Dimensions Apart (Wangxian)

Comfort

"I didn't understand Lan Zhan. Which two other lives are living on my life force?" Wei Ying asked, frowning

"Can meet them tomorrow morning," Lan Zhan said as he made his way towards Wangji and started playing Clarity for his Wei Ying. His every action, every movement was so smooth, so perfect that it looked like Lan Zhan had been doing this for years instead of just a month.

Wei Ying finally understood what those vibrations were that he felt every few hours and quickly closed his eyes to let the music work its magic on him. Heal him, calm him and make him feel lighter as it had been doing for the past whole month.

Lan Zhan saw how Wei Ying immediately sat in a meditative position and closed his eyes the moment he started playing Clarity. This whole thing, the normality of their situation, this feeling of domesticity, comfort and warmth with his Wei Ying inside Jingshi, inside Cloud Recesses was what he had always yearned for since the day he first met his Wei Ying. 

But..the more these feelings filled him with happiness, the more his heart feared the unknown. And it didn't really help that while he had attained immortality and can live much longer than an ordinary cultivator, his Wei Ying didn't even have a golden core to help him with cultivation.

Yes, his Wei Ying looked young. As if he hadn't aged even a single day since...but what's the guarantee that it will remain the same in future? And the fact that two other lives are sucking away his Wei Ying's life force...

Lan Zhan wasn't petty, neither was he selfish nor heartless. But he wasn't that big-hearted too. His heart can't really help but think like that after he finally got his Wei Ying back in his life, in his arms. No sane person would want to lose the only one they ever loved, desired and wished to have in their life after spending only a few months or even years being with them. And, for Lan Zhan, he had waited sixteen years or maybe, even more, to be with this person who stole his heart the moment those smiling sparkling silver eyes met his golden ones.

And so, for once, Lan Zhan wouldn't mind being selfish for there's nothing and no one in this world that can take his Wei Ying away from him.

Wei Ying opened his eyes as soon as the music ended and looked at Lan Zhan with heart eyes. This man, this beautiful talented skilled smart sweet man who had confessed his love and proposed to him to be his cultivation partner, this god-like person whom Wei Ying always admired, liked and teased, now belonged to him. It was something that only now Wei Ying was actually beginning to realise and the more he thought about it, the more it filled him with disbelief but he knew, he knew that whatever he was feeling was real. 

More than real.

Wei Ying was so lost in the beauty of his now cultivation partner that he failed to notice the small smirk on Lan Zhan's face and before he could understand what was happening, he was lifted in those strong arms, taken inside the washroom, disrobed completely and placed in the wooden bathtub filled with warm water and rose petals as Lan Zhan started rubbing his back, gently, to clean his Wei Ying as usual before sleeping. 

It was only when Lan Zhan's hand slid dangerously below his abdomen and reached there did Wei Ying finally came back to his senses and jumped away from those naughty hands, his face turning red with embarrassment and he stuttered, "L-La-Lan Zhan! Wh-What a-re you doing?!"

"Bathing Wei Ying," Lan Zhan replied with a straight face, showing Wei Ying his hands covered with soap foam and scrubbing cloth.

"I..I know but..why now? I mean...I can take bath on my own Lan Zhan. Yo-You don't have to do it anymore," Wei Ying said, unable to face Lan Zhan who was staring at his wet naked body, intensely