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    Something smells so good. Wei Ying closes his eyes, already feeling sleepy, and tries to identify where the scent is coming from. He turns his face to one side and then the other, chasing it, until his nose touches Lan Zhan’s cheek.

    He pulls back quickly, not freaking out, because it’s fine. He touched Lan Zhan’s cheek with his nose, and Lan Zhan smells really fucking good, and they’re lying down together on a very soft bed because Lan Zhan is too drunk to let go of him, and Lan Zhan is gay but Wei Ying isn’t, and it’s fine.

    Wei Ying swallows hard and closes his eyes again.

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    Wei Ying helps Lan Zhan out of an uncomfortable situation, and they grow close right away, becoming instant friends. To Lan Zhan, they become instant something else. With time, they only get closer and closer, and Wei Ying is forced to deal with his own feelings about Lan Zhan, and his perception of his own sexuality.

    (the "Didn't know they were dating" fic)

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    31 Dec 2023

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    During the Mount Dafan hunt, in the year of the 438th Cultivation Competition, Lan Wangji sees a new-old competitor.

     

    "Have we met?" asks Lan Wangji.

    "I'd hope you would remember me if we'd met." The other cultivator looks at him with a bland kind of smile that Lan Wangji has never seen from Wei Ying. Wei Ying could not be bland at anything. And that's not his voice. And yet, it is. It's deeper, like there is grit dusted in, but the inflection, the light hang of humour, that's Wei Ying's.

    Lan Wangji blinks. It feels like he's having a hallucination; if he squints, he can see Wei Ying superimposed on this young man and then he blinks again, and he is gone. There's a pressure in his chest, as if someone just inflated a balloon inside of him and plastered all of his organs to the underside of his ribs.
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    Or: MDZS, a Modern Retelling

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    17 Nov 2023

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    After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.

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    21 Jul 2023

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    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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    11 Apr 2023

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    Lan Wangji has never been good with words, or at writing. But, if it'll allow him to imagine a world where Wei Wuxian could actually love him back, he supposes it couldn't hurt to try.

    (Or, the one where Lan Wangji copes with his Feelings by writing self-insert fics.)

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    01 Mar 2023

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    “His majesty hardly spared me a glance on our wedding night, so it cannot be that I am ugly," Wei Ying shakily says. “He does not even know how I look like. Or is my build not graceful or slender enough? What exactly is so wrong with me?”

    The First Prince, Lan Xichen, sighs. “You will soon find that in this palace, we do not ask questions.”

    “No, we are sent away instead, to die a lonely death,” Wei Ying laughs sorely. But with that very thought, he rips off his red wedding veil, the last thing tethering him to the emperor, and vows angrily under his breath, “But know this: I will live more than well.”

    Or, Wei Ying is wed to emperor Lan Wangji in order to save the Gusu Lan empire. But instead of the blissful marriage he was promised, he is spurned and sent to the cold palace—until a chance encounter changes his fate.

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    08 Jan 2023

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    He lay there buried under rabbit ears of wires, warmed by a thin blanket, breathing, breathing, never truly still, but never animated, either.

    “A-Xian,” Jiang-gugu said with a forced smile. “Your son and husband are here to see you. And your nephew too. He will be coming very soon.”

    A-Yuan ran up to Baba and held his hand.

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    Sizhui grows up in a changing world, but his comatose father can't change with it. His family is determined to give him the love and forgiveness they didn't give Wei Ying.

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    26 Dec 2022

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    10 Dec 2022

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    Frustrated and desperate to stop hearing Wei Wuxian’s voice echo in his ears, Lan Wangji makes a mistake with the Lan silencing spell that he cannot undo.

    Temporarily muted, Wei Wuxian struggles to pretend that he’s fine, while Lan Wangji struggles to make it up to him.

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    19 Nov 2022

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    With an almost trance-like detachment, Wei Wuxian touched his own neck, his fingers skimming over the fresh mark. The bite wound had stopped bleeding, although he had no doubts it would open again if agitated.

    Bonded.

    He was bonded for life.

    "Shit," he whispered. He looked over at the sleeping form of Lan Wangji—the Second Prince of Gusu and, until his brother was found, the sole heir to the throne. "Oh, shit. Lan Qiren is going to kill me."

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    Lan Wangji goes into a fevered rut and accidentally bonds with Wei Wuxian. When they next meet, he remembers none of it, and Wei Wuxian is determined to keep the bond a secret—even when he's sent to the Cloud Recesses to be a consort in Lan Wangji's harem.

    (tl;dr concubine!wwx is already married to emperor!lwj, who has no idea. drama ensues.)

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    13 Oct 2022

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    Framed by the soft morning light, sleek hair swept back and pale blue robes not even slightly rumpled, he looks almost inhuman.

    He looks like the last person who should be knocking on Wei Wuxian’s door.

    In which Wei Wuxian is a curse worker secretly searching for a lost dragon, Lan Wangji is his new assistant, and the two things may not be entirely unrelated.

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    07 Oct 2022

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    Xie Lian’s eyes flicked halfway up the length of San Lang’s body, sitting rather stiffly on the sofa. He looked kind of awkward, to be honest. Then again, awkwardness was probably a bit of a given when you were sex-coaching the flatmate you’d only known for two weeks.

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    Or: Jun Wu has dumped Xie Lian for being bad in bed. Desperate to get him back, Xie Lian asks his new flatmate to be his sex-coach. His new flatmate surprisingly says yes.

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    09 Sep 2022

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    Kyungsoo is stuck in the hours while Jongin begs the seconds, because time stops for someone who can't remember and runs from someone who can't miss the last train home.

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    09 Jul 2022

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    02 Mar 2022

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    In his recent article in Contemporary Theories of Cultivation, Lan (2019) sets out to study the correlation between instrument choice and outcomes in the liberation of spirits. While his main thesis appears sound, his decision to limit the study to the qin, dizi, xiao and pipa undermines his conclusions.

    This decision falls prey to the fallacy that tradition cannot be questioned. It ignores, too, the fact that many practising cultivators will encounter spirits that will have no exposure to such “expectations.” In a small study comparing the use of a dizi with a theremin—undoubtedly a non-traditional choice—the theremin produced optimal outcomes in liberating spirits where: time since death was less than 6 months; spirit was younger than 25 and older than 17 at time of death; or spirit motivation included aspects of revenge. The conclusions reached in Lan (2019), while providing a foundation for future study, are therefore as yet incomplete.

    Mo Xuanyu
    Cultivation Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University

    Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and musical cultivation: a love story, told through academic articles, emails, texts, and videos.

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    07 Feb 2022

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    it had been sixteen years, sixteen years too long.

    or: how lan wangji's years go by without wei wuxian.

    updated:
    father and son by mochi
    years 3 and 7 comic strip by say
    now you're here by sasa
    i will be waiting for you by yuna
    letters designed by cheetarts
    spanish translations by karito

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    25 Jan 2022

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    Lan Wangji encounters a mysterious stranger on his rooftop.

    Alternatively, the Emperor of China has heard rumours of an intruder sneaking into the Forbidden City, a shadow that has eluded the best of his guards.

    (Alternatively, Wei Ying just really wanted a drink.)

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    18 Jan 2022

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    Lan Wangji watches Wei Wuxian be snatched away right in front of him, helpless to do anything. Thirteen years go by with no sign of the young Hunter - thirteen years of guilt and loss, searching but never finding, of holding the shattered bones of a golden core left behind - until one day, out of nowhere, Lan Wangji hears their song, the one that only Wei Wuxian would know. The only problem? It's coming from an EXO, a mechanical body with no memory of its past life. To make matters worse, this new Wei Wuxian has abandoned the Solar power he once channeled from the Traveler's Light in favor of harnessing the dangerous and prohibited Darkness.

    Meanwhile, something at home is lurking in the shadows and Lan Wangji believes that Wei Wuxian might be their only chance of figuring out what the hell is going on - that is, if the powers at be can trust him enough to let him.

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    No prior knowledge of Destiny needed to read! Glossary at end of work.

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    10 Dec 2021

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    "By the Heavens, did you hear? The Yiling Patriarch has been invited to the Discussion Conference in Qinghe!"

    Gossip was, by far, the fastest way for information to spread.

    "What! Whose idea was that!?"

    It was not the most accurate or most reliable method, but people were people, and the tedium of daily life would always bore them.

    "I heard it was the Nie Sect leader's suggestion."

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    After thirteen years in the Burial Mounds, the Yiling Patriarch finally makes a public reappearance. Civilians are scared. Cultivators are outraged. Sect Leaders are concerned. Wei Wuxian has been too quiet, they say, and nobody knows what dark horrors the Burial Mounds may now contain.

    Wei Wuxian wouldn't quite call them dark horrors, but the description wasn't too far off.

    (tl;dr Wei Wuxian lives, raises a whole gaggle of demonic cultivator children, and the cultivation world panics.)

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    22 Jul 2021

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