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It was supposed to be an easy night-hunt with his baby Lans, some disciples from other Sect that were his son’s friends and a very young Sect Leader of the clan which literally spelled G.O.L.D.
They had to deal with a cursed object that was bothering peoples by making them speak out what were they thinking the moment and that bitter honesty has caused a lot of disrupt among the peoples.
So, they were here to seal this obsidian spherical object, so it won’t cause any more nuisance in this village.
Wei Wuxian had pulled out a talisman to test the work of his new invention by activating the curse sphere. Nothing happened.
The talisman was a success. It had restricted and suppressed the powers of the curse within the dark sphere, acting as a protective barrier between him and the sphere.
Finally, he had successfully developed a talisman that can be used for sealing any cursed object with minimal usage of spiritual energy.
He grinned and turned back towards his curious duckling, feeling very proud at his work. Lan Zhan will be so happy to hear about this, he can’t wait any longer to tell him.
“ See? It really worked. Now let’s talk about the bet we agreed on earlier. Hmm, Jin Ling, Jingyi. I think you both lost after all~ ” Wei Wuxian chirped happily as he was about to get four free jars of his favorite emperor’s smile.
Though it tastes sweeter when bought by Lan Zhan, but he can’t pass this free offer, could he?
“ No. We won’t accept that you won unless and until you let us see it by ourselves to check if you haven’t tricked us!” Jingyi yelled.
“ Do you think Fairy is the cute girl?” Jin Ling asked knowing very that Wei Wuxian could never agree on this fact even if it costed losing his free emperor’s smiles.
“ No, that fur monster is really scary. She isn’t cute or anything!” Wei Wuxian retorted.
“ We won.” Jin Ling huffed with a smirk.
“ Hey! That’s cheating. You knew I can’t just lie about it and would never call that gobbling monster cute!” He was fuming.
“ Shut up now and admit it that your talisman didn’t work!” Jingyi said excitedly at his victory.
“ Never.”
“ Jingyi, Wei-qianbei let’s calm down.” Sizhui said approaching Wei Wuxian to take the sphere and carefully place it in his qiankun bag.
“ Sizhui! Give me that I want to see that thing up close. I trust Wei-qianbei’s talisman and I’m sure it is safely sealed enough for us to look at it. I’ve never seen such shiny and glittery object before this.” Zizhen said.
“ Aww, he’s truly my most loyal duckling along with my A-Yuan!” Wei Wuxian squealed, pulling at Zizhen’s poor cheeks.
The other junior disciples rolled their eyes. Sizhui smiled fondly at his father’s antics.
As he was about to hand over the sphere to Zizhen, but before Wei-qianbei pushed away Sizhui on time when an arrow that had struck the ground where Sizhui stood just a mere second ago.
“ Everyone! Be alert. A-Yuan are you alright?” Wei Wuxian moved towards Sizhui with panicked expression. He was really scared for his son.
Sizhui lost his balance and dropped the sphere to the ground which rolled over towards the arrow and upon their contact suddenly an array appeared on the ground, due to his panic Wei Wuxian stepped into the array carelessly.
The array started glowing blood red and Wei-qianbei just dropped dead on the spot. With horror everyone shouted.
“ A-Die!” “ Da-jiu!” “ Wei-qianbei!”
Sizhui who was nearest on the ground, immediately crawled towards Wei Wuxian, putting his limp head on his lap. “ A-Die….” Jin Ling knelt on another side of Wei Wuxian, taking his wrist.
The rest juniors surrounded them immediately.
Zizhen being the most collected one in such situation said, “Hurry, send the flair! We need help!”
Jingyi nodded immediately sending the flair for help that he knew will be enough to let Hanguang-jun know that something terrible has happened.
“ I- I can’t feel his pulse…..” Jin Ling mumbled shakily as he held Wei Wuxian’s wrist gently.
Dread filled in everyone’s heart at his words. The red glow of the array was still present but with less intensity.
The silence of the night was broken by many soft sobs coming from the junior disciples who sat there surrounding their senior as they wait for help to arrive.
Those juniors knew very well that they can’t move away from this array if they wanted their Wei-qianbei back alive.
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Wei Wuxian found himself at the top of long stairs of Koi tower. He was very confused, just a few moments ago he was in a forest at nighttime with his ducklings and now he was here.
Now here that too at daytime? Suddenly he remembered about what had happened and his confusion morphed into worry.
He can wonder about this later but right now he has to go back and search his ducklings and make sure that they were safe.
“ Sizhui……..is he ok?” He muttered to himself as he was about turned around to leave. But stopped when caught flutter of white fabric, it was Lan Zhan.
‘Why Lan Zhan is here?’ He wondered as he practically ran towards his beloved throwing himself on him with a loud shout of Lan Zhan!
He wrapped his arms around his neck and kissed his lips; he didn’t feel the kiss being reciprocated so he assumed his husband was just startled and continued kissing. But when he looked at his eyes, he stopped.
To his surprise Lan Zhan didn’t even look at him, not even bated an eye. Was he ignoring him? Did he do something wrong? Was he angry for being careless again?
“ Lan Zhannnn Why are you ignoring me?” He whined loudly pouting at his husband. But he froze as he saw his own arms around Lan Zhan’s neck.
They were translucent with a pale blue glow outlining them. He jerked back startled and looked down at his body to check and found that indeed his body was translucent with pale blue glow.
“ What the fuck?!” He muttered as he started wide eye at his hands. “ Lan Zhan, hey Lan Zhan, what the hell just happened to me?!” He gripped his husband’s robe and started pulling on it but he noticed that he was unable to pull it.
He was horrified, “ Lan Zhan! I’m so scared, look at me please.” He said desperately, cupping his husband’s face but it seems like Lan Zhan wasn’t able to see him.
“ Xiongzhang, I want to bring someone to Gusu and hide him away from the world.” Lan Zhan said, he looked so sad. He noticed Lan Xichen’s presence just now.
He was so focused on Lan Zhan that he didn’t ever notice the bustling crowd of people around him.
This looked familiar, he had seen this before once, but he couldn’t remember when.
“ What…………” He froze as he suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him which he wasn’t supposed to hear ever again, not after the Guanyin temple incidence.
“ Welcome to Koi tower Er-ge, Wangji. It is pleasure to host our esteemed guests from Lan Sect.” Jin Guangyao said.
Now Wei Wuxian was eerily aware of his surrounds and peoples around him. Now he remembered. He had seen this before during the empathy time with Nie Mingjue.
‘This means, somehow I ended up in the past.’ He thought. A sudden grin formed on his face as he threw himself against Lan Zhan’s body again, draping over him.
“ Lan-er-gege, aww you are so cute! You wanted to hide me? Just so only you can look at me all the time and no one else right? I know I was really handsome, but you didn’t have to go to that extend to have me, I’m always yours willingly. You’re a possessive lover, Lan Zhan!” He said carding his fingers through Lan Zhan ink black locks.
He was so busy admiring his husband that he didn’t notice the two Jiang Sect members approaching them.
He was pampering kisses to this young Hanguang-jun’s face that a loud “ Who the fuck are you?!” startled him out of his hypnosis called Lan Zhan.
As instinct he tightened his arm around Lan Zhan and turned around angrily only to taken aback by his own old face gawking at him.
“ You- You! Imposter! How are you? Why do you look like me? And why, why the hell are you clinging on Lan Zhan like a fucking leech and kis- Get away from him!” His younger counterpart shouted.
Everyone was startled, looking alarmed at the Yunmeng Jiang disciple who was pointing at Lan Wangji. Everyone looked confused as they couldn’t understand what he was saying or why he was angry at the Second Jade of Gusu Lan without any provocation.
“ You can see me?” Wei Wuxian pointed at himself looking owlishly at the short-tempered version of himself.
“ Yes I can see you! You, diabolic spirit! Get away from Lan Zhan!” At that Zewu-jun looked worried towards his brother immediately taking out his Liebing to play.
Lan Zhan’s wide eyes displayed shock. “ No Lan Zhan, it’s me. Don’t panic.” He didn’t give a fuck about the chaos going around him. He gently stroked his future husband’s cheek with tender motion.
Even though Lan Zhan couldn’t see him, it looks like he could feel his soothing presence as he immediately calmed down.
“ You fucker get your hands away from him.” The pest shouted again. Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao were panicking and looked back and forth between the pest and his Lan Zhan.
“ What the hell are you spouting Wei Wuxian! Have you finally lost your mind?” Jiang Cheng pulled him back with the lapel of his dark robes.
The pest broke away from Jiang Cheng’s grasp, lifting Chenqing to his lips.
Jin Guangyao looked on the verge of qi deviation. “ We- Wei-gongzi, lets solve this matter with traditional way…” He tried to control the situation, but his efforts were in vain as the pest started playing. He dared to control him by using his own method on him.
It was really annoying; he turned away to look at his beautiful Lan Zhan. Lan Zhan’s lips were parted in awe as he looked at that pest with admiration.
Something twisted in Wei Wuxian’s stomach, he wanted his Lan Zhan to look at him like that.
“ Stop this fucking non-sense, Wei Wuxian!” Jiang Cheng yelled.
Wei Wuxian had enough of it, he smirked and decided to torment this bastard with an image that he won’t ever forget in both of his lifetimes.
He cupped Lan Zhan’s face and smacked their lips together, taking the opportunity of the parted lips, his greedy tongue entered inside, colliding with his beloved’s tongue.
At that movement Lan Zhan jerked in his hold, he tried to move away but he held on tightly deepening their kiss.
This time he could see Lan Zhan’s eyes widening as he looked down at him, making eye contact this time.
‘ Lan Zhan! You can see me!’ he internally cried with joy.
Faintly he heard the sound of Chenqing dropping on the floor, he glanced back just to catch his younger counterpart looking so pale, his jaw hanging open enough for a fly to enter inside his stupid arrogant mouth.
Everyone became silent around them. They gawked at him and Lan Zhan as if they had seen their father being murdered infront of their eyes.
He noticed that he had started to dissipate. His time here was up; his husband came to save him.
“ Lan Zhan, Lan Zhan. I love you so much! I will always love you, only you.” He said with a final peck as the world around him became dark.
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When he opened his eyes again, he was in his husband’s arms in their home.
“ Lan Zhan, did you take care of the man who tried to hurt our radish?” He already knew the answer.
“ Mn.”
“ Lan Zhan, do you remember me kissing you at Koi tower wearing this mourning Lan robes?” He asked with a small smile.
“Mn.” Lan Zhan’s ears were bright red.
“ It’s good to know, cause even I remember being so much jealous for the first time in my fucking life when I saw an imposter kissing you that wore my face.” He said, snuggling closer to his husband.
“ After that Wei Ying spent hours hunting for himself.” Lan Zhan said with a small smile.
“ I became a mad dog that time and was determined to erase that spirit from the existence.” He laughed.
“ Wei Ying is not a mad dog.”
“ Yes, Wei Ying is madly in love with his husband.”
They spent rest of their evening in Jingshi.