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Wei Wuxian had a bad fever, he was coughing alot and his body was burning hot, so he argued with Lan Zhan to sleep in separate rooms cause he didn’t want him to catch cold, he didn’t allow him to even enter the room though it hurt him not to see his beloved man’s face.
On the third night of them being separated, the fever was getting stronger, and for Wei Wuxian who finally was able to sleep, dreams weren’t so nice for him.
He was in the burial mounds bunch of cultivators were there, trying to kill him so he played with the Chenqing and Wen Ning started fighting the cultivators
Suddenly a hand reached for Wei Wuxian’s shoulder
Before he was able to take a look at who was the person behind him, the hand tightened its grip
Wei Wuxian looked at him, it was Jiang Cheng, his eyes weren’t hateful, they were worried and now shocked
Jiang Cheng stared at him hopelessly as he spitted blood out of his mouth, looked a little below his neck and saw an arm extended from the middle of his chest
Tears were accumulating in Wei Wuxian’s eyes, and when he slowly looked to the person behind Jiang Cheng, his eyes widened as he saw it was him, his former body
The Yiling Laozu retracted his arm, leaving a hole in Jiang Cheng body
After losing the support that was holding him up, Jiang Cheng body fell to the ground
“Jiang Cheng” Wei Wuxian shouted as he went down to help him, he didn’t know what could he do in this situation but he had to think of something
“Jiang Cheng, you hear me, concentrate your spiritual power on your chest, you can stop the bleeding by doing so, yeah?”
“We…Wei Wu…xian” Jiang Cheng called, barely able to breathe
“Shut the fuck up and do as I’m saying you brat” tears were already falling down “please don’t do this to me, I’m your older brother and you have to listen to what I’m saying, so please don’t do this”
“Older… bro..ther …My.. ass” he laughed for a second and spitted more blood after that
“Jiang Cheng, A-Cheng please A-Cheng, please don’t let me be the one to kill you, I wouldn’t be able to live after that”
He looked at the Yiling Laozu who was looking at him with pity
“Why the fuck did you do that?!” He screamed his lungs out “wasn’t it enough for you to kill my Shijie? Your Shijie? Now you killed Jiang Cheng”
“You really forgot?” The Yiling Laozu bent down to his level “you really forgot what actually happened? How you killed Jiang Cheng?, how now Jin Ling doesn’t have anyone at all? All because of you”
Wei Wuxian was shocked by his statement the shouted “stop spitting lies, I didn’t kill Jiang Cheng, you just killed him right now”
“Oh really? Then whose blood is on your hands?” The Yiling laozu said it coldly pointing at Wei wuxian’s hands
Wei Wuxian looked at his hands and the were drenched in blood, he looked back at the Yiling laozu, more tears fell down “no that… that’s a lie”
“It’s not a fucking lie” the Yiling Laozu shouted at him “you killed him, you killed Shijie, you killed Jin Zixuan, Jin Ling has no one anymore because of you” he kept screaming at him while Wei Wuxian screaming “No that’s not true” several times
Opening his eyes, seeing the ceiling above him and the comfy bed he’s in, weren’t enough to stop him from shaking, he didn’t know what was he just saw but he wasn’t in the right state of neither body nor mind to think properly, so he took his Chenqing and ran outside his room, then outside the cloud recesses and started playing with the Chenqing
Wen Ning appeared within 3 minutes and before he was able to greet Wei Wuxian, Wei Wuxian who was panting and barely breathing clinged to his feet and begged “take me to the Lotus pier, please”
Not wasting any more minute, Wen Ning carried Wei Wuxian in his back and started running so fast, not stopping at all
In some hours they reached the Lotus Pier and after getting through the gates and going to the main building Wei Wuxian couldn’t stop himself from shouting “Jiang Cheng”
He shouted several times and no answer was coming
Wei Wuxian fell on his knees and Wen Ning helped him up “Wei gongzi, what’s wrong? Is there something you want from the sect leader Jiang?”
“Jiang Cheng, A-Cheng, why isn’t he here?!” Wei Wuxian shouted and an single tear fell from his eyes before hearing “Wei Wuxian” behind him
He turned around and saw Jiang Cheng, completely surprised by the unexpected guests “what brought you here? In this time of the night?”
“Where the fuck have you been I’ve been screaming your name for 10 fucking damned minutes” Wei Wuxian screamed at him and more tears fell down his face, Jiang Cheng was more distraught by the tears in his face to even be able to reply to him
Wei Wuxian pushed Wen Ning who was holding him and went to Jiang Cheng, he was mad, he grabbed him by the collar and shouted again “where were you?” Now he wasn’t able to stop the sobbing “I called your name many times but you didn’t answer me!”
His legs lost their power, so he unconsciously leaned on Jiang Cheng’s chest while still holding his collar
“I called your name.. you didn’t answer” he was sobbing.. really bad, Jiang Cheng held him from his arms unconsciously so he wouldn’t fall, he looked at the guy who was sobbing in worry, then looked up to see many cultivators from his sect have came to see the reason for the disturbance, Jiang Cheng signed to them that they can leave, he then noticed Wen Ning’s presence
Wen Ning got tense and bowed to Jiang Cheng in courtesy and then took his leave
Jiang Cheng was left alone with the sobbing Wei Wuxian
He reached for his hands to loosen his grip on his collar, and noticed that they were burning
“Wei Wuxian, what did you think of by coming here with this fucking fever?!” He shouted at him, and immediately took his hands off his collar, then supported him and walked together to his room
He sat him on his bed and scolded “you came here, in the middle of the night, having a fucking fever, shouting and screaming and now crying, what the fuck happened to you”
Jiang Cheng was too worried about Wei Wuxian to argue with him about coming to the Lotus Pier in the first place, he knew it was serious, cause the last time he saw Wei Wuxian cry like this was when he got chased by a dog with no one to protect him
Wei Wuxian was finally able to stop crying, he looked at Jiang Cheng with face full of tears and said between his Gasps “don’t you dare, Jiang Cheng, don’t you dare letting me kill you, you’re not allowed to die in my hands”
A memory of what he dreamed earlier came to his mind, he started sobbing again “you’re not allowed to die in my hands, or I’m not gonna be able to continue anymore”
Jiang Cheng’s eyebrows furrowed and said “what are you talking about? Continue what?”
“Continue trying to convince myself that I payed for my sins in my past life and now I can live a happy life” Wei Wuxian said, knowing for sure that Jiang Cheng will get angry at him for even thinking that his sins will ever be forgiven or forgotten
But shockingly, Jiang Cheng reached for the hands that were covering his face, he moved them aside then clicked his forehead
Wei Wuxian looked at him with surprise, but tears were still pouring from his eyes, Jiang Cheng sighed and reached for his face and wiped away his tears
“You’re what 30 and you still behave like a fucking child” he said calmly, then brought a handkerchief to his nose
“Blow” he ordered, and Wei Wuxian did as he was told
The gasps were lessened, Wei Wuxian was breathing properly now
He looked at Jiang Cheng, both his nose and his eyes were red and Jiang Cheng wasn’t able to stop himself from laughing “look at you, you look even worse than when you were chased by the dogs”
“Shut up” Wei Wuxian looked away, he was ashamed of himself by how he acted
“What happened to you? Such a brat to disturb my peace” Jiang Cheng wasn’t in the mood to talk nasty to him or get angry at him, first because he was worried about Wei Wuxian, and second because Wei Wuxian was sick and didn’t want to fight with a sick person
And probably he wouldn’t admit it, but he was unconsciously happy that he can speak with Wei Wuxian like he used to when they were kids, like the decade or two that separated them didn’t exist
“It’s nothing” Wei Wuxian felt so ashamed to admit his reasons “just wanted to annoy you” he lied
“Come on tell the truth or I’m gonna tell A-Ling and the other ducklings how you came and sobbed like a madman, don’t you worry about your reputation between them?”
Now this was a real threat to Wei Wuxian, so he decided to tell Jiang Chen, who knows way worse about him than this, the truth “I had a nightmare, where you died, and I was the one to kill you” then he added quickly “I ran here just to know if that was true or not, to celebrate…. And.. and then..” he stuttered
“Yeah and those were happy tears right, My ass”
Wei Wuxian’s face was now red from embarrassment, and his whole body felt hot, And before he realised it, Jiang Cheng left the room
Wei Wuxian didn’t take a glance to his face so he was sure that Jiang Cheng left because he was uncomfortable with the situation, Wei Wuxian felt ashamed, He stood up, decided to leave the place quietly
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Jiang Cheng holding a roll of clothes, and a guy behind him carrying a big tub and some towels
“You can leave now” Jiang Cheng told the guy, the guy bowed in courtesy and left
Jiang Cheng closed the door and said “Strip, I will not let you dirty my bed with your dirty clothes or your sweat”
“You don’t have to do that, I’ll leave back to gusu with Wen Ning right now” Wei Wuxian was confused, and the fever made him unable to tease Jiang Cheng
“Did I stutter? Strip” he took off his own outer robe and stayed in the inner robe, then took a towel and drenched it in the tub’s water “I’m not happy either but I know for a fact that I will be damned if I let you go off in this state of yours”
Wei Wuxian felt his body trembling, and his stamina was drained by the crying, so he did as he was told and took of all the layers in his body but kept the inner short on, and he sat on the bed where Jiang Cheng was waiting for him, Jiang Cheng started cleaning his body with the towel “stupid little brat” kept coming out of his mouth
“I’m Sorry” Wei Wuxian lowered his head “stop fucking apologising” Jiang Cheng snapped while rubbing Wei Wuxian’s face with the towel “Ouch OUCH, Jiang Cheng is that how you treat a sick person”
Jiang Cheng clicked his forehead and said “nope, but that is how I treat you, cause you deserve it”
He threw the towel on the tub then took the new clothes, they were his own clothes “if you fucking said anything about not wanting to wear them, you can gladly walk awah naked, cause I’m burning these you were wearing”
Wei Wuxian knows that he wasn’t joking about that so he just nodded, he tried to stand up to take them but his legs weren’t able to hold him, so he fell back to the bed
Jiang Cheng sighed and took the inner robe “hands” he ordered so Wei Wuxian extended his arm, Jiang Cheng started dressing him the inner robe and after some struggles, cause Wei Wuxian constantly fell in the bed again and again, he was able to dress him
“You can lay down now, I told them to make some food” He said as he put his hand on Wei Wuxian’s forehead and added “coming in the middle of the night when your fever is this bad.. you certainly have a death wish”
Wei Wuxian just looked at him as he walked out the door, he felt a little uncomfortable being left in this room, he wanted to run away but as he was planning to run away again, the door opened and it was Jiang Cheng and behind him two people, one was holding a tray of food, the other held some mattress
Wei Wuxian was speechless as he saw another bed being made near him, and a tray of food beside him
The two guys left the room and Jiang Cheng said “eat, you must be hungry” he sat down on the bed that was placed next to the tray, and took the chopsticks and started eating
“Jiang Cheng, are you planning to kill me after eating? You’re acting so weird” the food’s aroma made Wei Wuxian unable to resist taking the chopsticks and staring to eat
“Oh you noticed?” Jiang Cheng mocked him “yes this is your last meal, fucking idiot, you always become really stupid when being sick, eat slowly, if you coughed on the food I’m gonna end you”
Wei Wuxian pointed at the food with his chopsticks and said mouthfully “ ya know, you need to be grateful for having this food everyday, the food in the cloud recesses is the same as eating grass, Sometimes Lan Zhan brings me food from Gusu, but it’s not the same at all”
“Well, you’re welcome anytime to come and eat here” Jiang Cheng said with a low tone, but Wei Wuxian heard him clearly, he started at his plate for a few seconds, then gave a warm smile “okey” his voice was barely heard, but he knew Jiang Cheng heard him, cause he saw Jiang Cheng lips curved into a small smile
They completed their plates and Jiang Cheng pushed the tray aside “now sleep, your fever is still high, I’m sleeping here cause it’s my fucking room ya hear that” then he pushed Wei Wuxian to the bed and started putting the blanket over him
“You’re quite good at these stuff, I’m impressed” Wei Wuxian looked at him while he was putting another blanket over him
“Jin Ling used to come here whenever he was sick when he was a kid, well who am I kidding, even now he does the same, anyway so I got used to do this”
“Jiang Cheng it’s hot no need for this much blankets”
“Shut up and sleep”
Jiang Cheng then went to his bed and laid down, then he closed his eyes
“Jiang Cheng” Wei Wuxian called but Jiang Cheng didn’t answer his
“Jiang Cheng, A-Cheng, sect leader Jiang, Jiang Wanyin, Sandu Shengshou, Didi…”
“The fuck you want” Jiang Cheng snapped at him
“I’m sorry” Wei Wuxian said sincerely “for annoying you today, and for many thing I’ve done before”
“I don’t need your apology” Jiang Cheng huffed so Wei Wuxian replied “I know, I’m not apologising for you, I just want to do the right thing now”
Jiang Cheng didn’t answer him
“A-Cheng” Wei Wuxian called
“What?” Jiang Cheng answered calmly
“I know that.. we aren’t in the best terms at all, and nothing will go back as it was before” Wei Wuxian was staring at the ceiling
“so?” Jiang Cheng looked at him, confused.
Wei Wuxian turned his body under the tones of blankets and faced Jiang Cheng
“Do you think we could be real brothers in our next life? A real twin heroes?”
Jiang Cheng was shocked and wasn’t able to answer him immediately
“Nevermind, it’s fever talking” Wei Wuxian turned to the other side
Some minutes passed by before Jiang Cheng finally answered him “that would be a pain in the ass” then added “but yeah why not”
Wei Wuxian was shocked enough that while turning around he fell on the floor “Ouch!”
Jiang Cheng chuckled “fucking loser”
Wei Wuxian then moved the bed mattress to the floor besides Jiang Cheng and said “I’m not used to sleep alone so fucking deal with it, again it’s just fever doings, I have nothing to do with it”
He then laid down facing Jiang Cheng and said “Didi” then laughed
“If you call me that one more time I’ll bring Fairy for you”
“Forgive me Sandu Shengshou” Wei Wuxian Chuckled and after some minutes he was sleeping safe and sound.