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Chapter 5: Preservation

Back in the cave, they set down Wei Ying's body.

Wangji cleaned the blood and wounds, cringing slightly at the smell.

Yingyue fed a sleepy A-Yuan some food which was left for Wangji at the entrance of the cave earlier that morning.

"Pretty jie!!" A-Yuan cried happily pointing at an extremely awkward looking Yingyue.

Wangji just laughed silently at Yingyue's get me out of here look.

"Rich gege!!" A-Yuan turned to Wangji.

"Nah he's your a-niang now!" Yingyue said cheekily.

'That little gremlin,' Wangji thought fondly.

They put A-Yuan back to sleep and sat down.

"We should burn Wei Ying's body" Wangji said reluctantly.

"No we are not going to do that! I have an idea!" Yingyue said indignantly.

She took a deep breath.

"In the future, me and a-die accidentally discovered that this cave has preservational properties!"

"Completely by accident. I had dropped some of the food I had brought in the water. And thinking it would decompose I left it there."

"Then when I went there again on a whim, I saw it was still there completely fresh so I called a-die and we tested it!"

"Sooo..." she grinned like a maniac "it we be a better idea to preserve a-die's body"

"Why would we keep his body Yingyue?" Wangji said trying not to make her sad.

"We can his spirit back to his original body, but to do that we have to find where is spirit is." Yingyue said enthusiastically.

"I'll tell you the plan later for that but first, we must go to Mo Manor." She said seriously.

"To make sure Mo Xuanyu doesn't sacrifice his body in the future? I doubt that will change if we get his spirit back before that" Wangji said furrowing his eyebrows.

"No this is to make sure he doesn't hurt himself, or anyone else. He summoned a-die's spirit desperate for revenge on his abusive family. He could cause something even worse to happen if summoning a-die wasn't an option."

Wangji just nodded in understanding.

"Then we will take him from Mo Manor, away from that family, and I will adopt him," Wangji said firmly, his mind set.

"But to make sure no one sees us, and so the elders don't find out that you're breaking your seclusion, I will go myself to get him." Yingyue said warningly.

Wangji just agreed, if the elders found out he would be punished even more and he wanted to make sure the baby wasn't hurt.

"Be careful then little one, are you going now?" Wangji asked.

"I'm going to put a-die's body in the water first, and then I will leave."

"Here, to see what I'm doing, just look through the little mirror there" she said pointing at the mirror facing the bed.

She gently picked Wei Ying's body and slowly sank down in the water. He watched as she swam slowly towards the bottom.

She gently placed him securely in a little alcove and put a talisman on him to make sure he wouldn't rise to the surface.

She broke to the surface and swam over to Wangji giggling gently.

It warmed Wangji's heart to hear her laughter.

She quickly dried herself with another talisman she had.

"How many talismans do you have?" He asked curiously.

"Too many" she grinned.

She then got her daggers and got ready to go.

"Good luck" Wangji said, as he watched her disappear.

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