"Adoption was the only way you could get one," Lan Zhan says, turning his back on the threshold and walking back toward the jingshi. "After our last discussion, I thought I would just settle into teaching and forget the rest."
There would be no wife, and with no wife there are no children.
"Now, you have a nephew. He is a good, smart boy," Lan Zhan says. "He was... he was sick, very ill, when I found him. I was able to summon a threshold, and get him to the safe place beyond. They have good medicine, and kind people who are tending to him."
So if he survives, he knows that he will be well enough for travel. There is no way they'll let A-Yuan die.
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Date: 2020-11-02 09:18 pm (UTC)There would be no wife, and with no wife there are no children.
"Now, you have a nephew. He is a good, smart boy," Lan Zhan says. "He was... he was sick, very ill, when I found him. I was able to summon a threshold, and get him to the safe place beyond. They have good medicine, and kind people who are tending to him."
So if he survives, he knows that he will be well enough for travel. There is no way they'll let A-Yuan die.