf looking at chicken" sounds similar to Lan Wangji, the Lan clansman just rubs it in how little of a crap he gives by neatly folding the drawing in front of his face before tossing it into a box.
  • On his final day of punishment in the library with him, Wei Wuxian gifts to Lan Wangji a drawing of the latter. Although a surprisingly nice gesture at first, Wei Wuxian later adds in a flower in the drawn Lan Wangji's hair as a joke. When the unamused Lan Wangji comments on the prank being boring, Wei Wuxian calls him out on using that word over and over again and asks if he can't say anything different. Lan Wangji then says, "Incredibly boring".
  • Wei Wuxian pulls a second prank on Lan Wangji by replacing his poem book with pornography, flustering and angering the other to the extent of him shouting at Wei Wuxian to scram.
• In the donghua, Wei Wuxian's boat accidentally runs into Jin Zixuan, who was trying to drink some wine. He ends up drenched and looks incredibly irritated.
• How does Wei Wuxian get Lan Wangji's attention while they're looking out for water ghouls? Jumping up and down on his boat, waving his arms like a maniac and yelling at Lan Wangji to look at him. Jiang Cheng reacts by slapping his hand over his face and yelling at Wei Wuxian to stop messing around.
• Lan Wangji actually compliments Wei Wuxian for once when admiring his blade and asking for its name. Wei Wuxian replies, "Whatever". When Lan Wangji scolds him on being blase about his sword, Wei Wuxian states that it is the name of his sword (Suibian) and goes on to describe how the sword got the name. Since he and Jiang Fengmian couldn't decide on a name he liked, he shrugged off "whatever", and Jiang Fengmian ended up having that carved as its name. Lan Wangji can only respond with, "Ridiculous!"
• After being pulled up from the lake by Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian weakly asks the other why he was holding him up by his collar. Lan Wangji flatout replies that he dislikes physical contact. Wei Wuxian replies that it shouldn't matter since they're friends, to which Lan Wangji says they aren't.
• The girl who Wei Wuxian promised to buy loquats from earlier gifts him a basket as thanks. Wei Wuxian momentarily flirts with her and Jiang Cheng reacts accordingly. When he notices Lan Wangji passing by, he asks the girls if they think he's as good-looking as him, which they immediately confirm. Wei Wuxian laughs at Lan Wangji's annoyance and then asks him to later teach him how to curse in the Gusu dialect. Lan Xichen once again reads his brother's emotions and offers to buy a basket of loquats if he wanted them, Lan Wangji immediately tells him he doesn't want them.
• Wei Wuxian and the other visiting disciples take advantage of the suspension of classes by spending every night in Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's room drinking and messing around. Wei Wuxian is made to go buy Emperor's Smile for everyone one night, as punishment for losing a game. Things (comedically) go downhill from there:
  • The visiting disciples are sprawled all over the floor asleep and hungover one morning when Lan Wangji barges in the room and witnesses the chaos. Nie Huiasang and Jiang Cheng give Oh, Crap! reactions as they realize the situation, especially when the latter unintentionally throws a porn book at Wei Wuxian and reveals the contents to the Lan clansman.
  • It's revealed Wei Wuxian was apprehended by Lan Wangji again while trying to sneak in the Emperor's Smile. When he managed to take the other down with him so they were no longer on the Cloud Recesses' grounds and technically breaking curfew, Wei Wuxian promised to not tell anyone if he doesn't. The very next day Lan Wangji goes ahead and drags him out for his punishment anyways. The donghua makes this funnier by immediately cutting to Wei Wuxian being held down by two other Lan disciples as he's forced to receives his punishment.
  • After his punishment, Wei Wuxian forces Jiang Cheng to carry him around, and in the donghua Nie Huaisang even fans his back from behind. Jiang Cheng grumbles about it the whole time, even though he was the one who took the initiative because he claimed that leaving him rolling around there would look bad for his clan.
  • Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng and Nie Huiasang catch Lan Qiren and Lan Xichen having a discussion in the donghua about the former and Lan Wangji getting puninshed. When the Lan clansmen notice, Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang belatedly pull Wei Wuxian down and out of sight.
  • Wei Wuxian makes a surprise appearance at the Cold Springs and joins Lan Wangji, much to the latter's great irritation. In the donghua, seeing how uncooperative he's being, Wei Wuxian nabs Lan Wangji's clothes and is prepared to leave him stewing in the water, but not before praising on his figure. This leaves Lan Wangji even more angered and his ears visibly flushing.
• Wei Wuxian randomly brings two rabbits to Lan Wangji and asks if he wants them. When the latter initially refuses, Wei Wuxian says he'll just eat them then. As Lan Wangji protests and decides to keep the rabbits, Wei Wuxian laughs at how Lan Wangji is never honest with his feelings.
• As the two bunnies start to play around, Wei Wuxian says they look adorable together and Lan Wangji has to correct him by pointing out they're both male. In the manhua Wei Wuxian teasingly asks where Lan Wangji had been looking to know that, prompting Lan Wangji to kick Wei Wuxian out (whereas in the novel Lan Wangji actually pushes Wei Wuxian off the window). In the donghua the rabbits are trying to mate just off-screen and as Wei Wuxian jokingly points this out, he gets flustered when Lan Wangji calls it obscene, and demands to know what he was thinking about.
• In the donghua Jiang Yanli talks about Jin Zixuan with Wei Wuxian after the latter returns to Lotus Pier following his expulsion from the Cloud Recesses, with the former admitting she's not sure if she really wants to marry Jin Zixuan while Wei Wuxian argues she deserves someone better than the peacock. Cut to Jin Zixuan, who's sitting quietly in his room and sneezes loudly.
• In the donghua, as Jiang Cheng arrives back at Lotus Pier, he notices Wei Wuxian's body doing a deadman's float in the water. He leans over and pokes at him a few times before Wei Wuxian jumps up to scare him.

The Discussion Conference

• Wei Wuxian catches Wen Ning practising his archery and shows his admiration. When the latter quickly hides behind a rock, Wei Wuxian wonders if his good looks scared him off.
• Wei Wuxian finds Lan Wangji before the archery competition, but the other refuses to talk to him. So Wei Wuxian allows him to leave... before yelling to him that his forehead ribbon is crooked. Lan Wangji pauses to fix it, but then realizes it was a joke and irritatedly turns around to see Wei Wuxian holding his stomach laughing.
• As Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian walk through some caves to get to the shooting grounds in the donghua, Jiang Cheng runs into a stalactite and gets a visible bruise on his forehead. The next time they're shown crawling, with Wei Wuxian barely managing to contain his giggles as he asks Jiang Cheng if he wants to turn back and promises not to tell anyone. As Jiang Cheng turns around to scold Wei Wuxian, he runs into another stalactite. Wei Wuxian finally bursts out laughing.
• Even after he's disqualified, Wen Chao prepares to shoot his arrows and the others call him out on him not listening to the rules.
  Wen Chao: Rules? I am the rules!
• Wei Wuxian is legitimately terrified for once when he accidentally pulls off Lan Wangji's forehead ribbon to try and fix it. In the donghua Lan Wangji gives the heaviest Death Glare he's had up to this point, and even shatters the bow he's holding in his hand. All Wei Wuxian can do is apologize and gingerly offer the ribbon back.

Xuanwu Cave

• The donghua shows Wei Wuxian distracting Wen Chao by pretending to offer him one of his porn books. Made funnier when the book was actually just the Wen's teachings that he later throws at the others' feet.
• After saving Mianmian from Wen Chao, she asks Wei Wuxian not to refer to her as Mianmian without offering his name. He then tells her his name is Yuandao, which plays off of her nickname. Embarrassed, Mianmian scolds him before running off.
• Jin Zixuan slowly loses his mind having to listen to Wen Chao prattle on, to the point that he's very close to jumping down to the bottom of the cave even if it kills him just so he can get away from the annoying Wen clansman. In the audio drama, he even follows through with it.
• Even the dour situation and having been badly burned from the branding ircon doesn't stop Wei Wuxian from cracking a joke about having roasted meat on hand if needed. Jiang Cheng is not amused.
• Wei Wuxian teases and pokes at Lan Wangji over and over to make him cough up the bad blood he's been holding on to out of stubbornness.
• Reaching breaking point after Wei Wuxian asks if he likes Mianmian, Lan Wangji suddenly bites his arm and and refuses to relent despite the other teenager's complaints. Once Wei Wuxian gets free, Lan Wangji acts as if nothing happened and tells him to stay back as he nurses his arm.

The Fall of Lotus Pier

• Jiang Cheng calls out Wei Wuxian for letting Jiang Yanli pamper him. In the donghua, Wei Wuxian responds by pulling his eyelid and childishly sticking out his tongue. In response, Jiang Cheng starts to bully him by putting him in a headlock.
• In the donghua, Wen Ning constantly covers for Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng by either falling on purpose or clumsily walking around. It can come off as a little humorous since he does it so many times yet doesn't arouse Wen Chao's suspicions.

The Phoenix Mountain Hunt

• In the audio drama, some cultivators are talking between each other and note all of the handsome disciples and clan leaders that would be joining the hunt. One of them jokes that with all of these handsome men coming, especially the Twin Jades, he has no idea if the women would have enough flowers to throw. Cue the Twin Jades riding in and all of the women are practically fangirling over them (especially Lan Wangji) as they loudly throw heaps of flowers for them.
  Cultivator: In yester years, fruit would fill a cart. Today, flowers rain down from the sky.
• Not even Wei Wuxian can resist throwing a flower at Lan Wangji's back. Wei Wuxian denies doing it when confronted about it, but gets snitched by the girls near him.
  Girl: Hanguang-Jun, don't believe him. It was him! We all saw it. He purposely hit you with the flower from behind your back!
  Wei Wuxian: How could you ladies falsely accuse a good person? I'm angry now!
• Jiang Cheng scolds Wei Wuxian on tossing a flower at Lan Wangji, and without missing a beat he offers to give his martial brother a flower from off the ground.
• As Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are showered with flowers, Wei Wuxian happily accepts them while Jiang Cheng coughs and wonders if the smell is poison. Wei Wuxian pokes fun at him for being unromantic
• Before taking a shot at the targets to beat Jin Zixuan, Wei Wuxian rides to find Lan Wangji and asks for his forehead ribbon. Jiang Cheng then asks if Wei Wuxian wants the ribbon to hang himself and snarkily offers him his belt while adding, "No need to thank me."
• The whole blindfold kiss incident is almost absurd in nature due to Wei Wuxian completely missing all of the clues about the kisser's identity:
  • Wei Wuxian mistakes the kisser be a "shy maiden". Lan Wangji meanwhile is so upset with losing control, he smashes a bunch of trees in such an uncharacteristic fashion that Wei Wuxian notices... without putting one and one together. The entire crew in the audio drama bloopers even pokes fun at Wei Wuxian for not realizing that the voice sounds a lot like a man and not a girl.
  • Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji if he's ever kissed someone. Lan Wangji panics as he asks how Wei Wuxian would know, and Wei Wuxian concludes that Lan Wangji would save his First Kiss for the rest of his life, since 1) with his serious face no one would dare try and kiss him, and 2) he would never take the initiative to kiss someone. Lan Wangji then laughs, but not for the reason Wei Wuxian believes.
  • When asked about his kissing experience, Wei Wuxian lies through his teeth as ne nervously replies he's obviously very experienced. Lan Wangji sighs and walks off, now thoroughly jealous at all the "people who kissed Wei Ying". Who do not exist.
• Jin Zixuan guides Jiang Yanli through the hunt and describes the prey to her. However, he doesn't seem to realize how awkward it is for her since she's not a fighter and doesn't enjoy hunting. He's also so nervous that Wei Wuxian notices he's walking with both his arms and legs on the same side in sync. Wei Wuxian is unamused watching this unfold and even retches when Jin Zixuan offers for Jiang Yanli to come to the clan's hunting grounds.
• Jin Zixuan finally drops the whole Tsundere act and loudly confesses to Jiang Yanli that he was the one who wanted her to come to the hunt, not his mother. Everyone's reactions is filled with confused and Stunned Silence. In the donghua even Lan Wangji looks surprised at the confession. When Jin Zixuan realizes what he's done, his face gets beet red and he immediately runs from the scene screaming while his mother calls him out for it.

The Rescue of the Wen Survivors

• Wei Wuxian teases Lan Wangji by sending a group of female ghosts to give him flowers, leaving him confused and flustered as more and more come.
• The first thing Jiang Cheng encounters on the Burial Mounds upon arrival? Wei Wuxian bickering pointlessly with Wen Qing how he rather have potatoes over radishes planted.
• Wei Wuxian lightly scolds Wen Yuan for grabbing onto people and reminding him not to eat the dirt under his nails. Wen Yuan reacts by playfully slapping Wei Wuxian's face.
• As Jiang Cheng surveys the Demon Slaughtering Cave, Wei Wuxian has to constantly tell his martial brother to mind where he steps, which is literally everywhere. Jiang Cheng comments on Wei Wuxian's sloppiness, but he ignores him and says that everything he's working on is very important.

Reunion in Yiling

• Wei Wuxian's idea of good parenting includes burying a child in the ground, much to Wen Qing's annoyance.
• Wei Wuxian gets annoyed that Wen Yuan warms up to Lan Wangji so fast, grumbling that it's always the father who has the money and the mother who provides the milk.
• Lan Wanji claims to be on a night hunt when he stops by Yiling. At the same time, Wen Yuan ends up stumbling on him and crying near him. This gets him mistaken for being his father and captures the attention of the civilians around them, which isn't helped by Wen Yuan calling for his dad during this. Wei Wuxian has to "rescue" Lan Wangji (after having a few laughs himself) and proceeds to tease him. Up to claiming that he "gave birth" to Wen Yuan, which Lan Wangji actually takes seriously before Wei Wuxian cracks and admits it's a joke. Lan Wangji is even flustered in the manhua.
• The reason why Wei Wuxian calls the cave he stays in the Demon Slaughtering Cave? He is known as a "demon" and that's where he passes out asleep after a lot of work ie it "slaughters" him.
• Wei Wuxian teases Wen Qing by asking if she's done crying, and she angrily tells him he'd be crying soon. Before Wei Wuxian can finish his sentence, Wen Qing retaliates by slapping Wei Wuxian's back and causing him to cough up blood. He then dramatically pretends to faint in Lan Wangji's arms before Wen Qing tells him to get up.
• As Wen Wing offers for Lan Wangji to sit down, Wei Wuxian panics as he realizes there's no place for him to sit since there's papers on his bed. So Wen Qing sweeps all of the items onto the floor. When Wei Wuxian protests, she claims that there's a spot now that everything's swept onto the floor and he can only grumble.
• Wen Qing scolds Wei Wuxian for wasting money buying useless things, and the latter stutters and claims he bought nice toys for Wen Yuan. Unfortunately for him, the toddler is quick to call him out.
  Wen Yuan: Xian-gege is lying. [points at Lan Wangji] It's this gege who bought them for me.
• Wei Wuxian wonders if Lan Wangji normally carries around a lot of money since he forgot to pay for their meal, leaving Lan Wangji to pick up the tab. He initially thinks to actually treat him next time, but then concludes it wouldn't be bad if Lan Wangji would pay again since he's clearly rich.
• Wen Yuan identifies Lan Wangji as "rich gege" and Wei Wuxian as "poor gege". An annoyed Wei Wuxian grabs Wen Yuan's toys and dangles them over his head. He then claims he heard Wen Yuan call Lan Wangji "dad" and is unhappy with being ranked lower as "gege", so he bullies Wen Yuan to rank him higher.
  Wen Yuan: I don't want to call Xian-gege "mom"!
  Wei Wuxian: [snorts] Who told you it's "mom"? The one who ranks higher than "big brother" and "dad" is "grandpa"!
• Wei Wuxian tries to scare Wen Yuan by claiming that the Cloud Recess is a scary place where they nab children, lock them up and force them to write scriptures. He asks if that's what Wen Yuan wants, and the child goes on to list everyone at the Burial Mounds who he still wants, which only leads him to lump Wei Wuxian in with the others.
• Wen Qing serves Wei Wuxian the feast they prepared and acts nice to him. He admits to being scared to these unusual acts of kindness.
  Wei Wuxian: Did you get possessed?
  Wen Qing: Tsk! So you want to get pierced by needles again?
  Wei Wuxian: Let's pretend I never said that!
• The other Wens that Wei Wuxian hasn't met introduce themselves, with one telling him that her name is Wen Bin Bin. He jokes that the name is the opposite of her, since all they do when they see each other is bicker.
• After Wen Ning's consciousness returns, a lot of rumors and horror stories spread about him as the Ghost Generla and Wei Wuxian. Meanwhile, Wei Wuxian only uses the first conscious fierce corpse for one thing — making grocery/shopping trips easier by making Wen Ning carry everything up the mountain. While everyone is spreading slanderous rumors about the Yiling Patriarch, all Wei Wuxian is doing is farming and doing various rather harmless experiments like creating the Compass of Evil. The sheer contrast between rumours and reality is absurd.
• Jiang Yanli apologizes to Wei Wuxian that he can't also see the groom as it's just her who can come. Wei Wuxian doesn't bother hiding his distaste for the man in question.
  Wei Wuxian: Who'd want to look at the groom? I just want to see the bride.
• As her brother and brother figure shower her in compliments, Jiang Yanli teasingly tells them she can't take them seriously since there's no point in the two of them praising her. Jiang Cheng then teases back by asking if she only wants to hear the compliments from a certain someone, which causes her to stutter and blush.
• Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng get into an argument on who was the most injured because of their staged fight. Wei Wuxian complains about Jiang Cheng really stabbing him and having to heal for seven days, whereas Jiang Cheng had to wear a sling for a month. Wei Wuxian argues it doesn't matter for him since he didn't break his dominant arm.

The Ambush at Qiongqi Path

• Wei Wuxian asks Wen Ning to protect him from Wen Qing after spending all of their money buying the materials he needed to make Jin Ling's birthday gift.
• Although it's a serious scene, there is something utterly hilarious about how Wei Wuxian's first reaction to seeing Jin Zixun showing up with a bunch of archers and other cultivators to ambush him is, "Who are you?" Jin Zixun is really stretching the idea of the Yiling Patriarch caring about him in any fashion...

Post-Time Skip

Mo Village

• Having been brought back to life in a body of a rumoured lunatic, Wei Wuxian completely rides along with acting like a maniac.
  In terms of running wild, Wei Wuxian was definitely a master. In the past, if he wanted to run wild, he would have to keep his status in mind, but now, he was a lunatic anyways, which meant that he could do whatever he wanted to, whichever way he wanted.
• As Wei Wuxian crashes a meeting with the Mo family and the Lan clan, he causes a scene by petulantly refusing to leave and accusing Mo Ziyuan of harassing him in the middle of the night, leaving the entire family (and the onlookers) scandalized.
• Wei Wuxian calls the Lan Clan's all-white uniforms mourning clothes.
• Wei Wuxian kicks Lan Jingyi towards the reanimated corpse, and the latter yells at him and asks why he kicked him. Wei Wuxian's immediate response it to say he didn't do anything.
• In most of the voiceovers Wei Wuxian either sounds confident or commanding when he tells the corpses to wake up. Yet in this moment of the Japanese dub of the audio drama, he just sounds annoyed as he snaps his fingers and orders them to wake up.

Mount Dafan

• The donkey that Wei Wuxian picks up after the events of Mo Manor — later named Little Apple — is given anything but a flattering description in the novel, making it clear from the start how annoying the donkey will be to anyone unlucky to be stuck with it throughout the story.
  Although it was only a donkey, it would exclusively eat fresh, young grass with dewdrops still hanging off them. If the tip of the grass had a streak of yellow, it wouldn't eat it... If it didn't eat high-quality food, it wouldn't budge, and it'd lose its temper and kick around.
• When Lan Wangji makes his first onscreen appearance in the novel, the narration notes on his beauty before commenting on his bitter facial expression, "as if his wife had passed away".
• Jiang Cheng is revealed to be number five on the list of gentlemen cultivators from his generation. Nobody dares to mentions this in earshot because Wei Wuxian is number four, and Jiang Cheng never managed to surpass Wei Wuxian even before or after the latter died.
• While the reason behind it isn't funny, there's still something hilarious about how Lan Wangji dislikes Jiang Cheng so much that he won't speak to him directly, having Lan Sizhui do the talking instead. He also won't hesitate to use the Silencing Spell on Jiang Cheng's nephew right in front of him, and even destroy all 400 nets that the uncle-nephew duo had set up around Mount Dafan just to piss Jiang Cheng off. Sure, there were also the reasons that Jin Ling was lacking in manners and no form of cheating is allowed during night-hunts, but still.
• Jin Ling and Lan Jingyi clash a lot more at this point in the donghua, leading to hilarious moments between the two (and the poor peacemaker Lan Sizhui):
  • Jin Ling and Lan Jingyi argue so much that they pull out their swords and start fighting. Lan Sizhui tries to talk some sense into the two only to immediately give up and Face Palm.
  • After Lan Jingyi kicks Jin Ling into the cave, he and Sizhui enter to find him and investigate. However, Lan Jingyi believes he heard a ghost and points his flame talisman toards the "ghost" — who ends up being Jin Ling, and the two scream out of fright. Jin Ling then pokes fun at Lan Jingyi for screaming like a child, while completely ignoring the fact that he had screamed as well.
• No matter the adaptation, when Wei Wuxian plays the flute for the first time in years everyone nearby notes how terrible he sounds. Made funnier in the novel where Wei Wuxian internally snarks that if someone else could fluidly play a hastily carved flute after thirteen years of no practice, then he'd happily bow down to them.
• In the donghua, where Mo Xuanyu is said to be an Extreme Omnisexual, Wei Wuxian claims that he is actually quite picky; for example, he has no interest in the big, dumb, fat and sturdy cow back in the village, and he then states that he also has no interest in Jiang Cheng. Yes, he's essentially comparing him to the aforementioned animal.
• Wei Wuxian tries to disgust both Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji to get them off his case by claiming to be attracted to the latter. He's half-successful, at best..
  Lan Wangji: Mark your words.
  Wei Wuxian: Hmm?
  Lan Wangji: (to Jiang Cheng and everyone else) I will take this person back to the Lan Clan.
  Wei Wuxian: ...
  Wei Wuxian: ... Huh?

To the Cloud Recesses

• After the events of Mount Dafan, the setting immediately switches to the Lan Clan's headquarters, the Cloud Recesses. Outside it, Wei Wuxian is making a ruckus to avoid being dragged inside against his will. Lan Wangji, of course, is having none of it.
  Lan Wangji stood still in front of the entrance, turning a deaf ear to him, and watched the scene with an indifferent look. When Wei Wuxian's voice had somewhat quieted, he spoke, "Let him cry. When he becomes tired, drag him inside."
  Wei Wuxian hugged the donkey and cried even harder, bumping his head against it.
• In the donghua, Wei Wuxian quickly takes the hint that crying won't work and immediately tries to leave with Little Apple. However, the donkey instead heads towards Lan Wangji, who pulls out an apple from his sleeve.
  Wei Wuxian: Little Apple, you traitor!!
• Wei Wuxian complains about the Lan Clan's 3000 rules written on the stone wall. He's unamused when told the number of rules have increased even more.
  Wei Wuxian: This stone wall has over 3000 rules carved into it. How could I see them clearly?!
  Lan Jingyi: "3000 rules" is ancient history! Now they've added more, all the way up to 4019 rules. Hmph.
  Wei Wuxian: [cries harder] So harsh!
• Lan Xichen, leader of the Lan Clan and Lan Wangji's elder brother, can divine his brother's mood by looking at the latter. Keep in mind that at no point in the text is there any change in Lan Wangji's face. Wei Wuxian is befuddled, and even Lan Jingyi asks how Lan Xichen could tell his brother was happy.
  Wei Wuxian: [thinking] Good spirits? How could [Lan Xichen] tell that [Lan Wangji] was in good spirits?!
• When he first meets Lan Xichen, Wei Wuxian tries to seize the opportunity to annoy him and get kicked out of the Cloud Recesses. But Lan Wangji is two steps ahead of him and immediately puts him under the Silencing Spell.
• Wei Wuxian's increasingly ridiculous attempts to find an exit pass and escape the Cloud Recesses:
  • He goes to the Cold Springs to steal the jade token (which is the entrance/exit pass) of anyone who's bathing there. Much to his bad luck, Lan Wangji is there and catches him in the act. When Wei Wuxian flees and bumps into Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi, he makes this priceless remark in an attempt to be kicked out for being a peeping tom:
    Wei Wuxian: I didn't see! I didn't see anything! I'm definitely not here to peep at Hanguang-Jun bathing!
  • Wei Wuxian tries to ambush Lan Wangji in bed in order to steal the jade token. When the latter turns out to be awake, Wei Wuxian decides to roll with it and get on top of him so he can elicit a disgusted response from him and get kicked out. Lan Wangji is unfazed, however, and turns the tables.
    Lan Wangji: Get off.
    Wei Wuxian: No.
    Lan Wangji: ... Get off.
    Wei Wuxian: No. If you allowed me to sleep here, you should have known that something like this would happen.
    Lan Wangji: Are you sure that this is what you want?
    Wei Wuxian: ...
    For some reason, Wei Wuxian felt that he should carefully consider his reply.
    [later after Lan Wangji freezes Wei Wuxian's body and goes back to sleep]
    Lan Wangji: Then stay like this for the whole night.
    Wei Wuxian: ???
• Wei Wuxian is sore from his uncomfortable sleep no thanks to Lan Wangji when the Lan Clan disciples go and wake him. He complains about being sore and explains what happened in a very misleading way.
  Wei Wuxian: What is wrong? I got done by your clan's Hanguang-Jun!
• The revelation that Lan Wangji loves rabbits. Just the image of him holding a rabbit with a straight face is enough to make even Wei Wuxian want to roll around in laughter.
• As the juniors and Wei Wuxian approach the Mingshi doors, the latter commands them to open. The juniors tell him that the doors won't open just because he wants them to, but then the resentful energy inside slams the wood open and Wei Wuxian walks inside.
• Wei Wuxian's dizi flute playing is apparently so bad, Lan Qiren briefly wakes up to complain about it!
• In between leaving the Cloud Recesses and Xinglu Ridge, an exclusive audio drama extra has Wei Wuxian putting on makeup so he looks like a ghost in order to annoy Lan Wangji. Unfortunately when he asks if he looks good, Lan Wangji replies with "mn" in agreement. Confused, Wei Wuxian wonders what he did wrong as their server comes in with their tea before screaming that he saw a ghost and runs out.

Xinglu Ridge

• Seeing that it's impossible to escape Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian switches his tactics to annoying him, but to no avail. Lan Wangji's newfound tolerance has Wei Wuxian stumped, to the point where he suspects that Lan Wangji and Mo Xuanyu (his current body's original owner) has some torrid affair going on.
• After Wei Wuxian accidentally bumps into a man, the latter offers to give himn portraits that supposedly were painted of the Yiling Patriach to ward off evil. Wei Wuxian is... less than pleased that the portraits reduce him to what could be described as an ogre. He then grabs the paper and says that the Yiling Patriach was known for his good looks and the man should redraw the portrait.
• The fearsome Yiling Patriarch... is afraid of dogs. As painful as this is for him, the events that follow after this fact becomes known to the audience are hilarious:
  • The protagonists meet Jin Ling (again), with the latter this time accompanied by his dog Fairy. When the teenager summons said dog, Wei Wuxian flees in terror and clings to Lan Wangji, who freezes in response. Then Jin Ling flees in terror from Lan Wangji, because the older man had punished him once with the Silencing Spell before and he does not want another punishment.
  • In the donghua, Wei Wuxian panics upon seeing Fairy and practically climbs the Lan Wangji out of fright. Once Jin Ling leaves with his dog, Wei Wuxian seems to notice himself hugging Lan Wangji's upper body like a koala (arms and legs and all) and quickly jumps off in embarrassment.
• Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji to speak with the spirits and tell them what they know. Lan Wangji's answer ends up confusing him a little.
  Wei Wuxian: What did they say?
  Lan Wangji: "I don't know".
  Wei Wuxian: What?
  Lan Wangji: They said, "I don't know".
• Jiang Cheng catches (what he suspects, and actually is) Wei Wuxian. To keep Wei Wuxian in place, he uses the dog. Given Wei Wuxian's fear of dogs, it's a cruel act, but there's still something to grimly chuckle about with Wei Wuxian's inability to curb his fear even in situations where there's a greater danger right in front of him.
• Before interrogating Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng decides to pour himself a cup of tea... then suddenly smashes it on the ground without taking even a sip. One can only guess if this is one of his unique temper tantrums or his attempt to further intimidate Wei Wuxian.
• In the donghua, trying to escape the city before Jiang Cheng notices he's missing, Wei Wuxian looks back to see Fairy following him, causing him to scream and telling the dog to leave him alone.
• The simple fact that Jin Ling's dog is named Fairy (仙子 shianzu)! Worse, Jiang Cheng is revealed to have similar poor naming sense, having given his dogs names one would expect from prostitutes (Jasmine, Princess, and Love). At least we know where Jin Ling gets it from...
• After Lan Wangji finds Wei Wuxian again and notices the curse mark on his leg, he sighs and mutters, "I was gone for an hour."
• Nie Huaisang is reintroduced in the present timeline via what's apparently his Catchphrase: "I don't know, I don't know, I really don't know!"
• Lan Wangji uses Bichen to... cut the pants off corpses. And strip them off. Before the Nie ancestral hall. The Nie ancestors were definitely rolling in their graves there...

Yi City

• When their server gets closer to Wei Wuxian to tell him the story of what's happening at the city, Lan Wangji quietly leaves after paying for their drinks. The server notes nervously that Lan Wangji glared at him like he was hitting on his wife.
• As they leave the tavern, the server asks for Wei Wuxian's name. Not wanting to reveal his real surname (since they were just talking about The Dreaded Yiling Patriarch, albeit misnamed as "Wei Wuqian"), he tells him that his last name is Lan. Cue Lan Wangji tripping over his feet just a few steps away as the waitor declares his surname is now Lan. The manhua even shows a panel of Lan Wangji tripping in shock.
• The first time Wei Wuxian sees Lan Wangji gets drunk is a sight to behold, with the latter becoming more nonsensical:
  • Wei Wuxian gets confused by Lan Wangji's acts of jealousy towards Wen Ning. When his companion slams Wen Ning away, Wei Wuxian thinks it's because he doesn't feel comfortable seeing the Ghost General due to the latter's vicious reputation. He takes out his flute to send Wen Ning away, but is stumped when Lan Wangji also irritatedly confiscates it (because he doesn't want him playing for Wen Ning).
  • Wei Wuxian persuades Lan Wangji to go back to their shared inn room and helps clean his face up. Lan Wangji then proceeds to drink the washing water by dunking his whole head in the basin, forcing Wei Wuxian to intervene.
  • Wei Wuxian decides to play In Vino Veritas and interrogate Lan Wangji and gets only expressive yet monosyllabic replies. When he asks him for his opinions on Jiang Cheng and Wen Ning, the Lan clansman just grunts in irritation and in a neutral tone, respectively. Wei Wuxian then points to himself and asks Lan Wangji what he thinks of him, but is stumped when the latter answers, "Mine." Despite the obvious implications of this, the only logical conclusion Wei Wuxian can come to is that Lan Wangji was referring to his sword that's being held on his back.
  • Lan Wangji's body clock steps in, prompting him to pull Wei Wuxian into bed with him and freeze his body for good measure. When Wei Wuxian asks him to remove the spell, he misinterprets and attempts to remove his clothes instead.
  • A topless Wei Wuxian is in the middle of undoing Lan Wangji's shirt when the latter awakens and misunderstands the situation. Wei Wuxian is quick to go along with this as a prank.
    Wei Wuxian: [winks] You were so bold and unrestrained last night, Hanguang-Jun~
• The events of Yi City can be summarized as "The Yiling Patriarch and Hanguang-Jun class trip, with corpses!"
• Wei Wuxian runs into the juniors and learns that Little Apple and Fairy had injured each other. An argument over the two animals and the quality of their names ensues.
  Jin Ling: I can't even stand looking at that donkey. And it's even called "Little Apple". It's so damn stupid!
  Lan Jingyi: What is wrong with "Little Apple"? It likes to eat apples, so it is called Little Apple. It's down-to-earth. It's ten times better than calling your fat dog "Fairy"!
  Jin Ling: How is Fairy fat?!
• After Wei Wuxian describes what will happen to the juniors afflicted with corpse poisoning, he lets the information sink in and then asks if they want to be cured. They all immediately say yes.
• Wei Wuxian cooks up some congee for those affected by the corpse poisoning to eat. While the gesture is nice, the decision to throw in a bunch of chilli spice isn't. Comedic reactions ensue:
  • Lan Jingyi immediately spits out the congee while complaining he's never tasted such spicy congee. The rest of the juniors' reactions aren't any better, with many either having a coughing fit or outright spitting up the congee. Lan Sizhui commenting that he somehow finds the taste oddly familiar implies that this isn't the first time the poor teenager has tasted this bizarre dish.
  • In the donghua, all four juniors react to the spicy congee by turning beet red. Lan Jingyi screams for water, Ouyang Zizhen passes out in the corner, Lan Sizhui makes a futile attempt to cool his tongue down by waving his hand, and Jin Ling has to be straight-up held down and force-fed the congee due to his complaints.
  • Not even the courteous "Xiao Xingchen" can hold back after tasting Wei Wuxian's spicy congee.
    "Xiao Xingchen": Now that I think about it, if I had to eat this every single day, I'd rather die.
• Lan Jingyi asking why Wei Wuxian didn't protest more when they leave Lan Wangji to deal with Xue Yang. Wei Wuxian asks him to elaborate and Lan Jingyi admits he expected something more like, "I'm not leaving without you!" and other similar prose. Wei Wuxian is at the verge of cringing when he asks Lan Jingyi where he learned those things from.
• As Wei Wuxian looks through A-Qing's memories, he's surprised at her tomboyish nature (especially with all of the cursing she did). Then when she ran into a man to steal his wallet and "apologized" for being blind, the man pinched her butt — which Wei Wuxian also feels since he's currently using Empathy on A-Qing, as it causes him to think her every thought and feel everything she felt at the time. He then angrily wishes that he could slam the pervert into the ground.
• While the juniors are mourning Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing, Jin Ling expresses that if he had Fairy with him, he'd have the dog bite Xue Yang to death. Wei Wuxian pales and thinks that he's the one who'd die first if Jin Ling had brought Fairy along.
• The juniors are so caught up in their grief for A-Qing and Xiao Xingchen that they're burning paper money in front of a man's house and he angrily yells at them to get off his property.
• Wei Wuxian gets Lan Wangji drunk for the second time, and it's no less bizarre than the first:
  • Poor Wen Ning makes two more human-shaped pits in the ground thanks to the awakened and jealous Lan Wangji showing no mercy once again.
  • Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji to take off his forehead ribbon, which the latter obliges. After Wei Wuxian is done inspecting it, Lan Wangji proceeds to tie his bands up without warning, then drags him back to the inn to show off before the shocked juniors:
    • Lan Jingyi is so disturbed that his piece of chicken drops from his mouth. When Wei Wuxian claims that Lan Wangji is showing a way to use the forehead ribbon to catch corpses, Lan Jingyi is about to protest and reveal what the ribbon actually signifies when Lan Sizhui outright stuffs the chicken down Lan Jingyi's throat to shush him.
    • In the donghua, Lan Jingyi is so shocked that he drops the wine jar he's hiding behin his back. And while this adaptation still has Lan Sizhui stuffing chicken in his mouth to shut him up, the chicken piece is no longer a wing but a whole thigh.
  • Lan Wangji shows his childish side when he hids behind a screen divider in their room and expects Wei Wuxian to chase him. An amused Wei Wuxian is more than happy to oblige and so plays tag with him as both run around the screen divider.
  • As their faces drew closer to each other, out of an impulse Wei Wuxian leans up to kiss Lan Wangji. He flinches when he thinks the other's reaction means he's going to hit him. However, Lan Wangji ends up hitting himself on the forehead so hard he passes out on the bed.
• The donghua expands on the junior disciples sneakily drinking at the inn, where Lan Jingyi and even Jin Ling are most definitely not sober. Lan Jingyi rowdily chugs his wine while encouraging everyone to get along and forget about the rules; Jin Ling snarks at the former's bad alcohol tolerance, but he himself is unable to recognise Lan Sizhui for a good couple of moments and even mistakes him for Ouyang Zizhen; Lan Sizhui (who appears to be the only sober person here) has to correct him and remind him that Ouyang Zizhen didn't even accompany them to Yunping. Then the protagonists return to the inn right as Lan Jingyi brags about his plans to drink all night.
• A wild story supposedly involves Wei Wuxian trying to look at the true face of the Damsel of Annual Blossoms, a flower spirit, in a garden. He'd stand on the garden wall and loudly recite a poem wrongly, getting himself thrown out ten to twenty times before the spirit personally came out to chuck him away. He got what he wanted, but afterward she'd create a storm of flower petals just for Wei Wuxian whenever the spirit saw him in the region, an event even stranger than strange events.
• Wei Wuxian panics when he finds out the meaning of the Lan Clan's forehead ribbon. The ribbon cannot be taken off just by anybody, only by the wearer and the person that the wearer loves. A mortified Wei Wuxian immediately understands why he was nearly beaten up for grabbing Lan Wangji's forehead ribbon in their youth. Makes one wonder how on earth he missed this rule considering he was made to write down the Lan Clan rules as punishment as a student (assuming it was included in the then-3000 rules to begin with).
• Wei Wuxian teaches the juniors a secret in how to get help in dire situations — by shouting for Lan Wangji. The other juniors immediately follow suit. The Twin Jades appear soon afterwards, with the juniors (including Lan Sizhui) crying in relief.

Golden Carp Tower

• Jin Ling demands to know what Wei Wuxian's doing at the meeting. As the latter hides behind Lan Wangji, he mutters that he came for the free food.
• Since he's still assumed to be Mo Xuanyu, every servant and clansmen from the Jin Clan avoids him as much as possible. It gets to the point where Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji what the hell Mo Xuanyu did, especially when Qin Su starts looking at him.
  Wei Wuxian: What exactly did Mo Xuanyu do? He couldn't have.... stripped naked and professed his love in public? Even if he did it isn't all that bizarre. The people in Lanling Jin Clan are really inexperienced.
  Lan Wangji: Don't speak nonsense.
• Nie Huaisang gets drunk off his ass and comes crying into the party, clinging onto Jin Guangyao and asking for his help. When he points out he already helped Nie Huaisang, he cries that another problem has come up and continues to cry.
• It's revealed that that Mo Xuanyu, the illegitimate son of Jin Guangshan, was chased out of Golden Carp Tower because he apparently made overtures on the married Jin Guangyao, his half-brother. Wei Wuxian is unpleased by this revelation, and in the manhua he turns to stone from shock while the Jin Clan juniors argue in the background.
• In order to keep the cover story about Mo Xuanyu, Wei Wuxian fibs that he has moved on to another person, aka Lan Wangji. In the manhua he does this by hamming it up in front of Jin Ling by declaring he doesn't want anyone if it isn't Lan Wangji, with the panel looking like a shoujo manga. However, Wei Wuxian gets so caught up in his acting he doesn't realize Jin Ling flees because he sees Lan Wangji standing right behind Wei Wuxian.
• The donghua reminds the audience of Mo Xuanyu's adaptation-specific Extreme Omnisexual reputation by having Jin Ling ask Wei Wuxian if he's now in love with either Bai from the stables, Jin from the fish pond (both implied to be animals) or his own dog Fairy. Wei Wuxian is extremely unamused by these accusations.
• In the audio drama, when Wei Wuxian transfers his soul to a paper doll, he talks in Helium Speech.
• Wei Wuxian's Major Injury Under Reaction after Jin Ling stabs him.
  Wei Wuxian: Why does he stab in the same place as his uncle?
• Following his recovery at the Cloud Recesses, Lan Wangji gives Wei Wuxian some Emperor's Smile to drink. Wei Wuxian gladly takes a sip — before spitting it out. He then belatedly realizes these were the same jars he had drunk earlier and filled with water to prank Lan Wangji, only to end up shooting himself in the foot.
• How does Wei Wuxian in the donghua find out about the rule of Lan Clan members only letting their fated person touch their head ribbon? From his own notebook kept in Lan Wangji's room... where he had written the rule wrong the whole time (he only finds out the real rule after seeing the correction in his book). Yes, he has only himself to blame for getting in trouble with Lan Wangji's head ribbon all those times.

The Second Siege

• As Wen Ning approaches the juniors carrying Suibian, they all misunderstand his intentions (he plans to cut the ropes tying them up) and start screaming in fear.
• Wei Wuxian's defense of how he could not have kidnapped several junior disciples — everyone knows that he has no money, and Lan Wangji is holding his purse strings.
  Lan Sizhui: Yes. I knew it! I knew that, Senior, you really are very broke!
  Wei Wuxian: ...
• A lot of the cultivators who arrive ask Wei Wuxian if he recognizes them, and all he responds with is a blunt, "No."

Return to Lotus Pier

• As Wei Wuxian snuggles up to Lan Wangji in his sleep with the other gently telling him to rest, the juniors decide to flee from the cabin as they feel like they were intruding on something. One of the juniors was apparently blushing and when asked, he hurriedly claims it was because someone else was blushing.
  Lan Jingyi: No wonder the Ghost General remained squatting outside without going in. I think that a third person wouldn't be able to fit in there!
• After Sisi and Bicao tell the clans their stories, Wei Wuxian gets whiplash when the clan leaders are now addressing him respectfully and asking for his assistance when they literally wanted him dead not even half a day ago.

Yunping City

• Wei Wuxian spends another wacky evening with a drunk Lan Wangji, with hilarity ensuing once again:
  • After Lan Wangji awakens from his slumber drunk, Wei Wuxian tries to sober him up. However, Lan Wangji nails his sleeve to the floor with Bichen so he won't leave. When he promises not to go, Lan Wangji gives him Bichen, and then his wallet. Then decides against it as he takes them both back.
  • The protagonists have a wild night outside involving theft of fowls, fruit, and vandalism, with Wei Wuxian having to be the reasonable one while Lan Wangji is drunk off his rocker. Lan Wangji is especially proud of the last one, and looks pleased after drawing two little figures kissing under his writing.
    "Gusu's Lan Wangji was here".
• After the disaster that was his conversation with Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian decides to leave and walk off his emotions. He then finds Wen Ning at the wall trying to get rid of Lan Wangji's graffiti.
• Wen Ning awkwardly points out the hickeys on Wei Wuxian's neck, which he belatedly notices and embarrassedly tries to cover up.

Guanyin Temple

• How does Wei Wuxian choose to confess? By shouting, "Lan Zhan! Lan Wangji! Hanguang-Jun! Back then, I-I really wanted to sleep with you!" Keep in mind that at this moment, he and Lan Wangji are being held hostage under armed guard without access to spiritual energy, and they're in a Buddhist temple and right in front of not just Jin Guangyao and Jin Ling but also Lan Xichen, aka Lan Wangji's older brother. It's no wonder the Lan Clan leader has to remind Wei Wuxian about his timing.
• For majority of the events, after confessing to each other, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are lovey-dovey with each other and clearly off in their own little world when everyone around them is literally fighting for their lives.
• When Su She accuses Wei Wuxian of being afraid of death, Wei Wuxian explains that's different from simply not wanting to die. To provide an example, he claims him not wanting to leave Lan Wangji's lap and being afraid to leave are two different things ... before pausing for a beat and saying, "Oh wait, no, they're not, they mean the same thing." Lan Wangji laughs at his reply.
• Wei Wuxian stalls Jin Guangyao's plans by breaking the arrays that's sealing all the corpses within the temple. However, the temple was built over a brothel that burned down. That means the corpses, while burned, are also... not very well-clothed, to say the least. After Lan Xichen has his old friend at his mercy, he awkwardly asks Wei Wuxian to seal away the corpses.
• Jin Ling gets away with calling Jiang Cheng "annoying" for always being violently hot-and-cold around Wei Wuxian. It also counts as a heartwarming moment, since it showcases Jin Ling's changed feelings towards Wei Wuxian.

Epilogue

• During their make-out session, Wei Wuxian realizes that his Sacred First Kiss on Phoenix Mountain all of those years ago was taken by Lan Wangji. After he inquires about this, he also realizes that Lan Wangji was jealous back then (since Wei Wuxian previously claimed that he had kissed countless girls). Wei Wuxian starts roaring with laughter.
  Wei Wuxian: With all that, back then you were really that angry because you thought I'd really kissed someone else, weren't you? Are you an idiot, Lan Zhan?! You fucking believed all that nonsense! Only a lil' fuddy-duddy like you would believe me!
• During Their First Time, Wei Wuxian jokingly complains about his promise to Lan Wangji to sleep together every day. The latter refuses to budge and even responds with, "Everyday means everyday," a line that would define their sex life from then on.
  Wei Wuxian: Lan Zhan, when I said I wanted to sleep with you every day, can you pretend like you didn't hear it?
  Lan Wangji: No.
  Wei Wuxian: How could you do this? You've never turned me down before.
  Lan Wangji: [smiles] No.
• After reuniting with Mianmian and meeting her family, it's revealed that Lan Wangji stole the scented pouch that the woman gave to Wei Wuxian all those years ago and has been using it as his money pouch all along.
• Wei Wuxian asks what the name of the song Lan Wangji played for him was, since he never knew anything else besides the fact that Lan Wangji composed the song. Once Lan Wangji hesitatingly answers that the name of the song was WangXian, Wei Wuxian widens his eyes in surprise and then bursts out laughing.
  Wei Wuxian: No wonder you never told me. So you gave it a name like this all on your own. The reason behind it is just so obvious!

Other

Novel Extras

Extra 1: Banquet

• We finally see the upside-down copying!
• Wei Wuxian's mouth moves faster than his brain in thinking up bedroom games as a joke, only to be thrown off by Lan Wangji actually taking the idea seriously. Word of God confirmed that they eventually gave it a shot... and agreed that they shouldn't do it again.
  Wei Wuxian: Could you screw me upside-down?
  Lan Wangji: Let us try.
  Wei Wuxian: Hahahahahaha... Wait, what?
  Lan Wangji: Let us try tonight.
  Wei Wuxian: ...
• Apparently back when Lan Wangji watched over Wei Wuxian copying the scriptures in the Library Pavillion, he wrote only one character incorrectly. Once Wei Wuxian puts two and two together, he starts laughing as he realizes his husband was too distracted by him to focus on his studies back when they were teens.
• The Lan family banquet, according to Wei Wuxian, is more depressing than a funeral. The first course starts off with medicinal soup of which one spoon nearly causes Wei Wuxian to retch. Then, after when he turns his head, the bowl is mysteriously empty, then notices Lan Wangji quietly wiping his mouth. He quickly connects the dots, and nearly cozies up to his husband before Lan Qiren clears his throat in their direction.
• Out of frustration over Wei Wuxian's marriage to Lan Wangji and his belief that Wei Wuxian is nothing but a bad influence, Lan Qiren has made all of thejunior Lan Clan disciples stay away from him on threat of copying the entire set of Lan Clan rules upside-down. Not that it sticks, since the juniors quickly disregard the rule whenever Lan Qiren isn't around.
• Shortly after mentioning how Lan Qiren views him as the "pig" that dug up the old man's most prized cabbage (aka Lan Wangji), Wei Wuxian states that he will head off to go "nibble his cabbage" and waits for his "big cabbage" to return to the Jingshi. When he mentions the same phrase to Lan Wangji later, Lan Wangji fails to get the joke and is confused as to what he's talking about.

Extra 2: Incense Burner

• The fact Wei Wuxian is the one to have a domestic happy future dream while it is Lan Wangji who has the weird sex dream.
• Wei Wuxian laughs himself awake from a dream where he teases a young Lan Wangji about their future life as a married couple.
• Wei Wuxian decides to use Bichen, of all things, as a sex toy to turn Lan Wangji on.
• In spite of his bedroom kinks (including being tied up and consensual non-consent play), there's one mundane thing that Wei Wuxian is nevertheless averse to — spanking.
  Wei Wuxian: Really, if you wanna fuck me then do it, I'll open my legs and let you do whatever you want— just don't hit me!!

Extra 4: Intrusion

• The entire extra could be summed up as the couple going on a holiday and dragging their (adopted) son along for extra training.
• Lan Wangji's version of good advice to keep zombies out: "Change your door bolt."
• The client consults the couple for a case of a vengeful corpse coming after him. The corpse already got through two of the natural defenses that houses have against non-human entities, and the final barrier is the bedroom door. Wei Wuxian claims a virgin boy is needed to guard the final door; Lan Sizhui (who had been dragged out alone for this extra training) is nominated as the boy, while Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji plan to look after the client inside. The client is doubtful of Lan Sizhui and asks, "Why can't it be him?" — while pointing at Lan Wangji. Wei Wuxian laughed so hard that he nearly hits the floor.
  Wei Wuxian: No! Hanguang-Jun, you have a cheating face!

Extra 5: Iron Hook

• The entire chapter's plot can be summarized as "The Yiling Patriarch's Night-Hunting Supplementary Class".
• After they find the hook belonging to the Serial Killer they've been investigating, Wei Wuxian just stands off to the side as the juniors panic and run around. When they ask for him to help, he casually tells them they need to learn and not always ask their seniors for help.
• Lan Jingyi yells that they should try and melt the hook down. Lan Sizhui agrees to it, but Jin Ling doesn't. Cue volleying insults between the latter and Lan Jingyi.
  Jin Ling: Lan Sizhui! It's fine if it's Lan Jingyi being dumb, but why are you being dumb, too? You want to melt it with that small flame?!
  Lan Jingyi: Who are you calling dumb?! What do you mean it's fine if I'm the one being dumb?!
• Once Jin Ling returns with new information about the Hook Hand, Wei Wuxian volunteers Lan Jingyi to sleep in the white room tonight, causing him to do a Spit Take. Wei Wuxian then says that all of the other juniors want to do it for experience as well, while Lan Jingyi yells as he points out that everyone else was actually backing away from volunteering. They all wish Lan Jingyi luck while Wei Wuxian tells him to eat up because he'll need the energy for later. Meanwhile, the narration reveals Wei Wuxian specifically nominated Lan Jingyi simply because he can't actually remember any of the other Lan Clan disciples' names.
• How does the night-hunt end? The Hook Hand is dealt with, but the ghost of his last victim still lingers. Thankfully, the victim's only regret is not to scream out all his fear, which doesn't label him as a threat. So in order for the ghost to be exorcised, it needs to keep yelling out as much as possible. The ghost ends up keeping the house's occupants awake... for a month.
• During Lan Wangji's brief appearance, he isn't above marking papers while dragging Wei Wuxian into his lap. In front of their adopted son.

Extra 6: Lotus Seed Pod

• As Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng start wrestling with each other, the Jiang disciplines ask them to stop fighting, but the tone of their voices gives away how they're just saying the words and feel to sweaty to truly care to make them stop. Jiang Yanli arrives at the scene with watermelon, and points out the foot mark on Jiang Cheng's chest when Wei Wuxian denies they were fighting. The latter immediately changes the subject.
• Despite this being well before he develops feelings for him (or at least becomes aware of it), Wei Wuxians's side is full of him randomly bringing up Lan Wangji at odd times, with Jiang Cheng making it clear this keeps happening.
• Wei Wuxian tells Lan Wangji that fried watermelon skins would taste better than the food served at the Cloud Recesses. He meant it as a joking insult to the latter's home food, yet the Lan clansman takes his words so seriously he even asks Lan Xichen about it.
• The old man of the lotus pod lake catches the Jiang disciplines stealing his lotus pods. So the disciplines to the honorable thing of leaving Wei Wuxian behind to distract the old man while they paddle away. After he gets beat and manages to flee, Wei Wuxian cries on how all the injustices of the world seem to always fall on him.
  Jiang discipline: [laughing] It's because you're the most handsome!
• The Twin Jades of Lan practise their handstands purely for meditation as well gaining extra arm muscle. Then one of the two rabbits Lan Wangji keeps hops to Lan Wangji and starts to pester him.
• Lan Wangji ends up going on a "quest" to get lotus seed pods fresh, all because Wei Wuxian mentioned it once to him. He even manages to get it!

Extra 7: Dream Come True

• Wei Wuxian bets with some kids, claiming he can kick the shuttlecock over two hundred times in succession for a candy haw. However, he cheats by purposefully miscounting; when the kids try to call him out for it, he convinces them by calling Lan Wangji over to corroborate his claims, which he does. Then as he walks away with the candy, he thanks Lan Wangji for helping him save face.
• The pair go on a date, and play ring-toss where you get whatever you hook with the three rings. Wei Wuxian wins a porcelain tortoise. Lan Wangji wins a (very ugly) stuffed donkey that reminds the duo of Little Apple. Lan Wangji then uses the last ring to hook Wei Wuxian. The tortoise ends up on Lan Wangji's desk in the Cloud Recesses' classroom, with Wei Wuxian hoping that the junior disciples will ask about it. However, nobody dares to ask why was it there.

Taiwan Extra: From Dawn to Dusk

• After our couple has a long tumble in bed, Lan Wangji starts preparing a bath for Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian asks why Lan Wangji isn't joining him, and Lan Wangji matter-of-factly states that in the past four days since they returned to the Cloud Recesses, they've broken four bathtubs. Wei Wuxian corrects that the fault lies entirely in Lan Wangji, which he admits to. As it turns out, Lan Wangji really Does Not Know His Own Strength whenever sex is involved.

Audio Drama Extras

Season 1

• "No": The sheer range of expressions that Lan Wangji can expressed with one "no" is telling.
• "Escape": After being able to leave the Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian tries to repeatedly escape from Lan Wangji on their way to locate the rest of the dismembered body. Here be the 12th escape attempt recorded. What's hilarious is how he screams for help and says that Lan Wangji had been capturing him for days. A woman who hears the ruckus doesn't believe Wei Wuxian and states that a princely-looking guy like Lan Wangji wouldn't kidnap anybody. She even argues that it's Wei Wuxian who seemed like the one clinging to him and refusing to leave. Wei Wuxian becomes increasingly flabbergasted at these accusations.
• "Glutinous Rice Porridge": Wei Wuxian gets judged on his cooking, which is unsurprisingly congee that is spicy as hell The judges'' reactions vary:
  • Lan Jingyi coughs the moment he tastes the food and gives Wei Wuxian one point, instead of his initial verdict of zero points, because he acknowledges that it's the same spicy congee that saved him from getting corpse poisoning.
    Lan Jingyi: (right after tasting it) Why do I have to eat this again?!
  • After Wei Wuxian complains about the Lan Jingyi's judgement, Sizhui graciously gives Wei Wuxian eight points despite audibly struggling with eating it.
  • Jiang Cheng gives a bland "okay" reaction before giving Wei Wuxian only three points, just because he can. Wei Wuxian shoos him in response.
  • Lan Wangji, of course, gives his beloved a perfect score. Jiang Cheng deadpans that Lan Wangji is not being impartial, but his concern is ignored.
  • Lan Qiren almost dies while he coughs and gives Wei Wuxian zero points.
• "Fear of Dogs": The priceless moment when Wei Wuxian has a complete Freak Out and screams for dear life when Jin Zixuan's dog chases him up a tree.

Season 2

• "Lady of the Flower Patch:" Wei Wuxian goes to meet the elusive flower spirit and recites the wrong lines of poetry to her, leading him to be kicked out of her garden. Two disciples nearby watch on just to see Wei Wuxian get up and try again only to be kicked out repeatedly. This has apparently become a well known story that the Lan juniors have read, and Wei Wuxian is embarrassed that that part of his past got recorded into history. When he asks who let them read those stories, the Lan Jingyi and Lan Sizhui reply it was Lan Wangji, so Wei Wuxian vows to tell embarrassing stories about Lan Wangji.
• "Drunk": You already know how Lan Wangji acts when inebriated. But what about Lan Xichen? One sip has him become overly enthusiastic, energetic, and slightly air-headed. He tries to look for his flute so he can play a tune but can't seem to find it. Lan Qiren then points out that his nephew had been holding it the whole time.
• "Paper Balls": Lan Wangji keeps intercepting the paper balls that Wei Wuxian would try to throw to Nie Huaisang, leading to Wei Wuxian getting scolded. The next time, Wei Wuxian lets himself get caught doing the same trick, but this time reads the contents of the paper (which turns out to be a letter to Lan Wangji) out loud, which ends with Lan Wangji storming off, Lan Qiren stress-coughing, and the rest of the class breaking out in laughter.
• "The Adventures of the Paperman Xian": Wei Wuxian comments on Lan Xichen always helping Nie Huaisang, equating it to him spoiling Nie Huaisang to the point of him becoming useless.
• "Washing Clothes": Lan Xichen has one fault in his character — he can't wash clothes without accidentally tearing into them, so Jin Guanyao does it for him. You can tell he's trying very hard not to laugh.

Season 3

• "Yunmeng Youths": Wei Wuxian pulling a horrible prank on Jiang Cheng and the other Jiang disciples by taking a medicine that makes it look like he's bleeding to death. They react as expected. Then he reveals it's just a joke. They make it clear they don't appreciate this "joke" whatsoever.
• "A-Yuan and Rabbits": Lan Wangji's parenting style isn't so different from Wei Wuxian's, as he plants Wen Yuan (soon-to-be Lan Sizhui) into a patch of rabbits.
• "Sleeping Together": In another of his attempts to annoy Lan Wangji into sending him away, Wei Wuxian moves to sleep on top of Lan Wangji by claiming he doesn't have a pillow, which he casually threw out the window a minute ago.
• "Planting Radishes": Wei Wuxian telling Wen Ning what kind of child he would like. He's basically describing a mini-Lan Wangji. Even funnier is how Wei Wuxian is aware of how rambunctious he is when Wen Ning asks if he'd want his child to be just like him.

  Wei Wuxian: Why would I want an abominable demon?

• "Matchmaking": Mo Xiang Tong Xiu previously stated that after three blind dates, Jiang Cheng was blacklisted by the female cultivators. This extra gives you a good idea how these women have very good reason to see him as a terrible suitor. What's funnier is that Jiang Cheng fails to see what he's doing wrong, and simply thinks that all of his dates were being rude.

Gatcha

• "Beard": Wei Wuxian manages to shave off Lan Qiren's facial hair without being found out for a while. Later on, Lan Qiren is confused as to why the other Lan disciples are acting strangely around him and only realizes what was done to him after Lan Xichen tries to explain to him without actually telling him. Lan Qiren grumbles about the son and mother duo in response, revealing that Cangse Sanren also did the same thing to him years ago.
  Lan Xichen: It's just that uncle seems a bit different from usual today.
  Lan Qiren: Hmm? How so?
  Lan Xichen: Ah? Ahh... Uncle seems to be especially spirited.
  Lan Qiren: What? [touches face] Ah! Beard! My beard! WEI YING!
  Lan Xichen: (confused) Uncle?
  Lan Qiren: Truly like mother, like son! The mother cut it off once, and now the son too!

The Founder of Diabolism Q/ Mo Dao Zu Shi Q

Episodes 1 - 10

Episode 1

• Wei Wuxian tries to help Nie Huaisang cheat on a test. The results vary:
  • There's a spiritual object that detects cheaters and shoots lasers at the students. All whilst Lan Wangji calmly continues to write on his test.
  • Wei Wuxian tries to send Nie Huaisang a note via his bird, but the bird only flies as far as Lan Wangji's desk. Even worse, the bird as it catches its breath takes one look at Lan Wangji (looking like a bird himself) and instantly falls in love with him.
• Despite managing to cheat, Nie Huaisang still fails. Nie Mingjue apparently caught wind of this as he chases his brother around the Cloud Recesses in outrage.

Episode 2

• Wei Wuxian sneaks out to drink (sticking a straw into a jar of Emperor's Smile and drinking it like a juice box), only to encounter a dog peeing on a tree and running away in a panic.
• Wei Wuxian finds out the dog belongs to Jin Zixuan. His internal thoughts are played out like barrage comments as he snarks at Jin Zixuan for not being a responsible owner. Jin Zixuan elsewhere sneezes.

Episode 3

• Tired of eating the plain food served at the Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian complains that their dishes should be more diverse or at the very least have meat in it. Jiang Cheng appears behind Lan Wangji, hides, and then throws a jar of chili oil at him.
• The sheer look of mortification and confusion on Lan Wangji's face when Wei Wuxian pours chili oil over his rice, followed by the excited manner in which Wei Wuxian presents his dish, complete with Wingding Eyes and a "Ta-da!".
• Lan Wangji initially refuses the chili oil before Wei Wuxian pours it over his rice, citing the Lan Clan's rule of not wasting food and claims that he has to be able to stomach spicy foods if he wants to woo the girls of Yunmeng. Lan Wangji hesitates, and ends up finishing the whole bowl. Wei Wuxian then badgers Lan Wangji asking who his crush was, only to get his mouth sealed with the Silencing Spell.

Episode 4

• The whole episode can be summarized as Wei Wuxian finding a loophole in the Lan Clan rules and taking advantage of that however he can.
• Every time Lan Wangji comes to tell him off, Wei Wuxian gleefully points out how he's technically not breaking any of the rules, causing Lan Wangji to sigh as he concedes defeat.
• "You're only allowed to eat three bowls of rice in the Cloud Recesses." It doesn't specify how much food you can put in a bowl or how big is the bowl you can eat from. This causes Jiang Cheng, Nie Huaisang, and even the other Lan Clan disciples to noticeably gain a lot of weight. Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang get so fat that they can barely fit into their clothes or keep their balance.
• "Do not kill animals in the Cloud Recess." Wei Wuxian points out that he's outside of the Cloud Recess marker.
• "Do not go out by climbing over the wall in the Cloud Recesses." Wei Wuxian points out he's climbing over the door, not the wall.
• The fact that Wei Wuxian wrote a whole book about the Loophole Abuse of the Lan Clan's rules called "How To Survive the Cloud Recesses" — something that Jiang Cheng and even some of the Lan disciples found useful. Lan Qiren reacts to finding this out with fury as he screams Wei Wuxian's name.

Episode 5

• Wei Wuxian discovers that if he plays the music for soothing the soul backwards, it will make the person who hears it act opposite to how they usually are. This results in Jin Zixuan treating Wei Wuxian nicer and outwardly praising him, Nie Huaisang deciding to take studying seriously, and Lan Qiren acting like Wei Wuxian.
• As Lan Wangji counters Wei Wuxian's music, Wei Wuxian ties up his wrists and gives Lan Wangji the rope saying he should be punished and won't resist. Lan Wangji looks visibly conflicted over this.

Episode 6

• Wei Wuxian tries to throw paper ball notes in class, which Lan Wangji catches. This incentives Wei Wuxian to see how many paper balls he can catch. It then becomes a huge mountain that falls onto Wei Wuxian and when he pops back up he sees Lan Qiren glaring at him and putting him in front of the class.
• As the lecture goes on, Wei Wuxian starts falling asleep while the others start to doze off. Lan Qiren scolds him for this.
• Wei Wuxian starts reading a book in class, distracting Lan Wangji and then angrily throwing it on his desk when the story ends on a cliffhanger and asks the reader to wait for the next book. Lan Qiren calls Wei Wuxian out for being a distraction, and Wei Wuxian hopes this means he can leave class early. Instead, Lan Qiren grins and forces Wei Wuxian to stay after class ends, and continues the lesson from there.

Episode 7

• The episode adapts the part about Wei Wuxian making an ant nest, with Lan Wangji's inner thoughts being shown where he imagines Wei Wuxian either crying at the unfairness, or coughing up blood. When he realizes the other was just playing around, each of those images come back to stab him in the chest.
• Lan Wangji goes back to see what Wei Wuxian made. The ants then go after the crumbs left behind and form a wolf and chicken. Lan Wangji gets annoyed at this.

Episode 8

• Lan Wangji subjects Lan Xichen to all of the "tips" Wei Wuxian gave him. Later on, Wei Wuxian laughs as he remembers jokingly telling Lan Wangji all of that.

Episode 9

• At the Alliance Conference, Wei Wuxian finds Lan Wangji and tries to offer him gifts to celebrate Lan Wangji's birthdays that he missed. Lan Wangji gets more annoyed the more presents Wei Wuxian tries to have him decide on.
• The protagonists get into an archery match where Lan Wangji would hit a bulls-eye, followed by Wei Wuxian splitting his arrows and the cycle continuing for the next targets. The poor announcer soon gives up on calling their titles and only starts announcing the hits.

Episode 10

• Nie Huaisang manages to charm the flower spirit, but Wei Wuxian only annoys her to come out and attempt to throw the two around with her vines. Lan Wangji arrives to stop her, and then Wei Wuxian follows Lan Wangji around. Except he forgets Nie Huaisang who cries over his bad luck as the vines toss him around.

Episodes 11 - 20

Episode 11

• In an attempt to placate Yu Ziyuan's temper after she and Jiang Fengmian have an argument, Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng give her various gifts and claim that they came from Jiang Fengmian. Each one ends up backfiring.
  • They give her a robe, but the hemline is too long and she ends up tripping face flat on the floor.
  • They give her some facial powder. She turns out to be allergic to it, and her face starts breaking out and causes her to scream in horror.
  • They give her a bouquet, which inadvertently ends up attracting some bees and results in everyone getting sting marks on their face. Shortly after, Jiang Fengmian returns to Lotus Pier and is unlucky enough to take the fall for all the disastrous incidents that happened since he left.
• Right after the bee attack, Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng immediately agree to go hide in the Cloud Recesses for the time being. Cut to the Cloud Recesses, where Lan Wangji suddenly sneezes loudly and wonders why.

Episode 12

• A young measuring snake approaches Wei Wuxian and claims it's taller. The latter proves it wrong by standing up and reveals that he's the taller one, causing the snake to bawl like a baby, complete with Ocular Gushers.
• As Wei Wuxian laughs over the measuring snake's loss, the snake's much larger father appears before him with a menacing look. Wei Wuxian stares at the the bigger snake for a while before turning around with a face that screams "Oh, Crap!" and quickly makes a break for it.
• Just as a Jiang and Jin disciple gossip over how "malicious" and "cruel" Wei Wuxian is for nabbing majority of the prey, they encounter Wei Wuxian standing on a tower of fierce corpses to stand higher than the elder measuring snake and laughing that he won yet again. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Yiling Patriarch is so evil that he spends his time playing in a height competition with the Measuring Snakes.

Episode 13

• The entire episode may as well be called "Jin Guangyao's Customer Service Smile", since whenever Jin Guangyao is informed that the Phoenix Mountain hunt is not going as smoothly as he had hoped, he's physically pained by the news and struggles to keep a smile on his face. It all ends with Jin Guangyao receiving the praise he wanted — and while he smiles, he sheds one tear as he remarks about how difficult it was for him to manage the entire hunt.
• During the hunt, Nie Huaisang ends up getting bitten in the butt by a small measuring snake. Keep in mind that a measuring snake will only attack someone that it stands taller than. While being escorted away, Nie Huaisang sobs from the pain and wails that he won't go back to Phoenix Mountain again.

Episode 14

• When Wen Yuan gets lost, Wei Wuxian attempts to look for him in his own sleeves.

Episode 18

• Wen Yuan pulls up a plant, which turns out to be connected to a skeletal hand. Wen Ning gasps in horror with an equally horrified expression, and he quickly shoves the plant back in the ground.
• When Lan Wangji hears that demons are plaguing the Burial Mounds, he heads over there to investigate. As it turns out, the "demons" the villagers mentioned turn out to be plants that were reanimated by demonic cultivation, and they're wreaking havoc in the most comical way possible. Lan Wangji only signs in exasperation as he watches Wei Wuxian happily hopping around on a radish like a pogo stick, with Wen Qing chasing him, hoe in hand.

Episodes 21 - 30

Episode 21

• Jin Ling and Lan Jingyi claim they aren't scared of ghosts whatsoever, then immediately scream and hug each other when they think they heard a ghost. After they find out it was just Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji, the two junior disciples separate from each other blushing.
• Jin Ling taking down a water ghost by himself at age eight? Jiang Cheng reveals the "water ghost" was just algae, and yet it still made Jing Ling faint instead of anything heroic. And Lan Jingyi killing ghosts at age seven? Lan Sizhui clarifies Lan Jingyi was actually sent to the mountains as punishment, and it freaked him out so much he was tearfully clinging on to Lan Qiren's leg afterward.

Episode 22

• Wei Wuxian attempts to disgust Lan Wangji into kicking out of the Cloud Recesses by getting "caught" peeking at him bathing in the Cold Springs. Lan Wangji responds by freezing the escaping Wei Wuxian, then putting him in the Cold Springs with him.

Miscellaneous

Cornetto Advertisements

• An ad replays the scene where Wei Wuxian offers Lan Wangji a jar of Emperor's Smile, but this time the wine is replaced with an ice cream cone. When Wei Wuxian says he'll just eat it outside and prepares to take a bite, Lan Wangji takes it from him and eats it instead.
  Wei Wuxian: Hah! Just tell me if you want it. Be simpler, it's not like I'll refuse.
• In Episode 4's Product Placement, Wei Wuxian eats a frozen dessert with Jiang Cheng. Wei Wuxian sighs as he says people who could eat this Cornetto dessert every day at Gusu were lucky, and he'd gladly stay longer just for it.
• In one ad, undead ghouls line up in front of a Cornetto stand.
• In an ad taking place post-canon, Wei Wuxian gets his Cornetto dessert from Lan Sizhui. However, Little Apple shows up and tries to take the food out of his hand, and Wei Wuxian ends up jumping onto the roof just to avoid his voracious pet.

Stop-Motion Skits

• The April Fool's video has Lan Wangji trying to fly a kite, but Wei Wuxian causes it to fall from the sky each time while staying in his hiding spot. Frustrated, Lan Wangji keeps trying until he trips over a mushroom and faceplants. Wei Wuxian jumps out of his hiding spot to see if he's okay... only to find out that Lan Wangji used an illusion and quietly appears behind Wei Wuxian with a frown on his face. The final shots of the video show Wei Wuxian trying to apologize to Lan Wangji through food, and is completely ignored.
• Labor Day shows Wei Wuxian attempting to keep the room clean, and ends up fighting a dust spirit. As Lan Wangji arrives and they both get rid of the spirit, Wei Wuxian pats Lan Wangji's sleeve only to realize that there was still some dirt on his hand that has now dirtied Lan Wangji's clothes.

Other

• One promotion video from Tencent has Wei Wuxian transmigrating into modern day.
• Tencent's overview of The Founder of Diabolism Q is brutally honest about the spin-off's Lighter and Softer purpose in contrast to the original donghua's... grimmer premise.
  "This branch story hopes to heal those audience who love the animation of The Founder of Diabolism Q, but are "injured" by the melancholy plot of the drama."
• In an audio drama of Wei Wuxian talking to Lan Wangji, he'll ask him to read the poem "The Regret of Chunshan" to him. Even in other works, Shen Qingqiu will never be spared the indignity.

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