Theatre: Red Strings of Fate Found Modern AU[Part Two]
Chu Wanning x Male Reader x Mo Ran
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Ranwan smut. Mo Ran’s childhood. Student/Professor Relationship. Chu Wanning and Mo Ran's life before meeting the other.
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Modern Au Mo Ran has always been afraid of the dark since childhood. He remembered after the burning of the illegal prostitute operation's main site, he struggled free before the police could get there. The smoke was inhaled into his lungs, which made him feel dizzy with every step as he attempted to walk away through the dark alleyway.
His fear of the dark was there.
He does not have a choice. That was the only way out.
The main entrance would catch too much attention. He was the only one alive out of this massacre; everyone else died because of him. He didn’t know that the fire would have grown out of control.
He tripped on a rock. He attempts to pull his weak and exhausted form up before collapsing once more; that was when he saw a young man who held out his hand to the fallen teen. His head has two floating red strings, of which one connects to the man in front of him. The warm hand grabs onto his cold one, pulling him up from the ground.
Appearing like an angel from heaven, pulling him up from his darkness.
“Are you okay?”
Before Mo Ran could respond, Chu Wanning was forcibly pulled away by the adult that accompanied him.
“Wanning, he got germs. Don’t go near him!”
He didn’t mind being called dirty; the moment of warmth from the hand lasted a lifetime in his memory even if it was brief.
It took a while, but fortunately, everything worked out in the end. With time and patience, (Y/N) opened up to both Mo Ran and Chu Wanning. The invisible wall between Chu Wanning and (Y/N) crumbled as they got used to each other’s presence. The trio’s relationship has improved, and trust has been gained through mutual understanding and respect. While Mo Ran still has the habit of getting handsy every now and then, it is manageable.
(Y/N)’s perspective of love has already greatly changed. Love is not as black as he thought it was. It’s a matter of finding the perfect partners. While it would be rare for anyone to do that, it is still possible with time and patience.
There were moments where Mo Ran would compare this life with his childhood life, the warmth contrasting with the cold. Mo Ran wondered what would have happened if the other man hadn’t pulled Chu Wanning away. Maybe Mo Ran would have formed connections much earlier on.
Both Chu Wanning and Mo Ran were able to see those red strings of fate even before they met; neither of them knew the meaning behind it at that time other than that they were connected in some type of form.
Before meeting Chu Wanning, Mo Ran was a baby who got left in front of the door of an orphanage. From then on, Mo Ran has been living in an orphanage with the rest of the kids for years. Mo Ran never ended well in the orphanage, always escaping his foster homes and the orphanage to go adventuring.
He wanted to explore the meaning behind the red strings. Did it mean body counts? No. That’s not possible since he has had those two red strings connected to him since childhood. He also noticed something off since most people only have one red string, strangely enough he has two.
The desire to figure it out. Never once was it successful, as the red strings seemed endless as they continued to stretch out for miles. Mo Ran attempted to go further; every single time he was caught and brought back to the orphanage.
One day, Mo Ran got adopted once more with a few other orphan kids by the same woman. She guided them into the prostitution institution, where they were stripped bare and bathed thoroughly before being put into tank tops that exposed their frail little arms and cheap pants. The place was filled with the smell of incense from day till night. The kids roam the illegal business with clients staring at their small forms with lust and desire.
Mo Ran made a couple of young friends there. He was like a big brother to them. However, he has his limits. Once he got into a fight with a male client trying to take advantage of a younger boy, only to be the one badly beaten and locked up in a dark room with no light. Those moments contributed to his fear of the smell of incense and the dark.
One thing he knows is that he must escape. He planned it out.
He set the fire at the busiest time of the place, and the fire spread wildly. He locks out all the entrances other than the back door one leading to the alleyway. At the time that the fire started, Mo Ran rushed to find the others.
The sounds of screaming, clothes ripping, and sizzling were all echoing in his ear.
Everything was in chaos. Mo Ran rushed to the empty kitchen, grabbing a knife until he was caught red-handed by the brothel madam’s son, the son of the woman who brought him here in the first place. The boy was hiding in the kitchen. Mo Ran has never had a good relationship with his son, especially after the incident where Mo Nian attempts to force a kid to serve a client sexually.
That night ended with the deafening screams until the fire reached a peak that Mo Ran couldn't handle, leading to him finally running out. He dropped the blood-stained knife into the fire.
That was also the night he met one of his fated ones. The next person he saw after he awakened from his unconsciousness was an anxious man in a suit. The man asks about what happened to the brothel; Mo Ran only gives him small details. Excluding the part where he killed the madam and his son. The man connected the dots together before Mo Ran’s wakening and was able to find the bloody knife with the fingerprints before the police did.
In order to get the rewards, he took a risk, and from then on, Mo Ran became the nephew of the principal of the infamous Sisheng University. Mo Ran's intended special class sessions within the university teach him the basics from elementary to university level. It took a long while for Mo Ran to absorb all that information, followed by his short attention span; everything still worked out in the end.
Mo Ran figured out that the red strings mean fated lovers, while still bewildered that there were two. To him, it was somewhat of a hassle. He wonders whether that means he should stay loyal to the strings once he finds his fated lovers; therefore, he decided to have some extra years of ‘fun’ while it lasted.
In the fifth year, a new university teacher for the history course visited, attracting multiple students with his looks, until he drove nearly more than two-thirds of the students away with his sharp attitude.
Mo Ran has no desire to get a degree in history until he notices that he and the new professor, Chu Wanning, are connected by a red string. He wonders if Chu Wanning was the same person who saved him or the other fated lover. He decided to apply for the university history course to figure it out. By the end of the day when the classroom was empty, leaving only Chu Wanning and him inside, he went to ask and got the answer.
Chu Wanning was indeed the man who saved him.
“Did you go looking for me?” Mo Ran asks. Chu Wanning could see those red strings of fate as well, nonetheless he said that despite that, he wasn’t the reason why he applied here.
Mo Ran doubts that he wasn’t the reason. He must have been the reason since, out of all the universities Chu Wanning could apply for his job at, it was his university of all places. Mo Ran chose to allow Chu Wanning to keep his dignity verbally, not wanting to burst his bubble too soon.
While Chu Wanning knows that Mo Ran is one of his fated lovers, he treats Mo Ran the exact same as the rest of the students, much to Mo Ran’s dismay. Those ‘after sessions’ are what made them grow closer, and the issue of being treated the same slowly changed as Chu Wanning began to view Mo Ran in a way more than a student.
In the beginning of their forbidden relationship, one of the most outrageous requests that Mo Ran made was for Chu Wanning to use a small vibrator during his lecture and give Mo Ran the control. Only to be turned down due to how improper and dangerous that would be in exposing their relationship. That did not stop Mo Ran from pressing Chu Wanning against the class podium and making love to him each time the session ended.
He would press his hand down on Chu Wanning’s stomach so that Chu Wanning could feel every inch being pounded into him.
It is his special way to say ‘Thank you’ for Chu Wanning’s good teaching. To relax Chu Wanning’s body and make him an overstimulated mess afterward. Sometimes his seeds would trickle down between Chu Wanning’s legs due to the obscene amount, but nothing a couple of tissues could not fix, or he’ll just force the seeds back into Chu Wanning and stay inside till the seeds remain in their spot.
He is thankful for Chu Wanning’s fearsome reputation in the university, meaning that most after-class sessions are only between him and Chu Wanning.
In those couple of years, Mo Ran and Chu Wanning were both hesitant to take another lover since Chu Wanning was both tired and satisfied from Mo Ran’s constant fucking. Chu Wanning doesn’t know whether it would be that easy for the other person to accept him too. Mo Ran isn’t the best at sharing things either. He wonders what if Chu Wanning favors the other over him after they meet.
Although Chu Wanning insisted that he will continue to love him, Mo Ran was still hesitant to meet the other person. And it remained as that for the following years, with Mo Ran failing Chu Wanning’s class a couple of times, forcing a few of the sex sessions to turn into lecture sessions before finally passing.
At the end of the day, Mo Ran would still wait outside the door of the lectures even when his time with Chu Wanning academically was over, carrying a bag of snacks. Watching as the younger students walk out of the room to have Chu Wanning all to himself. Until one night, Mo Ran has a dream about a threesome. It was intense and made him feel aroused upon awakening. He saw Chu Wanning within his dream and another man whose face was blurred out.
That made Mo Ran curious about their other fated partner. And for Chu Wanning’s third-year birthday with Mo Ran, Mo Ran persuaded Chu Wanning to go look for another partner with him. They followed the red string into a cafe. It appears that both Chu Wanning and the other have a sweet tooth, which works perfectly for celebrating Chu Wanning’s birthday.
It was that one dream that made it all happen.
Part one
Part 2.5