the salt and the sea

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Characters: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Jiang Yanli, Original Characters Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Post-Sunshot Campaign (Modao Zushi), Psychological Trauma, (they can both fit so much of it), Angst, Dysfunctional Relationships, what if the world was crumbling around you and your brotherlover was turning insane and your tongue was a knife: the fic, Rebuilding Lotus Pier (Modao Zushi), Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin is Bad at Feelings, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian is Bad at Feelings, sad but the angry kind of sad Series: Part 1 of i try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament Summary:

"A-Cheng," he whispers, forehead touching Jiang Cheng's own. His fingers — now deathly pale, so unlike the sunkissed boy of before — are warm against Jiang Cheng's cheek. "I've missed you too."

"Don't get caught again," Jiang Cheng says, because he can't trust himself to say anything else without screaming or crying.

"I won't. We are the twin heroes of Yunmeng, remember?" His thumb presses down on Jiang Cheng's bottom lip, insistent and blood smeared. Jiang Cheng opens up with practiced ease, eagerly waiting, but still he shudders at the first metallic taste of blood. "I'll be by your side, always."