Black Greed

SEVENTEEN

Wei MeiLan decided to stay with her elder sister. She decided that it's better to delay her plans in chasing that person and help Jiang YanLin.

But things are going awry as days progresses. Her brother was being ostracized fully with the rumors and she can't do anything to stop it. She wasn't even aware that her brother defected as the right hand man of Jiang WangYin. And it also turned to a showdown until the Jiang siblings decided to visit her brother to ask for a name.

"Jiejie, is there anything that I can be of help?" Wei MeiLan asked Jiang YanLi.

"Hmm," Jiang YanLi pondered before she spoke again. "Help me raise my A'Ling, can you? I know you are busy making your place a beautiful one, but A'Cheng is busy with the Lotus Pier, A'Ying can't go down the mountain. And lastly, can you tell me who is he? He must be a prominent figure in their clan if they can give you that,"

Jiang YanLi has been pestering her as to who is that person everytime Wei MeiLan ask if she needs help. And the latter thinks it's also time to say it. "I promise that I will help you to raise this little creature you made. No matter what important matters I'm doing, just call me and I'll drop everything.

"But as for my soulmate, I guess it's time for me to tell you who he is,"

Wei MeiLan took a deep breath and spoke. "It's Lan Huan."

"Lan Huan?" Jiang YanLi pondered. "Who's that? Is that his name?"

"His toddler name."

"Well, the only person who has that name is—" Jiang YanLi looked at her in surprise. "ZeWu-Jun!

"Who would have thought that it was ZeWu-Jun? Tell me, how did you found out? No wonder he keep tabs on you during Sunshot campaign. So he gave those clothes and Master Lan didn't object?"

"I only regarded it as payment when I taught some sword movement on one of his students," Wei MeiLan dismissed that matter.

"Come on, A'Qing," Jiang YanLi teased. "Just for that? They have their own lessons and to let you teach one? That's kind of suspicious. They want a prim and proper methods of their styles and not to be tainted by others,"

"Perhaps?" Wei MeiLan shrugged. "Elder Lan let me do it, I thought at first he will stop me, but he just let the cultivator to come to me and teach her. Luckily, her foundation is good and chance of it to adopt another form is still possible. She managed to do it within half a month with my guidance,"

"You're a good teacher then, A'Qing. Perhaps can you teach A'Ling when he grows up too?"

"Hn, dunno. We'll see about that," She answered thoughtlessly.

One thing that Wei MeiLan has pride in is the trust of his brothers to one another despite the fact that the Wei siblings went on different ways and her brother denounced his relations to the Jiang clan to keep them safe. But who would've thought that a certain sweet mouth is spreading misleading information to all cultivators except her who decided to take care of her nephew until that chaos in Nightless city.

They want her brother to surrender the Yin Metal to the Jin clan as confiscated item.

"Who is that insane person believes that my brother will harm you first?" She said.

"He's cultivating a dangerous one. If one day he loses his mind, he might slaughter us all!" One of the cultivators exclaimed.

"What if I tell you that if you also lose your mind, you have the possibility of harming others too? And the subject are the ordinary people because you know that you can be countered if it's another cultivation," Wei MeiLan answered back.

"Don't start with your nonsense reasoning and crooked logic. Cultivation is accumulation of energy to use. Even if you cultivated a path that isn't demonic, but if you are rotten than a living corpse, don't start your shits with me because you stink. Anyone can choose what cultivation they want, but your contribution depends on how you do it. If becoming a demonic cultivator can let me save tons of lives, then why not?

"You should use your brain, it seems like your brain is just a mere decoration," She added too.

"Y-you!"

No matter how hard Wei MeiLan tried to defend her twin brother, no one was willing to listen, until battle happened. She defended herself as she went her way to Wei WuXian, but with tons of cultivators coming from nowhere, she's almost tempted to kill everyone. She can only incapacitate them.

But her energy is depleting slowly until a chill on her spine made her look towards her brother that is cradling Jiang YanLi at the ground. She ran her way towards him but she's too late. The resentful energy went out of her brothers body, surrounding everyone.

She only managed to spread her energy to protect the Lan brothers, and Jiang siblings. Her energy is almost drained, when she saw Lan WangJi walking towards her brother to take him away, struggling.

"S-second young—" She tried to speak towards Lan WangJi, but blood is coming out of her mouth. All she can do is send the Lan brothers her remaining energy to give them enough energy to move.

Lan WangJi successfully left with Wei WuXian, but she can barely move until Lan XiChen walked limply towards her as her vision blurs. "Wei Qing!"

"Lan Huan...keep them...safe..."

Lan XiChen cradled her weak body. "Don't sleep, I beg you. I will do your request, don't-just don't sleep,"

"I'm sorry...can't help...enough..."

"You shouldn't have protected us," Lan XiChen already lost his composure, despair is evident in his face. "I'll bring you back to your home, understand? We need to stabilize your remaining energy, just don't sleep!"

Anyone that's awake has seen how the Lan siblings acted in front of the Wei twins that day, and it shocked them.