Setting Things Right

Jingyi. Why?

(a/n: So, many people tried to imitate wwx, right? I'm going to take that to mean not everyone hates him. Also, some people knew him when he was a kid, yeah? So a few of them should be a little bit sympathetic.)

[Overly loud noise is not permitted.]

Unfortunately, no one listened to the System as they stared at the screen in horror. Wei Wuxian. The Yiling Patriarch. That... monster is going to return?

Sect leader Yang shrieked, "This is outrageous! How dare that boy try to perform such a ritual! Sect leaders, I propose we find that boy this instant and end him before he dooms us all to misery!"

He had hoped to be met with approval. Unfortunately, the Headshaker had other plans.

"Please- Please calm down, sect leader! Surely we mustn't take such drastic measures!"

"Why not, Sect leader Nie? If we end him now, our peace will not be disturbed. Unless you think differently?"

Nie Huaisang hid behind his brother, slipping into his role perfectly. "No, That's not-! I don't know! I really don't know!"

Lan Qiren sighed. They'd only been here an hour, and this was already the worst day of his life. "While I appreciate your sentiments, Sect leader," he said as all eyes settled on him, "we do not even know who this boy is, let alone if his array works."

"I do!" a voice yelled. Jin Ling flushed under the weight of the stares. "I know who that is!"

"Who is it, then? Come on, A-Ling, spit it out!"

"It's that cut-sleeve bastard, Mo Xuanyu!"

"A-Ling! Who taught you to speak like that?!" Jiang Yanli frowned. Her son had most definitely not received that attitude from her! She threw an accusatory glance at her brother.

Whispers flew through the crowd at his revelation. "Mo Xuanyu? Do you mean the one who harassed...?"

"Of course it's him! How fitting for one fool to bring back another!"

"Let's go get him!"

The cultivators were all throwing fits, demanding that Mo Xuanyu be killed or imprisoned before he could commit such atrocious acts.

An amused voice unexpectedly floated about the room. "This is probably the right time to remind you that we're all stuck here right now. There will be no 'getting' anyone." Somehow, everyone had forgotten that Wen Ruohan was sitting among them. He looked around the room, wondering what the commotion was all about. If he were alive, he would be ecstatic at the news of Wei Wuxian's resurrection! If the man had been on his side, that is.

"You-!" The moving pictures reappeared before the Nie disciple could finish speaking.

The scene began with 'Mo Xuanyu' opening his eyes in the morning. Two children were watching him but ran away as some older boys arrived and kicked the barely conscious man. "Don't you play dead with me! You're living on my property, eating the rice of my family, so what if I take a few of your magic tools? How dare you tell on me?" A fat man yelled.

"Yeah, How dare you tell on the young master? You've got some nerve!"

Many were appalled at the treatment Mo Xuanyu was receiving. Even if he was a lunatic, no one deserved to be treated that way!

"Don't get cocky just because your father is the head of some cultivation clan. You're just his bastard child."

Damn, so he's another one of my siblings, then? Jin Zixuan frowned.