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lan wangji
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...Wei Ying.

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Lan Zhan?

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Not even you could have saved everyone.

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No one can. Working together, we can try to limit the losses. Just took too long to understand there were those who would stand side by side and try.

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To learn late is not to neglect.

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It isn't.

Which is why I speak with you.

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Perhaps... Jiang Cheng and you should reconstruct her tablet.

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Ah... yes. We should.

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You fear he will deny you.

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( ...................... he's touched and also vaguely uncomfortable he's this Known. )

That may in fact be true, yes.

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He will not, in this.

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Then I'll try to be brave.

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You have never known a day of cowardice.

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When it comes to the ones I care for most, I have.

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But learned.

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Little by little. I fear his loss more.

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Sizhui?

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I've mourned him once.

I have no plans to do so again.

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You will not. No need.

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Can we just die peacefully together in our white haired years?

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Impossible. Wei Ying refuses death.

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He embraces life, so where are you? My arms are empty. ☹️

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Your arms can only carry silk.

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Oh? I say they can carry you across a threshold!

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And sink thereafter.