The stars in hazy heaven tremble above you
Author: cicer
Length: Multi chapter, (completed)
Rating: G
Genre: (loosely) Cinderella AU
Additional tags: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Jiāng Yànlí Wēn Qíng Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī Niè Huáisāng Niè Míngjué Alternate Universe - Fantasy Alternate Universe - Cinderella Fusion Mutual Pining Background NMJ/LXC background JC/NHS
Summary
Wei Ying first hears about the ball over dinner.
"They're trying to marry off Second Prince," Fourth Uncle says, through a mouthful of stew. "There is going to be a ball, for all the gentry." "Everybody who's rich and titled, who's got a son or daughter the right age, will be invited. Second Prince will pick someone out."
"He's probably very stuffy and full of himself!" Wei Ying snorts. "I pity whoever has to marry him!"
(In which Wei Ying, a fugitive from justice, sneaks into the palace, steals from the imperial family, and eats his words.
AKA, yet another Cinderella AU.)
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First: I love this author. All of their works are begging to be read. Second: this, in typical wwx fashion, is about wwx doing something he shouldn't be doing in the first place. Then (obviously) making the cold and not-wanting-to-marry second prince fall in love with himself. While he's a hidden fugitive robbing people who came to ask for the said prince's hand. It's soft, and beautiful and so so sweet. Dream fic we all need sometimes? We even have yunmeng sibs legally protecting their long lost brother and the wens, normal jiang cheng feels, and of course a stubborn prince and a nice story.