After the Nightless City Calamity, Hanguang-Jun Regrets It Too Late

[Male-Male Romance + Angsty Love + Coercive Romance + Groveling Ex + Rekindled Romance + Sweet Romance + Devoted Couple, Happy Ending]

After the bloody battle at Nevernight City, everyone said that Wei Wuxian, the Yiling Patriarch, had perished, body and soul. Only Lan Wangji searched the Burial Mounds and recovered his broken body, discovering the truth: his golden core was destroyed, and every meridian in his body was severed. The once carefree, spirited young man was now little more than a hollow shell, like a skeleton.

“Lan Zhan… let me go.” Wei Wuxian curled up in his nightmares, only to be pulled again and again into a fever-warm embrace. Hanguang-Jun cast aside his composure and defied his clan’s rules. He ground his enemies to dust, all to warm the cold body in his arms. He fed Wei Wuxian medicine, changed his clothes, and tended to his wounds with his own hands. He even knelt before every cultivation sect, begging for a life-prolonging pill.

“If you die, I’ll make the whole world join you.” Lan Wangji bit the pale lips of the man in his arms and poured half his lifetime of spiritual energy into Wei Wuxian’s depleted core. When Wei Wuxian could finally hold a sword again, its tip pointed at Hanguang-Jun’s heart. “Second Young Master Lan, can you let me go now?”

But Wei Wuxian didn’t know that while he lay unconscious, someone had held his hand all night, choking back sobs: “Wei Ying… come back. You can hit me and curse me, just don’t leave me.” Nor did he know that to save his life, Lan Wangji had willingly entered a life-sharing pact, giving him half his lifespan and taking on all his pain.

From Cloud Recesses to the Burial Mounds, from the Hundred Flowers Banquet to Nevernight City, Hanguang-Jun cast aside his good name and turned his back on the world, all to hear Wei Wuxian say: “Lan Zhan, let’s go home together.”

I used to regret not standing by your side sooner. Now I regret not having held you close and cherished you sooner.

(This story contains original elements!)