Emperor's Smile (天子笑, Tiānzǐ Xiào) is a liquor sold in the city of Gusu.
Description[]
Lan Wangji describes the taste as fragrant and mellow.[1]
Use[]
Although liquor is forbidden in the Cloud Recesses, as a student Wei Wuxian repeatedly breaks curfew to smuggle Emperor's Smile into the residence to share with his friends.[2]
At the Burial Mounds, Wei Wuxian and Uncle Four agree that Emperor's Smile is indisputably the best wine they have tasted.[3]
After Wei Wuxian's death, Lan Wangji purchases Emperor's Smile and drinks it for the first time. Though he does not like the taste, he understands why Wei Wuxian does.[1]
Lan Wangji then keeps seven or eight jars of Emperor's Smile hidden beneath a floor board in his room. However, upon his return to the Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian promptly discovers and drinks two jars of the wine, and refills them with water as a prank.[4] This takes an ironic turn later when Lan Wangji fetches Wei Wuxian two jars to drink, yet the two jars happen to be the water-filled jars. Lan Xichen, notably, sees the alcohol and allows it despite the rule against drinking.[5]
After returning to the Cloud Recesses as a married couple, Lan Wangji continues to keep Emperor's Smile in the Jingshi for Wei Wuxian to drink.[6]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Novel, Chapter 111
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 13
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 75
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 11
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 64
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 120