For almost two hours, Lan Zhan stayed within Wei Ying's memories watching everything from loosing his parents which left him living on the streets, being attacked by dogs. Even with everything that he had heard, seeing it with his own eyes was agonising. He skipped over anything that was personal to him and Wei Ying, and finally removed himself from the empathy before he saw past the temple where everything was settled. Something's were best left for later.

He sat there and wiped tears from his cheeks as he watched the beautiful boy in bed. Slowly he lifted him up and held him tight but not touching any of his wounds.

'Wei Ying. I give you my word, this time, you will not be alone and I will never allow them to cause you such pain and grief again. We will do this together ... we will save them all ... together.' He placed Wei Ying back on the pillow then shakily stood up and turned to his brother and uncle. 'Also, I will not permit that woman to harm him out of revenge ever again.'

'WangJi?'

'What did you see?' Lan QiRen asked in a low voice.

'Everything he said is true plus so much more, even Madame Yu's anger as she used that damned Zidian on him from the first week he arrived at Lotus Pier. Wei Ying lived his whole life ... and after he died of old age, he was given the choice by a god, I did not catch his name, he could either move on to his next life or he could return to a certain day a few years ago to try saving people's lives.' He glanced at Wei Ying in the bed. 'Needless to say he chose to save people.'

'Brother?'

'A war is coming from the Wens but not the little skirmish that we thought it would be, it will be an all out war involving every sect. Wei Ying plans to stop it single-handedly. Risking his life yet again to save ... everyone.'

'Just who is he trying to save.'

'All the small sects will be wiped out, literally. Thousands of people will be murdered and many of them will be used as puppets to kill even more ... he is actually ... that question he asked me that day his punishment in the library started, this is why he asked me that.'

'I think I will preform the empathy also.' Even as Lan QiRen reached out, he found a tight, painfully unyielding hand around his wrist stopping him even touching Wei WuXian.

'No uncle. One person is enough.'

'WangJi ...'

'No, any information needed, I already have.'

'Are you ...'

'Would you really want to invade his private memories ... especially since you really do not like Wei Ying on the grounds of his mother? Or how about the lies told to you by that pair. And he is .... like me ... but from what I saw, it's only because it's me. I don't understand what he meant by that.'

'WangJi, I think I understand what he means.' XiChen gave him a gentle smile. 'It means, he would never allow any other man touch him and he would never love any other man. He loves you for who you are, not first seeing you are male.' He almost grinned when his baby brother placed his fingers over his slight smiling lips and his ears tinted a little.

'From now on, I will be taking care of Wei Ying myself.' He turned his back on his uncle and brother who watched him in shock.

'Are you sure about this brother.'

'Yes. His actions are also for your protection from Jin GuangYao who will gladly see you die if it gets him what he truly wants. Su She will tell the Wens every secret he knows to save his own pathetic life. Wei Ying never believed that mask of Jin GuangYao, it had been perfected over the years since he was a child.'

'And what do you think his plans are.'

Lan Zhan looked over at XiChen. 'Remove all the forbidden song books from the hidden library and place them into the ice cave when neither of those two are around. Only there will they be safe and he will not be able to use one of them as a weapon to kill.'

He found XiChen standing close with his hand held out towards him and knew what he asked for. He let his brother preform Empathy on him and showed him the relevant memories, including Wei Ying's feelings of his lives, and the reason he died the first time, then returned to healing Wei Ying. However he lifted his eyes and looked out the window in time to see the traitor and another walking not far away. If he was not so intent on healing Wei Ying, he would have flown out there and ripped his throat out. He felt a gentle hand on his shoulder.

'WangJi. Leave him to me and uncle. We are not able to punish for things he has not even done yet. And as far as Su She is concerned, he has still not crossed that line, so I have no choice but to keep him in the Cloud Recesses for now.'

'If and when he is thrown out of this sect, spread that he is just a criminal, traitor and very weak in cultivation ... or he may try to start a sect of his own. The Moling Su Sect if you can believe it, musical cultivation, white robes and in this area.'

'I will.'

'Until then, just do what you can to keep him away from Wei Ying.'

'You have my word.' XiChen drew QiRen from the room and over to his private rooms.

'Uncle, I am handing Wei Ying over to WangJi to care for.'

'That kid will destroy WangJi. Destroy all his ...'

'His what uncle? His self imposed isolation he has lived in since mother died ... no, this happened long before then. He was always trying desperately to live up to what you demanded of him even at an age others would ask why. He needs to open up and say more than single words and show his emotions. And that is just what has been happening since he and Wei Ying became friends. He is opening up.'

'He is polluting ....'

'Enough. Wei Ying is not polluting anyone. The look on WangJi's face since Wei Ying arrived is nothing he has ever shown to anyone. I will not allow him to just walk through this life without connecting to anyone.'

'It's the proper way ...'

'No it's not. It is not proper to live separate from the rest of humanity. I understand that you wish him to stay your perfect disciple but no one can stay that closed off without it damaging them emotionally, mentally and physically.'

'Rot, I lived ...'

'No. Uncle, I have seen you smile and laugh. I have seen you have a drink and I have seen you enjoy yourself. I have seen you openly talk to your friends and yet you think it is just fine to turn my brother into some .... Living puppet who will only ever do what you want him to do. To stamp down who he really is, and up until now he has done just that. I want to see him smile; I want to see him laugh with a friend. To see him head off this mountain and into the world with someone by his side other than juniors for training purposes. I want to know he is loved and he loves.'

'Do you want to know the truth?'

'Always.'

'I have no idea how I became so ... twisted around about my feeling to do with Wei WuXian ... I mean ... I really do not think him acceptable for WangJi and not just because he is a male but ... he .... Damn it, now I find out all of this and ... what do I do with all of this?'

'Meditate on it.' He watched his uncle then chuckled when he realised the truth. 'Yes, that is what you would tell WangJi and I when we got emotional.'

'Damn kids learnt too much.'

'Uncle, even though we owe you so much for raising us, I will not allow you to separate them if they decide to stay together ... which I guarantee they will.'

Back in the healers room Wei Ying tossed and turned. 'Lan Zhan .... Where are you?' he spoke in his sleep.

'I am right here Wei Ying.'

'Don't leave me behind ... please.'

'I will stay right here for you.' He stroked his cheek with a smile that almost showed. 'I give you my word, I will always be here.'

'Good. You gave your oath to love me ... but ...'

'I do love you and now I have you for another lifetime ... even if I do not remember the other life we spent together. I think I will really enjoy learning about you and us again.'

'Me too.' He smiled in his sleep then rested.

He watched as Wei Ying finally settled into a calm sleep then produced a butterfly message and sent it off. He hoped the food would be here before Wei Ying woke because he would not let this man out of bed until he ate everything. He sat by the head of the bed and watched Wei Ying as he played their song and placed his healing into every note. Yes, he heard the door behind him open hours later but they were not important enough to take note of at the moment but did realise that soon enough, the pair left again. His sole concern was healing Wei Ying.