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    01 Apr 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 88

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    Lan Zhan see’s Wei Ying at the bus stop and imagines pulling over, picking him up and offering him a ride, getting to hear his voice again…see his smile once more…but was Lan Zhan worthy of getting to be a part of Wei Ying’s life now?

    Lan Zhan and Wei Ying reconnect…but Lan Zhan feels his past actions mean he has no place in Wei Ying’s life now. Wei Ying has other ideas.

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    25 Feb 2024

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    Yibo has a crush, but Xiao Zhan keeps calling him a kid in a way that really isn’t sexy.

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    28 Dec 2023

  4. Rec 28

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    As if all the breath was knocked out of him, he gasped loudly, taking in the sight before him. The nighttime skyline of Beijing was beautiful, he always knew that, but to see it from the top of this building, reflected in the river below them, caught him off guard. His eyes hurt with how brightly the city lights cast a glow against the dark blanket of sky, but he kept his eyes wide, taking everything in. The way the city moved, the way the city breathed, the way it winked at him, it was the most perfect view.

    He felt the hand, still in his, squeeze, bringing him out of his reverie.

    Scratch that, the nighttime skyline was not the most perfect view.

    The boy standing in front of him, arms outstretched, hand in his, hair flying in the wind as he smiled widely back at him with the city lights behind him. His lungs screamed with the way the wind seemed to punch the air out of them. His heart pounded as Yibo’s smile grew impossibly wider. Despite the absence of light on the rooftop, he somehow caught a glint from his eye flashing at him, asking, begging him to come closer.

    That.

    This was the most perfect view.

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    26 Dec 2023

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    To say that he runs to his car would be incorrect, as he is a Lan, and running is both undignified and unnecessary unless in immediate danger. Nor does he slam his key into the ignition, or aggressively swerve around the cars on the freeway, or have a mild panic attack at the fact he is picking A-Yuan up late from school for the first time ever.

    He comes close, though.

    By the time he arrives, it’s 4:35PM, and he has imagined about fifty different worse-case scenarios. The door is partly open when he gets to it, a messy label of 104B—Art Room scrawled with chalk on a placard next to the faded wood. As he opens it fully, he expects to see a wailing, terrified child, or perhaps a scene of utter misery and betrayal.

    What he finds is his son, hands covered in paint, being sung to by a beautiful, dark-haired stranger.

    “Ducks live in the pond, yellow ducks, happy ducks!”

    Lan Wangji stops in his tracks.
     

    (Or: Falling in love with your son’s art teacher, in five parts)

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    07 Oct 2023