A little crazy? Zizhen's heard the stories, he thinks a little crazy is putting it mildly, but he's not going to call Jin Ling out on it - especially not right now, when an attempt on his life has literally just been made.
"It's not your fault," he tells him quietly once Liling leaves, frowning at the question "I don't think you're so hated. I think it's just a group of stupid people who have decided to dislike you for their own stupid reasons, and your uncle just hasn't managed to get rid of all of them yet. I'm sure it's not that many, they're just good at hiding."
He hopes, anyway.
"They'll get them all, and you'll prove them wrong, because you are a good leader."
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Yuan seems to panic for a moment until his questing fingers curl around Lan Zhan's sleeve instead, and then he calms a little. He's at least still awake, sort of, though he's very much out of it and his breathing is weak.
Once Wei Wuxian hands Madam Mo over to some disciples to guard and warns them of the hell there will be to pay if she is not kept secure and ready for him and Hanguang Jun to interrogate, he goes immediately to find his family.
"Lan Zhan?" he almost bursts through the door, eyes seeking out their son and widening a little in panic - he had hoped to find something a little more sedate, a dozing junior freshly bandaged, or even awake and talking. The scene that greets him is... not that.
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A little crazy? Zizhen's heard the stories, he thinks a little crazy is putting it mildly, but he's not going to call Jin Ling out on it - especially not right now, when an attempt on his life has literally just been made.
"It's not your fault," he tells him quietly once Liling leaves, frowning at the question "I don't think you're so hated. I think it's just a group of stupid people who have decided to dislike you for their own stupid reasons, and your uncle just hasn't managed to get rid of all of them yet. I'm sure it's not that many, they're just good at hiding."
He hopes, anyway.
"They'll get them all, and you'll prove them wrong, because you are a good leader."
~~~
Yuan seems to panic for a moment until his questing fingers curl around Lan Zhan's sleeve instead, and then he calms a little. He's at least still awake, sort of, though he's very much out of it and his breathing is weak.
Once Wei Wuxian hands Madam Mo over to some disciples to guard and warns them of the hell there will be to pay if she is not kept secure and ready for him and Hanguang Jun to interrogate, he goes immediately to find his family.
"Lan Zhan?" he almost bursts through the door, eyes seeking out their son and widening a little in panic - he had hoped to find something a little more sedate, a dozing junior freshly bandaged, or even awake and talking. The scene that greets him is... not that.
"What's happening? What's wrong?"