#lan-xiansheng vs the future lan-er-xiansheng

[lurkinginnernarrator]

Writing a fic! Here's a snippet

“As cultivators, most of our work is paying off the debts of innumerable human follies; and rising above them.

We treat these vicissitudes with such a cold business-like manner we cannot recognize when we fall back into the same follies. Many lose compassion for the common people, even for their peers.

Now this is partly due to our trade; we experience how selfish one man can be, rarely do we see kindness. Most who deal it, never need our services.

Being so removed, lost in the grinding cogs of a society built by our own hands, individuals become an amount in a ledger, written then forgotten.

The consequences of a world such as this is evident. Corruption, cruelty, callousness, love only for excess, people so focused on adulation of themselves and their power that violence is an acceptable price to keep it.

Ungrateful. Arrogant. Forgetful and dismissive of ancestral wisdom.

The result is bloodshed and tears.”

Wei Wuxian is most definitely speaking from his experience.