Yuan wants to check on Jingyi, desperately wants to make sure he's okay, but he's frozen in fear and he daren't step any closer. When Xiaowen starts tapping the candlestick, he backs off, not stopping until he bumps into a low table and almost falls over it.

He'd heard... he'd heard Yuan accuse him and now Yuan is stuck here, alone, in a silenced room with no way of defending himself and he's an idiot. Xiaowen's words made him feel sick - the whole situation makes him feel sick.

"Wh-what do you want?" he asks - is he just here for revenge? Or does he have some other twisted scheme in mind?

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"It's not your fault," Wei Wuxian murmurs, head buried against his husband's chest "You looked for him, you thought... it's not your fault. I'm grateful you looked for him at all. My poor little radish...."

He looks up suddenly, desperate.

"But we'll make it up to him. We have him back now. He's never going to have to... we'll keep him safe."