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Title: Righteous at a Cost 💙

Author: thunderwear 

Universe: Canon Divergence

Status: Complete

Rating: General

Length: Epic (21K)

Summary:

Lan Qiren sighed something weary and resigned and said, “Wei Wuxian, come back to Gusu.”

After his nephew returns from Yiling, lovelorn and dejected, Lan Qiren decides to take matters into his own hands.

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Comments:

LQR goes to Yiling and that changes the whole story as we know it. 

thanks for the rec! -Halley

The Enemy of My Friend is My Super Enemy by gluupor for saintyves (G | 2,046 | 1/1)

Grace stands in solidarity with her teammate and friend Andrew Minyard.

Title: Deeper Seasons 💙

Author: piecrust ( @sincerelystranger )

Universe: Post-Canon

Status: Complete

Rating: General

Length: Middle (4+K)

Summary:

Lan Qiren reads books and Wei Wuxian worms his way into Qiren's heart.

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Comments:

Author’s tags: basically Lan Qiren being nice to WWX

Title: The Sun Is Haunted ☀️

Author: Monyas ( @monyas )

Universe: AU / Canon Divergence

Status: Complete

Rating: General

Length: Middle (4+K)

Summary:

In another universe, Wen Ruohan had a child called Wen Chao, who grew up to be cowardly, petty and basically an idiot.

In this universe, however, Wen Ruohan had a child called Wen Wuxian, who grew up to be courageous, cunning and basically a genius.

-Presenting to you one Wen Ruohan, the proudest and most stressed father of Nightless City.-

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Comments:

"My son has just started his archery lessons," Some sect leader would say during a banquet, "Today he hit three bullseyes in a row."

And Wen Ruohan, who had never been interested in such inane conversations, found that he felt a novel sense of pride every time he could casually add remarks like, "I've never seen my son hit anything other than a bullseye."

And sit back and watch the other parents shrivel in shame.

He created many uncomfortable silences this way and it was glorious.

This fic is basically a what if Wei Wuxian was actually Wen Wuxian and Wen Ruohan was the proudest dad of all? Honestly, it only has one fault which is that I would’ve wanted to read a whole 30+K words of it because--SO GOOD! And lastly, don’t worry, Wangxian will still happen.

Also, author’s notes:  Because Wen Chao was spoiled and Wei Wuxian needed spoiling.

Title: Four Parts Honey and One Part Vinegar 🍯💚

Author: masked ( @hamburgergod​ )

Universe: Post Canon

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen

Length: Epic (13+K) 

Summary:

“You know,” Ouyang Zizhen says thoughtfully over dinner one day, “I’ve never seen Wei-qianbei get jealous before.”

Lan Jingyi pauses for the briefest second, remembers the sect rule of keeping silence during meals, and decidedly forgoes it. “What?”

“Well,” Ouyang Zizhen continues, “Hanguang-jun always has a lot of admirers everywhere we go, but Wei-qianbei never seems to mind it.”

“Why are we talking about this?” Jin Ling asks flatly.

-

Four times Wei Wuxian doesn't get jealous, and one time he does.

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Comments:

Everyone is thirsty for Hanguang-Jun but WWX isn’t bothered by that in the slightest so the juniors have a constant nagging question which is: How to make WWX jealous? Turns out you just have to get WWX of the present and WWX of the past in one room together with LWJ.

I thought this was gonna be a simple humorous fic but it’s actually so much more than that. This fic has depth, UST, brilliant interactions between the past!WWX and LWJ, protective!Juniors, and LWJ, who is so whipped for all versions of WWX it’s beautiful. His interactions with the WWX of the past are.. intense xD while MXY!WWX bears witness to it all but don’t worry, “the Impeccable Trust between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian”  tag is there for a reason. WWX of the present is very sure of his husband's all-encompassing love for him. 

Title: Phantom Leashes 🩸🖤

Author: mondengel ( @mondengel )

Universe: Canon Divergence / Vampires AU

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

Length: Middle (3+K)

Summary:

It was a good thing Lan Xichen was born first.

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Comments:

Wei WuXian was perpetually hungry.

Lan Qiren saw him sliding slowly into starvation and felt tension draw through his bones like an overdrawn bow about to crack. His fingers itched for his sword every moment Wei WuXian was in his sight.  He let himself fantasize about shoving it through his heart and putting an end to him as he never allowed himself with Lan Wangji.

Watching Wei WuXian’s every move, the magnetic fascination that kept his eyes pinned to Lan Wangji was all too apparent. As was the answering look in Lan Wangji’s eyes as he watched him in turn. The inhuman stillness that overcame them as their eyes locked, short and sharp in the classroom (nearly making him stumble in his lecture as he anticipated one of them lunging at the other), a long, lingering stare down in more secluded places. Always Wei WuXian would dissolve the tension with some laughing remark and throw himself at his nephew as if the minutes before had never happened.

Lan Qiren had feared they would fight, territorial like beasts. What destruction and bloodshed would they wreak across the Cloud Recesses if they did? He’d kept an eye on them, fretted and followed until he had the misfortune to be there when the tension finally snapped instead of dissipating.

In the middle of the night he came upon them locked together, blood a spreading stain at Lan Wangji’s collar where Wei WuXian’s teeth had sunk in as they tugged and shoved at each other in staggering circles around the garden path. The stone wall that bordered the Jingshi had cracked as Lan Wangji shoved Wei WuXian against the wall with a low rumbling noise in his throat, mouth descending to bite savagely into the junction of Wei WuXian’s neck and shoulder.

Thinking it was a fight, he’d started to rush closer until he realized the keening sound Wei WuXian was making was not pain. As Wei WuXian lifted his legs to wind around Lan Wangji’s waist and the push and pull motions between them began to take on a more purposeful rhythm, Lan Qiren ran from his nephew for a second time. Horrified.

WWX is a vampire and LQR hates all the vampires. But LWJ is a vampire as well, and so LQR is torn between love and hate for his nephew. This story is absolutely gripping and intriguing in the most deliciously eerie way 🖤.

Title: It’s A Crazy World We Live In

Author: pupeez4eva ( @pupeez4eva​ )

Universe: Canon Divergence

Status: Complete

Rating: Not Rated

Length: Long (8+K)

Summary:

Wei Changze is reborn as Wen Yuan. Cangse Sanren is reborn as Lan Jingyi. Understandably, this changes a lot of things.

(Or, Wei Changze tries to get used to a life where he is both the father and son of the exact same person, and Cangse Sanren is just loving being the most un-Lan Lan to ever live).

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Title: drawn to the blood  💜

Author: darkredloveknot

Universe: Post Canon

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen

Length: Long  (5+K)

Summary:

Jiang Cheng pondered for a moment if he felt worse about having to save Lan Wangji, or if Lan Wangji felt worse about having to be saved by him.

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Comments:

He had realized something last night, and it had pissed him off: the similarity of their hatred.

Jiang Cheng hated Wei Wuxian for causing his sister’s death, while Lan Wangji hated Jiang Cheng for causing Wei Wuxian’s. It was a circle, a cycle of cause and effect, of misunderstandings and accidents, guilt and blame and anger.

Looking at it from a distance, it seemed so pointless. He knew why he’d done what he did; had walked those familiar paths of emotion many a time. Losing a sibling was a pain that had driven him forward on that path, towards that cliff, unavoidable and horrible.

But his revenge had cost him his only other sibling.

He spoke into the wind as they rode towards the mountains.

“Sometimes… I wish I had stood with him. It might’ve made for a different story.”

He hadn’t expected an answer, lost to fever and hurt as he was. But Lan Wangji spoke in a whisper from where his head slumped against Jiang Cheng’s shoulder.

“I have my regrets, too.”

“You tried.”

A slow sigh.

“We both failed to save someone that night.”

“But you got yours back,” he couldn’t help but breathe, the wind stinging in his eyes.

“I am sorry.”

Jiang Cheng nodded, tightening his grip when the other seemed close to slipping. Lan Wangji licked his dry lips, struggling around a question.

“…Jiang Wanyin. Do you wish he had not returned?”

Closing his eyes for a moment, Jiang Cheng felt something inside of him give in.

“I’ve never wished that.”