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    Wei Ying was pretty sure his next door neighbor Lan Qiren hated him until he adopted A-Yuan. Now he’s bringing by disgustingly healthy food, taking Wei Ying and A-Yuan to family dinners, and let’s not even mention the nephews he keeps hinting Wei Ying should meet. Is it possible Wei Ying, consummate orphan, has found a family in his grumpy old neighbor?

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    "And how do we even know if this Grandmaster would help us?"

    The thing is, Nie Huaisang really doesn't know. The Wei-Xiong he knew had been kind and ever-willing to aid whoever was in need, but Wei-Xiong had been vilified and cornered by the world after he had ceased to be of use. Had been ambushed on his way to meet his supposed family, left with no one and nothing until the only way out was to remove himself from the land. Wei-Xiong doesn't owe any of them his aid, doesn't owe them anything at all.

    "We don't know," he says as much, "But at this point, do we still have the luxury of choice?"

    After the Yiling Patriarch surrendered the Stygian Tiger Seal, Lanling Jin rules the entirety of the Cultivation World as Wen Ruohan once sought to do. What is left of the Sects try to fight back by seeking the help of a powerful Grandmaster across the sea.

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    "Wei Ying-" Lan Zhan says, stutters, "I'm sorry." 

    And now Wei Wuxian sees it, the red rimming Lan Zhan's eyes, the rumpled edges of his blazer. There is an old, familiar urge for him to reach over, to hold Lan Zhan's hand and smooth his hair, to tell him that everything will be fine. 

    "We're all a bit sorry about this, I think," he says instead, and finds that he means it. For Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji and everyone else in that Guanyin temple, the pain must be unbearably fresh, like skin just flayed open. But Wei Wuxian's chest had been cracked open a long time ago, his wounds licked and cauterized and sewn shut over five long years - Ever hurting, but a dull, constant ache, "It's really alright, Lan Zhan."

     

    Five years after being accused of corporate espionage and losing everything, the Guanyin Scandal breaks open and Wei Wuxian finds a familiar face at his door.

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    Not many people see the gentleness in his little brother, too thrown by the cold of his gaze and the scarcity of his words. He thinks it's why Wangji always prefers the youngest of their disciples, who reads one another from the way their bodies move, as Wei Ying had also done ever since he had come into their lives. Lan Xichen watches, heart threatening to spill over from all the warmth it now contains, watches as Wangji pats Wei Ying's cheeks ever so gently and smiles.

    "Good," Wangji says softly, almost a croon, and Lan Xichen can feel how the words loosens Wei Ying's limbs inside his embrace, softens all the doubt and fears that the boy has always worn on his shoulders like a cloak, "Wei Ying is so good."

     

    The Twin Jades of Lan are many things for other people, but for Wei Wuxian, they are just his Lan Laoshi and his Xichen-ge.

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    Wei Ying uses his smile and bright laughs like a folding screen, like one of Nie Huaisang's many fans, but Lan Wangji sees. He sees the network of lightning and raised skin on the boy's back, sees his smile falter with every barbed reprimand from Jiang Wanyin and the way he constantly skirts around the border of things, as if he has to constantly know the point where he is unwanted.

    He looks at Wei Ying and sees a future of squandered potentials and a brightness curbed at every turn, of a life making himself less in a Sect that would always see him as a servant's son and the reflection of their own inadequacy, and he laments that Wei Ying could not seem to see that - See past the sense of debt and false belonging his so-called family had ingrained into him.

    But Lan Wangji is a patient man, and he would make Wei Ying see in time. Even if it means using the insecurities of Wei Ying's own family against him.

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