THE UNTAMED HEART

Chapter 53: Cold Cave

It had been nine years since Wei Wuxian and Lan Rin died.

Gusu

Lan Wangji woke up as the sun was rising, it was the spring, the trees were blossoming, the bunnies were thriving, yet he felt incomplete. He sat on a rock near the Cold Spring, took out Wangji and started playing the Inquiry, asking the same questions he was asking everyday:

"Wei Ying, where are you? Are you hurt?"

No soul answered his Inquiry, he took a deep breath and put Wangji away. He stood up and walked to where the bunny colony was. He sat among the bunnies, they shortly came to him, some were sleeping by his legs, some were already sitting on his lap and some were snuggling his neck. Lan Sizhui arrived in the bunny colony too, he was carrying a basket of radishes and carrots, he spoke:

"Hanguang-Jun."

Lan Wangji looked at Lan Sizhui and said:

"Your turn to feed them?"

Lan Sizhui nodded and took out the food that was for the bunnies, he also sat, Lan Wangji said:

"Do you remember?"

Lan Sizhui smiled:

"You mean the time you put me among them? I do. I don't remember how old I was, but I remember something."

Lan Wangji:

"What is it?"

A bunny climbed on Lan Sizhui and hugged his neck. Lan Sizhui gently held the bunny and said:

"You put me among the colony and said that I was a bunny too, that I have to eat like them, and I am very fond of carrots."

Lan Wangji slightly smiled, Lan Sizhui picked up a carrot and ate it a bit, Lan Wangji looked at the boy, the boy he was raising, the only thing that Wei Ying left behind, the only treasure that is left from his Wei Ying...

Lan Sizhui was five years old when Lan Wangji put him among the bunnies, it was so cute how the bunnies rushed to the kid and already accepted him as their master too. Lan Sizhui realized the tears on Lan Wangji's face and asked him:

"Hanguang-Jun, Wei... Wei Ying?"

Lan Wangji looked at him:

"Sizhui."

Lan Sizhui didn't talk further, he didn't know why Lan Wangji was inquiring Wei Wuxian, many had been searching for him through the years... Many had also been searching for Lan Rin but neither were found.

Yunmeng

Yunmeng was looking so colourful, especially with the trees that blossomed. Jin Ling was running around, Jiang Yanli gently talked:

"A-Rulan, don't run."

Jin Ling:

"Mom!"

Jin Ling rushed to Jiang Yanli, hugged her and talked:

"Mom, you are the only person who can call me A-Rulan."

Only Jiang Yanli was calling Jin Ling with his courtesy name, she warmly looked at him and teasingly touched his nose:

"A-Rulan, how old are you and you act like this?"

Jin Ling unsheathed his sword and said:

"I am ten years old, and I will fight them all, I will fight all those evil spirits, all those ghosts, all those monsters that killed my senior uncle!"