Who You Are

Chapter 67 - Fighting Alone

Wei Ying was as pale as a ghost, fighting against the entire cultivation world.. completely alone. Feeling so much anger... so much pain. Every single person on the ground beneath him, fighting against the demons he's kept locked inside, had all wronged him tremendously.

Jiang Cheng, while Wei Ying didn't want to admit it nor did he even believe it, had wronged him.

Nie Mingjue, someone who had always claimed to be a righteous cultivator, who had said he would always uphold justice and never slaughter innocents, had allowed just that to happen.

Lan Xichen had wronged him. Like Nie Mingue, Lan Xichen was all about righteousness, his whole clan was built on it to the point it went to the utmost extremes... but he was also all about peace..

Wei Ying could tell from the look on the Lan's face he disagreed with what was happening, but because he neglected to at the very least say something..... Wei Ying's family, innocents, had been brutally slaughtered. His adopted siblings' cremains had been spread and denied rest. Because of him, and those like him who were too fearful to stand up for what is right, Wei Ying lost everything.

One man had stood alone, facing the entire world fearlessly because it was the right thing to do, and these clan leaders, couldn't even do it.

Wei Ying wasn't anyone special.

He was the son of a servant.

He was a servant in the Jiang sect- though, treated better than the majority of other servants... by most people. And yet, he had stood against the entire world all by himself with nothing but a broken body and a flute.

NONE of Wei Ying's demons were attacking Xichen. Wei Ying wasn't attacking him, even after everything he'd done- or hadn't done. In response, by cowards, and evils, he had been painted as a demon.

Magic and cultivation do not define someone, nor does it write their intentions, but for his demonic cultivation and that alone, they had berated him.

For saving innocents, they had hated him.

For opposing them.... for having power...they destroyed him.

Power was all he had in the end.

And Wei Wuxian was possibly the only man in the world who didn't want power.

Men like Jin Guangshan... like Wen Ruohan, they thirst for power, it's their oxygen.. and those who thirst for power should never be able to breathe it.

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Knowing this, knowing never wanting power, it was clear. Wei Ying did not want to be some overly powerful being. He just wanted to protect his family and the people he loved. He was betrayed by everyone in the end. Looking at him now, they saw a broken man, fighting his battle alone

Lan Xichen watched as Wei Ying never once, thought of attacking him. The resentment of his, never touched him. For the sake of his love towards his little brother, he was left alone. His cowardice was what betrayed Wei Ying most. He knew he was innocent. Witnessing his little brother be in constant pain and turmoil over Wei Wuxian was evident in itself. He also had two little nephews now to think of...

All because Wei Wuxian entrusted Lan Wangji to have the twins...he, at the time, did not know they were biologically related to his brother and Wei Wuxian. He did not know at the time that the twins were conceived and carried by Wei Wuxian, and given to his brother to watch over because he didn't want the twins to suffer in the burial mounds.

Lan Xichen felt his heart ache for all the pain that was given to Wei Wuxian. He was angry at himself for not standing up for him, not for standing up for the innocent people who were in the mounds with him. He was a coward and he told himself that it was going to change. Change for the better. He won't ever let his brother, brother-in-laws and his nephews suffer ever again.