"JIANG FENGMIAN."

It was one of those rare days where Jiang Fengmian would get his peace and quiet but ever since he got married to his wife, there was little to none that he would have those days.

He was just about to leave the elder meeting room as they were discussing about trading with the minor sects that fortunately still has an alliance with them when his wife barged in the meeting room which displeased the elders.

"Madam Jiang." one elder called but was sent a scowl "I am Madam Yu Not Madam Jiang!" She snapped as the same elder was going to talk he was cut off when she decided to open her foul mouth.

"FENGMIAN WHAT IS THIS I HEAR ABOUT MY NOT NOT BEING THE LEGITIMATE HEIR!? AND THAT BASTARD WEI WUXIAN WAS THE SUPPOSED TO BE HEIR!? HOW DARE HE RANK HIGHER THAN MY SON!"

Jiang Fengmian was about to answer when he saw his wife down on the floor.

"San-"

"You will stay put, we've had enough of your bullshit Fengmian, if you won't deal with her, we will." Jiang Fengmian's Uncle spoke.

And the said Uncle was the one who sent his wife to the floor, but as he was his Uncle, Jiang Fengmian can only step back.

"HOW DARE YOU SLAP ME! WHAT DO YOU MEAN DEAL WITH ME? I AM A SECT MAD-"

Another slap was sent to her face "Sect Madam? If you are a Sect Madam then act like one!" Jiang Qiang spat.

"You dare talk back to an elder of the sect!? I AM YOUR UNCLE-IN-LAW!" He raged out at her.

"Fengmian! I know you don't like me but are you going to allow him to undermine me!"

"Undermine you? What is there to undermine you when all you know is to swing that Zidian of yours wherever you go! And look at you now! Your weapon is no long with you!" Jiang Qiang said.

"And if you are the Madam of the Sect, RUN IT LIKE THE MADAM OF LOTUS PIER! THIS ISN'T MEISHAN YU! THIS IS LOTUS PIER! GET THAT SHUT THROUGH YOUR STUBBORN SKULL!" He yelled out to her.

"And Madam of the sect? You can't even do the paperwork, let alone know the history of the sect!" Another elder yelled at her face.

"Then let me tell you! Here in Jiang Sect, we do not focus on our gentry but who rank and follows our motto better!" Jiang Qiong decided it was either now or never.

"Wei Changze was the supposed to be the one leading the sect, but decided against it, he went on and followed his love! And 2nd coming from him is Jiang Fengmian! If Wei Changze never stepped down he would have only become Wei Chanaze's right hand man!" Jiang Qiong made it loud and clear.

"It was his fault! If he never took in that bastard child HE WOULD HAVE NEVER SURPASSED MY SON!"

Jiang Qiong looked at her as if she was stupid "Surpassing your son? When we got you to the healers after your first nighthunt, your cultivation level is average and your son has gotten it from you! You trained him didn't you? And now you got yourself a carbon copy, both are not fit to

lead Yunmeng!"

Rumors about the average core of Madam Yu will be spreading faster than most people would think if anyone were to hear about it.

She did not want her reputation as the Violet Spider go down the drain!

"YOU-"

"As a punishment for all these years of whipping the sole Heir you would not be allowed to discipline the disciples anymore and no more nighthunting for one year! You will learn to act like a Madam!"

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS!"

"You have too much pride! And yes I did! I will be the one to personally train you, one mistake is 30 minutes of kneeling in the ancestral hall and the elders will visit you there every 30 minutes!"

Jiang Qiong then pointed at his nephew "And you! Go fix everything your wife messed up! YOU HAVE 5 MONTHS TO REGAIN THAT 6 ALLIANCES BACK!" He yelled at him before turning back towards Yu Ziyuan who was started to stand up.

"If you want one of your children to lead, then I will give a chance to Jiang Yanli, from now on the heir of Jiang will be stripped off from Jiang Wanyin and will be given to Jiang Yanli!"

Jiang Yanli who had been there from the time they were talking about her mother's punishment had gasped.

"I-I can't, Elder Jiang, I can't! Being the heir means so much for my brother! And I don't have strong cultivation!" She protested.

"The Jiangs are known to attempt the impossible, you are useless if you will not be able to do such thing." Jiang Qiong said to his grand niece.

"And if you want to blame anyone, blame your mother and brother for that, Yu Ziyuan doesn't know how to run a Sect and destroys alliance and traders along with your brother! This is your chance to fix things!"

The elder turned towards Yu Ziyuan who was clenching her fists "You have one year, if her cultivation hasn't improved then we, elders, will find a rightful heir ourselves!"

Jiang Qing then looked at the servant "Make the announcements! Make it official!" The servant nodded and went out to bring the news to the rest of the cultivation world.

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"Relax your arm a bit Wen Ning....like-Yes! Like that! And now...shoot!" Wen Ning followed and shot the arrow which landed on bullseye.

Wei Wuxian was clapped his hands "You're doing better!" He smiled "You just need to get used in relaxing your arms a bit and gain a bit more confidence around people." Wei Wuxian patted the other's shoulder.

It has been 5 days since he had stayed with the Dafan Wens, they made him feel as if he was part of their family.

He thinks of Wen Ning as a little brother the moment the two started practicing archery together.

"Wei Wuxian!"

"Y-You should go get y-your back checked." Wen Ning smiled at the older who nodded.

Wei Wuxian went towards where Wen Qing would usually tell him to be.

When Wei Wuxian removed his upper robes he heard a pleased hum from Wen Qing.

"The really old scars had faded out, and the ones that are visible are the new ones and probably the ones you got a year before you went to Gusu." Wen Qing said as she applied the ointment.

"Really!?" Wei Wuxian asked surprised, He'll definitely tell Lan Zhan about this then his bird comes to visit him again.

"Yes, I'll try to see if there are other ways to speed up the recovery."

Wei Wuxian felt teary "Thank you Wen Qing." he said and she waved him off "No need to thank me, I'm doing what most doctors would do anyway."

Wei Wuxian put on his upper robes before speaking.

"Still, I thought I would bear these scars for life and eventide I'll go to sleep, sometimes the electricity from the Zidian will spark and It'll be hard to fall asleep from the pain." he smiled as tears fall from his face.

Wen Qing hugged the male "It will be fine, You helped A-Ning in more ways than possible, We'll get your back to normal, I promise."

Wei Wuxian chuckled and patted her back "I'll hold on to you for that promise."

The two parted and Wei Wuxian took out a few talismans and gave it to her.

"What are these?" She asked.

"These are a few of the explosion talismans I made, you can use this for self-defense, just add spiritual energy before throwing it at the enemy, how much energy you place on the talisman is

how big and powerful the explosion will be." he explained and Wen Qing took the said talismans.

"Thank you, I will put this to good use." She said and hid I within her robes.

The two then went out and a few children clung onto Wei Wuxian's leg.

"Xian-ge! Xian-ge! Can you show us the butterfly talisman you made again?? Please!" The boy as Wei Wuxian know as Wen Min asked and 3 other children were looking at him with puppy eyes.

WHO COULD SAY NO TO THAT!?

"Why not?" He asked and took out 2 talisman papers and threw them in the air, creating multiple red spiritual butterflies which made the kids go on and play with it.

'All kids deserves adults to look after them.' he thought as he smiled when he sees the carefree smiles coming from the kid. the smile he was never able to make when he was their age 'But not all adults deserve children.'

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Jiang Yanli was now put under pressure after the news broke out, she sent a letter in advance, hoping her brother would believer her when she said that she didn't want it.

But along with her letter was the letter of Elder Jiang Qiong, their grandfather.

She can't deal with this, they are now teacher her the etiquette of being a Sect heir and a Sect Leader, now she's being put in debate classes and making sure her core would improve.

But to no avail, her core wasnt improving.

They would often take her to the healers to keep her health on check since she grew up sickly and all that.

But since the head healer Jiang Fen left, most of the other healers who were experts in their field had left along with her.

Now they have Medicare doctors who are fine with treating wounds and common sicknesses.

But they were nowhere near in checking the core, to see what needs to be improved or if the cultivation is too dangerous.

And then we have the medical disciples, they were still in training! What would they know!

Jiang Yanli would keep on praying every now and then that the elders would change their mind and make her A-Cheng the heir again.

It meant so much to him, she didn't want to take it away.

When her mother would be out of her paper work, when on break, it would not be any help, she would drag her to the training grounds and make her work, train, with the sword.

It doesn't matter what time it was, as long as she'll see progress she won't stop dragging her daughter back to training.

"A-LI WHY DON'T I SEE ANY IMPROVEMENT? ARE YOU JUST LAZING AROUND ALL DAY!? COULDN'T YOU FORM A CORE?"

She would always reprimand her daughter if she isn't doing her embarrassing punishment, kneeling in the ancestral hall. And then her mother went to her "You will be going to Meishan for the next month, I want to see a breakthrough when you get back!" She said.

Jiang Yanli was just fine going there, she wouldn't be seeing disappointing eyes from her father and mean words from her mother.

'Was this what A-Xian felt whenever her mother would talk bad to him?' She thought 'No probably not, A-Xian never cried whenever her mother would talk like that, he would never know how it feels like' She shook her head and packed her bag.

"DON'T YOU DARE FORGET TO BRING YOUR TRAINING ROBES! I WILL HAVE JINZHU LOOK OVER YOUR BAG!"

She stilled, why couldn't they understand that she doesn't like wearing those! She is never interested in swords and cultivation in general! She wanted a peaceful life with her family and marry a good husband!

But no! Every since Wei Wuxian left everything is going downhill more quickly than she would like!

She thought that if he would leave, her family would finally be peaceful, but no. her mother and brother had to get whipped, and even before that rumors had started circulated around, and not long after Yunmeng is going to be starting to be seen as a bad sect.

She sighed as she stood up and went out to eat lunch.