The week after Lan Xichen turns twenty-three, he is told that the elders have decided it is time: the matchmaker has been called.

Sect Leader Lan must find a wife.

It will, he is assured, simply be a process of him dictating his perfect woman to the matchmaker who will find the girl and make suitable introductions. Zewu-jun is, after all, the First Jade of Lan; who would refuse him?

This is less comforting than it's supposed to be because Lan Xichen is left with the awkward, mortifying ordeal of considering the prospect of a wife, and all the books on the subject are, well, unhelpful for a man of his temperament.

It is his greatest challenge yet, so, naturally, he ropes all his brothers into it - willing, unwilling, unwitting.

(Shufu is simply grateful there are no more Explanations required. Twice was twice more than enough.) 

Wen Qing: this chat wasn't created so you could spam everyone in it with your endless crying over lan zhan

Wen Qing: it's been a thousand years, how is this still going on?

Jiang Wanyin: thinking this would ever stop was your first mistake

Jiang Wanyin: the second is thinking wuxian created this chat for anything other than bitching

Jin Zixuan: Didn't Huaisang create this chat?

Nie Huaisang: for the vibes~~~