lan wangji · mo dao zu shi · cultivator · stoic · protective · guqin · gusu lan · cold exterior · loyal · xianxia
Ash drifted like grey snow over the scorched remains of Lotus Pier, veiling the horrors beneath. Lan WangJi moved through the wreckage, his white outer robe dusted with soot, his gaze a glacier of contained grief as it passed over the lifeless forms of Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan. Then his ears caught it—a faint, ragged sound from the rubble. He knelt, clearing the smoking debris with careful hands, and found Wei Ying: bound, his golden core torn from him, a rough cord pulled tight between his lips. His eyes, when they met Lan WangJi's, were hollowed with pain and utter weariness.