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    Jin Guangyao runs his fingertips along the pristine line of Lan Xichen’s throat and watches Lan Xichen’s pupils contract at the slow, intimate slide of skin against skin.

    “Give me your forehead ribbon,” he commands, and it’s such a brazen request it makes him dizzy, but Lan Xichen does it. He undoes the ribbon, then places it in Jin Guangyao’s outstretched palm. Jin Guangyao’s fingers close over it, and it feels like a promise.

    He leans in. Lan Xichen doesn’t lean away. Lan Xichen permits Jin Guangyao to put his filthy mouth on Lan Xichen’s lips and kiss him.

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    05 Apr 2022

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    To anyone else Lan Xichen might have appeared the picture of serenity, but Lan Wangji can see all too easily how bone-white he is, how his bloodstained fingers tremble where they lay on his knees, how unsteady his breathing remains.

     

    Lan Xichen had been Lan Wangji's rock when he'd needed it most, when his world crumbled to ash around him and he struggled to find any reason to continue drawing breath in a world that had, for him, lost its light. It's only now that he's starting to understand the staggering weight of that responsibility.

     

    After returning to Cloud Recesses, Lan Wangji attempts to shield his brother from some of the consequences of his actions. Unfortunately, things are rarely so simple.

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    04 Apr 2022

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    In short, it's hard to believe that any man is as truly good as Lan Xichen seems to be. He's not utterly guileless, of course — he's too good at politics for that — but the fact that he's never shown a selfish impulse makes Jin Guangyao uneasy. He can't be as upright and honorable as he seems, not deep down.

    And so, he thinks, with equal parts guilt and satisfaction, his plan will accomplish two things at once. He will help Lan Xichen relax while working to discern what it is he truly wants, what character flaws he hides so thoroughly that even Jin Guangyao's sharp eyes have not been able to pick them out.

    Lan Xichen has a drink to unwind, and then Jin Guangyao has a hard time keeping up - in more ways than one.

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    04 Apr 2022

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    Wei Wuxian plasters on his best shit-eating grin. “Even the Second Jade of Lan isn’t immune to my charms, then. Silly me, huh, asking you about the kinds of girls you like, when I should’ve just looked in the mirror?”

    Face flushing, Lan Wangji tries to throw him off, avoiding Wei Wuxian’s eyes. “You—!”

    Oh, this is just way too much fun. Those familiar earlobes from that first dream continue to turn pinker by every minute he has Lan Wangji pinned underneath him. “Lan Zhan, ah, Lan Zhan.” Wei Wuxian dips his head, breathing by Lan Wangji’s ear.

    “Second Young Master Lan, you can deny it all you want, but isn’t it my name you call out at night?”

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    04 Apr 2022

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    When Wei Wuxian opened his eyes, he knew he was still dreaming. Partially because he was in a mist-covered Library Pavilion instead of his bed, but mostly because he was on his knees with someone gasping underneath him.

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    04 Apr 2022

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    He and Lan Zhan have been hungry for each other since their marriage—since before it, all right, of course. It’s maybe a little harder to cling to that dreamlike feeling when they’re crammed into a bed the size of a wine jar, the sounds of the kitchen attendants calling to one another echoing up from the downstairs dinner service and Sizhui’s room for the night barely three paces across the hallway from their own.

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    03 Apr 2022

  7. Public Bookmark 37

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    It's the morning after Lan Xichen's first night with Jin Guangyao, and he really should be getting ready for the conference.
    Instead, he's getting ready for Jin Guangyao.

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    26 Mar 2022

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    Sometimes - like today - Sizhui arrives at your door with a meal he tells you he had prepared himself, a small smile on his lips and the implication that he’d made it with you in mind left unspoken and hanging heavy in the air between you.

    (If Sizhui has a habit of going to the kitchens, you suppose it would not have been difficult for him to find out which servants were tasked with delivering your meals and later returning for the dishes, and then to learn that they regularly brought back food that was either barely eaten or entirely untouched.)

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    26 Mar 2022

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    Neither in the life your mother bore you into, nor in the one you have managed to claw your way up to with bloodied hands and dogged determination, have you ever been safe or secure - you believe you never truly will be, though your dual position of Jin Sect Leader and Chief Cultivator does grant a certain level of assurance, to be sure - but when you are with Xichen, something is different. With him, things always have been.

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    25 Mar 2022

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    That evening, as joy at having a new sibling temporarily won out over the disappointment and sadness at not being able to see a-niang for so long, you had drawn a third picture. In it, a third, tiny figure had joined the first two in the flower field.

    You made sure through the whole next month that this precious piece of paper stayed perfect for a-niang.

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    25 Mar 2022

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    A thorn sticks into the cotton of your sock as you cross the grass, leaving a persistent pinpoint of pain in the sole of your foot. You ignore it, far more concerned with the thin, wounded creature that has somehow managed to find its way through the copse of bamboo that surrounds the Hanshi before collapsing at its edge.

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    While Lan Xichen is letting himself waste away in seclusion, a mysterious fox arrives upon his doorstep; something gives at last, and things begin to change.

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    24 Mar 2022

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    Letting himself realize where he was going felt like looking into the heart of the cooking fire: warm, bright, almost too much in a world made mostly of night. He would go to Gusu, he realizes. Even if his paws ached, even if the summers became too hot and damp for his winter pelt. He’d travel as far as he needed to find that light again. And when he found it—well. There was little that a fox could offer Zewu-jun, he suspected. But at the very least, he could sit at the edge of the firelight and listen.

    As Lan Xichen struggles with his grief in seclusion, Jin Guangyao is reborn as a fox on the distant Mongolian steppes. A-Yao takes an impossible journey of a thousand li to get back to Gusu. When he arrives, Lan Xichen takes in an injured fox, and they blunder their way towards healing together.

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    23 Mar 2022

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    Wei Wuxian can put up with an awful lot if he's the only one being troubled, but if Lan Wangji is also suffering? That shit will not stand.

    (AKA the one where Lan Yuan keeps cockblocking his parents.)

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    22 Mar 2022

  14. Public Bookmark 36

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    Lan Xichen would like for his friends to stop looking for a boyfriend for him. Jin Guangyao wants his father to pay attention to him. A chance meeting provides an idea that could solve both their problems for the time being.

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    22 Mar 2022

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    "I have come to offer an apology and ask your forgiveness," Lan Xichen says, keeping his eyes on the floor in front of him. Meng Yao takes a step closer, so Lan Xichen bows before he can get close enough to stop him, hands on the floor, forehead touching the tops of his fingers. The warm metal of his headband presses into his fingers as if taunting him. "I have put you in danger these past months," he confesses, "for no reason other than my own selfishness."

    Lan Xichen seeks forgiveness, and something more.

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    19 Mar 2022

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    Jin Guangyao breathed a sigh of relief, then looked up to see Xichen looking down at him as if he wanted to devour him. It was heady and intoxicating and just a little intimidating, so he could hardly be blamed for what he said next.

    "Do it, then," he said, raising an eyebrow as if in challenge as he slipped his hand into Xichen's. "Take me away."

    Jin Guangyao issues a challenge, and Lan Xichen more than delivers.

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    19 Mar 2022

  17. Public Bookmark 44

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    Unexpected heavy snowfall traps Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao in the Hanshi. Lan Xichen suggests a new method of warming up his A-Yao, and old feelings become difficult to hide.

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    17 Mar 2022

  18. Public Bookmark 45

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    The pressure on Lan Xichen's scalp zings through every nerve in his body, and he clenches his fists in his lap to stop from pulling against it even more. He wants more of the pain, more of the pleasure, more of anything Meng Yao is willing to give him, and he burns with the shame of it.

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    17 Mar 2022

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    The duties and responsibilities of a sect leader weigh down on Jiang Cheng. Wen Qing knows how to help him relax (by pegging the hell out of him).

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    17 Mar 2022

  20. Public Bookmark 43

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    "It made me think about things I'd regret people not knowing, and—" He hesitates, his eyes falling closed. "I was struck with fear like I've never felt before, of something terrible happening and you not knowing how much I care for you."
     
    "Er-ge," Jin Guangyao says, his voice soft. Lan Xichen forces himself to open his eyes, to take in the soft expression on his friend's face. "We have been through much together, and you have always treated me well, even before my father acknowledged me. You even swore brotherhood with me. You've never given me cause to doubt you care for me, even when I was unsure of if I deserved that regard. You do not need to fear those regrets."

    Caring for his brother after Wei Wuxian's death makes Lan Xichen realize there are some regrets he doesn't want to have to live with.

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    14 Mar 2022

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