Chapter Text
Season 3
01:
- Nighthunt at Phoenix Mountain, up through part of the confrontation with Jin Zixun, including following scenes:
- Wei Wuxian throwing a flower at Lan Wangji
- Wei Wuxian showing off at archery
- Wangxian blindfolded kiss
- Lan Wangji cutting down trees
- Wei Wuxian sharing some of his prey with Lan Wangji
02:
- Jiang Yanli demands an apology from Jin Zixun
- Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen show up; people begin to abuse Jin Guangyao and get angry at the state of the hunt
- the argument continues
- Jiang Yanli begins to leave with Wei Wuxian, and Jin Zixuan bursts out with his confession
- Lan Xichen offers to help Jin Guangyao deal with the situation
- Jiang Cheng arrives too late and hears people muttering about Wei Wuxian
- Lan Wangji goes to Yunmeng and runs into Wei Wuxian (flower-throwing scene)
- Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian argue
- Wei Wuxian returns to Lotus Pier and alks to Jiang Cheng about Lan Wangji and also about Jiang Yanli’s marriage situation
- Wei Wuxian goes to find Jiang Yanli in the ancestral hall, talking to her parents
- Wei Wuxian comes in and Jiang Cheng does as well
- Flashback: Wei Wuxian’s adoption into the Jiang Sect
- Present day: Wei Wuxian encounters Wen Qing
03:
- Wen Qing begs Wei Wuxian for help
- at Jinlin Tai, Lan Xichen asks Lan Wangji what’s on his mind: “I want to bring someone back to the Cloud Recesses.”
- Su She attempts to come into Jinlin Tai and is reprimanded by Jin Zixun; Jin Guangyao comes to save him and praises his swordsmanship
- Lan Xichen tells Lan Wangji, “A’Yao picked out this tea especially for us! Taste it. :)”
- Jin Zixun tries to pressure them into drinking alcohol; Jin Guangyao tries to intervene
- Wei Wuxian interrupts and confronts everyone at Jinlin Tai, gets the information he needs, and leaves
- Lan Wangji asks, “Was he wrong?”
- Jin Guangyao responds, “He was right, but that’s exactly why he shouldn’t have said it.”
- Qiongqi Dao 1.0: Wei Wuxian raises Wen Ning from the dead and then flees with the Wen remnants
04:
- people discuss Wei Wuxian, sowing discord between him and Jiang Cheng
- Lan Wangji and Mianmian defend Wei Wuxian; Mianmian defects
- Lan Xichen speaks up after she leaves to stop others from badmouthing her
- Jiang Cheng agrees to go to the Mass graves to deal with Wei Wuxian
- Jiang Cheng tours the Mass Graves with Wei Wuxian, gets increasingly angry—“If you can bring back his consciousness, then why would people even need to cultivate anymore?”
- Jiang Cheng wants to kill Wen Ning; he and Wei Wuxian argue
- Wei Wuxian says to tell everyone he defected
- Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng set a duel; Jiang Cheng declares him exiled
05:
- A’Yuan and Lan Wangji—Wei Wuxian finds them and they go to lunch
- Lan Wangji tells him about the wedding
- Wen Ning regains consciousness
- Lan Wangji asks Wei Wuxian if he can really continue on like this
- Lan Wangji leaves; Wei Wuxian says he expects to never see him again
- as Wei Wuxian and A’Yuan return, they discover the lanterns are lit, and he has his first meal with the Wen remnants, who thank him for what he’s done
- Wei Wuxian remarks that perhaps his path isn’t so dark after all
06:
- rumors about Wei Wuxian, discussing his new title: the Yiling Laozu
- Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning run into Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli; Jiang Yanli brings soup and shows him her wedding clothes
- Wei Wuxian gives Jin Ling his courtesy name
- back at the Mass Graves, A’Yuan recites a poem about marriage
- Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan get married
- timeskip, one year later: Wei Wuxian goes to buy a trinket for Jin Ling’s one month ceremony
- Qiongqi Dao 2.0: death of Jin Zixuan
07:
- reports of Jin Zixuan’s death
- Wei Wuxian dreams of Jiang Yanli playing with Jin Ling and the talisman he made that was destroyed by Jin Zixun
- Wei Wuxian wakes and lashes out at Wen Ning
- Wen Qing paralyzes him and tells him of their plan to turn themselves in
- “Thank you, and I’m sorry.”
- after three days, Wei Wuxian rushes to Jinlin Tai to try and retrieve their remains, but then encounters Jiang Yanli in mourning and flees
- Wei Wuxian encounters some cultivators talking about him and attacks them
- Massacre at Nightless City: death of Jiang Yanli
- Lan Wangji takes Wei Wuxian away and confesses to him; Wei Wuxian tells him to leave
08:
- Present day: attacked by a wave of corpses, everyone loses their spiritual energy and retreats back inside the cave
- Wei Wuxian deduces that Su She is responsible
- Su She breaks the seal and teleports away; the juniors help fight one wave, but another approaches
- Wei Wuxian makes himself into bait; the Wen remnants crawl out of the Blood Pool and save their lives
- Granny Wen’s blood corpse reaches out for Sizhui
- the blood corpses collapse into dust and Wen Ning attempts to gather their remains to him; the juniors offer to help, but Wei Wuxian tells them to stand back and be careful, lest they be poisoned
- after everything, one person speaks out angrily against Wei Wuxian
09:
- everyone decides to travel to Lotus Pier to regroup
- Wen Ning realizes who Sizhui is
- Wen Ning and Jin Ling have a confrontation
- Wei Wuxian faints
- at Lotus Pier, Sisi and Bicao share their stories
- everyone is enraged and prepare to go to Jinlin Tai to attack Jin Guangyao
- Wei Wuxian is exasperated that they want his help now
10:
- Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji wander around Lotus Pier, looking around at different things Wei Wuxian points out
- Wei Wuxian shows him the first tree he climbed at Lotus Pier and leaps into his arms
- the two of them go to the ancestral hall and light incense for the Jiang Family
- Wei Wuxian thinks, “Please reserve this man beside me.”
- confrontation with Jiang Cheng; Wei Wuxian faints
- Wen Ning reveals the secret of Jiang Cheng’s golden core
- Jiang Cheng runs off with Suibian
- Wen Ning and Lan Wangji flee with Wei Wuxian and head towards Yunping
- lotus pod theft
11:
- they arrive in Yunping
- Wen Ning is bullied and Wei Wuxian tells him to hide himself
- they see the Guanyin temple and ask a few questions
- at an inn, Wei Wuxian gets anxious about the situation between him and Lan Wangji, feeling awkward
- Wei Wuxian sleeps, and when he wakes there’s food
- Wei Wuxian gets Lan Wangji drunk; Lan Wangji bites him
12:
- Drunk Lan Wangji 3.0: steal chickens, steal dates, vandalize the town, go back to take a bath, and they end up having sex
- Lan Wangji wakes up and they split rooms
13:
- Wei Wuxian feels terrible and runs outside in the middle of the night with Wen Ning
- they go to the Guanyin temple
- Jin Ling shows up, searching for Wei Wuxian; Wei Wuxian saves him, but then they’re all captured
- Wei Wuxian says he doesn’t know what’s going on with Lan Wangji, and Lan Xichen, furious, tells him everything to Wei Wuxian’s increasing horror
- Lan Wangji shows up and Jin Guangyao threatens him with Wei Wuxian’s life
- Wei Wuxian confesses, much to everyone’s shock
- it begins to rain, and they all go into the temple
- Wei Wuxian confesses more earnestly
- Su She arrives with Nie Huaisang and begins mocking Lan Wangji; Wei Wuxian defends him
- Jiang Cheng arrives
14:
- Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian confront each other
- Flashback: core transfer operation
- Present day: Jin Guangyao’s men dig up the coffin and are hit with poison
- Su She takes off his robes and is revealed as the one who cursed Jin Zixun all those years ago
- Jin Guangyao talks for a while
- a spirit appears and attacks Jin Guangyao
15:
- Jin Guangyao’s energy is sealed
- Wei Wuxian enters Empathy with the spirit to find out what happened (the audience is not shown what he learns until later)
- Lan Xichen questions Jin Guangyao
- Jin Guangyao grabs Jin Ling to use as a hostage
- Wen Ning arrives with Nie Mingjue
16:
- confrontation: Wen Ning protects Jin Ling; Su She is killed; Wei Wuxian uses Mo Xuanyu’s blood to lure Nie Mingjue over to the open casket; Jiang Cheng throws him Chenqing and Wei Wuxian seals Nie Mingjue
- Nie Huaisang, bleeding from being allegedly stabbed by Su She, is cared for by Lan Xichen
- Jin Guangyao is silenced with the Lan spell, and Lan Xichen binds his wounds
- Nie Huaisang suddenly calls out a warning; Lan Xichen stabs Jin Guangyao
- Jin Guangyao tears his lips open, drags Lan Xichen over to the casket, breaks the seal, frees Nie Mingjue
- Jin Guangyao pushes Lan Xichen away at the last second and is killed
- Jin Guangyao and Nie Mingjue are sealed together in the casket
- Wei Wuxian questions Nie Huaisang
- everyone else arrives with Fairy
- Lan Sizhui examines Chenqing
- Jin Ling cries and is reprimanded by Sect Leader Yao; Jin Ling loses his temper and says he’ll cry as much as he wants
- Lan Xichen refuses to speak
- Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji leave
- Wei Wuxian explains his suspicions regarding Nie Huaisang, and reveals that Sisi was Meng Shi’s friend—Wei Wuxian says he didn’t reveal this at the temple because he feared Lan Xichen would have been too soft-hearted again, and now it’s no longer suitable to bring up
- Lan Wangji says there’s one last thing that he hasn’t told Wei Wuxian
- Lan Sizhui catches up, along with Wen Ning
17:
- Lan Sizhui is revealed to be A’Yuan; he and Wen Ning decide to go off together to Qishan
- Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian continue on their way and have sex—Wei Wuxian asks about the brand scar; Lan Wangji does not tell him the details
- Flashback: Lan Wangji branding himself
- Present day: “Every day means every day.”
- Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian taking care of small hauntings on their travels
- Little Mianmian catches them about to mess around in the bushes and runs off; they meet Mianmian and her husband
- Wei Wuxian finally recognizes Lan Wangji’s money bag as the pouch that Mianmian gave to him all those years ago that Lan Wangji stole from him during their battle with the xuanwu
- they go to an inn and hear terrible gossip about Jin Guangyao
- Lan Xichen is in seclusion
- they begin heading back towards the Cloud Recesses
- Wei Wuxian plays his dizi and asks about the song—Lan Wangji reveals the title to be Wangxian
- Wei Wuxian rides along and calls out for Lan Wangji to look at him