The awakening of bestotted love

A-yuan

The next morning after Wei Ying woke up, they were ready to set out to the nearest village. The necessities they brought in yiling had almost been used up and they had decided to restock after reaching the village. The villages near the enchanted waterfall had everything considering a lot of tourists came to visit the waterfall.

The village they decided to go was the closest one to the waterfall. It was surrounded by mist most of the days and so people started to call it the "mist village". The people there were friendly and welcoming as they had been accustomed to new people coming to their village. They were not hostile and wary towards the new visitors. Plus how could one even have the heart to be violent towards two cute kids. Some aunts and sisters from the village even gave Wei Ying and Lan Zhan fruits to eat.

The place they chose to stay was a nicely secured homestay owned by a relative of the village chief. It was recommended by a sweet lady after she had inquired if they would stay at the village or not. The place was nice and the price was affordable. The owner was a good person too, his name was XingMing and he lived with his only son Xing Yuan. His wife had passed away after their child's birth and since then he had looked after his child by himself. He had deep feelings for his dead wife and therefore never remarried even after many villagers had told him to find a new wife.

Wei Ying couldn't help but empathize with the young owner and his child. He remembers struggling to become a better parent for his own A-yuan too. Remembering those day he was overwhelmed with grief  and his eyes began to fill with tears. Lan Zhan noticed it and held his hand. Wei Ying noticed the question that Lan Zhan conveyed through his eyes but he just smiled and shook his head. Lan Zhan saw that wei Ying did not want to talk about it so he gave up but he did not let go of his lover's hand. After they had paid Xing Ming, thay decided to go out to look for some essentials. Lan Zhan stocked up some medicines and condiments for cooking and Xiao Lei bought some gear that could be used while hunting. Wei Ying didn't have anything that he wanted to buy so he kept Lan Zhan company.

While buying things Lan Zhan noticed that wei Ying's had a distant look, he wanted to ask but stopped as he knew that Weiying would just pretend to be fine again. He held wei Ying's hand more tightly and continued to buy more things. By the time he and Xiao Lei had finished their shopping, the sky had started to turn dark. They returned back to the homestay and Lan Zhan started to cook dinner along with Xiao Lei. Lan Zhan could have left the cooking chore to Xiao Lei but he always did it himself. He wanted to make wei Ying full and happy with his food so he always made them himself.

Wei Ying on the other hand had gone to the room that he and Lan Zhan shared. After sitting in the bed his thoughts wandered to those memories that he had hidden and concealed in his heart. He was filled with guilt and sadness. Even though him and Lan Zhan had already talked about A-yuan he couldn't help but reminiscence about his child. It just felt like yesterday when he had held a-yuan's hand and carried him around. He still remembers his child's bright eyes when Wei Ying came to visit him during the war. Those memories were both a cure and blessing to him. By the time Lan Zhan entered he was still in his own world.

Lan Zhan called Wei Ying a couple of time but the latter did not respond to him. Standing beside Wei Ying, language Zhan and called him again and finally Wei Ying responded him with a hmm. "What are you thinking about Wei Ying " Lan Zhan asked after seeing his lover lost in his thoughts.

Wei Ying looked at Lan Zhan and said after a pause with a sad smile. "I was just wondering how nice would it be if a-yuan was here with us too. We could together travel around the world. How fun must that have been. " by the end his voice had become smaller and smaller. It had been a few weeks since they had a talk about Lan yuan. That night still remains vivid in Lan Zhan's mind. Wei Ying had woken up from a nightmare that night and was frantically searching for a-yuan. When he could not find a-yuan, he had started to hyperventilate. If Lan Zhan had not been present then Wei Ying would have fainted. After calming Wei Ying, Lan Zhan had told him all about how their child was alive and happy in their old world. Wei Ying was both shocked and elated at that news. He was happy that his child could find a safe space for himself.

To take off his mind from depressing thoughts Wei Ying started to think about funny things. He did not want Lan Zhan to get worried about him. As he tried to think about something him he remembered Lan Zhan's words about the past. Lan Zhan had been made to do a paternity test as Lan yuan had grown up to be a duplicate of his father. When the test results had been out the whole cultivation world was stunned. No one had imagined the pristine Lan Wangji to sire a child before marriage.

Wei Ying imagined Lan Qiren's and other Lan's shocked and disbelieving face and suddenly laughed. He is pretty sure that  Lan Qiren went to seclusion after the revelation. And the only reason Lan Qiren did not qi deviate was because of the fact that he had not been informed of a-yuan's mother. Maybe Lan Zhan and Lan Xicheng had pitied their uncle's loss of blood since their uncle had met Wei Ying.

Lan Zhan who was thinking of ways to levitate his lover's mood was a bit confused with his sudden outburst of laughter but he did not care as the other was no longer sad. He thought of his child that he was yet to hold again and made a promise that this time his child would not have to hide who he was and that he could have a happy life with all of his family members.