#Qingheng jun

[lilapplesheadcannons]

Okay, we all think Lan Qiren was very much like a young Lan Wangji when he was a teenager, baby faced, fuddy duddy, stickler for rules. But what if he was more teasing and smiling like Lan Xichen and changed drastically after you-know-what happened?

Young Lan Qiren: Why do you care what X-guiniang does? She's a rogue cultivator anyway.

Qingheng Jun: She's arrogant, impulsive...

Young Lan Qiren: Xiongzhang has a crush! Xiongzhang has a cruush! Xiongzhang, X-guiniang sitting on a tree, K-I-S....

Qingheng Jun: Preposterous!!

Modern day

Lan Wangji: Wei Wuxian is disruptive, impudent...

Lan Xichen: Aww, sounds like you have a little cru...

Lan Qiren: Don't you dare finish that sentence!!

[bamboo-bees]

Meanwhile… in another life 👀

[robby-bobby-tommy]

There are some of my headcanons about the relationship between the past generation Lan bros and this whole family drama, cuz I have nothing better to do.

Now these might not be fully compliant with canon.

We know almost nothing about Lan Qiren's and Qingheng-Jun's relationship. It is implied that LQR sympathizes with his brother, but that's all.

My headcanon is that when they were young, they were very similar to LXC and LWJ. LQR was very devoted to the rules, so he had a pretty difficult personality and didn't have much friends. QHJ was more easygoing and nice. Yet he was more restrained and calm than LXC. And although he tried to get LQR more of the friends his age, he didn't always succeed. We also have no age gap between them, so I hc that it's 3 years.

Sometimes, when QHJ was 18-19, he met Madam Lan and fell in love at the first time. LQR initially didn't have anything against her. They even met at some point. QHJ was head over heels for her, but she saw him as more of a friend. Her and second master Lan were on good terms and sometimes talked for hours about music cultivation ect. They even considered each other friends.

LQR and QHJ had one teacher. I didn't think much about him, but let's just say he had his secrets. While he was nice to his students and they respected him, he had a beef or mb just somehow mistreated Madame Lan's family. He did something that forever left her family in the shadows. Madame Lan's family was shunned for a long time. Ofc ML hated this teacher's guts. It was never her intention to use QHJ's affection to avenge her family, cuz she wasn't that kind of a person to be so cruel. But when she found out, she started to carefully plan her revenge. The pg Lan Bros actually didn't know about teacher's secrets and had no idea about what was going to happen.

Since MXTX loves stuff going downhill during or after someone's 17th b'day, I imagine this whole drama happened right after LQR'S 17th birthday. A few days later their teacher was killed and ML was gone. QHJ went looking for her immediately, kind of leaving shocked and grieving brother behind. Once his brother was gone for a few days with his presumed friend, the Lan elders went on a search and found QHJ and ML in wedding gowns. As stated form canon, QHJ decided to save his love by marrying her and declaring, that if anyone wants to hurt her, they'll have to go through him. Elders were completely unimpressed, but they couldn't do anything because a) QHJ was already a clan leader at this point; b) the wedding already happened. Before this QHJ had never broken any rule, especially not as serious as this.

Due to the conflict of marrying his teacher's killer, QHJ decides to go into seclusion and lock ML with him. He orders the houses to be built on the neighboring mountain, but before he locked himself in his own room.

At this point LQR had his world turned upside down two times: firstly, his friend killed a teacher, who (in his opinion) did nothing wrong, secondly his brother disappeared and came back married to culprit. And he tried to talk to his brother, but before he could discuss anything, his bro is already secluded in his own room. When he found out that his brother is going to seclusion and doesn't plan on ruling the clan, it broke the camel's back. LQR was also very devoted to the rules and never broke them, but this day, merely a week after his birthday, he went of the rails. He asked to see his brother, loudly knocked on his door, desperately trying to talk with him. Even when the elders started to scold him and get him away from the door, LQR escaped their grip and continued to act "inappropriately" (Being rightfully upset and wanting to get some answers). Sadly, QHJ never let LQR in, despite all of the pleadings, for he believed he doesn't deserve to speak with anyone.

LQR receives his first ever serious punishment and is shamed for his "indecent" Behavior. He gets beaten with those wooden sticks pretty hard and is locked up in a room to rewrite the rules 200 times. At this point, LQR is literally broken. Two of his dearest friends abandoned him with a whole lot of new responsibilities and unanswered questions. His dreams were also shattered. He liked to teach and explore different clans, regions.

LQR never got the chance to speak with QHJ, cuz very soon his bro left to the seclusion with ML. I want to believe in good in this world, so QHJ never forced ML to have children with him, yet they had to produce the heirs. So a year or two after the whole ordeal, LXC is born. At this point LQR is still very young and totally exhausted due to the clan leader duties, and he wasn't really excited to get another brother's problem on him. LQR grew resentful of his brother and ML, he became pretty jaded and closed, disliked troublemakers. Tho, when he first held little LXC in his arms, he was smitten. He vowed to raise him properly and help him live a happy life of a clan leader. When LWJ came to the picture, LQR promised to teach them both to be good people and to never let them become what he and his brother became. To never let LWJ get all of his brothers problems and deal with them with no help. Ofc his methods were far from good and he was sometimes emotionally unavailable, he loved them very much.

This all I've got for now.

[uselesslycleverhuaisang]

Qinghenghjun : I'll marry her

Lan Qiren : but-but she's a murderer

Qingheng-jun : She looks organized

Lan qiren : huh?!

Hanguang-jun : I'll marry him

Lan Qiren : but-but he's a murderer

Hanguangjun : he smiles.

Lan Qiren : huh?!

Lan Xichen : I love him

Lan Qiren : but-but he's a murderer

Lan Xichen : he's short.

Lan Qiren : huh?!

Lan Qiren : I'll stay single thanks.

[fortune-maiden]

99. "How could you forget your son’s birthday?”

MDZS with one of the baby Lans? Or Jiang Cheng?

Thank you <333

I'm hoping by baby lans you meant baby twin jades or this is going to be awkward. But at least I got to write Shufu? ^^"

Sorry for sad Lan hours ;w;

Lan Qiren is not the kind of person to question an elder. There is an order and a hierarchy to the world, and his brother’s always had the final say. But this time, he doesn’t agree. “A-Huan was looking forward to this. He wants to see you.” “Not today, Qiren. Please,” his brother pleads. Every time they meet, he looks less a person, and more a fading ghost. “Whether it’s today or not, what difference does it make?” “What difference!” Lan Qiren huffs. “How could you forget your son’s birthday?” He turns away, not willing to see his brother’s reaction.

Also bonus drabble under the cut because I spent a long time looking at this prompt trying to see if I could make it funny somehow xD

“…so next week, we’ll swing by Pingyang – “Not next week,” Lan Wangji interrupts. “It’s Sizhui’s birthday.” “Oh.” Wei Wuxian blinks. “Huh.” “How could you forget your son’s birthday?” “Rather than forget, it’s more that I never – my who?” Lan Wangji stares. “You gave birth to him.” He says it so seriously that Wei Wuxian bolts upright, his mind spinning madly with the dawning horror that he would have to explain to his husband… Then he catches the twinkle in Lan Wangji’s eye, and bursts out laughing. That Lan Zhan – how long had he waited to turn that back on him?

[travalerray]

the previous sect leaders of MDZS are really like:

Professional sadist and tyrant. Dead because he trusted his boytoy too much.

Misogynistic rapist. Dead because he did not appreciate his son (who happens to be the above sect leader's boytoy)

(Depending on who you ask) Guy who obsessed with his ideals to the point of death. Dead because he did not learn to see from the viewpoints of other people (other people being the neglected child and boytoy)

Hikikomori

Different guy who neglects his son

[jiaoji]

Qingheng-Jun being a huge name in cultivation on his generation, Sect leader and intelligent, but his time passed and now he's just "HanGuang-Jun's father". Doesn't matter his past, he is now just HanGuang-Jun and ZeWu-Jun's father, sometimes also Yiling Laozu's father-in-law

In Brasil's minor town's people know you as "Son of this or that pearson" but Qingheng-Jun is the total opposit.

[angstymdzsthoughts]

What if Madame Lan went to the Elder for help? Like, "Please, keep him (Qingheng-Jun) away from me. I dont want to be involved with him." And the Elder tried to help but got killed by Qingheng-Jun

POST

[panther-os]

Seven Sentence Sunday

tagged by @reconstructwriter

tagging @atohii @mogseltof @noxsoulmate @blackbirds-on-the-marsh @overlordraax and it is 6am and my brain is not working so I can't think of two others, anyone who wants to is welcome to say I tagged them though

this is from a WIP titled Wen Ruohan's Ultimatum

"You broke my seclusion for this?" Qingheng-jun demanded. "Get out."

"No, I don't think I will," Wen Ruohan said, crossing his arms over his chest. "Let me be clearer: My cousin is dead, your wife is dead. Marry my cousin's wife and adopt her two children or I will burn Cloud Recesses to the ground and annihilate the Lan Clan. Maybe I will be lenient and take the children as slaves. My Flame Palace could always use more test subjects."

(yes, wrh's cousin's children are wen qing and wen ning)

[fistfuloflightning]

So. I’ve been trying to find a fic I read a couple years ago but I don’t remember the title. It was a Lan Qiren/Madam Lan where they fall in love during her captivity and lwj is their son. LQR helps smuggle her out of Cloud Recesses and she goes to study under Baoshan Sanren, while he stays behind to protect the boys.

If this sounds familiar to anyone pls let me know! It was a fantastic read even tho it wasn’t finished (at the time)

[lilapplesheadcannons]

The Imaginary Boyfriend

"I have a boyfriend."

Lan Qiren's knife slipped on the dinner plate with an ugly screeching sound. His brother let his piece of steak slip off from his fork, his mouth gaping at the sudden proclamation.

Lan Xichen thanked his lucky stars that he hadn't taken a sip out of his water yet. Looking at the murderous look his mother was casting towards her husband and brother-in-law, they were in for a lecture on proper dinner etiquette expected from adults the moment they got out of the restaurant.

Mrs Lan broke the awkward silence," That's great, A-Zhan. What's his name?"

Lan Zhan shifted in his high chair, "Ummm, his name is..... his name is XianXian."

"That's the name of your bun.. ouch! Honey!"

Mrs Lan, who did amateur theatre in her 20s, conveyed the promise of a slow, painful demise to her husband via a single glance. "That's lovely, darling. Does XianXian study in your school?"

Lan Zhan shook his head, "He doesn't study at all."

He used his fork to spear a piece of chicken before adding as an afterthought, " XianXian draws."

Lan Qiren opened his mouth before closing it abruptly. The rest of the dinner passed without any further interruption. Lan Zhan started to nod off as dessert arrived despite Xichen's best efforts to keep him awake and was fast asleep by the time he was secured in his car seat. Uncle opened his mouth again to say something but seemed to change his mind after catching Xichen's eyes in the rear view mirror.

Later, once Lan Zhan has been deposited safely in his bed, hugging his plush bunny and Lan Xichen has been permitted to stay up another half an hour extra because it's friday, the adults gathered in the living room for a drink before bed.

"He has gotten an imaginary friend," Lan Qiren winced into his drink. "Normal for his age. I wouldn't worry about it."

"An imaginary boyfriend, ha ha."

"I am not worried. And he could be a real friend," Mrs Lan sounded like she was trying to convince herself.

"A new boy? Starting in the middle of the school year? And A-Zhan making friends with him? He doesn't even get along with the Nie kid."

"They just got off on the wrong foot."

All three adults winced this time. It was a good thing the Nies were a close family friend who let bygones be bygones. If it were the Jins or the Wens...

"I just think he might become even more reluctant to get along with his classmates if he's spending even more time inside his own head."

Lan Qiren paused to mull his brother's words. "He'll grow out of it, I am sure. Kids forget things quickly."

Except Lan Zhan proved his uncle wrong. He came down to breakfast on Saturday morning with stories about how XianXian had a mother who was a fairy. In the afternoon, he plopped himself in front of the rabbit hutch and solemnly introduced the bunnies to the drawing of their new parent, a red and black round blob drawn with crayons. At bedtime, Mrs Lan had to kiss 'XianXian' good night as well.

On Sunday, Uncle took both of them to softplay. Lan Zhan took a look at the screaming children and promptly hid himself in a corner of the ballpit. He only mentioned XianXian on the car ride home. "XianXian can climb up the big slide."

At night, 'XianXian' was taken down from his perch on top of Lan Zhan's study desk and was laid down beside his pillow. On a brighter note, Lan Zhan didn't put up his usual resistance to brushing his backteeth once Mother told him XianXian brushed his teeth every night.

The next week, the family was treated with more stories of XianXian. XianXian could eat spicy food. XianXian could draw better than anyone (at this point, Lan Zhan cast a regretful glance at his brother). XianXian was an only child till Wednesday, but by Thursday afternoon, he had gained an older sister and a younger brother. XianXian had parents who were in America. And they would bring toys for Lan Zhan too when they came back. XianXian not only had an uncle, but he had an aunt, too. He was never made to eat bell papers. XianXian loved swimming. XianXian got along with everyone, even HuaiSang.

By week 2, even Lan Qiren was shaken. "He's trying to project his own aspiration on his imaginary friend."

Mrs Lan, who was told by her youngest son only this evening that she was almost as pretty as XianXian, looked slightly miffed. "I just hoped he'd at least be a teenager before he got a boyfriend, imaginary or not..."

They got interrupted by a jubilant Xichen who had wondered in with the cordless phone in his hand. "Mother, Da-ge and A-Sang are going to the beach this weekend. Can we go as well, please?"

Lan Qiren nodded, " We could all use some fresh air."

Xichen removed his palm from the receiver and started urgently speaking into it.

Lan Zhan took the news surprisingly well. Instead of his usual silent tantrum at the prospect of spending time with A-Sang and other children, he nodded sagely saying, "XianXian likes the beach too," before going back to his drawing of another red and black blob.

Lan Xichen was able to spot Nie MingJue and HuaiSang in the car park before their car came to a full rest. He ran towards the boys while they started waving at him. Lan Qiren followed him because leaving a pair of 10 years old in charge of a 5 years old in a beach is just asking for trouble no matter what Lao Nie said about self-reliance.

Mrs Lan yelled at them, " We will see you guys at our regular spot."

Except their regular spot was taken. A bronzed man carrying a baby in a sling was spreading his supplies on a purple beach towel. A girl slightly younger than Xichen frowned in concentration as she dug at the sund with her toy shovel. The man raised his head and smiled at Mrs Lan, showing a crooked canine. She smiled back in response and then started to spread her own beach towel. Lan Zhan solemnly put down his own baby bucket and started helping.

"Nice day, isn't it? I was worried it might get cloudy."

The baby squirmed in its sling and made a dissatisfied mewl. Lan Zhan scrunched his nose before moving to stand closer to his mother. Mrs Lan put her arm around his shoulder, " This is A-Zhan."

"Hello, A-Zhan. This is A-Li, and A-Cheng." The man pointed at his kids. "My wife has taken our nephew for ice-cream."

Mrs Lan opened her mouth, probably to continue with the pleasantries, but she was shocked into silence. Lan Zhan suddenly yelped out a short cry before breaking into a run. Before an aghast Mrs Lan could gather herself to give chase, Lan Zhan was met by a boy his size wearing red and black swimming trunks. The two boys were apprehended by a woman who herded them back towards Mrs Lan.

"A-Zhan, why did you run like that?"

"A-Ying, that's dangerous. Don't run..."

Both sets of parents started at the same time. But they got interrupted by A-Zhan, who proudly declared, "This is XianXian."

Mrs Lan continued to gape. The woman was the first to recover, "Oh my, you must be A-Ying's A-Zhan. He has been talking about you for weeks now."

Lsn Zhan nodded. The woman turned to Mrs Lan, " We don't know how to thank your little boy. You see, poor A-Ying had to move in with us because his parents are on a research trip. We were so worried he'd have a bad time getting along with his new classmates. But, it seems like A-Zhan here was a perfect angel."

Mrs Lan weakly smiled. " Yes, A-Zhan kept talking about his new friend, too. But why does he call him XianXian? "

The man extended a hand to ruffle the boy's already messy hair, "His courtesy name is Wei Wuxian. A-Ying is more of a nickname."

The boy jerked his head away but didn't release his hold on Lan Zhan's hands. The boys started to talk earnestly. Or more like Wei Ying talked while Lan Zhan seemed to absorb every word with his entire being. A-Ying's aunt offered to go get more ice cream to replace the ones she had dropped. Mrs Lan spotted her brother-in-law, leading the small team of children towards them. She relaxed her tense muscles and laid down on the towel; then jerked back up because of Lan Zhan's solemn declaration to the group, " XianXian and I are getting married."

[glowingreads]

So for a very much part of the parent in mdzs we don’t have name’s ( just for the very important ones and not even all ) and how you would see on my page i work an a fanfiction in modern days with all the characters and as a sequel would be the parent story and by that mean i will put here all the connections and names that they have in my story

Jiang Fengmian and Wei Changze ar stil knowing each other from childhood and they are partners in the Jiang industry ( Wei Changze having sides jokes to been an instructor for extreme sports )

Yu Ziyuan is the daughter of a very influent family how work in equestrian industry but they are not doing so well in the market because the Nie’s just bought half of the grounds that was on sale not far from them and started there one equestrian school and like that they and up selling there firm to the Jiang’s how wanted to open a new affiliation on market and because the Yu didn’t wanted for there name to be just erase completely they marry Yu Ziyuan with Jiang Fengmian (yes even in this one i make them arrange marriage, is good foe drama you would see ). Yu Ziyuan hate the arrangement but she do it because of dotty but what she hate the most is that like this could not be with her lover.

Wen Zhuliu or Zhao Liu was one of the instructors at the Yu equestrian school leaving just with his uncle after his parent died he loved horses more that anything and he got up with Yu Ziyuan and they have a very strong connection but he refuse to go forward because of there status one thing that Yu Ziyuan didn’t care but didn’t fight for it either. So after he find out that she is going to marry and that the school is selling he disappeared and years later he appears again on media but this time by the side of Wen Ruohan as his right hand and tabloid like to create a very dramatic story all the time him and Yu Ziyuan appear.

Wen Ruohan i cover in an other post much more detailed but he is the second of the family how become heir after his older brother died he have a sister that he love more then the earth and he have a secret organisation that is on the dark market but works with the polite to catching bad guys but he is very morally grey ( he is not the bad guy in this story but he will do some questionable thighs )

Wen Rumei is the beautiful loved sister how is younger but not with much is a very opposite person that her brother and usually don’t interfere that much in the family business because her father disagrees so she is working on her degrees on literature and marketing because even if her father don’t want her in the picture her brother do and she knows that in the moment Wen Ruohan take the chair he want her as her right hand they make that plane from childhood. But mean time have a second degree just to lie to her father though she start liking it and think more of her future choices and she share classes with Lan Qiren.

Wen Yuanfeng ( the future father of Wen Ning and Wen Qing ) is there second line cousin but the best friend of the two siblings he is shy and very clumsy outside but a brilliant mind and a good judge of character how work great in numbers and stocks having millions at the age of 23 but he actually don’t talk about that at all the single thing that he want is to help his parent and aunt and uncles to work at the Dafan restaurant whatever much there want and don’t be worry about money. He and Ruohan help then in full days as waiters and is hilarious to see this to there. He knows about the secret organisation and help when it come to hi-tech work. And his firsts interactions with his future wife don’t go well at all.

Ruan Meiyin (the future mother of Wen Ning and Wen Qing ) and the sister of Ruan Yuelin ( madam Lan or the future mother of Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji, yes i made them sisters ) is the youngest and is in college at the botanical profile wanting to become an researcher on the plant and living organism and study them plus creating her own perfume and health live on meds. She and her sister live alone and don’t have a good relationship with there parent and by that don’t have there support so both need to work in order to keep there house and colleges. So she end up working for the Dafan restaurant after a lot of research and discovering that is a family business that have a flexible program in that way she still could attend school. She end up loving the place but have a very bad impression on the two heirs that come in the restaurant at the beginning because of Wen Ruohan but later she realised that Wen Yuanfeng is not the same and actually pretty funny with his clumsiness and even Wen Ruohan is not that bad after you meet him.

Ruan Yuelin ( the future mother of Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji) is on her master in pedagogy, live with her sister and love children’s that is why the degree. She end up as a substitute teacher at the Lan University and she love it but could agree that the rules are a little to much even for a hight class school so she do her corses is her stile and have some problems because of that but she could not be cast-off because of her students scores and maybe and up in some altercations with the second Jade and that make the first Jade coming in and see what the problem.

Lan Zhengyi ( the future father of Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji ) the first Jade and the best lower in the country he take the family business as carrier in the mean time his brother taking teaching. Both will inherit one of the parts of the family business Lan Qiren the university’s, Lan Zhengyi the law industry. He is passionate of music and knows 33 instruments have a very good eye on hard cases and didn’t lost one from the fourth year as a lower. He is present at any public gathering and the image of the family, plays polo and is thought to be the first most handsome bachelor, he will not know if he is asked. But he feel life to mechanic probably because he live by the family rules all his life or the expectation but he really don’t know how to spark something in his life and it feels that he is the single one having the problem because if you look close his little brother is not a little bothered. And in the day he is called to stop a mad teacher by a very angry Lan Qiren his life really take a turn.

Lan Qiren a university literature student how is expected to be the future great director of the most elevated schools on the country,the example of perfection and the most Lan ever he live by the family principles and go in coordination with them without a flinch to the days that he meets the most annoying and shameless woman’s he will have the unluck to meet. The first is his mistake because he accepted a private pottery student that don’t go well with people around and he correlated so he accepted, the kid is great ( Xiao Xingchen) but her sister is the pain of Lan Qiren’s day (Cangse Sanren ) and then he have the unluck to meet a new substitute teacher in his future school that disgraced all the family rules (Ruan Yuelin) and the heir of the Wen family find a pleasure of annoying him every time they meet , why the goods hate him.

Cangse Sanren a freelance artist that is in charge of the house and her little brother after her adoptive mother past away. She take the custody of little Xiao Xingchen and drop her study to take care of him and give him a better life not wanting to give him in the placement again. So she work as a paid artist and is actually very good been known in the entire city by her murals and work so she don’t struggle as much with money compèring with the first years. And somehow because of her friend and the pottery teacher of her brother end up in a very hight up social group, don’t ask her how.

Hong Qianhui ( the future mother of Nie Huaisang ) the best friend of Cangse Sanren how is a freelance artist to but coming from a good family. She have a personal private island that is completely at her will and where she started a little resort that give her extra money just in case. She make all the party’s and is a say in there group that at list every time they go there one of the couples that didn’t confess yet will, and it happens every time. All the young adults go to the island when they need space end a quiet and free place because she knows, she always do ( just you don’t believe Huaisang take his talent from there father ).

Wang Yushuang (the future mother of Nie Mingjiue ) she the daughter of one of the associates of the Nie industry but don’t have anything to do with the corporation world actually she is an martial art first medal winner and a “runaway “ heir that live on her bus and don’t stop to the point that win how much medals she wants ,and she does, and then she come home. And she don’t like it. But her parents don’t let her run again because the firm needs her been the single child so block here she start to find new things and end up in Meng Shi dance studio.

Nie Rongzhen ( the future father of Nie Mingjiue and Nie Huaisang) the heir of the Nie family, the best friend of Lan Zhengyi and Wen Ruohan. The single one in this group how actually is responsible and swears to all he have that will kill Jin Guangshan one day.

Jin Guangshan (i feel like I don’t need to say anything here whatever universe i could not make this man dissent)

Bai Longsu ( the future mother of Jin Zixuan) the best friend of Yu Ziyuan and a very good horse rider blocked in an arrange marriage and trying her best to avoid it and angry at her friend that accepted that easily. But eventually is happened and she start losing her spark because of scandals and media that her husband do.

Meng Shi ( the future mother of Meng Yao ) an ballerina that have so much potential in the industry do to her incredible talent and starting her own studio where she meet beautiful people and her friend Wang Yushuang starting to have a group of goo friend but because of a horrible man that good time disappears like dust.

Huang Lianyi ( the future mother of Qin Su) is a secretary at the Qin branch of Jin industry under the Qin manager, she is the daughter of a important investor of Lanling Tai but she work for her place in the company immediately after she absolved college and is happy of her job, feels every day that could find true love with Mr. Qin and wish life to remain the same. But the company change her leader the Jin heir take it and that make her life horrible.

Mo Xinyi (the future mother of Mo Xuanyu ) a new student and stagier at the Jin industry with a light and ideas that can change the market ( but I guess all new what happens)

Al right that was a lot to write and I feel a repeat to much about what Jin Guangshan will do to that poor woman’s but i want to clarify that the grape still happens and could not be avoided because the kids are already in the story and this is just the past. Would be happy moment to and this ones would have at list one or two good groups moment before the disaster but for new i will give updates when it will start.

[lwjsbedtime]

WIP Wednesday: Arranged Marriage Wingfic Preview II

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"Father."

He waited for a response that didn't come. Eventually, Lan Wangji decided he'd shown respect enough, and sat back into a kneel once more. When he looked up, he could see the figure behind the curtain had moved so they were now facing him.

He swallowed, a question he feared to ask caught in his throat, and instead said, "Father, I am to be married."

More silence followed, broken only by the rustling of fabric from across the room.

Lan Wangji wet his lips, and continued. "The emperor arranged it. It-" He breathed out, chastising himself for feeling so out of control. "-it is a good match."

The quiet stretched on - and then, from behind the curtain there was a huff.

"Come close then, child," a voice that sounded unused to speaking requested. "Let me see you one last time."

Heart thudding, Lan Wangji shuffled to the bedside, his hand reaching up to part the curtain that separated him from his sire. To his chagrin, he noted his fingers trembled as they swept the fabric aside.

Cun by cun, his father's form was revealed to him, brittle in the way those who battled illness tended to be. Looking into the former emperor's eyes - into the tired lines of his face - it was hard to believe that this man was once a respected ruler. Nestled upon sheets of imperial silk, he seemed so defeated; so weak.

A skeletal hand came out from within the folds of the man's robes, to hover over Lan Wangji's cheek, as if afraid to come closer. Holding his breath, the doe leant forward, bridging the gap between them.

Flesh met with flesh, and a breath gusted out of Taishang Huang[1], as if the air had caught in his throat, too, at the sight of his son - grown now, and ready to be sent off into another man's home.

"You look so much like her," he murmured, stroking a line under Lan Wangji's eye with hands worn soft by years of inactivity.

"Mother?" Lan Wangji dared to ask.

His father nodded, a wistful twinkle in his eye.

"I should never have married her." He patted Lan Wangji's face and smiled sadly, as if he hadn't just unloaded the most damning revelation upon his son. "She would have been happier elsewhere."

You, too, he did not say, though Lan Wangji sensed it lurking behind his teeth.

"I hope your marriage suits you well," his father finished; again, holding back his full meaning - the way his own had not.

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[1] retired emperor

[dottie-wan-kenobi]

It had been so long since Qingheng-jun had last seen his younger son that, upon meeting him again, he was filled with an unfortunate thought: he couldn’t recognize Wangji as anything more than an unknown Lan disciple.

Well. Perhaps that was not true. Wangji looked like Xichen, and Qingheng-jun had had to interact with his heir in more recent times. But if not for those moments, he would not be able to recognize either.

This did not particularly bother him. He knew his lot in life, the consequences of what he and Xiuqin had done. His sons were strangers to him; this was simply a fact.

However, though he didn’t know them, he had believed he understood his brother and the way the boys would be raised. From what he remembered of Wangji, the only behavior issue he ever had was refusing to sleep in his own bed at night without Xichen there to lull him to rest.

(Distantly, Qingheng-jun recalled that Qiren had told him of other broken rules after that incident, things that Qiren had deemed important enough to inform him of. The details were hazy now.)

Beheading sect heirs—beheading anyone, really—was not something he had believed Wangji capable of. His sons were well-behaved and had never had an emergency bad enough to warrant Qingheng-jun’s attention since the moment they were born.

As such, when a disciple disrupted his seclusion claiming that Qiren needed to see him urgently, Qingheng-jun had said no. When it was explained to him it was an issue with one of his sons, he’d attempted to dismiss the boy. Finally, when Xichen ran up—and yes, he had run, wearing robes flecked in blood, fear and confusion in his eyes—Qingheng-jun had agreed to come.

Now he understood. And looking at Wangji, kneeling nonchalantly while elders and disciples ran about in a panic, no remorse in his eyes, his clothing and skin still bloody from beheading Wen Chao in a room full of guest disciples—Qingheng-jun sighed.

He supposed they should have expected this. Wangji had always been Xiuqin’s boy, after all.

Wangji turned his cold gaze onto Qingheng-jun then.

Yes, Qingheng-jun thought, well familiar with the hatred he saw there. Just like her.

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i love Ayunga okay but there will never not be a day where I look at him in white and go "Ahhh, yes, Lan-zongzhu, the esteemed Qingheng-Jun, yes, I see." 👀