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    When he could finally speak, Lan Wangji straightened so he could look into Wei Ying’s eyes, pouring all his yearning into the question, all his deeply buried hopes, his fear, his heartbreak, his devastation, his aching joy. “Come back to Gusu with me,” he begged. He couldn’t conceive of what he’d do if Wei Ying said no—perhaps disintegrate into dust.

    “Yes,” Wei Ying said and Lan Wangji’s relief was so acute it was as if he were splintering from the inside out. “Yes,” he repeated. “I’ll come back to Gusu with you.”

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    Lan Wangji grieves Wei Ying's death, raises A-Yuan, and plants a garden. Three years later, Wei Wuxian returns.

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    “It’s okay that you miss him,” said Lan Wangji, a familiar litany to them both by now. “Do you feel sad?”

    “I feel sad,” A-Yuan repeated, shoulders hitching with tiny hiccuping sniffs. “When is he coming back?”

    “I don’t know. I am not sure where he is.”

    But this seemed to frustrate A-Yuan. “Xian-gege! I miss him! Please, baba?” He looked up at him with wet cheeks and a wide, quivering frown. “Please baba can you ask him? I really miss him!” He sobbed again, heartbreakingly.

    It stabbed straight through him, cracking open the reservoir of loss and helplessness that was all his own. His child’s grief did that, sometimes. It always took him by surprise. He caught his breath sharply and gathered A-Yuan into his arms, holding him tight until the pain ebbed.

    “I will try,” he said softly into A-Yuan’s hair, when he could speak again. He never made uncertain promises and tried not even to raise uncertain hopes, but his son was hurting. His son believed he could make it better. He couldn’t not try.

    Wen Qing might at least know who this “Xian-gege” was. He would text her in the morning. It would be a start.

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    Wei Wuxian plays the flute. Someone in Wei Wuxian's apartment complex plays violin. Sometimes, they play the flute and the violin together, and it's... nice. It's really nice. It's sort of the nicest thing going on in his life right now, honestly.

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    It is an odd thing, to be the only adult amidst a gaggle of teenagers.

    Frankly, it is exhausting. They have certain…. expectations of him, especially the Gusu Lan juniors, and Huaisang has made it a life mission of his to never rise up to anyone’s expectations, but they just won’t let it go.

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    It is weird to realise that you have lived longer than you've planned for. Nie Huaisang learns to deal with the aftermath.

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    06 Nov 2024

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    or, one hundred and thirty-three principles of the Gusu Lan, pertaining to the state of marriage

     

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    He bows to Wei Wuxian, sword in hand, sleeves falling properly. Wei Wuxian bows in return, and the sect leaders begin the opening courtesies, and for all of ten minutes Lan Wangji is under the impression that he is betrothed to a boy who is perfectly normal and acceptable apart from an unfortunate tendency to fidget with his clothes.

    That impression does not last.

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