The Untamed : Another story

First Kiss

Lan Xichen's PoV

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It had been eight months since the other world adventure ended with the return of 3 "guests" who were not necessarily welcome among us. During the first summit, we had told what had happened ... well, partly! We had not told the whole story, especially about the artifact used by Baochen!

Wuxian had managed to confuse everyone, improvising about incantations that only he, Patriarch of Yiling, knew the secret of! He had mentioned an object that he had left before entering the portal so that reinforcements could be sent to him! He had conveniently destroyed it after their return! It was obvious that no one had dared to question his word and his powers!

The recognition of Ni Bi was done without any problem, all accepted this child as the daughter of Wei Wuxian and at the same time the Chief Patriarch.

As for Wen Qin, the wall of protection formed by Jiang Cheng, Wen Ning and Wen Wuxian had once again won over the clan leaders. After all, she had not participated in the Twilight War! They had forgiven the Ghost General, her brother!

When it was Meng Yao's turn, the discussions were much more bitter and vindictive. There was so much resentment towards Jin GuangYao, that we knew that the game would be hard to win. Again, all the people involved in the rescue mission stood together, silencing one after another any objections the clan leaders might raise. The decision was made by the Chief Patriarch. Wangji placed Meng Yao under my responsibility.

We had discussed this more than once before, and he only wanted to live peacefully. He had only good memories of YunShen Buzhi, so he agreed without any problem to stay by my side under my "tutelage".

I must admit that he was glowing. I could see his face getting more relaxed day by day. He got along with everyone and was always ready to help. He fit in perfectly with the Lan clan. We talked a lot about each other's lives, about what we had experienced. But there was one subject that we did not discuss in detail: our relationship with the "other us". One day, however, we came to talk about "them".

Every evening, Meng Yao would come to me for tea before going to bed and tell me about his day. I would listen to him talk about the books he was studying. He had also decided to learn to play the flute. I asked him if he played any other instrument. His face had closed and his eyes seemed lost in the past. I looked at his eyes waiting for him to regain the liveliness I knew him for. When life seemed to return to him, I apologized for having revived painful memories. He gave me a soft and sad smile. His eyes fled from me. I realized that it was likely that my other self had taught him music.

"Excuse me, I didn't mean to hurt you..."

"Don't apologize. Xichen taught me Qin when I was 17 years old. I had accompanied HuaiSang on a study session and he offered me to stay and study too. At first I didn't want to because I was a servant, but MingJue allowed me to. That's how we got to know each other better. He always dazzled me with his strength and firmness combined with gentleness. He gave me private lessons so that I could catch up with my core culture.

His gaze was fixed on me, but I knew that it was not me he was thinking of, strangely I had a twinge of sadness. He continued...

"I spent the most wonderful 6 months ever and then there was the "mobilization" of the clan leaders' children. HuaiSang was forced to go to Qishan. I went back to Qinghe, but when I heard that the Lans had refused to send Wangji, I suspected that Wen Ruohan would not remain idle. When I arrived, I discovered that he had managed to take control of Wei Wuxian and was using him against his former comrades to destroy everything. The leader of the Wen clan had discovered that Wuxian was really powerful and especially that he was gifted in demonic cultivation. I never knew how he found out but he did! I managed to escape Xichen and several survivors of the Lan clan and led them to Qinghe. Some time later, we learned that several "disciples" had perished in the collapse of a cave. HuaiSang was among them. MingJue never really recovered. He then set out to resist the oppressor Wen and contacted Jin GuangShan. This is how we found out that in fact the disciples had been sacrificed to an ancient monster to allow Wen Chao to escape! Jin ZiXuan had escaped and told us everything. I have already told you the rest. I became the intelligence source of the resistance by infiltrating the enemy ranks. "