“I didn’t tell you because I knew you’d try to talk me out of it.”
Song Zichen responded to this statement with a flat stare. He turned to Lan Wangji.
“He thinks that’s a compelling counter-argument.” His voice was full of dry incredulity.
Wei Wuxian is not good at debates (chp. 17)
love, in fire and blood by cicer (AO3)
The Untamed – Explicit – Lan Zhan/Wei Wuxian
#Alternate Universe #Canon Divergence #Yiling Patriarch Wei Ying #Arranged Marriage #Political Scheming #Gratuitous Domesticity #Mutual Pining #Extreme Slowburn #the inherent eroticism of the forehead ribbon #The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known #Serious Injury #Recovery #First Time #Background Relationships
“You want Wen Ruohan dead,” the Patriarch continued idly. “You want his corpse puppets eliminated. You want his halls burned to the ground and his soldiers disemboweled and begging for mercy. Have I about covered it?”
He gave another knife-edged smile.
“But what will you give me in return?”
“We would be willing to offer quite a bit in return for Wen Ruohan’s defeat,” Lan Xichen admitted. “But I’m afraid we don’t know what an immortal such as yourself desires. Please advise us.”
The Patriarch waved at hand at the front of the tent. “I want Second Young Master Lan.”
(In which the Sunshot Campaign ends through an arranged marriage to the Yiling Patriarch, and Lan Wangji suffers the mortifying ordeal of falling in love with his own husband.)
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