Female cultivators are not expressly forbidden, but not encouraged. It is one way Lan Zhan wishes Gusu Lan were more progressive.

"Wei Ying does not seem surprised at her confinement," he says, finally raising his eyes to meet Wei Ying's. "Is this one of the things Wei Ying knows? Like the scars?"

He does not comment on his mother's love. He's not certain she had a choice but he does know she loved him and Brother. Whether she had simply grown ill or taken her own life was a question Lan Zhan had never dared to ask, once he was old enough to wonder. Either way, he'd never blamed her.