"Then we had both been fools," he responds, feeling his head spin from all the alcohol, and by all the alcohol I mean the one drink he had. Except Wei Ying's foolishness hadn't driven Lan Wangji away, hadn't done anything. Lan Wangji's foolishness had cost him Wei Ying.

He looks so sad, thinking that if maybe he had said something earlier, if maybe when Wei Ying had returned from the Burial Mounds, he'd listened to him, and given him a reason to stay... If maybe when he'd said it was a family issue between him and the Jiangs, he'd offered to marry into the family...

Wangji reaches for Wei Ying and pulls him close. "Never leave again."