Wei Wuxian 's PoV

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"When I arrived to warn him of the arrival of the cultivators. I found them both lying on the ground. Wei Wuxian's hand was on Lan Wangji's cheek. Lan Wangji was holding Siubian.

It only took me a moment to understand! The unmade bed, the smile on my friend's lips, the tears in Lan Wangji's eyes, their faces so close... I couldn't let the cultivators discover them like that! So I pulled them apart. I placed Siubian in his owner's hand. I took the sheets off the bed and folded the blanket back.

At that moment, I realized that Ni Bi had followed me. She was kneeling next to her father's body and shaking him to wake him up. I told her that he would not wake up and that an evil man had put him to sleep forever. Wen Qing glared at my soul mate.

"I then had the idea to collect his spiritual essence so that maybe one day, he could become his guardian spirit.

I knew that Wei Wuxian kept a spirit receptacle in one of the pieces of furniture in his room. I used it, but I didn't foresee what happened!

"What do you mean?" asked Xichen.

Wen Qing turned to him. It looked like she was searching for the words to use.

"Well, when I collected Wei Wuxian's spiritual essence, I could see that she wasn't alone..."

"What do you mean, not alone?" I asked.

"Lan Wangji's essence had merged with hers.

Lan Zhan looked at me and said, "Soul mates, like us."

Little Ni Bi's tears had dried up and she had fallen asleep in my arms. I rocked her gently.

I wondered about this child. She had my eyes. She was my daughter, the daughter of my other self. She also had a, I don't know what, Shijié...

"Wen Qing, Ni Bi, her mother..."

"Her mother was Jiang Yanli, the milk sister of Wei Wuxian."

"Wen Qing, I have trouble with this how did this happen? Did he..."

"Forced... no! Of course not!"

Wen Qing looked at me. She looked embarrassed. It was true that I was asking her some rather embarrassing private questions. But I had to know!

"At that time, I had just lost my brother and my whole family. We were a distant branch of the Wen Clan. To Wen Ruohan, we were expendable... I was on a mission when the massacre took place, and he had sent me away, knowing that they would all die. I could hardly get over it. Jiang Yanli and I met shortly after she escaped from Wen Chao's clutches. Knowing my friend's brotherly feelings, I decided to help her.

I guided her here and we waited for Wei Wuxian. In this place, the talismans and the celestial heart of the mountain allowed him to escape Wen Ruohan's control and be himself.

They shared their sorrow, their pain and one thing led to another .... Their despair made them forget for a moment the filial bond they considered to unite them. This happened only once! Some time later, Yanli discovered that she was pregnant. But the child could be either Wen Chao's or Wei Wuxian's. At first, she asked me to "pass it on". Wuxian managed to convince her to keep it, after all there was a very small chance that it was his!

Unfortunately, there was a problem during the delivery. She hemorrhaged and I couldn't stop it. She died in childbirth, but she had time to see that her daughter's eyes were Wuxian's eyes. She died smiling.

I felt responsible and so did Wei Wuxian. He felt guilty for having convinced Yanli to keep the child. So I decided to disappear and help him raise the little Ni Bi.

But some rumors had leaked out and Wen Chao got wind of Jiang Yanli's death in childbirth. Wuxian told him that he had indeed found her, that she was about to give birth and that both mother and child had died during the birth. Wen Chao did not ask any further questions. Even if the rumors of Wuxian's paternity were true, they were just "rumors"! Wei Wuxian had no reason to lie to him, since his conditioning forbade him! What Wen Chao did not know was that here his control had no effect. That's why Wei Wuxian had arranged for the conversation to take place in Yiling! We then hid the existence of the girl.

There was silence in the cave.

"Wen Qing, where are the spiritual essences of Wei Wuxian and my brother?" asked Xichen.

Wen Qing turned around and took a lotus-shaped urn from a chest. When she came back to us, she opened it. We could then see a kind of two-tone blue and red mist swirling madly at the bottom of its receptacle.

Footsteps were heard in the stone corridor. Several people were approaching. Jiang Cheng and Jin Ling entered first, followed by Wen Ning. SiZhui was the last to enter the cave. He always uses his Qin in front of him. He had to use the murderous rope to protect the fierce corpses .

"Father, is everything okay?"

Wen Qing did not take his eyes off Wen Ning. Tears began to flow down his cheeks. When you knew the fusional relationship that brother and sister had had in our world, I could imagine what she must have known to see him and him again!!! I had already experienced this when Wen Ning had been killed and I had turned him into a ferocious corpse!

She always uses the urn in her hands. This one began to wobble dangerously and finally avoided her. When it broke on the ground, the scroll escaped and went straight to SiZhui, ... or more exactly to the instrument that he delivers in his arms. This one began to sparkle then became normal again.

"What just happened?" I asked aloud in spite of myself.

SiZhui was still frozen with amazement. Everything had happened so fast that no one had had time to react!

"Father, what was that?"

"A dual spirit essence! And it looks like it's reversed your Qin, Young Master Lan" Meng Yao replied.

"A dual spiritual essence? From whom? And why in my Qin?" I try to explain to him;

"SiZhui, these are the spiritual essences of the Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian of this world and as to why they chose to settle in your Qin, I have no idea!!! But from now on, this musical instrument is a spiritual object, you will have to take even more care of it than usual."

I didn't know exactly what the but of our doppelgangers' souls was, but I hoped they wouldn't cause us any problems, especially SiZhui. He used his Qin very often to control the spirits... anyway there was not much we could do at the moment. If we tried to dislodge them, we might damage the very special spiritual essence of his two merged souls. I would need that, but not right away!!! We had to return to Jinlintai.

"Uncle Wei, who is that child in your arms?" asked Jin Ling .

"The daughter of Wei Wuxian and... Shijie! In other words in a way, she is your little sister!"

Jiang Cheng, who had not taken his eyes off Wen Qing since he arrived, suddenly turned to me. From the look on his face, I thought he was going to jump on me!

"Hey Hey Hey, not me... the other one!!! Lan Zhan help me!"

"No, you're doing just fine on your own!"

Why wouldn't he help me? Is he... jealous? Of whom? Of Shijie or of the little one I was holding in my arms?

"What are you going to do with her?" my brother asked, looking furious.

"Jiang Cheng is a child, not a piece of bread!

"That's why I'm asking, I know you and I can see from the way you're acting that you're planning to keep her with you!"

"Not possible... for the time being," said Lan Zhan. I turned to him with a questioning look.

"We have a fight ahead of us. Taking her with us right now would be too dangerous!"

"Lan Zhan is right," I turned to Wen Qing.

The doctor was smilingly chatting with his "brother". Apart from the fact that Wen Ning was a fierce corpse, they had a lot in common, including the fact that they were both doctors!

I noticed that Jiang Cheng was also looking at her. I knew that when we were younger, he had had tender feelings for the beautiful doctor. Unfortunately, he had put his duty before his heart. I knew from talking with him one night that he had regrets. I nudged him and whispered in his ear.

"This time don't make the same mistake, you have a second chance" He replied in the same tone.

"We are not from the same world!"

"So what? She has no one left here and what do you think her life will be if we win the battle? She will probably be persecuted for her name, just like in our world! And the little one? The fact that she is the daughter of my double puts her very existence in danger! Neither of them will be safe. Why not try to convince her to come home with us when this is all over?"

"You seem to be sure of our victory!"

"Of course I am, with Lan Zhan, Wen Ning and I, who could stand up to us?"

Lan Zhan had not lost a word of the conversation I had had with Jiang Cheng. He must have understood that I was going to take the girl with us. We had talked about having another child and raising it together. He told me that he would agree if fate allowed it.

And fate had put Ni Bi in our path. She needed me, she needed us. My soul mate smiled at me. He knew the weakness of my heart in front of a suffering child.

Jiang Cheng went to join Wen Ning and his "sister".

"Wei Ying, they can't stay here!" Lan Zhan said to me.

"And we can't take them to Jinlintai with us!" I replied.

"I think they should wait for us in YunShen Buzhi. No one would go looking for them there. You saw that the HanShi is still intact.

"You are right, they will be safe there" I looked at my brother. He took my advice and tried to get to know the handsome doctor of the Wen clan again.

"Jiang Cheng and Wen Ning could go with them, set them up and then join us.

"Wei Ying... how long will it take you to make the amulet?

"If no one bothers me... 3 days, 4 at most!

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