Who You Are

Chapter 12 - Chains

"Young master Jin has such an attitude," Wei Wuxian heard a man say not far from where he sat.

"Can you blame him?" A female said in response, "his parents died when he was just a month old."

"Poor kid," the man said, "his father was killed by the ghost general. And his mother, to think she was the Yiling Patriarch's Shijie. Just to kill her like that, leaving the kid an orphan. It's no surprise how the boy ended up."

Wei Wuxian looked at his reflection in the water and closed his eyes. He felt so stupid at the moment.

*slap*

He hit himself fairly hard on the face, 'how could you say such a thing? Lacking maternal education? It's my Shijie's son? How did I not notice?'
...

"A'Xian?" Yanli said in shock, "you..."

Wei Wuxian didn't even realize he was digging his finger nails deep into the skin of his leg. He was so lost in thought he didn't know what was happening around him. He soon felt a hand grip his wrist and pull it up off his own leg.

"Wei Ying!" Lan Zhan said upset, "you're scratching! You made yourself bleed!"

"I don't care," he mumbled, "let me bleed."

Lan Zhan sighed pulled Wei Ying's face into his shoulder. Lan Zhan started crying. Wei Ying was torturing himself because of his words. He couldn't do anything or say anything to help calm his husband's mind. So he just sat there holding him tightly and shoved his face into his neck.

"Please don't leave me," he began to plead to Wei Ying, "I can't lose you. Please."

Wei Ying wasn't expecting Lan Zhan to break down like that. Out of everyone he was around, he wishes not to hurt Lan Zhan. Wei Ying is in so much pain, how can he not hurt him. If Wei Ying is suffering, so is Lan Zhan.

"I'm sorry," Wei Ying whispered into Lan Zhan's ear, "even though I'm hurting, you shouldn't have to as well. I'm sorry."

Lan Zhan didn't want to guilt Wei Ying. That was not what he wanted. He wanted Wei Ying to know he is not alone, and the he has him with him at all times.

"You shouldn't have to make yourself suffer, Wei Ying," Lan Zhan told him, "you didn't know. You don't have to hurt yourself because you feel like you deserve the pain for your guilt. You do not deserve that at all. I love you, and you deserve to be pain free and happy."

Baoshan handed Lan Zhan a cloth, medicine, and some bandages to take care of Wei Ying's leg.

"I don't know what to do Lan Zhan. I'm so lost," he told him quietly.

"I will help you find your way," he said in response. Wei Ying nodded and let him treat his leg.

...

Time skips to the Juniors in the temple.

"I wish for the soul-consuming creature in Dafan Mountain to appear in front of me right now. Can the statue do it?" Jin Ling said to the fairy statue. Soon the statue starts to move causing the juniors to panic.

"Run!" Wei Wuxian yelled, "slashing at it will do nothing. Just run!" The disciples leave the temple with Wei Wuxian running after them, "Children !"

"We are not children!" Sizhui scolded.

"Okay, I apologize...Geges, you should send one of those flare to signal that, that Hanguang Jun of yours."

"I seem to be out, you?" Jingyi asked Sizhui. He shook his head.

Wei WuXian was shocked, "You guys didn't restock afterwards?"