A continuation of Little Turnip Buried Underground, from Lan Wangji's perspective.

This part was supposed to be titled 'Cold Jade Mourn For His Turnip' but I changed it to not cause confusion

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Never would he thought of feeling emotions more intense than thinking about Wei Ying

Never would he thought of feeling this broken, on par with the news of his Muqin's death, or maybe even worse

Never would he thought of having the urge to abandon everything and to go on a rampage

Never would he thought there will be the time he wants to pick up the vilified Demonic pathway and walk on a narrow bridge

Never did he think he would HateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHateHate

H A T E

L O A T H E

KILL THEM!

Never would Lan Wangji think he would die willingly with such enormous resentment in his heart, embedded deep in his soul, that even the notorious Lan Clan that excels in cleansing can put him to rest or subdue him.

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A few days after the siege of Luanzang Gang

The whipping scar on his back is angry red, blood still flowing and seeping through the bandages.

The healer that just changed his dirty bandage to the new fresh one has her face in pity.

Careful hand pluck off the bandage one by one, layer per layer.

When a finger accidentally caresses one of the scars, Lan Wangji whimpers and his whole body winch.

"Hanguang-Jun"

"Leave"

"But Hanguang-Jun, Lan-

"LEAVE"

So the healer left Jingshi.

With a grunt and full effort, taxing his body, Lan Wangji managed to move his body a little to the right.

As the sting comes back to torment him, Lan Wangji closes his eyes and endures it.

The scars on my back are my failure.

My failure to protect Wei Ying.

Wei Ying-

WEI YING!

He sobs. Tears downing on the cold, pale skin, the candle flame light reflected by the tears, gleaming.

33 scars.

He was whipped 33 times.

By his uncle.

For each elder, he hurt.

For what reason?

Justifying their hypocrisy?

To cover their misdeed?

The same way they hid behind their rules every time?

The same way they killed his Muqin because she married his Fuqin?

To reason why they killed the child? THE CHILD?

When has Gusu Lan fallen this far?

...

A small gasp escapes The Second Jade's lips.

Since a long time ago

Since he was forbidden from visiting his Muqin.

At first, he thought that the reason he couldn't visit Muqin is that she is sick.

As he grew older, why there was never a healer?

Why is her compound far from the healers of Gusu Lan?

The elders, seniors that once respected and lived with their words, has it always been true?

No.

They never.

And now, the whip scars.

They said he associates himself with evil.

Aren't they the real evil?

They said that he did the wrong thing and break the rules.

What happened to the rule 'Protect The Innocent'?

Isn't protecting innocent victims, civilians and innocent children and not vilifying someone based on their name only, is the right thing?

Lan Wangji hadn't been there during the Siege. He was bedridden.

If he was there, he'd do anything to keep Wei Ying and his son safe.

It was XiongZhang that told him.

It was XiongZhang that slaughtered the elders in Luanzang Gang, along with other Lan elders and sects.

It was XiongZhang that witnessed the child's death.

It was XiongZhang that has the first realization.

It was XiongZhang that trusted Jin Guangshan's lies.

It was XiongZhang that decided to believe his San-Di instead of his Wangji.

Now, where is he?

Where is the beloved San-Di?

What did he do that he doesn't, that makes XiongZhang trust him more?

Tell this Wangji.

What makes Jin Guangyao more trustable than him?

His XiongZhang is only able to walk away after his punishment.

Only a sorry.

You said you trusted me.

Was everything that you promised me after Muqin died a lie? A facade? To make yourself not guilty?

Is our brotherly bond a lie?

Must A-Yuan, an innocent child, a child that Wei Ying protects and loves, along with the Wen remnants protected be sacrificed first for you to believe?

Just a simple visit, XiongZhang. A simple visit is all it takes to prove.

I begged you, I told you so many times.

And now, the child is dead and all you can say is 'Sorry'?

"I'm sorry, Wangji, for not believing you"

SORRY?

"Get out, Lan Xichen"

"Wangji, I-"

"Get out. Talk to your beloved San-Di. Talk to your said 'Sworn Sibling'"

"Wangji! That is enough-"

"GET LOST!"

The same words that Wei Ying told him.

The same words he told XiongZhang.

Lan Xichen is stubborn.

"Wangji, I said sorry"

"Your sorry doesn't make the child alive and has his soul full, Lan Xichen. Now get out. Get Lost."

The First Jade flinches and left the Jingshi.

Now, he mourns.

Mourns.

And mourns.

Mourn for the Lan Wangji that abide by every rule that makes no sense.

Mourn for the Lan Wangji that lost his mother.

Mourn for the Lan Wangji that doesn't know what is his feeling toward Wei Ying.

Mourn for the child he unknowingly has

Mourn for his Zhiji, now missing, and cannot be found.

Mourn for the child that dies unjustly.

And he hates.

Hates the hypocrisy.

Hates the restraining 3000 rules.

Hates his Shufu.

Hates XiongZhang.

Hates the Jianghu.

Hates...

On his Inaction.

He was a coward.

And now, Wei Ying and A-Yuan, his Zhiji and son, have to pay the price.

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"Mama, where are you going?"

"A-Yi, Jingyi, Baobao, mama has to be in a night hunt as a healer"

"Why mama can't stay?"

"Mama has too, Baobao"

"Baba left us in a night hunt!"

"Mama promise that mama will come back, okay A-Yi?"

"Mama..."

"Mama will be back, A-Yi"

"The healer got caught in a crossfire"

"Really? I thought she was being reckless"

"Her recklessness probably brought her to the crossfire"

"Was she trying to play hero? She's a healer!"

"I think I heard that she attempted an assassination"

"What?! That's crazy! No wonder they killed her immediately!"

"Shush! Don't get too loud. What if the child hears us?"

"What child?"

"The healer has a boy, 5 years old"

"Poor boy, having to lose a mother"

"I'd say great. The healer wasn't someone I like"

"Shhh!!"

"What?"

"The child is over there"

"That child is a disgrace to the Lan. He's loud and nothing like a Lan at all!"

~

"Jingyi"

The kid saluted

"Hanguang-Jun"

"Mn. Sit down"

Lan Jingyi sits down

Hanguang-Jun gives him a calligraphy lesson.

Hanguang-Jun teaches him about cultivation.

Hanguang-Jun is teaching him while he's laying on his stomach, he's wrapped with... Bandages?

Hanguang-Jun was teaching him when he is hurt. Jingyi adores this senior of his. The only senior that doesn't sneer at his loud, energetic self.

But this senior...

He looks... Sad

"Hanguang-Jun"

The brush in Lan Jingyi's hand stopped moving.

"Why... Are you sad?"

Lan Wangji closed his eyes.

Panicking, Lan Jingyi hurriedly added, "A-Ah- Hanguang-Jun! If you don't want to answer that is perfectly fine!"

"Lost someone"

Lan Jingyi stares at Lan Wangji

"Lost... Someone? Like Jingyi lost baba mama?"

"Mn."

Even though Lan Jingyi is always mocked for his loudness, he knows when to be quiet.

Far more, knows the pain of losing someone.

The two settle in silence while the lesson continues.

~

"You! You loud brat! You disciplined runt!"

"You tainted Lan Wangji!"

"You are the embodiment of EVIL!"

"He was bedridden and easily controlled by us. And when we sent you to him after we killed your mother to imprison him as we did to the previous Madam Lan"

"Jingyi!"

"H-Hanguang-Jun! W-What is happening?"

Globs of tears down on the kid's face.

Lan Wangji, once again restrained, once again have to watch as people he grows to love, are killed by his clan.

Killed by his elders.

Again.

Is once not enough?

Are they that unsatisfied with only killing a child?

Is it justified to kill a child because they thought they tainted their so-called 'perfect jade'?

Splat

Another life loss.

Muqin, Fuqin...

Did the elders also kill both of you too?

Was everything about the seclusion and the imprisonment because of their 'Justice'?

The cold jade cracks,

And breaks.

Splat

Blood splattered on the wooden floor in Jingshi.

The quiet room lives to its name.

Bichen sliced the throat of its own master.

It retaliates, at first.

But then, it understands.

Last slice, last cut, and the spirit die. Along with its master.

Different to the master's sword, the Guqin is more stubborn.

It sulks.

The strong refuses to play any notes.

But as its master keeps trying, it gives it a chance.

Inquiry is played.

Two people are called.

The two don't answer.

Won't or can't?

Can't.

The mighty Hanguang-Jun has the Inquiry skill that makes, even the unwilling spirits, talk.

It means, the two people its master tried to call, are gone.

Gone for good.

Its master wept and wept.

And brings his sword to his neck.

The sword panics

But gives an understanding of why their master did it.

The Guqin lets go, playing final notes, and went to eternal rest, along with the sword and his master.

They hope that even in the afterlife, they'd still be used.

~

Lan Wangji died in grief, anger, and regrets.

Now the sect that has tied him down for his entire life had gone for good.

The amount of resentment towards the cultivation world and his sect defeated the soul-cleansing ritual he had.

And now, a white ghost with Guqin on his back, and a sword in his hand, hovering across the land, searching for his lost soulmate and son.

'I heard the reason why Hanguang-Jun ends his life is because he had a child with Yiling Laozu'

'A child? Do you mean the child that the sect killed in the Siege of Luanzang Gang?'

'I think so. My cousin in Yiling told me that Hanguang-Jun once eat in his inn with Yiling Laozu and the kid. He said that they look like a domestic family'

'No wonder he did that. The grief must be so deep'

'Only the younger brother of the Nie-Zongzhu and the child of the deceased Jin-Zongzhu and late Jin-Furen is spared'

'What a pity, what a pity

'Not really. Do you remember how Jiang-Zongzhu destroyed our family business after the 'renounce of Yiling Laozu'?'

'That angry arrogant. No one in Yunmeng and Yiling likes him'

'Peh! Sooner or later, Yunmeng Jiang will fall from its grace since that jealous lady whipping her tool here and there'

'She died in an attack of the Wens'

'How shameful. And here I thought that she was a strong cultivator. All she does is destroy people's businesses and properties, along with screaming at people'

A long time ago, there was peace.

A long time ago, there was a war.

A long time ago, there were schemes and injustice.

A long time ago, there was a slaughter of the innocents.

A long time ago, there is a ghost in white clothes, Guqin, a sword, and a face as cold as jade, wandering across the land.

A long time ago, the ghost found his other half and piece by piece, the soul of his child gathered and they form a small family.

Lots and lots of regrets and misunderstandings are cleared up, and there were so many tears are spilt.

Whether they cross the Naihe bridge and reincarnate together,

Nobody in the mortal and ghost realm knows.

Maybe they decided to stay on earth and take a journey to every corner of the world.

Maybe they gained a body through hundreds of years of cultivation.

But that is a different story,

At another time.

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Oops. Sorry Jingyi.

Andddddd that's a wrap up for Lan Wangji's POV and some other POV here and there.

With nothing to hold on to, what's for LWJ to live?

With no A-Yuan, I guess Hanguang-Jun's stubbornness will be blamed on the next kid in LWJ's care.

And Jingyi is the perfect victim for the elders to point at.

Loud, brash and energetic.

What a combination of disasters.

Once again, I am so so sorry, Jingyi. Here's a fried chicken for you 🍗

I was having fun with this and perhaps will make another chapter?

Idk :D

I'll leave that problem for the future me √>w•)√

Perhaps some readers are curios on w