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    Wei Ying is still not looking at him. “It just hurt too much, suddenly. And I was scared. I got afraid, terrified, that I’ll come and you won’t be here.” He unfurls his fists, smoothes his hands over his jean-clad thighs, grips them, like he needs to hold onto something. “I know… I know you don’t have to let me into your life,” he whispers. “And I understand I might not be wanted here. It’s been so long once we... But I just… I thought we could try to, still… maybe, we could try and be…”

    Lan Zhan’s chest expands, then hollows. 
    “… friends?” He finishes for him. His voice sounds foreign, sounds dead. 

    “Or something,” Wei Ying says. He turns his head around, meets Lan Zhan’s eyes. His face is pale and open, cracked into a vulnerable shape. “I’m still… you’re still very dear to me. I don’t think what we did back then was right. I’m sorry if you think otherwise, but I know that, for me, before everything, we were… good friends. No matter what happened after.”

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    [former best-friends/lovers meet again, six years later.
    only now, something is different.
    something is very, very wrong.]

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    18 Dec 2024

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    “Well,” Lan Huan said. “How was it?’

    Lan Zhan waved his hand. “Fine. No issues. He’s trying to impress some girl he wants to fuck, presumably. Thank you, brother, I now feel fulfilled in my career choices.”

    Lan Huan raised an eyebrow. “We’ll see,” he said.

    They certainly would, Lan Zhan thought. Wei Ying wasn’t going to last five minutes once Lan Zhan got going with him.

     

    Wiry young tree surgeon Wei Ying enlists the help of experienced older personal trainer Lan Wangji, in 'project muscles', a bid to win over gym god Nie Mingjue. What could possibly go wrong?

    A meddling brother, a troublesome ex, practice sex, a fistfight and accidentally acquiring a child between them for a start...

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    16 Dec 2024

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    “We hear that His Excellency might be married by summer’s end,” the merchant’s wife says and Wei Wuxian freezes, his heart in his throat. “The Gusu Lan sect has been buying enough red silk and brocade that the merchants in Caiyi can’t satisfy the demand.”

    He feels himself grow brittle inside, like a flick of a finger to his temple might make him shatter. His ears are ringing.

    “Who’s the lucky bride?” he asks despite himself. His tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth.

    Or: The story of a marriage.

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    03 May 2024

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    THE post-cannon

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    Wei Ying can’t find his words. “What would I do in Gusu?”
    The man’s mouth quirks in what Wei Ying cannot interpret as anything but a tiny, smug smirk. “Learn.”

    Wei Ying has made a fine life for himself. He’s got his jiejies and his talismans; he doesn’t need anyone’s charity. But spending a whole year in Gusu? That’s hard to turn down.

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    16 May 2024

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    Love this take

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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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    29 Jun 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Also stuck with me

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