Lan Zhan

Wei Ying, whose true name was known only to the stars, grew up with no memory of the heavens. He was simply an orphaned omega, taken in by the clan's leader, Jiang Fengmian. The adopted child of the Jiang clan loved his family to the point of trembling in his fingertips. He adored the squabbles with Jiang Cheng, where their strange, unbreakable brotherly bond was born. He adored quiet evenings with the shijie, who treated him to lotus root soup, and even the stern Madam Yu. Zidian had left marks on his back more than once, but over time, Wei Ying learned to read a strange, sparse, almost maternal concern in the madam's stormy eyes. He belonged.

Everything changed in the Cloud Recesses. Her training at Gusu Lan led to a confrontation with an alpha, whose inner power was overwhelming with just a glance from his golden eyes. Lan Wanji, the Second Jade, seemed the embodiment of ice and rules. Their acquaintance began with fights and punishments, but by the age of fifteen, mutual taunts had evolved into secret encounters by moonlight. They would steal kisses in the gentian thickets, stripping away inhibitions from their lips. Their connection was deep and true, yet hidden from the world. The sole keeper of their secret was Jiang Yanli, who only smiled softly as she looked at her blushing younger brother.

Then the war happened, and the sky collapsed. Lotus Pier was ablaze, and he, Wei Wuxian, was falling into the abyss.

At the very bottom of the ravine, where no sunlight penetrated, an awakening occurred. The pain of his broken bones gave way to unbearable agony as the seals on his blood, placed thirteen years ago, broke. His true essence surged forth, healing his body and igniting his aura. Wei Ying—the Omega, the former foster child of the Jiang Clan—vanished. In his place came the Prince, the Son of the God of War, crowned with unfading flowers, the Emperor of Heaven, Xie Lian, and the one whose name the gods pronounce with trembling—Hua Cheng, the unrivaled Demon Prince, the flower gatherer in the bloody rain.

At the age of six, he was kidnapped from the Celestial Palace and abandoned in the mortal world, his memory erased. Now his memory has returned, bringing with it inhuman strength, but this has not erased his former love.

Time passed, and the ambush on the Qiongqi Trail became the point of no return. On the day the Wen Nings were to be exterminated, Wei Wuxian already knew who he was. But fate provided another miracle: from beneath a pile of bodies, bleeding but alive, Jin Zixuan rose. He was saved not by pride, but by the mercy of the remnants of the Wen clan, who nursed him back to health in the shadows of the mountains. The father-in-law he had once insulted became his savior. His fallen pride was reborn in quiet gratitude, and he returned to Jiang Yanli to become a father to Jin Ling.

But there was no peace. The world of cultivators was suffocated by infighting, and Wei Wuxian decided to leave. He wasn't going into exile, but home—to the land of his biological parents, to the far reaches of space where no cultivator had ever set foot. He was twenty, an omega who had given birth at sixteen. The twins, Lan Yuan and Lan JinYi, now four years old, were their greatest secret. Little beads of light that he and Lan Zhan hid from everyone.

And Lan Wanji followed him. Always impeccable, the twenty-one-year-old Hanguang-jun, without a shadow of a doubt, walked away from the sect, taking his sons with him. To the entire cultivator world, they vanished. Officially, they were declared dead, vanished by fire or obscurity. No one knew where they had gone.

Where heaven meets the abyss, legends flourished. Wei Wuxian, no longer hiding his true nature, became the Fifth Great Calamity—a force of chaos and justice that terrified the gods. His smile was still frivolous, but in his hands he held the power to reshape reality, the legacy of his demon father, coupled with the mercy of his divine parent.

Lan Wanji, cloaked in moonlight, became the God of War and Loyalty. His Bichen punished without fail, and his reputation as an invincible warrior, guarding the peace of his omega and children, made all six worlds tremble.

And their sons... Lan Yuan and Lan Jingyi grew up amidst divine halls and demonic feasts, absorbing the wisdom of their god-grandfather and the indomitability of their demon-grandfather. Two young but incredibly powerful cultivators, in whose veins flowed the blood of celestials, demons, and the earthly Lan clan, became a bridge between worlds. They were raised not in the strictures of the Cloud Recesses, but in the unconditional love of a vast, strange, and eternal family.