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Title: 🖤 To Capture A Ghost 🖤
“Oh, Hanguang Jun is back from seclusion, after thirteen years?” Wei Wuxian perks up with practiced casualness. “Going to chase after me again ehe…”
He must be even more bored than Wei Sizhui thought to look forward to play hide-and-seek with a ferocious martial god he’s been religiously avoiding for decades. “Not that I know of. I believe he’s planning to descent to hunt down the bridegroom ghost.”
“What!” Wei Wuxian bristles at that, looking mortally offended. “Lan Zhan would rather capture some low class Menace over me, the Awful Terrible Not Good At All Yiling Patriarch? That’s unacceptable.”
Or: the Yiling Patriarch Crimson Light Dancing On Graves and His Highness the Crown Prince of Gusu Hanguang Jun, from the eyes of others. A Wangxian in TGCF AU.
Recommended by: @shamelesswngxian (mod)
"Your Highness, Lan Zhan, we ascended together, isn't it neat?" the disaster waiting to happen called Wei Wuxian laughed like an earthquake as he casually invaded a prince's safe space. "It means we're best friends now! People who kill monsters together are friends, I don't make the rules, haha!"
Neat wasn't strong enough of a word to describe this oddity. A prince and a servant's son, ascending at the same time, it was unheard of. A servant's son teasingly pestering a prince, calling him by his given name, tugging at his sleeve and poking his cheek to get a reaction, that was outright shocking.
At the time, Lan Xichen thought it was very amusing. In retrospect, he should have seen the seeds of tragedy in the way his descendant's eyes followed hungrily wherever Wei Wuxian danced.
The author’s only MDZS work and it’s absolute genius. The story of Wangxian told from various POVs, each better than the next. This piece is poignant and hilarious at the same time. It is delivered with brilliant deadpan humor and some stellar characterization.
Have you heard? The terrible grandmaster of Hell is having an affair with the most righteous god of Heaven!
An utter delight to read 💖
