Lan Wangji was having a hard time working. He was thinking about Wei Wuxian, her skin, her smell, her kiss… she was born an enchantress to be able to reduce him to this pile of hormonal mess instead of working . He sighed heavily. 
 
After Hua Cheng sent him the video of her fighting with Xue Qing, he got this sudden attack of lust, seeing how Wei Wuxian was so adept at fighting, and still be playful about it. But when his brother sneaked a glance at him for the nth time, he put his phone away and concentrated on the work in front of him.

The mess Meng Yao made was a catastrophic one. He used Lan Xichen's private accounts, which he never checked because, well, it was Meng Yao's job to check and balance it, and made full use of them. He bought private lands, buildings, warehouses, vehicles, even opened untraceable accounts in Cayman's and Swiss. He also used the money to pay for Meng Yiran and Meng Airan's expenses, which made Meng Yiran think that she was the intended bride of the Lans. Luckily, Liu Qingge had dealt with them all by closing them and transferred the funds into a couple of other untraceable accounts and he transferred all the ownership of the private properties and everything else to the Lan's Holdings. He also paid all the back tax and protected the account with a random-generated-password key, which could not be broken without the key. Then he gave the key to Lan Wangji.

Now the last problem was laying in the dealings he made with someone. Untraceable, of course, all transactions were paid in cash, and in large amounts. Usually that indicated drugs, or weapons dealings, when it combined with Meng Airan's job, it fit.

"This is such a mess. Why did you hire that twink again?" Nie Mingjue was so pissed when he found out about Meng Yao. He never liked the always smiling man, he just thought that the man was so fake. 

"He had this very impressive resume, and I was very busy. He did his job well though, albeit the pay was a lot more than I intended." Lan Xichen shrugged. He seemed not too bothered by his assistant's behaviour and it poured gasoline on Nie Mingjue's already lit fuse.

"I really can't believe you." Nie Mingjue shook his head in disbelief. Lan Xichen was too belittling these huge problems. If, and when they found out that the money that came out of Lan Xichen's accounts were used to do shady dealings, the repercussions would be severe.

"Well, it's just material things, you know, and we got them all back at the end." Lan Xichen shrugged. He was tired and he had more money than god, so he didn't seem to think much about the embezzlement.

"It's not about the money, brother. But these transactions really bothers me. Mingjue, can you call Huaisang here? I want to dig deeper into these."
 
But, suddenly a thought came into his mind, and he smiled. That would probably be a better idea.
 
"Nevermind, I'm just going to take these home with me. I know someone who would be delighted to find conspiracy in all of this." Lan Wangji closed his laptop and he hurried home to BingQiu's place, but not before stopping at liquor place and bought alcohol, then he bought a lot of hotpot ingredients, and spicy szechuan beef. He's going to woo his beloved, starting from today.

The property of BingQiu's house was vast and lush, and Wei Wuxian would like nothing more than to climb trees, albeit the night had come. He was accompanied by Chenqing, since Ruoye was going with that bastard Xie Lian. He was pretty sure that his cousin escaped from his wrath because he messed up with this body. With only half of the talisman, he could not access the full mode, which included a shapeshifting ability. In short, he was stuck until they found the other half. And the blood pact? It would connect him and Hanguang Jun forever , and that would mean that they had to be in close proximity so he could protect him. Funny how things turned out to be, from enemies to… whatever this was.
 
Wei Wuxian was so deep in his thought that he did not see the crack on the branch, so when he stepped on it, he lost his footing and fell down fast…
 
… into the arms of none other than Hanguang Jun.
 
Shit. How could the man that he was just having a thought about, just… appeared out of nowhere, and saved him like a damsel in distress? This was so embarrassing.
 
"We should stop meeting like this, Wei Ying." Lan Wangji chuckled, "it's the second time that you fell down from the sky and into my arms. And all because of a cat." 

Wei Wuxian smelled the familiar sandalwood and citrus, and strangely, he became relaxed. It was like some kind of a Pavlov effect, maybe? Anyway, he wondered why Lan Wangji had not put him down, instead he carried him into the house.

"Uhm, you can put me down now." Wei Wuxian suddenly became flustered when he imagined what Shen Qingqiu would say if he saw that they entered the house like a newly married couple.

"Mm, I want to do this. Is it okay with you?" Lan Wangji looked at him with his most earnest expression, but the glint of mischief in his eyes betrayed him. He needed to make Wei Wuxian familiarize herself with him, and the faster way was to touch each other. A lot. He smiled at the thought of that.

 "Anyway, I need your help with something, Grim Reaper." Wei Wuxian, who was just settling down in Lan Wangji's arms, became surprised.

"And what can I do to help you, Hanguang Jun? Catching bad guys? Punishing the sinner? Or just breaking into oh, I don't know, Pentagon maybe? Or Buckingham Palace? We should have a lot of fun doing that." Suddenly Wei Wuxian was brightened up by the prospect of doing something . He was so bored out of his skull for the rest of the day after Lan Wangji's departure. Not that he would admit it openly.

"First of all, you can help me by eating all of the food that I bought you." Lan Wangji put Wei Wuxian down in front of the table where the spread of food was covering the whole surface. The others were already helping themselves with the hotpot and cold beer.

"I just had a dejavu from the last time we ate hotpot here." Shen Qingqiu took a piece of kobe beef and swirled it lightly in the spicy broth, then put it in his mouth. "Mm… the best." 
Lan Wangji piled an insane amount of meat on Wei Wuxian's plate and he gladly finished them all and washed it down with cold beer.
 
 
"So, what favor does the mighty Hanguang Jun need from moi?" Wei Wuxian asked the man after he finished his meal and felt happy.

Lan Wangji took out his laptop, and he explained the situation with Meng Yao, and his suspicions of drugs and weapons smuggling. Wei Wuxian got the gist and he started to work with Lan Wangji's laptop and Liu Qingge's.

"Hmm, strange." Wei Wuxian rapped his fingers on the desk while thinking. "The money was withdrawn in the same vicinity around this area." He pointed at the location map. "More or less a few klicks, but the center is here. So, it's probably where the person who took the money resides." Then he looked closer into the map. "Look at this, Lan Zhan, this building." He pointed at the building right smack in the middle of the radius he mentioned. "It didn't have a commercial permit, but the traffic leads to and fro were heavy, especially at night."
 
Lan Wangji looked at the building Wei Wuxian pointed at, and he smiled.
 
"I know what it is."