Wei Wuxian jumped from the top of the container he was in and ran as fast as he could toward where the explosion was. He prayed hard that his barrier array arrived on time and protected the love of his life. He arrived at ground zero and noticed that there was a clear line dividing the ground between the explosion and where Lan Wangji was supposed to be standing, yet the person in question wasn't there, and it made him almost cry from the desperation he had never felt before in his life.

Please please please…

Wei Wuxian tried to calm himself before he scanned around and when he heard Lan Wangji coughing behind Xiao Hei, he quickly ran toward him.

"Lan Zhan! Are you okay?" He held Lan Wangji's face between his hands and checked for any injuries, but it appeared to be none, other than a little bruise from the gravel.

"I'm fine, I'm okay, Wei Ying..." Lan Wangji kissed Wei Wuxian's tears. "I was able to jump behind Xiao Hei right before your array appeared and stopped that psycho." He hugged the still sobbing Wei Wuxian and kissed his hair. "I'm alright baby, I'm fine, please don't cry…"

"I was so fucking terrified that my barrier arrived too late and that batshit psycho got you first." Wei Wuxian gripped Lan Wangji's waist tighter. "Damn, why did I get so emotional like this?" He wiped his snot and tears on Lan Wangji's shirt, and kissed him. "I can't have you experience something like this again, baby." Wei Wuxian kissed Lan Wangji again as he cast an array over his own heart and transferred it to Lan Wangji's heart. Lan Wangji jumped from the pressure just like the one when Xie Lian took his heart blood, but he calmed down when he heard Wei Wuxian whisper in his ear. "With this blood, what's mine will be yours and what's yours will be mine. We will share one fate, one life, from now on until the end of time." Wei Wuxian then kissed Lan Wangji softly. 

"It sounds like a marriage vow." Lan Wangji murmured in Wei Wuxian's lips, his heart soared to the sky when he heard those words and the latter chuckled while wiping his tears.

"Well, in a way, it is. The array will bind your life to mine, and mine to yours, and what protects me will protect you too." Wei Wuxian nuzzled Lan Wangji's neck. "And I'm not that easy to kill, if all."

"Mm, I get that already." Lan Wangji felt like a boulder was lifted from his heart and he hugged Wei Wuxian and kissed his tears-streaked face. He never looked more beautiful and Lan Wangji never felt more in love than now. "I love you, Wei Ying."

"I love you too, Lan Zhan." You had no idea how much… or how long.

Then they suddenly heard a loud crack and saw something… no, someone was running away from the ruin of the car, and the next second Wei Wuxian jumped toward the fire and checked on the still burning car, but there was no one there.

"We need to secure the area and call the gang here." Wei Wuxian spoke as he looked for the dark figure who just fled, but he could not find her anywhere. Right now he did not want to step away from his lover, in case anything else happened.

Meng Airan was lucky she was 'upgraded' by the drug that she had taken from her brother's place, otherwise there would be no Meng Airan in this world. But godfuckingdammit, the process of regenerating her severed hand was hurt like hell, and it was slow. Thankfully she was used to the pain, and hell, she even enjoyed it while she slumped on the floor of the empty warehouse near the pier, waiting for the nanites to finish the restoration of her hand.

She was thinking that it was too bad that bitch Jin Su also got the upgrade and she disappeared to kill whoever was the new girlfriend of Lan Wangji. Meng Airan did not understand the obsession Jin Su held over Lan Wangji and the persistence she had to be Mrs. Lan. Even Meng Airan knew that it was impossible for Jin Su to be Lan Wangji's wife since he was head over heels with the new girlfriend of his, for one. And he did not even interested in Jin Su. But then again, it was none of her business if that crazy bitch wanted to go on a suicide mission.

"I thought you were dead in the ditch somewhere." The annoying familiar voice was heard clearly from where Meng Airan was lying down.

Well, speak of the devil…

"Now you came? You were supposed to be here like half an hour ago!" Meng Airan was so pissed with this bitch's attitude. Ever since she was upgraded, she acted like she was an immortal queen or something, but then again Meng Airan always hated Jin Su.

"Be thankful that I came here at all." She scoffed and turned around. "What are you waiting for? You want me to carry you or what?" Jin Su spoke with a mocking tone, and she gave Meng Airan a passing once over. The way she looked at her  boiled Meng Airan's blood more, but she held herself back. 

"I can walk by myself." Meng Airan tried to stand up with pain and difficulty but she would rather die than ask the bitch for any help no matter how much she needed it. She was just inside an exploding car for chrissake.

"Good. Now move along, I don't have all day to babysit you. Got an important appointment to keep with my husband and daughter." Jin Su walked to the car she brought, a nondescript sedan and entered it.

Meng Airan cursed Jin Su in her head. She did not like this crazy delusional bitch ever since she met her, and now it had multiplied a thousand fold. She swore that she would definitely pay this bitch back when she recovered.

"Uhh…" Liu Qingge took the severed arm with his gloved hands. "Is this what I think it is?" He showed it to Wei Wuxian, who was still fussing over Lan Wangji's tiny abrasions. Shen Qingqiu rolled his eyes seeing the scene, and it seemed like Lan Wangji enjoyed it. He came with Luo Binghe and Liu Qingge, while Hua Cheng came with Xie Lian. Wei Wuxian glanced at what Liu Qingge was holding and he stopped what he was doing, then he approached him.

"It's a human hand." Wei Wuxian took the spare gloves and wore them before he looked at the hand. The edge of the torn flesh was glowing with an eerie red glow and it seemed to be repairing itself, so he quickly collected a bit of the red part and then burned the hand with his black fire. He then put the red liquid inside a vial and secured it.

Xie Lian came over and looked at what Wei Wuxian was doing and he stopped in his tracks. He then took the severed arm and examined it.

"Someone injected modified nanites on this person." He spoke in a low voice to Wei Wuxian.

"I suspect so too." Wei Wuxian whispered to him back. "Do you think it was Qi Rong's doing?"

"Well, who else in this world could do this? Besides you and me?" Xie Lian looked at Wei Wuxian with that look. 

"We need to go to the Lan's Tech ASAP."