Nie Huaisang has to make an effort not to curl his hand into a fist and snap the fan he's holding. There's a rage that lives inside of him, red hot and overwhelming at times, that demands justice for what was done to his brother; yet he's at a dead end with it comes to making Jin Guangyao pay since, so far, every one of his furtive attempts to get to him have failed.

Maybe it is time for him to turn to more drastic measures and rely on a truth that he learned as a teenager while in the Cloud Recesses: there is not one problem in the world that Wei Wuxian can't solve.