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ps Steve starts getting red envelopes from Lan Wangji, Wen Qing, Jiang Wanyin and Lan Xichen sometimes they're delivered by Lan Sizhui, super nice guy
a couple of years later there's also one from Wei Wuxian that contains like thirty grand and a note that says "ps ur job sux"
he takes the hint
a couple of years after that, he's working at a no-profit Five Nations Cultural Outreach And Food Bank in Camden, he's gone back to the Jerz to be nearer his grandma
He's been getting these cryptic comments on his instagram, they're always super-nice, very encouraging about good things in his life, sympathetic about bad things, but then after a post about his girlfriend he gets a DM from the cryptically nice person that says "I don't think this girl is right for you. Ask this young lady for coffee" and there's a phone number? and he makes sure to meet the person in public but he does try meeting them for coffee, and it is a girl, and it's just she's perfect, you understand, perfect
two years after THAT they're getting married, and he invites Uncle Wei and Uncle Lan, and Uncle Wei's like can we bring a couple of friends, Steve says sure
can't decide if he regrets it when he realises that the group walking into his wedding is Uncle Wei and Uncle Lan
with Wen Qing, who turns out to be the doctor who saved his grandma's life when she had that thing last year, who walks in with Sandu Shengshou "call me uncle Jiang" are you fucking kidding me and Lan Xichen
and then Lan Sizhui comes in with a woman on his arm and says "Auntie, this is Steve and Annie, Steve and Annie this is my aunt, Jiang Yanli" and
Jiang
freaking
Yanli
smiles at him and says, "I knew you two were right for each other," and kisses his cheek and his bride's and breezes on past and Steve nearly passes out, but Annie's grip on his arm is possibly about to crack bone and she's like "is that who I think it is?"
"Sweetheart I told you I met Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji..."
"I thought that was a lie, Steve, we'd just started dating and I thought you were trying to impress me!"
"... Jiang Yanli is the one who gave me your number."
yeah they never do work that out