The Cloud Recesses are always peaceful. One morning is much like another, before one gets up and interacts with the world.
This morning is a little bit different. But the only part of it he can perceive right now is in him, in the absence of pain.
Yes. Kisses and babycuddling. Wangji still has no idea how to do most things involved in raising an infant, but somehow he still feels very triumphant at the moment. His Wei Ying is alive and they are together with their son.
"I wish I'd gotten to spend time with Jin Ling, maybe then I'd have a better idea of what to expect."
"Yyyyyyes, but, also, I definitely want to already be married before the next time I'm within yelling distance of Madam Yu."
The distance between Nightless City and Lotus Pier is a lot shorter than the distance between Nightless City and Cloud Recesses, but between getting around to the actual elopement, acquiring baby-appropriate foods, figuring out bathroom issues, and other things, it still takes them several days to get there.
He does not mind it taking this long. Despite how glad he will be to have Lady Jiang's advice on rearing an infant, he can't complain about having more time alone with Wei Ying. More time getting to know their tiny baby, just the two of them.
Well, the two of them and Jiang Wanyin. But luckily for Jiang Wanyin, Wangji is decent at ignoring this.
He doesn't know very much about Madam Yu?
"She's...abrasive. Uh. Jiang Cheng takes after her a lot. She's never tried to kill me in any timeline as far as I know?"
"Jiang Cheng and Shijie both love her, she's their mom, but, uh, I'm not sure even they like her. I guess Madam Jin does. Not sure how someone Madam Yu gets along with and Jin Guangshan managed to produce someone Shijie could fall in love with."
"A-Yuan should not spend time around a person like that." Neither should you.
"...It's possible to spend a lot of time at Yunmeng without running afoul of her, and Shijie is definitely worth it. And she's capable of being polite, like, she isn't so much like that at anyone outside the sect that you've heard of it, and his name is Lan..."
"Lotus Pier has a lot of really great things about it even aside from Shijie and A-Yuan's childhood will definitely be better if he gets to visit. I wasn't joking back when we really were this young and I said it was great and I wanted to show you around. She isn't so bad that I couldn't have a happy childhood around her or anything. But okay, yeah, we can live in Gusu."
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.
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?"
"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.