Our future

Together again

(LQR left after the introduction since he had a class to teach)

"So you're our kids from the future and you were teleported to the past by a talisman created by the lunatic next to me is that right?" deadpanned Jiang Cheng. "Hey, it wasn't me! It was future me!" argued Wei Wuxian. The rest of the room stared at him in silence. "Wei Wuxian you-" Jin Zixuan began but then gave up halfway through, while wondering about Wei Wuxian's incomprehensible thought processing he(JZX) noticed something from the corner of his eye.

"Is that Suihua you're carrying, why are you carrying my sword?" questioned Jin Zixuan. Sizhui glanced at Jin Ling who froze at the question. What was he to say, Suihua was indeed his father's before it was his. Jin Ling stood silently thinking how he should answer, but all that came back to him were painful thoughts.

Jin Zixuan had many questions about the Suihua and why JL had it, but before they could be answered. Small sobs filled the room. Tears slowly overflowed and streamed down Jin Ling's eyes. His hand covered his quivering mouth in a meaningless attempt to hide his sobs. "T-that's b-because...you le-left me ...*sniff*... s-so I-i ke-kept S-suihua inst..ead" answered/sobbed Jin Ling. "What!" both Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan said before running up to and hugging Jin Ling.

Jin Zixuan held Jin Ling tight in his arms while soothingly rubbing his back, while Jiang Yanli had one hand on his shoulder while the other was stroking his hair. "Sorry Jin Ling, I don't know what happened but I'm sorry," Zixuan kept repeating until JL had clamed down. Yanli was very worried, she knew that even though Jin Zixuan didn't like her, he would not be so irresponsible as to leave her and their child. She knew that no matter what happened back then they could be together again now. Jin Zixuan an Jiang Yanli kept hugging and patting Jin Jing waiting nervously for him to calm down and explain the situation.

It had been a few minutes and Jin Ling had calmed down. "Um.... I'm sorry for crying. I am very happy and glad that I can meet both of you, since you both passed away before I was even 2 months old," Jin Ling sadly replied.

Once again as if time itself had frozen the room turned silent and almost insensate, everyone trying to comprehend the dreadful words that had just come out of the child's mouth. Yanli and Zixuan were still holding Jin Ling in their arms, comforting him. "What?... What are you saying?... A-Jie DIED?!?!" Jiang Cheng hollered in disbelief. "Young master Jiang please calm down! "Lan Xichen pleaded. Ignoring him, Jiang Cheng kept on frantically asking questions. Jin Ling had taken a few steps back in alarm.

"Young master Jiang please calm down and let him explain," LXC tried again. "........Jiang Cheng..........," He tried. "Wanyin!" LXC called loudly to everyone's shock. Jiang Cheng also paused and looked back with slightly pink cheeks, wide-eyes and a shocked expression. He wasn't used to people calling him by his courtesy name and the way Lan Xichen called him made him feel somewhat shy. "Wanyin please calm down and let them explain what happened," LXC said.

"T-that's right, Jiang Cheng let them tell us how it happened," Wei Wuxian said still completely stunned. Thoughts were racing through his head, many of which being, I couldn't protect Shijie, I couldn't save Shijie, why wasn't I there for her? "Wei Ying" Lan Zhan paused waiting for Wei Ying to look up at him, "Everyone will be fine," this was the only thing he said before taking WY's hand in his and gesturing everyone to sit down so the children could start telling them what happened. Yanli giggled and said "second Young master Lan is correct, we'll be fine." Wei Ying felt some of the earlier tension being relived in their words. He felt more reassured now. He squeezed Lan Zhan's hand and slightly leaned on him(LWJ). The small smile plastered across Lan Zhan's face largened as he heard Wei Ying mutter a small thank you. Lan Zhan gave a soft 'Mn' before withdrawing his rare smile.

Everyone sat in a circle. (This is the order - Wei Ying with Lan Zhan on his left and Sizhui on his right, Sizhui sat on the left of Jin Ling. Yanli, Zixuan and Jiang Cheng were next to him in order, Jingyi sat in between Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen, on the right of LXC was Huaisang and Zizhen sat on HS's right).

"Then we'll explain some of the major events that will happen. So, you told us that A-Niang was kicked out of class by grand-uncle for talking about using resentment energy, then the next main event should be capturing the water born abyss that was flooded in by the Wen clan, after that they both get punished for drinking alcohol so they go to the cold springs to heal and that's where they find the cold spring cave and A-Niang and A-die get married there. They meet Lan Yi and find out about the yin iron and-" "hold up! did you say that I'm going to marry Lan Zhan in a few days?!" screamed Wei Wuxian.

Zizhen was just snickering and getting comfortable, since he knew that all the drama was going to start now and he didn't want to miss even a second of it. "That's right wei Wuxian you and Hanguang-jun are getting married in a few days everything you heard was correct now be quiet and listen," said Jin Ling knowing this would get now where if WWX started asking questions. "Who is Hanguang-jun? I thought I was marrying Lan Zhan? Also why are you calling me by my name and not ShuShu?" Wei Wuxian unleashed a flurry of questions that only irritated Jin Ling more. "Fine I'll call you Wei ShuShu then," asked Jin Ling annoyed. Wei Wuxian silenced himself seeing the glare on his nephew's face, it was a replica of Jiang Cheng's furious face, but he was actually very happy being called 'ShuShu'.

"After that incident a lot of trouble was made, I think around that time A-Niang and A-Die had their engagement annulled, following that the disciples from the main clans were chosen for an indoctrination at the wen clan. It was ordered by those stupid dog that at least one heir of the clan was to attend and um- well..... right before the indoctrination the Wen clan bunt down cloud recesses in search of a piece of the Yin Iron," Jin ling had mumbled nervously. "What! What was the damage, was everyone safe?" Lan Xichen asked in disbelief and worry. "A-die, that..... grandpa.... He-... passed away, they broke Hanguang-jun's leg when he refused to burn down the residence, grand uncle was injured but he ordered you to take all the ancient scroll and books from the library pavilion and flee," stuttered Jingyi. Anyone could see the anguish in the twin Jades eyes right now.

Lan Xichen kept thinking why he left all by himself when his brother and uncle were injured and his father had just passed away. He blamed himself for leaving and not being able to protect his home. Lan Zhan also began tormenting himself on not being strong enough to protect Cloud Recesses. As the two Jades hung their heads low and clenched their fists, both Wei Ying and Jiang Cheng felt something bother them inside. They just couldn't seem to understand what that feeling was. Sorrow for a companion? Empathy for their friends? Whatever this feeling was, the only thing they were certain of was that it truly felt like agony.

Zizhen couldn't stand it anymore, although he loved drama, this wasn't the kind of thing that someone would enjoy listening too. The mood just seemed to be screaming sad and depressed. He stood up and gathered everyone's attention from his abrupt movement and said, "Forgive me for interrupting but, although this might sound insensitive, I think for today we should move on from this a bit. We can discuss solutions to these problems and others later, we have time to plan and fix things that were broken in the past we can change our future but nothing will happen if we just worry, mope and blame ourselves. And so! Right now lets liven up the mood a little and share fun experiences we had together, of course I'm not saying to forget about the problem but we should all relax a little no?" he said nervously.

"I think that's a good idea, Oh! That's right not too long ago A-Ning made this talisman that can be used to share any memory that we think of, he said that he wanted to remember all those precious memories he had in his first life as best as he can so he made this in order to never forget," Sizhui said this happily while thinking of his A-Niang.

"Sorry, did you say first life?" Nie Huaisang questioned. "Oh that, yes you'll understand more later," Jingyi said casually while some slightly flinched at his answer.

Trying to relax the mood, Lan Xichen chuckled and said "Ok that's a good idea thank you young master Zizhen and Sizhui."

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Ok I'm sorry, I know this is a bit boring but please bear with me. I will try my best to make it more interesting so don't worry and thank you very much to those who have read.

I don't have a regular update schedule but I'll try do update a bit more often,

look forward to the next chapter!!!

-Next Chapter will have the ships getting closer-