Chapter 111: WangXian (Part One)
The sun hadn’t risen yet. It was still quiet over the streets. Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi walked together, hearing only the soft taps of the donkey’s hooves clicking on the ground.
Sitting on the back of the donkey, Wei WuXian gave its buttocks a few pats. The pouch at its girdle was full and hard, filled with apples that were probably snacks from the Lan Sect’s juniors.
Wei WuXian fished out an apple from inside and placed it near his mouth. Staring at Lan WangJi’s handsome face from the side, he gave it quite a loud crunch. Watching its apple be shamelessly stolen, Lil’ Apple was so furious that it flared its nostrils, slamming its hooves. Wei WuXian had no time to pay attention to it, giving it a few more slaps as he stuffed the unfinished apple into its mouth, “Lan Zhan, did you know? The one named SiSi seemed to have been a friend of Jin GuangYao’s mother’s.”
Lan WangJi, “I did not.”
Wei WuXian didn’t know if he should laugh, “I was only making a comment, not that I was really asking you. I saw it back at the Guanyin Temple, in Empathy with the ghoul woman. She looked after Jin GuangYao and his mother quite well.”
With a moment of silence, Lan WangJi replied, “Thus, Jin GuangYao let the woman go.”
Wei WuXian, “It should be the case. I was afraid ZeWu-Jun would go soft on him again, so I didn’t say everything. Even now I still don’t we should tell him.”
Lan WangJi, “If he should ask in the future, I will let him know.”
Wei WuXian, “Might as well.”
He turned and glanced back, letting out a rare sigh, “I don’t want to care about any of those nasty things anymore. This is it.”
Lan WangJi nodded and tightened Lil’ Apple’s reins. He continued to walk with it.
Each could only deal with their own troubles. Even if Lan XiChen was his brother by birth, Lan WangJi couldn’t do anything to help him right now. Comfort was useless. It’d all be in vain.
After a pause, Lan WangJi spoke, “Wei Ying.”
Wei WuXian, “What?”
Lan WangJi, “There is something I have never told you.”
Wei WuXian somehow felt his heart skip a beat, “What is it?”
Lan WangJi stopped and stared straight at him. Just as he was about to speak, from behind the two of them came a series of rushed footsteps. Wei WuXian, “Goodness, somebody’s already caught up with us?”
Somebody had caught up indeed, but it was much better than expected. Lan SiZhui ran over, panting, “H-HanGuang-Jun, Senior Wei!”
Wei WuXian propped his arm on the donkey’s head, “SiZhui-er, I’m eloping with HanGuang-Jun. Why are you here? Aren’t you scared Old Mr. Lan would scold you?”
Lan SiZhui blushed, “Senior Wei, do not be like this. I-I came to ask a very important question!”
Wei WuXian, “What is it?”
Lan SiZhui, “I remembered a few things that I could not confirm, so… so I came to ask HanGuang-Jun and Senior Wei.”
Lan WangJi glanced at him before he looked to Wen Ning. Wen Ning nodded. Wei WuXian, “What things?”
Lan SiZhui puffed up his chest and drew in a deep breath. He began, “Claimed he had top-notch cooking skills, yet made dishes that were pungent both to the eye and to the stomach.”
Wei WuXian, “Huh???”
Lan SiZhui added, “Buried me in a field of carrots, saying I would grow taller quickly with water and sunlight, and maybe a few more children would sprout and play with me.”
Wei WuXian, “…”
Lan SiZhui continued, “Promised to treat HanGuang-Jun to a meal but ran off before paying, leaving HanGuang-Jun to pay again.”
Wei WuXian widened his eyes. He almost couldn’t steady himself on the donkey’s back. He stammered, “You… You…”
Lan SiZhui’s eyes were glued to Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi, “Maybe because I was too young, I cannot remember most of the things from back then. But, I am sure that… my surname used to be Wen.”
Wei WuXian’s voice trembled, “Your surname was Wen? Isn’t it Lan? Lan SiZhui, Lan Yuan…” He murmured, “Lan Yuan… Wen Yuan?”
Lan SiZhui nodded heavily. His voice was shaking as well, “Senior Wei, I… I am A-Yuan…”
Wei WuXian hadn’t yet wrapped his mind around what was going on, still confused, “A-Yuan… Didn’t he die? He was left alone on Burial Mound back then…”
Before he finished, Lan XiChen’s words echoed beside his ears, ‘They say those years were him reflecting on his mistakes, but in reality he was entirely bedridden. Even so, when he knew of your passing away, he still dragged such a body to Burial Mound to take one last look, no matter what…’
He spun to look at Lan WangJi, “Lan Zhan, was it you?!”
Lan WangJi, “Yes.” He gazed at Wei WuXian, “This was what I never told you.”
For a long time, Wei WuXian couldn’t say anything.
At least, Lan SiZhui couldn’t hold it any longer. With a loud cry, he leaped up. One hand around Wei WuXian and the other around Lan WangJi, he pulled the two into a tight embrace. Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi bumped into each other from the hug. Both of them were surprised.
Lan SiZhui buried his head between their shoulders, “HanGuang-Jun, Senior Wei, I… I…”
Hearing his muffled voice, Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi exchanged a look, only inches apart. They both saw something soft within each other’s eyes.
Wei WuXian fixed his mood and put his hand on Lan SiZhui’s back, patting, “Enough, what are you crying for?”
Lan SiZhui, “Not crying… Just… I suddenly feel so frustrated, but so happy as well… I do not know how to describe it…”
After some silence, Lan WangJi laid his hand onto his back as well and patted. Lan WangJi, “There is no need to describe it then.”
Wei WuXian, “That’s right.”
Lan SiZhui didn’t say anything. He hugged them even tighter.
Soon, Wei WuXian exclaimed, “Hey, hey, hey, why are your arms so strong? Definitely deserving of HanGuang-Jun’s teachings…”
Lan WangJi glanced at him, “You taught him as well.”
Wei WuXian, “No wonder he grew up so nicely.”
Lan SiZhui, “Senior Wei never taught me anything.”
Wei WuXian, “Who said I didn’t? You were just too young back then. You forgot everything I taught you.”
Lan SiZhui, “I did not forget. Now I remember. I think you did teach me.”
Wei WuXian, “Right?”
Lan SiZhui had on a serious face, “You taught me how to disguise pornography as normal books.”
Wei WuXian, “…”
Lan Wangji glanced at Wei WuXian.
Lan SiZhui added, “You also taught me that when pretty maidens walked by…”
Wei WuXian, “Absolute nonsense. Why do you remember these things only? You must be dreaming. How could I teach these to young children?”
Lan SiZhui looked up, “Uncle Ning can testify. He should also have been present when you taught me these things.”
Wei WuXian, “Testify what? No such things happened.”
Wen Ning, “I… I don’t remember anything…”
Lan SiZhui swore, “HanGuang-Jun, every word of mine is true.”
Lan WangJi nodded, “I know.”
Wei WuXian threw a tantrum atop the donkey, “Ugh, Lan Zhan!” With another thought, he asked, “Speaking of it, How did you remember, SiZhui?”
Lan SiZhui, “I do not understand either. Something just felt really familiar when I saw Chenqing.”
As expected, it was Chenqing. Wei WuXian, “Oh, of course it’d feel familiar. You loved eating Chenqing back then. You always drooled on it and made it so that I couldn’t play it.”
Lan SiZhui’s face flushed red at once, “R-Really…”
Wei WuXian, “Yup, or else why did you remember everything the moment you saw it? You wanna listen to more stories of when you were young?” He made two butterflies with his hands, “HanGuang-Jun, do you remember the time I treated you to a meal, when he held a pair of butterflies and mumbled around, saying ‘I like you’, ‘I like you too’…”
Lan SiZhui’s face grew even redder. Wei WuXian added, “Oh right, that time you even called HanGuang-Jun ‘Dad’ in front of everyone’s eyes. Poor HanGuang-Jun. What a pure, wholesome young man he was back then, yet he inexplicably became someone’s dad…”
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Lan SiZHui yelled, blushing, “HanGuang-Jun, I apologize!”
Lan WangJi looked at the grinning Wei WuXian and shook his head, his eyes gentle.
Wei WuXian spoke again, “Right, Wen Ning, you knew about this?”
Wen Ning nodded. Wei WuXian was shocked, “Then why didn’t you tell me?”
Wen Ning gave Lan WangJi a glance, speaking carefully, “Young Master Lan didn’t say to tell you, so…”
Wei WuXian was infuriated, “Why do you listen to him so much? You’re the Ghost General—why should the Ghost General be afraid of HanGuang-Jun? Doesn’t it make me lose face?”
Lan SiZhui was still shouting, “HanGuang-Jun, I apologize!”
…
The four parted ways in a forest at the edge of Yunping City.
Wen Ning, “Young Master, we’ll be going this way.”
Wei WuXian, “Which way?”
Wen Ning, “Didn’t you ask me what I wanted to do when everything ended? I’ve talked to A-Yuan about it. We’ll be going to Qishan first to bury the ashes of our people. I also wanted to look around there to see if I could find the things from when my sister was still alive, to build her a cenotaph.”
Wei WuXian, “A cenotaph. I built one for you and her back on Burial Mound, but they were burned down. We can go to Qishan too.”
He turned around to ask Lan WangJi, yet Wen Ning answered, “There’s no need.”
Wei WuXian hesitated, “You won’t be going with us?”
Lan SiZhui, “Senior Wei, you should go with HanGuang-Jun.”
Wei WuXian was about to speak again when Wen Ning spoke again, “Really, it’s fine, Young Master Wei. You’ve done enough.”
After a moment of silence, Wei WuXian asked, “Then what about after you’ve done these things?”
Wen Ning, “Send A-Yuan back to the Cloud Recesses, and then I can take some time to think about what to do next. You can let me walk the rest of the way on my own.”
Wei WuXian nodded slowly, “… I might as well.”
It was the first time in all these years that Wen Ning made his own decision and stopped walking the same path he walked. Wei WuXian guessed that perhaps he had something he wanted to do out of his own will.
It was what he hoped all this time. Each to their own path. But now that they day really came, watching Wen Ning and Lan SiZhui’s figures walk slowly, slowly away until they finally disappeared, he felt somewhat dejected.
Lan WangJi was now the only one who stood by his side. Luckily, Lan WangJi was also the only one he wished to have by his side.
Wei WuXian, “Lan Zhan.”
Lan WangJi, “Mn.”
Wei WuXian, “You taught him very well.”
Lan WangJi, “There will come many instances for you to meet again.”
Wei WuXian, “I know.”
Lan WangJi, “After Wen Ning sends SiZhui back to the Cloud Recesses, he can settle down nearby. You will be able to see him often.”
Wei WuXian looked at him, “Lan Zhan, you’re really scared of me telling you ‘thank you’, aren’t you? I suddenly remembered. Many of the times we parted ways in my past life, I said ‘thank you’ to you right before. And every time we separated, I worsened the next time we met.”
The time they killed Wen Chao and Wen ZhuLiu at the courier station, the time they met each other through the flowers at the tower in Yunmeng, the time they parted at Yiling’s Burial Mound. Every time, he used the word to mark a clear line between him and Lan WangJi, stretching out the distance between them.
With a long while of silence, Lan WangJi replied, “Between you and me, there is no need for ‘thank you’ and ‘sorry’.”
Wei WuXian grinned, “Sure, then let’s talk more about some other things, like…”
His voice lowered as he gestured with his hand for Lan WangJi to approach him, as if he was going to whisper something to him. Lan WangJi approached as expected. Yet, Wei WuXian reached out his right hand, lifted Lan WangJi’s chin, and bent down to press his lips onto Lan WangJi’s.
Only after a long time did Wei WuXian part the tiniest bit. Eyelashes brushing against each other’s, he whispered, “How is it?”
Lan WangJi, “…”
Wei WuXian, “HanGuang-Jun, give me some reaction, won’t you?”
Lan WangJi, “…”
Wei WuXian, “You’re so cold. Right now, shouldn’t you be pinning me onto the ground…”
Before he could finish, Lan WangJi wrapped his hand around his neck. With rough motions, he pressed Wei WuXian’s head down, and the two started kissing again.
Lil’ Apple was flabbergasted. Even his apple-chewing mouth was left hanging. He was as frozen as donkey statue. Soon, Lil’ Apple was no longer able to hold up Wei WuXian. Lan WangJi held his back with his left hand and knees with his right. At once, he carried Wei WuXian off of the donkey.
As he wished, Wei WuXian was pinned onto the ground and smooched for a long while. Suddenly, he exclaimed, “Wait, wait!”
Lan WangJi, “What?”
Wei WuXian squinted, “I suddenly have a feeling…”
Woods, bushes, grass, forceful motions, intertwined tongues. It felt like deja vu. He thought for a while. It felt more familiar the more he thought about it. He concluded that he had to ask the question, and tried, “The hunt at Phoenix Mountain, the time I covered my eyes, Lan Zhan, you…?”
He didn’t finish asking. Lan WangJi didn’t answer either, but his fingers twitched slightly. The moment Wei WuXian felt something was off about his expression, he propped his upper body up with his elbow and pressed his ear onto his chest. As expected, he heard thundering throbs.
“…” Wei WuXian was shocked, “Oh, it was really you?!”
Lan WangJi’s Adam’s Apple bobbed, “I…”
Wei WuXian was astonished, “Lan Zhan, who could’ve known? You’d do such a thing?”
Lan WangJi, “…”
Wei WuXian, “You know, I’ve always thought some shy girl did it because she had a crush on me and didn’t dare say it.”
Lan WangJi, “…”
Wei WuXian, “You’ve had dirty thoughts about me ever since then?”
“…” Lan WangJi’s voice sounded muffled, “I, back then, knew I was wrong. Very wrong.”
Wei WuXian recalled how Lan WangJi broke a tree in half alone in the woods when he later found him, “That was why you were so mad?”
Wei WuXian thought he was mad about someone else. He had no idea that Lan WangJi was mad at himself—mad that he acted upon his urges, that he couldn’t control himself, that he took advantage of another in a way that was neither righteous nor abiding by his sect rules.
Seeing how low Lan WangJi’s head was buried, almost as if he was reflecting upon his mistakes again, Wei WuXian scratched his chin, “Alright, stop struggling so much. Well, I’m beyond happy that you kissed me so early. It was my first kiss, after all. Congratulations, HanGuang-Jun.”
Lan WangJi suddenly looked at him, “First kiss?”
Wei WuXian, “Yeah, or else what did you think?”
Lan WangJi stared straight at him. Something strange glowed in his eyes. He started, “Then…”
Wei WuXian, “Then what? Stopping in the middle of the sentence isn’t your style, Lan Zhan.”
Lan WangJi, “Then, back then, why did you… did you…”
Wei WuXian was confused, “Why what?”
Lan WangJi’s lips moved, “… Why did you not resist?”
Wei WuXian paused.
Lan WangJi’s voice sounded muffled again, “You… clearly did not know whom the person was, so why did you not resist? And afterward, why did you tell me…”
Tell him what?
Wei WuXian finally remembered.
Back when he ‘ran into’ Lan WangJi, he proudly showed off to him, saying things like he had lots of experience, like nobody would’ve dared kiss Lan WangJi and Lan WangJi definitely wouldn’t kiss someone else, even something like how he thought Lan WangJi would never give anyone his first kiss for the rest of his life…
All of a sudden, he bent over and broke into roaring laughter.
Wei WuXian pounded the ground, “Hahahahahahahahaha…”
Lan WangJi, “…”
Laughing, Wei WuXian hugged him and gave him a kiss, “With all that, back then you were really that angry because you thought I’d really kissed someone else, weren’t you? Are you an idiot, Lan Zhan?! You fucking believed all that nonsense! Only a lil’ fuddy-duddy like you would believe me hahahahahaha…”
His laughter was too loud, too unbridled. Finally out of patience, Lan WangJi pressed him onto the ground. Abandoning Lil’ Apple on the spot, the two rolled behind a shrub.
So soon after the storm, a few droplets of water still hung amid the grass, dampening Lan WangJi’s white robes. Regardless, the robes were stripped off by Wei WuXian right away. He breathed, “Don’t move.”
The fresh scent of grass enveloped Wei WuXian’s neck and perfused within his lips, while on Lan WangJi, it was the cold fragrance of sandalwood. Wei WuXian kneeled between Lan WangJi’s legs and proceeded to kiss downward, starting from his forehead. In between his brows, the tip of his nose, both of his cheeks, his lips, his chin. His Adam’s apple, his collarbones, the center of his chest.
He kissed down the rises and falls, seeming ever so devout.
As he kissed the firm abdomen and ventured down, a few thin strands of hair slid off his shoulders and teased at the dangerous area along with his soft, thin breaths. Lan WangJi seemed like he couldn’t take it any longer. He reached to grab Wei WuXian’s shoulder, but Wei WuXian caught his wrist instead, “Don’t move, I told you already. I’ll do it.”
He pulled off his hair tie to refasten his somewhat disheveled hair before bending down again. Lan WangJi realized what he wanted to do. With a slightly unsettled expression, he lowered his voice, “No.”
Wei WuXian, “Yes.” He gently took Lan WangJi into his lips.
Making sure to not bite Lan WangJi with his teeth, he carefully wrapped him inside his mouth. As he tried to swallow as deeply as possible, he felt a bit strained with it rubbing against his throat. Lan WangJi noticed his discomfort at once and reached out to push him away, worried that he was forcing himself, “Enough.”
Wei WuXian moved his hand away and started to slowly suck on it.
Lan WangJi, “You…”
Soon he was no longer able to say anything.
The number of pornographic collections that Wei WuXian had read ever since he was young could add up to fill a whole room in the GusuLan Sect’s Library Pavilion. As he was also quite a clever person, he used his lips and tongue according to what he’d seen and learned, diligently attending to the burning erection. With the most sensitive part of his body held inside warm, moist lips and treated with such effort, it was terribly tormenting just for Lan WangJi to control himself from doing some awful act of violence.
Wei WuXian felt Lan WangJi’s breaths become faster. The fingers that gripped his shoulders tightened as well. Speeding up, just as his cheeks and his neck were starting to feel sore, he finally felt a warm stream pour into his throat.
The fluid was thick and steaming, full of the strong odor of musk. As it suddenly hit the walls of his throat, Wei WuXian choked on it and immediately let the shaft out of his mouth. Lan WangJi patted on his back as he coughed, speaking in a surprisingly discomposed manner, “Spit it out, quick. Spit it out.”
Wei WuXian covered his mouth with his hand and shook his head. A while later, he took his hand away and stuck out his tongue toward Lan WangJi, showing him the inside of his mouth, “I swallowed it.”
The tip of his tongue was a bright red while his lips crimson, corners brimming with a speck of white and many traces of a smile. Lan WangJi stared at him blankly, unable to produce any words.
He was one of the most disciplined cultivators, yet at the moment, his usually cold composure was completely crushed. Even the tips of his eyes and brows were tinted a soft shade of pink. With a few touches of color added, it made him seem as if he’d been bullied in some cruel way. Seeing his appearance, Wei WuXian was more than delighted. Stripped to the waist, he put his arms around Lan WangJi’s shoulders, kissing the corners of his lips and the lids of his eyes, “Good boy, don’t be scared. Next time, when it’s your turn to taste mine, you’ll need to perform as good as this, understood?”
His lips were stained with Lan WangJi’s ejaculation. After the kiss, it dotted the corner of Lan WangJi’s lips as well. On top of his somewhat glazed expression, he seemed quite pitiful. Wei WuXian kissed him again, “Lan Zhan, I love you so much.”
Lan WangJi turned to him slowly.
Wei WuXian didn’t know if it was an illusion or not, but there seemed to be a layer of red over his eyes.
Wei WuXian didn’t notice the forced, almost insufferable endurance in his gaze. He thought he hadn’t had enough yet, adding, “Let’s forever be like this from now on, yeah?”
Suddenly, Lan WangJi flipped him over and forced him down onto the grass.
In the instant, the two switched positions. As he felt Lan WangJi begin to bite all over his body, Wei WuXian pushed his head away with a grin, “There’s no need to hurry so much. I said next time you can…” With a sudden throb from below, he exclaimed with an ‘ah’, frowning slightly, “Lan Zhan, what did you put inside?”
He could tell that it was someone’s slim finger, only asking out of convenience. Involuntarily, he drew his legs together, but the foreign sensation felt even stronger. The second finger went in as well.
Wei WuXian had viewed quite the selection of pornography, but he hadn’t seen any on the topic of homosexuality. He never thought he had such interests or was curious about it, and thus he naturally thought that was all there was to the love-making between men—kissing, hugging, at most with hands or lips. As he was pressed onto the ground by Lan WangJi, being massaged finger by finger, he finally managed to realize that it wasn’t the case. On top of the slight pain, he found it somewhat surprising and perhaps funny as well.
But at the addition of the third finger, Wei WuXian couldn’t laugh any longer.
He was already feeling quite sore and uncomfortable, yet the three fingers were still quite a few sizes smaller than what he’d been swallowing. He interrupted, “Lan Zhan, Lan Zhan, uh, s-stop for a bit. Is it really alright like this? You sure you didn’t get it wrong? It’s here? I think it’s a bit…”
But it seemed like Lan WangJi was no longer able to listen to Wei WuXian’s words, curtly muffling Wei WuXian’s mouth with his own. Sinking down, he thrust inside.
Wei WuXian widened his eyes. His legs sprang up. The two lay flesh against flesh, their hearts and their breaths racing.
Lan WangJi’s voice was hoarse, “… Sorry… I could not hold back.”
Seeing his blood-shot eyes, clearly from holding himself back, Wei WuXian knew that it was all because of his teasing. He clenched his teeth, “Don’t hold back if you can’t… Then what should I do now?”
Only out of desperation did Wei WuXian ask him of all people. Lan Wangji, “… Relax.”
Wei WuXian murmured, “Okay, relax, relax…”
He relaxed a bit, and Lan WangJi tried to push inside some more. Immediately, Wei WuXian couldn’t help but tense the muscles around his hips and abdomen.
Lan WangJi, “… Does it hurt?”
Arms clinging to him, Wei WuXian couldn’t help from shivering, holding back tears, “Yes, it’s my first time—of course it hurts.”
With this, he felt Lan WangJi grow harder within his body.
One could easily imagine what it’d feel like when the soft, fragile insides were forcefully invaded by a hard, foreign object. But the moment he thought of how Lan WangJi reacted to just those simple words of his, Wei WuXian burst out with a laugh again.
As a man, he knew how uncomfortable Lan WangJi felt right now, stuck inside yet still constraining himself from forcing his way in. Wei WuXian felt his heart go soft. He took the initiative to draw his neck forwards, whispering by his ear, “Lan Zhan, my good Lan Zhan, Er-gege, I’ll tell you what to do. Kiss me right now. It won’t hurt if you kiss me…”
A bright red flushed Lan WangJi’s fair earlobes.
He spoke through much difficulty, “… S-Stop calling me like that.”
Hearing that he even stammered a bit, Wei WuXian broke into laughter, “You don’t like it? Then I’ll call you something else. WangJi-didi*, Zhan-er, HanGuang, which one do you… Ahhhnmff!”
TN: Younger brother.
Biting his lips, Lan WangJi sent it all the way inside.
All of Wei WuXian’s cry was sealed within his throat as he clutched tight onto Lan WangJi’s shoulders, brows knitted, tears seeping from his eyes. His legs wrapped stiffly around Lan WangJi’s waist, afraid to move. Mind finally clearing up a bit, Lan WangJi breathed in a few times, “Sorry.”
Wei WuXian shook his head, forcing a smile, “You said before. Between you and me, there’s no need for this.”
Carefully, Lan WangJi went to kiss him, his movements somewhat clumsy. Wei WuXian closed his eyes, opening his mouth to let him in deep. After a while of tongues twirling around, out of the blur he saw the brand mark below Lan WangJi’s collarbone.
He put his hand there, covering up the scar. His smile had mostly faded, “Lan Zhan, tell me. Is this related to me as well?”
With a moment of silence, Lan WangJi responded, “Nothing. I was drunk.”
After he brought Wei WuXian back to Burial Hill after the massacre at Nightless City, what awaited him was three years of confinement. Yet in those days, he heard the news that what went around always came around, that one’s deeds would be paid no matter what—that the YiLing Patriarch finally died, both body and soul.
His confinement hadn’t ended yet when he forced his way out of the Cloud Recesses and towards Yiling with that still-wounded body of his. He searched for many days atop the entire mountain. Apart from Wen Yuan, whom he fished out still from a half-burned tree hole, still unconscious due to a high fever, he could find nothing. Not even a piece of bone, a scrap of flesh, a single strand of a weak, dissipating soul.
On the way back to the GusuLan Sect, Lan WangJi bought a jar of ‘Emperor’s Smile’ from Caiyi Town.
The wine was fragrant. And mellow. It was clearly not of the pungent kind, yet his throat burned the moment it went down, on fire from his eyes all the way to his heart.
He didn’t like the taste, but he felt he understood why that person liked it.
That night was the first time Lan WangJi ever drank, as well as the first time he was inebriated. He had no memories of what he did when he was drunk. For a long time, all of the Lan Sect’s people, no matter disciple or cultivator, held disbelief in their eyes when they looked at him. Some said that night he broke through the storage room of the Cloud Recesses, ransacking the chests in search of who-knew-what. When Lan XiChen asked, he said he wanted a flute, his eyes lost.
Lan XiChen gave him the finest flute made of white jade, yet he threw it away in fury, saying this wasn’t the one he wanted. He couldn’t find it no matter what, when all of a sudden, he saw the iron rods that had been sealed away after being confiscated from the QishanWen Sect.
After he sobered up, a scar the same as the brand mark Wei WuXian received in the cave of the Xuanwu of Slaughter appeared over his chest as well.
Lan QiRen seemed both upset and angered, but he never ended up scolding him for it.
No matter reproach or punishment, he’d had more than enough.
With a sigh, he no longer opposed Lan WangJi’s decision to keep Wen Yuan. Lan WangJi saluted him and went to receive his punishment, kneeling in silence at the Cloud Recesses for a day and a night.
He drank the wine he drank, suffered the wounds he suffered.
Until now, it’d been thirteen years since scab grew over this wound.
Lan WangJi began to thrust, while Wei WuXian shut his eyes tightly, gasping to fix his breaths to Lan WangJi’s motions. When he was just getting used to the overwhelming object, Wei WuXian moved his hips involuntarily and a sudden bout of pleasure ripple from down below, crawling across his whole body through his spine.
Wei WuXian immediately discovered how to enjoy such a position. He buried his hands inside Lan WangJi’s sweat-drenched hair, lifting the forehead ribbon as he grinned, his voice velvet, “… Does it feel good? Inside of me?”
Lan WangJi bit down on his lower lip, answering question with even fiercer thrusts.
Wei WuXian was fucked so hard sweat dripped down his back, glistening from top to bottom. Gasping, he rambled on, “Lan Zhan… You’re doomed. We’re still missing the last prostrate of the three. We haven’t even married yet. To do such a thing before we’re married—you know what it’s called? If your uncle knew he’d drown you in a pig cage*.”
*TN: An Ancient Chinese torture method often used to punish people for sexual promiscuity. The person/people is put inside a cage made for pigs then sunken underwater, either just with the head above the water to keep them alive or drown them entirely. More often than not used as an idiom to warn people against such acts.
Lan WangJi almost glowered as he forced a response, “… I have long since been so.”
What followed was another deep plunge. Wei WuXian threw his head back in both pain and pleasure, exposing his defenseless throat. Lan WangJi bit down on it.
The almost too intense pleasure made Wei WuXian’s mind go blank for a short while. Amid the haze, his first thought was, … Can’t believe it. Why the fuck didn’t I do this with Lan Zhan back when I was fifteen? I’ve really pissed away all my days, haven’t I?
During such activities, Lan WangJi was definitely the ‘doer’—more action than talk and flirtation. After some daze, Wei WuXian regained his composure and began to ramble on about the dirtiest things, right beside Lan WangJi’s ear, “Second Young Master Lan, when did you start having feelings for me? If you liked me since such a long time ago, why didn’t you take me sooner? The back mountains of your Cloud Recesses would be quite a good location, wouldn’t it? When I snuck out to fool around alone, you should’ve tied me up and dragged me away, pinned me onto the grass like right now to do whatever you want to me… Ah… Go softer. It’s my first time. Be nicer to me…
“Where was I? Let’s continue. You’re so strong, so I couldn’t have resisted. If I screamed, you could’ve silenced me. Or your Library Pavilion also would’ve been a great place, right in the middle of the scriptures scattered on the ground. We could’ve bought a few cut-sleeve booklets to compare and learn, any position at all… Brother! Brother! Er-gege! Spare me, spare me please. Fine, fine, I’ll stop talking. You’re too much, you’re way too much. I can’t take it, I really can’t, so don’t…”
Lan WangJi couldn’t take his teasing at all. With the thrusts, Wei WuXian felt like everything inside him had been stirred together. He begged nicely, yet Lan WangJi went even harder. Having been held down for almost an hour without changing positions at all, Wei WuXian’s back and buttocks had been slammed numb. After the numbness came pain and itch, almost as though millions of ants crawled within his bone marrow.
Now that he finally had a taste of the seed he’d sown, Wei WuXian pleased him with kisses and rambled on, lacking all pride, “Er-gege, do me a favor and spare me a last breath. We’ve got so much time on our hands. Let’s continue next time, let’s continue with you hanging me up, yeah? Spare this virgin today, won’t you? HanGuang-Jun is too strong and the YiLing Patriarch has lost miserably. They shall fight again next time!”
Veins stood out from Lan WangJi’s forehead as he spoke with difficulty, a word at a time, “… If you truly want to stop… then… shut your mouth and stop talking…”
Wei WuXian, “But I’ve got a mouth and mouths do nothing but talk! Lan Zhan, when I said I wanted to sleep with you every day, can you pretend like you didn’t hear it?”
Lan WangJi, “No.”
Wei WuXian felt his heart shatter, “How could you do this? You’ve never turned me down before.”
Lan WangJi offered him a faint smile, “No.”
Seeing the smile, Wei WuXian’s eyes lit up again, so ecstatic that he almost forgot where he was. But the next second, Wei WuXian was forced to cry from the fierce motions providing stark contrast to the smile that was like sunlight on snow. He gripped the grass with both hands, shouting hoarsely, “Then four days, how about once every four days? If not four days then three works too!”
At last, Lan WangJi concluded with resonating determination, “Everyday means everyday.”
T/N: The piece of NSFW is known as The Great Harmony of Life (Part One, interrupted by a serious exchange) (naming credit belongs to the author). Contents included: blowjob, swallowing, fingering, and Actually Putting It In. Possible squeaks include: lack of lube, pain, and K’s tears. Enjoyed it? Harmony Part One ended. Serious business proceeded (for a short while before they got back to it). Serious business ended. Harmony Part Two proceeds. Contents included: continued fucking, WWX looking for trouble getting what he deserves. Possible squeaks include: WWX openly professing his rape fetish (and anyone who kink-shames him for it can perish), and more tears. Also LWJ has a biting kink and we will give him love. End of Harmony. They continue to fuck but it’s a bit more implicit (Even more implicit? *gasp). Ends on a note you should read even if you’re not into NSFW, so please check it out!*
Am I blushing? Oh god I blushing 😊
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XD and in the end wei ying become a bottom
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“…Can’t believe it. Why the fuck didn’t I do this with Lan Zhan back when I was fifteen? I’ve really pissed away all my days, haven’t !?” – Was I the only one who imagined it?
Yes/No
I’m seriously fangirling so much about this chapter. I love it!!! 😍💜💜
seriously.. i re read it like 4 times..
dude I THOUGH I WAS A SOFT STAN LMAO BUT OOF
lol here again
You will never believe me. I read it this for 10 times ahahhaha…
I already read this nove 5 times. But this chapter already 10 times.
Sorry poor english
This must be the most fav chapt for all the reader *wink* with how LWJ suffer for over 13 years longing for WWX n his pain for losing WWX (his love of his life) also how he always be the one to accept anything WWX do…poor WWX’s body, everyday is everyday wkwkwkwk must prepare his body….
OK. I read this chapter last night and couldn’t comment on it (except a brief reply to a comment by another reader, to agree with them).
This chapter just gave me so many feels and I’m sure every reader has and will say the same. Disclosure of secrets, of past events, realisation of changes, of paths separating, yet with the promise of merging again in future….
I cried many tears throughout this chapter but not all tears were of the same feelings.
SiZhui being A-Yuan, the love and gratitude he holds for both his fathers, that not all the strict upbringing in Gusu Lan can suppress… That clingy hug, the tears, the gentle look that passed between the adults, the quietly happy Wen Ning as witness… Such a happy resolution for a little boy who almost, almost died. Once again, I’m so moved by the sheer depth of WangJi’s devotion.
Then it turned to tears of laughter thanks to our dear WuXian trying to lighten the situation only to have it backfire on him. Kudos to the author for that witty dialog – it just sparkled! And through it all, our devoted WangJi kept his vow to side with his beloved no matter what. His devotion once again made me tear up.
At the back of my mind, I kept expecting the duo with Lil Apple would return to the inn to rest and clean up, maybe along the way cleaning off the graffiti created last night (or demolishing the entire wall) and tossing a silver dollar to the owner of the chickens as compensation.
But that kiss led to another revelation and again, kudos to the author. WangJi’s embarrassment, WuXian’s amazement… so glad it’s out in the open. I have a soft spot for strong characters displaying rare instances of vulnerably and secrets being shared so I’m sure you know, this bit pushed all the right buttons for me. It did.
WuXian’s demonstration of love came rather as a surprise, but I loved his earnest attempt and needless to say, I loved WangJi’s reaction.
It was the next part that really took me aback and not in a good way. But first – yes, this is not my work and yes, no one, but No One except the author can decide how their story goes.
It’s just my reaction to that act, and that’s all. And I also know that part received rave reviews from so many readers that I must surely belong to the minority.
It’s just that any aspect of roughness during sex is a personal squick of mine (don’t even mention bondage) and I stay away from such stories. I just didn’t expect this so epic tale to have that.
There were some parts of their first time that I liked, but on the whole I was… well, reading through gaps between my fingers.
I guess one of the aims was to show WuXian’s irrepressible spirit and WangJi’s iron control broken by the one person he can’t deny.
But all I could think of, while trying not to cringe, was… Marriage bows! Bath! Bed! Lubricant! Care! Slowly! Gently! OMG, everyday?!
And just how much had WangJi learned that his knowledge of such matters even surpassed WuXian’s?!
*hides*
(But that proof of the Yiling Patriach’s innocence was sweet. )
Anyway, I’m sure WuXian survived the ordea-uh, adventure. Kinda brought it on himself.
Still writing my own version though 🙂
Anyway, I really appreciate the work you guys do. Thank you for it. Sorry if this connect is way too long 🙂
I felt the same way and I’d love to read your reimagining. Do you have a link? Thanks!
I understand somehow, since I’ve never been in any kind of sado-maso-bondage-biting whatever kink. Yet, that is sooooo totally not what I read. I enjoyed the feelings and the non-verbal interaction behind the actions themselves, since those were their own choices. As long as neither is truly hurt, and I don’t believe, from what we read, that was the case.
Yes WWX says that it hurts coz he’s a virgin, but as soon as he moves, pleasure replace pain, so it lasted what, few seconds? Ofc he keeps blurting nonsense, but we’ve learnt (hopefully!) not to take everything WWX says at face value, coz he just loves fooling around (which is also y JC at 1st thought he hadn’t truly fainted bk in Lotus Pier after the ancestral hall event).
If it helps you get through those uncomfortable feelings, in the longer version of the taiwanese edition, when he teases LWJ at 1st (that dirty begging is not included here), LWJ stops to ask if it’s true or fake, warning that he’ll lose control if it goes on, and WWX just go on with more teasing, so LWJ understands that’s actually what WWX wants, him losing restrain, so he complies! 😉
Also in that version, we get to see that the 2 times WWX kinda lose consciousness here is actually him coming! So he’s definitelly enjoying this way more than this pov lets us believe! Remember that he’s not always the most reliable to give us the proper information on what is trully going on…
Hope that you can enjoy your reading better with this added info…
I finally get the part when LWJ got self-brand mark while drunk like the one WWX received in the cave! Thank you. These erotic scenes are so good and mushed in my imagination. I sorta wanted and feared because I am a softie in need of a ‘slow hands’. WWX probably wanted rough as he kept taunting LWJ although he begged and pleaded for mercy. You guys/gals are precise at describing-is this your own interpretation or strictly translating from MXTX? I am happily bothered now…
Obviously they are translating from the novel, from MXTX. With 100% accuracy.
I suddenly have a connection as to why lan zhan reacted the way he did after wei ying told him thank you at the start of the conversation after their first time being intimate with each other at the inn. It is because for lan Zhan he has a negative connotation to wei ying placing distance between them every time he tells him thank you.
“ Wei WuXian looked at him, “Lan Zhan, you’re really scared of me telling you ‘thank you’, aren’t you? I suddenly remembered. Many of the times we parted ways in my past life, I said ‘thank you’ to you right before. And every time we separated, I worsened the next time we met.”
The time they killed Wen Chao and Wen ZhuLiu at the courier station, the time they met each other through the flowers at the tower in Yunmeng, the time they parted at Yiling’s Burial Mound. Every time, he used the word to mark a clear line between him and Lan WangJi, stretching out the distance between them.”
Damn i remember wang yibo said “zhan gege green tea so good. Drink everyday is everyday” lmao now i know why wang yibo aka lan zhan said that
wang yibo you sneaky sneaky brat. can’t believe I didn’t notice that after watching literally every single one of their interviews. granted I haven’t read the novel back then. poor xiao zhan tho he probably was at a loss for words 😀
That little brat obviously read the uncensored version with all the extras in secret (i’m sure the whole cast did) 😂. The only two ppl we know for sure read the whole uncensored version is LHK (LXC) and Shijie. But the others don’t even have to reveal it. Its so obvious. How else would they be that good in bringing their characters to life? lol not just with the script for sure 🤭
Me a person who has read explicit yaoi: *blushes when LWJ n WWX are getting it on*👀
This happened at chap 97….n now too. LWJ making me blush…..never thought a day like that wud come.
Also LWJ n WWX r the perfect boyfriends. No more further discussion.
I’ve always re read this, it’s amazing how you think about Lan Zhan and the way he holds Wei Ying..
an SiZhui added, “Buried me in a field of carrots, saying I would grow taller quickly with water and sunlight, and maybe a few more children would sprout and play with me.”
It was Daikon or Chinese radish, not carrots.
Finally seeing Lan Zhan became himself, see both of them happy.
everyday means everyday 😉
I was screaming while reading this for the whole time I’m –
Well, basically your name describes everyone’s reaction 🙂
Can you add “dubious consent” to your warnings list? There’s this whole “no” exchange that, frankly, might cross the line for people. Irl that would cross the line.
Anyways, wow, that was a terrible first time!
But I liked all the dialogue around it. Many secrets/background stories tied nicely together.
I just hope no fans take this as a “this is how sex looks like” or even “this is how it works”, because it does not and you should not try following this example irl. I know, it’s fiction so that should be clear, but sometimes access to proper sex education can be lacking. So I’m saying it for anyone who might need hearing this, anyways; this is NOT how it should be, and definitely not the first time between inexperienced partners who don’t know each other’s boundaries and tastes very well.
I really do not understand you . Why are you making a big fuss about that? What’s wrong with their first time? Both of them were virgin and discovered how to make love. For sure it was a little painful for WeiYIng since he was the uke but he enjoyed it after…I don’t see any problem with that, it was a normal first time, with love and passion. Doesn’t matter if is a novel or the reality.
Yeah, this is exactly why I wrote my comment.
1) When people are just starting to explore each other, consent is EVERYTHING. Going past “no” is… well, that’s a hard no. You don’t play around with playful “no”s until you are 100% sure the other person is actually into it and just teasing. The text didn’t imply that, even though it was meant that way; this is something people need to be careful with, especially inexperienced / with a new partner.
2) Not using lube. Just because they didn’t know any better doesn’t mean this is how it should go. “For sure it was a little painful for WeiYIng since he was the uke but he enjoyed it after.” First time is NOT meant to be painful, it does not need to be and porn and fiction made people believe it is normal, but it is completely unnecessary, for both men and women, and I pity everyone who had such an experience. It can be awkward and silly and people might not know what to do etc. but there’s no reason for pain.
3) Apologizing only after painful insertion. Again, you gotta ask. You have to go slow. You need to know BEFORE whether the partner is into it or not. There was no way to know whether WWX will be into it. If he wasn’t, what then?
There’s so much more, but I’ll leave it at that.
“Why are you making a big fuss about that?”
Because I worry people might, like you, not see what’s wrong with it and think their first time is supposed to be rushed and painful and that they get to play around with dubious consent without fully understanding it.
Hello, since this is not a discussion blog, this comment will be my last on this subject and I answer you with all respect. Yes, I respect your opinion however, the first time is not always beautiful, pink and planned. The first time should always be beautiful and respectful for both parties.
Also, you have to put yourself in the context of the novel,
1- Lan Zhan never expected Wei Yin to confess his love to him (not in this situation)
2- Wei Ying took the first steps while giving a blowjob to Lan Zhan so all the tension of it exploded (emotionally, sexually ect ..)
3- The two were caught in the heat of the moment, passion. Lan Zhan took the time to prepare Wei YIng, never forced him. During the preparation, Wei Ying never refused. As it was not planned, there was no lubricant with it. He even told Lan Zhan, if you can’t hold him back, then don’t … and both are so in love with each other so they will never hurt the other.
On thta, I wish you a wonderful day and Holidays
Thank you for this!!
Warning, long rant coz I’m fed up of stiff neck judgments on what should and shouldn’t be proper consent… read at your own risk! This is the kind of discussion I have with my own teenage daughter btw. Yes I’m very open with her, like my grandma and my father were with me and my sister, and I think that it goes a long way to have a healty sex life.
So.
I totally agree that consent is very important. But it doesn’t need to be specifically verbal. For instance, when LWJ says no to the blowjob, it is obviously not because he doesn’t want it, but most probably coz both of them seem to have a kind of “pure” opinion of the other one, and LWJ is prolly conscious of the fact that he’s already on the verge of losing control and is afraid of it. But then, if he trully didn’t want it, he cld simply push WWX away, without even the need to use his superhuman strenght, and WWX wldn’t go on. But he is more than willing to accept it once WWX contradicts him. And that is a very obvious implicit consent.
Again, for WWX, he told him a few chapters ago, to do whatever he wants of him, so he already gave his consent to try about anything LWJ cld think of. And even though I’ve never been into BDSM, speaking from experience, telling to your partner to do whatever they wish, one that you trust as much as those 2 trust each other, even with no prior experience together, is very enticing, arousing, even exhilarating. I’ve done it more than once and never regreted it, specifically coz I never did it with someone that I didn’t trust 100% before hand. And that has got with self confidence too. So it’s not that mush about consent as about learning who you are and building selfesteem, and it goes way farther than sex.
As for pain. Well, even with proper lubrification (natural or added) and proper opening, yes a 1st time may (or may not) be slightly painful, depending of the physiology of the person. I’ve even known someone who had to be surgically opened as her hymen didn’t want to break naturally. Ofc here we’re talking of men, but since most readers are women, I think it’s good to mention it, coz it’s possible, not specifically “normal” as you say, but all the range from totally painless to naturaly impossible may be seen as normal, and noone should either dismiss or expect every possibility.
So here it’s about learning to know ourself beforehand and listening, watching and feeling both ourself and our partner. And the more you’re into your partner, the most wonderful that 1st time and the following may be.
As my grandma told me even before I was 10 (yes, she was… quite special!) with the right partner, a simple orgasm may become ecstasy. And she was sooooo right! Lol As long as you get to know yourself enough to choose rightly! 😜
And I think we have a wonderful exemple right under our eyes here, twice WWX loses it to ecstasy rather than a simple orgasm! Because he’s definitely with the right person.
Now for that question of lube… *sigh* outsider lube aka oil n such, are definitely not a must!!! Even the very 1st time, when you choose the right person and you wait to be ready with proper emotional and physical preparation, our body can provide everything that is needed!!! Again speaking from experience, I’ve always been able to naturally get the proper moisture to fully enjoy the act from the start, being in front or at the back. So no need to cringe about the fact that they don’t have any here, especially with the masteful blowjob WWX provided, I’m sure there is plenty natural lube around at that point!!!
Oh and a last thing about implicit vs explicit comment. Plz, if you have to ask before doing every single move, kiss, caress or other, honestly you have more chances of closing and drying up than staying aroused!!! You also have to use your senses to notice your own reactions anfmd those of your patner, and thus build a way more satisfying relationship than if you try to put words on everything!!! Learn with respect and trust and even “mistakes” can become fun and enticing!
dry sex hurts like hell no way in hell he would enjoy that during his first time, without knowing his kinks and likes sighhh
Where is stipulated that it was dry sex?I’m pretty sure Lan Zhan’s “tool” was all wet for the efforts Wei Ying did before to him, he was already prepared for get in there, don’t forget that part.
Wei WuXian’s response to Lan Zhan doing him says otherwise esp in the more explicit version of this particular nsfw. He was the one who turns LWJ on with all his dirty talking and urged him to f*** him deeper coz apparently he likes being filled by LWJ. Its a bit censored here. And don’t just assume unless you are WWX.
I never focused much or comment on the sex scenes cause thats not my main concern and i’m not pressed by their sex life unlike a few ppl here. I just know they are two people in love and sex is the way they truly make that love, and i leave it at that. But when ppl bashed them or the author or the translators team for that matter, you can bet your pressed ass that i’m gonna fight back.
lanzhan in bed: *spanks,dominates,bites leaves bruises all over the body*
lanzhan in real life: *accidentally steps on weiwuxian’s legs* OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY, IT HURTS YOU, I DIDN’T WANT TO…
I’m soooo obsessed with your work….no…i’m IN LOVE!!!😂😂😂
I can’t help but wonder how exactly Wei Wuxian died. After the uncle and the Gusu Lan cultivators found Lan Wangji and Wei Ying back then, what happened to Wei Wuxian after they caught Lan Wangji? I have tons of other questions as well, but as curious as I am, I kind of like the approach the author took in this novel. Some things remains unexplained, and that just adds a hint of realism to it.
Wei WuXian says he died from a backfire. So I’m assuming he was devoured by his own ghouls, leaving nothing behind. Wen Ning said he heard he died a terrible death. This was something Lan Zhan warned him about when cultivating that path. Everyone and the show helped build the narrative that it was Jiang Chang. So hearing the events before this, WeiYing had just destroyed the tiger seal amulet, when the siege at Burial Mound happened, so his powers waned. The most important thing to him at the time was destroying the amulet, before people got there, since it would answer to anyone good or evil.
I think after the massacre at Nightless City, he was ready to die. He’d lost everyone, not Lan Zhan obviously, but I don’t think he was mentally coherent during that time. It would explain why his spirit was at peace and didn’t linger. No matter how many times people tried to summon it.
I agree with you. Whitout the amulet (the Stygian Tiger Seal ). Wei Ying had no more protection (since the amulet was created to control the corpses) so he was backfired by his ghouls.
After the death of his shijie in his arms, he losts his mind and his will to live. Even Lan Zhan was not able to save him and bring him back to reason. He confessed to him, patiently, ready to shoulder consequences with him but it was too late. Without Lan Zhan ( who was healing his wounds and I am suspect LanQiRen took that opportunity to do the siege so Lan Zhan will not interfere and save Wei Ying again), who was the only one always facing him with honestly, he was ready to died and find peace finally.
“Whitout the amulet (the Stygian Tiger Seal ). Wei Ying had no more protection (since the amulet was created to control the corpses) so he was backfired by his ghouls.”
I just wanted to clarify that the stygian tiger seal was created for him to be able to control all of the corpses without having to constantly play the flute, it wasn’t created to protect him. Even without the seal he still was extremely powerful. We don’t know exactly what happened but I guess when he destroyed it things got out of control, and there were also al the cultivators trying to kill him that distracted him so.. also even though he might have been psychologically traumatised, I don’t think he actually wanted to die, because he still had the wen renmants to protect. If he just decided to die or let the others kill him then what about wn and wq who sacrificed themself in order to save him and the other wens? I think he didn’t really know what to do at some point but forced himself to keep on living because he still had people to protect whose life depended on him.
Hi Raining,
You’re right with or without the stygian tiger seal he was still powerful , one of the most powerful’ s cultivator if not the powerful’ s one and this tool was created to control the corps as well .
However, he doesn’t really have anymore people to protect. He lost his family (I include Jiang Chen), his ‘’shidjie ‘’ who died almost in his arm, Wen Qing and Wen Ning sacrificed themselves for his sake and his freedom. The day of his death, he hided A-Yuan before going to the battlefield knowing he will die. He was resolute. In his mind (don’t forget he lost almost all of his sanity ), by dying, it will end the war and all blood pools because he never asked or wanted this. He is true and pure heart, a simple man.😁
Just to comment on a point you made.
“I think after the massacre at Nightless City, he was ready to die. He’d lost everyone, not Lan Zhan obviously, but I don’t think he was mentally coherent during that time. It would explain why his spirit was at peace and didn’t linger. No matter how many times people tried to summon it.”
Yes, he was ready to die, and was inconsolable, but at that time he had no romantic feelings for LAN Zhan. He thought LZ wanted to seize him just like everyone else. He always felt on he wanted to be friends, not LZ.
You’re right, but at one point, only LZ could speak to him as a true friend, resonate with him. Sometimes WY listened to it and sometimes not. He was his only friend (not a romantic way)
I wonder how much time passed between the massacre at Nightless City and the siege at Burial Mould? Does anyone have an idea?. LAN Wangji suffered his punishment and spent three years recovering, at some stage WWX died and LWJ dragged his poor injured body to Burial Mould to search for WWX. Did his death occur three up to three years after Nightless City? I haven’t been able to puzzle it out.
I do not remembered which chapter but if I am not mistaken, it’s 3 months and LZ didn’t participate because he was still recovering from his punishment..however, when he heard about WY’s death, he dragged out his injured body in order to find something from WY and I thinkbecause he didn’t want to beleive in Wy”s death because of his feelings towards him, he never burnt any paper money for him (but this is my assumption)
Indeed the siege happened 3 months after the massacre of Nightless city. We know he had used that time to destroy half of the Stygian Tiger Seal, and was about to destroy the other half when the sects besieged him. Destroying such a powerful magic artefact was even harder than creating it. So he was definitely weakened by the process. Even if he still had ChenQing, he was not at his best. Plus, we don’t know how close he was about to destroy the 2nd half, like, had he already started the process, so cld have been in a very unstable situation, which wld explain the bklash? I actually love one of the fanfic that build on both that instability and his usual selfsacrifice like shown in the 2nd siege in the present. When you read that chapter again, you get the feel that it was so natural for him to make that decision, nearly like it was a practiced situation… And as someone else put, he’s not really rdy to die simply because he has a high sense of duty and feels that he still needs to protect the Wen remnants. So what if he saw the corpses entering a rampage that he was unable to control because of his own emotional instability on top of being weakened because of the previous destruction of the 1st half of the seal? He wld still need to protect them and as many ppl as possible. Add the last ingredient, the fact that he never talks about those sacrifices he’s willing to make, and I feel that fan fic hits its mark in saying that he actually purposely attracted corpses on him and set that backlash to destroy them with his own death. Ofc, that is only speculation (or fanfic!) but so much in character and wld explain even further JC’s anger at seing him sacrifice in front of him, plus his rush back inside at the 2nd siege and seemingly 2nd sacrifice… so yah, it’s kinda become my head cannon…
Still wondering how they can get used to WWX in MXY’s body, cuz it’s already 100+ chaps and i still can’t grt used to it… :/
for me… i think because even with different physical features he still acts as wwx. his attitudes, mannerism, etc. so taking the features aside… he is still wwx.
Agreed, so every time WWX is just being himself in the new body, I think LWJ also sees WWX’s old face shining through…it’s the same beautiful soul after all
“Everyday means everyday”
Oh god im going to die finding or either waiting for a guy like Lan Zhan 🥺
I am melting🥰😘😍 my imagination goes crazy🤭 I’m gonna read again🤭
i fangirl weirdly so i always have a pillow when reading these sorts of books and well if i get flustered or start fangirling i cover my face with the pillow and stand up and turn around away from the screen.
also wei wuxian i feel you dude. a rape kink is just as normal as a daddy kink and i also have such a kink.
Ok, ok LAN Zhan likes it rough! Wei likes to be taken gently. What a pair!
WWX likes to b taken gently?!? I don’t think we read the same book… 🤨😜
Actually Wei Ying like it rough too. We get to know this in the Inscense Burner Part 1 when he was watching his younger self getting f*cked hard by the the teen Lan Zhan how he wish the teen Lan Zhan was more rough to his teen self and fck him more harder. And in this WangXian chapter it was his 1st time to have sex so ofc it will hurt and want his hubby to go gently but as they been doing it everyday he was so used being fcked that way by Lan Zhan and like the pleasure from it and that’s why he likes to tease Lan Zhan everyday when they are on bed bc he knows how Lan Zhan wouldn’t be able to control himself afterwards. He himself demanding for it to be rough 😏😌
I have a question : LWJ learn about gay sex from where?? Even WWX don’t know how to do it
well when he was younger he had obviously read a few books because he had dreamt of fucking wwx back when wwx had to right all of the rules in the gusu lan library and wwx had swapped his book out for porn. so before he had that dream he had obviously snuck a gay porn book into his bedroom for ‘research’.
Just about those dreams we learn about in the extra chapters, I don’t think they date back from when he was teenager though. Coz they’re very close to what WWX trow in this chapter, so like many others too, we think he had them after following WWX kinks. As the author also said, even if he is the seme, he’s also more following WWX lead than the other way around.
Doesn’t mean he didn’t already dreamt of WWX back in the days, just not necessarily like in the incense burner chapters.
From gay porn book
Yes like the replies says. The author said so herself. My guess is, he could not exactly have that in his normal book collection without his brother and uncle finding out, so after that whole fiasco in the library pavilion where WWX had tricked him, i think that he might have got an idea afterwards. To disguise his cut sleeve porn book that he might have secretly purchased during those three months.
Meeting WWX had really made him reckless, no wonder he tried to suppress it for so long and come off as rude sometimes.
This chapter added like 8 years to my life span
Also “everyday means everyday” can we get a salute for our fallen brother lolol
So much love and tenderness in this chapter. I love it to bits!!!