Snugglekiss. "Alright." 

Lotus Pier is beautiful, when they arrive, with the sunset gleaming across the lakes. People notice them when they arrive, but don't rush up to bother them. Wei Wuxian tugs Lan Zhan inside, looking for his sister. 

His sister is not hard to find. 

"A-Xian! You're okay!" she cries, hugging him. 

Wangji is helpfully holding the baby so that hugging is enabled. He bows. "Jiang-guniang."

She bows back once she's hugged her brother enough. "Lan-er-gongxi. Thank you for helping my brother. Who's this little one?"

He holds out the baby. "Lan Yuan."

"Awww, aren't you a cutie. What's he doing all the way out here?" she asks, blithely assuming this is some random Lan cousin or something.

"He is ours."

"Huh?" 

"Uh, it's kind of a long story, but--we eloped. And we adopted this baby." 

"A-Xian..."

"I'm completely serious, Shijie!" And then, to demonstrate, he kisses Lan Zhan. Poooossibly more enthusiastically than a simple demonstration calls for but they just got married, okay, he is allowed to be overly enthusiastic about kissing his ~husband~.

This is embarrassing, but kissing Wei Ying is worth all possible amounts of embarrassment. He kisses back.

"Apologies for lacking an official ceremony, Jiang-guniang. You would have been invited."

"Ah! I'm not offended, don't worry, this is just...a surprise. Last I was aware A-Xian hadn't even worked out he had feelings for you." 

Surprised blinking.

"He spoke of you often, though. What happened?" She chucks A-Yuan under the chin. "You didn't come out of thin air, I bet." 

He glances around the public hallway, where nobody else is at the moment but someone could show up at any second. "That's actually a really complicated story and we're planning to lie about most of it for general audiences. Preferably including Uncle Jiang and Madam Yu. And the true story is kind of really hard to believe. Probably Madam Yu will show up any minute now wanting an explanation so the real one can wait, but--I'm not lying to you about it, even by omission by not letting you know ahead of time that the explanation I'm giving everyone else is false." 

"A-Xian, did you have something to do with what's been happening in Qishan?" 

"...Between me and Lan Zhan we had pretty much everything to do with what's been happening in Qishan." 

"How--no, explain later, you're right, Mom really shouldn't hear this." 

Almost as though summoned by the mention of her, Yu Ziyuan sweeps in. 

"Wei Wuxian! Where have you been? Everything's been in chaos as people were looking for you! Don't you have any idea how your actions affect others?" She spots Lan Wangji and her scowl deepens. "You've even managed to drag the Lans into this!?"

She can be scowled at right back.

Not having met Lan Wangji before, it might be difficult for Yu Ziyuan to distinguish between 'dignified, reserved, possibly bored' and 'radiating utter disdain', but Wangji does his best to convey the latter.

"Madam Yu." He speaks her name more like a warning than a greeting.

"Lan-gongxi. I apologize for whatever trouble my husband's ward may have caused you." 

"My husband has caused me no trouble, Madam Yu."

"Wait, what?"

"Wei Ying and I have wed."