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1. You Should've Stayed by wisteria_16

   Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   04 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Tartaglia | Childe/Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact)
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Tartaglia | Childe/Yoimiya (Genshin Impact)
   • Scaramouche/Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact)
   • Tartaglia | Childe & Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact)
   • Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact)
   • Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact)
   • Yoimiya (Genshin Impact)
   • Baizhu (Genshin Impact)
   • Qiqi (Genshin Impact)
   • Lumine's Moms (Genshin Impact)
   • Childe's Mom and Dad (Genshin Impact)
   • Yanfei (Genshin Impact)
   • Mona (Genshin Impact)
   • Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)
   • Lynette (Genshin Impact)
   • Lyney (Genshin Impact)
   • Keqing (Genshin Impact)
   • Ganyu (Genshin Impact)
   • Modern AU
   • High School AU
   • Alternate Universe - Childhood Friends
   • Tartaglia | Childe is Called Ajax (Genshin Impact)
   • Scaramouche is Called Kunikuzushi (Genshin Impact)
   • Angst
   • Inspired by If He Had Been With Me (Book)
   • The Mona and Lumine bestie supremacy agenda continues
   • Strap in because this is one hell of a rollercoaster
   • No Smut
   • mild spice
   • Tartaglia | Childe Never Fell in the Abyss (Genshin Impact)
   • chilumi endgame
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • but make it childhood friends that grew apart and then come back together years later as lovers
   • Rated mature because of angst
   • It's like an IV drip bag of angst
   • No beta we die like Phineas Smith
   • Slow Burn
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   Ajax and Lumine used to be inseparable, until they grew older.

   They do their best to act like the other doesn't exist; fate insists on proving the opposite.

   Adapted from the book If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin.

   Series

   • Part 1 of It's Always Been You

   Language:

   English

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