Xiahou Lan Romance Guide

Requirements for the Romance

No.	Time	Event	Details	Tips & Notes
1	Early Feb Year 2		• Contribution ≧50 before the Tang Clan Monthly Meeting. • At the Monthly Meeting, choose "I want to go study at the Kongtong Sect."
2	Early Mar Year 2		• After first meeting Wei Ju, if you choose "Object, despite risking their hostility", you must not choose "I am going to Mystic Skill Gate" in the next option; any other branch is fine. • For the sect choice, roll【<75】 "Soul-Stealing Gate......".
3	Early Apr Year 2		• When ambushed, roll【>50】 "Defense successful". • You must win the first duel against the Emei Disciple. • You must lose or draw the second duel against the Emei Disciple (hold out 5 Rounds). • After the third duel against the Emei Disciple (win or lose doesn't matter), choose "Thank her as your master".	• Completing this requirement makes Xiahou Lan your master and unlocks Training in the Soul-Stealing Forest, the main way to raise her Affinity. • Try to reach Xiahou Lan Affinity ≧40 before your study abroad ends. • Note that in the Training side event, letting affects later story and ending scenes. On a first Xiahou Lan route, letting Fan become her disciple is not recommended. • The in Late May is not required for the romance, but if you win all three fights and Fan Xiaotian has not become her disciple, you get the item (a story keepsake, no effect); and losing the third fight to Rui Sheng is required to obtain later.
4	Late May Year 3		Xiahou Lan Affinity ≧40, to trigger and complete this event.	The choices in the event do not affect the romance.
5	Early Jun Year 3		• Preparation: 1. Make sure your Beloved is Xiahou Lan. 2. If you have no wine on you, buy any wine before setting out (not required, but strongly recommended). • Once requirement 4 is met, "Snow Mountain Journey" is automatically added to the Tang Clan Monthly Meeting. • Choose this option to go to Snow Mountain with Xiahou Lan.	• If you do not choose "Snow Mountain Journey", an event where Xiahou Lan goes to Snow Mountain alone triggers automatically in Mid Jun. • The Snow Mountain Journey has many Book of Life and Death entries to collect.
6	Mid Jul Year 3		• When Xiahou Lan passes her skill to you, choose Resist all three times; then a fourth Destiny roll happens automatically, and only【=99】 "Resist" succeeds (the first three rolls do not affect the result): 1. The second "Resist" requires wine on you. 2. The third "Resist" requires your Beloved to be Xiahou Lan. 3. The fourth has a cap of 50 + Xiahou Lan Affinity; you need Xiahou Lan Affinity ≧49 for a chance, and ≧99 always succeeds. • After a successful Resist, Xiahou Lan's dying scene triggers, then a duel with Xiahou Lan; winning enters the romance event. • Finishing the event grants the item 【Xiahou Lan's Hairband】, and the romance is complete.	• If you accept the skill transfer or fail to Resist, Xiahou Lan dies and you gain the Skill (a story keepsake, no effect). • Different wines change the story; priority order: 1. : after defeating Di San Xiang, 【≧70】 "Spare her life", then 【≧60】 "None". 2. : when the Eldest Senior Brother is dying on the , choose "It's the monkey wine you hid so I couldn't drink it"; it is found on the back mountain in Early Mar of the same year. 3. Other wines (when Di San Xiang is "Cold-blooded killing" and Morality ＜40, you can find Huangjiu ×3). • If you lose the duel with Xiahou Lan, you enter

Events Changed After the Romance

No.	Time	Event	Changes	Notes
1	Late Aug Year 3		• Going Down the Mountain from the Main Gate at this point lets you choose "Invite Xiahou Lan" to head to the Wulin Assembly together. • No matter what happens along the way, Xiahou Lan will not come along.	If you choose "No", then "Attack Xiahou Lan", and lose the duel, you can unlock the Armor , though its stats are worse than the Heart-Guard Mirror.
2	Mid Oct Year 3	Wulin Assembly	A few dialogue changes.	Becoming Xiahou Lan's disciple (no romance needed) also changes some dialogue, and prevents Yin Zhiping from taking a disciple on his master's behalf.
3	After Early Jun Year 3		• Prerequisite: . • Choose the Chat topic "My strength" and keep paying (1300 Silver Taels in total) to hear the Fourth Senior Brother out. • If you are in the romance with Xiahou Lan, Xiahou Lan joins the conversation.
4	Early Dec Year 3, 1 Action left		• You can visit Xiahou Lan. • If and : different dialogue.
5	Early Dec Year 3, 1 Action left	(Retirement route)	• Different story scenes in the Training Ground and the Men's Quarters. • The ending scene of changes to the version where you go to Snow Mountain with Xiahou Lan. • Morality ≧60 lets you enter .
6	• Mid Jan Year 4 (no Western Wulin Alliance, fight to the bitter end) • Or Mid Feb Year 4 (Western Wulin Alliance formed)		• Going Down the Mountain from the Main Gate triggers an event with Xiahou Lan. • If you are in a romance with anyone else, it is replaced by the event, triggered by choosing any location. If you lose the duel and are not in the romance with Ye Yunshang, you enter .	If you do not trigger this event, the event triggers automatically when 2 Actions remain.
7	• Mid Jan Year 4, 2 Actions left (no Western Wulin Alliance, fight to the bitter end) • Or Mid Feb Year 4, 2 Actions left (failed to form the Western Wulin Alliance, fight to the bitter end)		• If you follow Xiahou Lan's advice and leave the Tang Clan, you enter . • If you do not follow Xiahou Lan's advice and , Xiahou Lan does not join the battle (does not affect the ending). • If you do not follow Xiahou Lan's advice and Fan Xiaotian did not become her disciple, Xiahou Lan joins the final battle. • Winning the final battle leads to .	• Xiahou Lan's support Skill in the final battle depends on whether you obtained or on the Snow Mountain Journey (see the note under requirement 3). • If you are in romances with several people, the romance priority for the Clan Extermination route ending (v1.0.3201.1): Tang Moling＞Ye Yunshang＞Shangguan Ying＞Yu Xiaomei＞Yu Zhu＞Wei Ju＞Xiahou Lan＞Long Xiang
8	Mid Feb Year 4, 2 Actions left		• Xiahou Lan joins the battle. • Many story and battle changes. • If you choose the Tang Clan sallies out, hold the Outer Fort, then after winning choose "I... will listen to you", you enter .	• Training to completion first is recommended. • In the courtyard duel, rolling anything other than【≧65】 "Arrive in time" is recommended.
9	Early Mar Year 4	Meishan Final Battle	• Xiahou Lan accompanies you in the story. • The ending screen shows you together with Xiahou Lan. • Winning achieves .