[Wei Wuxian was generally just as he appeared on the surface. He didn't like talking around things, and while he had his secrets, keeping them was only to spare others a bit of trouble or pain. Clearly, it hadn't helped much in this case, but he had a feeling Lan Zhan might be irritated if it came up in a conversation with someone else or took him by surprise, so...]
Mm, well, it's old news, hardly matters now anyway.
[Right, the best way was just to spit it all out at once, wasn't it? His eyes flick from Lan Zhan's to the floor once or twice before the words start to spill out, messy and rough.]
I was talking with Jiang Cheng, and- well, I was talking, he was yelling and grousing, but he was mad I didn't tell him how we- I mean, Wen Qing and Wen Ning really, how they fixed his core back when it was melted, not Baoshan Sanren.
Why does the how matter? Ah, but I told him it was no big deal and he got even more annoyed about it.
[Sigh.]
You can't just fix a melted core, but you can get a donor, and then it's just a matter of putting in the new one. And Jiang Cheng was the sect leader, not to mention my brother, so-I-just-gave-him-mine, besides- it's not like there were other options, and everything turned out fine anyway, so why get mad now? It's all in the past, right?
[His fingers are tense and fidgety, even in Lan Zhan's grasp, and his laugh is nervous and breathy.]
I mean, I don't think he'd bring it up, but since he found out about it, I thought I should tell you too, just in case, since I thought you should hear it from me. I guess? You can laugh, it's fine, it's fine, it's silly, right?
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Mm, well, it's old news, hardly matters now anyway.
[Right, the best way was just to spit it all out at once, wasn't it? His eyes flick from Lan Zhan's to the floor once or twice before the words start to spill out, messy and rough.]
I was talking with Jiang Cheng, and- well, I was talking, he was yelling and grousing, but he was mad I didn't tell him how we- I mean, Wen Qing and Wen Ning really, how they fixed his core back when it was melted, not Baoshan Sanren.
Why does the how matter? Ah, but I told him it was no big deal and he got even more annoyed about it.
[Sigh.]
You can't just fix a melted core, but you can get a donor, and then it's just a matter of putting in the new one. And Jiang Cheng was the sect leader, not to mention my brother, so-I-just-gave-him-mine, besides- it's not like there were other options, and everything turned out fine anyway, so why get mad now? It's all in the past, right?
[His fingers are tense and fidgety, even in Lan Zhan's grasp, and his laugh is nervous and breathy.]
I mean, I don't think he'd bring it up, but since he found out about it, I thought I should tell you too, just in case, since I thought you should hear it from me. I guess? You can laugh, it's fine, it's fine, it's silly, right?