#insecure!wwx

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Title: put your heart where your mouth is

Author: protos_metazu_ison

Universe: Post Canon

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen

Length: Epic (20K)

Summary:

Having lost a month's worth of memories might have been fine if Wei Wuxian hadn't managed to forget the part where he and Lan Wangji got engaged. If that was, actually, what happened. He hasn't figured out that part yet.

Recommended by: @shamelesswngxian

Comments:

“Earlier, when I was asking myself why you would take betrothal meetings when you already had me, I concluded it must be because your suitors could live longer than me. Since you were doing it so obviously, I must have been okay with it. I - I am okay with it. You’re so good, Lan Zhan. You deserve to have someone who can keep you company for your whole life.”

At this, Ouyang Zizhen lost all control and blubbered. “Wei-qianbei, please value yourself more!”

There’s amnesia, fake betrothal, pining, misunderstandings, and an insecure!WWX. The juniors are the real MVPs of this story and JC is protective of his bro. This is a fun read!

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Title: Cheap Labor

Author: SakuraKage ( @yilingradishfairy​ )

Universe: Canon Divergence

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen

Length: Middle (4+K)

Summary:

If someone had told him five years ago that, as a grown adult, he would be back in Gusu, copying scrolls in the Library Pavilion voluntarily, Wei Wuxian would have laughed his head off. You couldn’t pay me to come back to the Cloud Recesses, Land of Three Thousand Rules, he would have said. Wei Wuxian was very fortunate that this never occurred, as he had always hated eating his words. Because here he was. Copying scrolls. And getting paid for it.

Recommended by: @shamelesswngxian

Comments:

After WWX gets kicked out of the YMJ sect, he becomes a rogue cultivator. He keeps running into LWJ, who provides him with a business opportunity and WWX takes it readily and enthusiastically. WWX also realizes his feelings for LWJ soon in this fic although he’s too insecure to do anything about it until he, by accident, kind of proposes to LWJ and gets caught by LQR and LXC while at it. This fic is absolutely lovely!

[wangxianfics]

Hi! Do you know of any canon era fics where wwx is poor and feels inferior to lwj??

The only fics with “WWX feeling inferior to LWJ” because he’s poor that come to my mind are these ones: 

a summer day spent in yunmeng catching mice by bosbie (6K, Teen)

(Post-Gusu School Days,Teen!Wangxian, Pining, What-If, Hurt & Comfort, Inferiority Complex, Omniscient Narrator, LWJ in Lotus Pier)

Wei WuXian is tasked by Madam Yu to deal with a recent infestation of mice in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Lan WangJi happens to pass by Lotus Pier.

They help each other.

@giftwrappingpaper

Cheap Labor by SakuraKage (4K, General)

(Canon Divergence, Rogue Cultivator!WWX, Sugar Daddy!LWJ, Insecure!WWX, Getting Together)

If someone had told him five years ago that, as a grown adult, he would be back in Gusu, copying scrolls in the Library Pavilion voluntarily, Wei Wuxian would have laughed his head off. You couldn’t pay me to come back to the Cloud Recesses, Land of Three Thousand Rules, he would have said. Wei Wuxian was very fortunate that this never occurred, as he had always hated eating his words. Because here he was. Copying scrolls. And getting paid for it.

(P.S.: this fic features poor!WWX but his insecurities are more general)

@yilingradishfairy

[wangxianfics]

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Title: a summer day spent in yunmeng catching mice 🐁

Author: bosbie ( @giftwrappingpaper )

Universe: Modern AU

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen

Length: Long  (5+K)

Summary:

Wei WuXian is tasked by Madam Yu to deal with a recent infestation of mice in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Lan WangJi happens to pass by Lotus Pier.

They help each other.

Recommended by: @shamelesswngxian

Comments:

Following the novel canon, after he gets expelled from his studies in the Cloud Recesses, WWX is back in Lotus Pier where Madam Yu keeps reminding WWX he’s only a son of a servant. Getting tasked with getting rid of a mouse infestation, on one such errand WWX meets Lan Wangji passing through Yunmeng. 

The POVs keep shifting between Wangxian and LWJ gets to witness a rare sight of WWX’s insecurities Madam Yu never forgets to contribute to. They spend a day in Lotus Pier together, where LWJ helps WWX with his task.

Something in Lan WangJi had solidified, then. A realization. Something important to keep.

It was an ordinary day, but also a special one. Lan WangJi remembered it, all of it, and would often come back to the memory as years passed and time spent with Wei WuXian became fewer and farther between. A summer day spent in Yunmeng catching mice — a startling truth that sounded like the setup of a joke would become astoundingly precious years later: when Lan WangJi was alone, and the name Wei WuXian was a curse instead of a blessing, and the boy who smiled at him and softly greeted him good morning was a trace of ash carried off by the wind somewhere.

This makes for a bittersweet and beautiful read and if you want to read a story that deals with WWX and his inferiority complex and LWJ visiting Lotus Pier--this fic is for you.