"Chen Yu, have you contacted your grandfather? Do you need me to… explain everything?" Lan Wangji turned to Chen Yu, whose face was unreadable when he found out about all the hardship that his cousin had endured without him and his grandfather ever found out. It was painful, knowing that the Jins family could be that vicious, although Mo Xuanyu was their blood too.

"It's alright, I've explained everything, and we decided to cremate his body as soon as possible." Chen Yu was grateful to everyone who had helped him, although they did it for Mo Xuanyu… no, for Wei Wuxian, but he still felt thankful that his cousin finally could rest in peace. That, and knowing that his killer would be punished severely too.
"I'll arrange for cremation tomorrow, is that okay?" Yuwen Xing pulled out her phone and called her assistant.

"It's fine. I don't want grandpa to wallow in his grief. Especially when Auntie Xiang is also missing." Chen Yu couldn't imagine the pain his grandfather would have if somehow his daughter was just as he suspected, not in this world anymore.

"Lan Wangji, do you know that the warehouse they used for the kidnapping was actually the property of the Lans?" Liu Qingge suddenly spoke from behind the laptop. "I just got the information." He turned the laptop around to let Lan Wangji see the information dump he got. Shen Qingqiu took baby Xianxian with him and wiped her greasy mouth from the jianbing that she ate. It left grease marks on Lan Wangji's pristine white shirt, but he didn't seem to notice it.
 
Lan Wangji read the information that Liu Qingge got, and he actually kinda guessed it, since they could find nothing in all the Jins' properties. So the alternative was someone from the other families was helping them, he was just surprised that it was actually his family that owned it, he would have thought that it might belong to the Wens, judging by how infatuated Wen Chao was with Jin Su.

"Qingge, can you find out exactly who bought the property? The Lans acquired more properties that we could ever remember, and sometimes it was a payment for other favors."

"It's actually under the name of Lan's Research and Development, just a corporate shell. I tried to trace it back but strangely it did not show any personal names." Liu Qingge hacked into the Lan's internal server. "And funny enough, there is no Lan's Research and Development anywhere in your list of departments, companies, or properties."

"That's strange. Can you dig deeper? If possible I don't want to involve outside people. Right now, everyone is a suspect."

"Yeah, sure, easy peasy. Gimme a minute."
 
Lan Wangji was thinking of the possibility of who dared to mess with the Lans, when he felt a tug on his sleeve. He looked down to see the all smiling baby Xianxian asked him to carry her, which he did right away. Then he looked at Xie Lian who sent him death stares since Wei Wuxian just escaped from his hug.
 
"So, a year in a day? That's not too bad." Xie Lian was feeling blue when Xianxian ignored him. But that was because of the excessive smooches, which Xie Lian did because he missed Wei Wuxian so much and, well it was because of his fault that his cousin refused to talk to him five years ago, so he would fix it all this time around. He loved Wei Wuxian too much to just let their relationship go round and round in a circle without any solution except avoiding each other. Well, it was Wei Wuxian who avoided him like a plague. But he had to wait until at least he became eighteen to have a proper talk. That was when everything had gone wrong, and it should take around two more weeks. He could do that. Stay. At least until they resolved the misunderstanding. He made a note to tell Feng Xin and Mu Qing to take care of other things. Wei Wuxian was more important now, especially since he became defenseless like this.
 
"Wait until you see him in his teens." Shen Qingqiu smirked. Wei Wuxian in his teens was a rebellion on heels. If Lan Wangji could survive that , he would make him his muse too. That bratty Wei Wuxian was a hurricane in his teens, and judging by the look on Dianxia's face, he was surely remembering the particular night involving a bar, a horse, a chick and a horde of bikers. That night was hell, but Shen Qingqiu had the time of his life. 
 
"I wanna pee pee." Suddenly baby Xianxian grabbed Lan Wangji's face and looked at him in a very serious face.

Yuwen Xing stood up and tried to take her, but she refused.
"I wanna pee pee with Mister. I'm a boy, I can't go with you, ma'am." She spoke with a very serious face.
 
Oh boy. Who's going to break the news to a six years old kid?
 
"Wei Ying…" Lan Wangji tried to find words to explain this to a toddler. But his face showed that he was at loss for words too. "Okay, let me help you." Finally he decided to observe the situation first before he did anything else, so he took her to the toilet and the others were waiting in suspense for Wei Wuxian's reaction.

"We must be in dire need of something else to do besides waiting for a kid to find out about their…" Luo Binghe's words were cut by a loud screaming from the direction of the toilet.

"Now, imagine that would happen every single day until he's back to his right mind. Two weeks in hell. I will pray for Lan Wangji's sanity."  Shen Qingqiu was having the time of his life. He had too much fun watching all the interactions between the people he never thought would be friends like this.

The doorbell rang and Dr. Xue opened it to Detective Jiang, who had a forlorn expression on his handsome face.

"Come in, Jiang Cheng." Dr. Xue opened the door to let him in. "I gather that you already knew about the whole situation?"

"Yes, Dr. Xue. I'm fully aware."

There was still no concrete proof that Wen Ning was Meng Yiran's killer, it was all just based on hearsay by a killer. And also there was nothing that could be proven, about the kidnapping, the killings, the hazing, except Mo Xuanyu's death. So they made a compromise. Wen Ning would be sent to psychiatric hospital, while Wen Qing would have to undergo a year probation working under Dr. Xue. Mo Xuanyu's death would be written off as a kidnapping gone wrong, and no suspect had been found.
 
They would deal with Jin Su and Meng Airan themselves.

Jiang Cheng entered the room where the Wen siblings stayed, and he looked at Wen Qing with an indescribable expression on his face. He knew that Wen Qing only took him as a friend, nothing more, nothing less. But how he hoped that she at least would share some of her burden. With her brother, with her life. He would gladly help, even if only by listening to her talk about nothing. But sadly, it was just wishful thinking on his part alone. 
 
So, when the first thing that she did when she looked at him entering the door to the room was falling to his embrace, crying her heart out, he could feel the hope blossoming in his heart. At least this time she was willing to show even just a sliver of her emotion instead of just giving him a cold shoulder.

"Jiang Cheng, I think I screwed up big time." She talked in a low voice, with tears still in her eyes. "I want you to know that it was not my intention to do anyone harm, but they got my brother, and I-"

"It's okay, Qing. I understand. If someone took my sister, I, too, will do just like you did." Jiang Cheng kept Wen Qing in his embrace for as long as she's willing to. And she seemed to be in desperate need of comfort, since she settled down quite comfortably in his embrace, inhaling his masculine smell mixed with tobacco. It comforted her. "I promise I will help you go through this all."