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He didn’t mean for this to happen.
He really, really didn’t.
When his wonderful husband, Lan Zhan, ends up taking a sword to the chest because of him, Wei Wuxian’s first reaction is to scream. As he holds the man he planned on spending the rest of his life with in his arms, he screams loudly at the gods for doing such a thing to him. His grip tightens on his soulmate’s sleeves and he can feel the rain dripping onto his face. He screams and screams until his vision begins to fade. It doesn’t stop him until he can only see blackness.
He finds himself in a room that was once familiar to him, years upon years ago. Before Lotus Pier had burnt to the ground. He traces his hand along the sheets that smells vaguely of what had once been his home. He looks around the room. It looks exactly like what his old room in Lotus Pier had been.
Had he passed out and Jiang Cheng had taken him back to Lotus Pier?
Without his husband?
Many questions pass through his mind, many asking whether Lan Zhan is okay or not. When Jiang Cheng enters his room, noticeably smaller and less built, he definitely thinks he is dreaming.
“Dumbass, we have to leave for Cloud Recesses today, don’t you remember? C’mon, I’m not waiting for you this time.”
He looks down at Jiang Cheng’s finger. Zidian is missing.
Wei Wuxian does the most logical thing in this solution.
He screams.
Jiang Cheng just stares, bewildered. “What the fuck? Are you actually turning psychotic?”
He’s pretty sure that he is, based on the fact that he seems to be reliving the day that he went to Cloud Recesses.
After the initial shock of being sent several years in the past, he checks to see if his golden core is still there.
It is, based on the steady hum of energy and warmth flowing through his body.
‘Well, fuck. I’m actually in the past.’
The rest of the day is a blur with many tears that seem to come out at the sight of his dear Shijie. Jiang Cheng just rolls his eyes at him and Shijie lovingly pats his head and tells him that they’ll only be gone for a little bit. As they get ready to leave for Cloud Recesses, he can’t help but feel happy that he can once again ride his Suiban again.
Eventually he decides that he and Lan Zhan cannot meet. He doesn’t want Lan Zhan to suffer yet again. He doesn’t want his Lan Zhan to get stabbed again. Lan Zhan doesn’t deserve such an early death.
He decided, that he is going to try his best to avoid Lan Zhan! He manages to when they first enter Cloud Recesses and manages to avoid him for the majority of the day before they start classes. And of course, Lan Qiren sentences Wei Wuxian to copying the rules with Lan Zhan.
(He didn’t even do much this time! Lan Qiren’s beard might be gone, but honestly, where’s the proof that he did it! Besides, that old man had it coming after all these years.)
So, here he currently is, standing in front of the one man he had been planning on avoiding.
“Well, uh, I guess I should start copying these rules, haha!” He turns around to begin wandering to his seat.
Lan Zhan grips the sleeves of Wei Ying’s robes and pulls him back around.
“Wei Ying.”
“Lan Wangji, I can’t believe you’re calling me by my actual name! How rude! You shouldn’t be doing such a thing to someone you barely know!”
“Wei Ying.”
“I thought you were raised better than that! Aren’t you one of the one of the Two Jades of Lan? I really can’t imagine-”
“Wei Ying. It is me.”
He’s taken aback for a moment before he feels his eyes widening and even more confusion blossoming through his body.
“Lan Zhan, is it really you?”
“Mm. I am here, Wei Ying.” He feels like he has just gotten kicked several times in the chest. What the fuck is this, honestly?
“I’m so sorry, Lan Zhan, you got stabbed because of me! I don’t even know if you died because I woke up in Lotus Pier and I thought I was going crazy and it was just an absolute nightmare. Gods, I missed you so much but I didn’t want you to die again so I tried avoiding you, but it’s just so difficult because you’re you Lan Zhan and Lan Qiren is just such a bitch! And-”
“Wei Ying. There is no need for apologies between us.”
“Most of the time I would agree! But Lan Zhan, you got stabbed because of me! Do I need to spell it out? I think this one needs an apology.”
“Wei Ying.”
“-and what would I do if my wonderful, amazing husband dies again! Lan Qiren would probably kill me or I would spent the rest of my days trying to-” Lan Zhan simply stares at his husband. He can’t help but think that sometimes Wei Ying is very, very dumb as much as he is pretty.
So, he does what any loving and amazing husband would do, and he shuts Wei Ying up with a kiss.
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“Wei Ying. I didn’t die in the other world.”
“Lan Zhan! Bullshit! You had a sword sticking through your gut!”
“It missed. It was between my arm and my side.”
Wei Ying simply stares at the man.
“What the fuck! You’re telling me that you got fake stabbed so I literally spent my first two days in the fucking past worrying about my husband who I thought died yet it turns out HE DIDN’T EVEN GET STABBED?”
Lan Zhan just stares at him, expressionless as ever.