

Sunshot Campaign ĭuring the war, Jin Guangshan leads the Langya front. Īfter learning that his son Jin Zixuan does not fancy his betrothed, Jin Guangshan initially intends to keep the engagement anyways, but eventually agrees to Jiang Fengmian's insistence that they break the engagement. As Meng Yao happens to arrive on Jin Zixuan's birthday, Jin Guangshan insists that Meng Yao be removed immediately, causing Meng Yao to be kicked down the stairs of Golden Carp Tower. When Meng Shi dies, her son Meng Yao approaches Golden Carp Tower with the pearl Jin Guangshan had left his mother, requesting his father's acceptance into the clan. Unlike his other mistresses, Jin Guangshan rather favors the Second Lady of Mo is, and he visits her for four years before tiring of her. Jin Guangshan also travels to Mo Village, where he seduces the teenaged Second Lady of Mo and produces their child Mo Xuanyu. In the aftermath, Madam Qin is too frightened to tell her husband or remind Jin Guangshan that he had a daughter with her, Qin Su. He even forces himself upon the wife of his close friend, Qin Cangye of Laoling Qin Clan. He conceives a child with Meng Shi, but forgets her quickly, as he considers her ability to read dangerous in a woman. While traveling in Yunmeng, he hears rumors of a famous prostitute who excels in both literature and the arts. He never dares to disobey her to her face, even agreeing to the engagement of their son Jin Zixuan to Jiang Yanli at Madam Jin's insistence. Jin Guangshan married Madam Jin, a woman who frightens him with her strong temperament. Jin Guangshan seems to have been quite prideful, as he responds to Wei Wuxian's verbal callouts by kicking over a table and storming away during a banquet. To cement his power, he is willing to shelter mass murderers, assassinate fellow clan leaders, annihilate clans, and use his own son's death for political gain. He is also ambitious, as he positions the Lanling Jin Clan to take over the cultivation world after the fall of the Qishan Wen Clan. Nevertheless, he is also frightened of his hot-tempered wife. He has a low view of women, declaring that art and reading are wasted on women, who should focus on their appearance first and foremost. Jin Guangshan is a womanizer whose many extramarital affairs reach the point of obscenity. īefore his death, although he appears weak and sickly, his age still seems to be about thirty or forty due to his cultivation. He is described having handsome features and a square-shaped face. Jin Guangshan wears the peony-embroidered robes of the Lanling Jin Clan with a vermillion mark on his forehead.
