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    There are worse things than waking up injured in a stranger’s house.
    Like realizing the overly dramatic, tree-climbing monkey you used to want dead has apparently decided you’re his responsibility now.

    Demons are acting strange. Danger is circling the Bureau. Wen Xiao and Pei Sijing keep behaving like touch is something casual, Zhu Yan won’t stop hovering, and Zuo Yichen is trying very hard not to think about any of it.

    He is not the type to fall apart.
    He is not in need of caretaking.
    He is definitely not having feelings.

    There’s a case to solve. A crisis to avert. And if everyone would stop looking at him like that, he could absolutely handle all of it.

     

    A slow-burn story about denial, proximity, supernatural instability, and the quiet horror of being treated like someone worth holding onto.

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    The Lans were one of the founding families of the Vancouver Guild; part of their legacy is to maintain their place in it for the benefit of all. Cultivation is important, essential, serious.

    In the distance, something squeaks.

    A disaster, is Lan Zhan’s first impression as the bike squeals to a halt on the far side of Song Lan’s car. The man riding it – and he’s tall, and lanky, and sure-footed – hops off and locks it to the car’s back door. The back door of a police vehicle. He pulls his helmet off to reveal long, sweat-soaked hair with a shaggy undercut, bright grey eyes, and a smile that launches like an arrow straight through Lan Zhan’s chest.

    No, he thinks, watching this trainwreck of a man shimmy between the narrow space dividing Song Lan’s back bumper and the next car’s hood like he’s doing some kind of dance step. Absolutely not.

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    29 Mar 2025

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    Lan Zhan!
    You've probably guessed who's sending you mail, but I'll go ahead and confirm that it's your friend Wei Ying. Hello from Fuzhou! It's already hot here and very wet although spring has barely started. Hope you're keeping cool in the clouds, and say hello to the kids for me. I wish you were here with me - the people here keep making fun of my accent! Write to me soon and give it to Qixuan - that's the pigeon - she'll find me.
    Wei WuXian
     

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    Letters from abroad.

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    "Oh, and speaking of pretty boys," Nie Huaisang says, turning back to Wei Wuxian's unconscious form, "Don't get me started on poor Second Master Lan. He's pathetic without you, you should really see him. He's practically in tears without you here to flirt with him! He's mooning over your corpse like —"

    "Nie Huaisang, that's enough," Lan Wangji snaps. He struggles with what to address first; the worst is that, "Wei Ying is not a corpse. Don't say such things."

    "Sorry," Nie Huaisang says. "But sitting there silently and willing him to wake up isn't going to help, Hanguang-Jun. You want him to wake up, right? Then tell him why!" He whacks Lan Wangji's shoulder lightly with his fan.

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    Wei Wuxian is unconscious for three days after the fall of QishanWen. His friends worry themselves sick.

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    21 Mar 2025

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    Lan Zhan is silent for a long moment, and the van's speakers quietly pipe the second song on the album into the empty space between them. Then Lan Zhan shifts his hand a little on Wei Ying's leg, presses his fingers once into the meat of his thigh. "Alright," he says.

    "Alright," Wei Ying echoes in a wheeze.

    "Is that better?" Lan Zhan checks, because he is a good boy. Then he spreads his fingers out a little wider, because he is evil and must be stopped.

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    Lan Zhan is driving to Chicago. Wei Ying tags along.

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    19 Mar 2025