Ooh excellent. 

"We should get a little closer to Nightless City before I paint these and send them off," he decides, examining them. "Just so it's less likely that someone notices them and decides to interfere. Or connects them to the purchases you made."

Sounds good. Wangji approves of plans that involve him carrying Wei Wuxian more.

Shall they hop on Bichen again? (Jiang Cheng can come too, if he really wants.)

Where else exactly would he go? Back to Cloud Recesses? To explain this to Lan Xichen? No thanks, Lan-er-gongxi can do that himself.

Wei Wuxian decides to distract Lan Zhan with kisses before he can snap at Jiang Cheng for that. 

This works, For Now. (He is sure Jiang Wanyin will continue to provide reasons to snap at him. He is remarkably consistent about doing that.)

Off they go, then. 

Wei Wuxian picks a good spot near-ish Nightless City, but not so close they can't keep hidden. He unpacks the mannequins, paints their eyes with blood taken from the smallest, shallowest cut possible, I promise, Lan Zhan, gives them their instructions and sends them off. 

"And now we wait. And hope that worked," he says, curling up against Lan Zhan and letting the latter kiss his really completely insignificant injury. 

No injury on his Wei Ying is insignificant. It will be Very Kissed and Wei Ying will be Very Cuddled.

"When will we know?"

"I think probably if Wen Ruohan dies we will be able to figure it out. They'll probably either succeed or fail by, I dunno, it'd be weird if they were still trying this time tomorrow."

Squeeze. 

He squeezes back. "If we don't get any indication that Wen Ruohan was successfully assassinated by tomorrow I can start hunting up corpses again."

“Mn.”

 They can hold each other, and wait.

After almost three hours, Nightless City starts swarming like a kicked anthill. 

"...That could mean success or failure," he murmurs. "If they were caught in the attempt..."

This is highly stressful. "Do we get closer?"

"Hmm. I could send a paperman, if...we had paper...you could try Inquiry?"

"For Wen Ruohan?"

"I was thinking if there was anyone he killed hanging around to notice and be gleeful about it."

"Mn." He takes out his qugin and gets to work on that.

Anyone out there?

Wen Ruohan is super dead and there are a lot of ghosts happy to tell him all about it. 

He nods at Wei Ying, eyes just a little wide.

Tackle-kiss!!!!

Kiss! Wow!

"It is safe, now," he says, almost incredulous. "You are safe."

"We're all safe, nothing is going to burn, everything is going to be okay."

He nods, kisses Wei Ying's forehead. Keeps playing. Do you know of remaining dangers?

Well there are a bunch of people Wen Ruohan had thrown in dungeons to be tortured horribly who aren't quite dead yet. 

Also if the Xuanwu's curse isn't satisfied with Wen Ruohan and his sons dying that could be bad? 

This one couple left behind a baby and they're worried what will happen to their little A-Yuan. 

"Wei Ying."