Strange Darling by etymologyplayground
PG | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying | One-shot: 6.7k | Notes: Canon divergence, young Wangji and Wei Ying meet Zichen and XingChen, grief/mourning, intimacy, hair brushing, getting together, miscommunication, Lan Wangji POV
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Summary: "I've been trying not to think about Xiao-xiong and Song-xiong," Wei WuXian confesses. "I didn't know them that well either, but I really liked meeting them. I guess I had known what their deal was before, but to actually meet them was like, Here, idiot, here's two cultivators doing exactly what you want to do! It's possible after all!" Lan WangJi stops breathing. Wei WuXian continues, "I thought then that maybe after everything was over I could…" He stops and clears his throat. Then he admits, "Well, I sort of fantasized about whisking you away from Gusu and convincing you to join their sect with me." "Oh," Lan WangJi breathes. -- you know that part in CQL where they've just met xxc and sl for the first time and lwj watches them leave with the most unbelievably intense yearning in his eyes? you know how that's gonna make yi city EVEN WORSE? yeah








