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Jin Ling slowly woke up, the taste of something deadly spicy met his tongue and made him jolted up.

"What is this? Poison?" he got away in panic from the bowl on Lan Wangji's hand.

"What do you mean, 'poison'? This is a special antidote for corpse poisoning. Glutinous rice porridge," Wei Wuxian picked up the bowl, went closer to him and started feeding him again. Jin Ling was struggling, tried to free himself from him.

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"You lunatic! How dare you! I haven't asked you about how you can control Wen Ning yet-" Jin Ling immediately cut off by Wei Wuxian after finishing the bowl. Wei Wuxian grabbed his face and checked on him.

"Good. You'll be cured in about half an hour or so," he left out a soft scoffed and let go of him.

"You-" Lan Wangji put a silence spell on Jin Ling, left him dumbfounded.

"Less talk, more rest," was all Lan Wangji said.

"Before you kids asked me about the matter about Wen Ning with me, I will explain it to you right now. I don't know how Wen Ning hasn't turned to dust yet but his owner, Yiling Laozu of course has turned into dust, which explain that makes it easy to me for accidentally summoned him instead of another Ghost General," Wei Wuxian lied to the kids. The juniors were dumbfounded by it.

"Huh? There's another Ghost General?" Lan Jingyi asked him.

"Yep, just found about it today. Song Lan is the another Ghost General. Xue Yang, who is impersonating Xiao Xingchen, is the owner," Wei Wuxian explained further.

"Mo Qianbei, I didn't expect for you to use demonic cultivation. I also didn't know how someone managed to kill Song Zichen as he was a high skilled cultivator. We still don't know where Xiao Xingchen is," Lan Sizhui stated.

They already performed Empathy on A-Qing. Xue Yang already killed by Lan Wangji. The souls of Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing were already in peace. Song Zichen took care of Frost, Xiao Xingchen's sword and roamed with it from now on. The matters in Yi City were already solved. The juniors cried out and burnt the joss paper for A-Qing and Xiao Xingchen.

They were in Yunping City, Yunmeng. Jin Ling and Wei Wuxian immediately stopped Fairy and Little Apple.

Lan Sizhui reported to them that the cat corpse were discovered around the area of the Guanyin Temple. However, there was no clues to be found inside the temple.

They all, except Ouyang Zizhen, stayed at the city for the night. Jin Ling, for some reason, wanted to stay with them instead of going back to Lotus Pier. Wei Wuxian was proud of him that he decided to get close with the others as he always with either one of his uncles and aunt Jiang.

They were at Liquor, Lan Sizhui told them both that they should just stay on the first floor. The juniors and seniors would be to part.

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"Lan Zhan, why don't we play the part where you getting drunk and tied me up using your headband on my wrists. I want to see that reaction from our juniors again," Wei Wuxian tugged his sleeve. Lan Wangji gave him a confusion look.

"Lan Zhan, I'm not gonna make you drunk because I knew you won't be able to control yourself... As expected, Wen Ning will check on us," Wei Wuxian facepalmed as Wen Ning was popped his head out the window.

Lan Wangji only gave him the look that allowed Wen Ning to come in. Wei Wuxian decided to check on his reattachable body parts and it were completely fine. He then asked him to go somewhere hide and told him they would take care of the juniors.

The couple were at the outside. Wei Wuxian was tied up by his wrists using the headband. Lan Wangji agreed with him. He would be pretended to be drunk just to please his husband's entertainment.

"Drink up!" Lan Jingyi held up his cup.

"Pfft, your alcohol tolerance is terrible. Hiccups- Zizhen, let's keep drinking!" Jin Ling blabbered out from his mouth while holding a wine jar.

"Zizhen has returned to Baling, I'm Lan Sizhui," Lan Sizhui reminded him.

Jin Ling went closer to look at his face, then retreated back to his seat, "hm? Oh, Lan Sizhui. The annoying guy who is a stickler for the rules-"

"Rules? What rules? Even if Hanguang Jun was here today, I would still drink to my heart's content! Drink up!" Lan Jingyi put his left foot on the table and drank up the wine on his hand.

He immediately panicked to stop himself drinking and greeted him as they saw their Hanguang Jun suddenly appeared at the door.

"Hanguang Jun, weren't you resting on the second floor? Why are you..." Lan Sizhui trailed off and gasped as he saw Wei Wuxian was with him too. The headband was also missing from his forehead.

"Eheheh, Your Hanguang Jun accidentally drunk, it was my fault. And we though we would check up on you guys. And look, we caught three of you here sneakily drinking alcohol," Wei Wuxian caught them.

"Hanguang Jun, your headband?" Lan Sizhui asked Lan Wangji. He immediately revealed his headband that it was tied up Wei Wuxian's wrists. The juniors were immediately stunned as they knew the meaning of the Lan Clan's headband.

"W-what is he doing...?" Jin Ling trembly pointed his finger at them.

"Jin Ling, I swear in your family's name, I didn't do anything. I only made him drunk and here we are, my hands tied up by him," Wei Wuxian faked struggling, trying to remove himself from being tied up.

"Huh? He musn't do that! Our headband is- MMPH!" Lan Sizhui immediately stuffed some food on Lan Jingyi's mouth.

"Ah, I see. Then, rest well, Hanguang Jun, Mo Qianbei," he let the seniors went back to upstairs.

"Thanks, Sizhui- Huh?" Wei Wuxian immediately stay alerted as he heard something tumbling on the second floor.

The juniors unsheathed their sword immediately and Lan Wangji went to untie the headband as fast as he could.

The headless corpse made an appearance. He went down and startes to attack Jin Ling and Wei Wuxian. The couple didn't expect it was gonna to be be this earlier so they all fought together until Lan Xichen finally came to the rescue.

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A/N: Wei Wuxian's reveal is soon 👀

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