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March 23rd
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1. Hi. Looking for this fic wherein wwx tried to prank lqr and the elders by acting like a Lan. It backfired because they thought wwx was possessed by Lan An, especially when jwy visited cloud recesses (almost causes a war between jiang and lan). For it to end, wwx pretended to be Lan An and said goodbye then fake fainted (as if Lan An left wwx’s body)
please help me find it 🙏
Hi! I’m from the recent fic finder #1. Unfortunately that’s not what i’m looking for because I remember it being post canon (meaning wangxian are already married). I also remember the Lans asked lwj if lwj still do lovers stuff with wwx (as they really thought wwx was possessed by lan an)
FOUND? Wei Wuxian is Definitely Not Possessed by CursedBlessing (T, 20k, WangXian, Misunderstandings, General Dumbassery, Humor)
#1 I think was deleted. I know the fic they're asking about and I can't find it either.
Number 1 is the correct fic, it's just Chapter 3. / Yeah, 1 IS the correct fic, op's scene is the entirety of ch. 3
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2. Hey, I'm looking for a wangxianfic, in which wei ying and lan zhan are already married. Wei ying goes on a night hunt with the juniors and gets hurt. I think it was a cut on the stomach with poison. Lan zhan cares for him but wei ying is almost dying. Lan zhan is davasteted and says that he can't wait for wei ying again. It was a completed work and I think just 4 chapters. Please can you find the title? With kind regards @smarti1997
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3. I'm not sure if this is something I think happened in a fic, or it really exists, but on the off-chance someone know what I'm talking about - the Sunshot Campaign ends differently with Wen Qing/Wen Ning in charge of the Qishan Wen, and as part of reparations(? Maybe?) the family vaults are revealed. Wen Qing warns people not to touch anything but JGS is too greedy and grabs something and dissolves in dust? And then WQ opens the real vault, the first was to stop thieves. Thank you in advance! @katonahottinroof
I know which fic #3 is talking about but i cannot find it either, gonna go deep dive on ao3 tho (is it that one where the wens have a secret passage into the throne room that opens only with wen blood isnt it. unless im mixing fics too)
FOUND! ❤️ Gentians in bloom by teawater (M, 251k, WangXian, XiQing, XuanLi, Canon Divergence, Political Marriage, Dysfunctional Family, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Hurt/Comfort, Fix-It, LQR bashing (not really), POV Multiple, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Eventual Happy Ending, BAMF WWX, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, madam yu bashing (again not completely), MXY Deserves Better) the thing with jgs happen in chapter 34
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4. Hi writing in hopes that someone remembers this fanfiction.:
i once read a fic where LWJ and WWX were stuck in the Xuanwu cave and WWX was i think on the verge of dying but then something emerges from the waters and gives LWJ a deal that if he gives up his voices then as an exchange he can save WWX's life which LWJ obviously does so his voice goes away but by the end of the fic Wangxian go back to the cave where LWJ gets his voice back because he once again strikes a deal with that creature giving up his immortality or something that has to do with him being worshipped for gaining his voice back. was a one shot that i remember clearly and was on ao3 platform also thank you so much cause this blog has bought me my favorite Wangxian fics.
FOUND! Outside Another Yellow Moon by Vamillepudding (T, 10k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, YLLZ WWX, Fairy Tale Elements, Hurt/Comfort, LWJ Needs a Hug, Curse Breaking)
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5. help. hey i am certain the fanfics in my memories exist but they keep on eluding me so there are these 2 fics:
A) the premise of this story was time travel where modern WWX travels back in time when other WWX is living with the wens in the burial mounds when LWJ comes to the borders with his modern counterpart and when modern wangxian meet they have a sweet reunion in which they share a kiss after that they are joined by the hip much to the mortification of OG wangxian. WY's parents are dead (car accident) but madam Lan's alive and he calls her mother or mom and modern them is engaged they also have their phones by which they click a photo and after coming to modern world WY sees that as proof that it actually happened. read it on ao3 muti chaptered (completed) with either 4 or 6 chapters 6 being maximum
B) in this one the main Lan fam is captured body swap between WRH and LWJ occurs and after LWJ realizes what has happen he commands that his body's head be severed which is currently housing WRH's soul and LXC and LQR are present to see that happening and grieve over LWJ not knowing WRH was the one who died and LWJ doesn't inform them about the body swap but tells the guards to take LXC and LQR to their rooms he keeps his own body's severed head in his room also. LWJ asks guards to bring him WWX which they do but injured and WWX sees LWJ's severed head and gets angry he also practices to be more like WRH so nobody suspects this is the most clear i remember there were also i think one appearance of WQ and some from WX and WC was on ao3 ongoing atleast when i was reading think over 5 chapter but under 10 the last i had checked (i was so curios to know what happens next but i lost the fic)
thx and sorry if its too confusing
5B)
FOUND? where the sky begins by Shializaro (Not Rated, 17k, WangXian, Bodyswap, Blood and Violence, Body Dysphoria, Dissociation, Rape/Non-con Elements, Crack Treated Seriously)
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6. Hello! This is for ficfinder, I have lost track of two fics, and would very much like assistance finding them again!
A ) an Addams family style modern au. I cannot remember the title, but Lan Wangji enjoyed the taste of Hemlock tea, Wei Wuxian always dressed in gothic clothes, A-Yuan keeps getting possessed, Wen Ning would die temporarily every now and then then, and the reason Lan Wangji went to Yiling in the first place was to find his mother (madam lan is alive in this one).
B ) Young Prince Lan Wangji fled the palace to avoid an arranged marriage, and met an older Wei Wuxian and traveled with him, keeping his identity a secret. Lan Zichen catches up with them after Wangxian have spent the night together (bottom LWJ), and Lan Zhan is taken back to the palace. Wei Wuxian returns to claim his hand, revealing himself as Baoshan Sanren’s heir. Fix ends with them watching their kids play in Lan Zhan’s mother’s garden.
If you can help me find these, I would appreciate it very much!!!! ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ @cullen-blue23
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FOUND?🔒The Altogether Ooky WangXian Family by FluffyHippogriff (T, 72k, WIP, WangXian, 3Zun, Modern AU, Addams Family AU, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, mostly because death can be overcome with the help of a little necromancy, Kid Fic, Comedy)
FOUND? lovely thorns and singing crows by isabilightwood (E, 37k WangXian, Modern AU, Addams Family Vibes, meet cute at a funeral, Madam Lán Lives, Light Horror, Curses, Possession, Fluff and Humor, Developing Relationship, Found Family, Weirdo4weirdo wangxian, Eventual Smut, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs)
FOUND?🔒darkness there and nothing more by wvlfqveen (M, 21k, WangXian, Addams Family Fusion, Magical Realism, Body Horror, Addams Family Levels of Violence, Identity Issues)
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FOUND? Beyond These Walls, the Heart Calls by wayward_wing (E, 13k, WangXian, Fluff and Angst, Happy Ending, Fluff and Smut, Adventure & Romance, Prince LWJ, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Bottom LWJ/Top WWX, Jealous WWX, LWJ Flirts, Sleeping Together, Masturbation, Slight Voyeurism, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Oral Sex, eating ass, Older WWX, Younger LWJ, Getting Together, Naive LWJ)
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7. Hi. I've been trying to find this Untamed fanfic which I bookmarked but somehow is not in my bookmarked collection anymore! :(. I think it's post-canon but WWX (of course) is injured and LWJ is helping him recover, told from LWJ perspective totally in-character where he has to remind himself to breathe. Once,wj returned to inn room, found WWX gone from the 2nd bed and he tripped over his own feet and was "resigned to the fall". Once he tucked WWX into his bed and sat at his desk to breathe.
FOUND? Always Light My Way by cqlorphan (E, 27k, wangxian, Post-Canon, Getting Together, Friends With Benefits, to lovers, wherein dual cultivation may be counted as a benefit, Jealous WWX, a little bit, Misunderstandings, Mutual Pining, Pining while fucking, angsty sex, Switch WangXian, Bottom LWJ, Service Top LWJ, Topping from the Bottom, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Coming Untouched, Dom/sub Undertones, the angsty sex happens in the beginning but they get past it dw, Oblivious LWJ, archer wwx, Smart WWX, Porn with Feelings, probably at least half of this fic is just that, Panic Attacks, Angst with a Happy Ending, Dual Cultivation)
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8. thank you again for this wonderful blog! loading up on fics for my next offline trip and i have one that is driving me nuts. I remember seeing the reference here awhile back but for some idiot reason didn't bookmark it. What I remember is something like this : its after canon - Wei Ying is back, its after Guanyin's temple - but Lan Zhan has a soulmate to get back to so leaves Wei Ying alone on the road. that scene in Untamed haunted me. does this ring any bells? appreciate any help!! @oldoni
FOUND! Boy Trouble, We've Got Double by saltyfeathers (E, 60k, wangxian, Post-Canon, Case Fic, betrothed to someone else, unfurling of wifexian scrolls: the fic, Pining, Unresolved Sexual Tension, (it gets resolved lol), WWX POV, Protective wwx, WWX centric, explicit stuff only happens between wangxian, (or wwx and his own hand), Masturbation, get wwx a fainting couch agenda, Alcohol, wwx has some brain problems in this one, Consensual Non-Consent, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, straight boy WWX)
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9. Hello! Please help me find this fic. I don’t remember much, but there was an OC lan elder, who is rescued or helped by Wei Wuxian. I am not sure but Wei Ying didn’t know he was a lan or something. Later on they meet again and elder favours or helps him. I am sorry for being vague, but this is what I remember. It would be great if somebody knows what this fic may be !
Hello, this is requester for number 9. I am really grateful for the person who replied but unfortunately I don’t think that it is the fic I am looking for. As far as I remember wasn’t QHJ, rather an OC lan elder. However I really love the suggestion and enjoyed the fic, so thank you for that!
NOT FOUND The Shadows of My Old Palaces, Falling Across The Moats by ChilianXianzi (T, 8k, WangXian, onesided QHJ/WWX, Canon Divergence, Burial Mounds Settlement Days, QHJ lives, Domestic, Angst, POV Outsider, Age Difference, Fix-It of Sorts)
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10. for the FF: it was a fic where wx are full time dom/sub (sub wwx), i dont rmmbr much except that theres a part where jc causes a scene fearing lwj is abusing him (bc fulltime d/s, he chooses what wwx eats, wears, etc) and jyl has to tell him to shut up and that her and jzx are in a d/s relationship too! i read it ages ago T^T its not "something so flawed and free" by verseau btw! thank u guys <33 love u all mwah
FOUND! rainfall by daltoneering (E, 37k, WangXian, Modern AU, Established Relationship, lifestyle kink, 24/7 D/s, Kink Negotiation, kink discussion, Communication, BDSM, dom lwj, Sub wwx, Top LWJ, Bottom wwx, Kink Exploration, collaring, Body Writing, Breathplay, Orgasm Denial, Bondage, Subdrop, Safewording, Panic Attacks, [Podfic of] rainfall by exmanhater)
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11. Hiii! I don't remember much except for the first few chapters, but the fic was really long. I think the plot started off as "What if the Incident in Qiongdi Path never happened?"
The first chapter or so takes place at Jin Lings one month celebration
Wei Wuxian is really damn depressed the whole time (he's really damn depressed the whole fic actually)
Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan never die. Yanli wants to spend time with Wei Wuxian and she makes some soup, but he gets spooked at some point and Wen Ning helps him run away back to the Burial Mounds???
At some point later on in the fic, Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli go to Cloud Recesses and they bring some food for Wangxian.
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12. hii :D im looking for a modern au fic where lz works as a in pharmaceutics and meets wy who is the tech guy of their apartment. he calls himself mo xuanyu and lives with ayuan and is trying to escape his past with the help of police officer nmj. i think there was an autistic lz tag in that fic too. it was so good but i think i forgot to bookmark it.. thanks for your help! @harapecowee
FOUND! Stop and Stay by Fantazy_Eyeland7 (M, 98k, wangxian, LXC/NMJ, JC/WQ, JYL/JZX, LXC/JGY, SL/XXC, WIP, Blood and Violence, Hurt WWX, Kidnapping, Torture, WWX discovering weighted blankets, Pining LWJ, Modern, FBI Agent NMJ, Protective LWJ, Emotional Manipulation, Toxic JGY, not JGY friendly, LWJ learning how to communicate, WangXian have competence kinks, adopting children, Bad Parent YZY, Protective JYL, Protective JC, Protective NMJ, Past Child Abuse, Precious LSZ, Baby LJY, Warning: XY, Blind Character, slaps top of WWX: This bad boy can fit so much trauma inside, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Everyone is ending up in well-needed therapy, Child Abandonment, Genius WWX, Obsessive XY, Yunmeng Siblings Feels, Eventual Smut, Bad Parent JFM, Junior Quartet Dynamics, (As Babies!), Implied/Referenced Suicide, sort of a slow burn, but not really, because they KNOW, they just can't, Good Uncle LQR, eventually) It doesn't have the austistic!lz tag, but everything else fits.
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13. Hi! 🤗
I'm looking for two fics:
A) A fic where WQ makes a second operation with WWX and JC. The only thing I remember is that WWX is really in a bad condition and they ask JC to give the half of the golden core to WWX. He accepts.
B) I'm not sure if it's one o two fics that I'm mixing, but all I remember is that LWJ when he knows about the lost golden core of WWX, decided to make a second golden core inside him to give it to WWX.
Thanks for the wonderful work! 🥰 @wangxiansgirl
13A)
FOUND! The Fire Lapping Up the Creek by notevenyou (E, 66k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Violence, Injury, Injury Recovery, Blood, Respiratory Illness, Major Illness, Fever, Grief/Mourning, Burial Mounds, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Hunger and food scarcity, Surgery, Fix-It of Sorts)
NOT FOUND! Twelve Moons and a Fortnight by stiltonbasket (M, 290k, WangXian, Humor, Slow Burn, Post-Canon Fix-It, Long-Distance Relationship, Epistolary, Love Letters, Family Feels, a-qing lives, teenage romance, Adoption, Romantic Comedy, Happy Ending, Weddings, Case Fic, Parenthood, Politics) might also be, (around chapter 43)?
NOT FOUND! in this place where we don’t have a prayer by Cerusee, Mikkeneko (T, 42k, WangXian)
13B)
FOUND? 🧡 Discarded by teawater (E, 178k, WIP, WangXian, Lots of Angst, Hurt/Comfort, YLLZ WWX, Golden Core Reveal, Case Fic, Depression, Family Issues, Self-Esteem Issues, Self Confidence Issues, Self-Worth Issues, Angst with a Happy Ending, POV Multiple, BAMF WWX, dubious morals in the Lan sect, Feels, Pining, Grief, Fix-It, BAMF LWJ) If 13B is different from 13A, maybe B is Discarded Lan Zhan creates a "seed core" that Wei Ying can use to grow a new core.
FOUND? these colours fade for you only by doodlebutt (T, 36k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, Golden Core Transfer Fix-It, ...eventually, Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, bed sharing, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Sunshot Campaign)
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14. Im trying to find a fic
It was modern setting and maybe has cultivation still? wwx is a tattoo artist and I believe lwj saw some type dark energy out side his shop. So he went in and ending up saying he wanted a tattoo, wwx was who ended up talking to him about it and making him a design. I think it had something to do with bunnies and, then finally when the day came for lwj to get the tattoo. He’s like I’m sorry I never wanted one, wwx gets upset and tells lwj to pay him money in cash for compensation. Lwj does that’s all I can remember I think wwx might have adopted or least helps take care of a -yuan. @zerokogane
FOUND! Demon Ink by Jade_Valentine (E, 189k, WIP, WangXian, Flower Shop & Tattoo Parlor, Tattoo Artist WWX, Magic, Chaotic Bisexual WWX, Demisexual LWJ, background NieLan, Slow Burn, Angst, But substantially less angst than canon, Mutual Masturbation, Domestic Fluff, Welcome to my LWJ & NHS friendship agenda, Shower Sex, Brief mentions of past Lan Bro abuse at the hands of LQR, wangxian family feels, WWX is the Best Dad Ever, WWX's canonical abuse at the hands of Madam Yu, Blow Jobs, Slight Make-Up Kink)
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15. Fic finder request please!!
This is a short omegaverse wangxia? I think it might’ve been part of a series? where it’s Omega WWX and YZY gets him married off to LWJ where she expects him to be treated badly. Instead bc the Lana treat omegas very well, WWX is happy and content. Meanwhile JYL is jealous that WWX actually got mating bites and equal status bc Jin Zixuan didn’t even do that for her. I can’t remember anything else. 😅
FOUND!🔒Alliance AU by Ilona22 (E, 21k, WangXian, JYL/OC, Arranged Marriage, A/B/O Dynamics, PWP, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, Intersex Omegas, Not JC Friendly, Matchmaking, canon Jiang family dynamics, Family time, Night Hunts, Mention of male omega pregnancy, Intrigue at Jinlintai, Mentions of Prostitution, War, Conflict between characters)
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16. Sorry to be asking this(fic finder), I really don’t remember how I got to this fic but now I cannot find it but I feel like it probably was here
It’s a fic about how when wwx comes back to life he meets lxc instead of lwj in Mo manor. he asks for lwj and that confirms to lxc that he is wwx and not Mo xuanyu and asks him to go back with him to cloud recesses where he takes care of lwj who couldn’t heal after the 33 leash punishment.
At first wwx doesn’t want lwj to know that it’s him. He brings him bunnies and helps him re learn how to play the guqin(he cannot play it due to his injuries and because he hasn’t practiced since he was punished) lan Yuan helps wwx to learn how to play it and lwj starts being more active
Lxc is happy and let’s wwx go to a small one week vacation but lwj gets worse that week, he also discovers mxy is wwx I think
Tsm for the help🙇‍♀️
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17. hi! i’m looking for two fics:
A) one where wei ying lives with ghosts and is a teacher and runs into lan zhan for the first time in years during a class field trip
B) all i can remember is that wei ying wrote a software called yiling
17A)
FOUND! won’t take the easy road by twigofwillow (T, 47k, wangxian, JC & WWX & JYL, WWX & WQ, space au, yearning, found family, complicated family feels, ghosts, food, teacher WWX)
17B)
NOT FOUND Tempo Rubato by Spodumene (E, 107k, WangXian, Modern AU, Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Persuasion au, Separations, Mutual Pining, Depression, Miscommunication, Emotional Roller Coaster, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Reconciliation, Eventual Smut, Jane Austen Fusion, Underage Kissing) I think no. 17 might be "Tempo Rubato" but the software is "Stygian"
NOT FOUND The Fated Fortuity by devinokaze (T, 26k, wangxian, WIP, Royalty AU, Modern, Social Media, WWX is Wen Ruohan's son, Qishan Wen Kingdom, stangers to lovers, Prince WWX) The software is called Yin Tiger Tally and Su She tries to claim he wrote it lol.
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18. Hello!! All good? I'm looking for a fic in which WWX becomes a god after his death, I think he's the god of death if I remember correctly. I remember a part where Madam Yu and her Husband (the leader of the Jiang sect) decide to reincarnate... I don't remember much, it's been a while since I read it, another thing I remember is that he communicated with Jiang Cheng through dreams. I already searched the Tag Deity Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian but I didn't find it... Thank you for your work!! @sweettiebah
FOUND! 🔒 Of Destruction and Rebirth by demoniqt (M, 88k, wangxian, JYL/JZX, major character death, rape/non-con, underage, graphic depictions of violence, Slow Burn, Canonical Character Death, God WWX, God Verse, BAMF WWX, Grieving LWJ, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Canon Divergence, Gods & Goddesses au, JC & WWX Reconciliation, Rabbits, Fix-It, Attempted Sexual Assault, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Gore, Castration, Lots of it, repeatedly, Punishment, Hell)
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19. heyy could u help me find a fic, I only vaguely remember the details
I read this quite a while ago, wwx is some sort of courtesan, pretty sure he works in a brothel, lwj is either a cultivator (like in canon) or he's a noble/king smth like that! he meets wwz in the brothel place and I think wwx is pretty sly, MAYBE he's wearing dresses and I'm pretty sure they get married in the end? I think someone in the lan clan is against wwx (either lxc or lqr) and I'm also pretty sure it's a pwp, they might have been conspiring too, it's all very vague! any help would be appreciated thanks!!!
FOUND! 醉 | drunk; intoxication by sweetlolixo (E, 15k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Mythical Creature WWX, everyone falls in love with weiying at first sight..., Besotted LWJ, Romance, Pregnant WWX, Fluff)
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20. Hi I’m looking for a fix where sizhui and jingyi travels back to the past (maybe to the conference) and they make commentary during the entire time they were waiting to get back to their present. I think in this fix, sizhui revealed that some of the people (madam Yu and others) are listed on lan zhan’s lists. Sizhui also mentions that lan zhan has several lists for different things. Also jinyi called Jin guangshan jin guangshit throughout the whole time they’re there. Thanks
FOUND? A Room Full of Dead People by BurningBlueDiamond (T, 10k, WangXian, Time Travel, Fix-It, but not really, Canon Divergence, Conference in Qinghe but canonically they stay in Gusu, strangely fluffy, POV Outsider)
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This is exactly 100% the very accurate dialogue the script-writers had in mind when they wrote this scene.
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Narration, as Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng come across Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen in the Unclean Realm in Episode 21: Just a normal encounter during the Sunshot Campaign...
Wei Wuxian, looking alarmed: oh no, my ex! who hates my new cultivation! who I also never began dating in the first place. can you break up with someone if you were never technically a couple?
Lan Xichen, looking at Lan Wangji with concern: I’m guessing you two are still on the outs...?
Lan Wangji, staring angrily ahead: No. There is nothing wrong. I am feeling nothing. This is my feeling nothing face.
Lan Xichen, now looking ahead with concern: ...alright, if you say so.
Jiang Cheng, looking at Wei Wuxian with concern: So, uh, you guys still going through a rough patch, huh?
Wei Wuxian, putting on a smile: Actually I am not bothered by this whatsoever. I am, in fact, very happy and normal and will say hello like a normal, untraumatized person whose crush isn’t rejecting him.
Narration, as the two parties come close and bow: *polite, normal bowing*
Wei Wuxian, looking at Lan Wangji: *YEARNS at Lan Zhan*
Lan Wangji, meeting Wei Wuxian’s eyes: *no yearning. no talking. still angry*
Wei Wuxian, looking to the side, somewhat hurt: oh. oh alright, cool cool cool 
Wei Wuxian, covering it up with a stiff smile as he nods at Lan Xichen: anyway, nice seeing ya Zewu-jun
Wei Wuxian, walking fast past Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji: completely unrelatedly, time to go.
Jiang Cheng, looking up after Wei Wuxian in alarm: Wait, what? Really?
Jiang Cheng, also walking fast past Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen: Shit, I’m out too, then
Lan Wangji, turning around to stare at an off-screen Wei Wuxian: *YEARNS where Wei Ying cannot see*
Lan Xichen, also turning around to stare at the off-screen Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng: Well...that sure was something.
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wangxianficrecs · 3 months
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Rewind 2023 - Part II
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WangxianFicRecs - Rewind 2023
Here is part two of our favourite stories published in 2023! Reminder that if you also want to give a shout-out to a story, submit an ask and we will share it in an upcoming post featuring Follower Recs and Proud Author Spotlights.
Part I
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the dream of the fisherman's husband
by luckymarrow (@luckymarrow)
E, 5k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: “Really? Are you fucking with me? Once for yes, twice for no.” Two taps. Wei Ying scrambles from his desk and over to the tank, presses his face right against the glass. “Was Wen Ning right?” he whispers. His breath fogs the glass. “Are you our new cephalopod overlords?” Once again, the little blue and white octopus taps twice against the glass. Wei Ying goggles. Then it taps a sequence against the glass. But Wei Ying has worked on enough expedition ships to know Morse code, or at least the most important code of all—SOS. This little octopus needs help.
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New Perspective
by mrcformoso (@mrcformoso)
T, Series, 34k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary Part One: “Lan Zhan, let me go.” The last memory Lan Zhan has of Wei Ying was the soft, serene smile on his face as he fell to his death. It was, perhaps, what haunted him the most. When it came to the matters regarding Wei Ying, Lan Zhan was always too late. A character study looking into Lan Zhan’s character development between Wei Ying’s death and resurrection, and his struggles of changing in the wake of his newfound fatherhood.
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The Art of Communication
by mrcformoso (@mrcformoso)
G, 4k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Lan Zhan can only say so much before the words get caught in his throat. He has long learned how to use his words sparingly, how to build enough of a reputation to minimize the use of words, has learned to hide behind little grunts and pointed looks. In contrast, Wei Ying never seemed to run out of words, speaking often and quickly, whatever was on his mind, mumbling equations and theories and his own thoughts as if he had a word quota to meet and exceed on a daily basis. So the Gusu University students found it rightfully strange that the two were dating. Chapter 1: Outsiders POV Chapter 2: Lan Zhan POV Chapter 3: Wei Ying POV
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❤️ Across the street to another life
by danegen (@danegen)
M, 99k, Wangxian | Kay's & Mojo's Rec
Summary: Wangji stays on the piano bench as they’re closing up. Wei Ying chews his lip, knowing what he’s going to do but horrified at himself. But what’s the alternative: kick the guy out and find him sleeping beside the dumpster in the morning? And that’s if the cops don’t take him in for vagrancy. “Wangji?” Wangji looks up. Please don’t be a serial killer. “So, we’re closing up for the night, but A-Yuan and I live upstairs. Do you want to join us for dinner?” Wangji blinks. His head bobs in what’s probably a yes. “Great!” Fuck. Or a ragged monosyllabic man wearing a collar shows up at Wei Ying's music store. Wei Ying and A-Yuan ask, is anyone going to adopt this guy? And then they don't wait for an answer.
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💙 Concord
by Deastar (@youhideastar)
T, 41k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Lan Wangji hopes, somewhat frivolously, that his betrothed might find him an acceptable companion. Neither he nor Wei Wuxian are able to bear children, so there will be no need to share a marital bed; that should make it easier for the two of them to reach a natural, comfortable equilibrium. Two strings played in harmony: this is Lan Wangji’s quiet hope, as he arranges the Jingshi to accommodate a second inhabitant. Perhaps, he thinks, they might even become friends.
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silk linked together
by theLoyalRoyalGuard
G, 6k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Lan Wangji runs a sanctuary for rescued bunnies. His life is quiet and routine. Until Mo Xuanyu needs a place to stay out of trouble. He doesn’t expect to end up rescuing him, too.
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Making Mouths at Dragons
by athena_crikey
E, 10, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Wei Ying takes a slow breath, then another. “Then you’d want… that? A baby? A kid?” Lan Zhan’s low rumble has a hint of dragon in it, a lick of thunder. For a moment Wei Ying can almost hear the rush of the tide in his ears, storms and seafoam. His mind is full of the glint of moonlight on scales, silver and rippling like silk. “With you? Yes.”
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Behind the Scenes
by QueenXIV
E, 5k, NMJ/LWJ | Kay's Rec
Summary: Nie Mingjue felt dirty. Horrible. He had paid to see his best friend's didi fuck himself with a dildo. He had jerked off to it. He had liked it. He was fucked.
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Playing Possum
by DizziDreams (@dizzi-dreams)
T, 1k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Lan Wangji is woken in the night by the sound of animals fighting, and there is more to the opossum he rescues than there seems.
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Once-body
by ByCandlelight
M, 10k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Years after he was disowned by the Jiangs, Wei Ying lives a quiet life working at a funeral home. Then he reencounters his former high school classmate Lan Zhan, who is planning his father’s cremation. Wei Ying won’t pass up the chance to get closer to his former crush, but first he has to hide all the brains in his freezer.
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Lessons in Belonging
by Nyatci (@nyatci)
M, 12, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Lan Zhan looks back at various moments during the years and thinks about the emotional wounds caused by Wei Ying’s adoptive family. Or alternatively: 5 times Lan Zhan worried about Wei Ying and 1 time he realized he didn’t have to worry anymore.
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Jin Ling and Demonic Cultivation
by ImNobody122 (@colorsunlikeanythingseen)
Not rated, 8k, Jin Ling | Kay's Rec
Summary: Mo Xuanyu was not the first demonic cultivator Jin Ling had to rescue from his uncle's hands.
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mother of mothers
by SpeedingCheetah
T, 11k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary:There was a girl in Gusu, who played the flute and sung songs to the fish in the rivers as townspeople let her sit on their boats; stirring away and humming. There was a girl who smiled, who had a blood red ribbon and blood red eyes. The girl was a boy who was not alive. A ghost who stayed in the city because his mother made him promise. He seemed happy enough anyway, coming to the docks, coming to the paths. He bought apples, he spoke Gusu’s dialect in a rustic tongue that was many, many years out of date—ancient, prosperous. Only a few elders understood the clicking accent the way Wuxian spoke it. He was Lan Wangji’s sole companion. He was also the being who had been cursed many years ago to never wake up, and never live. Lan Wangji wished to help fix that. (or: cangse sanren’s child is a ghost of nature, and cursed to sleep forever. a boy still makes friends with the ghost anyway.)
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exit, pursued by fierce corpse
by hauntedotamatone (@hauntotamatone)
Not rated, 4k, WWX & WN | Kay's Rec
Summary: “The Jin clan of Lanling is rich beyond rich,” The second boy whispers, or rather, attempts to whisper. “If we bring them the head of the Yiling Laozu, they’ll have no choice but to reward us!” It’s quite a stupid endeavor, especially for three, unarmed, young masters whose knowledge of combat and heroism likely comes from playhouses alone. - “Wei-gongzi,” Wen Ning whispers, barely louder than the sound of a person breathing and all the more striking when it comes from one who does not. His face is still, the undisturbed waters of a pond, but there is something in his eyes that reminds him of brightness, the shine of a dragonfly skimming the water. - alternatively; wen qionglin, the method actor.
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If I had to keep being separated from you like this (I'd rather die)
by katje
E, 30k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: “So, you’re here to become my blood thrall, are you?” Mr. Wei finally turned, and Lan Wangji had to fight to swallow the gasp that tried to escape his throat. He was beautiful. His long, pitch-black hair was pulled into a ponytail that flowed in smooth waves over his shoulder, and he was clad in a red dress shirt that was buttoned only halfway up his chest, exposing his sharp collar bones and a hint of the smooth skin of his torso. He was pale - too pale. And he had the most striking grey eyes Lan Wangji had ever seen. Eyes that immediately betrayed him as a nonhuman. As a cold, powerful, immortal vampire that Lan Wangji was about to sell himself to. OR Lan Wangji enters into a contract to become Wei Wuxian's blood thrall to save his uncle, and finds more than a heartless vampire at the end of the deal.
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fracture fix
by phosphorous
G, 5k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: What he did not say: I don’t want to be anywhere in this world where you aren’t. I want to know you inside out. I want to know you forever. I want you to know me inside out and I want you to know me forever too. I am a burden. But I am yours. I want to be yours, for as long as you will have me. “I love you, Lan Zhan,” he had said instead. It had ebbed and flowed in the space over their heads like tides in a river. Eventually, it had settled. Eventually, it had stayed.
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What Dreams May Come
by Admiranda (@ladypfenix)
G, 5k, Ouyang Zichen | Kay's Rec
Summary: Qiu Shiyu is a pragmatic young woman, she knows that the marriage her father wants to arrange will be more for his benefit than hers. But even so, she cannot help hoping that her prospective husband to be just might be someone who can match her romantic side too.
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Mask
by BurningTea (@humanformdragon)
M, 30k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: The cultivation world knows that Wei Wuxian is dead. It knows that the Yiling Patriarch has appeared, dangerous and powerful enough for Wen Ruohan to offer an alliance. And a prize. The Wen Sect is happy to agree when the Yiling Patriarch demands one of their hostages, Lan Wangji.
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Letters along a River
by Ilona22
M, 19k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: They met at the stairs leading to the Cloud Recesses and when days spent together lead to a tentative friendship, letters lead to more. Meanwhile, trouble grows, quietly creeping along in the realms of politics and the supernatural.
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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for these hard-working authors if you like – or think others might like – these stories.)
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runespoor7 · 3 months
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WN not being able to get it up without talismans is excellent Ningcheng flavour
WN: Wei-gongzi, I would like more of the talismans you drew for me last time.
WWX: hm?... oh! Wen Ning! Yes, yes of course! See, I knew it would come in handy! :D :DDD sooooo... who's the lucky person? woman? man? someone I know?
LWJ: Wei Ying.
WWX: oh, it's fine, Lan Zhan, I'm not embarrassing him! :DDD *leaning toward WN* is it more than one?? Wen Ning, you sly dog!
WN:
WWX: *waggling eyebrows and being generally obnoxious*
WN: *very deliberately not saying, 'your shidi'* *it's just a one-off anyhow* *he just really really needs to wreck JC another time, and then for sure he'll have it out of his system*
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WWX: huh, it's funny how you need talismans every time we run by Yunmeng!
WN: ...yes... funny...
WWX:
WN: *holding WWX's gaze*
WWX: but then I also gave you some at the conference in Lanling, and after we ran across the night-hunt party in Qinghe... a lover in every sect, eh? hahahaha, here's the talismans!
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a YMJ disciple: Sect Leader, are you alright? did the yao get you?
JC: I'm fine
YMJ disciple: but you keep rubbing your back, if you're wounded--
JC: it'll pass with a good night's sleep. But I'll be sure to visit the healer along with the rest of you disciples when we get back to Lotus Pier.
YMJ disciple: ......yes sect leader!
WWX: phew that was such an awkward night-hunt, every time we run across YMJ it's like that, remember that time we were night-hunting in Qinghe, and--
WWX:
WWX:
WWX:
WN: *averting his gaze*
WWX: 😱😱😱
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Down memory lane
"Lan Zhan, do you want to know how I actually died?"
Lan Wangji drops his chopsticks right onto the floor, the question shocking him out of the placid tiredness of a long day travelling.
They've been passing through towns and villages in their seemingly forever honeymoon, but, as the anniversary of the First Siege and Yiling Patriarch's death approaches, whispers, rumors and trashtalk have become louder and increasingly frequent.
People bring up the terrible monster living in the Burial Mounds, make up outlandish stories about imagined crimes, and debate on how he died - though all agree it was gruesome and deserved.
They're in an inn now, at the edge of a picturesque village near the sea coast, enjoying local dishes and wine, in a secluded corner of the establishment's dining area. But though they've deliberately chosen to sit as far away from the crowd as possible, conversation drifts through the air like the aroma of freshly cooked meals and words of insult and curses reach their ears nevertheless.
"Wei Ying..." Lan Wangji speaks, struggling to break througu his stupor, "You do not need to-"
"I know, I just want to." A small smile. "You've asked me before, and I didn't tell you - but we've agreed there are no secrets between us, right?"
"Wei Ying, this is not a secret-"
"I blew myself up."
Silence befalls them both. Lan Wangji finds himself unable to name what he's feeling, a whirlwind of emotion stirring within him. Wei Wuxian does not seem affected, gazing out the window at the starry sky.
His tone had been casual, as if the words he's just said do not hold much weight, as if it is normal, expected, for him to say them.
I blew myself up.
Lan Wangji has always wondered whether Wei Wuxian really died devoured by corpses and resentful energy, he who had so much control over them.
He has always had some doubts, but the thought of his beloved taking his own life hurt too much to ponder. For Lan Wangji too, the hypothesis the rumors presented was easier to swallow than the truth.
"You could have stopped it." He finally says, realization slowly dawning on him like a soft blanket of cold, icy snow.
"I could." Wei Wuxian responds, closing his eyes briefly before turning towards Lan Wangji, "But I had no reason to. There was no more room in the world for me."
"There has always been room in the world for you, Wei Ying." And Lan Wangji reaches across the table to take his husband's hand in his, both to comfort Wei Ying and ground his own spiralling fears.
Wei Wuxian's eyes widen for a moment, shining under the soft candlelight, before a beautiful, warm smile settles on his features. "I know you said not to, but thank you - for making room in the world for me."
There is a slight tremble to Lan Wangji's hand as he caresses Wei Wuxian's knuckles.
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"...and also thank you for giving me a room literally because I'm broke as hell, I could never afford an inn!"
Laughter is pulled out of Lan Wangji before he can stop it and Wei Wuxian can only wish he's forever able to hear the melodious sound of it.
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jiangwanyinscatmom · 6 months
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I really do wish this line from Lan Wangji wasn't translated so blasé for English, since the connotations of "awful or hateful are harsher than it should, since the actual misunderstanding there is Lan Wangji thinking that Wei Wuxian mispoke on purpose to be annoying and uncaring regarding others or their circumstances.
蓝忘机这种人,一辈子可能就流那么几次泪,偏偏这几次之一却被他撞上了。他这个人最看不得别人流眼泪。女人的眼泪看不得,看到了就想上去哄一哄、逗一逗,逗到人家破泣而笑。男人的眼泪更是看不得。他一直觉得,撞到一个平素强势的男人的眼泪,比不小心看到一个洁身自好的女孩子在洗澡还可怕,偏偏他还不能上去安慰。
在家府被焚毁、全族遭受欺压、父亲临危、兄长失踪、身有伤痛的多重打击下,任何安慰都是苍白无力的。
魏无羡手脚都不知道往哪里放,把头别了过去,半晌,才道:“那个,蓝湛。”
蓝忘机冷冷地道:“闭嘴。”
魏无羡闭嘴了。
柴火烧得炸了一声。
蓝忘机静静地道:“魏婴,你这个人,真的很讨厌。”
魏无羡道:“哦……”
A person like Lan Wangji might shed tears only a few times in his life, but it just had to occur at such a time with Wei Wuxian there. He hated seeing others shed tears. If he saw a girl in tears, he would walk up and coax them, tease them, until their cries turned into laughter. But a mans tears were even more indecipherable. He always felt that the tears of a usually strong man were more terrifying than accidentally seeing a well-behaved girl bathing, he couldn't just walk up to comfort either one.
Lan Wangji had taken many blows — to his home being burned down, his entire family being prosecuted, his father in danger of death, his brother missing, and his body suffering from injuries, any comfort would seem feeble in comparison.
Wei Wuxian didn't know where to put his hands and feet, so he turned his head away. After a long moment, Wei Wuxian ried to speak , "Ah, Lan Zhan."
Lan Wangji coldly retorted, "Shut up."
Wei Wuxian shut up.
The firewood snapped.
Lan Wangji quietly spoke, "Wei Ying, you really are just obnoxious."
Wei Wuxian said, “Oh…”
讨厌 tǎo yàn can be taken as loathsome, but it's very situational and defining in context to mean someone is acting as such to be disagreeable or annoying towards others. It's also a very poignant usage with how Madam Yu and Jiang Cheng constantly do say Wei Wuxian is and acts towards them. It is meant to be an echo of their words and how Jiang Cheng constantly has reminded Wei Wuxian during that summer Lan Wangji doesn't like him and finds him annoying. He is easy to come across as mocking, cruel and troublesome towards others. This is on the cusp of Wei Wuxian genuinely wanting to comfort and make Lan Wangji lighten up, right after how he joked with Mianmian and to do the same with Lan Wangji. It is also a misunderstanding from Lan Wangji's own part to think Wei Wuxian is being friendly to later be cruel to anyone he speaks with or is disregarding how others will react to him.
Wei Wuxian thinks he did say something cruel, while Lan Wangji believes the worst in Wei Wuxian's words and actions at the time. Both can be seen as a logical conclusion without actual communication between the two, and the longstanding issue between each other until they say what they mean.
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navarice · 1 year
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my dearest fellow mdzs stans, i really don't want to spoil anyone's fun but sometimes some things must be said. please do NOT mistake fanon characteristics for canon characteristics because by GOD is it frustrating to dissect a character when all anyone wants to do is blindly turn away from the very vivid and metastasizing flaws.
jiang cheng is an extremely complicated character, and that's why we love him. but by god, he is a jealous, self-victimizing asshole with a massive inferiority complex who likes to torture (probably) innocent look-a-likes of his (as far as he knew) dead adjacent family member. jesus christ this isn't some simple case of miscommunication (well it is but, you know no amount of communication will ever mend the giant chasm that developed between them. especially not with asians raised within the most classical case of asian parenting, i mean come on now) but a matter of deep and intense self-loathing developed since early childhood projecting violently outwards. let me be clear. he hates wei wuxian. he loathes him. he wants to kill him with his own hands again and again so some part of his convoluted sense of justice and superiority will be fulfilled. he's a classist, a bully, and abusive to everyone around him. ong at the end of mdzs, i was nearly crying tears of joy when jin guangyao flayed him flat on his ass bc that man needed to hear it. he needed to feel it. he needed to stop blaming others and blame himself.
and!! he's homophobic!! the entire cultivation world is, yes, but he's the only one we see give wei ying and lan zhan active shit for it!!
point is...his complexity makes him interesting. as a child, he was pretty alright tbh. he was understandably upset when three of his dogs got taken away and he saw his dad give a completely random kid such a gentle hug when jiang cheng never received one so far. he was a kid, and it was sad and helped the readers get a glimpse at the already dysfunctional family dynamics before wei ying came into the picture. as an adolescent/teen, yes he had a lot of unresolved rage and inferiority issues building up when he was constantly being compared to wei wuxian by his mother and not given enough reassurance from his father (once again, all present before wei ying...everyone just likes to dump the shit on him bc it's easier to point fingers at others than at yourself). perhaps he could have turned out differently if literally either of his parents stepped up and took accountability. however, after the burning of lotus pier? after the golden core transfer? after wei ying stuck around as his subordinate just as he promised, and protected jiang cheng like he promised, and defected just to save the yunmeng clan's reputation so jiang cheng doesn't have to put up with the other clan's shit, still continuing to keep his promise? after wei ying's death? idk abt y'all, but all bets are off bro.
mxtx makes it a point to make him so irredeemable. he's an exploration of what can go wrong if you let your traumas, self-hatred, and revenge fantasies blind you. he has the worst traits of his parents for a reason, directly contrasting with the other sibling, who is a perfect picture of eldest daughters born into a dysfunctional family. jiang yanli has the best traits of her parents (in terms of compassion and standing up for her family), but the family dynamics also made her the way she was. the responsible, the mediator, the occasional mother, stepping in where madam yu cannot.
there's just so much potential to hold him accountable buried under the pretense of misunderstandings and kinnie moments. he just had so many chances, more than any other character, to make a different choice. to actually look past his misgivings and unlearn the bad habits he used to protect himself as a child. i'm not saying he has to magically heal from all his traumas, but at the very least know not to be like his parents. but he wasn't written that way. because that is what happens when you give into your insecurities and generational trauma.
bottom line: jiang cheng is a fantastic archetype that needs to be explored in all his authenticity, including his moments of loyalty and cruelty.
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stormblessed95 · 9 months
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Hi, sorry if it's late, but can I ask for your persoal top favorite queer books and (maybe) your top fav fanfiction (from any fandom but your all time fav)? Thanks so much.....
Also why do you think mlm or wlw romance is more interesting than mlw (het) romance?
Feel free if you want to ignore the last ask, thanks for your blog....
Why do I personally enjoy gay romances to het ones? Preference and taste probably. I also tend to enjoy the angst, longing, tropes, passion, etc in the way its written more than I do in the ways those things are written between a straight couple. And that's not to say I don't enjoy straight romances either! I have plently of het ships I love too, and a few good romances that aren't gay 😂 I just have a preference, and that's okay! As for recommendations!! I have a LOTS! If you want to tell me about what YOU like to read, I can give even better recs. But for in general, some of my favorites...
I have posts about QUITE A FEW here already that you can check out (please do)!:
^ you'll find queer characters in most of the lists of recs honestly at least somewhere. BUT I do have posts specific for Sapphic, Achillian and Ace recs there. So start there!
I'll also throw in that I'm recently quite obsessed with fantasy Sapphics with swords in my books lately! So books like "The Jasmine Throne." "This is How You Lose The Time War." "Priory of the Orange Tree." "Gideon the Ninth." "Girls of Paper and Fire" and "Legends and Lattes."
Come back for me if you want more!
And some of my favorite fics (of various fandoms! Exciting!) In no particular order, I'll link a few for you!
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That Isn't Nothing by Taekookschanbaek
(I KNOW OKAY, in my defense I didn't realize the authors name until AFTER I read and loved the fic lmfao but it IS SO good, I promise lol)
Fandom: All For The Game
Ship: Andrew x Neil
Summary: "A look into the lives of pro exy players Andrew Minyard and Neil Josten. The world says they hate each other, but when Andrew gets transferred to Neil's team, their teammates begin seeing something else between them."
In Which Neil is a PR Nightmare by CoverYourEyes
Fandom: All For The Game
Ship: Andrew x Neil
Summary: "Eve was not the best person in the world. Sometimes she didn’t hold the elevator open when she saw people rushing to catch it from the other side of the lobby. Cutting the line at Starbucks was a semi-regular action. But Eve did not deserve to be Neil fucking Josten's publicist.
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Or, the one where Neil does what he wants, picks fights with reporters, discovers Twitter, breaks the internet, and really shouldn't be allowed out of his house. Andrew does nothing to discourage him."
The Men In Apartment 22B by jjmash
Fandom: All For The Game
Ship: Andrew x Neil
Summary: "Andrew and Neil's new neighbors are extremely confused about the two mysterious men in 22B. Are they dating? Are they in the mafia? Are they rival assassins who've fallen in love? As always, the truth is stranger than fiction."
Blame It On My Youth by youreyestheyglow
(Locked fic, you need an account. This fic is THICK but it's by far one of the best Andriel fics I've ever read or just in general. SO GOOD and so emotional and so sweet and so cute)
Fandom: All For The Game
Ship: Andrew x Neil
Summary: "10 years after the end of The King's Men, Andrew and Neil have decided to foster a kid. They have low expectations for themselves--they're not exactly ideal parenting material--but at the very least, the kid will be safe with them. But neither Andrew nor Neil do temporary very well.
Full disclosure: highly character-driven, minimally plot-driven."
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(Wangxian and MDZS IS my newest hyperfixation and I love the juniors dynamics fics so much lol)
The One-Body Problem by metisket
Fandom: MDZS
Ship: Wei Ying x Lan Zhan
Summary: "The good news is that Lan Jingyi has found a mentor, friend, and constant companion through the difficulties in life.
The bad news is that that’s because he’s been accidentally possessed by the Yiling Patriarch."
Operation Old Men by Chiharu
Fandom: MDZS
Ship: Wei Ying x Lan Zhan
Summary: "An ill-fated parent teacher conference reunites Jin Ling's wayward uncle with Sizhui's father. AKA: A matchmaking disaster as told by Jin Ling, Sizhui, and Jingyi."
And Time Is But A Paper Moon by Sami
Fandom: MDZS
Ship: Wei Ying x Lan Zhan
Summary: ""Zewu-Jun. You once told me about a house surrounded by gentians, where you visited once a month, and how Lan Zhan still waited there, even when the door no longer opened."
Xichen feels light-headed. He feels shocked, and angry. He has never told anyone such a thing, but Lan Zhan is giving Xichen a look of utter betrayal.
"You told him?" Lan Zhan whispers. "When?"
Wei Wuxian takes Lan Zhan's hand. "About twenty years from now."
*******
Wei Wuxian starts again from the beginning."
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(the first time) he kissed a boy by buzzcut__season
Fandom: Sk8 The Infinity
Ship: Langa x Reki
Summary: "Reki is insecure about his lack of kissing experience. Langa just wants to help him feel like he's good enough, even if teaching Reki to kiss means breaking his own heart."
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The Gambler by MooeyDooey
Fandom: Sk8 The Infinity
Ship: Joe x Cherry
Summary: "Joe and Cherry run into a problem. Conspiracy theories have started to surface in some fan forums of "S" that the two of them are secretly dating one another.
Both of them agree that the idea is absurd, but can't agree on which one of them would be the better boyfriend if they actually were dating. So they decide to have a competition, to see who can be the better romantic partner when pitted up against one another."
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The One Where Nico Has 30 Boyfriends by a_million_stars
Fandom: PJO
Ship: Will x Nico
Summary: "“Seriously? Me and Lester?” Nico looked ready to kill him. “If you keep speaking to me I think I’m going to throw up.”
Or, a new friend from college desperately tries to figure out who Nico's secret boyfriend is. He messes up. A lot. If only Nico didn't have so many weirdly close friends from high school."
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Burgundy (not Maroon) by Eggplant_Crusader
Fandom: Wednesday
Ship: Wednesday x Enid
Summary: "They're driving each other insane. It can't last. One of these days, one of them will surely kill the other. Enid wants to avoid that. Wednesday can't wait."
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Like Everything Glows by Annie_Vi
(One of the only people I'll read RPS fics from. Everything this woman writes is gold, this is my favorite though, and the first i read of hers)
Fandom: BTS
Ship: Jimin x Jungkook
Summary: "Jeon Jeongguk watches the sun rise and set on the water every day without wondering what may lie far beneath the surface. One nighttime walk along the beach upheaves his entire life, sending his human morals into a tailspin as he questions what his beliefs really are."
(I need more shows with good wlw ships that have good fics too!! If anyone has any good recs, send them my way!! Also there are so many good fics I've read that i realized i never bookmarked and now i cant remember what they are. Lesson learned. Bookmark everything! Thanks for the ask!!)
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insanusnavicularis · 9 months
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We should really talk more about
When everyone admired my power and wanted to flatter me , you’re the only who scolded me. Now, when everyone wants me to die or hates me, you’re the only one standing by my side.
This is such a powerful quote as a whole, with a very sincere and honest sentiment, but I wanna talk about the first part.
When everyone admired my power and wanted to flatter me, you’re the only who scolded me.
And look, I know we all love a smitten and indulgent Lan Zhan, I love him too! But! This right here, this quote, this sentiment, this is literally the baseline to any long lasting, healthy relationship.
Like, yeah, you’ve got to negotiate and surrender some things for the relationship to actually work, but unless you want an unstable, unhealthy relationship then you’ve also got to be firm and stubborn about other things. You’ve got to have your own opinion and most importantly, you’ve got to trust the other person enough to share that opinion.
I cannot emphasize enough just how much trust in your relationship it actually takes to disagree with someone you care about, to scold that someone.
And I’m not saying that you should go around starting petty arguments with everyone you care about just because, neither I’m saying you should put up with someone when the only thing they do is scold or criticize you, because that’s also unhealthy. All I’m saying is that it takes an enormous amount of trust and love to care enough to tell someone no, to tell them when you think they’re making the wrong decision- not because you want them to feel less or insecure, but because you know they’ll be hurting in the end and you do not want that- which is exactly what Lan wangji did, considering all the information at his disposal.
I’m not saying he didn’t make any mistakes because he did and there were a lot of times when he was the one in the wrong, but I am saying that I believe he did that out of care and love and concern. And Wei Ying seeing that? Accepting that? That’s like a huge step in their relationship if you consider that before his resurrection he was convinced Lan Zhan hated him and was actively trying to antagonize him.
Lwj was brave enough to sacrifice one of the things he cherishes the most (aka his relationship with wwx) if it meant that wwx would listen to him, would not be hurt by the choices he was making (because that’s what lwj thought the end result would be, and it was). He was willing to argue and fight and make wwx hate him but he was not willing to let wwx be hurt, even if it was wwx himself the one inflicting the injury.
And that’s just. So much love. You’ve got responsibilities when you’re in a relationship and one of them is protecting your beloved even if it’s from themselves- especially if it’s from themselves-.
Lwj knew that if he didn’t try to protect wwx from himself no one else would because they all were or too afraid of him or depended on him too much to actually pick a fight with him.
That also says a lot about how lwj sees their relationship.
In this fandom we talk a lot about wangxian being equals in everything, but this just goes and gives it a whole new meaning.
They’re equals in strength and in mind, yes, but even when wwx chose the ghost path and separated himself from lwj’s path, lwj still considered him an equal, he considered them well enough matched to know that he could confidently tell him things as they were, bluntly, that he could be upfront and frank with him.
And that’s just !!! And it all really comes full circle with post redirection lwj, who’s so willing to indulge wwx not because he’s just following him blindly, but because now he’s got the full information and realizes that wwx is in the right- if he really thought that wwx was in the wrong he would’ve told him.
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nighttimeebony · 5 months
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By the way, has anyone else noticed the similarities between these three ships?
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BECAUSE I HAVE AND I CANNOT PRETEND TO BE NORMAL ABOUT IT ANYMORE
(unhinged gay screaming and rambling below the cut)
You know, "serious, deadpan gay has their heart melted by a nerdy, chaotic disaster bisexual with childhood trauma." Alternatively, "not enemies but initially on opposing sides before sun-coded breaks down moon-coded's walls and then subsequently become best friends that are closer to each other than most other people."
To start, the similarities between Lan Zhan, Cas, and Shouto:
Deadpan, cold, aloof, serious, intimidating, takes things literally 
Initially driven by rigidly-defined principles/goals before having their world view altered by the other half of their ship, which in turn causes them to become more uncertain of themselves and what they want, but recognizes that they are happier and better-off for it now than they were before
They were raised in an unforgivingly strict environment where there was no margin for error, causing them to become cold and jaded in a way that covers up the fact that, at their core, they are fundamentally kind and good in a way that they don't even realize but desperately want to be
Socially awkward introverts that hate everyone but This One Person
Come across as very intimidating but are actually very soft 
Surprisingly good with kids
Familial issues/trauma
They can also be identified as the "fell first" half of the relationship, and most likely fell within one of their first few interactions with their love interest 
Youngest siblings
Has an obsession with a specific animal (Cas likes bees, Lan Zhan likes rabbits, Shouto likes cats)
The undisputed powerhouse of their respective series that everyone recognizes as one of, if not the strongest members of the cast
Everyone thinks they're super wise and mature, but they are actually the pettiest bitches you will ever meet
Gay and entirely obsessed with This One Person
They all have small, private conflicts about allowing themselves to Feel. They were raised to compartmentalize, repress, and conceal-don't-feel; push everything down until you are perfect and untouchable. Then their love interest comes along and upends everything and finally allows them to Feel, but because they were taught to repress everything, they don't entirely know how to do that yet, so, with the help of their love interest, they slowly heal and learn how to be more human and less like the image of untouchable, god-like perfection they were raised to be (metaphorically for lwj and Shouto, but literally in Cas's case)
(I was gonna say, "they all belong to the mile-high tall club", but then I realized that only applies to lwj and Shouto because Cas is technically shorter than Dean, lol. Though, I guess you could argue that his true form (without his vessel) is taller, but, like, c'mon)
Incredibly dry, niche sense of humor that's only really funny to This One Person
Lan Zhan and Shouto both have mothers that they love, but who were forced into an unwanted, loveless marriage by their father that led them to be increasingly isolated from their children until resulting in a psychotic break that ultimately destroyed them and drove their husbands to imprison them (Rei in the mental hospital and Lan Zhan's mother in the Jingshi)
Unrepentantly earnest and blunt with their thoughts
Completely whipped for their partner
Now! To the disasters! Wei Ying, Dean, and Izuku:
Friendly, excitable, extroverted, sunshine-y/always smiling
Near-unparalleled geniuses in their fields of interest that like to experiment and test things
Childhood trauma
The powers that be have decided that they are undesirable in some way or another, that they are a waste, disposable, an acceptable sacrifice to make in the grand scheme of things. They have all struggled with feelings of worthlessness, and have all arguably struggled with self-hatred at least once in their lives, and even if they don't actively hate themselves anymore, by and large, they do not recognize that they have value just as they are, that the only value they have lies in what they can do (or sacrifice) for others. None of them have much in the way of self-esteem or any sense of self-worth.
At their core, they want to save people.
They all have themes of being different from the negative characatures that society tried to make them into.
Extremely talkative and come across as annoying to most people
Likes kids
Reckless and jump head-first into danger at the drop of a hat
Carry feelings of guilt, have a tendency to cast blame onto themselves, takes responsibility for things that aren't their fault
They want so badly to do good, and they choose to be kind in a world that deemed them unworthy of it
Good relationships with their respective maternal figures/caretakers (Dean and Izuku with their actual mothers, and Wei Ying with Yanli)
Wise-cracking smartasses that give off dumbass energy
Bisexual
Inadvertently ends up adopting a small army of children
Deflects their traumatic experiences with jokes
Has that one female best friend that is definitely a lesbian (wwx and Wen Qing, Izuku and Ochako, and Dean and Charlie)
"Oh my God, (Cas, Lan Zhan, Shouto)! You can't just say things like that!"
They are the caretakers, the protectors, but they so rarely let themselves be cared for by others. Their respective love interests are some of the few people they feel comfortable being truly vulnerable with and will let take care of them
Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms™
In particular, I noticed a lot of uncanny similarities between Wangxian and Destiel specifically, especially in the themes and arcs that exist in both the couples and the individuals
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The Good Hoodie
Note: This was going to be too much work to convert to an actual fic since it turns out it was 99% "completed" in this very casual me rambling kinda way. So I'm posting it as-is! It was initially going to be a thread but the bird app is a mess nowadays so here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hope it's not too hard to follow! Enjoy this idiots-to-lovers headcanon/ficlet about a much-coveted boyfriend shirt lol
We talk a lot about WWX borrowing LWJ's clothes, but what about the other way around?
I'm picturing a vaguely-college au where LWJ lives with LXC off-campus. And maybe LQR is visiting for a couple days and he and LXC go out for dinner but LWJ declines because he has to study.
Except they assume he's going to be studying alone because "LWJ + friends = no" BUT he is actually meeting WWX at one of the libraries on campus. No big deal except LQR has taken LWJ's umbrella and it's about to rain.
So LWJ is going to have to leave early enough to beat the upcoming storm and then hope it's passed by the time they're done studying... but maybe he wasted a few precious minutes deciding what to wear and then trying to figure out where his damn umbrella was.
The point is, LWJ rolls up to the library looking like a drowned rat after his brisk walk (not run) for the last few minutes in a downpour. And WWX's first reaction is to laugh, but then he gets concerned and drags LWJ off to the bathroom.
Cue wangxian standing shoulder-to-shoulder at the hand dryers holding LWJ's shoes and socks (at WWX's insistence) under the hot air. WWX is definitely looking respectfully at the way LWJ's wet shirt clings to his chest. And LWJ is definitely dying a thousand deaths that WWX is touching his socks (so inappropriate! what are they, married???)
Footwear somewhat dry, WWX focusses on LWJ's shirt for real. He takes off his own sweater so that he's just in a plain black t-shirt and tells LWJ to wear it instead while they dry his shirt.
And LWJ wants to protest but also he's shivering and feels gross so fuck it. He peels out of his cardigan and t-shirt and slips into WWX's sweater and oh wow it's a little worn-out but in the softest way. And it smells like WWX and OMG WHAT IS HAPPENING??
What's happening is WWX saw how cold he looked so he's rapidly rubbing LWJ's arms to help warm him up because of friction or whatever that LWJ can't bring himself to grasp atm. (LWJ is 30% sure this counts as foreplay, but doesn't dare say so)
They return to wringing out as much water as possible from the shirt and cardigan in the sink, then continue their previous shoulder-to-shoulder dryer bonding.
"Lan Zhan! You know, if you wanted your sweater back, all you had to do was ask. So elaborate!"
"What?"
Your sweater!" He gestures to his sweater that LWJ is now wearing.
"This is not my sweater."
"Are you sure? It really suits you! You look so good!"
A look in the mirror at his still very "drowned rat" face/hair makes LWJ doubt that WWX is being completely honest, but also WWX said he looked good and he likes the idea of *that*
"Your sweater is very... cozy."
"Right??"
Anyway, they get his shirt and cardigan reasonably dry and WWX tries to convince LWJ to dry his pants as well but the thought of either standing in the library bathroom in his underwear and WWX's sweater where anybody could walk in OR standing pants-less in a stall while WWX dries his pants for him are both too unbearable. His pants are damp but not as bad as his upper body or feet that trudged through forming puddles.
He barely manages to win the argument, but he does. They finally leave the bathroom to get a bit of studying done, LWJ still wearing WWX's sweater while his shirts do their last bit of drying draped across the backs of their chairs.
Studying is mostly a bust because LWJ can barely focus on anything but "sweater is warm, sweater smells like Wei Ying, Wei Ying said I looked good in his clothes" and WWX keeps taking breaks to do things like run down to the coffeeshop on the main floor to beg them to brew decaf before they close up for the night (Barista: "We're in a university library, I don't think we we even stock decaf")
Apparently they do have decaf and WWX buys LWJ two cups to warm him up (along with something with an unhealthy amount of espresso shots for himself, bringing balance back to the delicate uni library ecosystem)
And LWJ is just... kinda loving being doted on? He's aware that his brother indulges him a lot and it's not a foreign concept to his life, but this is different because it's *Wei Ying* and did I mention that he's wearing WWX's sweater which is soft and smells like his cologne and is cozy and smells nice?
Also WWX occasionally rubs his hands together really fast and then places them on LWJ's forearm to give him a little extra warmth because he apparently still looks "so cold!" even though his hair is almost dry.
So LWJ is basically ready to propose marriage, and he's pretty sure WWX will say yes because how is this not courting? Right? He's being courted by WWX, right?
But the library is closing up so they have to leave. It's still raining, but WWX refuses let LWJ change back into his damp-ish clothes for the walk home. Instead, he tosses the shirts into a plastic grocery bag he'd brought his lunch in earlier that day and offers to lend LWJ his umbrella too.
"But won't you get wet?"
"Uhh, it's called wearing a coat? Honestly, Lan Zhan, what's going on with you? I get the umbrella thing, but no rain coat?"
What's going on is LWJ completely forgot that coats existed because he was so focussed on his handsome cardigan look that got ruined by mother nature anyway. He can't be too mad at that though because of the whole "sweater + Wei Ying + smells good + doting = you know the drill" thing.
They settle on WWX wearing his coat, walking LWJ (wearing his sweater) home with his umbrella. And it's nearly 10pm so LWJ asks if WWX wants to come up for some tea to warm him for his walk back to campus (even though it's only like, 15 minutes away. The Lan bros live off-campus, but like, *right there* basically)
So LWJ unlocks the door to his apartment with WWX very close behind him, and... gets whacked on the head with his missing umbrella. Apparently LXC was still awake and assumed someone was breaking in because wtf was LWJ doing out?? Wasn't he studying in his room this entire time?? And he's sneaking a "friend" into their apartment after bedtime?? How often does this happen if he feels bold enough to try it while their uncle is visiting??
Anyway, WWX takes a raincheck on the "tea" that he definitely didn't think was actually tea but was literally tea because LWJ doesn't understand how these things work.
Fast forward a few weeks and LWJ still has WWX's sweater because he insists he looks better in it anyway. And they've started hanging out in cooler places than the library, and occasionally just share clothes like two bros do and not because they're both into the "boyfriend shirt" idea.
But then disaster strikes. Some dude spills his beer all over MianMian at a party and WWX lends her his sweatshirt. And it's a good sweatshirt that LWJ has had his eye on for the past two weeks because it has little holes worn into the seams of the cuffs and the hole on the right sleeve is big enough that sometimes WWX pokes his thumb through it when he's fidgety and it's very cute. And now MianMian is wearing it instead of LWJ, hmpf! 😠
Cue two idiots in love vastly misunderstanding a situation while MianMian is just relieved that she won't get "wet t-shirt contest" comments from gross frat bros.
What LWJ thinks: *Oh no, WWX must really like her. He's mentioned before that they went to high school together. Clearly he's had a crush on her this entire time*
What WWX thinks: *Why does LWJ seem to be in such a bad mood all of a sudden? Ohhhhh. He must have a crush on MianMian! They have a class or two together, don't they? WWX should be a Good Friend™ and help LWJ out with this instead of ogling him all the time*
So cue a torturous month while they both try to be supportive of the other's non-existent crush on MianMian. WWX trying to get LWJ to admit his crush so that he can play matchmaker, and LWJ trying his best to tolerate WWX's new MianMian fixation.
"MianMian is really pretty, isn't she? What do you think, Lan Zhan?"
"Mn."
"That's all you have to say? You can tell me how you really feel, you know?"
No, LWJ can't.
MEANWHILE, MianMian is baffled about why this acquaintance from high school and the quiet guy from her intro to sociology course are suddenly so intent on bumping into her everywhere. She's pretty sure it's deliberate, but she can't figure out why??? If it were anyone else she would be creeped out, but LWJ seems harmless and it's nice to have a familiar face like WWX around sometimes. She trusts him, for sure.
Then one day the three of them are hanging around on the quad and WWX leaves briefly to go get a drink from the vending machine and MianMian sees a look in LWJ's eyes as he walks away. The Longing™ and she's like 'Ohhh, so THAT'S why LWJ is always tagging along' so she tries to talk WWX up a little to LWJ, and vice versa, while they're both trying to pitch what a great boyfriend the other one would be to her.
What MianMian thinks: *Yes, he would be a good boyfriend. You should ask him out already*
What MianMian says: "Hey, did WWX ever tell you about the time he saved my life? Some asshole ran a red light and he pulled me back onto the curb at the last second or else I would have been a goner!"
What LWJ thinks: *That sounds straight out of one of those dramas my brother watches. No wonder she's fallen for him. I can't compete.*
What LWJ says: "Very heroic."
What WWX thinks: *I should talk this up a little more. If I tell Lan Zhan about how I saved the life of the girl he wants to kiss, maybe he'll be so grateful that he'll want to kiss me instead*
What WWX says: "(insert some horribly misguided comment about how the world would be a duller place without her beautiful smile) --isn't that right, Lan Zhan?"
"Mn."
And then "disaster" #2 strikes -- MianMian gets a boyfriend. While WWX and LWJ are both partially relieved that she's dating someone else, they both feel bad for the other man's crush. WWX shows up at LWJ's door with a bottle of the cheapest vodka he could buy 20 mins after she posts a picture with her new bf on instagram.
"I know you don't normally drink, but there are sorrows to be drowned!"
"I will make an exception just this once."
Both of them thinking: *I must be a good friend to him during this time of heartbreak*
Also, WWX is wearing that good hoodie with the holes and LWJ assumes it's because it reminds WWX of MianMian. It's actually just the only thing WWX doesn't have sitting in the laundry basket at the moment.
WWX is secretly hoping he can snag some shirts from LWJ while he's there because let's face it, it's gonna be another week until he gets around to doing that laundry. LWJ is secretly hoping he can snag that good hoodie once and for all.
LXC is getting ready for bed as all of this starts going down. He's been informed by his baby bro about WWX's everlasting love for MianMian, as well as the existence of the good hoodie. LWJ has never told him that he's in love with WWX, but like... yeah, he fucking knows lol
And he's not entirely convinced that WWX is into MianMian anyway because, well, he sure likes to compliment LWJ a lot, and wasn't he totally interested in coming up for late night (9:45pm!) tea the day of that storm? LXC watches romcoms, he knows what inviting someone up for coffee/tea is supposed to mean.
(It was very awkward trying to explain this to his brother later, who thought a hot beverage was literally part of the process. It's not their faults. LQR was one of those "I don't own a TV" guys so they've missed out on a lot lol)
LXC loiters in the kitchen long enough to watch WWX pour them both shots of straight vodka (politely declining a third one offered to himself) and directs them to the living room, then clears the area around them of sharp objects that a passed-out LWJ might hurt himself on.
"I know nothing about this new boyfriend except that he probably sucks. What's MianMian thinking going for some random dude when the world's most perfect man is standing right in front of her?"
"Mn."
"To broken hearts!" WWX toasts and they both down their shot of vodka.
LWJ coughs because wow it burns way more than he was expecting it to. That sip of champagne at his cousin's wedding did not prepare him for this at all. WWX pats his back and he's sitting so close and that feels so nice. He IS the world's most perfect man, LWJ agrees silently. MianMian doesn't deserve him and...
"MianMian doesn't deserve the good hoodie," LWJ says before passing the fuck out.
LXC brings a glass of water from the kitchen and places it on the coffee table while WWX panics.
"This is what happens when he drinks, no need for concern. My brother will wake up in ten minutes or so."
"You're sure he's okay?"
"He will be fine, don't worry. I am turning in for the night, but my room is just down the hall if you need me for anything urgent."
"And he's definitely okay?" WWX asks as he rubs LWJ's back.
"He is. How are you doing? You seem upset by this news about your friend MianMian."
"Who wouldn't be, right?"
"Right... Well, good night. I'll see you in the morning." (Because LXC damn well knows WWX isn't going home tonight.)
WWX spends the next 5-10 minutes wondering why LXC just assumes he's spending the night. WWX has every intention on stumbling back to his dorm room -- or at least HAD every intention of doing so until LWJ passed out. LXC must want him to take responsibility for getting his baby bro drunk on a single shot of vodka.
WWX eases LWJ's forehead off the table and lays him on the floor with his head in WWX's lap instead. Then he takes another shot of vodka because LWJ looks cute and he's an idiot for being so in love with a straight guy like LWJ who is currently heartbroken over a girl.
LWJ wakes up while WWX is petting his hair and he should stay there because it's nice but Drunkji has bigger plans. He sits bolt upright then gets to his feet using the coffee table and couch as supports. He offers a hand to help WWX up, who declines due to the fact that he's basically sober still and is almost positive that LWJ isn't stable enough not to topple over when he pulls. LWJ frowns when WWX stands on his own, then grabs the sleeve of the good hoodie and tugs WWX to his room.
WWX has a couple ideas about where this is gonna go, but he's apparently wrong because LWJ wants some kind of fashion show? He opens his closet and starts taking out every shirt, then pulls the good hoodie off of WWX.
"Lan Zhan! Dragging me into your bedroom and undressing me like this! What do you have in mind?"
"To replace it," LWJ says as he shoves three cardigans into WWX's hands and puts the coveted good hoodie on himself.
"Replace? Are you planning on keeping my ratty old sweatshirt? It's full of holes, Lan Zhan!" WWX laughs.
"Mn."
"What if I don't find anything I like in here?" WWX asks as he helps himself to searching through LWJ's closet.
"I will buy a new one. To replace it." LWJ hugs it tight around his body, having decided that he is keeping the good hoodie. "You may borrow this occasionally."
"Borrow my own hoodie? Lan Zhan, you're too cute!"
"Mine."
LWJ flops the hood over his head and pulls the drawstrings until only one eye and his nose are visible. Then folds up his legs and tucks them under the hem of the oversized hoodie as well, encasing as much of his body in it as possible.
WWX takes a picture because how could he not? Then tries on the first cardigan.
"How do I look?"
"Handsome."
WWX tosses it into the replacement pile and tries the next one, getting a "handsome" as a response every time.
"That pile is getting pretty big. Just how many of these am I allowed to take home tonight?"
"Everything."
"Hahaha you're so funny."
"Mn."
WWX stops and takes a good long look at LWJ, who is balled up inside his hoodie with just half his face and his feet poking out, and his arms wrapped around him.
"So cute, Lan Zhan."
"You are."
"You are!" WWX stumbles a little over a discarded hanger on the floor and lands hard on the bed next to LWJ, but quickly sits up.
"Are you injured?" LWJ opens the hood a little more to see him better.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. Really. Ah, Lan Zhan you're really too cute like this. A little lump. I want to just bundle this little lump of you up and give you a big hug."
"Okay."
"Do you want a hug?"
"Mn."
WWX is more than happy to oblige, firstly because LWJ usually isn't a hug kinda guy, but also because if he wants a hug now it must be because he's so brokenhearted about MianMian.
"How's that?" WWX asks as he turns sideways and pulls the hoodie-encased LWJ in for a tight, warm hug.
"You are a very kind person, Wei Ying."
"Nah, I have an ulterior motive with this. I'm not going to pass up a chance to hug the one and only Lan Zhan."
"Still kind."
"I'm here for you, okay? Always. Anything you need, you've got it."
"MianMian--" LWJ stops himself, belatedly realizing through his drunken fog that maybe WWX would be upset to think about her at the moment. "Sorry."
"She doesn't know what she's missing."
"Mn."
"I am also... I am also here for you, Wei Ying. Always. If you want hugs, or..."
WWX giggles and rests his chin on LWJ's shoulder. "You're very kind too, Lan Zhan. So sweet. I wouldn't bug you for that, though. I know touching isn't normally your thing."
"You are allowed."
"Huh?"
"Please hug me whenever you want."
WWX laughs more and topples them sideways onto the bed. LWJ's legs pop out of the hoodie in the meantime, so WWX cuddles even closer now that they're lying chest-to-chest.
"Be careful what you wish for, Lan Zhan. What if I secretly want to hug you all the time?"
"I'll allow it."
"Seriously, I'll be a barnacle -- even more of a barnacle than usual if you tell me that."
"I am telling you. I do not mind."
WWX squeezes him extra tight and LWJ wraps his arms around him in return. It's comforting and heartbreaking at the same time, and WWX unexpectedly finds tears soaking the shoulder of his hoodie.
"Are you crying?"
LWJ wiggles his head free a little more from the hood, but WWX reaches up and pulls it tighter, blocking his vision again.
"I'm fine. Sorry. Don't look at me, I'm just..." WWX tucks his face against LWJ's shoulder again. "You're so good, Lan Zhan. You deserve everything. I'm sorry things didn't work out with MianMian. I wish things were different. If I had you as a boyfriend, I'd..."
LWJ goes rigid.
"Ah, no, I know. I know you're straight or whatever.. I'm not going to try anything, especially since you're feeling so-- Ahh, just ignore me, okay? I guess I'm pretty drunk. I always get emotional when I'm drunk. Pretend I didn't say anything, okay?"
"Wei Ying..."
"I'm sorry, please don't make a big deal of it. I swear I'm happy to be your friend. Uh, but, I understand if you want to revoke the whole 'you can always hug me' thing, given... hey, it doesn't even matter because you're gonna forget all of this, right? Promise?"
"Wei Ying." LWJ holds his hug firm when WWX tries to squirm away. "Please continue."
"I don't even know what I was saying. Just rambling on about whatever, I think."
"If I was your boyfriend, you would..." LWJ prompts.
"Oh. I..."
WWX gives a nervous chuckle, but LWJ is still hugging him so he thinks maybe it's okay to say? He's so drunk on one shot of vodka he won't remember any of it anyway. This might be WWX's only chance to say how he really feels.
"I was just thinking that if I was in MianMian's shoes or whatever, I definitely would have chosen you. You're... you're so wonderful, Lan Zhan. I would make sure you knew how much I love you every day. And appreciate all the thoughtful little things you do-- Ah, not that I don't appreciate it all already. I know you, uh, humour me a lot and let me get away with things that probably annoy you."
"I'm not humouring you."
"Indulging, then. You--"
"Mn. Because I love you."
WWX makes a squeaking sound, then quickly covers it with a laugh while trying to keep his heart from breaking. LWJ is drunk and clearly doesn't mean love in the sense that WWX wants it to mean.
"Ah, Lan Zhan, Lan Zhan! You're gonna be so embrassed in the morning. Saying 'I love you' like that to your friend. I'm not nice enough not to tease you about it later, you know?"
"You don't feel the same way."
"Of course I do! I mean, 'love' is an unexpectedly strong word to use, but if that's what we're going with here then... Yeah, I love you too, buddy."
LWJ sighs. "You don't feel the same way. I... know this. I'm sorry."
"What? Lan Zhan! I just said I felt the same. We're best friends, right? You tolerate me somehow, that's..."
While WWX is trying to think of what he wants to say, LWJ kisses his forehead then starts to roll away so he won't have to deal with what he assumes will be a negative reaction. Instead, WWX grabs his biceps and refuses to let him turn away.
"Lan Zhan?" WWX can barely hear his own words over the sound of his heart beating. "Why did you kiss me?"
LWJ silently reaches up and pulls the strings on his hoodie so that it closes around his face, and WWX remembers that he is still very drunk. He'd had a lucid moment, but that's apparently gone.
WWX tries to give his shoulders a little shake, but it's no use -- LWJ has fallen asleep. Knowing this might be his only moment to have this, WWX snuggles closer and eventually falls asleep too.
WWX wakes the next morning and immediately sees LWJ's face, still in each other's arms. He's so beautiful that WWX can hardly stand it. The hood has loosened at some point during the night, and WWX resists the overwhelming urge return his forehead kiss from the night before.
"Lan Zhan, are you awake?" WWX whispers. "You must be asleep if we're still like this. I hope you sleep in for a while. I know that's selfish, but... just let me stay here like this a little longer, okay? And then I'll get over this stupid crush and be a proper friend."
"Take your time, Wei Ying. I know how much you cared for MianMian."
WWX freezes because holy shit LWJ is awake but then is like wtf?
"This isn't really the same as your crush on MianMian, but thank you."
"I do not have a crush on MianMian."
WWX winces. "Sorry, is that too juvenile? Love, then?"
"...Do you think I am also in love with MianMian?"
"Also?"
"I think of her as only a friend."
"Oh. Then why were you upset about her boyfriend?"
"I was upset for your sake."
"I was only upset because... Do you think I'm in love with MianMian?"
"Are you not?"
"No! I'm--" WWX starts to piece things together, but it's almost too good to be true. "Lan Zhan... Why did you kiss me last night?"
LWJ pales. "I kissed you?"
"Well, just on the forehead, but... You don't remember?" WWX asks and LWJ shakes his head. "Do you remember any of the stuff I said?" More 'no' head shakes. "Oh. Okay, well, that's... that's probably for the best."
"Were you upset that I kissed your forehead?"
"No, the opposite, really. I--" WWX squeezes his eyes shut tight and takes a big breath. "Fuck it. I really hope you don't hate me for this and we can still be friends, but I-- I've never been in love with MianMian. It's always been you. Only you. Since... I don't even know. Probably since before that night at the library, but that's when I realized that I..."
"You love me?"
"Yeah. And last night when we were cuddling you kissed my forehead and said you loved me and I assumed you were just one of those 'I love my friends' kinda drunks but maybe... I'm hoping that maybe you mean it the same way I do. Or-- If I'm way off base here then I'll give you space while I--"
"Wei Ying. Wei Ying." LWJ has a desperate look in his eyes that WWX has never seen before and then his eyelids close and they're kissing. It's great and still really confusing but neither man wants to ruin the moment yet.
WWX finally ruins the moment. "So you don't have a crush on MianMian?"
"Wei Ying, I am gay."
"Really?"
"Very much so, yes."
"I'm bi. Oh! But I've never-- I mean, there was probably a week or whatever in high school when I had a crush on MianMian but nothing more than that. Not like-- Ugh, I really wish you could remember what I said last night. It's too embarassing to repeat in the sober light of day. I said a lot of nice things about you, Lan Zhan. A bunch of reasons why I love you and everything. Why is this so scary? You feel the same way, right? Did you change your mind after making out just now? My morning breath isn't that--"
"Wei Ying. I love you."
WWX's body feels like it goes liquid as his tension melts away. "Oh, good. That's good. I... Yeah, me too."
They kiss again for a while and slowly progress into just holding each other in LWJ's bed.
"Okay, so... how did MianMian get caught up in all this if neither of us had a crush on her? Why did you think I did?"
"You frequently bragged about saving her life."
"Oh, that's what made you think-- Oh man, now I'm just embarassed."
"There is no need to be embrassed with me."
"No... No, there is definitely a need for it here. I thought that since you liked her that you would, I don't know, be so grateful to me that you'd like me more I guess? I can't really explain."
"That is very flawed logic."
"Believe me, I know."
"Were you hoping for a kiss of gratitude?"
"Ugh, you know me too well."
"Mn." LWJ kisses him again for reasons other than gratitude for saving MianMian years before he ever met her. "I have an embarassing confession as well."
"Ooh! Yes! Tell me, tell me! This is perfect. I'm all yours-- ears! I'm also all yours but I meant to say 'I'm all ears.' Continue, please."
"I also thought you liked MianMian because you lent her your hoodie."
"What? When?"
"At the party."
"Which par-- ohh! Wait, what? Why? That was-- She was wearing a white shirt and it got soaked in beer. You know how gross some dudes are. I heard TWO 'wet t-shirt contest' jokes in the time it took me to pass it to her. I just didn't want assholes to ruin her night."
"I understand that now."
"And wasn't that after-- It was!" WWX laughs as he answers his own question. "It was way after the library. Lan Zhan! We were definitely already swapping clothes by then. If you thought that meant I liked MianMian, why didn't you think that maybe I liked you?"
"But that was the good hoodie."
"Okay, hang on. Some things are starting to click. You mentioned the 'good hoodie' last night too. What is..." WWX stops as he smells his own cologne on the clothes LWJ is wearing. "It can't be THIS hoodie?"
"Mn."
"Lan Zhan! This thing is practically a rag! It's full of holes and all stretched out."
"It is cozy."
LWJ remembers that he can finally do what he's been dreaming of for months and shifts his body position to free his arm. He then pokes his thumb through the hole near the sleeve cuff and gives a small smile because all is right with the world.
"See? It's barely holding together. A strong breeze might make it disintegrate. I was thinking of throwing it away if--"
"No!" LWJ looks at him with panic in his eyes. "I will keep it."
WWX laughs and kisses the bridge of LWJ's nose. "Too cute. Really, it's not fair. You know, when you were drunk last night you promised to exchange basically your entire closet for this ratty old thing, so I feel like I should get to choose your nicest, sofest sweater in return."
"Mn. My previous offer stands."
"What previous offer? Your whole closet?"
"Mn."
"Unnecessary, but appreciated. I will limit myself to three."
"Mn. Also..."
"What?"
"I would like to buy you a new hoodie. To replace this one."
"No need. I'm already getting three sweaters out of this deal and--"
"For later. After this one disintegrates, as you predict it will."
"Okay, deal."
Anyway they eventually leave the bed and find LXC in the kitchen making breakfast for three. He doesn't comment, but smiles when he sees LWJ wearing the "good hoodie". He doesn't need to know the details, but the outcome is obvious -- that is a boyfriend hoodie, although it's not like all their clothes-swapping wasn't very boyfriend behaviour already. This is as official as it can get short of actually saying "we are dating now".
"Wei Ying and I are dating now," LWJ announces while they eat, just to make everything clear. WWX nearly spits out his coffee, and looks nervously at LXC for his reaction.
"I'm happy to hear you worked it out at last. You should treat your friend MianMian and her boyfriend to a dinner to thank them for the role they unwittingly played in the matter. Perhaps it can be a double-date."
"Mn. Good idea."
"You knew he didn't like MianMian?" WWX asks.
"Of course."
"Did you know I didn't like MianMian?"
"I strongly suspected."
"Did you know we liked each other?"
"There were signs."
"Why do I feel like we owe you a thank you dinner as well?"
"I wouldn't turn down the offer."
"How have you helped?" LWJ asks his brother.
"I have listened to you talk for months about how--"
"--Where would you like to go dinner?"
WWX blushes and laughs but LXC simply smiles and takes a bite of food without comment. "Ah, Huan-ge. You're such a trooper."
"That's what older brothers are for."
"Are you sure? I would definitely roast my brother to the sun and back if he came to me about a crush."
"Don't let him fool you. He will enjoy teasing me about it as well," LWJ says.
"These smiles are purely smiles of support."
"And the snickering?"
LXC smiles. "There is an Indian restaurant that opened down the street last month that I've been meaning to visit. Why don't try there for dinner."
"Mn."
"Then it's settled!"
"And there isn't a particular dress code, so no need to worry."
WWX chuckles. "I didn't even think about a dress code, but good to know. Why would that matter?"
"Just wanted to be clear that hoodies would be  allowed, since I expect my brother will wear this one until it falls into shreds."
"Hahaha I'm sure he'd wear something nicer to dinner, right Lan Zhan?"
"No. My brother is correct. I only want to wear this one."
"But why?"
"It is a very good hoodie."
They eventually move in together and share one big closet. The end.
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1. Excuse me, but could anyone tell which Wangxian fic has Wei Wuxian as someone who works as a cursebreaker in a modern setting and meets Lan Wangji when his laptop got cursed? I really want to reread it again, please? @kaitou-cure-prism12
FOUND! Crossed Wires by stardust_and_sunlight (T, 20k, wangxian, modern cultivation, college/university au, meet-cute)
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2. I'm hoping you can help me re-find a fic I read a while back. It was a WIP at the time, a modern AU, and it started with JZX calling in a favor from LWJ to help him find a good present for JZX's fiance's brother (WWX). LWJ researches WWX online and gets intrigued and also recommends that JZX give WWX a dizi. Thanks! @marbleglove
FOUND! The Trials of Purchasing Gifts for a Gremlin by MavisMelisande (T, 3k, XuanLi, WangXian, Modern AU, LWJ Has Friends, Social Media, Christmas Presents, POV LWJ, POV JZX)
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3. hello, thank you for all your hard work! I was on twitter following this thread a few months ago then forgot and now twitter is glitchy but i rmb the author said she will poster on ao3! She has a small following then and it’s so hard to find it on ao3 might be incomplete I’m not sure but I really want to know how it ends cause it’s k wording me
- it’s about lan zhan writting to himself from a different universe? wei Ying dies or something in another universe and Lan zhan is trying it to prevent again
- high school setting
- no it’s not the space one!!
thanks in advance guys, you all the backbone of the fandom 💛 @meedorin
FOUND? 至少还有你 | in another life by nagiusagi (T, 16k, wangxian, modern, high school au, LWJ pov, heavy angst w happy ending, hurt/comfort, pain, hurt WWX, student WWX, student LWJ, letters from past, implied/referenced child abuse, character death (JYL), grief, misunderstandings, teenage wangxian, WWX’s hair ribbon, forehead ribbon exhange, pianist LWJ, parallel universes)
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4. Hey I am looking for two fics !
I have searched many tags but i cannot find them
A) this is set in post canon where lwj and wwx visit a village for nighthunt I think but they find lwj's mother's family ? It was a oneshot ig
B) This is a modern au fic again a oneshot ig? The only thing i remember is that lwj was a fashion icon here and very sassy . Oblivious Wwx as usual ! i think wwx implied lwj like mianmian and later lwj talks to his brother and says " brother do i not look gay enough?" .I do not remember anything else . Also it had good friendship dynamics with almost everyone.No angst but again i can be remembering wrong . Also !!!!! Lwj wore heels ( it wasn't a genderbend fic )
4A)
FOUND? Gentian Seeds by yuyu_finale (T, 9k, WangXian, Thirteen Years of WWX’s Death, at first, Post-Canon, later on, Mentioned Madam Lán, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family, but literally, some elements of character study, Soft WangXian) LWJ discovers his mother's hometown
FOUND? The Same Cloth by x_los (T, 8k, WangXian, Established Relationship, Case Fic, Aftermath of a Case, Family Feels, Family Drama, Family Bonding, Family Secrets, Clothing Porn, Worldbuilding, Government, Chief Cultivator LWJ, Married Life, Character Study, Post-Canon)
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5. Hello, I'm looking for a fic where WWX thinks he has a miscarriage in the burial mounds and then ends up giving birth at the end of the war.
FOUND? Impermanence, Transience, Permanence by Best Bepsy (BepsyGray) (E, 39k, wangxian, canon divergence, unplanned pregnancy, mpreg, gore, sunshot campaign, assumed miscarriage, medical procedures, childbirth, golden core reveal)
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6. Hi! I'm looking for a fic where wwx is a single parent to lwj's child. They knew each other in school and were friends, but wwx disappeared after yzy kicked him out. Wwx has been sending letters to lwj to tell him about their child but lwj never saw any of the letters. The meet again after some years and lwj gets to know his child and it turns out that it was lxc who intercepted all the mail and destroyed it before it could get to lwj. I think lxc was angry that wwx was stringing along his brother and disappeared without a word, but didn't realize that wwx had snuck into the house to see lwj one last time. Thanks!
FOUND? Nothing but your heart by airinshaw (E, 21k, WangXian, Modern AU, A/B/O Dynamics, Implied Mpreg, First Time, Getting Together, Angst and Drama, Angst with a Happy Ending, Anal Sex, Whump, Breeding Kink)
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7. I was wondering if you can help me find a fic. It was so long ago I'm ngl. I remember it was stormy and the cultivators had to seek shelter or they saved someone. In return that someone a 'fortune teller' could show the future. I remember I think Qiren was wary. She showed the future to the previous generation like cangse sanren and lan qiren. I think she also showed the future to Wei wuxian generation. It might have been in Portuguese or spanish maybe. It could have been in english. @whitewoodwalker
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8. Hi, I'm looking for a certain fic where Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli send Wei Wuxian to Gusu after the end of the Sunshot Campaign because they're worried about him. WWX really doesn't want to go and I think they end up drugging him?? He is in a really bad headspace for part of the fic. @noxgold​
SIMILAR Swordless by WithBroomBefore (G, 32k, WangXian, Established Relationship, Canon Divergence, WWX goes to Gusu, Golden Core Reveal, Trans Character, AFAB LWJ, philos) and "Rescue" by the same author also has some similaritis
FOUND? but I think you're looking for if i had the strength by agloeian (M, 16k, wangxian, post-sunshot, hurt/comfort, getting together, fix-it, tgcf style gods, mental health issues, recovery, accidental baby acquisation)
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9. Hi could you pls help me find a fanfic I read about wangxian in which Wei Ying was stoic and lan Wangji was shameless I thing Wei Ying grew up in Gusu in that fanfic it was basically a personality switch au
I this one was a deleted fic but I can't remember the name rn 😓
FOUND? Uno Reverse by A_flower_in_the_snow (M, 62k, wangxian, lan WWX, OOC, role reversal, not JC friendly, not Jiang friendly, time travel fix-it, WIP) Deleted but can still be found in wayback machine. The author goes by xinXiniieboo currently afaik.
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10. Plz help me i'm looking for a fanfiction And all I remember is a time travel on another fanfiction named the rise of the divine oracle 😭😭it was like after they dead they were sent to the past to try and change there future with madam yu being to be nice to see ying
well rise of divine oracle was by Blak_Salt and is on ffnet and ao3 but is post canon not time travel (tho an excellent fic). I wonder, is ur time travel fic the one where post canon everyone dies so wwx tries to send himself back in time but it messes up and goes too far - prior gusu lectures, and it makes him sickly and he doesn't actually consciously remember the future. Instead events trigger memories from the future that he (& everyone else) thinks r visions. Madam yu becomes nice.
This probably fits here too:
whateverweilanlovechild: #12 haha i believe you are looking for the fic I wrote. I'm sorry to inform that it's discontinued and only 2 chapters are there as of now
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11. Hello mods!! I've been looking for a very specific fic for a while now but I can't find it with the usual tags. It's wangxian, post canon and mpreg, where LSZ, studying the gold cores, tries to help WWX form a new one by dual cultivatition (with LWJ) but instead accidentally gets him pregnant. I hope you can help me and thanks in advance! @jenaerith
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12. Plz help me 🆘  im looking for a time travel fanfiction was about the wy an lz who time traveled to the past from the original fanfiction named "the rise of the divine Oracle” @bunnychwan​
whateverweilanlovechild: #12 haha i believe you are looking for the fic I wrote. I'm sorry to inform that it's discontinued and only 2 chapters are there as of now
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13. Hello, (this is not a WangXian fic but a Xichen fic) I Think it was set in modern world. It was some kind of party and the OC's was an adopted foreigner who is a designer for clothes. Xichen then invited her to like some kind of stargazing that night that's all I remember about the first chapters but like in the middle of the plot(?) He found out that OC needed him that's why she accepted his proposal
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Hi, I just want to find a fic it's about a Xichen x OC set in Modern world (I think) Oc was an adopted rich heiress or something but she is a designer(?) They met a party and Xichen asked if they could go on stargazing(?) Then Fast forward to the middle of the story, Xichen and Oc are in a relationship then Xichen found out that OC needed him to marry her inorder for her to adopt the kid she was set to adopting.
FOUND? His Mistress, His Wife by PhoenixLumen (E, 26k, LXC/OFC, wangxian, check all the tags from the work before reading, smut, porn w feelings, porn w plot, modern, attempt at humor, BDSM, bondage, bottom LXC, submissive LXC, brotherly bonding, businessmen, safe sane and consensual, implied/referenced child abuse & neglect, multiple pov, strong female character, marriage proposal)
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14. This is a bit of an obscure one but I'm trying to find a fic: I don't remember if it was time travel or something else but something happened that led to Lan Zhan having to immobilize Wei Ying like Wen Qing did to him after Qiongqi Path, despite Wei Ying telling him he wouldn't survive it if it happened to him (again?) and then when they meet again they have to deal with the fact that Lan Zhan did it anyway. I can't remember the context so hopefully someone recognizes it anyway @vulpestars
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15. Hello, I'm looking for a fic if you have the time.
It's during the yiling patriarch era, not sure if it was during the war, it feels like it but the burial mounds and the wens are involved so I'm not sure. Wwx basically gets an Infection and is forced to amputate his leg. The wens do the amputating in (not sure) the burial mounds. Another Wen creates a wooden prosthetic leg for him.
Later, I think it was on the battlefield which is why the exact timelime is confusing me, wwx gets shot with an arrow in his prosthetic. Jin zixuan is there, gets worried and wwx is forced to reveal that he lost a leg. Or it could've been just a foot idk.
Thank you and goodbye.
FOUND? we’re starting at the end by Miss_Enthusiasimal (M, 92k, WangXian, JC & WWX, Time Travel, Canon Divergence, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Golden Core Reveal, Burial Mounds, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Starvation, emaciation, Cannibalism, Self-Harm, Amputation, Suicidal Thoughts, Sunshot Campaign, let JZX and WWX be friends club)  
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16. Hi, mods! Pls, Im looking for a fic (Modern AU) in which WWX (still alive) left LWJ (for now reason) & he goes mad, desperatedly looking for him in different men who look like WWX, but ends up killing 'em all during sex (it's BDSM, kinda gore, dark/obsessive LZ), until he meets real WY in a pub w/o knowing it's him (he introduces himself as Moxuanyu, but doesnt have Mo's appearance) & both end up together, sharing the same kink. LXichen, WQin & WN show up briefly, only 'cleaning' LWJ mess. TYSM @einherjermineord
FOUND? Dead Ringer by Regency_Bunny (E, 7k, WangXian, Modern AU, Dark LWJ, Dark WWX, Dark WangXian, Dark LXC, Murder, Sadism, Masochism, no kink shaming in this household (this is not your average healthy bdsm this is actual murder), Identity Porn, Doppelganger, Obsession, somnambulism, Minor Character Death, Mention of torture, Choking, Lan typical unhealthy relationships, identity theft, reference to suicide, Drunk LWJ, Date Rape Drug/Roofies, Knifeplay, LWJ Swears, Happy ending (for some), Mildly Dubious Consent, Mention of illegal domestic imprisonment (not WangXian), Future murder husbands in the making) i just finished reading it and the description is on point <3
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17. Hello!! I was looking for a certain fic where Wei Ying turns into a child by accident and the juniors take care of him.I can't find it anywhere :( I hope you could help me with it!! But if you couldn't find it then a fic with similiar content can help too 😚 @for13years-i-play-inquiry-foryou
FOUND? most likely grow by cafecliche (T, 14k, WangXian, Age Regression/De-Aging, Character Study, Post-Canon) Easily the most famous of the fics with that description.
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18. Hii <3 I'm looking for this fic where wrh kidnaps wwx and is all nice to him because wwx is some kind of phoenix and well he shows wwx that the Jiangs are being killed and well wwx goes crazy and actually turns into a phoenix and the ans take wwx and imprison him because they know he is dangerous as the phoenix is wwx but not quite. @thatperson0-0
FOUND? Breathing Firestorm by ladyshadowdrake (M, 110k, wangxian, angst, fluff, captivity, creepy WRH, no non-con, dreamsharing, politics, people making the best decisions they can, epic length, mythical creature WWX, canon-typical violence, dark, happy ending)
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19. Hii I'm looking for this fic where wei ying and lan zhan form some kind of bond that makes them read each other's minds and feel how the other feels and in the end they try to sacrifice themselves to some kind of fight but instead they end up forming the same bond with meng yao, nie huaisang, jiang cheng and wen ning
FOUND? We Can See a New Start by  preciousbunnynoiz (M, 127k, wangxian, time travel, fix-it, soulmates, angst w/ happy ending, PTSD, hurt/comfort, communication, check all the tags) 
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20. For FF, I can't recall if it was time travel or not, but the scene I recall: CR arc, WWX refusing to copy his punishment texts in the library. He confessed to LWJ that he wasn't planning to complete the copying because the punishment was unfair. He said something like: it takes more than 1 to cheat (I think it was the cheating bit) but I'm the only one being punished. And that opened LWJ's eyes for the punching JZX scene. Can't remember where it went after but I really want to read LWJ's realization again. @mreisse
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mdzs AU where either lwj is better at communication (mr not even my brother knew I was in love until I attacked 33 of our elders), or wwx less of a brickhead (mr did I become gay bc of being in the body of a gay)
Holy shit, Anon, did you need to roast them like that? I know that this is nothing but the truth but I am pretty sure you killed Wei Ying again and Lan Zhan will need another year to heal.
Before I start, I must apologize because I feel I can't make them too good at communication without making them OOC.
1 - This happens during the "Come back to Gusu with me." scene. Instead of jumping to the worse conclusion, WWX, who is absolutely exhausted and whose brain is barely working, looks at those beautiful, all concerned, golden eyes, and asks "Why??? Why would you want me to go back to Hosu? With you?" He genuinely doesn't compute. LWJ explains that he wants Wei Ying to come back with him because he is worried for him. Wei Ying looks like he hasn't slept in six months. He might die. WWX is confused as to why someone would care about him but also kinda moved. He thanks LWJ but explains he must go back to Lotus Pond to see his sister. LWJ nods and informs him that he will accompany him there. They go to the Lotus Pond, informs the shijie that WWX is alive and then WWX, still heavily sleep deprived, kinda follows LWJ back to the Lotus Pond, passes out and proceeds to sleep for the next week. LWJ is elevated.
2 - Now, JC might suck at communicating but he knows a sibling stealer when he sees one. He thought his sister was safe after the soup incident but he apparently should have watched out for that awful Lan! He breaks into Gosu, saying that LWJ cannot marry his brother. To everyone's surprise, WWX is "Why not? He is [lists an endless list of of all of LWJ's qualities and why he would make an excellent spouse]." LWJ's ears are fully red while LQR and JC have passed out from sheer rage, which was WWX's plan all along. He informs LWJ that it's time to go hunt Wens again and he leaves, with LWJ running after him.
3 - There is nothing romantic about a war but WWX and LWJ learn to know each other more through it. They are partners in this war, always by each other side. WWX learns that LWJ doesn't hate him and that he was looking for him during his disappearance because he was worried. He calls LWJ his friend. LWJ learns that WWX cares about him. It's even possible that he realizes WWX doesn't have a golden core anymore (and why).
4 - After the war ends, the other clans are looking at the grandmaster of demonic arts and being "Maybe we should... get rid of him?" The Lan elders are not happy about someone using the demonic arts. But the Lan brothers immediately "Oh, we just know you're not about to throw under the bus someone you were all too happy to use against the Wens during the war. Pretty sure it would break a couple of rules." and pretty much tells them that if WWX is punished, they will share his punishment since they helped him during the war and didn't try to stop him. JC, who can't do less than those two Lans, also warn that the Jiang clan will stand by WWX. Which is very good because WWX rescues the remaining Wens the next day. And brings back his friend back to life. LWJ is too in love to be annoyed but JC screams so much that he loses his voice for a week.
5 - However, since WWX keeps being WWX and playing with dark forces, someone breaks it to him that it would be better if he forged a powerful alliance with a clan. Now that I think about it, it's Wen Qing, so there is a moment of confusion where WWX thinks WQ wants him to play matchmaker for her and JC (he was really enthusiastic about it). WQ had to spell out that he should marry LWJ. WWX is shocked. LWJ obviously deserves to marry someone wonderful and shouldn't be shackled to someone like him. LWJ appears (was he actually near them or did he teleport after sensing someone talking about WWX's marriage? Your guess is as good as mine.) and he informs WWX that if he's not opposed to it, this is actually an excellent idea. WWX is not opposed to it. WWX is under the impression LWJ is doing that to keep the peace. It's okay, though, he will soothe LWJ's sacrifice by being the best cultivation partner he can.
+ 1 - Cue a very ridiculous fake marriage for WWX and LWJ trying to pull a Fake Wedding to Lovers AU. Since it's pre timeskip LWJ, he fails but it's okay, WWX is the first one to kiss him.
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Part one of our favourite stories published in 2023. If you also want to give a shout-out to a story, submit an ask and we will share it in an upcoming post featuring Follower Recs and Proud Author Spotlights.
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Call again
by apathyinreverie (@apathyinreverie)
T, 5k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: “Brother?” Lan Zhan picks up the call, voice sleep-rough from being woken so late. There is a pause. “Well,” an unfamiliar voice replies, notably cheerful, though overloud and the slightest bit slurred in a way that identifies the speaker as likely not being entirely sober, perfectly matching the loud music and din of voices in the background. “Not quite, actually.” (Or, Wei Ying meets a drunk LXC at a bar. They promptly devolve into being chaos gremlins together.)
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Fight Me?
by Witch_Nova221 (@witchnova221)
G, 5k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: A tidied up version of this original threadfic Nurse Wei Ying has an interesting encounter with a patient on his night shift who is intent on starting a fight with him.
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💙 Paths untaken
by apathyinreverie (@apathyinreverie)
T, 6k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: The thing is, the Cloud Recesses are big and Caiyi is even bigger. (Or, Lan Zhan chooses differently at Qiongqi Path.)
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Kintsugi
by sortablue (@yinyangbuns)
E, 2k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Wei Wuxian had thought he was more well-adjusted; or, at least, that the thing that would set him off would be a little more impressive than a broken tea set. How funny that out of all the things that haunted his nightmares, this was the thing that chose to ruin his perfectly good day. (Or, Wei Wuxian’s treatment at Lotus Pier at the hands of Madam Yu has lasting affects that he previously had not thought to consider.)
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💙 Su She Eats his Heart Out
by KizuKatana (@kizukatana)
T, 16k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: The (bitter) third party pov of the epic college romance between Wei Ying and Lan Zhan, as told from the pettiest NPC to ever exist. - - - - - A new student transferred into the university in their second year, and Su She was gleeful to see how much Lan Zhan was irritated by him from the very first day that the student (Wei something) showed up late for class with a ratty hoodie pulled up over his head and proceeded to sleep through lecture. Finally, someone else would be the butt of everyone’s jokes as they watched Wei Ying constantly try and fail to get Lan Zhan’s attention. When midterm grades came out, Su She was expecting the guy to be humiliated. That was… not what happened. Worse still, Lan Zhan was now actually turning his head to look at the guy when he spoke. And... wait, was Lan Zhan… putting his hand on the guy’s ass?! No. Su She does not accept this.
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Into the murk
by MissCellophane (@misscellophane-ao3)
G, 1k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Wei Wuxian is dead. Lan Wangji wouldn't believe those words until he sees it for himself.
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Sit Properly!
by Nightfeather18
T, 1k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: It started innocently, just a note to tell Wei Wuxian to sit straight, it did not stay that way.
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💙 at first sight of the sun
by sunflowersfield
T, 3k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: “There are days,” he says slowly, choosing his words with care, “when I do not feel like speaking. Or, I simply do not have any words. It is…difficult to explain,” he admits. Wei Ying nods. “I think I understand,” he responds thoughtfully. “But Lan Zhan,” he adds nervously, “you know I was just joking about the daily compliments, right? I don’t really expect you to do that!” Or: Lan Zhan is a researcher at a forest preserve, and Wei Ying has just been hired to work at the front desk.
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The Moon Reflected Upon Two Springs
by Rubberduckieassassin (@rubberduckieassassin)
M, 2k, Wen Ning | Kay's Rec
Summary: In many ways, this part of Wen Ning’s existence has felt like winter. Winter is the most Yin of all the seasons. It is a time of stillness and quiet reflection. Remembering how to ‘live’ again as best he could.
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Happy That Way
by airinshaw
E, 7k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Lan Zhan has allowed Wei Ying to move in with him when he has nowhere else to go. But it does mean that they'll have to share one bed.
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mirror, mirror
by hauntedotamatone (@hauntotamatone)
G, 1k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Some people take him at his word, believing that they must have heard wrong about the child Jiang Fengmian had taken in all those years ago. They haven’t exactly heard wrong, but he isn’t lying either. The first time Jiang-shushu had introduced him as the son of Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren, he had thought his face would split from the force of his smile. No one had argued with the sect leader, but Wei Wuxian is not a sect leader, and those of Gusu Lan do not seem to take kindly to any sort of correction. At least, if their esteemed teacher and acting sect leader is anything to go by. or; Wei Wuxian attempts to sneak into the Cloud Recesses for a very different reason.
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turn a little faster, the world will follow after
by dottie_dramas (dottie_wan_kenobi) (@dottie-wan-kenobi)
E, 5k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: “Lan Zhan here really surprised me. When we first met, I thought ‘now here’s a guy who could probably bite my head off if I annoy him,’ but then he didn’t? You know, all of our friends in Seoul would say I’m the shameless one, but I have no idea what they’re talking about, like, have they met Lan Zhan? Gege, you’re kind of crazy.” “Mn,” says Wangji, sounding very pleased. “It’s okay though, I like crazy. Hey, Xichen-ge—can I call you Xichen-ge?—anyway, do you mind if I add a little something to my tea?” “We do not imbibe alcohol in this house,” Shufu seethes. “It’s not alcohol,” Wei Ying corrects like he expected to hear this at some point. Xichen glances at Wangji, who’s making an expression Xichen has never seen before: unbridled exasperation and fondness. Then Wei Ying pulls out a pack of what Xichen is pretty sure is chili powder. -- Basically a modern AU where lwj and wwx both take a semester abroad while in college. They were originally in different colleges and never met before. They meet in this new college and being the weirdos they truly are, fall in love and get married within one semester.
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Hi ! I really what you're doing ! Can I request this ?
M! reader and wei ying were fighting cuz reader love danger very much and ect(reader is really strong) and Lan zhan was just standing there hoping they will stop until wei ying Say 'YOU ARE BETTER OFF DEAD' and reader was very sad wei ying didn't mean that After that reader Said he will be in a random village to Lan Zhan and then there were an attack in the random village Lan zhan and wei ying were worried when they got there most of the villagers were dead and covered with blanckets then they Saw a hand with reader's coat... Wei ying Regreted all the things that he Said to you and Lan Zhan keep telling himself why he didn't stop reader Wei ying wanted to revive you but some of the people stopped him After that they went back home ... SUPRISE reader IS not he Indeed in that village but he Saw a Homeless man shivering so he Gived his coat to him and went back home Wei ying and Lan zhan were in tears wei ying keep saying sorry and Lan zhan was just hugging and you don't know why ?
Pls write this 🥹🥹
Writer's Note(s): I think I'll have to change around something because Wei Ying isn't the type to yell out that he hates people he really loves. Look at Jiang Cheng strangling him, or what all the Jin's (those before his brother-in-law and nephew) did to him. And even Jin Ling stabbed him and he didn't hold it against him. (⁠@⁠_⁠@⁠;⁠) But it will still be dramatic, I'll make sure of it! I changed the ending location.
Also, remember my rules: I don't write abuse between partners. Telling your partner(s) that they should be dead is abuse.
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Info on Reader: Reader is intended AMAB, and uses he/him. Reader is a cultivator but surname/lineage/powers are ambiguous. Reader is described as short-tempered and very dismissive, be warned.
Timeline: Can be anytime in story post-Book 1. Can be just eloped, can be mid-story, can be post-canon (although it makes more sense before the ending).
【 ⚠️ 】 Warning: Harsh words are exchanged between Reader and Wei Wuxian, both are at fault here. Blood, death, and war are shown. Resurrecting the Reader is also mentioned.
Fujoshis and Fem Aligned Readers DNI || Stay Safe!
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The war between the family names of the martial world spreads like a disease across the land. If it wasn't the slaughtering if the Wen's years ago on the masses, it's the torture of anyone with promise of the dark arts by the leader at Yunmeng. For now, it's not so bad the closer you are to a central family like Jin, Lan, or Nie because of the prosperity and closeness to the three head honchos.
But war never changes and whatever is in human nature that dictates them to push others around, always rears its head eventually. Especially near small towns or cities on the outskirts of civilization where lawful officials are harder to come by, if their there at all.
The deaths in the town just two hours to the south of the inn you were staying at were piling up and the miniscule evidence of who it could be was making you antsy from when your group left to travel there.
Lan Zhan suspects political intrigue, but you wave that off as just a basic theory. Wei Ying hums in agreement with Lan Zhan, because of how the two dead officials in the morgue seemingly were rivals to people still alive. You shrug that off too, much to Lan Zhan's irritation.
Your party was that of your dear Wei Wuxian and Lan Zhan, two people you trusted greatly and with your whole heart to be able to stand at your side. Wei Wuxian has always been praised for his strategic mind and his very successful plans, and you can definitely agree with that. Lan Zhan is always praised for his poise and steady hands, being very reliable on the field. You can't deny either of these.
Lan Zhan also agrees with how Wei Wuxian creates good plans, and so you both leave it to him to create a baseline blueprint before you come back with what he needs.
Taking off into town with your share of the lists, you head right for the districts that surround your area of gathering and quickly get all your shopping done. Sure, you maybe didn't haggle very well in your rush and you might have paid nearly all of the full price for everything, but it was worth it!
Worth it, how exactly? For you to go ahead and scout the area that Wei Ying was left to plan for. It wouldn't be a bad idea to go ahead of time and scout out the area, yes?
Wrong. It had been a bad idea.
Getting to that area had lead to you tripping the traps of the town to the south, and the light it gave off could be seen for miles and miles in the darkness of the night. The late night sky, which caught the whole inns attention, became alive in alarm all around the two remaining cultivators. Of course, because of your elongated absence, your parnters began to worry.
Mostly, Wei Wuxian, who had already scouted the woods ahead of time in the daylight.
You sneaking back into the inn after the more paranoid people are swarming the garden to watch the light show is easy. Explaining what you did, with how your not exactly pleased with what you did yourself, was hard. Your adrenaline was running, and so was Wei Wuxian's.
Sleep deprivation, adrenaline, and indignation do not mix well.
"Why didn't you come back to the inn? We have a plan in mind and I could have told you the forest was trapped!" Wei Wuxian demands an answer.
You spit back at him, with venom. "It's a simple mistake, and we always have overlapping knowledge anyways! What would me going to the town be so bad?"
"Because it was trapped." He stresses. "I have a map of all the traps we were supposed to take down early in the morning, so we could double-check them."
Of course, Lan Zhan tries breaking this up and calming you both down. But the scene you both were making ended faster then his indecision could shake off...
"Fine then, if these traps are so difficult to handle and it'll need three cultivators all night... I'll prove it! I'll prove I could have done it tonight, myself." Your declaration is met with you picking up your satchel of supplies, the map of traps, and marching back out of the inn. "By morning, these traps will be gone!"
From the banister, Wei Wuxian calls to your back, "No, the traps aren't the problem, it's the fact all the traps are made like... flares..."
But you already left, ignoring both of your partners watching you from the banisters. They don't go after you because of your temper, and the knowledge that you often need time to yourself. For now, all the sleep deprived Wei Wuxian can do is hope you'll be back by morning. Lan Zhan decides on giving you three hours to calm down.
Three hours of rest, and they'll go looking for you.
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Running through the forest and passing by multiple cut and defused wires and strings for the flares, Wei Wuxian and Lan Zhan are quiet as the former leads them to the town ravaged by war. The traps were clear all the way up to the town...
Once they make it there, they see signs of a struggle and obvious signs of unrest from the town. Swordsman from the clan they were trying to abolish from the city were sprawled out, dead or dying across the ground and isles of towers around the town. Civilians were mostly unharmed, but it was obvious they had suffered greatly for years.
By the time that they could find any trace of you as a person, it was your outer robes given to an older man who carried his own sword. He looked winded, leaning across the wall, but he looked very much full of vigor.
Stopping quickly, Wei Wuxian helped the man sit on the ground as he asked the important question: "What happened here?"
The old man answers. "It was nearly the dead of night and the curfew had begun for the town, when the old families magic traps set off flares of light into the sky and blinding the town. They were always inconvenient things, the lot. A man came out of the woods not two hours ago and started killing the old family with no mercy. The man was like a savior to this old town..."
He looks at his old sword. "The man was obviously tired by the time he got here, and I could tell he was tired. Injured as well. My family gave him medicine before more guards came. I tried protecting him, but he threw his jacket on my back, and ran off into the city. I don't know where that young man is now..."
Wei Wuxian becomes quite anxious as the story continues and Lan Zhan has to keep his arm across his partner to keep him calm. After thanking the old man, they leave him be as they run into the center of town.
"What if he's not alive and we find his body amongst soldiers?" Wei Wuxian panics. "Why didn't he listen to me? I didn't call him anything, but I know how he feels about being corrected... Did I say anything rude Lan Zhan?"
"No. He is prideful,and hasty. But he is resourceful. We have to trust him." Lan Zhan answers back, believing in your skills fully.
"I trust him." Wei Wuxian worries. "I don't trust this place! He's all alone, somewhere!"
Lan Zhan could tell the tiredness, anxiety, and fear was running Wei Ying to anxious ramblings. "Wei Ying. Trust him."
"Of course, of course... Trust him... Trust him..." Wei Wuxian repeats to himself, before muttering to Lan Zhan. "But if he is dead..."
Lan Zhan can hear it coming, and the thought of your fierce corpse didn't settle his own nerves at all. "Wei Ying."
"I know... I know..."
Getting to the town center has Lan Zhan drawing Bichen on the remaining soldiers that were trying to break into their own stronghold. The main house of the old family was mostly wooden with faded red lacquer across the floors and columns. A family of old money obviously wasn't living much longer in the city, as Wei Ying can see the old and children running for the gates. They weren't who they were here for, and nobody in town was attacking anyone outside of armor anyways.
Playing his tune for resentment, he gives orders for armor to be torn and the old family to be pushed from the city. Nothing more, nothing less. This whole process takes about thirty minutes, and they the fierce corpses fall back to the ground once they came.
Cutting their way into the second floor through the paper screens with Bichen was tense and bitter, and seeing soldier and soldier dead on the ground wasn't giving them much more hope...
... Until, they could hear the sound of tearing and grunts. Running there, they come into the room where you had found the families medicine stockpile and began dressing your wounds.
They ran over as fast as possible, chests lightening from the sight of you alive and moving. Lan Zhan takes over cleaning and dressing your leftover wounds as Wei Wuxian nearly falls as he sits beside you.
Wei Wuxian, tired in his voice and body, in no less sincere: "I'm so sorry we had a fight, we should be in bed right now... Why did you want to prove yourself so bad? You know we believe in your skills."
You answer with a wince at the medicine. "I get antsy... when war is around the corner. I can't stand to think of this town going another day with the old family that lives here, and our commissioners are so close to storming the town. I don't like innocent lives potentially getting killed..."
"But you ran in alone, how can one man protect the innocents in this city as he's killing the old family?" Wei Wuxian asks, still with worry deep in his voice.
His worry wears you down, and you look almost sheepish and sad. "I... believed you both would follow me eventually. I know I'm rash. It was a dumb train of thought, I know, because you look absolutely exhausted, Wei Ying... But I do care for you. I'm sorry..."
It was Lan Zhan who spoke up next. "And we, you. Wei Ying couldn't stop worrying about you on the way up here."
You tease him in good nature. "Lan Zhan, you weren't worried about me?"
Lan Zhan hums in a negative, before he answers you. "I know you could do it. Everyone from the old family is either old or young. No between."
"Wait... So everyone in armor is basically old men and women?" You question, and something almost clicks in your mind. "... So that means our targets..."
"Escaped. Probably after the first flare." Lan Zhan answers.
"Fuck..." Both you and Wei Wuxian groan, but at least you rest upon each other's shoulders as Lan Zhan finishes your wounds. Lan Zhan sits on your remaining open side, and also leans on you too. A little rest, is in order.
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When the doctor prescribed Lan Wangji a pair of reading glasses, he didn't appear all too bothered with it. He had almost expected it to happen - he had noticed his eyesight getting a bit fuzzy, so to have to correct this defect via glasses was, of course, not out of the question.
He hadn't really bothered to find the perfect frames or anything of the sort - he looked through what was on display at the ophthalmologist's office, and settled on a simple, square frame with thin, silver edges.
The doctor told him to wear his glasses whenever he had a lot to read or write, which was basically all the time - as a senior in high school, he had a lot of that to get done. He had high expectations for the future, and that required a lot of work - so the doctor made sure his glasses also had a blue light filter.
Lan Wangji didn't care much about what people would think of him or what they'd say about his new look - but he did wonder what Wei Ying would say.
Lan Wangji had come to grips with the fact that he had a crush on his friend, and that he inevitably wanted his friend to like him, as well. He was a long way before actually confessing his feelings or making them too obvious, though.
It was... a bit embarrassing, to put it frankly, not to mention vulnerable and scary to even think of confessing his feelings - but Lan Wangji did know time was running out. He and Wei Ying did not have the same plans for the future, and he knew that, if he didn't build enough courage to tell Wei Ying how he felt, he would be likely to lose his chance forever.
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He arrived school as always, took his front seat and pulled out a book to read before class started. The doctor had been right, using the glasses considerably eased the strain on his eyes, and the text was a lot clearer, the storyline a lot easier to get into.
So Lan Wangji had gotten lost into his book, blissfully unaware of the rest of the world, until his desk mate and best friend, Wei Ying, showed up. He sat down with his usual morning coffee and Lan Wangji expected the usual, joyful "good morning, Lan Zhan!" that Wei Ying greeted him with.
Instead of that, there was a gasp, and Wei Ying leaned in close towards Lan Zhan, taking a good look at him. "Oh my God, you got glasses!"
Lan Zhan pretended to keep reading so he wouldn't acknowledge how close Wei Ying was and how much he wanted to kiss him.
"You look so cute! Like a little scholar!" Wei Ying giggled, and Lan Zhan knew he was only imagining the flirtatious sound of it. He must have been.
"So," Wei Ying continued after a brief bout of silence, "you see any better now?"
A nod. "Yes, a lot better."
Wei Ying paused again before replying. "That's...good, that's really good..."
He took out a notebook and his phone instead of saying anything else, like he usually did, and Lan Zhan couldn't help glancing curiously his way. His behavior had been a bit weird - perhaps he found Lan Zhan's new appearance...jarring? Unpleasant? He didn't seem to, but then again, Lan Zhan had mostly been hiding in his book, so what did he know?
So, when his eyes moved towards Wei Ying, he was surprised to see him biting at his lower lip, red in the face, doing a poor job at side-eyeing Lan Zhan. He looked incredibly adorable, flustered like that, and the moment he noticed Lan Zhan looking at him, he turned his head away.
"Wei Ying."
"What?"
But Wei Ying resolutely refused to look at Lan Zhan again, and he found the corners of his eyes twitching with a smile.
"Look at me."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because!"
"Not a real reason."
"Go away!"
"No."
Wei Ying crossed his arms over the desk and rested his head there, cowering in his makeshift hideout. Lan Zhan almost felt like laughing.
"Wei Ying."
"What?!" he burst, so red he looked nothing short of a ripe tomato. Lan Zhan could not be blamed for suddenly crashing his lips to Wei Ying's who looked incredibly cute in his embarrassed fury.
It was only a few seconds, more of a peck than a proper kiss, and Lan Zhan's brain caught up to him only after he'd let go.
Well. He had never been a man of many words, so maybe it had been better for him to just kiss Wei Ying and hope for the best.
Wei Ying seemed to have shifted, from embarrassed to dazed, his eyes glassy and lips still parted. Lan Zhan would have kissed him more, but their teacher just walked in, and the lesson was about to start.
Midway through, the uncharacteristically quiet and flushed Wei Ying passed Lan Zhan a little note - a tiny emoji surrounded by hearts, with a question mark next to it.
Lan Zhan was the one to flush red this time as he drew a little heart in response.
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