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    The Cloud Recesses Guest Lectures were held every three years for disciples between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. They had three purposes.

    The first (and the reason it was hosted by the Lan) was to provide a shared baseline understanding of the core cultivation topics that underpinned every sect while not divulging clan-specific approaches.

    The second was to create opportunities for friendships and alliances that would reduce the chance of war between the clans.

    The third, and most important, was for the clans to replenish their bloodline by finding compatible mates with strong cultivation skills. In the last month of the lectures, challenges to test compatibility could be issued.

    Wei Wuxian challenges Lan Wangji, sure that they are compatible mates. The Lan refuse to allow the Challenge.

    They come to regret it.

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    19 Aug 2026

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    Lan Zhan is turning forty and seems fine about the whole thing, and Sizhui is sneaking around and being a generally awful teenager in the name of love, so what's Wei Ying supposed to do? Deal with that in a healthy way? Seems fake

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    16 Aug 2026

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    Lan Qiren would like to not be in this situation. There are too many absurdities to contend with at the same time, and Lan Qiren is determined to blame every last one of them solely on Wei Wuxian. Among aforementioned absurdities, in no particular order, are:

    A loudly braying donkey.

    A surprisingly even louder Lan Jingyi, wrangling said donkey while making a valiant yet futile effort to avoid swearwords – both of which Lan Qiren intends to reprimand him for as soon as his life returns to some semblance of sanity.

    The entire fact that said donkey requires wrangling in the first place due to the ill-advised end-goal being to transport the animal via sword.

    The fact that this means that Lan Qiren is left to wrangle the demonic-cultivating, donkey-owning, exonerated menace of the entire cultivation world in general and Lan Qiren’s existence in particular, Wei Wuxian.

    Yes, this is all Wei Wuxian’s fault.


    Or: Wei Wuxian is injured on a night hunt, and Lan Qiren is stuck having to deal with it.

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    12 Aug 2026

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    Lan Wangji is seven when he first finds out that love can be dangerous.

    “Why is Father still in secluded meditation?” Lan Wangji asks his uncle. “Xiongzhang says it has something to do with Mother. But she’s been gone over a year, so why doesn’t he come out?”

    In which Lan Wangji fears his own desires.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Seven Necessities. Seven Tenths Full. What makes a meal, and what makes a family.

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    02 Jul 2026