MDZS Characters Watching the Future

26. Cold Spring

The boys were filled with the thrill of the story, and Wei WuXian was enraptured as he spoke. He forgot the fact that he was still on Jiang Cheng’s back, and gave Jiang Cheng’s shoulder a hard smack, “I said, ‘Fine!’. Then, I stopped dodging, threw myself over, clung to him, and plummeted outside the wall of the Cloud Recesses!”

“…”

Wei WuXian, “And so, the two of us fell outside the area of the Cloud Recesses together! It was such a bad fall that I saw stars before my eyes.”

"You really have guts to do that huh. And not to mention it was Lan-er-gongzi." said Jin Zixuan.

"It was Wei Wuxian after all. Of course he will do something like that." said Jiang Cheng.

Nie HuaiSang was dumbstruck, “… He didn’t break free?”

Wei WuXian replied, “Oh, he did try. But with me locking him in my arms and legs, he couldn’t break free even though he wanted to, unable to even get up from my body. He was as hard as a board. I said, ‘How about this, Lan Zhan? Now, you’re also outside the Cloud Recesses. We both broke the curfew, and you can’t be harsh toward others and loose toward yourself. If you punish me, you’d have to punish yourself as well. Equal treatment. How does that sound?’”

"So that's the reason why he himself also got punishment." said Lam Xichen.

"Such a clever idea to escape punishment." said Zizhen.

"But as you can see it didn't worked." said Wei Wuxian.

Wei WuXian, “After he got up, he looked like he really wasn’t in a good mood. I sat on the side and told him not to worry, that I won’t tell anyone else, and that the only ones who knew about this was the sky, the Earth, and us two. And then, he walked off without saying anything. Who knew that he’d do something like this in the morning… Jiang Cheng, walk slower. You’re almost shaking me off.”

"For a man who always follows the rule, of course he won't accept the he broke them without punishment." said MianMian.

"Lan Zhan!" called Wei Wuxian.

"Mn. Will never do that again." said Lan Wangji as if reading the man's mind.

Jiang Cheng wanted to not only shake him off, but, even more so, to make a few man-shaped dents on the ground by slamming his head down, “Is simply carrying you not up to your standards?!”

Wei WuXian, “I never asked you to carry me, in the beginning.”

Jiang Cheng was enraged, “If I don’t carry you, you’d probably stay in their ancestral hall and roll on the ground all day long. I don’t have that thick of a face to lose! Lan WangJi even had fifty more strikes than you, and he even walked by himself. Yet, you have the nerve to pretend that you’re crippled. I don’t want to carry you any more. Get off, now!”

"This is the proof that my brother really loves me." said Wei Wuxian, grinning at his brother.

"Jingyi and Jin Ling is also like that." said Zizhen.

"But they always argue all the time unlike a-niang and Jiang-jiujiu that supports one another even when causing mischief." said Sizhui.

"Jin Ling is ChengCheng while Jingyi is me. I wonder why he didn't become my son but he is really like me." said Wei Wuxian.

"Maybe a-cheng is always thinking of you during his pregnancy." laughed Jiang Yanli.

"Oh my brother love me so much." said Wei Wuxian dramatically.

Jiang Cheng just scoffed at him.

Wei WuXian, “No, I’m wounded.”

The group joked around on the narrow path made of white stones. They walked right into a person in white robes, holding a book as he passed by. Lan XiChen stopped with wonder and smiled, “What is going on, here?”