Jiang Cheng takes the train to Yichang and drives around looking for Wei Ying. The rest of his family are on his mind, even as he gets advice from an unexpected quarter.
One chapter of the HOTPOTLUCK collaborative fic, an idea conceived by frostferox, plotted by a_chengyeets and shepherded into being by a chaotic collective and/or collective chaos. Now with gorgeous title graphic by Lillijen!
Also works as a stand-alone character study.
Jiang Cheng searched for Wen Qing throughout the Sunshot Campaign, despite knowing that their obligations had kept them apart before and might always do so.
Wen Qing couldn't allow herself to hope that anyone else would try to save her brother and family. She'd already worked one miracle in her life; why should there be any more?
Under the threat of another open war between the Great Sects of the cultivation world, neither of them knew what to expect.
"What's wrong, Jiang Cheng?" he asks suddenly, looking up from his bowl.
Jiang Cheng just meets his gaze, not even lifting an arm to convey, Where do you want me to start?
"You've been... staring at me, this whole evening, shidi," Wei Wuxian adds, more slowly. The colour in his cheeks didn't fade after the bath, and now, with the food and candles, the room's got stuffy and he's even pinker than before. It should look healthy but it only highlights the shadows under his eyes, so deep they look like grooves in the skin.
"No, I haven't," he says automatically, and shoves a meatball in his mouth.
Jiang Cheng meets up with Wei Wuxian after Baoshan Sanren restores his golden core, just as they planned. After this, surely things are going to go right, right?