The least he could do for a man who had saved the last of his family — was to take him to the stars.
(Or: this came from crazy idea: where Wen Ruohan lines up corpses to say "marry me", and Wei Ying revives the corpses and rebuilds them into a clear "NO".)
The first time Wei Wuxian heard about soulmates was in his childhood; unknown saleswomen were talking about it when he walked around Lotus Pier. Those women told soulmates could sense what his couple thought about them. Wei Ying still hadn't much faith in real this, not understanding how a person can feel another person's thoughts about him.
He was already used to this secret visits. Almost. Today, Jin Guangyao meets him right from the threshold of the guest quarters. He presents his thin but incredibly flexible body on silk sheets to him, like a dish at a recent feast his father gave. Nie Mingjue is in no hurry to start the banquet; he knows this dish is poisoned.
"I know how to protect us. All of us. We can't be afraid every day that the world will decide to kill us".
"And what do you suggest?"
"I will make them forget".
(Or: Wei Ying decides to create one big Obliviate for the whole world. This, oddly enough, works.)