Lan Fengli gets stronger and better as she ages, stepping more and more out of her father's shadow on night hunts, splitting off on her own frequently, getting to know other junior cultivators. She names her sword - Yukuai - and starts earning a reputation for herself beyond 'that child Hanguang-Jun keeps inexplicably taking on night hunts.'
Which means that on one of their visits to the Cloud Recesses, she gets roped into a mission.
She accepts - it's her first chance to do anything like night hunting with her friend, Lan Jingyi, even if it means interacting more with the other Lan sect junior disciples (who she hasn't really spoken to since she was a small child). They put her in charge of the mission, even, which is...
Apparently they've somehow forgotten all the rules she broke as a kid?
Anyways, Mo Village isn't that stressful an assignment, and it's a good chance to prove herself without daddy hovering over her shoulder, and it's a chance to tease her peers and compare herself on a more even footing to people her age, and also to maybe beat up some restless dead.
Madame Mo is... Unpleasant... But Lan Fengli is laser focused on proving herself, and also not causing too much trouble for her dad, so she takes a deep breath, locking thoughts of shutting the woman up in a little box in her head to deal with later.
Stepping into leadership isn't that hard - her dad's reputation precedes her, if nothing else, and acting like she knows what she's doing is pretty easy.
Things are mostly, actually, going pretty smoothly.