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“I can fix this.”

“HOW?! You've turned the whole Cultivation world against you! You had to go an play hero and for what? For them?!”

“We owe them. I owe them.”

“Your life?!”

“Madam Yu and Uncle Jiang! Your parents! Our lives! We OWE them.”

“Then why didn't you TALK to me?! Do you know what you've done now? How am I supposed to protect you from this?!”

“...don't.”

“...What?!”

“Don't protect me. Disown me from the Jiang. Declare me defect. I'll FIX this Jiang Cheng but I need TIME and... and these people need help. They can't stay here.”

“...what do you want me to do?”

“...hide them. Change their names, and hide them. Scatter them through Yunmeng, it shouldn't be hard. They're farmers and elders and craftsmen. No Cultivators. Just common people displaced by the war. Change their names and hide them.”

“There's less than forty people here if that's all you wanted you could have told me BEFORE killing Jin soldiers and making such a damned MESS of things Wuxian!”

“There wasn't time.”

“Of COURSE there wasn't. There never is with you, you get an idea and to hell with the rest of us.”

“There's only a few left now are you going to tell me what the hell you're planning? Sect Leader Jin is getting louder and louder about the 'army' you're building up here.”

“I told you, I'm going to fix it. He wants the Tiger Seal and I'll destroy it before he can have it.”

“Baba?”

“Who the hell is this?!”

“Ah, a-Yuan there you are! Shidi this is my son, I adopted him!”

“You adopted a brat. A Wen brat. And you're raising him HERE in a mass graveyard!?”

“Well I was hoping you'd keep him safe in Yunmeng for me, just until this is all over...”

“Tch. Idiot. Even if you can fix all this, the world will still be out for your blood. He can't be a Wei.”

“Oy!”

“Shut up, he can't! And you can't be a father you can barely count as a child yourself! Obviously he's MY son. Jiang a-Yuan.”

“A-Cheng!!”

“I said shut up! We were in a war! And teenagers! It makes enough sense and compared to Sect Leader Jin who would dare argue?! Fix your problems and clean up this mess and you can come back to visit in Lotus Pier and be the worlds worst uncle!”

“...what do you mean an ambush?”

“Wei Wuxian!!”

“I'm sorry shidi. I'm so sorry. Don't cry it'll all be fine now. I said I'd fix it.”

“WEI WUXIAN!!”

“Baba?”

“...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry...”

“Baba hurt?”