MDZS Short Stories

Incarnations Through Time - WWX [1]

Meeting future selves, four-shot

Wei Ying had fought tooth and nail to live on the streets, still smiling despite it. He keeps smiling despite knowing all the rumors circling about him. He keeps smiling even when Madame Yu would yell and scold him.

Wei Ying keeps smiling, because the older brothers he meets in his dreams told him that it was the best thing to do.

Or in which a young Wei Wuxian meets his future selves in his dreams and has a hope for a bright future. Jiang Cheng knows.

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"Ah Ying!" Wei Ying heard someone greet as soon as he entered his dreamland. "I'm back!" He replied, excitement inevitably seeping in.

He saw the familiar room with a long red thing that they were sure was a seat, the walls were odd colors, white, red, black and blue each.

Wei Wuxian caught the small boy and twirled him around, both a giggling mess just a few seconds later. Yiling smiles at the two while Mo Xuanyu jumped on them, hugging Wei Ying and Wei Wuxian by the necks, making a dog pile.

"So, what happened?" Yiling asks pulling Wei Ying out from the pile easily and sitting the child on his lap. Wei Ying brightened and said, "Jiang Cheng sent away his dogs!"

Mo Xuanyu laughed, "So it's that time for you already?"

Wei Wuxian grinned, "Hey, hey~ guess what I'm up to!"

Yiling rolled his eyes exasperatedly when Wei Ying put on a thinking expression and actually started to seriously ponder that. Mo Xuanyu snickered, knowing full well what Wei Wuxian should be up to. "Is it that time with the...book?"

Wei Wuxian only smiled widely in response. Yiling huffed, poking Wei Ying's forehead to get him to stop thinking about it. "You're too young to get it."

Wei Ying pouted.

Mo Xuanyu pinched Yiling's cheek, "Say, what's got you so down in the dumps?"

"...Jin Zixun." Yiling could barely suppress the emotions from lashing out on everyone there. He was currently the strongest of all of them and it wouldn't take much to hurt any of them. Mo Xuanyu stopped grinning at that, a sad smile creeping on his face as he remembered that time. Wei Wuxian noted down the name while Wei Ying was just plain confused.

The previously comfortable atmosphere had quickly vanished and turned tense. Wei Ying couldn't help it and hit Yiling and Mo Xuanyu on the heads. "Stop being so sad!"

Wei Wuxian and Mo Xuanyu laughed out loud, "You're acting like Jiang Cheng!" Yiling chuckled and let down the pouting child, rubbing his head. Wei Ying slowly raises his lips into a smile, giggling.

Wei Wuxian loves staying here to chat with his younger self and two older selves, even if the two were mysterious as hell to him. The dreamland they enter for some reason did not let them think about what will happen in the future, only reminiscing about the past and talking to each other. He really wanted to know what will happen to make him like Yiling then like Mo Xuanyu.

Most of the times, he willed himself to forget it. Somehow, he knew that everything would be alright when he saw Mo Xuanyu.

Yiling knew for a fact that he would die. If not then how could he possibly become Mo Xuanyu? Mo Xuanyu would always tell him to relax and that it was good because when the time comes he becomes Mo Xuanyu, Yiling would apparently find his beloved. He just really didn't understand the man's twinkling eyes whenever he discreetly asks about the cultivation partner he would have in the future, it was as if he was telling him that it was someone he would never expect...who would it be then? Wen Qing? No, she's too much... other than her he can't really think of any girl who would want to get with the Yiling Patriarch.

Mo Xuanyu was happy yet sad when he looked at all the younger versions of him. Ah, they all have to go through so many hardships before they reached his happy end with Lan Zhan. He would help them like he had been helped by the ones before him.

Wei Ying woke up, a delighted smile on his face as he happily thought of how happy his future selves are, despite the tense moment earlier. He looked to see that Jiang Cheng had an odd look on his face as he woke up.

"Hey, Wei Wuxian." He decided to say, "do you have dreams of meeting the future you-s?" Jiang Cheng tilted his head in a childish innocence.

"Yeah! They're really nice!" Wei Ying replied, rather dumbfounded when he say that Jiang Cheng seemed really happy, "You also have those dreams?!"

"Is it...not normal?" Wei Ying had always honestly thought that meeting future selves in your dreams were normal things and that everyone gets that. Jiang Cheng shook his head, eyes still shining bright as he had gotten a friend who could relate to him.

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One fourth of this four shot finished! Next one is Jiang Wanyin's, then Lan Zhan and Wen Yuan.

Including AN: 865 words