Wei Wuxian was training his sword skills in the middle of the forest when he heard some rustling from behind the tree's.

"Who's there? Come out!" He called out to whoever was there and soon enough two people had shown themselves.

"We apologize, Xingchen here can be clumsy." the taller man said as he pointed his head towards the Xingchen guy who was removing leaves from his hair.

"Oh, that's fine." Wei Wuxian said as he sheathed his sword.

"What are your names? And What brings you here?" He asked after.

"I am Xiao Xingchen and this is my partner Song Lan, currently rogue cultivators, we heard that my martial nephew might be somewhere around this area." Xiao Xingchen explained.

"Oh? What's his name? Maybe I can help." Wei Wuxian offered.

"Wei Wuxian was his name, I heard a lot of things that happened to him, if Master heard about it no doubt she would storm off the mountain and deal with the Jiangs herself." Xiao Xingchen explained.

Wei Wuxian was standing still in shock.

"Do you perhaps know Wei Wuxian?" Song Lan asked.

"Ah." Wei Wuxian coughed "You are currently speaking to the 'Wei Wuxian' you both are looking for."

Hearing that Xiao Xingchen immediately started asking questions and ramblings "How is your back? I'm sorry I didn't come to find you sooner! Are you alright? Both physically and mentally? You went rogue are you getting enough money to feed yourself?! You look well enough to be eating right so that eases my worries a bit! Do you-"

"Xingchen let the boy breathe."

Xiao Xingchen must have came back to his senses when he heard that he coughed slightly "I apologize if you were uncomfortable."

"No no no! I was just surprised that's all." he said trying to assure his martial Uncle.

"So...should I show you towards the village? You can settle down and we could get to know each other a bit?" Wei Wuxian asked and the two nodded and followed Wei Wuxian.

"Is it fine if I call you Wuxian?" Xiao Xingchen asked "Sure, or You can call me A-Xian or Xianxian or whatever you feel like." Wei Wuxian basically said.

"Well A-Xian, if you don't mind me asking, how is your...back?"

Wei Wuxian smiled softly "It is fine, my friend or basically my Older Sister is a doctor, she's great and found a way to remove the scars, took a year but right now my back is fully clean, no scars found." he happily said.

"A great doctor, What's her name?" Song Lan asked.

"Wen Qing, she...she was there when my mother gave birth to me, we didn't found out about it until a few months ago, so basically I'm also part of Dafan." he explained.

"Would you like to hear some stuff about your mother from the mountain?" Xiao Xingchen asked.

"You knew my mother? We look almost the same in age!?"

Xiao Xingchen huffed "You'd be surprised, I was around 5 when you mother left the mountain...she was around 16 at the time I got to know her over a year before she left."

Wei Wuxian looked at Song Lan before going back to Xiao Xingchen "If it's no bother."

"None at all, Your mother loved to make pranks around the mountain and grandmaster would indulge her with it, basically we had full chaos on the mountain." Xiao Xingchen chuckled.

"When I first arrived there, Cangse shijie saw me and well, her first impression to me was kind of...surprising to say the least."

This made Wei Wuxian curious "What did she do?"

"Ah...shijie, she didn't greet me at first, she wasn't anywhere near me so I didn't know her during the welcoming, then at night as I was sleeping I felt something on my bed I got up and saw a badly done make up on her face as she said 'Hi wanna go sneak out and pour water on everyone's face with me?' " Xiao Xingchen huffed.

"I was a kid and what kid would not find that scary!? And who pours water on people sfaces at the middle of the night!?" Xiao Xingchen complained.

Wei Wuxian laughed "I should try doing that when I meet Nie-Xiong again."

"Are you close with the Nie heir?" Song Lan asked.

"Yeah, He is my best friend."

A female was then in their vision as they approached the village.

"Wei Wuxian who have you brought in now!?"

"Qing Jie! Meet my Uncle! Xiao Xingchen!"

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Keeping Meng Yao away from the dungeons is hard work!

That tiny man would find ways to bend metal to find excuses to get down there!

Then he saw Meng Yao go towards the dungeons and told the guards that his brother had told him to check on Xue Yang but Nie Zonghui didn't believe him, before Zonghui would say anything rude to Meng Yao Nie Huaisang showed himself.

"Yao ge! W-what are you doing here!? I was looking for you! I wanted to hang s-some paintings around some of the h-hall around the place I need some help to carry them." Nie Huaisang squeaked out.

Meng Yao looked shock "Nie gongzi, what are you doing down here? Come I'll help you with your paintings."

Oh God that smiley guy should not meet Xue Yang no matter what cost, some of his spies would do the work for him if he's not around to not cause suspicion, besides, Meng Yao is usually busy, this wouldn't be so unusual anyway.

Da-ge better be happy that I am making sure he last longer!

2 weeks had gone by and he heard from his spy that a week from now both Wen Chao and Wen Xu are leading their men.

Wen Chao will be heading here while Wen Xu will be attacking Cloud Recesses.

They'll be attacked at the same time, he better warn Lan Wangji and warn da-ge with his always believable lie.

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Lan Wangji had gotten the letter and rushed to find his brother "Xiongzhang, read."

Lan Xichen took the letter from his brother's hand and read it.

After reading the contents he placed it down but Lan Wangji took it and burned the paper to remove any evidence.

"What do we do?" Lan Xichen asked his brother, his brother had went throught this once, basically he has to trust him-No-he trusts his brother's decision.

"Forget about hiding in the cold pond cave, Take some food with you that is enough for like 2 months, say you're going on a night hunt the day after tomorrow and head off to Yiling."

"Yiling?" Lan Xichen questioned.

"Currently there is no supervisory office there, go to Yiling, disguise yourself as if you're one of them but hide in the burial mounds." Lan Wangji explained.

"Burial mounds? Why there?!"

"Remember the vision I showed you? Yeah, hide there in that cave, that would be the last place they will look for you, that part of the Burial mounds has the weakest resentful energy coming from it, you'll be able to survive there, just take a walk outside every once in a while."

Lan Xichen nodded, his brother right now acts too matured for his liking.

"A month after this attack They'll be asking for the heirs where I will be going, we will need cloud Recesses in one piece, no doubt Wei Ying will be here and will be too stubborn to leave if we are going to be attacked so Cloud Recesses' state would or might be a bit better."

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Two days later Lan Xichen told them that he'll be heading off to nighthunt and he got his permission.

Lan Xichen gave one look to his brother, his eyes saying 'Stay safe.'

Lan Wangji nodded.

And so without looking back he made his way towards Yiling discreetly.

Lan Wangji sighed Tommorow Wei Wuxian would be arriving and two days after the Wens would be arriving.

He'll have to warn Wei Ying about the attack.

Wei Wuxian has the choice to join him or leave, Lan wang would prefer him to leave and stay safe but knowing Wei Wuxian's hero complex, that would be the last thing that would happen.

He decided to visit the bunnies for a while to relieve some stress as his beloved isn't here yet.

And as a respectful man he will not kiss his beloved without his permission.

...

Actually he should really ask permission this time round.

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"Lan Zhan I'm back!" Wei Wuxian called out as he slammed to the Jinshi.

"You came earlier than expected." Lan Wangji commented as he glanced over to Wei Wuxian before he continued to clean his bookshelf.

"I can be early when I want to!" Wei Wuxian huffed.

"Anyways! I came here to tell you two things!"

Wei Wuxian said smiling "One is that I met my martial Uncle!" Wei Wuxian said excitedly before Lan Wangji caught a small bandage on Wei Wuxian's head when he fully faced him.

Lan Wangji panicked before heading towards him.

"WHAT happened!? Why is your head injur-sorry! Is your arm hurt too!? Who did this!?" Lan wangji demanded.

Wei Wuxian rubbed his hand over his arm before looking back at Lan Wangii "You hurt me! But anyway this was the second thing I was going to tell you, the Wens are approaching, I don't know when but whether you like it or not I'll fight beside you, I already informed your father and Uncle, They sent a message to your brother so that he will go to hiding at the moment."

Wei Wuxian said seriously and he nodded "But how did you get..."

Wei Wuxian looked away shameful "I ran into Wen Xu, he grabbed me and hit my head onto the tree..." he paused to breathe "at the time I had already separated with my uncle and his partner." he then said.

"Then what happened?" Lan Wangi pushed "H-he tried to take off my clothes-"

"THAT IDIOT DID WHAT!?"

Wei Wuxian went to calm Lan Wangji down so that the older wouldn't make careless decisions.

"Lan Zhan! Calm yourself! I wasn't touched! I said that he TRIED! I was able to escape before he would burn me alive naked or whatever he wants to torture me with."

'He doesn't want to torture you he wanted to you!' Lan Wangji wanted to yell out but for now he can't, it might traumatize his beloved.

Instead, he hugged him close.

'I guess our first shared kiss can wait until this is all over.' he thought to himself.

"There there. Lan Zhan. I'm still alive, there's no need to worry, I promise, we'll be together until the end! Means neither of us should die!" Wei Wuxian said.

"That's a promise." Lan Wangji replied.

Two days later Wen Xu arrived with his men.

Wei Wuxian had some talismans around the place to provide more support.

Disabled, children, and elderly were already evacuated by some of the senior disciples.

Just in time before the Barrier had been broken down.

"I didn't know Cloud Recesses would be a pain in the ass to enter." Wen Xu commented before his eyes went towards Wei Wuxian.

"Ah...so here you are? I was wondering how you were able to get away from my sight."

Lan Wangji protectively went in front of Wei Wuxian with a growl coming out of his throat.

"This is boring, ATTACK!"

And so the two parties started fighting.

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wang were fighting side by side.

Wei Wuxian saw one Wen about to start a fire and took out his water talisman and threw it towards the said Wen before dodging another attack from the Wen beside him.

"SET THEM OPEN! Lan Wangji yelled at the nearby disciple.

The said disciple nodded before going on to activate the said traps around with a few other Lans who heard the call.

Qingheng-jun was fighting alongside his brother before one Wen had fought with him that made his separate with his said brother.

Wen Xu was fighting with Qingheng-jun while smiling sadistically.

"When this place goes down, or either way in a month's time you will send your heirs towards Qishan for their Indoctrination." he said as their swords were tied.

"Indoctrination? Could you have said that invite without making the two parties go to war!?" Qingheng-jun took his sword back before stabbing Wen Xu in his stomach,

"GONGZI!" Another Wen disciple went towards Wen Xu to support him.

Wen Xu was grabbing his stomach to slow down the bleeding "Qingheng-jun you started war."

"Who was it that attacked first? See yourself out before I chop your head off."

Wen Xu sneered as he was walking away while being supported by the disciple.

"BURN THE PLACE DOWN AND RETREAT!"

But as he said that suddenly explosions were around the place and talismans were flying, aiming towards every Wen Disciple in sight, either injuring them or killing them on sight.

"FORGET IT! RETREAT!" Wen Xu said and started going as fast as his body can go while the Wen disciples nearby covered for him.

Once they were out of the place the remaining Wens that were still within Cloud Recesses were slaughtered or kicked out forcefully.

"These are a lot of bodies to clean up." Wei Wuxian commented "And Blood too." Wangji continued.

"We should play rest for their souls and give them a proper burial." Qingheng-jun said and instructed the disciples on what to do before they can take a rest.