Jun 10, 2023
Jiāng Chéng ♥ Wēn Qíng || Я слишком поздно, ты слишком рано.
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Jiāng Chéng ♥ Wēn Qíng || Я слишком поздно, ты слишком рано.
green sleeves growing cold
by mistergoblin
G, 17k, wangxian
Summary: Something flickers in dark eyes. A responding lick of flame. Lan Wangji cannot put a name to it — but it angers him, angers him as does the small satisfied curl to Wei Wuxian’s mouth, as does the shameless pout which replaces it.
Lan Wangji cannot understand him.
Lan Wangji cannot control him.
Lan Wangji is going to be driven mad.
(In which, to keep her son safe, Madam Lan creates a curse)
Excerpt: ‘Why don’t you want to be touched, Lan Zhan?’
Lan Wangji blinks. Struggles to parse through his tone, his meaning. It was seriously intended this time, he thinks; an honest question. Not something meant to unsettle him. He cannot think of a reason not to answer, though Wei Ying still does not look at him.
‘Don’t.’ Lan Wangji breathes in softly through the haze, thinks of a soundless memory — ice glittering on Xichen’s far smaller hand, rounded by childhood. Startled fear flashing through his widened eyes. ‘Want to hurt anyone.’
Wei Ying’s fingers stop.
‘What?’
The word manages, barely, to travel through the mist pressing upon Lan Wangji’s ears. Its meaning does not. Lan Wangji cannot connect it to a previous idea, cannot recall what the previous idea was. Can only sit motionlessly in the eddying numbing haze which encompasses him, and try not to disturb it further. It is dizzying enough already.
‘Lan Zhan, what are you talking about? What do you mean, hurt? Who would you hurt?’
Wei Ying’s face is close, suddenly, features a little twisted — as if concerned — but Lan Wangji cannot think about that. Can only think about close and curse and hurt.
With a wordless sound of displeasure, he turns away. ‘Don’t,’ he says, the word strange and small in his ears. ‘Don’t.’
There is a pause, and then a whisper.
‘Okay. Okay, Lan Zhan, I won’t. I won’t touch you any more, I promise.’
fairy tale au, canon divergence, cql verse, curses, touch aversion curse, skin hunger, touch starved, touch aversion, light angst, fluff, jealousy & misunderstandings, miscommunication, pining, POV lan wangji, repressed lan wangji, touch starved lan wangji, shameless wei wuxian, students at cloud recesses, first kiss, falling in love, getting together, slow burn, sloooow burn, jealous wei wuxian, happy ending, true love
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green sleeves growing cold
Author: mistergoblin
Length: One shot, 17k
Rating: G
Genre: Canon divergence au, fluff
Summary:
Something flickers in dark eyes. A responding lick of flame. Lan Wangji cannot put a name to it — but it angers him, angers him as does the small satisfied curl to Wei Wuxian’s mouth, as does the shameless pout which replaces it.
Lan Wangji cannot understand him.
Lan Wangji cannot control him.
Lan Wangji is going to be driven mad.
(In which, to keep her son safe, Madam Lan creates a curse)
So I'm not going to spoil for you, bcs it does come later, but lwj in here is cursed. Not that much, not that harming, but it is something. No war au, cql verse and yes, maybe, fairy tale elements, it's from lwj's pov and it's soft and beautiful in an easy way. A nice to read one shot when you aren't looking for anything heavy, serious, or long. Just, a healing short read for yourself? It's engaging in all the good and light ways.
Read here
I very vaguely remember hearing somewhere that there were more than just 2 untamed movies in the works? Is that true or just a rumor? I can't find the source anymore
AU in which CQL!Lan Wangji DOES stand with Wei Wuxian
.A glimpse of Dark!Lan Wangji reveals himself when the Yiling Laozu loses the will to live after Jiang Yanlie dies and from the accumulated stress. Wei Wuxian never gets the chance to head for that jagged cliff, Lan Wangji knocks him out. He makes a run for it leaving the Cultivators to whomever is manipulating events. Because he is done.
.(This finally clues Lan Zichen in because he knows his brother and this behavior is abnormal in the extreme. This also sparks suspicion in Nue Hueisang...which will become full blown revenge scheming when Nie Mingjue dies.)
.Lan Wangji goes first to Yiling and nearly loses his shit after finding a hidden, malnourished and badly soiled Wen Yuan. The child has open sores and infections developed from laying in his own feces for several days. He cleans Wen Yuan up and, still with an unresponsive WWX, sets off again knowing staying in one place too long is not good.
.He stumbles across Xiao Xingchen who is already blind at this point. XXC's heard of the Sunshot Campaign AND what came after. XXC figured out that WWX is his Shijie's child long after they met. He rushed back but thought he was too late.
.The two struggle to keep WY and WWX in the world of the living.
.In one of LWJ's exhaustive searches for spirit grass to make into medication and salves he runs into Luo Qingyang aka Mianmian. At the same time random Cultivators recognize LWJ and attacks, meaning to take him back to Gusu Lan and receive handsome rewards for finding him.
.Before MM could do anything to help, Dark!LWJ's already taken cared of it. He does not hold back. He nearly destroys their Golden Core if not for MM reminding him that WWX would probably not like what he's doing. He cripples them instead. Permanently.
.He asks if MM would like to join their haphazard Flight To Somewhere Safe? With one more person joining the team they're able to stabilize A-Yuan, leaving only WWX still in a disassociated mess.
.When it's XXC's turn to go out, MM goes with him. They separate outside of an unnamed city and she finds Song Zichen. XXC is robbed by A-Qing and he pretty much adopts her on the spot. They all meet again to go back with precious people and materials they've gathered. (A-Qing only comes along to be close to XXC, let's be real.)
.LWJ and SZC take turns next to go out and get supplies. They run across a heavily injured Xue Yang. They bring him back because SZC is still righteous even if LWJ is slipping slowly away. XY, bluntly called a perpetual Work in Progress by LWJ, is beside himself with glee at being in the same place as XXC.
.LWJ has no qualms about using XY like a coal canary to sense if he fucked something up beyond repair with demonic Cultivation when trying to reach WWX's traumatized mind.
.SZC hasn't forgotten what the little twerp has done and is adamant that XY's not allowed to wander freely, either. (XY has deity binding rope cuffs around his wrists making him unable to lift anything heavier than his shoes as a result.)
.XY respects exactly no one and continues trying to murder people until Dark!LWJ has had enough. No one is sure what happened but XY is now scared shitless of LWJ. It doesn't stop XY's murderous tendencies (LWJ isn't always around) but no one actually gets murdered despite XY's increasingly fantastic attempts.
.Lan Wangji realizes he inadvertently created a sect. He shrugs when everyone came together to figure out how to go from there/label their Sect. No one can agree. So he calls them all annoying and wishy washy, and now they are Whatever Sect because Suibian the sword is dearly missed by LWJ.
.And that's his story and he's sticking to it.
.LWJ may be the founder but XXC and SZC are the "face" of the Sect. Bless them both, they are trying to be proper, responsible role models for the kids but...yeah.
.MM is Head Disciple with an iron-clad discipline. She's also an unrepentant prankster with a particular gift towards the Chord Assassination technique. She likes creating deadly, layered traps catered specifically towards XY to see how quick he is on his feet. Or maybe she just likes making him jump on command.
.A-Yuan is very capable, ruthless and will end you with a single look from LWJ but is also fair. His grasp of the Qin language is second only to LWJ, delicate and insidious. He can turn the unwary into his puppets with it. Sometimes will take pity on XY and give him vague hints on what the day or night or next turn around the corner has in store for him. Mostly he's off taking care of WWX if LWJ isn't able to or taking care of LWJ whenever be can sneak in the chance.
.A-Qing has zero interest in Cultivation despite her talents. She does it grudgingly because it makes XXC and SZC happy. She also teams up with MM to torment XY on occasion.
.XY couldn't give two shits about learning even more crap but likes showing off his more bizarre abilities. He's also exhausted from being. On. Guard. All. The. Time. He really hasn't had the chance to cause much mischief. Not that it's going to stop him from trying his damnedest.
.On one of XY's escape attempts he ends up literally falling atop Mo Xuanyu. They nearly scare the life out of each other. Hot on XY's heels are A-Yuan, A-Qing and MM. They drag Mo Xuanyu back to their Sect when they noticed that he's actually incredibly, intuitively, talented with demonic Cultivation. LWJ is gonna wanna know about this kid. (LWJ instantly has MXY help out with WWX.)
.Well, that and every time they run into MXY he seems to be ignored, being abused/bullied or bullying others. The kids reason that they can give as good as he gives. So they should be his opponent/buddies instead.
.XY and MXY get along like a house on fire. Of course.
.XY is v disgusted that MXY is similarly gifted as MM towards the Chord Assassination technique. MXY is surprised to realize he's useful and others, like the eerie Hanguang-Jun (Did he take a vow of silence?!?!) actually values his input.
.A-Yuan and A-Qing keeps trying to befriend XY in their own way. XY has no idea what that's about and for once in his adult life is horrified. (Also A-Yuan is LWJ's son. XY's not interested in becoming bait of any kind ever again, courtesy of a calmly furious LWJ during that one time kthnxbai.) He'd rather be trussed up like a pig to be roasted then endure their attempts at...whatever they're trying to do.
.He spends a lot of time trying to get away and maybe, sort of, teaches everyone how to hunt down wily prey. AKA humans. XXC also teaches them, including a startled XY, how to survive if one or more of their senses are no longer working. Combined this makes the kids elusive and self sufficient when they're finally allowed to venture out. (And terrifyingly effective spies/assassins.) Not that XY and MXY needed much help in that department but the self discipline and patience forcefully taught was...needed.
.The Sect offers reading and writing classes. They start to host all kinds of teachers and scholars, workshops and exercises. They invite wilderness survival guests who take whoever wants to live off the land and not worry about farming into the forests to basket makers and monks. They elevate aged farmers and lonely elders in the area into teachers who impart their hard won, real life wisdom to newbie farmers or anyone interested.
.Not everyone likes this. Lots of classism, racism and sexism comes into play. The Sect does its best to stand by XXC's shining ideals and personal warmth but often fall short. They are human after all.
.The area they sort-of settled in suffers massive natural disasters. They end up becoming lifelines to many rural folks. This goes a long way to settle ruffled feathers. They are still considered "outsiders" by the village bigots and those who are scared of change but they are less vocal. Mostly those types died out though.
.(Most of the Jianghu and Cultivation world are still unaware that LWJ and WWX are with them. Or even alive.) They organize the displaced folks when lawlessness breaks out due to a combination of famine, disease and general human misery.
.This further endears them to the people of this area. The Sect is hidden in plain sight by then.
.Some years down the road MM falls in love, her beloved gets thoroughly interrogated by everyone. She reveals exactly what she is, part of a "bad/evil" sect, to him but it doesn't matter. He accepts all of her.
.They have a child.
.This infant is introduced to WWX, as part of a now established tradition.
.WWX slightly, briefly responds. LWJ comes to life.
.WWX fully awakens when MXY casually mentions the Ghost General still exists... tortured and trapped.
@weiwuxiian submitted:
Wei Wuxian learned how to watch for the twitching of muscles, the lines that formed in Lan Zhan’s face for each expression he makes and right now, he wants nothing more than to see a smirk tug at the corner of those lips, proof that Lan Zhan was joking. ❝Aren’t you coming, Lan Zhan?❞ but he wasn’t. The smile falls from his face, mixed between disbelief and a pang of realization; Lan Zhan’s face looked as serious as before—the calm sensation that brought no falsehood, feeling the silent toiling of a storm, one that didn’t belong to Lan Zhan, but to him, Wei Wuxian, and his vague imagery of a future without the Gusu Leader by his side.
It’s the first time he’s truly alone. Wei Wuxian did not remember having no hand to hold, no voice for company, no silhouette to look at every sunrise. But he saw the serious look on Lan Zhan’s face once more and knew that he definitely wasn’t joking.
The tidal waves are retreating and it’s like a natural phenomenon that could not be controlled. Wei Wuxian smiles, says his name one more time, says goodbye, and turns on his back.
-o0o-
The days start to slow down. Without a companion by his side, the sun rose slower and sank slower, the nights were even longer than those of winter. Time seemed to stop, and he feels trapped in a limbo that had no beginning or end. Once, he sketches on paper what he decides to do in the future, and finds that neither goals on his wishlist were jobs for a single man.
That is until he’s heard of the new Chief Cultivator’s name.
-o0o-
❝Lan Zhan, who knew you would audition for Chief Cultivation. But Lan Xiandu—-hmmm, that has a nice ring!❞ He doesn’t remember how long it has been since he smiled so freely, the corner of his lips almost reaching his eyes and he doesn’t feel tired holding them up. The tides withdraw, but they came rolling back fiercely like a lion’s roar.
Wei Wuxian feels happy for him—he truly does—it does not take much to express why he thought so. ❝I’m glad you found something meaningful to do in your life.❞ Even if his plans did not include him. A new chapter in the book would begin, without the smudges and stains of its previous chapters. Wei Wuxian wondered briefly how large a stain he’s qualified of before raises a hand to give Lan Zhan a pat—-yet he stops, wondered again if he could perhaps…
❝Meet once a month?❞ it’s bold of him to ask, but he’s been thick-skinned before and this doesn’t compare to anything he’s done prior to this. He puts on an act, confident and stalwart, but his rosy cheeks threaten to ruin his facade. ❝We can walk around Yiling for a while and eat around Caiyi town later, one day a month. That wouldn’t be too bad, would it…❞ he catches himself, wondering if he’s interfering with Lan Zhan’s most likely now busy schedule. ❝If not, once a year is also fine!!❞ Like the story behind the Qixi Festival, he thinks. It wasn’t so bad.
Lan Zhan is beginning a new chapter, and that chapter doesn’t have him in it. However, Wei Wuxian doesn’t mind one bit.
Aren’t you coming, Lan Zhan?
How could he refuse him? How could he say no? Especially when he asked like it was a rhetorical question? Like the question was a reminder that he was lagging behind, and that he should stop reminiscing at the distant past because there was so much to look forward to together...
As Wei Wuxian had slowly turned around and searched his stony face, his eyes, anything for a sign that he was about to rejoin him at his side, Lan Wangji felt the vessel of his heart crack. The joy and fulfillment that collected within over the months slipped away, leaving him chilled.
Not together. He sees understanding dawn in Wei Wuxian’s face: he’s waiting for him to admit his jest. When that doesn’t happen, he knows he’s waiting for an explanation. But Lan Wangji doesn’t so much as blink, as though he’s willing him to recall words from another time as explanation. It felt like another lifetime, but the adventure they had just went on revived the commitment they made to their wishes so long ago.
How could he explain that he didn’t feel comfortable leaving? There was too much left undone: his brother, the Sect Leader, was deep in shock and would likely need his help. There would be a vacuum in the Lanling Jin Sect with their next Sect Leader too young to rule autonomously. Both very important factors leading to a larger problem - there was no Chief Cultivator to regulate matters, and any possible viable candidates were unsuitable for such a position. Jiang Wanyin was tempestuous, and Nie Huaisang had a potential for duplicity if he even desired such a role.
As deeply as he wished to leave the known world behind for a while to satisfy what he longed for... he simply could not knowingly walk away.
But the words were impossible to say to him, and the longer he maintained his silence, the harder he wished his thoughts could simply be understood.
‘This is not the end - do not say goodbye.'
But even words so simple as that were impossible to say, and they go unspoken. In the end, he watched Wei Ying vanish down the path into the trees while he remains in the road.
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Lan Wangji could pick the precise moment when he knew that it had to be him. What frightened him was how he could not think of a single reason why it shouldn’t be him. He ought to have balked at the weight of responsibility that came with the title of Chief Cultivator, and though he was uncertain at being responsible for multiple sects while having only informal experience at being aide to Sect Leaders, Lan Wangji knew this was it: this was the only way to make things better.
After all, if he didn’t do this, then why did he choose to stay behind while Wei Wuxian went on?
~~~~
He understands Wei Wuxian well. He knows his sincerity is genuine, and the smile in his face and spark of life in his eyes is heartfelt and real. It warms Lan Wangji, and the corners of his own lips lift in response. It has been so long since he felt this way, like winter thawing to spring.
There’s something deep in the other’s thoughts - he can see it as a small push and pull in everything he does and says. Wei Wuxian is holding back. He suggests meeting once a month, but then walks it back to say once a year - like legends of ill-fated paramours. Is he deferring so much out of respect for his new title, or is he minimizing himself? It reminds him of the way he blinked at him back then on the road after asking if he was going to join him.
Once a month was too frequent to promise at this time. He was still feeling out the position and the state its predecessor left it in, and he had yet to enact his visions or make necessary appointments. But Wei Wuxian’s other suggestion - once a year - was far too infrequent for his liking. It had been jarring to part from him after traveling closely following his resurrection. And if he allowed himself to be selfish, then his duties might suffer.
“At least once a season,” he negotiates, something he has been improving upon since taking up the mantle of Chief Cultivator. “Yiling, Caiyi, Yunmeng, anywhere... I will meet you.”
He doesn’t say that this isn’t how things always will be. He doesn’t say that one day he will restore faith in the title of Chief Cultivator, and then renounce his position to another truly worthy and deserving of it. He doesn’t say that one day, he will be able to say ‘I am coming.’
One day, this chapter would end. But until then, all Lan Wangji could think of what he might say was simply ‘Wait for me.’
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