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stiltonbasket · 6 months

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I'm imagining a-Lan trying to get along with her in-laws - how does that work? does Lan Fang have any sibs or is it just his parents?

I've always imagined Lan Fang to have either a younger sister or a much older sister who moved to the women's side of the Cloud Recesses before he was born, but I haven't put much thought into what she or his parents would be like, except that Lan Fang received his mother's family name so that he could become an inner member of the clan (his father is a non-cultivating carpenter who spends most of his time working on commissions at his workshop in Caiyi).

#asks #lan fang's father comes from a family that usually practices ruzhui marriage #not in the sense of poorer men marrying into the homes of wealthier brides #but in the sense that the family businesses were usually left in the hands of daughters #and that sons either struck out on their own or joined other families as matrilocal husbands #lan fang's sister takes over dad's business as a cultivating woodworker #which is why his mom and grandparents are the only family members living at the cloud recesses full-time by the time he marries a-lan #reference #lan fang

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