A Way to Heal

Part 30

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Without giving Wei WuXian a chance to reply, he turned to another compartment of the Jingshi, leaving Wei WuXian alone, sprawled on the bed alone and feeling confused.

He did doubt that Lan WangJi might have guessed who he was. However, the doubt was lacking in both sense and reason. As sacrificing one's body was a prohibited practice, there were probably not a lot of people who knew about it. The scrolls passed down the generations were most likely partial pieces of the entire work, unable to reach their full potential. Things continued like this, and so there were less and less people who believed in it. Mo XuanYu only summoned Wei WuXian by looking at a secret scroll, wherever he found it in the first place. Anyhow, Lan WangJi couldn't have recognized him just from the awful flute melodies that he played.

"awful flute melody !!!!!! ", Lan Wangji whispered in a not so happy tone. "WangXian is awful?"

"WangXian is not awful Lan Zhan, but the way I played it was", Wuxian said, trying to cajole him.

"so you are finally admitting you played it ghastly?", Jiang Cheng sneered

"yes... Not about the other melodies. But that one melody. The original is deserves to be played in heaven"

"How ironic it is. He actually identified you with that particular music even though you played totally horrible", Xichen exclaimed.

"Okay, can you all please enlighten me? What is so special about that song?", Lan Jingyi asked curiously. He understood it's something special but couldn't point it out. Nobody was telling either.

"I don't know. It's the first time I'm listening to it", Jiang WanYin said. "even in the past, I don't think he used this melody to control the corpse"

"You didn't hear me playing it because that was not it made for, Just wait, I hope you will know what is so special about it soon" Wei Wuxian chirped.

"mmm not made for the dead, but for the one who can control the dead ", Lan Wangji cooed.They turned their eyes to the screen. On screen Wei WuXian aka Mo XuanYu was still brainstorming on the same matter.

He asked himself whether or not he had a heartfelt relationship with Lan WangJi in his past life. Although they had studied with each other, went on adventures, and fought together, all of these experiences were like falling petals and flowing water—coming and going. Lan WangJi was a disciple of the Gusu Lan Sect, which meant that he had to be "righteous," quite incompatible with Wei WuXian's personality. Wei WuXian thought that their relationship wasn't exactly bad, but it wasn't that good either. The chances were that Lan WangJi's opinion of him was the same as everyone else's—being overly wanton and not virtuous enough, it would have been only a matter of time before he caused a disaster.

After Wei WuXian betrayed the Yunmeng Jiang Sect and became the YiLing Patriarch, he had a few significant disputes with the Lan Sect, especially during the few months before his death. If Lan WangJi was sure that he was Wei WuXian, they should have already been engaged in a large-scale fight.

"You never betrayed our sect", Jiang Cheng said, taking their attention. "You, Wei WuXian, never betrayed the Yunmeng Jiang sect". He repeated. "I know it's too late to correct it and I was foolish enough to give that impression but that was not true. You always showcased our Sect's motto 'know it to be impossible but do it anyway'. As the heir of the sect I should have been the one following it but I didn't dare. So from now on take that thought out of your head. You went out because I let you go. Not because you wanted to betray us"

Wei Wuxian was thanking the stars or whoever locked them up in this cave. He didn't expect to hear this from his Shidi. Neither in his past life nor in this lifetime.