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Chapter 6 (new ver.)

Wangji hitched his breathing when he felt a hand feeling him up but when he felt the arm he was holding go weak, he realized the boy passed out.

"Wei ying!"

Taking wei wuxians pulse, wangji sighed in relief once he knew that wei wuxian wasn't in any danger. Seeing wei wuxian not waking up, he summoned a disciple to inform the jiang heirs and huaisang that their town trip needed to be postponed for the next day.

When wei wuxian woke up, he found himself lying on the bed next to wangji, who was attentively whipping his body down with a damp towel.

Propping himself up, wei wuxian felt a faint spell coming over him so he leaned onto wangji.

Did I faint?

Letting wei wuxian rest in a more comfortable position, wangji pulled him to sit between his legs as wei wuxian leaned onto him.

Brushing the stray hair strands off wei wuxian's face, wangji comforted him.

Mn, you did. But I caught you so you didn't fall.

Feeling the heat on his back seeping through his clothes, he felt safe and warm. He wanted to get up and move as he felt it was inappropriate to bother wangji like this, but he felt so safe and warm with him so he stayed there while speaking.

"Lan zhan, what about my siblings? Did we stand them up?"

No, I told them we needed to postpone it till tomorrow.

Looking upwards, wei wuxian gave wangji a warm smile "Thank you."

The next day, after the group finished their lessons for the day they all began to head towards the town.

As they were getting ready to head down, huaisang and wei wuxian began to talk about a variety of topics and were forming a sort of friendship.

"Wei y-"

Huaisang could feel a piercing gaze coming from behind wei wuxian, belonging to a certain lan wangji.

"Wei wuxian, do you want to get some emperor's smile while we're in caiyi? I heard their alcohol tastes amazing!"

Hearing alcohol in the sentence, wei wuxian immediately agreed as he flung arm around huaisangs shoulder, accidentally letting go of wangji's hand.

Taking his arm back, he secretly grabbed wangji's hand again.

Wanyin came out of the disciples quarters with yanli, "Okay we are ready now, let's go before zhong wu passes."

Yanli climbed onto wanyin's sword because she doesn't have one, while huaisang climbed onto his.

Wei wuxian saw wangji climbing onto bichen, looking down he decided to pull a prank as he hid suiban.

"Lan zhan, can I ride with you? I forgot suiban...." glancing at the bush he hid suiban.

*Suiban in the bush silently shedding tears*

Wangji followed wei wuxians line of sight, already guessing what wei wuxian did.

"Mn."

Happily jumping onto bichen, wei wuxian stood in front of wangji then group began to head for caiyi town.

As they began to fly, wei wuxian fake stumbled, making wangji hold on to his waist to steady him.

"Lan zhan, can you hold onto me? I might fall."

Mn.

Wangji pulled him into his arms, steadying the both of them as wei wuxian leaned happily into his arms. As they rode, wei wuxian would occasionally look up and gently trace the wangji's jawline giddily.

The rest of the way while wei wuxian and wangji were in their own world, yanli saw them and couldn't help but smile.

Half-way through the trip, an owl covered in a black mist hit bichen sending the sword flying and knocking the two off. The group turned around and saw the two of them falling, yanli and wanyin saw their brother falling fast towards the ground.

"Wei wuxian!"

"A'xian!"

Wangji's grip on wei wuxian waist loosened and the separated, summoning bichen wangji flew towards wei wuxian as he reached out to grab his hand.

The owl doubled back, using its claws it dragged wei wuxian several feet away from wangji's reach.

"Wei ying!"

He was falling too fast, he needed to fly up as soon as possible. Reaching for suiban, he realized that it wasn't on him.

Seeing the ground coming closer, he frantically looked for wangji. He could see a figure diving down, reaching out to him. Wei wuxian thrusted his arm out "Lan zhan!"

Pulling him close, wangji pulled out bichen and quickly hopped on while holding on tightly to wei wuxian.

The group flew towards the two, seeing the frightened wei wuxian they decided to turn back.

When they got back to cloud recesses, the group sat down in the empty practice field.
Wei wuxian sat next to wangji, leaning against him. Wanyin and huaisang paid their closeness no mind, they wrote it off as near death comforting --except yanli who knew the truth.
Wanyin and the others agreed to postpone their trip once more, leaving their exploration for the weekend.

Wangji and wei wuxian went back to the jingshi, as soon as they entered wei wuxian pounced onto wangji burying his head into wangji's chest.

"You weren't supposed to let go."

I know

"But you let me go."

I'm sorry

Wangji wrapped his arms around wei wuxian, surrounding his body in warmth.

Feeling wangji's arms wrap around him tightly, the warmth helped calm his nerves. However, the scent of sandalwood gave him the greatest comfort.

It felt as if all the pain and the terror he felt were erased from his memory, he tightened his hold. That night, wei wuxian fell asleep in his arms feeling safe and comforted.

Wangji recalled the owl covered in black mist, it was faintly similar to the mist that came out of the body he brought back when he first met Wei wuxian. Meaning the person responsible is too close to cloud recesses.