Too high a price

What if Lan Qiren and the others never made it up into the Burial Mounds when they tried rescuing the juniors? What if they were captured by rogue cultivators instead and found themselves imprisoned in the same cell as Wei Wuxian? What if they ended up figuring Wei Wuxian's innocence themselves?

And as a cherry on top, what if Jiang Cheng found it in his heart to forgive his brother and protected him this time?

This fic will contain themes and mentions that may be trigerring, please read the warnings and tags I used and proceed at you own discretion.

English is not my first language so I apologise in advance for any mistakes. I am also not very familiar with chinese culture, customs nor naming conventions so this work may in some places not be 100% accurate.

I do not own any characters I have used in my story, this is purely a work of fan fiction.

Hope you will enjoy reading :)