WAIT I JUST REALIZED THAT THE OFFICIAL/REVISED RELEASE SKIPPED OVER AN ENTIRE SECTION OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOMENTS IN THE ORIGINAL
“Nothing,” Wei Wuxian said, merry. “Lan Zhan, you really are a good person.”
Lan Wangji, seemingly unsure as to how he should respond to this, shot him a strange look.
Wei Wuxian continued speaking. “And I just realized, how can I be this bad? Even as a kid, I was bad. If I apologize to you now, would it be too late?”
At this, Lan Wangji raised an eyebrow, a rare moment of expressiveness from him. “Apologize?”
In the past, each time this person would demand that he apologize, his wrongdoings would only escalate in magnitude. “Don’t look at me like that,” Wei Wuxian said. “I’m being serious. Ah, forget it. Let’s not bring up old debts, shall we?”
Looking back now, it’s hard not to feel guilty for what he’s done when they were both young.
“It’s probably because he’s always so stoic… that I can’t help but love seeing him lose his composure,” Wei Wuxian thought. “That’s probably why I always felt the need to tease him so. Really, I was terrible!”
It’s good, then, that Lan Zhan never truly hated him.
It is strange: even though they were supposed to be on the run, Wei Wuxian couldn’t feel even the slightest bit nervous. Riding a donkey and being led by Lan Wangji, his heart felt light, as though it were floating in his chest. In this moment, feeling like this, even if they were to be attacked and ambushed right now, it really wouldn’t seem like such a big deal.
