Changing Fate (Wangxian FanFic)

Trust

"Wei Ying," I said, "There is something I want to talk to you about."

"Sure," He said to me as he snuggled up to me as we were sitting at the desk in Jingshi.

"Do you remember the first day we met and I said I experienced a life-altering event but it was a very vivid dream?" I asked him.

"Yes, do you want to talk about it?" He asked me.

I moved out of his grasp and sat to look at him, "If I said that I was a real experience and not a dream, would you believe me?"

"You are a Lan, you are born not to lie, and I trust you more than anyone," Wei Ying said.

"There was a part of me that didn't want to talk about it because I felt no one would believe me, but my brother was with me and has seen it all," I told him, "So even if there is something you don't believe, all I ask is if you would seek him out."

"Of course," He said worried, "You are kind of worrying me a bit. How bad was it that you experienced?"

"Do you believe in time travel?" I asked him.

"I am sure it could happen someday, if someone invented a way to do so, then I would say yes," Wei Ying said.

"What if I told you that I died once and was given a second chance to go back and fix my mistakes?" I asked him, "Would you believe me?"

He looked into my eyes directly, "I do," He answered honestly, "how did you die and how far back did you travel to fix your mistakes? and What mistakes?"

"I died from a broken heart," I answered, "I failed to stand by someone, I believed in their integrity and there was just so much misunderstandings between us that, the person did not trust me. That person too, had a very bad life-altering experience and died, going back in time with me, but that person doesn't remember what happened."

"How did the other person die?" He asked.

"The person was framed for a crime they did not commit, and people blamed them for the death of their adoptive family. The death of their real parents, the death of the uncle and aunt who took them in, an heir and their shijie's death, that person was blamed for. People drove them to insanity, all for a spiritual tool they created, just greed for power. That person jumped from a cliff, I tried to save them but their hand slipped," I answered not even realizing tears were falling, "I blamed myself for not helping them more, I was punished for standing with the person everyone fought against. I stood with an innocent person who people pointed out to believe they were guilty. I got whipped thirty-three times. I died a few weeks later as my spiritual energy was not regenerating and my heart was just, too broken."

Wei Ying was shocked by everything i had just said but after a few minutes he finally spoke, "Are you okay with me performing Empathy?" he asked.

"Wei Ying, that person was you," I told him, "I do not know if you want to see all of that. You do not know of anything. I do and it is painful to know, and I do not want you to blame yourself because you did nothing wrong. The people who were wrong were the clans. I have been wanting to tell you for so long but I have been afraid."

"If it involves me, I want to know," He said, "I know I have you to be beside me and I am beside you. I trust you, do you trust me?"

"I do trust you, it is just, not something for the faint of heart," I told him.

"I want to know," He said.

"If you feel like stopping any time so you can ask questions or to just take a break, I am okay with that. It will take a while. I was able to go back thanks to a goddess to see your memories and the truth of everything that happened," I told him.

"My memories?" He asked.

"Ugh, yeah, I know about your parents and the dogs," I told him, "and a lot more...My brother knows as well. We have been trying to make plans so the events that did happen will have a different outcome...but there is the butterfly effect."

"Yes," He said, "So are you willing to show me because to perform Empathy, I need your consent. I want to know everything."

I took in a deep breath and let it out and faced Wei Ying completely, "Let's do it, but I am warning you again, it is not something pleasant to see. An I am able to show you both your memories as I have seen them, and you can see mine as well."

Wei Ying nodded and took my hands, "I don't want to witness the dogs so we can skip ahead to what ever the future's past was."

I think I understood what he was asking. He wanted to get to the main timeline were we are now, "I can do our first meeting of that time? It was a bit different," I told him.

He laughed, "I am curious," he said.

So we performed empathy. I showed him the first night we met, him breaking the ward, breaking rules, and us fighting. Me being a completely different Lan Zhan than what I am now. I showed him the day in the classroom where he made Shufu furious, the rule copying the library......Yes the library.

"Lan Zhan, I did that?" he asked laughing.

"Yes you did, so shameless," I told him.

"Hahaha," he said laughing harder, "An Erotica book, that is genius!"

"Wei Ying!" I told him, "I will make you stop empathy and take you right here and right now if we don't move on."

"We can move on," He said happily, "And we can talk about our first time later, okay."

I just huffed and let empathy continue. The water ghouls were shown but the outcome was different. That proves that things have already changed a little bit, as Su She did not come with us this time. Then the alcohol, the cold cave and the yin iron. I skipped ahead to Wen Xu breaking into Cloud Recesses and burning buildings, killing disciples, uncle injured, Xiongzhang missing, and my broken leg.

It cut to the indoctrination and the Wens taking our swords, "ugh, Wei Ying, there is a spot here in empathy where you are involved with a large dog. Do you want to skip past it or can you handle it?"

"I have you here, I can handle it," he said.

I showed him doing the rule bit, he laughed as did I as I remember it being funny, then the dungeon and he could see why I was concerned about that part but he got past it. We then get to the cave. I showed him taking a hot iron for a girl, helping others escape as he and I were trapped.

He saw the part where he accused me of liking Mian Mian, and he even said, "now that I see it this way, I can see why you bit me," Wei Ying said, "I was told I was smart but dense...I hate to admit it be true....sorry Lan Zhan."

"It is nothing to apologize for, as I wasn't sure how to express my feelings then. I knew at that point I liked you but me during that time....a bit rigid."

"I still like that side of you though, seeing it makes you look dominating," Wei Ying told me.

"I suppose I can bring that back a little if you want," I told him.

"It doesn't matter, let's continue," he said.

"I'm warning you now, you will probably want to take a few moments going into this next part. When I witnessed it, I vomited, I was so shocked," I told him.

"Okay," he said preparing himself.

It was the fall of Lotus Pier. After he and Wanyin went back to check if anyone was okay, they were all dead. He had to stop their.

"They all died," he said with tears falling, "I was blamed and punished for nothing. Everyone died and still blamed me."

I held him close, "I promise, we will do what we can this time to save them," I told him.