Canon divergence where Lan Wangji get's his usual crush on Wei Wuxian from there first encounter on the roof and is drifting closer to his orbit— not very intentionally and he kinda hates himself for it because obv wwx is a trouble maker and the concept of him developing a crush on anyone is too fat for him to so quickly wrap his mind around it. But he can't help himself from seeking/being in any way closer to wwx.
He thinks he's being discreet but cue wwx who takes notice of this after Jiang Cheng offhandedly points it out sassisly right after they had run into lwj around the training grounds for the nth time and wwx had teased him about always being around the training grounds but never training along with mere small fries like them. Lwj had given him a look glanced at jc and left.
Wwx thought it was cute. Jc not so much.
Jc, rolling his eyes after third wheeling silently: don't you think we have been running into him an awful lot recently?
Wwx: huh? I mean…..uh.. it's the Lan sect shidi! If not the second young master Lan who else would we come across around here??
Jiang Cheng gave him a side eye and rolled his eyes again before increasing his pace and leaving wwx behind. Wwx chased after him uncaring of breaking the Lan rules in favour of shouting ‘shidi! shidi! shidi!’ And thinking of what annoyed his little shidi now.
Later when he layed in bed late at night, insomnia kicking him in the arse, tossing and turning and thissss close to getting up to fetch himself a drink. His thoughts drift to jyl and he groans annoyedly tossing to the other side. Aghhhh he can really do with a bowl of his shijie’s lotus soup rn.
He closes his eyes with a huff thoughts mulling over and bumping into eo. Like alw they drift back to JC. He snorts remembering how he almost got even jc out of lan Quiren's class tdy but that prick instead of thanking him for doing him such a favour instead yelled at him after the class. Which was okay but what's with ignoring him for the rest of the evening? It wasn't like he actually got the other kicked out! Almost but not actually!
He was ignored until there encounter of lwj by the training grounds. Hmm… lwj….jc said that they have been running into him often…hmmm….now that he unbiasedly thinks about it, yeah, yeah they have been.
He opens his eyes and turn around to lay flat on his back, narrowing his eyes at the ceiling. His mind replayes all the times they have run into lwj and it's surprisingly a lot in a short time. He mulls over the memories and suddenly a realisation strucks him so hard he sits up eyes wide and jaw agap.
The discreet glances, the red ears, the avoiding eye contact.
Yes, exactly. How has he been so blind? How did he never notice before?
the second jade of gusu, the second young master lan, the #2 desired guy on the ladder had a crush on his shidi
