Unruly (Between a rock and a hard place 4)

Chapter 4

Note: This chapter contains a theme of sexual excitement derived from giving out a corporal punishment, please be warned and proceed at your own discretion

After almost half a lifetime, Lan Qiren was hard. He did not want to accept it but the sight of Wei Wuxian's naked behind in full view had reminded him of who the boy's mother had been. Once upon a time, he had loved Cangse Sanren very much despite how mischievous she had been and how many tricks she had played on him. The sight just now reminded him of how he had gotten back to her just before her term of studies in the Cloud Recesses had ended.

At that time, Lan Qiren had been in the same position as Lan Wangji. He had been the disciplinarian for the guest disciples and he had been quite rigid and strict when it came to discipline. That much did not change until this day. He was still proud of upholding justice and discipline and steering the young minds in right directions.

That had been why he had been positively infuriated when Cangse Sanren had played a trick on him. He had just succeeded in growing his beard to a presentable length where he had been able to stroke it and appear wiser. However, Cangse Sanren had known about his pride and joy and she had decided to take it away from him. One morning, he had woken up with his beard completely shaved. He had immediately known who had done it, he had not even needed to see a laughing Cangse Sanren who could not have held herself back upon seeing him.

Lan Qiren had immediately known it had been her and that he had been in a position when he would have had to punish her. Since he had felt like it had been a personal attack against his pride as a man, he had decided that he needed to come up with a special punishment just for Cangse Sanren. But since he had loved her, he could not have borne for anyone beside himself to touch her.

He had called her to the courtyard where corporal punishments had often been dealt out and he had banned anyone else from entering. Back then, Lan Qiren had spanked her backside with his bare hand it the same position in which he had just seen Wei Wuxian. It had been more to humiliate her just as she had humiliated him then to really hurt her.

And it had worked, she had never tried to prank him again. At the same time however, she had started to avoid him and in the end, she had left with Wei Changze, thus breaking Lan Qiren's heart. From that moment, he despised anything which had reminded him of her, and particularly her son who not only looked like her but had inherited also her personality.

Under the circumstances, it was no wonder that he was now hard, just as he had been way back then. He blamed it on his body's poor restraint which he could hardly control. He could ignore it, he could meditate to calm himself, but he could not tell his body to not react whenever it wanted to.

Not that he had to deal with this problem too often, it had actually only ever happened whenever he had been close to Cangse Sanren. He had not been hard ever since, for more than two decades his member remained unresponsive. Until today.

He had been so surprised by this that he had immediately fled the Jingshi like some inexperienced teenager who needed to deal with a little problem in private. He felt ashamed of his own reaction. Even more so that his nephews had seen him is such a state. Well, they probably had not noticed since they had been quite busy, but he could never know. Now, he just wanted to hide away in his quarters and calm himself by some meditation.

He had never touched himself, not even in his younger days, and he would not start now when he was already an old man. He would take care of this in the usual way, either by going to the Cold Spring – which could prove to be quite challenging as he was already closing the door of his rooms and would have to walk through the entire Cloud Recesses again if he opted for this option – or by meditating and exerting control over his mind. Then, he would change his clothes and pretend like nothing happened. He could only hope that no one saw him in such a compromising condition.

He sat down onto a mat where he usually mediated and immediately tried to focus his mind on calming himself down. Tried was a good word, because he could not achieve meditative state at all. He was too angered by what he had just witnessed, especially by Wei Wuxian's shamelessness and Lan Wangji's incapacity at not be manipulated and played around, and also embarrassed because of his reaction to seeing the boy naked.

He was a respected elder of the Gusu Lan sect; he should have resisted such animalistic instincts. But then again, this was not his fault, Wei Wuxian should have never been that shameless, there were rules against that in the Cloud Recesses! No one had of course put anything like 'do not be naked in public' on the Wall of discipline, but it was common sense! And there were many other rules installing modesty and perfect conduct.

Wei Wuxian was the one in the wrong and should receive a proper punishment for his deliberate actions. He would have to be disciplined before being sent back to Lotus Pier, it was Lan Qiren's duty as his teacher.

He would have to think about a proper punishment which would be on par with the offence while also being effective. He had already sent the boy to copy rules and had him beaten in the past, but it had never stopped him from breaking any more rules. Would he have to once again resolve to the same he had had to do with Cangse Sanren?

Lan Qiren scowled and shook his head to clear it. Such thoughts were only making him remember the past and his hard-on was not going away at all. He should stop thinking about it. Now, he just needed to calm himself down before he would go see Wei Wuxian again, fully clothed and hopefully repenting this time.

He maintained his eyes closed and concentrated on his breathing. Inhale, retain, exhale. Inhale, retain, exhale. Again and again until he finally achieved his meditative state. When he opened his eyes, his shameful bodily reaction was only a thing of the past.

Now, what to do about Wei Wuxian?