One Shots (Wangxian)

One Shot: Wen Qing Speaks

"Kill me if you want, but I have one more thing I'd like to say!" Wen Qing yelled.

She was tied at the stake, a pyre was placed under her. She was about to be burned to death but she decided, even if they don't believe her, the world would know the truth.

"Hanguang Jun, I trust you will believe what I have to say!" Wen Qing said.

Lan disciples were holding him back from wanting to help Wen Qing. He knows she is innocent but the world doesn't seem to agree.

"XiongZhang, use your truth spell, that way you will know!" Wangji demanded, "please, let her say her last words at least!"

"I will do the spell," Lan Qiren said and placed it on her, "now tell us what you want. If it's a lie, you will suffer from it."

"I know how it works," Wen Qing said, "you want to know, Sect Leader Jiang, Wei Wuxian lied to you about Baoshan Sanren giving you that golden core!"

"What do you mean?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"You were dying and A'Ying couldn't take it. He found a scroll of a theory of mine I made long ago. It was on the transfer of the golden core. What its success rate could be and if it could work. He made up a story to get you blindfolded and walk you to that mountain. He never knew where Baoshan lived! It was just a random mountain in Yiling!

Once you were knocked out, I was the one who cut him open and removed his golden core. I was the one who transferred it to you. As you can see it is a success. A'Ying laid awake for two days and a night while I took out his core. He couldn't use anesthetics as it could effect the core...and the success rate was only fifty percent...

All you greedy motherfuckers! Why do you think A'Ying never used his sword again? Why do you think he switched to the unorthodox path? He was beaten up by Wen Chao several days after the surgery and thrown into the burial mounds. He lives there for three months, being tortured by the damned and the cold! If he destroys that amulet, he will die. It is the only thing keeping his body from falling apart as it is beyond broken. Not single bone in his body is left untouched. Some of them were even ground to dust!

Can you imagine? The amount of pain he would be in every single day? Can you imagine? A man who loved intimacy and hugging and laughing, hurt to be touched. Using resentment is also extremely painful. His dantian never recovered properly so it's like there thousands of needles piercing his insides. It hurts for him to even breathe!

I witnessed this all myself as I lived in the mounds with him for a few years now. He never once caused any trouble since being there and all of a sudden two Jin sect heirs are dead! He was invited and then ambushed and because he defended himself, he is being called a murderer! He is not even one to put a curse on anyone. Those people he save were my family! All elders and farmers! Even a child lives in the mounds. Can you believe it, Zewu Jun, a child!"

Lan Xichen was stunned. Through a majority of Wen Qing's outburst, he kept glancing at his brother. He had never seen such a broken man before. And Lan Xichen was involved in all of this. He knew something was wrong and he was manipulated into believing the opposite. Lan Xichen walked up to Wen Qing, and unsheathed Shuoyue. Everyone thought Zewu Jun was going to kill her, but what he did was not that. He cut her free.

"Because you are under the influence of a truth spell...I believe you," Xichen said, "where is Wei Wuxian now?"

"Probably trying to break out of the needles I paralyzed him with. I turned myself in so he could live!" Wen Qing replied, "he's a good man, Zewu Jun. He just wants to protect his family. Do you know that your brother confessed to him? He presented A'Ying with a comb, and he accepted it. Now your brother is at risk of losing his soulmate. As an older sibling, I wouldn't want my brother to suffer like that if he loved someone and they were sentenced to death. Think of him. Have you ever considered hearing him out?"