Fic Promo: Just The Way You Are by real_ghost and wayofcloudbrain
Fandom: MDZS/The Untamed Relationship(s): Lan Xichen/Meng Yao (main pairing) Lan Xichen/various other male characters (casual), Meng Yao/Nie Mingjue (past), Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue (past), many many background pairings Rating: E Wordcount: 85k and counting Status: posting in progress
🌇 alternate universe: modern setting (but it’s actually an alternate universe) 🌇 slowburn: tfw you’ve found the man of your dreams but you’re both messed up and your timing sucks 🌇 pining (and also sleeping around) while cohabitating 🌇 come for the xiyao, stay for the epic sprawl of sideplots and background characters (we love everyone so everyone is here)
Summary:
Yes. Yes, A-Yao is staying in his ex’s best friend’s apartment while said best friend is on an impromptu skiing trip with said ex because said ex needs to clear his thick fucking head. No, Mingjue doesn’t know that A-Yao is crashing at Xichen’s and ideally he will never find out. In the wake of a break-up that affects more than only the ex-boyfriends, Lan Xichen revaluates his life choices and is thrown headfirst into an identity crisis. In his utter lack of direction, he unsuccessfully tries to distract himself with dating of varying degrees of seriousness. Meanwhile, Meng Yao – recently hired as tech mogul Wen Ruohan’s personal assistant at Nevernight Games – is planning to pull himself up by a pair of bootstraps that he is pretty sure he’ll have to shoplift first. On this small artificial island in the Pacific Ocean, everybody knows everybody and everybody’s gotta go through it. It’s a whole mess.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26602150/chapters/64860505
Main story of JTWYA-Verse (see series for many more extras and oneshot spin-offs)
