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[weiward]

lan zhan, how are you getting so good at talk like that? much more and i'll forget my promise entirely and hurry home after you.

he deserves to know the truth about what happened to him. i'm grateful that he believed me. i didn't really expect it.

[taciturnly]

Observation. Inspiration. Twenty years to study an art you have mastered much sooner, and now, a bond. I am learning still.

How much does he know?

[weiward]

i hope you're not literally 'studying'.

[though it wouldn't surprise him.]

i softened the edges of it. told him of the others who'd died around jin guangyao during his rise to power. i thought it might be better to let him reach the logical conclusion on his own. no one really wants to hear that their brother is a murderer, especially when it comes to their own family dying.

you fought with your brother again.

[taciturnly]

For your sake, or my own? My efforts seem to please.

My brother speaks a language I no longer understand. Perhaps it is just as unfamiliar to himself. Jin Zixuan will listen. Zewu-jun might not.

[weiward]

oh your efforts are very pleasing. but lan zhan you never need to try too hard to please me. you do it just by existing.

as long as jin zixuan gets his answers, and hopefully from the horse's mouth. if not, i ill tell him.

he believed me on the roof that day. jin zixuan. the peacock.

[taciturnly]

Uncalculated. You exist, too, and therefore you inspire.

Jin Guangyao still has my brother's protection. He won't linger long.

The roof? Jin Zixuan is not entirely unreasonable, and you have no reason to lie. Come what may, I stand by you and our family.

[weiward]

ah, lan zhan. if only i wasn't surrounded by people, i would send you something that would truly 'inspire'.

i wonder what it is that your brother protects him from? jin zixuan doesn't have his sword at his heart, he only asks for the truth of jin guangyao's misdeeds. if anything this is a chance to shed some more of his old life if he's truly so set on starting a new one. i thought snakes liked shedding.

the roof. the morning of our wedding is when i told him.

[taciturnly]

The thought alone has already, truly inspired.

My brother clings to a hope that should have vanished the moment Jin Guangyao's true nature was revealed. The man he cares for is a man fabricated, and disillusion conceals a truth he is not yet willing to accept.

Jin Guangyao will not change. He has proven as much many times.

[weiward]

i know.

lan zhan, do you think you could've given up on me? if the things everyone said about me, if it was all true. would you have accepted it?

[taciturnly]

No.

Had they been true, you would not be Wei Ying. And I could not have loved you.

But you are Wei Ying. I believed in you then, and I believe in you now. Time proved us right, but worked against Jin Guangyao.

[weiward]

and to think i once questioned you about how anyone else could know my mind and temperament. you know me better than i know myself.

lan zhan

lan wangji

lan er-gege

ji-xiong

a-ji

oh i like that one.

[taciturnly]

You have always known yourself, but you have rarely known your worth.

A-ji? Bèndàn.

[weiward]

your silly husband will be home soon. give the bunnies hugs for me, and be sure to eat some cookies with your tea.

[taciturnly]

All of them, in our bed now.

My appetite for food has not grown. Should I assume that it went well?

[weiward]

[and soon after that, just because.]

lan zhan, i just realized something.

that day in the cave, you were upset with my flirting because you liked me, not mianmian!

[taciturnly]

Only just? An astute observation.

[weiward]

they still argue. i had time enough for my mind to wander, so i started thinking back to all the times i wish i'd kissed you.

and lan zhan! don't let the bunnies cover up your scent!

[taciturnly]

I almost did, once. But you were much braver than I, and I did not expect my affections to be returned.

Should I not have removed my robes, then?

[weiward]

now who doesn't know his worth? lan zhan, i remember that you were all the disciples of yunmeng could talk about for weeks after we returned. there were wen soldiers who feared you more than me. i was a fool, but i'd like to think that i wasn't that much of one.

the bunnies aren't lying on your robes are they

[taciturnly]

A man's heart is indiscernible behind his chest, or in the reflection of his blade. You were no fool. I was. Perhaps I still am.

They were neatly folded away. You may wear my undershirt to sleep, if you wish.

[weiward]

not a fool, not you. now or ever. say what you want about me, but i won't stand for talk against my hanguang-jun...even from hanguang-jun.

lan zhan, it's hard for me to sleep while wearing clothes, even if they are yours.

[taciturnly]

Then perhaps we could agree that I am a fool for you.

You seemed particularly inclined to keep my scent intact. Should I refrain from bathing then, until you return?

[weiward]

the sweetest fool who could do better. i'll agree to meet you halfway on that.

yes you should. i'll take matters into my own hands once i'm there.

[taciturnly]

Tell me, then. What is better, if you are everything?

Duly, and impatiently noted.

[weiward]

you're feeding a dangerous ego. i did think i was quite special in my youth.