Xiahou Lan
Soul-Stealing Orchid
"At the same time, you are also my wife, you beast who betrays the teacher and ancestors."
The Direct Disciple of the Kongtong Sect's Soul-Stealing Gate's Sect Leader in this generation, known in the Jianghu as the Soul-Stealing Orchid.
With a striking, sorrowful beauty and superb martial arts, she turned the heads of many young heroes, and was once the disciple most likely to become the First Lady.
Alas, that one tragedy rewrote this young woman's life. From that day she was like one whose soul had fled, never smiling again, her gaze fixed on nothing. Even on clear days she holds an umbrella, as though in the world she sees, the downpour has never stopped.
Biographies
With a striking, sorrowful beauty and superb martial arts, she turned the heads of many young heroes,
and was once the Kongtong disciple most likely to become the First Lady.
Alas, that one tragedy of years past rewrote this young woman's life.
From that day she was like one whose soul had fled, never smiling from the heart again,
her gaze fixed on nothing. Even on clear days she holds an umbrella, as though in the world she sees, the downpour has never stopped.
and was once the Kongtong disciple most likely to become the First Lady.
Alas, that one tragedy of years past rewrote this young woman's life.
From that day she was like one whose soul had fled, never smiling from the heart again,
her gaze fixed on nothing. Even on clear days she holds an umbrella, as though in the world she sees, the downpour has never stopped.
Bonding Process
Bonding Token
Xiahou Lan's Hairband
A hairband Xiahou Lan loves to use. Nothing rare, and plain in texture.
It means something extraordinary only because she has worn it.
Age
- The oldest of the romanceable female characters.[1]
- Year 2, Oct, the Xiangyang trip, Yu Xiaomei: "She—she's not the same age as me, she's nearly ten years older than me, how could we compare."
- Year 3, Jan, going down the mountain with the Eldest Senior Brother (Watching at Woyun Ridge), a passerby: "She's been famous in the Jianghu for nearly ten years. At the lowest count she's at least twenty-five or twenty-six."
- Year 3, the matchmaking event, if you have not taken Xiahou Lan as your master, Xie Wuchen: "She's already twenty-six or twenty-seven, a woman past her prime."
- Year 3, the Snow Mountain trip, originally a seven-year pact, but Xiahou Lan arrived a year early to pass all her martial arts to Zhao Huo.
- Xiahou Lan: "Your master was just then awakening to love…… To prove my innocence, not long after I returned from my travels, your master and became husband and wife."
- In v1.0.5000 this line read "Your master was just then in the bloom of sixteen"; it has now been changed to "awakening to love", so her age has been recalculated.
- Putting it all together, she is about 25–27 in year 3.
Martial Arts
- In the Kongtong Sect, only the Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch and Danxiazi can match her.
- The still wanted to force her by force of arms to give up her place as Direct Disciple, but she wrenched both his arms out of their sockets and trampled his head underfoot. From then on he could no longer face the elders of Kongtong, and hid himself away in seclusion to train.
- She usually carries a strange weapon forged by the Iron Fist Gate, the Steel-Bone Umbrella. Pull the mechanism in the handle and blades spring out, offense and defense in one, proof against water and fire.
- On the Snow Mountain trip, she used the Snow Mountain Sect's unique Acupoint Strike technique, the "Glacial Acupoint-Brushing Hand", to leave Zhao Huo unable to move.
- When she faced Shangguan Sun, she used the Snow Mountain Sect's "Trembling Plum Branch" to try to shake the Golden-Backed Dragon King Blade from his grip.
- The Soul-Stealing Phantom Claw is the higher form of the Shadowless Claw. The moves Xiahou Lan uses in the Soul-Stealing Phantom Claw are the Soul-Stealing Gate's, while the Internal Method is the Snow Mountain Sect's; the name is the same, but the gap in skill is as between cloud and mud. What she passed on to Zhao Huo is her own version.[2]
Relationships
- Once traveled with Tang Buyi, Xie Wuchen, and two others, and together they defeated the .
- She heard that opening an umbrella indoors invites ghosts, and opened one to hold back the soul of Huyan Ju; that is also why she lives in the sunless forest.
- She was promised in marriage before birth to Shangguan Ying, but the Snow Mountain Sect was wiped out and nothing came of it.
- She considers Nangong Shen a fool, but is worthy of respect, and she respects Tang Zhongling greatly as well.
- She once fell into danger at the Yuhua Pavilion in Changsha, and was saved by Tang Buyi.
- Xiahou Lan used to tell stories to and . Once, when she brought the two of them to the Soul-Stealing Forest, she told a ghost story, and was so frightened that she knocked a tree clean through, which terrified Xiahou Lan at the time.
- She calls the Tang Clan treehouse the "Snow Mountain Sect Tang Clan Branch".
Bonding
- Rubbing her legs is the signal: time for a bath!
- When pursuing her, it is recommended to learn the Dragon's Cry Skill; there is a surprise on the Western Wulin route.
- After the Western Wulin ending, she settles in the Snow Mountain with Zhao Huo.[3]
- After marriage she bears a boy and a girl, both taking after their mother, and she dotes on them to excess.
- For the children's education, one day she went out and caught Wei Ju to serve as their tutor.
- If not bonded, she will in the end go to the Snow Mountain Sect ruins, duel Di San Xiang, and then take her own life.
Notes
- Bird Bear's FB introduction: Link
- The Number One beauty of the Jianghu,
a woman who can be your master, your mother, and your wife all at once Heh heh, I want a wife who is my master and seduces my ancestors!- A true native of Lanzhou.[4]
- Though she lives in the Soul-Stealing Forest, she in fact only moved in these past year or two, saying the Soul-Stealing Gate was too much trouble.
- As for food while living alone in the Soul-Stealing Forest, she murders small forest animals, walks out of the forest and helps herself to the vegetables planted by the Iron Fist Gate, and occasionally buys food in town.[5]
- She lived in the forest treehouse a long time, with many mosquitoes, yet had no mosquito incense and no net, and only thought of it when Zhao Huo reminded her. Then she lit candles and burned mosquitoes for four or five hours straight in revenge, utterly deranged.
- As a girl she was gentle and reserved, full of compassion, protecting the weak and fighting injustice. She preferred words to force.[5:1]
- She likes hot pot.[5:2]
- Her singing voice is generally good.[6]
- She fears dogs a little more than wolves. If a wolf wants to eat her, being roasted and eaten is what she deserves. Dogs are far more troublesome, wagging their tails to curry favor, and one cannot bear to beat them. But when she meets a vicious dog that is not tied up and bites people, she shows no mercy, and kills the dog owner who let it harm people along with it.
- She shares a birthday, 11/10, with Xin Ru. A fortune teller said that on that auspicious day, the Song Kingdom would see the birth of a Peerless beauty.[7][8]
- Famous quote: "All living beings die, all things can be killed."
- She cares very much whether her hairband is symmetrical.
- Her earrings are relics of the Snow Mountain Sect.
- She won the 2025 "Send Colored Paper to Your Beloved" vote, and the official team released a Snow Mountain Sect epilogue video. Under Xiahou Lan's leadership the Snow Mountain Sect became one of the seven great sects of the Wulin, with students all over the world.[9]
- In the video, on the Snow Mountain in the depths of the twelfth month, Xiahou Lan remembers her childhood: her mother called her "Xiaomei", saying she was the Snow Mountain Sect's only daughter and would be Eldest Senior Sister one day, and must not be naughty; she talked back, saying that as Eldest Senior Sister of a small sect like ours, being a little naughty is still acceptable. Her father said she would surely grow up to be like her mother, the Number One Under Heaven, a Peerless beauty.
- In the Snow Mountain Sect of today, Zhao Huo is Xiahou Lan's Direct Disciple, the Snow Mountain Sect's Eldest Senior Brother, and already a father; Fan Xiaotian is a Junior Sister. At the end the disciples call out together, "Disciples of the Snow Mountain Sect welcome the Sect Leader!"
- Closing narration: Heroine Xiahou, the Soul-Stealing Orchid, is hailed as the restorer of the Snow Mountain Sect; the Snow Mountain Sect ranks among the seven great sects of the Wulin, joined in marriage with the Tang Clan, on friendly terms with Jinxiang, a match for Kongtong, and standing as an equal against the Shangguan.
- The script for the same scene as the video was included in the game data in the large update of October 2026, but there is no way to trigger it in the game.
- The "Squint" and the three "Child" portraits in the expression tabs appear only in this video.
- Text from the Xiahou Lan Wanted Warrant folder merchandise: Source
Wanted: the Soul-Stealing Orchid
Ruthless and cruel, a killer of countless lives
Whoever tears down this notice and takes this person
Shall report to the Liangzhou Prefecture Office
A reward of one thousand taels of silver. Any who hide
Or conceal her, or know and fail to report, shall be punished
As accomplices of the criminal
Liangzhou Prefecture Office
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