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"Wei Wuxian. I need you to STOP testing out talismans while I'm trying to teach!" Jiang Cheng threw a scroll at his brother, who insisted on sitting on the lesson.
"ChengCheng your disciples need to learn- Ow since when did you throw 2!?" Wei Wuxian ducks from the 3rd scroll thrown at his head. Huffing, he puts away his talismans while sitting back down. Jiang Cheng rolls his eyes and continues with the class.
He talks about Yunmeng culture, history, and cultivation forms. "So while we're training with just ourselves, I don't want to see a single weapon, got that?" he scans the room and groans when he sees the glowing light underneath Wei Wuxian's desk. "PUT THAT AWAY!" he screams
Wei Wuxian looks genuinely surprised, not good. Then he looks underneath his desk and jumps away from it "That's not supposed to glow!"
Jiang Cheng herds the disciples away from the desk and out the door, who were more than glad to leave. "What!? Explain! You can't be starting trouble again!"
When the light gets brighter and brighter, Jiang Cheng grabs his brother and shoves the man behind him. "Jiang Cheng-!"
Lan Xichen was happy to say the least, really happy! His beloved Wanyin would be the one carrying out the lessons for the disciples this year in Cloud Recesses because after the previous incident (Reference to my other fic 'The Juniors are Ducklings') He begged and convinced the other man to stay at Cloud Recesses until Xichen nursed, what he called, a 'broken heart.' What? his heart was gone for weeks! as as you know, one cannot live without their heart!
He doesn't notice the other person on the path he's on and bumps straight into them. He jumps back and apologizes only to realize it's his didi, Lan Wangji. "Ah, Wangji!" he smiles
Lan Wangji squints at his smile (his eyes moved less than 1 milimeter) and then he spoke. "You're thinking of Jiang Wanyin." is all he says
Lan Xichen's eyes widen, surprised he was caught by just his smile. So then he smiles wider because now he's thinking of Jiang Cheng even more "Oh Wangji, you know me too well!' He chuckles.
Both of them feel the ground shake beneath their feet, at first they thought it was just the nearby disciples roughplaying. Then the ground disappears and they're both plunged into darkness.
Of course neither of them screamed, they didn't have the time to. Just soon after they landed on wooden boards, seemingly the hallways of Cloud Recesses. They look around and find their dear husbands on top of each other. No, like Wei Wuxian was sitting on Jiang Cheng while the latter screamed for 'you heavy ox' to get off.
And then there was a Lan disciple, seemingly 15. What was odd was that they were wearing the headband of the main family. He also looked terrified.
"XIONGZHANG THERE'S RANDOM PEOPLE HERE!!" The terrified Lan ran away at such impossible speed that Xichen doesn't know if it counts as running. More like teleporting from how fast the disciple ran.
"Wei Wuxian!" Jiang Cheng sat up, throwing Wei Wuxian on his back. both of them frowning. he was about to hit Wei Wuxian until he noticed Lan Xichen and his face softened insanely fast and practically threw himself in the man's arms. "Huan-ge!" he frowns, because he did NOT pout! he doesn't pout!
When Wei Wuxian noticed Lan Wangji however, they had to be held back from engaging in a full makeout session.
"There! There they are!" they heard the voice of the Lan disciple again. Wait... They look familiar...
"Haoran I swear if this is just a ploy for me to let you go to Qisha- Oh my goodness you weren't joking." A man wearing a sect leader guan, obviously the sect leader of the clan, says as he turns the corner. That was odd, because now there were 2 Lan sect leaders present. The newcomer and Lan Xichen.
"Yichen!" Another voice came running "I heard Haoran yelling- AH WHO ARE THEY?" the extra voice turned out to be a Jiang. Jiang Cheng instantly recognizes him.
And that's when he knew, that they were in the past. how? The Jiang was none other than Jiang Fengmian! and he looked like a teen!
Xichen instantly got to introductions and bowed deeply "Hi there.. I know we may seem suspicious, or intruders. But I can assure you we're neither of those, we come from the future. Believe me or not, out technology has advanced-"
"AH IT SPEAKS!"
"HAORAN THAT'S RUDE!" The Lan, the one wearing the guan, slaps the Lan clinging to him. Then he turns to Xichen "I should apologize to you. My brother can be quite... dumb sometimes. Although you seem extremely suspicious, I'll choose to trust you, after all, you do look just like me."
Xichen's hand went up to his own face, he had never been told he looked like his father, only that he looked like Lan Qiren if Lan Qiren didn't have the goatee.
Jiang Cheng stepped forward, dragging Wei Wuxian with him. "Jiang Wanyin, courtesy name Jiang Cheng." he bows, forcing Wei Wuxian to do so. "now, you idiot, introduce yourself properly."
"Wei Wuxian!" Wei Wuxian says as he bows his head and instantly goes to stand up and to Lan Wangji. Jiang Cheng rubs his temples in frustration.
"hey Feng-gege" Haoran says "His clarity bell, it's the same as yours." He says seriously for the first time that day.
Fengmian looks down to his own clarity bell and Jiang Cheng's, finding that they were indeed identical, only that Jiang Cheng's was more worn. Jiang Cheng also refuses to meet him in the eyes.
"This is Lan Zhan! although you could call him Lan Wangji" Wei Wuxian introduces Lan Wangji for him, Lan Wangji nodding is agreement.
"So Xiongzhang does this mean I can skip classes toda-" Haoran started
"HAORAN SHUT IT!"
Haoran pouted and crossed his arms.
"Haoran, you know Yichen is just stressed" Fengmian smiles "Maybe you could go hang out with Ruohan?"
Haoran perks up so fast it was as if he never pouted. Then he sprints out of there and goes off to find Ruohan. "Han-er!!" they hear him distantly, then a laugh and another laugh in a deeper voice.
'Uncle will never have the love he wants, seeing him happy with his only love makes me.. sad?' Lan Xichen thinks to himself.