#inferioritycomplex

Why would anyone hire this man to work again as a police?  Never mind, it’s because he is a racist just like the ones that hired him to keep mistreating and discriminating against people they are hired to protect and serve. All bullshit.

And my phone suggests the next word I want is "you"

Yes, if only.

I think it regularly. And I mean it

I feel it like a calm, simple truth, grown deep inside me

But I can't say it, or write it, or send it to you

It sits heavy on my tongue, locked in the steel vault with all the other things I cannot, will not say

I love you, I want you, I miss you, please stay

You're so cute, you're so perfect, I think you'll never stop seeming lovely to me

You make me wish I still believed in forever

The only fics with “WWX feeling inferior to LWJ” because he’s poor that come to my mind are these ones: 

a summer day spent in yunmeng catching mice by bosbie (6K, Teen)

(Post-Gusu School Days,Teen!Wangxian, Pining, What-If, Hurt & Comfort, Inferiority Complex, Omniscient Narrator, LWJ in Lotus Pier)

Wei WuXian is tasked by Madam Yu to deal with a recent infestation of mice in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Lan WangJi happens to pass by Lotus Pier.

They help each other.

@giftwrappingpaper

Cheap Labor by SakuraKage (4K, General)

(Canon Divergence, Rogue Cultivator!WWX, Sugar Daddy!LWJ, Insecure!WWX, Getting Together)

If someone had told him five years ago that, as a grown adult, he would be back in Gusu, copying scrolls in the Library Pavilion voluntarily, Wei Wuxian would have laughed his head off. You couldn’t pay me to come back to the Cloud Recesses, Land of Three Thousand Rules, he would have said. Wei Wuxian was very fortunate that this never occurred, as he had always hated eating his words. Because here he was. Copying scrolls. And getting paid for it.

(P.S.: this fic features poor!WWX but his insecurities are more general)

This hit me like a train!

On this day - December 8, 1915

White Mob Rapes and Lynches Cordelia Stevenson near Columbus, Mississippi

Title: a summer day spent in yunmeng catching mice 🐁

Author: bosbie ( @giftwrappingpaper )

Universe: Modern AU

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen

Length: Long  (5+K)

Summary:

Wei WuXian is tasked by Madam Yu to deal with a recent infestation of mice in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Lan WangJi happens to pass by Lotus Pier.

They help each other.

Recommended by: @shamelesswngxian

Comments:

Following the novel canon, after he gets expelled from his studies in the Cloud Recesses, WWX is back in Lotus Pier where Madam Yu keeps reminding WWX he’s only a son of a servant. Getting tasked with getting rid of a mouse infestation, on one such errand WWX meets Lan Wangji passing through Yunmeng. 

The POVs keep shifting between Wangxian and LWJ gets to witness a rare sight of WWX’s insecurities Madam Yu never forgets to contribute to. They spend a day in Lotus Pier together, where LWJ helps WWX with his task.

Something in Lan WangJi had solidified, then. A realization. Something important to keep.

It was an ordinary day, but also a special one. Lan WangJi remembered it, all of it, and would often come back to the memory as years passed and time spent with Wei WuXian became fewer and farther between. A summer day spent in Yunmeng catching mice — a startling truth that sounded like the setup of a joke would become astoundingly precious years later: when Lan WangJi was alone, and the name Wei WuXian was a curse instead of a blessing, and the boy who smiled at him and softly greeted him good morning was a trace of ash carried off by the wind somewhere.