"Wei Ying and I were able to seal Nie Mingjue's corpse in Meng Shi's coffin. My brother had no choice but to believe the truth of Jin Guangyao's crimes, but he still loved him. He silenced him and treated his wounds." Having come finally to, arguably, the culmination of this story, Lan Wangji returns his gaze to Claudius' hands in his own. "Nie Huaisang could accept nothing less than Jin Guangyao's death. When xiongzhang turned to Nie Huaisang to request the pain medication he had lent him for a previous wound, Nie Huaisang screamed for him to look out behind him. He turned back and ran Jin Guangyao through with his sword, Shuoyue."