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    High Fantasy/Science Fiction AU.

    The cot looked like a death trap. It was held together by a bunch of leather straps connected to a metal frame. Even with a mattress put on top it looked like a torture device.

    "If I die in the night, I will come back to haunt you," Wei Wuxian said, eyeing it.

    "It is not for you," Lan Wangji said.

    "What? I'm a prisoner. Of course I'm taking the cot."

    "You are a guest and you are taking the bed."

    "I'm not taking the bed. Come on, I can't let you sleep on that. If you die everyone will blame me."

    "I will not die."

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    “Maybe Senior Wei should do a countdown,” suggests Lan Sizhui, “and come find us after that.”

    “Good idea,” agrees Wei Wuxian, covering his already-blinded eyes with his hands. “How about I count down from ten?”

    “Twenty!” shouts Lan Jingyi, though his voice is already pretty distant.

    “Twenty!” Wei Wuxian laughs. “Okay, then, if you’re really going to be that slow. Twenty, nineteen, eighteen…”

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    The senior disciple of the Yunmeng Jiang sect is, in a word, shameless. Words seem to flow from his mouth with no regards to their consequences; he flings both arguments and compliments into the air with unrestrained delight. Lan Wangji would say he’s captivated, but captivation feels both like an understatement and a misnomer.

    He’s captivated, perhaps, like how one could be captivated at the wreckage of a farmer’s cart along the road, or how one could be captivated by a tiger lurking nearby in a forest. Wei Wuxian is a force of nature, a typhoon making landfall upon the shores of the Cloud Recesses.

    But if that is what he is, then Lan Wangji must stay resolute.

    Or: five times Wei Wuxian was shameless, and one time Lan Wangji was shameless back. (CQLverse)

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    First loves, Wei Wuxian knows, are like injured baby birds. Precious secrets to be tucked away from the rest of the world, divulged only to those who know you best.

    He’s nurtured many birds over the years, from laughing boys swimming in the river to perfumed girls fanning themselves under the shade of the trees. But none of them have ever quite set his heart aloft quite like the cold and aloof Second Jade of Lan, whose kisses have seared themselves into his skin, whose forehead ribbon still has imprints on his left wrist.

    Or: five times Wei Wuxian loved Lan Wangji, and one time Lan Wangji loved him back. (CQLverse)

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    Lan Zhan finds out, to his chagrin, that the bane of his life is named Wei Wuxian and she is, in fact, a rather popular contemporary dancer on Weibo. She had been a principal dancer with the Lotus Pier Opera and Dance Theatre for several years before becoming a contestant on Dance Smash, her lithe but powerful figure allowing her to mix both feminine and masculine dance moves together into a unique, intoxicating style of her own. 

    Lan Zhan is, in a word, impressed.

    (In another word, aroused.)

    (He’s rewatched her Mulan-inspired routine at least ten times by now.)

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