This makes Lan Zhan feel warm and soft and fuzzy inside, like it always does. Wei Ying is so sweet.

"I want the wedding to be soon. I have decided."

"Okay! How soon? Probably both our families will be annoyed with us if we don't give them a little time to prepare." 

"Three weeks, if nothing terrible interrupts us. We are not supposed to see each other for a fortnight before the wedding ceremony."

"What? A fortnight?"

Apologetic hugging. "It is the rule."

"I'm terrible at following rules," she grumbles into Lan Zhan's shoulder. "If you expect me to follow all the rules we have to live at Lotus pier where there aren't three thousand of them." 

Squeeze. Lan Zhan does not expect Wei Ying to follow all the Lan rules, but Lan Zhan cannot practice this particular rule on her own. 

She would really like for their wedding to not break more rules than it has to, at this point, when so many have already been broken.

"Mrrgh. I'll try. But I don't wanna make you any promises I'm not sure I can keep." 

Pet pet.

Pet pet snuggle kiss kiss. If they are maybe not going to see each other for two whole weeks they'd better start making up for it now. 

Excellent thinking. Lan Zhan is going to miss Wei Ying’s neck, for instance, so perhaps she should pay her respects to it now.

Wei Ying's neck is a great place for respect, Wei Ying feels so respected. There are places on Lan Zhan where respects ought to be paid too. 

Those places are very appreciative. Lan Zhan will express appreciation.

Eee. 

When respect and appreciation and so on have all been duly expressed (for the moment), Wei Ying goes to find A-Cheng and Shijie and tell them about the three weeks thing. 

"That's going to be an interesting two weeks," Jiang Cheng predicts. 

"Ehehe, maybe." 

Yanli is excited and starts making wedding plans in her head and heads off to the Lan contingent to investigate other wedding-related traditions. 

Wei Ying sits and pouts about the two weeks thing and tries to come up with a plan that prevents her from deciding in the moment that rules are dumb and sneaking in to see Lan Zhan. 

Maybe it would be good to travel away and find something else to do in those two weeks? 

"Oh! Yao-ge!" She jumps up and hugs him. "That's a good idea, actually. Did you have anywhere in mind?" 

"If you like... I have been meaning to visit my mother's grave."

S Q U E E Z E

"That sounds like a great idea." 

Being squeezed is a strange and novel experience, but also a pleasant one.

"Thank you, A-Ying. I will make arrangements."

"Awesome! We should leave in about a week, it's supposed to be the fortnight before the wedding that we don't see each other and we plan to marry in three weeks, so. Thanks. I'm honored that you'd bring me for this." 

"I am honored that you wish to accompany me."

He starts putting everything in place to be able to leave for a week without anything collapsing.