"Ha, I'll bet she is. Wen Qing's niece and raised by the legendary Hanguang-jun, how could she have turned out any other way?" 

"She is herself." 

"Of course! I didn't mean to suggest otherwise." 

"Mn." 

Awwww she doesn't want her dads sad.

"Being myself doesn't mean I can't be people's kid, too," she says. "It's - I want to be myself but I'm also proud of where I came from. Of both my dads."

He hugs her again. "You're wonderful," he tells her. "I'm so glad you're okay."

"We are also glad you are alive." 

"Ah, I can't believe you've somehow forgiven me for anything." 

"Nothing to forgive." 

"Nothing to forgive? I know there were Lan disciples at the Siege, at Nightless City..." 

"They should not have been there."

"...Ah, I'm really glad it's you who found me out," he says, shaking his head. 

Hug!

"I'm - we're - glad you're back."

"Well...I was absolutely planning to try to make a break for it before we reached Cloud Recesses, but if you're here, there's no way I will." 

"I'd be very sad if you vanished!"

"Glad to hear it, little radish," he says, ruffling her hair. 

She laughs and swats at his hand.

Jingyi comes back after not much longer, and the four of them plus ornery donkey set off. 

Around Jingyi, Wei Wuxian keeps up the "lunatic cutsleeve Mo Xuanyu" act, behaving even more erratically than usual and flirting outrageously with his coparent. 

That's really funny. She helps some of his acts, playing off his jokes, teasing him about courting her father properly.

Wow this would sure be great if Wei Ying meant any of it. He doesn't. Wangji should probably ask A-Yuan to ask Wei Ying to cut it out. 

Instead he does not do that. 

"Your skin is a lot thicker than it used to be," Wei Ying giggles one evening when they're alone. "Before I died, you would have freaked out completely at someone acting like this around you." 

"Thirteen years changes much."

"I guess it would." 

They reach Cloud Recesses without serious incident, somehow. 

That's good. She's - really excited about having her family whole again, but also she's started thinking about everyone who hates Wei Wuxian and it's kind of stressful...

"Are you okay?"