Rewind 2025 - Part III
WangxianFicRecs - Rewind 2025
Part three of our favourite stories published this year! Honestly, I can't wait for 2026 and I'm manifesting some positive vibes here. If I end up losing my job at least that means I have more time to read fic again!
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Night Watch
by Winxhelina (@Winxhelina)
T, 8k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: "Hello, this is the Pier-side Hall complex. There's been an investigation here regarding some extremely volatile hauntings and I am the cultivator currently on Night Watch duty." "Mn. Do you require back up, Wei Ying?" "Lan Zhan?! They put sect heirs on call?!" "I requested it." "Of course you did. Always ready to help. Well, I might actually have something challenging for you for once. Or maybe I'm just getting rusty. We have some extremely angry people on our hands. They are making continuous attempts at my life, none have been successful so far, but I thought -." "I'm on my way." Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji investigate a number of hauntings at a former theatre, music school and concert venue and uncover some unexpected truths.
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my empty room prefers your sound
by redrevery (@redrevery)
T, 3k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Lan Zhan stares at where his hands are curled around the chair, white with tension. Would it be so wrong — so terrible, so earth-shatteringly human, to be vulnerable? “I have been… better,” is what Lan Zhan settles on. “It’s my birthday.”
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Take me back to the night we met
by makexianxianhappytoday
T, 70k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Five years after Wei Wuxian’s death, some people woke in the Cloud Recesses—young again, back at the lectures. One came to stay. One came to change the end. And a third was already waiting. None of them spoke of the past. But it was already unraveling. Inspired by: The night we met - Lord Huron
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when you are near
by redrevery (@redrevery)
T, 29k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: “You’re too good to me, Lan Zhan,” he says as his expression contorts and he hangs his head, trying to hide again. “Not too good. Wei Ying deserves to be happy. To want. To be held when he is sad. I will accept all of Wei Ying.” “Even when I break into your apartment at two in the morning?” “Especially then.” or - wei ying learns of the death of someone he used to know, and it stirred up complicated feelings about his past. he goes to the only person who understands
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The safest place to be
by murmurcury (@murmurcury)
E, 16k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Part of the MDZS Reverse Big Bang: 2025
Summary: A year after the loss of his sister, Wei Ying navigates life without her. He misses her every second, and he has become even more estranged from his family than before, but in spite of it all he has found love—a love that makes him happy and hopeful and stronger. He is sure he wants to spend the rest of his life with Lan Zhan, but he struggles to come out and take things a step further. When an unexpected invitation from Jiang Cheng reunites Wei Ying with his family, old wounds are reopened and he is left in distress. Even in pain (or maybe because of it), he finds this the perfect moment to take the plunge and show Lan Zhan who he truly is, but will Lan Zhan catch him before he hits the ground?
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now i’m a fat house cat (nursing my sore blunt tongue)
by TheGreatSwordSwallower (@i-swallowed-bichen-for-dinner)
T, 12k, Wangxian | Kay and Mojo's Rec
Summary: There is a cat. A kitten, really. Black, cowering in fear, chest tufted with white that matches its paws. It is very round. There is also a frog trapped under its little claws and teeth. “…” Ribbit! The cat raises its head. Large grey eyes blink up at Lan Wangji. It drops the frog. Quickly, the frog hops away, faster as Lan Wangji watches it go with incredulous eyes. He turns back to the cat. Then, “…Wei Ying?” or: During another day of rule-breaking and rule-copying, Wei Wuxian turns into a cat and Lan Wangji decides he’s a certified pet lover then and there.
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Above the Crowd
by Shadowsoul_743 (@indubitably-eternally-confused)
T, 1k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Wei Wuxian had never seen so many people in one place.It was exhilarating. It was loud. It was sweaty. It was impossible to see anything. To his left, a guy holding two drinks wobbled dangerously. To his right, a girl perched on her boyfriend’s shoulders screamed something unintelligible in delight. Wei Wuxian narrowed his eyes. Shoulders. That was the way to go. He turned around, determined to find someone generous, tall, and either slightly drunk or wildly susceptible to charm. That’s when he saw him.
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The Man in Red
by MimosaConfiante
M, 3k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: There are moments in life that arrive without sound. No announcement. No warning. Just a shift in the light, a flicker in the air, a feeling that something has begun to move, even if nothing has moved at all. Lan Wangji did not know the name of that moment when it came. He did not know that the envelope left on his table would lead to anything more than polite obligation. He did not know that love would come without instructions, without metaphor, without fire.
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afraid together
by redrevery (@redrevery)
M, 7k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Something wet is touching his face. For a moment, Wei Ying is simply glad he can ascertain this much, considering how his consciousness comes and goes in violent waves. He’s barely awake long enough to take stock of the state of his own body before he is pulled under again, and he sinks, deep, deep into the darkness. …Something wet is touching his face, and it’s moving. He thinks he moves his fingers, for a sharp jolt of white-hot pain sears up his arm. It spreads throughout his entire body before it settles down with the usual thrum of constant pain that burns beneath Wei Ying’s skin, above it, encasing it. Something wet is touching his face, and it’s breathing.
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You've Got Me Feline the Connection
by ClassyGreyDove (babybird_left_unheard) (@classygreydove)
G, 5k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: It is a week after Lan Zhan stops attending lectures that Wuxian meets the cat.
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Mixed Messages
by Francowitch
G, 2k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Wei Ying has always heard voices, not that it was something others appreciated [or believed]... while it usually garnered him funny looked, this time it seems to have granted him a boyfriend...
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💙 thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings
by clancularia
E, 42k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: “I know it’s shitty of me to be so skeptical about us being married, but. Everything is kind of how I thought my life would be. Except you,” Wei Ying said. Lan Zhan looked at him neutrally. “Do we...” Wei Ying looked around to see if anyone was nearby, then lowered his voice anyway and leaned in to whisper: “Do we have sex?” Lan Zhan let out a small huff of a laugh in response, as Wei Ying’s face flooded with color at the squirmy feeling even asking the question brought up in him. “Yes,” Lan Zhan replied, once he had gotten over his initial reaction. He maintained steady eye contact. “We do.” _____ Or: Wei Ying is hit by a curse that temporarily takes away his last eight years of memories, including all of the years he's known his now-husband, Lan Zhan. Lan Zhan prepares himself for angst, but instead ends up having very sexy times with Wei Ying, who's having all of these horny feelings he's not used to. What's Lan Zhan supposed to do, not enjoy relieving Wei Ying of his virginity for a second time?
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A Duet in the Night
by DrPanda99 (@drpanda99)
M, 10k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Part of the MDZS Reverse Big Bang: 2025 and the Danmei Diaspora Creatives
Summary: As director of the secret Cloud Recesses Organization, Lan Wangji takes care of supernatural occurrences using his trained cultivators before the public ever learns of their existence. When the threat of an army of mindless vampires comes knocking at his door, he must rely on Wei Wuxian, an ancient vampire bound to his family, to save them all. A Hellsing AU.
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Done hiding, now I'm shining
by tawaen
T, WIP, 31k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Wei Wuxian finds a child in the woods as he sneaks more Emperor's Smile into the Cloud Recesses. Somehow, another version of himself managed to find a way to cross both dimension and time in his desperation to save A-Yuan. Now, Wei Wuxian has a child to adopt, a bag full of inventions to distribute, and a war to avert - if possible. (CQL!WWX finds A-Yuan after the Wen Remnant have turned themselves in to the Jin sect. Instead of going to Jinlintai after them, he makes an array to send A-Yuan away. Another world, another time. Perhaps, the child can live safely with MDZS!WWX.)
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(Re)making history to find you
by KizuKatana (@KizuKatana)
M, WIP, 52k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Modern cultivator, Wei Wuxian, dies in a train crash and is sent back in time to the period of Ancient China he had been writing his thesis on - transmigrated into his own body as a child, dying on the streets of Yiling. He has no money, no family, but a knowledge of modern cultivation and of the historical events that are about to unfold. He recalls the recently-unearthed journal of a woman who was imprisoned in Cloud Recesses against her will, and decides that she’s a good place to start to find someone who might be willing to help him dismantle the corruption that had sent the Cultivation World into the Dark Ages so long ago. Of course, he had no idea that the person he sought would be the mother of Hanguang-Jun, the object of Wei Wuxian's fascination (“obsession,” his friend had corrected), since he had first learned of his existence in the ancient texts he'd studied.
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i can see you, look at me
by redrevery (@redrevery)
T, WIP, 51k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: There are spirits afoot in Cloud Recesses. So the disciples say, whilst huddled around fires for warmth, exchanging rumours and whispers with bated breath. Ghosts. Ghouls. Demons. The stories become more exaggerated and twisted with each iteration. or - wei ying is cursed so that people cannot see or hear him, until he meets lan zhan who can see him for some reason
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The Ties That Bind
by 96qutie
E, WIP, 88k, Wangxian | Kay's Rec
Summary: Ever since he was born Wei Ying has been able to see ghosts, but as he gets older he realizes the ghosts’ interference in his life is only getting stronger and affecting him more and more with each passing day. Now a college student, he's desperate to find a way to control his gift, but no one else can even see the spirits that follow him around let alone stop them. His bad luck turns around when he stumbles onto a fellow student, Lan Zhan, whose family lives in a nearby temple and practices ancient cultivation techniques. Wei Ying discovers that whenever Lan Zhan is around the ghosts completely disappear. So maybe his family’s cultivation is the secret to a future without ghosts. There’s just one problem: Lan Zhan despises him. (Inspired by XXXholic)
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