He gets into the habit of singing when he is alone in his rooms. Years later, he still has not broken the habit. He has taken to belting out songs in the privacy of his room. He doesn’t think much of it until LXC comments one day, “You have a beautiful voice, Wanyin.” +
LXC side:
LXC is on a diplomatic visit to Yunmeng when he gets lost. The piers are quite confusing and he hasn’t been here enough to memorize the layout. He walks past a very nice house when he hears a deep, soothing voice singing a common lullaby. LXC is entranced. +
LXC is on a diplomatic visit to Yunmeng when he gets lost. The piers are quite confusing and he hasn’t been here enough to memorize the layout. He walks past a very nice house when he hears a deep, soothing voice singing a common lullaby. LXC is entranced. +
Unfortunately that’s when a disciple finds him and leads him back to his quarters. For the rest of the visit, LXC can’t get that voice out of his head. It sounds vaguely familiar, but he can’t quite place it. LXC leaves with that lullaby in his head and a smile on his lips. +
The next time he comes to Yunmeng, LXC goes back to that house, hoping to hear that lovely voice again. To his delight, the man is singing again; this time a folk song common to Yunmeng. LXC is charmed. +
This continues for years. LXC loves listening to that mystery voice whenever he visits. Sometimes the voice does not sing, but it makes the times he does sing that much more special. +
After the events of Guanyin temple and after his seclusion, LXC goes back to Yunmeng for another visit and sits outside that same house. His heart has felt so heavy for so long. He just wants to hear that beloved voice again. +
He waits patiently and is rewarded when that voice starts singing. It is the lullaby from his first visit. He feels something inside him stir. He doesn’t even realize when tears start streaming down his face. +
This voice had brought him so much joy for years. It was so simple and yet so beautiful. He wipes his tears with his sleeve. He doesn’t understand his own emotions. All he knows is that he must know who that voice belongs to. +
He finds a passing disciple and asks “May I know who lives in this house?”
“There?” The disciple looks a little confused. “That’s sect leader Jiang’s house.” +
“There?” The disciple looks a little confused. “That’s sect leader Jiang’s house.” +
LXC is shocked. But suddenly everything makes sense. He had always felt like that voice sounded familiar. He feels a little foolish. He had been having tea with Jiang Wanyin for a while now but he had not made the connection. +
But now that he knows who his mystery voice is, he can’t help seeing Wanyin in a new light. Wanyin has always put on this front of absolute strength, an impenetrable fortress of power and lightning. +
But knowing that this wonderful man is also that soothing voice makes him feel a strange type of giddiness.
He is having tea with Wanyin one day when he hears it: Wanyin absentmindedly humming that lullaby from long ago. LXC smiles.
“You have a beautiful voice, Wanyin.”
END
He is having tea with Wanyin one day when he hears it: Wanyin absentmindedly humming that lullaby from long ago. LXC smiles.
“You have a beautiful voice, Wanyin.”
END
