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Summary: So...what if Madam Lan escaped the Cloud Recesses before ending up to taking her life and Lan Wangji never returned home after retrieving A-Yuan?
This is a story of both how loss and grief change people and what family really means.
Kay's comments: This story was so soft. Loved this version where Mama Lan lived quietly somewhere far away until her son literally crashed back into her arms. I also loved seeing her interactions with the other characters, especially Wen Ning.
Excerpt: The boy watches her as she dons an apron to shield her robes and hesitantly follows her when she makes her way around the house and to the garden in the back. The days are getting warmer but the nights are still cold and there’s a lot to do in the garden. She explains what she does as she goes, inwardly charmed by the attentive look on the boy’s face.
He still doesn’t talk.
”—but I suppose I could always plant you, too,” she says with a small smile. ”My garden grows big and sturdy vegetables. You could grow big and sturdy as well.”
”Radish,” the boy says in an almost whisper.
Xiurong blinks. ”Ah…yes. Like a radish. Are you a small radish or a big radish?”
The boy looks at her, then glances back to the house. ”Mn,” he says.
pov madam lan, canon divergence, thirteen years of wei wuxian's death, lan wangji leaves the gusu lan sect, found family, family reunions, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, fix-it of sorts, post-first siege of the burial mounds, lan wangji/wei wuxian get a happy ending, reconciliation
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