Ah, man. What the hell happens in MDZS, besides demonic cultivation? Shang Qinghua remembers the fandom more than the book, so all he knows for sure is that Lan Wangji has a huge dick and Wei Wuxian is a mouthy bottom. There was definitely a war, like all the clans teamed up against the evil clan, except it turned out the true evil was the wealthy people who profited off the war and persecuted the refugees, which is a message Shang Qinghua can get behind.

"Hanguang-jun participated in a great war," he says, wracking his brain for the name of the evil clan. Some neural circuit improbably connects. "The Sunshot Campaign."