it goes like this by moonsteps
T, 15k, wangxian, background sangcheng
Summary: Jiang Cheng is staring at him with wide eyes. “You met your soulmate today and didn’t tell me?”
Wei Wuxian stops. “What?” he asks, not quite understanding. “What are you talking about? No, I didn’t?”
“You idiot,” Jiang Cheng spits, holding his hand out to point directly at Wei Wuxian’s wrist. “Your timer!”
Wei Wuxian’s eyes dart down, and his heart stops.
(Or, Wei Wuxian finds that he has no idea who his soulmate is. Enter Lan Wangji, resident unapproachable genius, who suddenly requests to be his lab partner.)
My comments: This is delightful, and also, so funny, because wwx is such an idiot. I should get quotes about the soulmates, but jiang cheng kept butting in, shouting, and it totally reminded me of Austin Powers and the whole sharks with lasers on their heads and the kid yelling to instead, ‘just fucking SHOOT them NOW’… and that was jiang cheng through this whole story.
Excerpt 1: “You know,” Jiang Cheng says, “what I find funny is the fact that you’re more interested in finding out who Lan Wangji’s soulmate is than finding out who your own soulmate is.”
“Shut up,” Wei Wuxian hisses. “I’m just annoyed.”
“Why, because you’re so painstakingly jealous of yourself?”
Jiang Cheng snorts, spooning his tofu pudding into his mouth. “Sure you’re not. Keep telling yourself that.”
“And I’m not jealous!” Wei Wuxian argues, slapping his palm down onto the table and making it rattle slightly under the pressure.
Jiang Cheng delicately raises an eyebrow, and Wei Wuxian feels a strong urge to rip his face off.
“Okay,” Jiang Cheng says. “Sure. You’re not jealous.” He flattens his forehead lines. “Actually, that’s even more funny than you not realizing that you’re Lan Wangji’s soulmate.”
“Because I’m not his soulmate!” Wei Wuxian says. He’s kind of over this whole thing, if he’s being completely honest.
(He is, in fact, not over this whole thing.)
“Okay,” Jiang Cheng says, “but you wish you were.”
Excerpt 2: “Enough!” Jiang Cheng bellows. “Are you fucking blind?”
“Don’t be rude!” Wei Wuxian says. “I’m trying to enlighten you! I’m trying to explain my thought process about this whole thing!”
“You fucking idiot,” Jiang Cheng says, throwing his arms up into the air. “You’re the fucking soulmate! Are you serious right now? I can’t believe you called me over for this dumb shit—”
“I’m not!” Wei Wuxian says. “If I was his soulmate, Lan Zhan would have told me already!”
“Even I wouldn’t tell you if I was your soulmate if you were being like this!”
modern au, soulmates, college/university au, soulmate-identifying timers, humor, fluff, oblivious wei wuxian, jealous wei wuxian, drunk lan wangji, idiots in love, side sangcheng, long-suffering lan wangji, long-suffering jiang cheng, angry jiang cheng, light angst, pining, brotherly feels, hilarity, sangcheng have their shit together, unlike wangxian, bless their hearts, fluff, @biqings
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