15 Remembering The Lost Ones

Lan Wangji

The next day, they catch up with Sizhui and Wen Ning by midday and walked the rest of the way talking about trivial matters and old memories. Wei Ying told him about things that happened in their time at the Burial Mounds and he told the Yiling Patriarch the thing Ah Yuan and he did in the Cloud Recesses. The exchange was a welcoming one, as they begin to feel like a part of each other's lives.

However, as they got close to the Wen's tombs, Lan Wangji notice the change in the mood in all three members of the small family. He knew it was a hard time for all of them, but especially for Wei Ying because it was trying to protect him that they sacrifice their lives to the Jin Clan.

Wen Ning, once again try to apologize to Wei Ying, but he stop him. He said he owed his and Jiang Cheng's life to both Ning and Qing and if there was a need for an apology, he would be the one giving it, as it was for his sake they were killed.

They clean up the tomb of the ancestors of the sibling's family and offered prayers, then they went to the cave that had become the ancestral hall, clean it all too and make wood tablets for all the members of the family that shared their lives in the Burial Mounds.

Wangji had lighted a few incense sticks in a new urn he brought and bowed respectfully along with Wei Ying, Sizhui and Wen Ning, to offer them his respect for taking care of his lover in his worst moment and prayed for their eternal rest in peace. After that, Sizhui and Wen Ning told them they were going to go back to the Cloud Recesses and after warm hugs and wishing them a safe journey, there were once again on their own.

"Wei Ying..." Wangji said to his lover who was still kneel and with his eyes closed.

"Losing my people was... not only heartbreaking, it was frustrating. I still remember Wen Qing using a needle on me to paralyze me. Then she told me what she was planning to do along with her brother and yet I couldn't move a finger to try to stop them. All my pleas were for nothing, at the end, she said thank you... but it was me who should had thanked her... She loved Wen Ning more than anything else in the world and went to a lot of hardships to keep him safe, but at the end, she give up on her life as well as his..."

"I'm sure he decided it for himself... as guilty as he felt, I can understand his desire to end it." An image came to his mind, back in the time they were younger.

"He always had a deep respect for you and Wen Qing also thought quite highly of you... enough to help you transfer your core to Jiang Cheng." He softly added.

"She was against it for a while, try to convince me to do otherwise many times." Wei faintly smiled, remember such times.

"But just like her, you loved your brother as much as she loved Wen Ning." Wangji said, looking at Wei bow one more time.

"Which is why she finally accepted to do the transfer. It was a very exhausting process for her as much as it was for me." Wei said as he finally stood.

"But both of you pull it through." Wangji added as he too stood and joined with his lover.

"She was the best healer. No one else could had done it. For that too... I'm quite grateful. I only wished I could had save her, but she put me to sleep for three days... three long days... Ah, Wen Qing... you were really mean back then." Wei said, as he watched her tablet with her name engraved on it.

"But you still have her brother and Ah Yuan..." Wei smiled.

"You raise him well. He had a better life with you that he could have with me at the Burial Mounds." Wei whisper, turning to take his leave.

"When he was a child, he ask me if I could play him a melody with a flute. He said he loved the sound of it. He missed you in his own way." Wangji reply, as they go out.

"Did you? I had never hear you play the flute." Wei Ying said, taking his arm in his.

"I played my zither, then ask brother for a tune or two." Wuxian smiled.

"Ah, you were such a caring father. I hope he didn't give you that much troubles. He certainty give me headaches all the time..." Ying said, remembering some mischievous things from the little energetic brat.

"He adapted well and he was eager to learn." Wangji said simply.

"He had such a strong father, how could he be left behind? Ah, Lan Sizhui, he is so well behaved, I couldn't even recognize him..." Wei laughed. He would have never thought that the calm and collected junior from the Lan Clan was in fact his little brat.

"Lan Zhan... thank you for that..." Wei said as he moved in front of his lover and kissed him, putting both arms around his neck. Their romantic relationship was coming up well, even better than he expected and Lan Zhan was getting addicted to their nightly love sharing.

Wei Ying could be sure they were going to enjoy themselves for a very long time, because more than the intense pleasure they feel as the make love to one another, there was the feeling of belonging, like they were meant to be from the very start but lost their way, then given a second chance to finally reach the intended destination.

As he kissed Lan Zhan, Wei thought that just one lifetime was not really enough to make it up to him, so he was willing to share yet another one in the next. He loved the man strongly enough to wait for him fifty more lives and he knew that Lan Zhan will wait for a hundred more than him.

"Lan Zhan... I love you..." Wei softly said against his lips.

"Too..." Was what Wei Ying could distinguish between heated kisses from Wangji. It was a good thing, no one came to that part of the mountains anymore, after the case of the moving statue, because if a traveler or a local townsman were too went there, they will had seen quite the indecent scene. Holding each other, kissing, caressing and touching up and down, too lost in their own world to even care if someone could seen them.

"Wei Ying... it's almost nightfall..."

"There is an Inn in town..."

"True..."

"Do you want a bed for tonight? Or perhaps you prefer wilderness?" Wei asked, after a long passionate kiss that had him already aroused.

"Both." Wei laughed.

"Alright, alright... my addicted lover, but tonight... we change places... at least once." Wei said, as he took Wangji's hand and start running through the nearby woods, to find the perfect solitary spot the give in to their mutual desires. Soon, his cultivation time will begin, to build up another golden core and the training will exhaust them both to the point of fainting at times, for which he planned a few week to enjoy themselves to the fullest.

After his cultivation period ended, he planned to visit Lotus Pier and had that duel with Jiang Cheng and secretly wed Lan Zhan in their ancestor's hall, so they will be bonded for life and live the way it was meant to be.

AN: Another little chapter, honoring the lost ones and specially Wen Qing. In another chapter they will have more interactions, I'm focusing now in tying up the loose ends before reaching something new. Thanks for reading, hope it's still good, see you next time. For those who are waiting for my Guardian stories, Falling World will be updated soon. 👍😄😉💖💖💖🌷