Mourning Wei Ying and trying to find out what his place should be in a world where he is dead, alpha Lan Wangji meets Song Zichen, a beta rogue cultivator who is searching for his own lost friend. Their friendship helps both of them, but the strictures of the cultivation world threaten it.
The weather's getting colder, so Xue Yang makes a healthy warm drink for Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing at the coffin home in Yi City. What they don't know won't hurt them (for now).