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Title: Marital Prospects 🤍✨
Author: Vamillepudding ( @vamillepudding )
Universe: Canon Divergence
Jin Ling's birth is the happiest occasion of Jin Zixuan's life. But every gold spoon has some rust: Wei Wuxian has taken up residence too. However, Jin Zixuan has a fool-proof plan to get Wei Wuxian out of his life for good: he's going to find him a spouse. And he's got the perfect person in mind: Nie Mingjue.
Lan Wangji has resigned himself to losing the love of his life without saying a word.
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“You know,” Lan Xichen says, taking a sip from his tea and grimacing almost imperceptibly at the taste, “I believe this is the first time I’ve ever been called to deal with Wangji’s behaviour.” He pauses to sip his tea again, a twinkle in his eyes. “It is very thrilling.”
Nie Mingjue, who has been called to deal with Nie Huaisang’s behaviour more times than he can count, can’t relate. But Xichen looks so honestly pleased that he can’t begrudge him this, even though Gusu Lan Sect is a mystery.
“So what has my brother done?” Lan Xichen asks, and Nie Mingjue takes a moment to think about what a difficult question this is. Then he thinks, screw it. Lan Wangji lost his right to privacy the moment he was born as a sibling.
“Oh,” Lan Xichen says, much later, his tea long grown cold. “Oh, my. That’s – that is rather unfortunate, isn’t it?”
“Don’t take it too hard,” Nie Mingjue advises. “At least Wangji only thinks Wei-gongzi is engaged.”
“Engaged to you,” Lan Xichen points out politely.
“Yes, but look at it this way: you’ve never caught your brother writing explicit love letters, have you?”
There’s a pause. Lan Xichen looks faintly pained. “There have been –songs.”
They’re sitting very closely together, and just now, Nie Mingjue put a hand on Wei Wuxian’s arm.
“-visit me in Qinghe,” Nie Mingjue is saying. “I can show you my blade collection.”
“You should,” Zewu-jun jumps in, like he’s been waiting for a reason to. “I’ve seen it. It’s very impressive. Quite big, too.”
“The biggest,” Nie Mingjue says.
At the other end of the table, Lan Wangji breaks a glass.
“I would love to! I already promised your brother a visit, so we can combine the two! I’m looking forward to it, Chifeng-zun.”
“Please,” Nie Mingjue says, and lets his hand travel further up, until it lands on Wei Wuxian’s shoulder. “Call me Mingjue.”
From the corner of his eye, Jin Zixuan can see that Lan Wangji has just walked out, but there are more important things to focus on.
The next step, he knows, is to get Jiang Wanyin in on this plan.
If you wanna read about bad matchmaking, jealous!LWJ, and NMJ & LXC being awesome, then read this fic. The humor is fantastic and an instant mood lifter!
