<blockquote>“It’ll be all right,” Nie Mingjue murmured to Nie Huaisang, who was curled in his arms, shaking and terrified. "It’ll be all right. We’ll manage, somehow.”
He didn’t believe a word he said, of course. How could everything be all right?
Their father was dead. Murdered – Wen Ruohan had put him down like a rabid dog, wringing his neck and tossing him aside. He’d then announced that Nie Mingjue and Nie Huaisang, now orphans, would be brought back to the Nightless City and taken into the Wen sect to be his wards, to be appropriately reeducated and brought up well. Brought up properly.
Nie Mingjue didn’t know what to expect when they arrived. He didn’t think it would be anything good.</blockquote>
➤ the one where nmj becomes everyone's da-ge and that makes all the difference (by everyone I even include wen chao and wen xu!!)
