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    “I’m not here to help you with your work,” said Lan Zhan, injecting frost into his voice to deter any further attempts at charm. “I’ll be focusing on my research.”

     

    Wei Ying cocked his head. “Research?” he said.

     

    “Mm. I’m a cultivation researcher, not a department employee. I’m reconstructing the ancient musical cultivation techniques of the Lan clan.”

     

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    Lan Zhan’s new liaison at the Caiyi Municipal Cultivation Department is an enigma – ridiculously talented, yet somehow content with mopping up spiritual pests for barely above minimum wage. Wei Ying is slapdash and irresponsible, and Lan Zhan doesn’t like him at all… but then he meets A-Yuan, who loves music and longs for a piano his father can’t afford.

    Forced into cautious friendship by a four-year-old's music lessons, Lan Zhan soon realises Wei Ying is more than he seems. The single father is a man of many secrets – including, perhaps, the key to Lan Zhan's life's work. And in the meantime, the background resentment in Caiyi Town is rising to dangerous levels…

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    04 Oct 2022

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    “What exactly do you need help with, Lan-gongzi?” Wei Wuxian asks.

    “There is a plant,” Lan Zhan replies, and he sounds hesitant and unsure, voice quiet. “There is a plant, once gifted to me by my mother. But it is dying, and I cannot seem to fix the problem.”

    To Wei Wuxian’s shock, Lan Zhan puts his hands together and bows as low as the table will allow him. “Please, Wei Ying, the plant is all I have left of her. People speak wonders of your abilities, I will offer whatever compensation you seek for your assistance.”


    Wei Wuxian, a lone cultivator who's said to be able to bring plants back from the dead, receives a visit from a Lan cultivator with a curious and secret request. They fall in love.

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    12 Jul 2022

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    Wei Wuxian opens one eye, sneaking a peek at the paper, then both. It’s gone. The flame burns freely and uninterrupted. The curse– the curse should be broken, now, right? He hazards a look at Lan Zhan and his heart thumps in his chest like it’s trying to prove a point.

    “Fucking hell,” he says under his breath.

    “Wei Ying?”

    “I– yeah. Sorry, um. Technical difficulties.”

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    Wei Wuxian gets cursed with lovey-dovey bitch syndrome. Modern magic uni AU.

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    06 Jul 2022

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    Lan Zhan graciously allows Wei Ying to curate their study playlist, and to play it on the nice speaker that rests on his desk and never reaches above a polite, neighborly volume.

    It's tough sometimes, because it's pretty similar to the makeout mix Wei Ying would make if they made out with each other: Lo-fi indie and trip-hop with some nice, slow bass, enough to set a mood without distracting from the task at hand. But it remains strictly a study playlist as they sit close together on Lan Zhan's twin-sized dorm bed, only by virtue of Wei Ying's disregard for the concept of personal space between friends and Lan Zhan's patient indulgence of it. Wei Ying had even fallen asleep on Lan Zhan's shoulder once in middle of writing a midterm paper and Lan Zhan didn't bother waking him. He rode that high for months.

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    06 Jul 2022

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    By the time anyone can get a grasp of the situation, it’s too late— Jiang Yanli is barely able to process what just happened. Just as she was about to push Wei Wuxian she saw red, literal red as the top of a sword was just a few inches away from her face, the sword had pierced through his back and went out through his chest, dripping blood that belonged to the man that she had failed to protect.

    (Or, what if Yanli wasn’t able to push WWX in time)

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    29 Jun 2022