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    A series of fics in which Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and Lan Sizhui are (even more) explicitly a family, with all that entails and could change.

    (Title from “The Challenge” from Epic the Musical)

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    06 Nov 2025

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    Based on my meta and a WIP I shared years ago...

    An alternative Cloud Recesses arc where Wei Wuxian teases Lan Wangji beyond what he can ignore...

    Amongst the ancient books and scrolls that line the Cloud Recesses library, amid the soft glow of the paper lanterns, two people realise their true feelings for each other...

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    My 'sliding doors' style fanfic where one kiss causes a ripple effect in the canon we know and love. One kiss could have changed so much for teen Wangxian...

    Includes easily skippable smut, with just the click of an asterisk 😉

    Special thanks to the lovely audhdhualian for slowly betaing this absolute beast of a fic 🤗

     

    *Currently updated once a month alongside 'Crouching Fox, Hidden Prince', my new deity Foxxian & Princeji fic 🦊❤️🤴🏻

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    03 Nov 2025

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    “We hear that His Excellency might be married by summer’s end,” the merchant’s wife says and Wei Wuxian freezes, his heart in his throat. “The Gusu Lan sect has been buying enough red silk and brocade that the merchants in Caiyi can’t satisfy the demand.”

    He feels himself grow brittle inside, like a flick of a finger to his temple might make him shatter. His ears are ringing.

    “Who’s the lucky bride?” he asks despite himself. His tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth.

    Or: The story of a marriage.

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    29 Oct 2025

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    Wen Yuan is four years old when Qing-jiejie and Ning-gege vanish and never come back. He is four years old when people burn his home, slay his family and chant for his father’s blood. Wen Yuan is four years old when he chooses to forget.
    Wei Yuan is four years old when he walks out of the cave and father smiles at him, promising him to rebuild the little they had, the little that now was ash that they traded upon.
    Father keeps his word, and Wei Yuan leads a good life.

    (against all the Cultivation World’s hopes, the people of Burial Mounds do not die).

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    25 Oct 2025

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    Here’s how this story goes: in the year Xuanzheng 25 the four great clans siege the Burial Mounds, intent to rid the world of the last of the Wen and their leader, the Yiling Patriarch.
    In another world, the ground ends up even more soaked with blood, the Wens are all slaughtered but for one, and Wei Wuxian dies, torn apart by the fierce corpses he once controlled.
    But this is not how this story goes.

    (Wei Wuxian ends the First Siege in a much different way. The Cultivation World is left to try and understand it).

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    25 Oct 2025