Who You Are Book 2

Chapter 1 - Empathy (Part One)

"So this is from my memories? This empathy?" A-Qing, a young girl, between seventeen and nineteen, asked.

"This is going to show what happened to Yi City, You, A-Qing, as well as Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan," Baoshan Sanren explained.

"You know, we actually get to know what exactly happened," Jin Ling said, "Uncle Wei did explain but it's hard to really understand sometimes unless you see it yourself."

"I didn't think we'd actually see what I saw in Empathy, to be honest," Wei Wuxian said.

"Not happy you performed empathy," Lan Wangji said, "but you needed the information."

Wei Wuxian nodded, "I was careful, I promise. You will see, and you will know I kept my promise, I was okay."

Lan Wangji nodded but was still a bit worried for his husband...which was normal for him of course.

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Wei Wuxian, "Jin Ling, did you bring the Jiang Sect's silver bell?"

The silver bell (Clarity Bell) was a signature accessory of the Yunmeng Jiang Sect. When Jin Ling was young, he was brought up by two sects. He lived at the Lanling Jin Sect's Jinlin Tower half the time, and the Yunmeng Jiang Sect's Lotus Pier the other half, so he should be carrying belongings from both sects. As Wei Wuxian had expected, with a complicated expression on his face, he pulled out a small, simplistic bell. The Jiang Sect's clan motif, the nine-petaled lotus, was carved onto the silver body of the bell. Wei Wuxian stared at the bell for a few moments.

Jin Ling asked, "What?"

Wei Wuxian replied, "Nothing." He passed the bell to Lan Sizhui, "The silver bell of the Jiang Sect can steady one's focus and calm one's mind. Use this as the code."

Jin Ling grabbed the bell back, "Actually, I'll do it!"

Lan Jingyi grumbled, "You did not want to do it, and now you do want to do it. With such a hot-and-cold temper, are you a young mistress?"

Wei Wuxian turned to the girl, "Come in."

The girl wiped her eyes and her face, and crashed into his body. Her entire soul was slammed inside. Leaning against the coffin, Wei Wuxian slowly slid to the ground. The boys hurried to drag over a pile of straw for him to sit on. Jin Ling clutched the bell tightly, his thoughts unknown.

When the girl had just slammed into him, Wei Wuxian suddenly thought of a problem, 'The maiden is blind. If I Empathize with her, wouldn't I be blind as well and I won't unable to see a thing? The effects would plummet. Oh well, only the ears should work as well.'

After a few dizzying moments, the soul that had been light felt as though it landed on firm ground. As the girl opened her eyes, Wei Wuxian opened his eyes as well. However, the scene before his eyes wasn't a field of pitch-black, but instead a clear landscape with bright colors.

He could see!

Seemingly, at the time of this piece of memory, she wasn't blind yet.

During Empathy, the scenes shown to Wei Wuxian would be segments of her memory with the strongest emotions and that she most wanted to express to other people. He could simply watch quietly and feel what she felt. At the moment, the two of them shared the same senses. The girl's eyes were his eyes; the girl's mouth was his mouth.

Sitting by a brook, the girl groomed herself in front of the water. Although her clothes were tattered, she still needed the most basic level of cleanliness. Tapping a tempo with the tip of her foot, she hummed as she fixed her hair, as though she wasn't satisfied no matter how she fixed it. Wei Wuxian could feel a thin, wooden hairpin poking around in her hair. Suddenly, she looked down at her reflection in the water. Wei Wuxian's viewpoint lowered as well. A young maiden with an oval face and a sharp chin was mirrored against the water of the brook.