Chapter 1: Promises

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*KNOCK KNOCK*
Wei Ying woke up to the sound of a heavy pounding on his door...

He frowned seeing that he was back in his room...

"WEI WUXIAN....WAKE UP....WAKE UP....WAKE UPPPPPP..."
Wei Ying heard Jiang Cheng's voice shout at him from outside the door...

How did he come here...?
Wasn't he at the bottom of the cliff, dying...?
He thought to himself...

Was he rescued...?
Did Jiang Cheng save him...?
The last thing he remembered was that voice which said...

Wei Ying thought trail was cut when he heard another familiar voice...

"Calm down A-Cheng...you will startle A-Xian and make him fall from the bed and get hurt..."

"Sh...iji..."
Wei Ying mouthed to himself...

"Shiji...?"

It was followed by soft knocks on his door...

*KNOCK KNOCK*
"A-Xian...are you up...?"

"Shiji..."
Wei Ying said to himself excitedly...

Wait was he having a dream...?
But how can a dying person have a dream...?
Maybe he is delusional with pain...

Wei Ying thought to himself...
But then again he didn't feel any pain in his body anymore....

"Wei Wuxian...Wake up...before I break the door and kick your sorry ass out of bed...We are already late..."
Jiang Cheng threatened...

"A-Cheng..."
He heard his shiji say exasperated...

"A-Xian...Remember we have to leave for Cloud Recesses today..."
She said softly...

"Shiji..."
Wei Ying mouthed again...
His shiji was alive...

He thought as he rushed out of the bed and pulled open the door...

It took him some time to accept the fact that his Shiji was really here...alive..

Tears rolled down Wei Ying's eyes seeing his sister...

Wei Ying slapped himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming...
Nope...not a dream....
He said to himself...

Maybe what he saw earlier was his nightmare...
About his shiji dy...Wei Ying gulped unable to even think about it...

Then was all that happened just a nightmare...?

No...no...that was not a nightmare...it wasn't a nightmare...
He was 100% sure about that...

He remembered himself asking for another chance...
The thing called system giving him a reboot option...
Was this his second chance to make things right...?

This was the same thing that had happened the morning they were going off to Cloud Recesses for their studies...

"A-Xian.."
Shiji called him cupping his face worried...

"Shiji..."
Wei Ying called emotionally...

"A-Xian...?What is wrong...?"
Shiji asked wiping off the tears off of Wei Ying's cheeks...
He smiled through his tears...

"I...I...had a nightmare..."
Wei Ying said to her...
That's the best he could say about what happened...

"Wei Wuxian...How old are you to get so worked up about a nightmare...?3...?"
Jiang Cheng muttered annoyed...

Wei Ying smiled humorlessly...

Jiang Cheng punched his brother lightly on his side making Wei Ying smile at his brother...

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