wuding | (no subject)

A longbow, on this body.

Will it bear? I do not ask to offend.

Only one way to find out!

I’ve got some arm strength now that I’ve been training with the sword again. It might not be pretty tonight, but I have to give this body more patience than I did with the old one.

It is good that Wei Ying has warmed to it. Mo Xuanyu made honest gift.

He was manipulated into giving it. The least I can do is be grateful for it.

It helps that my husband finds it satisfactory.

Would have yet loved Wei Ying as a worm.

I’m glad I wasn’t resurrected as Worm Ying!

I’ll never get my old body back and I think I finally accept that. Hell, this face is so familiar to me now that it doesn’t make me feel weird being in front of a mirror anymore. It’s the face I think of when I think of my own face now.

If you were a woman, you would have born me sons. An elder man, you would have given me pleasures of wisdom and hard bedding.

A young, handsome man pleases best. But all shapes would have suited.

I think I would have worked on building a new body if I were resurrected in either of those. I wouldn’t want to live forever as a woman or an elder.

Is that too much vanity?

No. Wei Ying knows the needs of his nature.

Is it bad that I’m, in some ways, grateful to the Oriole for choosing a good body? Mo Xuanyu deserved better and I’m proof that he could have had better.

In truth, I would not have cast glance upon him, without your soul within.

His temperament did not attract.

Wei Ying has also built this body's fortune.

That’s true. The only thing I know about him is that he was desperate enough to destroy his own soul for revenge. And from the general reactions I got from his family and the Jin cultivators, he was fairly eccentric.

I guess I’ve been thinking about it and even though he doesn’t exist in any meaningful way anymore… maybe I should try to thank him in some way. I know it won’t make a difference to him. Maybe it’s just to make myself feel better.

We shall take him a tablet to our new house. You wish more?

No, that’s a good idea. He’ll be remembered that way.

The kids noticed I was in a mopey mood! I used to be better about staying chipper in public.

Want me to collect food for dinner here or do you want to get something from the kitchens in Cloud Recesses?

Dinner from Caiyi.

Wei Ying. Do you wish the house raised or stalled this year?

Great. I’ll pick up all our favorites.

Let’s let the workers build it at their own pace instead of rushing them.

To be honest, it sounds like it’ll be too lonely if I move in this summer.

Perhaps better. More time to order furniture pieces to your pleasure.

I’ll drag Sizhui around with me to look at furniture sometime soon. Not today, though. We’re on a mission to find Jingyi some new boots.

Lan Liang will grow jealous.

Should I get him some shoes, too?

A treat.

I’ll get him something he won’t choke on. Maybe some soft fruit.

I know I just saw you this morning, but I miss you already.

Surprised Wei Ying has not tired of children.

A-Liang has been quiet most of the day. He’s only had a fit a couple of times. The first time he needed changing and the second time was because I was late giving him his numbing ointment.

And Sizhui. Jingyi. You shoulder much.