Relationships: Wen Xiao/Zhao Yuanzhou | Zhu Yan/Zhuo Yichen, Li Lun/Zhao Yuanzhou | Zhu Yan
Additional Tags: Smut, Punishment Sex, Monsterfucking, Angst, Post-Canon, li lun playing himself as per usual, everyone having a bad time. hooray!, fucked up men having fucked up sex
Summary:
It's obvious what Zhu Yan needs, delivering him as they are, trussed and gagged, to Li Lun in The Wilderness.
Thank you! This is ll/zyz, as requested 😁 If you've also sent in a prompt: don't worry, I'm still working on them!
The small restaurant is not so well-known around town, but Zhao Yuanzhou has found it to be one of his favorites. The food is homey, perhaps even unfashionable by the standards of the city's humans, but the seating along the riverside at the back of the restaurant is beautiful. At night, when the city comes alive in a wholly different manner, this little riverside spot keeps to itself. From the terrace one can watch as the city goes about its nighttime routine, dazzling lights and dazzling performances appearing and disappearing like fireflies.
He's seen Li Lun coming– and how could he not? The man's energy is as familiar to him as his own.
Zhao Yuanzhou might not have expected to see Li Lun in the middle of a human city, might not have expected to run into him without a lot more fanfare and hostilities involved, but he's not going to complain about that. Li Lun sits himself down at Zhao Yuanzhou's table without invitation, and a waiter follows him with a new bottle of wine and another cup. He came prepared, it seems.
Zhao Yuanzhou finishes his wine, but does not speak. Li Lun pours them both more wine, and they drink. He says nothing, accepting Zhao Yuanzhou's curious stare with good grace.
It reminds Zhao Yuanzhou a little too much of their past travels, both around the Wilderness and into the human world, before… well, before everything went wrong. Some evenings they would be full of jokes and laughter, telling stories of the day as if they hadn't spent it together, embellishing into unlikelihood adventures of simple days. Other evenings would be more like this one: quiet company over shared drinks, and a silence more telling and familiar than anything they could say out loud. These he has missed more than anything. After all: jokes and stories may be shared with many, but that quiet companionship is much harder to recreate.
And there was always that: the company. The two of them, together. Zhao Yuanzhou has missed this, more than he (even he, whom others call a chattering monkey) can put into words. He wonders how Li Lun even got here when he is supposed to be safely locked away, and does not ask. If he asks, when he knows, he might have to do something about it. He downs his wine, then raises his empty cup to Li Lun in silent thanks.
Li Lun's expression is unreadable, and for a long moment Zhao Yuanzhou thinks he has made a mistake after all. The restaurant bustles behind them, small enough that even a few customers make it look busy. The far side of the river has lit up with bright lanterns that reflect their glow onto the water, and in Li Lun's eyes. To Zhao Yuanzhou, it is beautiful. He wonders what Li Lun is thinking.
The great Pagoda tree stirs himself, and reaches for Zhao Yuanzhou's cup. His face has softened around the hard edges of the past, and Zhao Yuanzhou dares to hope that Li Lun too is remembering the other evenings they shared like this.
Li Lun holds out his newly filled cup, but does not let go when Zhao Yuanzhou reaches to take it. Instead he blinks a slow challenge at Zhao Yuanzhou. There were other things they did, other moments they shared on evenings like these, and Zhao Yuanzhou's heart stutters into his throat at the thought. He lets his hand fall back into his lap, and watches the long-forgotten, intimately familiar script play out. Li Lun brings the cup to Zhao Yuanzhou's lips, and he parts them willingly, allowing the sweet wine to wake a thirst in him he has not felt in a long time.
Li Lun gives him half of that cup, and then brings the wine to his own lips with that slow inevitability that only trees can possess. He does not break eye contact when he drinks down the rest of the wine, and Zhao Yuanzhou licks his own lips to chase the echo of that sweetness. With the same inexorable surety Li Lun sets down the cup, and reaches for Zhao Yuanzhou. There is a question in his eyes that you would never be able to detect in his confident movements: does Zhao Yuanzhou want this to continue, his eyes ask. Zhao Yuanzhou suspects Li Lun would let him go, for tonight, for the past nights they shared, and finds he wants nothing less.
So he does what he does best: he grins a silent challenge at Li Lun, a smile that says 'come and get me'-- only he does not run. Instead, when Li Lun's hand takes root in his hair and pulls him close, he surrenders, willingly caught in their shared history. When their lips meet it is like no time has passed, and the great divide of their actions does not gape between them, does not tear them apart. Zhao Yuanzhou's hands find themselves holding onto Li Lun's robes, holding him close, and his lips part as willingly for him as they did for his wine.
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Along the coastal road, Yuanli Fishing Harbor is a well-developed tourist harbor. You are able to find fresh and cheap seafood or go to the beach to catch clams, shrimps, and crabs. When you visit here, do not forget to try the most famous "Yuanli Fish Ball" made with fresh fish. Its chewy texture is the most unforgettable attraction to the visitors.
North-Taiwan-Miaoli County-Yuanli-Reed Cultural Museum
This hall keeps the reed ecology and the weaving as theme and, in addition to the collection of reed-related artifacts and data for display and digitization, a reed workshop is available along with reed hat and mat sector as well as farming village sector and DIY classroom.
Business Hours: Tue.~Sat. 09:00-17:00(closed on Monday)
North-Taiwan-Miaoli County-Yuanli-Jin Lian Shing Brick House
Jin Lian Shing Brick House, the earliest tunnel kiln in Miaoli, still maintains the traditional method of producing bricks. The Wan-Li Bricks Museum is also on site.
The Jin Lian Sing was one the first licensed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs as a tourism factory as well as a creative lifestyle business unit. Inside the industrial park here is a small bricks museum, in addition to guided tours to the brick production line, brick carving, brick DIY activities, and a small brick laboratory. The mentioned activities and facilities are provided to tourists as means of enriching their knowledge about bricks.
Business Hours: Tue.~Sat. 09:00-17:00 (closed on Monday)