The worthies of the Wei-Jin Period mostly impressed people with their transcendence of the Confucian ethical codes, especially the seven sages of the bamboo grove. Yet, the seven sages stuck to the thought and expression of the Confucian ethics. Though Ruan Ji did not stop playing chess when he heard about the death of his mother, later on he cried so hard that he spit blood. On the one hand, Ji Kan proposed the concept of ”transcending the Confucian ethical codes and following nature”; on the other hand, in ”Family Admonition,” he lectured his descendants more like a nagging father than a casual and relaxed worthy. Is there any philosophical consistency behind these seemingly contradictory phenomena? Here we try to inquire Ji Kan’s thought and the related documents to analyze the contradiction between transcending the Confucian ethical codes and following them. Besides, we intend to offer some possible ethical explanations from the perspective of Neo-Taoism. Consequently, we will understand more about the Wei-Jin worthies' state of mind and their ethical thought as part of the Wei-Jin metaphysics.