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Song Lan needs the help of other people to repair the souls of A-Qing and Xiao Xingchen.
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- Part 1 of Song Lan Fortnight 2021
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“I have to heal his soul,” he wrote, taking out the pouch to show her.
She pulled the paper close to her face. “And who will heal yours?”
Before he could decide how to explain his uncertain condition as a fierce corpse, she violently poked the spirit trapping pouch.
“You!” she said, roughly handling the pouch in a way no one else has ever dared. “Do you know you’re hurting him?”
Song Lan shook his head, vocalizing a denial in his throat.
She shushed him and continued talking to the bag. “Even trying our best, we have all hurt the ones we love. I am sure he has hurt you too.”
Song Lan became silent.
If you don’t wake up, I’m going to tell him what you told me all those years ago.”
There was no response of course. Her face crinkled into a toothless grin.
Song Lan waved his hands to implore her to stop, but she only took them in her own small knobby hands.
“You know he loved you. That should not be a surprise.”
He tried to pull his hands back to cover his ears, trying to respect Xiao Xingchen’s privacy, but she held onto his fingers tightly, with hands that held innumerable pots and pans sizzling with jumping oil, slapped clothes against rocks thousands of times, pulled babies out of their mother’s bodies, and worked themselves into claws over a lifetime.
“He said he wanted to marry you. I had to tell him, men do not marry each other!” She laughed at the memory. “He asked why not? I said I’m not sure, it might be that bloodline business those sects started centuries ago. But men like you have loved each other since the dawn of time.” She smiled at him. “He liked that, the dawn of time, like his name.” She became serious again. “There is only so much I can remember these days. Words are easy to forget, but not the way we feel when we hear them. He said he would marry you in a time when it was possible. You know he always thought things would get better. When he spoke like that, it made you feel like it was true.” She turned back to the pouch. “So what exactly are you waiting for?” -
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｡:ﾟ(;´∩`;)ﾟ:｡ so pretty, so sad! Wonderful words, good pacing, great, deep emotions ❤️
A wonderful, heart touching journey to heal AQ and XXC's souls! With best box Ouyang Zizhen and many, many people helping out along the way ❤️
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“That was part of his grief. He had put nearly all his faith and love in a single place.”