Chapter Text
To say that Xichen was nervous was an understatement. He was scared.
Lan Wangji, who had been talking to his brother about Wei Ying’s worries of where Jiang Wanyin had been, suppressed the heavy urge to sigh and roll his eyes. “Xiongzhang.” He settled
Xichen was still sitting there as if he was just enlightened on the secrets of the world.
Lan Wangji sighed, although not as heavy as he would have liked. “Xiongzhang…” Lan Wangji called again. Was his brother daydreaming? Yeah, Lan Wangji never misses the loving and star-struck looks the other man sends the way of Jiang Wanyin. “Xiongzhang!!”
“AH!” Xichen jumps, and seems to have realized he zoned out in the middle of a conversation with his brother and sits back down with embarrassed. “My sincerest apologies Wangji…”
“…Xiongzhang.” Lan Wangji frowns. The small downturn of his mouth was invisible to the untrained eye, but if you knew him, you could tell he was pouting. Pouting.
“I know, I know” Lan Xichen sighs “Ah yes, back to our topic! Jiang Wanyin is perfectly fine, I promise you”
”Wei Ying will not take that as an answer.”
”But you see-“
”You are hiding things.”
“Wangji-“
“We need not hide things.”
”Listen-“
“Is that a hickey?”
Both shocked at what Lan Wangji just said, Lan Wangji’s ears turned red and Lan Xiche panicked. Oh no! Wanyin divine parents want to meet him and if they see the hickey…
”Ah!” Lan Xichen could no longer hold back and openly showed his panic by putting his hands on his head “I’m so fried…” he muttered
“Xiongzhang, did Jiang Wanyin cause that?” Lan Wangji squinted his eyes at the mark on his brother’s neck
“uhm…”
Lan Wangji quirked an eyebrow “So yes. Have you thought of sending a courtship proposal yet?” He took a sip of his tea, grimacing as it was now cold. Deeply sighing as if it was a massive task, he drew up a talisman to heat it up.
Confused, Lan Xichen asked “You’re… not mad?”
Just as confused, Lan Wangji replied “You love him, he presumably, as he should, by natural law, loves you too.”
His heart now warmed at his younger brother’s sweet words, Xichen says “Wangji, thank you.. but I’ve seen the animosity between the two of you. I- no, more like Wayin, was worried that you and I would become estranged because of that tension. It was the main reason we didn’t tell anyone…” he sighs “He didn’t want to drive us apart”
“You are both stupid.” Was all Lan Wangji said. Lan Wangji checked his tea and to his absolute pleasure, it was hot now. He picked the cup up and took a sip and looked at Xichen as if that sip replenished his social battery. (It did) “First Wei Ying thinks Jiang Wanyin hates him, and vice versa. I love Wei Ying, but he can be… a bit blinkered.”
Lan Xichen actually snorted at that and calmed himself once he saw the strange look Wangji was giving him.
“…When they both so clearly declared they still care. And now my Xiongzhang has been rubbed off on by their stupidity. Now Xiongzhang thinks I will hate him just because I hate his fiance. Ridiculous…” Wangji muttered. But to someone who knows him, he was blushing and seems to have already expended his social energy.
Lan Xichen couldn’t figure out wether or not the other man was joking or not and tilted his head in confusion.
”As I said, idiotic…” Lan Wangji followed up
”Did you just call me dumb?”
Lan Wangji raised an eyebrow at him and said “Am I… wrong?”
”Well no-“
“Ok then stop talking.”
“Wangji-“
”No.”
”…”
”…”
“You know me too well…”
”You’re in deep trouble with Jiang Wanyin aren’t you?” Lan Wangji says
”How did you- you know what, out.”
”Xiongzhang-“
“Wangji, I love you, but you’re embarrassing me infront of myself. Please leave…”
”…Fine” Lan Wangji gets up and waltz out of the room.