#plus maybe there is a third li lun x zyc enthusiast out there who might be interested in reading it

[missisjoker]

Prompt? Prompt. Zhuo Yichen x Li Lun.

Just like Baize token makes Baize Goddess's tears healing and cleansing, Bing Yi's water/ice magic ancestry makes Zhuo Yichen's tears soothing and able to subdue fire in all its forms even before ZYC gets a headshot of Bing Yi's last drop of blood.

Obviously, nobody knows about it because it's not like members of Bing Yi clan just walk around flinging their tears at everyone, right?

However, one particular highly flammable demon accidentally notices.

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The first time ZYC and Li Lun fight and Li Lun chokes him, ZYC's tear flows down his cheek and touches Li Lun's hand. Li Lun immediately feels a gush of relief, and the pain in his veins dulls. He ... doesn't know what it is, but decides to investigate.

The second time he deliberately chokes ZYC and gets a tear on his skin, the effect is undeniable- it IS ZYC's tear that subdues the smoldering fire in his body and grants him temporary relief. (It's not even his real body, just some meat bag he possesses, which makes Li Lun wonder just how much ZYC's tears would alleviate his pain when they physically meet).

So, he cooks up a plan.

He puts a little piece of a vine inside Bai Ju, next to the boy's heart, and threatens the company that if ZYC doesn't leave with him and doesn't do whatever he wants, he will let that piece of vine travel a little further and split Bai Ju's heart in half. They can have their precious ZYC back - and Bai Ju safe- if they can figure out how to get the ever-burning fire out of him. Until then, ZYC is his.

ZYC agrees, and willingly leaves to find Li Lun in his cave in Wilderness. He is magically locked inside with a very impatient and suffering demon while the company desperately tries to come up with how to save him and Bai Ju.

Li Lun is right- when ZYC's tear touches his real skin, the ever-burning fire subsides tremendously. And so, ZYC keeps getting choked once every 24 hours or so, and in between, they just verbally spar and bicker. When he is not in excruciating pain, Li Lun starts to begrudgingly realize why ZYZ is so fascinated with humans and why he seems so attached to his particular one.

Then, when several days pass, ZYC becomes very weak and passes out. Li Lun is at his side in an instant, confused (he didn't torture him aside from some occasional choking, so what could be wrong?) And then Ao Yin reminds him that humans, unlike demons, actually need to eat, and Li Lun goes "oh, crap!", and sends her to get the food.

Of course, ZYC is faking the fainting spell; he's not some porcelain princess; a few days without food won't do him in like that. He just heard LL and Ao Yin talking about the vine curse and came up with a plan of escape. What he doesn't expect AT ALL is the demon cradling him in his arms, whispering things like "Why are humans so weak and easily breakable" and flooding his body with his demonic energy to wake him up. The more tears Li Lun got out of ZYC, the more the smoke surrounding Li Lun's real body dissipated- and considering that Li Lun chooses to frolic around his cave half-naked, ZYC has been struggling with gay awakening this whole time. And now, instead of escaping, he is nestled on Li Lun's lap, with the demon's hands touching his face, neck, all over his body, with that raspy voice whispering right into his ear, and it bothers ZYC so much he breaks the act.

He is pushed onto the ground in the same instant, the demon growling above him, "You little shit." ZYC tries to struggle, but Li Lun just pins him down harder - the demon is much stronger, always has been - and puts his weight into the hold. Being choked or held in a vice-like grip is one thing, but having a whole lithe demon press along your body while those gorgeous pitch-black eyes stare down at you is another, and it's just too much. ZYC feels his body react to the proximity, and the more he struggles to get away, the stronger the reaction becomes. Heat and embarrassment creep up his cheeks while the demon studies him, then nuzzles ZYC's neck, making ZYC shiver, and smirks, "You're enjoying this." A single tear of mortification falls down ZYC's eyelash and gets promptly whipped off by Li Lun. The demon then rubs ZYC's lower lip and tells him, "you're not getting away from me, Xiao Zhuo" and ZYC feels like he's about to get devoured.

The demon leaves at the same moment, and ZYC crawls back to his corner of shame while dark eyes follow his every move.

(Li Lun has an epiphany of his own- since ZYC invaded his cave, he's been growing more and more attached to the human despite all the attempts to the contrary. When he saw ZYC faint, he felt a pang of fear that he had hurt the boy too much. But when he realized the boy was faking, he got furious - and yet, his hand stilled away from doing any real harm. He realized, to his horror, that he didn't want to hurt the human anymore, but he still needed the tears.... And then, oh. OH. The sweet honey, lilacs and musk of arousal. The more ZYC struggled under him, the stronger the smell became. Li Lun couldn't help but breath it in, savoring it, making the boy he was holding blush and try to hide away from his gaze. A tear rolled down ZYC's soft cheek and Li Lun smiled, the boy was just so sensitive, such an easy crier, the demon hasn't even done anything yet...

And that was the moment when the new plan was hatched. Perhaps, there were other means to make ZYC cry - pleasurable to both parties. Li Lun was definitely going to try the theory out.

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On the downside, when the company finally presented Li Lun with a cure and got ZYC out of the cave, he could barely walk (even though it was not because of any torture)

On the bright side, the company got a second great demon without suicidal tendencies that, once cured, had a perfectly functioning brain cell and helped them take down the big bad without anyone dying.

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