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Title: When we're full of stories to be told
Author: fakeplasticlily (@fakeplasticlily )
Universe: Modern AU
Status: Complete
Rating: Mature
Length: Epic (42+K)
Summary:
Flushing in embarrassment, Wei Ying hurries over to A-Yuan and crouches to place his hands on his shoulders. “A-Yuan, that’s enough,” he says. “Sorry, Lan Zhan, he used to go to a different bookstore where they host regular storytimes, I think he thinks you’re the designated storyteller for the day—”
He gets to his feet, holding A-Yuan at his hip, and glances up to look at Lan Zhan. It’s an awful, terrible, horrible mistake. This close, every detail of his face is utterly inescapable.
“Story time,” says A-Yuan, lower lip wobbling dangerously.
Wei Ying glances around, finding people staring curiously at the scene unfolding before them. “A-Yuan,” he hisses urgently. “We need to go. I’ll tell you a story on the way home, okay?”
“Do you really need to go?”
Wei Ying starts at Lan Zhan’s voice. He’s still looking steadily at him, an unreadable expression in his eyes.
(Seven years after running away from home to pursue a story that would expose one of the biggest media scandals in recent years, Wei Ying runs into the last person he’s expecting to see at a quaint, forgotten bookstore he hasn’t set foot in for a very long time.)
Recommended by: @luckymoony (Mod)
Comment: Every time @fakeplasticlily posts a new fic, I scream, because she is my favorite author in this fandom. Here, WWX is a journalist who needs to take care of little A-Yuan for a few weeks. Everything goes well, until he meets LWJ for the first time after not seeing him for many years.
The UST in this is DELICIOUS👌 and you will want to scream all the times WWX is being oblivious.