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    Yu Ziyuan has been dead for over a hundred years, so it's a bit of a surprise when she dies.

    One minute she's watching the youngest Lan daughter bow to her ancestors—it still baffles her that Wei Wuxian counts her as an ancestor, and that he's filial enough to have had a plaque made for her, but here they are—and the next she's choking on blood, her eyesight dimming. Wei Wuxian, she thinks furiously, what have you done now?

    Then she wakes up.

    Because her bladder is full.


    Yu Ziyuan finds herself back in Lotus Pier, before any of her children have been born, and decides that things would go better if Jiang Yanli is the heir, not Jiang Cheng. One change leads to another, and another, and another.

    And is Cangse Sanren flirting with her?

    Things do not always go smoothly, but sometimes the family you find is the one you should have had all along.

    It's a pretty light Mature that could probably have been okay as a heavy Teen. Fully written and beta-read; 73k of raising children, standing up for what one values, and falling in love.

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    11 Aug 2024

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    The thing with musical prodigies is that they're soloists, and soloists play alone. He doesn't want to play alone anymore.

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    "A summer guest lecture series? Oh, very nice. I wish I could sit in on that."

    "Do you also play the piano?"

    "Not even a little bit," says Wei Ying cheerfully. "But I'm sure you'd have a lot of thoughts on musicality that would be relevant regardless."

    "Oh," says Lan Zhan. He seems to be searching for something else to say. "I believe it is oversubscribed," he says finally.

    "As it should be," says Wei Ying, and does not tell him that he has all of Lan Zhan's albums downloaded onto his phone, listened to over and over when he's on a train, a plane, waiting for a taxi, has followed his career since he overheard half a Mendelssohn when they were fifteen.

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    15 Mar 2021

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    Jiang Cheng stares at him. “Didn’t you say you broke up five months ago?”

    “Yeah.”

    “So why do you have a picture of you two kissing taped to your fridge?”

    “Because we’re too broke for magnets,” Wei Wuxian explains, then considers that statement. “Well, I’m too broke for magnets. Lan Zhan probably refuses to buy them because he’s trying to have lofty ideas about the moral failings of materialism.”

    Wei Wuxian navigates the trials of living with his ex-boyfriend in apartment 1301.

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    07 Jul 2020

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    “I am going to Yanli-jie’s,” Lan Zhan grits out. “To film,” he adds pointedly, hitching his bag full of filming equipment a little higher on his shoulder.

    “At her flat?” asks his brother, eyes twinkling.

    “Yes,” says Lan Zhan resignedly.

    “Wonderful,” says Lan Huan. “Although, those sandalwood notes of your cologne - while very lovely and intense - good choice, brother... I don’t think they’re quite strong enough for your channel’s viewers to catch.”

    Lan Zhan exhales. Here it comes.

    “Unless,” says Lan Huan, “The reason for all this is at your friend’s flat instead? A person, perhaps?”

    (AU where film student Lan Zhan is an accidental vlogging sensation under the name Hanguang-jun, keeps running into his best friend Jiang Yanli’s younger brother far more frequently than he’d like, and suffers.)

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    01 Jul 2020

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    Based on this tumblr post

    Wei Wuxian is a barista at The Yiling Roastery and finds himself having to deal with nightmare boomer, Jin Guangshan – a situation made more difficult by the fact that a) this is his sister's future father-in-law so he has to be diplomatic, and b) the only other customer in the shop is Lan Wangji, the cute guy from his History class that he keeps wanting to talk to but can never quite meet, and his chances of making a good first impression are now next to zero.

    The situation becomes easier to deal with, however, when Lan Wangji starts shoving dollar bills into Wei Wuxian's tip jar every time Jin Guangshan acts like an asshole. And maybe, just maybe, his first impression wasn't that bad after all.

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    11 Jun 2020