Rewind

Chapter 4

Lan Zhan and Wei Ying played healing music every day for Wen Qing as her family prayed in their ancestral hall for the gods to heal her mentally. As the days passed by, the two men and Wen Ning worked together to bring some peace to their sister, and slowly, Wen Qing's nightmares lessened, and the shaking of her hands started to disappear slowly. The more the two men played, the more her mind and body started to heal. It is still a long process, but it is a start.

A-Yuan was never far from his father's every time when Lan Zhan sat crossed legs with his qin on the low table he would sit on his a-die's lap and it would bring a smile to the two men faces. They still kept her unconscious most days only to keep her from tearing at her robes and scratching her skin raw. The pain they feel when they would witness such episodes would bring tears to their eyes and their family.

But they never lose hope because as long as their is hope they believe wholeheartedly, that one day she would heal. Most days, they would have their meals in silence, only taking when someone asked a question. They slowly started to build a home with their little one and their family. Love and care were in abundance all around them, and their hearts and minds felt light from worry.

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Huaisang never left his brother's side since he came back, and as much as Mingjue loved his brother and felt guilty for not heeding his warnings about their way of cultivating. He could not stand it anymore and had to remove his little brother forcefully from his office only when he did that could he breathe freely again.

As much as he wanted to kill Jin Guangyoa, he found that he had no desire to do so. His little brother comes first now. He shudder to think how hard it must have been for his brother after his death. The role he had to fill as sect leader and not even truly had the time to mourn his his death. He will forever have to live with the guilt that he left his brother alone to fend for himself.

Huaisang finally, after his brother had removed him physically from his sight, took a long bath content that his big brother is safe and here in the Unclean Realm with him. After his bath, he lay on his bed and closed his eyes. As soon as he did, everything that had happened came rushing back to him, and he opened his eyes and lay there staring at the ceiling, and he can't help but to wonder what had happened to Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji.

He sat up slowly. Maybe this is not the time to sleep. He refuses to believe that the two men did not come back. They must have. He swings his legs of the bed and sits like that deep in thought for a long time until a thought occurred to him. Unlikely, but where else could they be. They were not found in the burial mounds where it thought they would be, so only one logical place is left.

He can not be sure ,but the more he thought about it, the more it made sense to him that the two would go to the one place and see to it that they are safe. A small smile grazes his face because he is sure that he is right. Maybe he will go there tomorrow and pray that they don't kill him on site and that they would forgive him for his oversight and everything he did to bring justice for his brothers murder. With his mind made up, he once again lay back on the bed with a satisfied but worried look on his face because he really does not want to die.

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Jin Zixuan and Yanli, after they found out through the whispers in the halls of Koi Tower, what really happened and who were responsible for Jin Zixuan's death and who really placed the one hundred hole curse on Jin Zixun and what happened after she had took a sword for her brother. They could not help but feel anger within them.

Yanli could not help but feel that her sacrifice was spit on and stepped on by not only the sects but also her own blood brother. She cried when she heard that Wei Ying died and she cried even harder when she heard how he had died. Anger simmered inside her when she heard that her own blood brother had led the siege and that he blamed Wuxian even after he was brought back still for their parents death ,her own death and that of her husband.