Legend of Yu LanCh100 - epilogue: the color red

The next day, Fan Yi didn’t see Wu Lingtian at all. Whoever he asked would awkwardly avoid the question. If Fan Yi didn’t know what Wu Lingtian was up to, he would definitely have been suspicious. He let out a soft chuckle at everyone’s expense and went to find Ren Yizhou.

Ren Yizhou was sitting at a gazebo in the gardens. They seemed to be staring off in the distance. The soft cloth that normally covered their eyes were gone and their brows were slightly furrowed. As Fan Yi approached, a small smile curved onto their lips. They turned their head over their shoulder and waited for Fan Yi to be right beside them. medldK

“Where’s your cloth?” Fan Yi asked as he sat down beside Ren Yizhou.

“I felt a little stuffy today, so I took it off,” Ren Yizhou said.

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Ren Yizhou rarely took the soft cloth off, but when they did, they revealed a face of unparallel beauty. Their lashes were long and their eyes looked as if they once contained stars. Now, only lifeless glass-like orbs remained. Fan Yi’s smile faded a little as he watched Ren Yizhou pour him a cup of tea and place it right in front of him.

“Thank you,” Fan Yi said. k6JTRm

Ren Yizhou hummed. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. I just…feel like it’s been a long time since we’ve sat down together,” Fan Yi said.

Ren Yizhou chuckled. “Well, you sure have been busy. A lot has changed since Lingtian arrived, hasn’t it?”

“It has.”

Ren Yizhou turned their head out towards the greater part of the sect again.

“Anything on your mind?” Fan Yi asked, his voice softening a great degree.

“On my mind…?” Ren Yizhou murmured. “Not particularly. I was just wondering if we can experience some peace again.”

“There’s always some great evil out there,” Fan Yi joked. GAhiRS

Ren Yizhou nodded. “There is. But maybe with you around, it’ll finally stop.”

“Now, when did I become a hero?” Fan Yi asked, with a small smirk on his face.

“You’ve always been someone’s hero, Fan Yi,” Ren Yizhou said. They tilted their head back. “You were mine.”

“Oh please. You would have found a way to get out of there without me.” umyZb9

“But it would have taken much longer,” Ren Yizhou said. They reached across the table and lightly tapped Fan Yi.

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“I haven’t done anything. I didn’t do anything back then, and I haven’t done anything now,” Fan Yi said, his finger lightly tapping the side of the teacup.

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“Isn’t he talking about retirement all the time? Do you really think he wants to take over something like this before he leaves?” Ren Yizhou said.

“Then, should I just set them free?” Fan Yi murmured.

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“Just set up some type of alliance and leave them be,” Ren Yizhou said, vaguely waving their hand. “It’s not worth the trouble.”

Fan Yi nodded thoughtfully. “I’ll do that then. I don’t want to see those people more than I have to.” YCyzaO

Ren Yizhou chuckled. They raised their head, their attention on something past Fan Yi’s shoulder. “Someone’s here for you.”

Li Qing stopped beside Fan Yi. “Shizun!”

“What is it?” Fan Yi asked, raising a brow.

“Um…can you come with me?” Li Qing asked. tmbWYw

Fan Yi stared at her and glanced back at Ren Yizhou. “I suppose?”

Fan Yi was led away by Li Qing. He followed the girl, expecting to go to the main hall, but he was surprisingly brought down the mountain towards a lake. Just as they were approaching the path, Li Qing stopped. She let out a dramatic hiss and let go of Fan Yi’s hand.

“I just remembered something!” Li Qing exclaimed.

Fan Yi smiled in amusement. “What did you remember?” 54O16g

“I, um, Wu-shishu told me to get something for him,” Li Qing vaguely said. She nudged Fan Yi towards the lake. “Shizun, you go that way first.”

“Why do I have to go that way?” Fan Yi asked. “I’ll come with you.”

“No!” Li Qing blurted out. She stopped and covered her mouth. “Can you please go that way.”

Fan Yi raised a brow but took a step down the path. dKa3DM

Li Qing nodded encouragingly and then sprinted off before Fan Yi could ask anything else.

Fan Yi shook his head slightly and continued down the path. Once he arrived at the lake, he looked around curiously but found nothing there. For a moment, he wondered if Li Qing had taken him to the wrong place.

Just as he was about to turn to leave a shower of flowers fell from above. Fan Yi remained where he stood in shock. He placed a flower from his head and turned it in his fingers. His lips quirked up in amusement just as someone softly cleared their throat behind him.

Fan Yi turned around. ZCbVth

“Well, you already know,” Wu Lingtian said.

“Was this all you had?” Fan Yi asked in amusement.

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“No, I had a lot more,” Wu Lingtian said with a small sigh. “It was supposed to happen a lot with fireworks in the sky and lanterns in the lake.”

“You should have still done it,” Fan Yi said. 3vjmGd

“But you’re impatient. If I had waited that long, you would have definitely disliked it,” Wu Lingtian said. “Don’t worry, I’ll still do everything tonight.”

Fan Yi chuckled. “So? What’s this now?”

“Now, I’ll just give you the present I prepared,” Wu Lingtian said. He produced a box from behind his back and held it out to Fan Yi.

Fan Yi raised a brow, but slid the lid back. padWml

Inside was a carefully carved hairpin, fashioned from white jade into a magnolia branch. Fan Yi carefully lifted it from the box and then looked up at Wu Lingtian.

“It’s a bit rough,” Wu Lingtian said. “But I tried to salvage it.”

“Did you make this?” Fan Yi asked, his voice soft.

“I carved it a while ago,” Wu Lingtian said. “It was meant to be your birthday present, but…a lot of things happen and I didn’t get to attend that birthday banquet. I was going to make a whole new one, but it felt like it was a shape if I never gave this one to you. It was the first time I tried to carving anything, so it’s a little rough.” yT9HLx

Fan Yi’s grip on the hairpin tightened. “It looks very nice.”

Wu Lingtian smiled. “I was going to get us rings or something else that matched, since that was customary, but then I figured we already had these rings, but I still wanted to give you something so I—”

Fan Yi pressed a careful kiss to Wu Lingtian’s lips. The younger man stopped talking and watched as Fan Yi pulled back again.

“You still haven’t asked the question,” Fan Yi said with a soft smile. cyHgJW

“Do…” Wu Lingtian gulped. He cleared his throat and gently pulled the hairpin from Fan Yi’s hands. “You know, I’ve admired you since I was very young.”

Fan Yi chuckled, but he tilted his head curiously as he waited for Wu Lingtian to continue.

“This admiration drove me to become the person I am today. If I had never met you, I would have been a different Wu Lingtian. But because of you I found the strength to stay true to myself. At some point, this admiration dared to become something more,” Wu Lingtian said. He pinched at the hairpin and continued. “Thank you for saving me. Thank you for taking me in. And…thank you for letting me be by your side…But I’m a bit selfish. I still want something a little more. So…I know we already made some promises, but Yishan, would you allow me the honor of staying with you for the rest of eternity? Will you let me be your cultivation partner?”

Fan Yi smiled. “You have a way with words.” 9HlYps

Wu Lingtian’s brows raised. “And your answer?”

“You’re very romantic,” Fan Yi said with a light nod.

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“But your answer?”

“I don’t know when it started, but I do love you,” Fan Yi said. He gently took Wu Lingtian’s hand and kissed his knuckles, his gaze flickering up to meet the other’s nervous gaze. “Of course, I would agree.” olmZfv

Wu Lingtian breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could bask in this new victory, a pair of soft lips met his. He smiled into the kiss and wrapped his arms around Fan Yi’s waist, pulling him closer.

There was little to be said about the wedding.

Wu Lingtian and Fan Yi invited only their close friends to Qingyao Manor. The event was small. The remainder of the cultivation world only knew far after the fact that Wu Lingtian, as pure as white moonlight, had actually taken the vicious Sect Leader Fan as his cultivation partner. Many stories of their tale would later be written, rewritten, and then saved down in the annals of history.

As everyone rejoiced their union, Wu Lingtian would be caught spacing out every once in a while. WOswLN

And there was a simple reason for this: he had never liked the color red.

He preferred white, something that was so clean that it was easy to be stained. He preferred black, that was all encompassing yet so mysterious. The color red was too engrained in his past as a color of destruction and death. It was the color Rong Meihua adored and it was the color he had been forced to wear during the hardest time of his life. It was a harsh color. It was too passionate of a color.

But on the night of the wedding, Wu Lingtian came to a quiet realization. As he looked at the decorations that hung all across Qingyao Manor and as he looked at Fan Yi, with his brilliant smile, Wu Lingtian only had one thought on his mind—the color red was actually a very lovely color.

A/N: I could write an entire essay on how I feel about this story ending, but I’ll try not to LOL Yu Lan…is the first original story I’ve written in a long time. Over all, I’m proud of this story, despite there being some areas where I wish I had done better. In the course of the two years I spent with the characters, I’ve learned about them and, in turn, about myself. It’s a bit difficult to say goodbye to these characters that helped me get through my hardest years at uni, but everything has to end eventually. I’m just grateful that I was able to think of a satisfying enough ending for Wu Lingtian. And I hope, in whatever silly universe he exists in, he can continue to be happy. fTNJBd

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