The journey of Emperor Donghua through time

In the elegant room, Lan Qiren sat at the table, looking towards the door from time to time, very anxious. If he had not taken his status as an elder into consideration, he would have gone to the mountain gate with Lan Xichen earlier.

The nephew had been missing for more than three months without any news, which made people very worried, fearing that something might happen to him. Lan Wangji's cultivation was not bad, and ordinary evil spirits could not hurt him at all, but there were always accidents. During this period of time without news from his nephew, Lan Qiren could not sleep or eat well.

After finally hearing that Lan Wangji had returned safely, but had yet to come to see him in the elegant room, Lan Qiren was restless until he saw his two nephews coming together. Only then did he calm down and start making tea as if nothing had happened.

“Uncle.” Lan Xichen was the first to call Lan Qiren.

“Uncle, Wangji is back.” Lan Wangji saluted to Lan Qiren as he always did.

“Well, come and sit down.” Lan Qiren nodded slightly, and after asking the two to sit down, he asked, “Wangji, why did you come back just now?”

"Wangji knows he was wrong, please punish me, uncle." Lan Wangji didn't want to answer this question and admitted his mistake directly.

Lan Qiren was choked by his direct attitude of admitting his fault, and even paused in pouring the tea, but soon resumed, "But it's not convenient to say it?"

“No, it is a fact that Wangji came home late. Please punish me, uncle.” Lan Wangji said.

Seeing his nephew so stubborn in accepting the punishment, Lan Qiren looked at Lan Xichen, who knew his brother well, in confusion. Seeing him shaking his head, he could only punish him according to the rules and make him copy the family rules, "Then you will copy the family rules three times."

“Yes, uncle.” Lan Wangji bowed respectfully to Lan Qiren.

“Are you hurt?” Lan Qiren was well aware of his nephew’s reticence, so he took the initiative to speak out his concern.

"Nothing."

“Don’t go out without contacting your family for a long time in the future. At least let your brother know that you are safe every once in a while so that he won’t worry.” Lan Qiren advised.

"Wangji knows. I'm sorry to have made your uncle worried." Lan Wangji felt a little guilty for not contacting his family for more than three months, which made Lan Qiren and Lan Xichen worried.

“Uncle, Wangji just came back and must be tired. Why don’t we let him go back and rest first?” Lan Xichen suggested to Lan Qiren when he saw that Lan Wangji looked a little tired.

“Well, Wangji, you should go back to the quiet room first.” Lan Qiren also noticed the tiredness revealed in his eyes and eyebrows, so he followed his elder nephew’s wishes and asked his younger nephew to go back and rest.

“Yes.” Lan Wangji stood up and bowed to the two of them. “Uncle, brother, Wangji will take his leave.”

"Well, go ahead." Lan Qiren nodded.

“Xichen, did Wangji tell you what happened?” Lan Qiren asked his nephew who was quietly drinking tea beside him only after Lan Wangji’s back disappeared from his sight.

“Wangji didn’t tell me.” Lan Xichen put down his teacup and looked at Lan Qiren. “Uncle, do you think Wangji has changed a lot this time?”

Lan Qiren looked at Lan Xichen in confusion. Wasn’t Lan Wangji always like this? “What’s changed?”

“The dull look on Wangji’s body has disappeared. He no longer looks like he’s out of his body, and there’s light in his eyes again,” Lan Xichen explained.

“Really?” Lan Qiren thought back. Although he didn’t know how Lan Xichen could see so many changes, the old look on Lan Wangji’s body had indeed disappeared. “I guess he must have had an adventure this time.”

Lan Xichen suddenly thought of something and looked at Lan Qiren as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

“What have you discovered? Just tell me, why are you acting like that?” Seeing Lan Xichen’s expression, Lan Qiren lightly rebuked him.

“Uncle, do you think Wangji has found Young Master Wei?” Lan Xichen said cautiously. After all, Lan Wangji became like that because of Wei Wuxian’s death. Now that he has recovered, it can only be because of Wei Wuxian.

“What?” Lan Qiren was shocked. “Didn’t Wei Wuxian’s soul fly away?”