That's what Lan Xichen had said - that Wei Wuxian would return somehow, even though he'd died. It wouldn't be the way it had been in their world, either. Apparently returning from the dead is commonplace here. But even having seen others like Xue Yang and Jin Zixuan who shouldn't have been able to have been brought here in the first place, it's still so hard to believe. What if this incident was special? What if this is the one death he can't come back from?

He feels as though he failed him. He was supposed to stay by his side, but he hadn't been able to prevent any of this from happening.

Wen Ning follows Lan Wangji onto the train without a word, but he stays close so that no one else in the crowd can come between them.