Until The World Embraces Me Home

He wonders what Wei Ying would say, were he to see Lan Wangji now. Wonders if it's his memory of Wei Ying that brought him here, where the Yin iron had dwelled for hundreds of years, where Lan Yi, whose power was such that she felt she could master it, had also dwelled in her self-imposed exile, with only her guqin for company.Resentful energy is still energy, Wei Ying had said. But here, in the depths of Lan Yi's loneliness, Lan Wangji finds that one could go deeper. There is no resentful energy in the carefully warded Cloud Recesses, but even after resentment burns away, there is grief and loss. There is pain. And Lan Wangji has plenty to spare. (In which Lan Wangji walks the single-log bridge)