IT'S LAUGHABLE, REALLY โ Wei Wuxian stopped bothering over nothings long ago. Nothings became a wide stretch, it didn't hurt, it doesn't even hurt anymore, perhaps he would've failed to notice the cut at all if it hadn't been for Lan Wangji's gentle interference. Still, his healthy hand jolts up to rub at the side of his nose awkwardly, and he lets a warm (if a little embarrassed) smile tug at his lips.
It's nothing, but the other is insistent, and Wei Wuxian knows better than to argue with that resolve โ not that he wanted to, anyway. โ Ayia, Lan Zhan, โ he drawls, a smile makes it softer, as if the sudden halt came from the sheer awkwardness of being seen. It can't be worse than dying, he doesn't say. By now it hasn't failed to register in his mind that Lan Wangji doesn't take this kind of joking too well, but his own attitude to pain had shifted so much ever since... he doesn't even remember when.
A weak golden core is better than none, but it would exhaust itself to heal even a minor injury. He'd joke about shoving his intestines back in and continuing battle, if it was a much worse scenario. He's done it before. Didn't even make a sound or let go of Chenqing when one of the ghosts slashed his arm. And yet he beams with reassurance, holding his hand out to let it be taken care of โ it tugs at a heartstring, somehow, this unyielding persistence the other has been radiating lately. Few would choose to stay by his side. No one would.
โ It's just a scratch. Hanguang-jun worries too much, โ comes a harmless (shameless) tease. It doesn't allow gratitude to evade his words. Such things are easy to forget โ ever since Wei Wuxian's unexpected resurrection, forgetting was all he's been doing. The tear in the black fabric of his sleeve is, however, something that makes him purse his lips in discontent. He liked these robes, but the stains Lan Zhan would get on his white ones feel like a pointless sacrifice. He wouldn't want to bleed on them.
Using his dizi doesn't come without a price, with a new body too fragile to adapt so easily, and he closes his eyes for a moment, breathing in and out slowly before hiding the exhaustion behind a carefree smile. โ We should be pretty close to Lanling. Let's stay at an inn tonight, hm? โ