When they arrived at the field the sect leaders were on their seats and the disciples were in formation, the 5 had taken their own formation.

Lan Wangji noticed something different with the sitting.

This time Wen Xu was present which sent alarm Bells on his head.

He decided to keep close watch on the Wens except for the ones Wei Wuxian trusts of course.

And so Wei Wuxian and himself went towards where their Clan has been assigned to stand.

"Xiongzhang."

"Xichen-ge."

"You four took your time." he commented.

"Sorry Xiongzhang, got lost." and Lan Wangji was back at his stoic demeanor because it was time to get serious.

Lan Wangji then faced from to listen what the Wen general was saying.

He didn't pay attention his eyes were focused at Wen Xu who was sitting across Wen Chao.

'This must be the butterfly effect, I should be careful' Lan Wangji made a mental note about that.

"Wait!" Wen Chao said as the general was going to start the competition.

"What is he doing here!?" Wen Chao pointed at Wen Ning "Can he even shoot a single arrow!?"

As Wei Wuxian was going to retort Wen Ning spoke "I C-can!" He managed to say which made Wen Chao's brow twitch.

"Oh yeah? Show me then?"

Wen Ning took a deep breath as he then turned to one of the nearby targets and pulled out a bow and arrow.

'Calm.'

'Aim.'

'And Shoot!'

He was surprised he managed to shoot a target in front of many people.

Wen Ning turned and saw Wei Wuxian who smiled at him.

'You did good!' He saw the older mouthed at him which made him smile.

"Hmph! Fine! He can join! See if I care!?" And so the archery competition went with a start.

"Father may I Join?"

Wen Ruohan couldn't care less and made his son go.

"A-Jie, come, let's shoot together." Jiang Wanyin said as he saw his sister staring at the Jin Heir 'What does she even see in him?!' Jiang Wanyin will find the perfect man for his A-Jie to marry, Jin Zixuan is not good enough for her.

Jiang Yanli sighed but smiled "Let's go." She hoped that they could meet in between, and hopefully she would not leave the ground early.

As they were shooting their arrows on a few targets another arrow had stolen their supposed to be prey.

Jiang Wanyin turned and saw Wen Chao "You!"

Wen Chao raised a brow before sneering "What? Can I not hunt here too? You are in Qishan, in my property, I can walk and shoot wherever I wish to shoot!"

"A-Cheng, don't be rash, let's continue shooting." Jiang Yanli called her brother down.

"Why don't you listen to that coreless sister of yours eh? It seems that she knows a lot more than you?" Wen Chao smirked.

"A-Cheng." Jiang Yanli scolded and the two continued shooting until Wen Chao's arrow had hit Jiang Yanli's target which had called her out.

"Ah, A-Cheng I have missed, I will return." She smiled sadly 'I wasn't able to see A-Xuan.' she thought.

"It's all because of him!" He wanted to yell it louder but his sister gave him a glare. "Remember mother's words, we can't bring trouble to the sect." she reminded which made the younger brother sigh harshly.

"Get there safe."

She nodded and left the area.

And time passed as Wen Chao kept on stealing Jiang Wanyin's prey making the said Jiang Angier and angrier.

"WOULD YOU STOP STEALING MY PREY!?"

"Oh is the baby sad? My prey is your prey! What's the difference?"

"Oh? The difference is that you're a shameless bastard who only has to rely on someone else because they're not good enough!"

This made Wen Chao Crack as he pulled his bow and arrow and aimed it at Jiang Wanyin.

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Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian had split up with the group.

They shot their arrows on perfect bullseye every single time.

"Lan Zhan, you're good at this." Wei Wuxian winked "You think I'll win?" Lan Wangji smirked.

"Hmmm nope! I'm still a ton lot better than you are!" Wei Wuxian took out 3Marrows and perfectly hit 3 targets letting out 3 Gusu Lan signal flares on the sky that marked their points.

"Think you can catch up?" He winked before running towards a certain direction.

"Of course I can!" Lan Wangji ran after him as the two started competing on getting the targets.

If you were watching from afar, you wouldn't think the two were competing as they were sharing smiles and laughter along their competitive gazes.

It looked more like 2 children playing with each other.

"How many targets do you think we got?" Lan Wangji asked catching his breath.

"More than enough probably? I lost count!" Wei Wuxian said as well.

"Let's go on and take a walk, then we can continue hitting targets?" Lan Wangji said as he opened a bottle and gave it to his beloved who thanked him before drinking some of it.

"Sure, let's go, we would probably place on the top 5 with how many targets we shot." Wei Wuxian said as he returned the water bottle and walked ahead.

Lan Wangii smiled before drinking out of the same bottle 'An indirect kiss.' :')

The two were walking before Lan Wangji saw his beloved eyes widen "Wanyin!?" He yelled out before Lan Wangji followed his gaze and saw Jiang Wanyin about to get hit by Wen Chao's arrow.

The two ran towards them but Wei Wuxian was faster and pushed Jiang Wanyin away from the arrow, dragging the two down on the ground.

A black Wen flare was then sent up in the sky.

Wen Chao was mad as he was about to retort Lan Wangji gave him a glare which made the other run away 'Coward.'

Jiang Wanyin had never felt more embarrassed "GET OFF ME YOU IDIOT! I COULD HAVE DODGED JUST FINE!" Jiang Wanyin pushed Wei Wuxian away from him.

Lan Wangji will understand the other's problem as the 'I hate that my enemy had save me' from the books he had read.

Because well, who the heck wants to be saved by their enemy and then be in their debt?

But it was better that way.

"Jiang Wanyin, if Wei Wuxian was any late you would have got an arrow through your skull!" The voice of Jin Zixuan was heard as Wei Wuxian stood up rubbing his head.

"And!?" Jiang Wanyin yelled at him.

"Oh well, I guess with or without an arrow going through your head, I suppose your brain wouldn't work either way."

Jiang Wanyin wanted to punch the Jin Heir again.

"H-how about we just c-continue shooting? We only h-have half an hour before i-it ends?" Wen Ning asked as he hid behind the Jin heir.

Jiang Wanyin tsked "I don't need a Wen dog to tell me what to do!" He snapped.

Wen Ning Whimpered and hid further into Jin Zixuan "Wen Qionglin didn't do anything to you, if your going to be a bitch about it then kindly leave."

Jiang Wanyin glared but left anyway.

"Where's Huaisang?" Wei Wuxian asked and Wen Ning answered as he removed himself from hiding "He well?..."

Jin Zixuan answered for him "Huaisang intentionally missed the target after getting tired shooting with us saying that he's tired."

"Not surprising." Lan Wangji said.

"Let's j-just go along with the shooting?" Wen Ning asked "Sure!" Wei Wuxian started leading the way.

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(The night before the games Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen told their father about the current happening and all that so he knows what's going around.)

"There are a lot of Gusu Lan flares going up, do you think Gusu Lan will be winning this year?" Jin Guangshan asked Qingheng-jun.

"Hard to tell, it's only half the time into the game."

Jiang Fengmian was hoping that atleast one of his children will place in the top 5.

Suddenly a black flare of Qinghe had gone up.

Nie Mingjue sighed "Huaisang..."

As he mentioned that name the green robed teen had already appeared.

"Da-ge! I'll be getting myself a drink!"

"Huai-"

But his brother was gone in a second.

"Your brother improved a lot so I've heard." Qingheng-jun commented and Nie Mingjue felt some pride.

"He had grown up sickly and his body was yellowish, he managed to build a core, barely there atleast, he wouldn't be budged to train with a saber." he paused.

"And then your second son introduced him to fan cultivation which got him back to training, he built an average core under two months, I could not have been prouder." Nie Mingjue smiled.

"But isn't the main family of Qinghe supposed to all weild sabers?" Jin Guangshan asked.

Nie Mingjue shook his head "It doesn't matter what weapon as long as one is able to defend themselves well." Nie Mingjue said.

"I won't always be there for him nor would his friends will he so I should thank your son for introducing that to him, He got that nie blood of Huaisang back."

Qingheng-jun smiled behind his sleeve "I see."

And soon enough a black Yunmeng Jiang flare had been on the sky.

"Eh? Don't Yunmeng Jiang have the best archers?" Jin Guangshan asked and Qingheng-jun find the man still as irritating as ever.

"Not everyone can be as good." Jiang Fengmian answered.

'Ahh... still refusing to say straightforward answers.'

The current rumors were going around about Madam Yu and Jiang Fengmian not talking at all after the said scandal was released.

A purple robed female was then on sight "Greetings Lady Jiang." Wen Xu greeted with a smirk.

"Greeting Young Master Wen." She greeted back politely before Greeting the others and before facing her father.

"Father I apologize, I had tripped and missed a target."

Jiang Fengmian waved her off "You did your best." she bowed and left towards the waiting area.

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The contest ended and now they were going to tell the scores for the top 5 "On first place we have Wei Wuxian tied with Lan Wangji at 98 targets!"

The crowd cheered while Jiang Wanyin grumbled and looked at the other while glaring.

Wei Wuxian immediately laughed and went on and hugged the second Jade who smiled softly and patted the other's head.

"On second place we have Lan Xichen scoring 97 targets."

"That's three wins for Gusu!" Someone cheered.

"Third place we have Jin Zixuan scoring 80 targets!"

"Great win for the Jin Sect!" Jin Zixuan puffed his chest proudly at being in the top 5.

"Fourth place from our very own sect! Wen Qionglin scoring 79 targets!"

Wen Ning smiled shyly as he waved over them.

Jiang Wanyin was glaring 'How dare they get places higher than me!? But who cares? I'll be getting the 5th place in the top 5.'

"And fifth place we have Nie Huaisang who scored 77 targets!"

This made many shocked especially Huaisang himself but before he knew it he was being squeezed by his brother as Nie Mingjue ruffled his neatly hair.

"I AM PROUD OF YOU HUAISANG!" His brother laughed before turning to his group of friends "How about you all join us? I'll pay for dinner?"

WHO COULD SAY NO TO FREE FOOD!?

No one from the Jiang sect had won in the archery competition as the maid Madam Yu sent to give her updates daily had been sent to her.

She was furious.

"HOW DARE THAT BASTARD, A WEN DOG, AND A GOOD FOR NOTHING NIE RANK HIGHER THAN MY SON!?"

"WOMAN STOP SCREAMING AT THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! US ELDERS WANT TO SLEEP!"