Chapter 97 - Longing (Part Eight) (2/2)
Wei WuXian, “Come back! What are you running for?”
Wen Ning came back again, “Searching for alcohol…”
Wei WuXian, “You… I was only saying that, and you really went to search. You’re not really my servant, are you?”
Wen Ning, “I know.”
Wei WuXian, “Besides, do you have money?”
Wen Ning, “No…”
Wei WuXian, “You see?! I knew it!”
Wen Ning envied, “But Young Master Lan has a lot… a lot of money… It’s so nice.”
“Ugh.” Wei WuXian slammed the back of his head onto the wall a few times, sighing a bunch, “Nevermind. I won’t drink ever again.”
Wen Ning was surprised, “Why?”
Wei WuXian, “Alcohol makes things go wrong. I’m gonna go abstinent.”
Wen Ning’s lips twitched. Wei WuXian, “What do you mean by this? You don’t believe me?”
Wen Ning mumbled, “No, no… But back then, didn’t Sister fail to get you off alcohol, even after trying everything she could…”
“Haha, haha.” Wei WuXian recalled, “She just poked holes into my body with her needles every other day or so, didn’t she?”
After he laughed for enough, Wei WuXian suddenly spoke up, “Wen Ning, have you ever thought about what you want to do, after this whole mess has ended?”
Wen Ning paused in surprise, “What I want to do?”
Right now, in this world, Wen Ning didn’t have many close friends left. In fact, he didn’t even know many of the people. Since long ago, he hadn’t been good at thinking for himself, much less making decisions. He was either following Wen Qing or Wei WuXian. Apart from this, he likely didn’t know where he should go or where he could go for that matter. But Wei WuXian had always hoped that he could find his own path. Saying it like this, though, seemed as if he was chasing him away.
He thought about it some more. Wen Ning didn’t know where he was going, but he didn’t know either, did he? In the beginning, when he was with Lan WangJi, he never thought about this problem at all. He took it as granted that they’d continue like this without change. But after tonight, maybe he and Lan WangJi wouldn’t go back to how they were ever again. Without Lan WangJi, it seemed as if it wasn’t too impossible for him to roam the world on his own.
But a voice in Wei WuXian’s heart told him with clarity, No, you can’t.
The words he said back on Koi Tower really proved to be true. The current Wei WuXian couldn’t do without Lan WangJi.
Wei WuXian let out a long sigh, despairing, “I want to drink.” The more he thought about it, the more dispirited he felt. The anxiety that had nowhere to go finally became a raging fire. He leaped up, “Fuck. Wen Ning, let’s go!”
Wen Ning, “Where are we going?”
Wei WuXian, “Looking for trouble!”