I can only make guesses. But we only got to Mo village after it had happened, so it is all based on gossip. What I do know is that is Senior Wei, it is Mo Xuanyu's body, and that it is not possessed, because Sect Leader Jiang struck him with Zidian without expelling the soul.
But I'm sure young master Mo must have had his reasons.
a summoning spell... and jiang cheng, as sect leader, with zidian in his possession.
[he can put the pieces together. he's been slow on the uptake, in no small part because of how he's been kept in the dark, whether for his benefit or through his own blissful ignorance, but now that the cards are lining up -- wei wuxian doesn't like what he's seeing.]
At the end of a war, you were the only one who had mercy to forgive the struggling few survivors of what had been a clan of importance and cruelty. In all the time I have known you, and though there were many, many years in which you were gone, it has still been almost my entire life, your intentions have always been to protect, to shield, to help. You have never struck out unprovoked, and though really bad things happened, it was never your intent.
You never asked, let alone took, anything for yourself, for your own enrichment or to make you look better. Instead, you spent a time when people feared how powerful you were and what you might intend - you spent that time inventing things that the same people who feared you would use, and make their lives better.
I may be still young, but in my life, I have known only two people who might hold up in comparison to you. And they are Hanguang-jun and Zewu-jun.
[things are clearer, now. no less grim, to be sure, and the details are still vague, hidden behind careful phrasing, but wei wuxian feels himself enlightened - relieved, in a way, morbid as it is to have the facts of your death laid out so gently.
he did good. will do good, eventually, when he returns home.
wei wuxian can find peace in that.]
you have sanctuary with me, lan sizhui. call upon me as you need, alright?
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Gone-gone.
And then Mo Xuanyu did a ritual to bring his soul back into Mo Xuanyu's own body.
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who would want anyone to do that?
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But I'm sure young master Mo must have had his reasons.
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[he can put the pieces together. he's been slow on the uptake, in no small part because of how he's been kept in the dark, whether for his benefit or through his own blissful ignorance, but now that the cards are lining up -- wei wuxian doesn't like what he's seeing.]
was i a good person, sizhui?
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At the end of a war, you were the only one who had mercy to forgive the struggling few survivors of what had been a clan of importance and cruelty. In all the time I have known you, and though there were many, many years in which you were gone, it has still been almost my entire life, your intentions have always been to protect, to shield, to help. You have never struck out unprovoked, and though really bad things happened, it was never your intent.
You never asked, let alone took, anything for yourself, for your own enrichment or to make you look better. Instead, you spent a time when people feared how powerful you were and what you might intend - you spent that time inventing things that the same people who feared you would use, and make their lives better.
I may be still young, but in my life, I have known only two people who might hold up in comparison to you. And they are Hanguang-jun and Zewu-jun.
I know nobody is perfect.
But you were, and are, and will be a good person.
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i would die happy.
thank you, sizhui. for being honest with me.
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I'm sorry, this is not mine to judge. But all I have known you to do is to try to help and protect people.
If that is not good, I don't know what is.
And yes. You have done a lot of good. And I have no doubt you will do more.
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he did good. will do good, eventually, when he returns home.
wei wuxian can find peace in that.]
you have sanctuary with me, lan sizhui. call upon me as you need, alright?
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And you...
If you need anything. Call on me and I'll do my best.