Wei Ying goes off to find Lan Zhan. 

Hugs!!!

"I have found a way to not make you break your rule," she says, nuzzling Lan Zhan's neck. 

She likes being hugged and nuzzled! Neck-nuzzling makes it very difficult to think, but Lan Zhan makes a valiant effort. "Mm?"

"Yao-ge is going to take me on a road trip to show me his mother's grave."

Pet pet. "I am glad. Be careful."

"I will." Snuggle. "She must have been such an amazing person." 

Snuggle, nod. "It must have been terrifying needing to raise a child in a place like that."

"I can hardly imagine. And--hoping all the time your child's other parent would come for you, and it never happening--ugh, I want to kick Sect Leader Jin in the balls. That fucker. Bad enough to be disloyal to your wife, how much worse to treat your own child like that--!"

"At least she never had to see Sect Leader Jin reject her son."

"There is that. But it means he didn't have her when it happened." 

"Do you know how she died?"

"No. But it wasn't peacefully of old age, I can do enough math to figure that out." 

"There are a lot of unpleasant ways a woman in her position could die." 

"Mm."

"Ugh. Well. Sect Leader Jin's loss is our gain." Snuggle snuggle. Kiss? Kisses seem like a good distraction from depressing topics. 

Kisses are nice.

Lan Zhan is going to miss Wei Ying a lot, though it doesn't seem constructive to tell her so.

Wei Ying is going to miss Lan Zhan too. But it'll only be for two weeks, and then they'll be married. 

Yes. Lan Zhan is very, very excited to be married.

Meng Yao arranges for them to depart the day before the separation must begin, so that they can wish each other goodbye. Lan Zhan hugs Wei Ying very tightly.

Such tight hugs. 

"I love you. I miss you already." 

"I love you. You must be safe."

"I will. What could even happen?" She has the Yin Iron, but the Wen have no way of knowing that, right, not from a distance. 

She kisses her very deeply.

And then makes herself walk away before she can change her mind about following the tradition.

Shall they?

Yeah okay. 

"She's so good. I'm so lucky." 

"You seem to both value each other deeply. I believe your marriage is destined to be harmonious."