nothing more than an arrow in the dark
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64433389
“The only crime I admit to is the crime of being aquainted with Wen Rouhan’s second son. We don’t get along. I took part in a hunt near the Qishan border, and that brat used it as an opportunity to detain me on grounds of conspiracy against the crown.” He laughed again, but it was a mean one. “Ha! He thinks he and his sorry excuse of a court hold a much larger part of my attention than reality entails.”
Well, he had been conspiring against the Wen crown; it's just that Wen Chao had had no proof.
(Or, how did Wei Ying end up in that cell?)
















