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    Later, when he’s older, it’s this that A-Yuan will remember most: the stretch of silence, the two of them both dirty and shaking with fever, as he looked at Brother Rich, and Brother Rich looked back at him.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Since he was a child, since Lan Wangji had first become aware of his own alienating effect on others, he has long resigned himself to a loveless marriage. Perhaps even a companionate one, so long as his partner was agreeable and unbothersome and let him have his own space.

    He could not have even begun to predict Wei Wuxian.

    (A canonverse arranged marriage fic.)

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    30 Apr 2026

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    Wei Wuxian knows that Lan Zhan is the same Lan Zhan as before, but also so, so different. This Lan Zhan is soft for him. This Lan Zhan has a set jaw and a steely look in his eye, ready to fight anyone who gets in Wei Wuxian's way. This Lan Zhan puts up no fronts - it almost hurts to look at him, he's so open.

    Wei Wuxian looks at this Lan Zhan, and he wonders.

    (i.e., Wei Wuxian tries real hard to use his two brain cells to figure out if Lan Zhan likes-him, likes-him or not.)

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    21 Jun 2024

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    "Why are your advisors up your asshole about inviting me to the conference?"

    Jiang Cheng looks at him weirdly. "Because the whole thing is about how Hanguang-jun is ditching his job to go wallow in marital bliss or whatever. It would be rude not to invite you."

    Wei Wuxian blinks. Then blinks again, then says, "Sorry, what?"

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    Apparently Jiang Cheng knows something that Wei Wuxian does not.

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    11 Oct 2023

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    In the end, Lan Wangji will tie A-Yuan's forehead ribbon on with the lover's knot reserved for weddings, will write his name Lan Yuan, for hope and honesty, and choose the courtesy name Sizhui, in honour of the man who Lan Wangji will raise him for. He will go into seclusion to calm himself as the Elders required. Though his mind had settled as soon as Sizhui reached tiny, reverent fingers up to touch the cloud on his forehead, and shyly asked, in his little voice, if he might tie Baba's ribbon on for him too.

     

    "This is how I will live," Lan Wangji promised the altar in the cold pond, kneeling where he'd once sworn a different oath, hand-fasted before an Elder, with the boy who'd claimed his heart. "Upholding justice, and raising our son."
     

    Lan Wangji drinks to remember, and also to forget.

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    17 Nov 2023

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