"Yes," he says, faintly, eyes closing to treasure that stupid memory, because it has Wei Wuxian smiling in it. "He will be Lan Yuan, and I will go from Rich-gege, to Father."
That brings him to a final matter: "I was supporting the Burial Mound villages with my stipends. Help is bought very cheaply, across the threshold. But it was injustice to let them starve or freeze."
This brings up the obvious that he will not speak of: he was seeing Wei Wuxian in secret. This casts all sorts of new light on his behavior, but he is certain it no longer matters. Wei Wuxian is dead, his heart sundered with him.
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Date: 2020-11-02 08:39 pm (UTC)That brings him to a final matter: "I was supporting the Burial Mound villages with my stipends. Help is bought very cheaply, across the threshold. But it was injustice to let them starve or freeze."
This brings up the obvious that he will not speak of: he was seeing Wei Wuxian in secret. This casts all sorts of new light on his behavior, but he is certain it no longer matters. Wei Wuxian is dead, his heart sundered with him.