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    Wei Wuxian’s eyes are sharp, piercing as his arrows. “And you? Lan Zhan – you measure yourself and all others by your code alone. Tell me what you think. Truly.”

    It has been so… empty, without Wei Wuxian. Living day to day, week to week knowing more rumours are spreading of his evil ways, knowing the sects are increasingly fearful, slavering for blood as they plot his demise. He has lived with fear in his mouth for longer than he knows, waiting to hear that Yiling has been invaded, trampled, wiped out. That Wei Wuxian’s bright light is gone, extinguished.

    That the man who holds his heart in a strangle-hold, so tight it feels smothering sometimes, has died for his principles in the face of Lan Wangji’s intransience.

    “I want you to come back with me,” he says.

    Or: When the sects agree to invite the Yiling Laozu back into the cultivation world to raise those who die before their time, Lan Wangji volunteers to be the one to mind him.

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    04 Jan 2026

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    Shortly after settling in the Burial Mounds with the Wens, Wei Wuxian finds a diary in Demon Subdue Palace. As he reads the entries that magically appear each day, he finds himself drawn to the anonymous writer.

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    10 Dec 2025

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    Wei Wuxian didn’t imagine acquiring a cat like this, nor did he imagine acquiring a fluffy white cat that, even covered in dirt and debris and clutched to a four-year-old’s chest like a teddy bear, manages to give the impression it’s judged his entire life and found it deeply wanting.

    “Uh, A’Yuan,” he asks slowly, just in case this is a hallucination. “Who’s this?”

    “A cat,” A’Yuan says proudly, leaning his round cheek against the top of the cat’s head, while the cat continues to look at Wei Wuxian like he’s wearing week-old clothes covered in food stains.

    Or: Wei Wuxian gets a cat, and then a boyfriend, both of which are a surprise.

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    29 Aug 2025

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    Lan Xichen said, “Time for regrowth and mourning is, of course, the most important. But there has also been a—frequent—discussion of marriage.” He paused to drink more tea. He almost seemed apologetic when he added, “Your name has been brought up often.”

    “For marriage,” Lan Wangji repeated.

    Except with Wei Ying in the picture, nothing goes exactly as planned.

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    06 May 2025

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    An afternoon at the archery range, and the start of something new.

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    20 Mar 2025

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    Lan Wangji should refuse. He should. He looks back down at the mask. Beneath it is the soft creamy paper of the invitation. He could present this at the door and slip into the palace and—

    “Go see him, Wangji,” Lan Xichen says quietly, and Lan Wangji feels his resolve crumble beneath him.

    A very loose Cinderella AU, featuring Lan Wangji as Cinderella, Wei Wuxian as Prince Charming, Lan Xichen as fairy godmother, the forehead ribbon as glass slipper, and GusuLan bedtime as midnight.

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    14 Mar 2025

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    Inquiry was taking the country by storm. People were fascinated by the true crime podcast: its approach to the Yiling Incident; the way it incorporated folklore and myth into its structure; the questions it raised.

    Wei Ying was more alarmed than fascinated, and he had some questions of his own:

    Who was Hanguang-jun? Why was Hanguang-jun covering an incident that had been laid to rest for over six years?

    And would Hanguang-jun identify him as central to the entire thing?

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    27 Feb 2025

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    Of all the ways Lan Zhan might have expected their first date to go poorly, this was not one of them. 

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    12 Nov 2024

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    They’re a brighter orange than he was expecting, that’s the first thing he notices. Lan Zhan was vaguely concerned he might have difficulty actually seeing the mushrooms amongst the undergrowth, but that clearly won’t be a concern. He’d also worried that they wouldn’t find many, that they’d tromp over hill and dale for only a handful and waste their time, but this patch alone is enormous to his untrained eye. Dozens of bright orange ruffled mushrooms sprout up from the layer of fir needles covering the ground, occasionally lifting an entire fallen leaf with them in their enthusiasm to grow. It’s like being in a meadow planted with crocuses in early spring, except that it’s fall, and instead of flowers, it’s mushrooms.

    “Like I said,” Wei Ying says, nudging his elbow against Lan Zhan’s. “They love it.”

    Or: Five years after Wei Ying left, Lan Zhan accepts his invitation to go chanterelle foraging. They find more than they were expecting.

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    10 Nov 2024

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    Lan Zhan blinked, and pushed his wet hair off his forehead as he slid off his surfboard and stood upright. Wei Ying was standing on the beach, holding a pair of sandals and staring out, his sand-covered bare feet carefully out of reach of the actual water. There was a strange, mournful twist to his mouth that faded when he saw that he wasn’t alone, replaced by a warm smile. “Lan Zhan, is that you?”

    “Mn,” he replied, and walked up to meet him there in the middle of the sand. Privately, he thought, who else would it be?

    Wei Ying laughed. “I thought so, but I wasn’t sure. You looked good out there.”

    the "almost everybody lives in a small beach town" au

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    06 Nov 2024

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    He looks up and sees an enormous electronic billboard mounted on the side of a glittering new building, LED light flashing out into the hazy afternoon. There’s a young man’s face smiling down at him, his eyes round and crinkled with joy, his teeth white. The video footage is slowed, wind blowing through his mop of dark hair as a CGI background ripples behind him. I’m going for gold! reads the line of text beside him; beneath it is printed Wei Ying – Archery.

    It's… preposterous, how handsome he is. How much he looks like he belongs there, up on the screen above the city’s most fabulous shopping arcade. More like an idol, a high-paid talent, than an athlete.

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    21 Oct 2024

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    “And here you are,” Yibo agrees. “What’s next?”

    Xiao Zhan shrugs. “Another flight, further out. A ship if I can sign on to one.” He grins at the thought, then peeks at Yibo. “I don’t suppose you know a crew who’s looking for a mechanic? I’m good with my hands,” he says, wiggling his fingers.

    Yibo raises his eyebrows and Xiao Zhan feels his ears turn hot. “Why not a ship of your own?” Yibo asks.

    Xiao Zhan snorts. “I didn’t cash in that much.”

    “You might be surprised,” Yibo says, and Xiao Zhan deflates a little.

    “And you were doing so good at not being a salesman,” he says resignedly, and Yibo grins.


    Xiao Zhan leaves the quiet, stable life of a shipyard mechanic for adventure in the stars; adventure finds him after the third drink.

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    20 Aug 2024

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    It’s Baidu that ultimately convinces Lan Wangji that Wei Wuxian is not, in fact, a librarian. The librarians he has encountered in the course of his studies have had varying opinions on search engines, but they have all known what a search engine is. Wei Wuxian’s enthusiasm does little to hide that his practical experience seems somewhat dated.

    When he thinks on it–and Lan Wangji finds his thoughts turning toward Wei Wuxian more often than not–Lan Wangji is not sure what Wei Wuxian is. He is always in the library when Lan Wangji visits. It’s quite possible that he lives there, but that is not a claim toward normalcy either.

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    01 Jul 2024

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    “Alright alright!” shouts an energetic voice from behind him.

    Lan Zhan turns to see a young man in a ball cap, a black t-shirt and straight-cut blue jeans hurrying down the dock. He’s long and lanky, and his eyes under the brim of his hat are bright. His skin is tanned but his features are fine, smooth, his mouth generous. He’s got a clipboard in his hand. “Lan Zhan, is that right?”

    His name rolls perfectly off this man’s tongue, smooth as if it were in Mandarin. He nods. “Cool. I’m Wei Ying – I’m your pilot and guide for this trip.”

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    21 May 2024

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    Three homecomings.

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    23 Apr 2024

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    Wei Ying abandons her suitcase to investigate the sleeping situation, already coming up with a hundred reasons not to inconvenience Lan Zhan by stealing half of her fucking bed, and then gets a better look at it.

    It’s huge. Wei Ying has seen a king bed before, and this is bigger than that. Is that a California King? Is that what those huge-ass orgy beds are called? There are parking spaces smaller than this bed. Wei Ying has lived in apartments smaller than this bed.

    “You know,” Wei Ying says thoughtfully, “I’ll level with you. I was gonna volunteer to sleep on the couch, or steal some pillows and blankets and sleep in the bathtub, but then I saw this monstrosity. Lan Zhan, look at this fucking bed.”

    Lan Zhan rests her hands on the room divider, her face softly amused. “I am looking.”

    “We could tend a whole herd of sheep on this bed,” Wei Ying says, warming to her subject. “We could cross the Pacific Ocean and weather any storm on this bed. Fuck, Lan Zhan, I could stage an entire community theatre production of Chicago on this bed.”

    Or: There was only one bed, but that part's fine, actually.

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    20 Feb 2024

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    "What can I get you?" The man tending bar asks him with a broad smile, leaning one arm against the counter in front of him. His sleeves are rolled up his forearms, which, as Lan Zhan is aware of after a great many of his brother's galas, is against the dress code. His hair is long, falling well past his shoulders even though it's pulled into a high ponytail—also against dress code.

     

    Lan Zhan makes a connection with the bartender at his brother's art gala.

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    21 Aug 2023

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    (Note: you definitely do not have to have seen Notting Hill to read this fic.)

     

    Lan Zhan's brother draws to a halt next to him, staring at the man on the other side of the counter. "Oh, it is you, isn't it?"

    The man, still propped against the counter on his elbow, gives Lan Huan a grin, then directs it at Lan Zhan again. "I don't know," he says. "Is it? Am I?"

    "You are." Lan Huan is hurrying around to the other side of the counter, a wide smile on his face, while Lan Zhan looks on, feeling more and more perplexed, like he's stepped into some alternate universe where absolutely nobody is making any sense at all. "Wei Wuxian! Lan Zhan, do you know who this is? It's Wei Wuxian!" Lan Huan is reaching for the man's hand, and he pushes himself lazily to standing, shaking Lan Huan's hand warmly.

    "In the flesh," he says. "You caught me."

    "My goodness." Lan Huan is staring at him like he's never seen a human being before in his life. "What on earth are you doing here, of all places?

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    06 Aug 2023

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    It's a tale as old as time. Boy moves back to the city he'd fled years before. Boy meets superhero. Superhero saves boy's life. Superhero accidentally breaks the front window of boy's place of employment.

     

    (Lan Wangji just wants to retire from hero work and live a quiet life. Fate, however, has other ideas.)

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    02 Jul 2023

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    Lan Wangji has drawn Wei Ying's name for the officially non-official non-denominational winter gift exchange.

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    02 Jun 2023

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