Lan QiRen frowned at XiChen in confusion. 'Why didn't you tell him that the little boy WangJi gave the drum too, turned out to be Wei WuXian?'

'He does not deserve to know that detail.'

'I see your point.' He looked around. 'What took you so long to step in?'

'I wanted to see how Wei WuXian would deal with an attack from within the Sect.'

'Same here.'

'Uncle, did you see what happened before I arrived?'

'Yes.'

'And ... did Wei WuXian do anything against our rules?'

'No.' he remembered something and smiled. 'However, I think he may have been skating close to the line when he pretended to see some fierce corpses and throw Su She into a muddy puddle behind a bush.'

'Oh, so that is why he was in such a state.'

'Yes. I need to say ... Wei WuXian has extraordinary acting abilities. I had to look around when he dove behind the bush. However, Su She was the one in the wrong. Wei WuXian informed him he had permission to be where he was but he still attacked even when WangJi was there and that is why I handed down the extra three months.'

'Would you show me what happened?' he tried to make it just sound like a leader needing information but .... The smile grew at the same time as his uncle's did.

'Okay.' He held out his hand and for a short time showed XiChen what happened.

'Well ... hahahahaha.' He couldn't help but laugh out aloud.

'I'm glad none of the others are around to see their leader laughing like this.' Master Lan snickered behind his hand as they started walking again.

'I think before they leave on their trek, I will ask the pair to do their three prostrations in the ancestral hall.' XiChen waited for his uncle to forcefully try to deny them this ... but this day was full of wonders of all kinds.

'I agree.' He walked on only to stop and look back when his nephew had stopped. 'What?'

'I thought you would fight me on this, in fact I had this full speech ready ... and you just agree like that.'

'Sorry for making you waste you time.'

'I know how you hated the idea of WangJi being a cut sleeve ... to the point of punishing him and his potential lover.'

'There is no way to stop the pair anymore. They are in love and will end up together for life. I saw the empathy remember ... a life time happily. Either I bend a little or ... they will just leave and we will never see them again. We, as WangJi's sect and family, must welcome his .... Male wife as we would if he was a female wife.' He shook his head. 'I never would have thought I would ever say those words ... until yesterday.'

'Uncle?'

'Yesterday I asked Wei WuXian if I could see his memories of his life here ... nothing of the pair, just ....'

'And.'

'To my surprise not only did he agree, but WangJi also agreed. Maybe he knew that would be the only way I would ever believe that Wei WuXian belonged here and with him.'

'What did you see?' Suddenly XiChen was sad that he never thought of doing that.

Master Lan let his himself remember as he told his nephew as he started another Empathy.

Empathy.

'Enter.' Lan Zhan called out at the knock on the door, even with Wei Ying sitting on his lap as they both read their own scroll.

'Wang ... WangJi, Wei WuXian ... please ... if you let anyone in ... please not in this state.'

'What?' Wei Ying frowned up at Master Lan only to realise the problem. 'Oh, sorry Master Lan.' He gently withdrew from his frowning lovers lap, but was only able to move to his side as the arm kept him close.

'Is there a problem uncle?'

'No ... it's just that I want to ask Wei WuXian if he will allow me to see his memories of his life here. Nothing personal between the pair of you .... I just want to know how you were while here.'

'I agree if it is alright with Wei Ying.' He smiled when he received twin shocked looks. 'I think uncle needs to see that your life here is not one of disrespect and disturbance.'

'Okay.' He looked at Master Lan as he sat beside him.

For just over an hour Master Lan was shown through Wei WuXian's memories of his life in the Cloud Recess and at the end .... Master Lan was more confused than before he started.

'I just do not understand. Why do you have two faces with people?'

'Two faces?'

'Yes. You have shown me this yourself. On one hand you will show people that annoyingly noisy, over active, arrogant face but then you switch to a polite, quiet, respectful face who will not break any of our rules. Which is the real you Wei WuXian?'

'I see your problem Master Lan but .... They are both me. I can be quite and respectful when the situation calls for it, but on the other hand I can be childish, loud, over active, disobedient and wilful. Just because I am both, does not mean I am lying about one side of me. Think of it as two sides of the same coin. When you were young, were you always this reserved, quiet, well behaved man you are now .... Please remember before you answer that question, I have known you for so many years and you have told me many things about your childhood.'

'What?'

'Well, the man who cares for his sect now is not the same as the young boy who would run around the town with his brother to see what was happening. The young man who ran away from the sect when he was eighteen to travel and see the land while he cultivated is not the same man who walked back into the Cloud Recesses one year later with as much respect as ever. The man who will sit with his friends of other sects and raise a toast is not the same man who fervently adheres to each and every rule of the Cloud Recesses while he is here ... but you do not have two faces and you are not lying about who you are. They are both you ... are they not?'

'Hmph ... I ... told you all of that?'

'Yes. The truth is you had been bed ridden for a month and you seemed to need someone to talk to. I willingly listened to every single detail of your life.'

'There is no way I told you so much.'

'I will tell you everything you told me one day Master Lan ... but only between the two of us. You made me swear never to tell anyone many of the things you told me and I have never broken that oath.'

'You never even told WangJi?'

'Never. He understood that there are some things that an uncle didn't want a nephew to know about him.'

End of Empathy.

'The young man puts on a face of indifference to rules and disrespect of everyone, but ... I was shown the young man's memories and he did live his life here and after a short time, never broke a rule. However, this time around, the only time he broke the rules was that first night to keep it like the last life.'

'So you will not be at all surprised if I said I had already gotten the red outfits for the pair? They arrived this morning.'

'I would be more surprised if you said you didn't have them at hand because I know how much you dote on him.' He sighed. 'You might want to have Wei WuXian's sect robes made also.'

'Yes, I have them in mind already so after their wedding, he will wear the white Cloud Recesses robes but with black and red trim for the cloud emblem on his forehead ribbon for the first year then just the normal GusuLan Sect robes after that.'

'Wait, will he be willing to wear the robes. Even after so many years, in both lives, he never wore Jiang Sect robes.'

'I never thought of that ... I wonder why he stayed in black.'

Hello everyone, the end of today's post is about something I really want to know.

Of all the pics below, which one is your favourite.

Vote for you pic and I will let you know if it is the one I love the most.

1:There real first meeting.

2:Just too cute for words

3:The truth about what is important

4:Lan Zhan trying desperately not to show his enjoyment of a situation.

5:Poor Wen Ning not understanding that he is just so cute with that 'I'm lost' look.

6a:Master Lan when Wei Ying first arrived

Compared with

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6b:Poor Master Lan just six months after Wei Ying moved in permanently with Lan Zhan ... right next door to him. (read his shirt  hahaha)

7:The hot brother who just keeps getting looked past ....  Just as well he is a bit of a Bro-con

8:When the bad guy is just as cute as the good guy.

9:When the man you love is just so utterly oblivious to your feelings

Unfortunately there are so many great pictures online that I had to limit the number here.

Okay, my fav is 

Number 4.

Don't we all enjoy watching Lan Zhan fighting his emotions in those situations?