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A Dramatic Reading by pupeez4eva

  • Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Wherein the Juniors accidentally write a cursed fanfiction, and everyone has to reenact their parts in it, or potentially cease to exist.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

A Gem Out of the Mess by phenelt

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The story comes out in upset dribs and drabs. Wei Wuxian, the rumour goes, has enthralled a community to do his bidding, and worse yet has suborned Hanguang-jun and forced him to become a concubine of the dreaded Yiling Laozu, treating him as barely more than a courtesan.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

A Haunting Love by omegas_m and Selenay

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: lan Zhan's new home is occupied by a century old ghost. And cultivation is not a myth.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

a stone to break your soul, a song to save it by rikke

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: When the entire cultivation world turns against Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng comes up with a plan to save him and arranges a marriage between his brother and the Second Jade of Lan, Lan Wangji.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

a trivial loss by bosbie

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: After the burning of the Cloud Recesses, Lan WangJi visits the jingshi to find out if the mementos he kept of his and Wei WuXian's shared month in the Library Pavilion survived the fire.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

An Arrow Through Time by syrus_jones

  • Recommended by: sincerely_seven, Dame-Amaryllis
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2020-11-29)
  • Synopsis: In which Lan Wangji passes out after leaving the QishanWen archery competition only to wake up an indeterminate time in the future with a beautiful, infuriating, very naked stranger in his bed. It goes about as well as expected.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

anamnesis by nanthebread

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. Alzheimer's Disease. A chronic, neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and gradually worsens over time. Most people expect it to only appear in the elderly who are already going senile, their minds and bodies frail due to erosion from the sands of time. Nobody expects it in adults in their prime, vivacious with the prospect of a bright future. Nobody expected it to strike Wei Ying, the most vivacious and brightest of them all.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

as if to meet the moon by sunandships

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: A tale of Wei Wuxian seeking his Lan. In the afterworld, on the bridge of memory, and beneath the eternal moon. Dervied from a traditional legend.

bless my soul (i'm losing control) by aroceu

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Wei Wuxian returns from the Burial Mounds as a vampire. CQL verse.

Bound Only by the Sea by levament

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2021-03-13)
  • Synopsis: It's not every day Wei Wuxian gets swept off his feet by a handsome alpha, but when he does, that alpha turns out to be the actual Emperor. It was a surprise to him too.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

brave new world by Quixiote

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2019-07-15)
  • Synopsis: Selkie AU. There is magic still hidden within the world, if one were to look. Sometimes it comes to you on the breeze. Sometimes it comes to you after much searching. For Wei Ying, it comes to him in the form of a inquisitive six year old picking up a ribbon. Or, the co-habitation saga of a single father, his son, and a shape-shifting seal prince.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Burning Bridges by Keysmashed

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: For many years, Wei Wuxian had been in love with Lan Wangji, craving what little attention he could get from the stoic young man. Dismissals and rejections never mattered until one last push made him believe he was never going to earn Lan Wangji's affection. When a letter from Gusu arrived in Yunmeng asking for Wei Wuxian's hand in marriage for the First Jade of Lan, a broken-hearted Wei Wuxian accepted the proposal in hope of forgetting his first love.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Cave Survival (or: how the Xuanwu cave could have gone) by cerbykerby

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: An alternate version of the events in the Cave of the Tortoise of Carnage. All the cheesy romantic tropes. All of them. ALL. Basically an excuse to write Lan Wangji panicking and Wei Wuxian being oblivious.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

close your eyes and i'll kiss you by lanwineji

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: After the sunshot campaign the land became poisoned with resentful energy. There is now a famine, and the man blamed for it is the Yiling Laozu, Wei Wuxian. Lan Wangji is injured by friendly fire when on a mission in the Burial Mounds, and is unexpectedly rescued by the enemy.

Concerning Rabbits by pomme

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: In which Lan Wangji navigates life, family, grief, friendship, and love through the years—with rabbits.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Confessing Apostasy by JemTheKingOfSass

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: "No, no," chokes out Wei Wuxian, eyes squeezed tightly as he fights against the light and the warmth. He deserves neither - Lan Wangji swinging Bichen at him, trying to destroy both a flute and its user in one slash, that is the only relationship they have and this temporary, fleeting relief from it is confusing and infuriating. "Leave, get out of here... just go."
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

cuddle up with a hesitant skeleton by Stratisphyre

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: The Burial Mounds Makes Monsters

dissonante by Misila

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2020-01-13)
  • Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. Lan Wangji has always followed the rules, been up to and surpassed every expectation placed on him. He is a good student, an outstanding guqin player ever since he entered music school, brilliant and praised for his skill and commitment. His life is a harmonious one, a song carefully crafted to never sound any less than perfect. That is, until a single discordant note bursts into his life, tearing down his every wall and changing the music to suit a completely new dance.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Dream a little dream of me by Moominmammashandbag

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji finds a prisoner under Jinlintai, and breaks his beloved free. Nie Huasang knows who murdered his brother. He just needs some proof. Wei Wuxian has once again invented a whole new field of cultivation while trapped in a hell on earth. It certainly comes in handy. And Huaisang's aviary provides the key, because a songbird doesn't have enough brains to get a tune that wrong while keeping it that recognizable. The problem with poison administered by music is that you can't count on songbirds not to pick it up. All of this culminates in a perfectly executed Hamlet style plot to reveal the enemy before every sect leader, a succession of shocked outcries, an oblivious Lan Xichen, and accusations of murder spoken by the victim's own severed head. A great deal of fun to revisit.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Nie Huaisang/Mo Xuanyu

dream of a funeral; hear of a marriage by defractum

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The news spread around the cultivation world quickly: Hanguang-jun would take whomever was skilled enough to take the Gusu Jade Token from around his neck as his cultivation partner and spouse. Ten years later, Wei Wuxian is brought back into Mo Xuanyu's body, and he is awfully confused as to why random cultivators keep trying to attack Lan Wangji.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Fate Misnamed by incendir

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2020-05-16)
  • Synopsis: Jingyi’s inner peace, from the sounds he was making beside Sizhui, didn’t appear to be faring any better. (or, 5 times junior trio watched wei wuxian unwittingly seduce lan wangji, and 1 time they had to watch him do it on purpose)
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

focal, filler, and line by bosbie

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2020-10-26)
  • Synopsis: Mo XuanYu successfully summons the YiLing Patriarch from the dead and exacts revenge on those who wronged him. A cursed arm is detained in Dafan Mountain, and the newly-revived spirit of the most hated man in the cultivation world quietly leaves the scene under his old acquaintances' noses. Three years later, someone — a lunatic to some, a dead man to others — sells flowers at the marketplace in the dead of winter.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

for you, a smile from heaven by jiazhen

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The day is strange. Wei Wuxian wakes to see his husband still in bed.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

From my heart's ground. by orange_crushed

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji takes up gardening, after losing everything. He follows his mother's footsteps, and pours hisemlf into a garden. From the flowerbeds he grows a new path and comes to understand both his mother and his lost love better than he ever could have dreamed.

grieve the living by Misila

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Wherein Wei Wuxian survives the siege, but only a few people know.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

happy not knowing by plonk

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The cultivation world is rebuilding from the wreckage of the Sunshot Campaign, but Wangji and his shield brother Wei Wuxian are still completely attached at the hip. It is sad that Lan Xichen’s brother is stuck in the youthful pattern of - ah, no polite way to say it: exchanging handjobs with his shield brother - rather than moving on to more adult pursuits. On the other hand, now that the war is over, Wangji does seem so much more open and happy than he was as a boy. He smiles sometimes, mostly at Wei Wuxian. Once, he even took an afternoon off. So Lan Xichen can let Wangji’s closeness with his shield brother lie for a time, while he finishes maturing.
  • Pairing: Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian

How Wei Ying Went from Oblivious Idiot to Shameless Boyfriend in Three Days by misscamm

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: “If you give him some relationship advice and I help him with flirting, we’ll get Lan Zhan his heart’s desire in no time!” Wei Wuxian says boldly, and Lan Xichen rubs his temples as if he’s having a headache. “What?” “… I have offered him relationship advice,” Lan Xichen says finally, slowly, giving Wei Wuxian a look. “I believe the object of his affections is oblivious to his feelings despite numerous gestures.” “What an idiot,” Wei Wuxian declares, and Lan Xichen looks downright pained. “Don’t worry, Lan Xichen, between your good advice and my excellent tutoring, we’ll make certain Lan Zhan’s affections will be clear to even the most oblivious.” “… I certainly hope so,” Lan Xichen says after a moment, looking down at the counter and sighing.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

I Dreamed Of You At Nighttime. by cherryburlesque

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: A confrontation after a tense war meeting, and kisses stolen on a bridge in the dark. “What am I then, Lan Zhan? A heretic? An opportunity?”

I will surrender (myself to this moment in time) by Naamah_Beherit

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2019-12-25)
  • Synopsis: There's an entire army coming for him, and an unstable artefact in his hand - and Wei Wuxian knows he'll be dead before the night ends. Injured, bedridden, and surrounded by unfamiliar faces, he wakes up in Gusu afterwards and it's something he never expected to happen. He's well acquainted with nightmares, but this particular one forces him to face one person he's been hoping to forget. And yet, in the silence between heartbeats, a part of him wishes for this nightmare to be real.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

In Another Life by mondengel

  • Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: BaoShan SanRen is a merciful immortal and gives Wei WuXian a second chance.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

keep going, keep going by tangerinechar

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The letters Lan Wangji wrote Wei Wuxian over the years.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

let me keep you close by jaws_3

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The five times Wei Wuxian notices he's holding Lan Wangji with his tail and the one time Lan Wangji thinks to ask about it.
  • Pairing: Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian

Like Rabbits by Setari

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji's self-control is not actually stronger than the eternal temptation that is Wei Wuxian, and despite all reason and logic, there are Consequences. Unfortunately (or fortunately), Wei Wuxian has never been very good at heeding those. OR: How many babies can I give Wangxian without actually changing the main plot?
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Loneliness Knows My Name by Jaywalker_Holmes & Treef

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: AU after the First Siege of Burial Mounds. Wei WuXian didn't die; instead, he was saved by someone everyone thought was already dead - Wen Ruohan. However, no one knows this (since Wen Ruohan is apparently great at faking deaths), so the cultivation world rejoices even as Lan WangJi desperately searches for his Wei Ying and finds a little child instead. Wei WuXian, on the other hand...
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Notes: Has a sequel, Endless Sacrifice (Ongoing).

Losing My Mind by pupeez4eva

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: On a drunken dare, Jiang Cheng drinks a potion that allows him to hear other people’s lustful thoughts. It’s just his luck that he’s stuck in close vicinity with the guy who is completely and utterly besotted with his idiot brother. One thing's for certain - there is no way he's leaving this with his sanity intact. (Or, where Jiang Cheng has a lot of regrets, Lan Wangji is having an ongoing sexuality crisis, and Wei Wuxian is as oblivious as ever).
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

lost whenever you go by Wanderingflame

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Following the First Siege of the Burial Mounds, Lán Wàngji is recovering from his punishment when he begins receiving a visitor at night. He knows who it is; he just needs to convince him to stay.

love & longing, rabbit edition. by jaws_3

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji makes a (minor) miscalculation and gets turned into a rabbit. He then makes the (ridiculous!) mistake of seeking Wei Ying out for help.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Marital Claims by yeolinski

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Nobody seemed to believe that they’re married, so they just went with the flow. For years.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

no dawn, no day, i'm always in this twilight by butterflylungs

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status:Completed
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Rating: Explicit
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji is haunted by something that follows him out of the Burial Mounds.

nothing gold can stay by rikke

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Before Wen Chao can throw him into Yiling Burial Mounds, Lan Wangji finds Wei Wuxian.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Of Pining, Obliviousness and Failed Seclusions (Or How Gusu Lan Sect Almost Got Eight New Sect Rules) by misscam

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Afterwards, Lan Xichen would wonder that if Young Master Wei and Wangji hadn’t been so completely oblivious about their feelings for each other, he might have remained in seclusion after all. But honestly, how can anyone be expected to remain quiet while witnessing such a ridiculous amount of mutual pining?
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

One Ends, Another Begins by Shinocchi

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Being back in Yunmeng, Wei WuXian unravels a tangled knot between himself and a long-lost friend and finding himself opening up a new path to tie his knot with another long-lost friend. Home is not a place; it's the people — and the heart.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Notes: Part of the 「Unspoken Words」 series.

One for Heaven and Earth by cerbykerby

  • Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: On the night Lan Wangji's mother left, she gave him a divine robe and told him to never let anyone see or take it from him.

One Problem Leads to Another by Nikki373

  • Recommended by : eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: As of that first day in the library, Lan Wangji has a problem. His problem has a name: the rule-breaking abomination of unholy glee and blinding smiles… The first disciple of Yunmeng Jiang… Wei-gongzi… Wei Wuxian… Wei Ying… Two weeks into disciplinary sessions, Lan Wangji has a different problem. And Gusu Lan will suffer for it.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Only in My Eyes by Leffy

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. Lan Wangji has recently discovered that his childhood crush is living in the apartment in front of his. Wei Wuxian has appeared back into his life, now with a family of his own. It's most likely a misunderstanding, and it would have been solved if Lan Wangji had bothered to ask the most obvious question.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

operational amplifier by chinxe

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji has never been good with words, or at writing. But, if it'll allow him to imagine a world where Wei Wuxian could actually love him back, he supposes it couldn't hurt to try. (Or, the one where Lan Wangji copes with his Feelings by writing self-insert fics. Yeah.)
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Pebble in the Deep by catchmeifyoucreon

  • Recommended by: Gamma C Avy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Wei Wuxian wakes up covered in blood, his spirit thrown into a strange body – and Lan Wangji is battering down the door, crying out for a stranger called Mo Xuanyu. As Wei Wuxian struggles to piece together what the troubled and disgraced Mo Xuanyu means to Lan Wangji, he finds himself faced with Lan Xichen’s disdain, Jiang Cheng’s disturbing friendliness, and a Lan Wangji who seems conflicted and guilty. Thrown into the thick of things at Jin Guangyao’s discussion conference, Wei Wuxian is forced to confront the shadows of his past, whether he likes it or not – and he’s dragging an unlikely band of allies along with him on the journey.
  • Comment: in which the first two-thirds of the original novel plot happened with the actual Mo Xuanyu as Lan Wangji's sidekick. As the time to confront his half-brother came to a head, he committed the sacrifice ritual, hoping that Wei Wuxian would be able to do what he could not; and that this last thing he could do on earth would give the man he had come to admire above all others his equal back.

phantom pain by rorotea

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2019-07-24)
  • Synopsis: In the eleventh year after the Yiling Laozou's death, lan Wangji discovers a village of ghosts.

precious tears by chinxe & domokunrainbowkinz & Keysmashed & lily_winterwood & Naamah_Beherit & savedbythenotepad & sushicorps & tangerinechar

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji is always beautiful. His crying is no exception. (Or, eight times Wei Wuxian made Lan Wangji cry.)
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Professor Lan's Private Life by coppersulfate

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. Lan Wangji teaches History at the university. He was forced to give online lectures from home because of worldwide quarantine. Not a single graduate student had ever learned so many details about the personal life of their beloved unshakable professor as those who attended his online lectures.
  • Pairing: Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian

Punchline by jiangnan

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: “Sorry guys, I’ll only know love it if hits me in the face!” Wei Wuxian laughed. Lan Wangji, heart feeling like it was bursting in distress, could not restrain himself any longer, as he walked up to Wei Wuxian. And without hesitation, punched him in the face.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Pygmalion by syrus_jones

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2020-10-20)
  • Synopsis: After swapping his textbook with pornography in the infamous library incident, Lan Wangji won't acknowledge Wei Wuxian, and in a moment of panic, Wei Wuxian silently beseeches heaven. He learns to be careful what he wishes for.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Response by Aki_no_hikari

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: What if Wei Wuxian hadn't been silent to Lan Wangji's Inquiry?
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

SanRen by Kyogre

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Leaving YunmengJiang in an effort to curb the tensions in the Jiang family, Wei WuXian becomes a rogue cultivator. Even without the support of a sect, he is a rare genius whose name will become known across the cultivation world and whose techniques will influence the course of a war. However, what influences his own fate is a chance meeting that becomes the first step toward love.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

send my world into motion by SecretStorm

  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: By the time Lan Wangji is eighteen, he knows he loves Wei Ying. Hates it, but knows. So it is much, much worse when the older Wei Wuxian saunters back into his dreams, calling Lan Wangji handsome and calling himself his husband.
  • Pairing: Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian

so we could party too by SecretStorm

  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. “I’ve made a decision,” Wei Wuxian announces. “All I want for my birthday is to shove Jiejie’s soup in my face and force Lan Zhan to watch The Emperor’s New Groove for the first time.”
  • Pairing: Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian
  • Notes: Part of the bless you for coming out in public series.

Stunted, Starving Juvenility by Tomaten Mark

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Synopsis: At sixteen Wei Wuxian is - through some strange twist of fate, or a nick in the layer between parallel universes, who knows – out of the blue confronted with that one incense burner dream one night. While his curious mind is left unable to stop poking at this new perspective on Lan Wangji, circumstances in the Cloud Recesses begin to change and Wei Wuxian is suddenly presented with life-altering opportunities. Maybe Gusu isn’t so bad after all? (Or alternatively: The fic where I get to give Wei Wuxian the academical scholarship he deserves while simultaneously getting him hitched early on.)

sweet advertisement by sensitivesummer

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. When Lan Wangji is asked by his brother to be the bunny mascot for his family's new ice cream shop, Lan Wangji thought he would regret his decision in agreeing to do it. Yet, when he is unexpectedly tackled and hugged by his longtime crush Wei Ying, Lan Wangji thinks he might actually like his new job.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

The Care and Keeping of Hanguang-jun: An Instruction Manual by Wei Wuxian by dreaming of your qin (sherleigh)

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Wei Wuxian contemplates death. And who will look after Lan Zhan when he's gone?

The Concubine Mo Chronicles by Enigmatree

  • Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Synopsis: Wherein Lan Xichen is the Emperor, Lan Wangji the Crown Prince; the Jin, Jiang, and Nie are Dukedoms; and even 13 years dead, Wei Wuxian is still the most feared man in all of China. Newly resurrected, he would love nothing more than to cultivate a core and go become a rogue cultivator. Except, there's something very suspicious going on in the Imperial Palace, and while Wei Wuxian might not be able to help Lan Wangji solve it, the unassuming and soft-spoken "Prince-Concubine Mo" sure can.
  • Pairing: Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian

The Good That Won't Come Out by raisedbyhyenas

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: A case-fic. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji investigate a disappearance. It's been months, and nothing interesting has happened. Not even any assassination attempts.
  • NSFW

The Haunting of Wei Wuxian by pupeez4eva

  • Recommended by: sssrha
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The dead stick around in hopes of seeing the fall of the notorious Yiling Patriarch. Instead, they're treated to the love story of the century.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Tags: Crack

the meaning of the ritual by newamsterdam

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: When the entire cultivation world turns against the Yiling Patriarch, Wei Wuxian makes a risky gamble— he'll agree to participate in an ancient ritual for cleansing the spirit, so that his character can no longer be called into question. The catch? He has no idea who his partner for the ritual will be.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
  • Notes: Has a sequel, all the words i mean to say (they'll never come out the right way).

the passing of seasons by yoonminoml

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: It wasn't Jin Zixuan whom the Ghost General killed during that fateful encounter on LuanZang Hill. It was Lan Wangji. Wei Wuxian spends the passing seasons endlessly searching for Lan Wangji's soul, while others spend the years trying to heal his.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

The Pets They Love and Hate by rikke

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Wei Wuxian makes an attempt to get over his fear of dogs.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

the sleeper's gift by iliacquer

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed.
  • Synopsis: A story of a curse within a curse within a curse, and of a true love that overcomes twelve lifetimes of death.

The Talk by rikke

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Sizhui gets elected to ask Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian to tone down the affection a little.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

The Tears of Thirteen Years by ShenWeiLightning

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: To find Wei Ying, Lan Wangji has to find himself and he unknowingly has thirteen years to wait.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

things we're all too young to know by someitems

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Sizhui doesn't know much about the Yiling Patriarch—until he discovers just how important the man was to his beloved Hanguang-Jun. So when Mo Xuanyu arrives on the scene, sights clearly set on Hanguang-Jun's affections, Sizhui decides Mo Xuanyu needs to hear the story before he gives his heart away. But Sizhui is missing one very important piece of the puzzle...
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Twelve Moons and a Fortnight by stiltonbasket

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: In which Wei Wuxian spends a year leading the Jiang sect while Jiang Cheng helps Jin Ling claim his rightful place in Lanling, and that makes all the difference.
  • Pairings: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue

twice by Misila

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. "I... heard you took the worst of the crash." Be it medication, the daze of sorts still clinging to his senses or brain damage, it took Wei Wuxian a couple of seconds to understand the implications behind Lan Wangji's words. "...You were there?"
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Under a Blanket of Black Wings by Chaotic Androgyne

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis:Lan Wangji tells A-Yuan a bedtime story about a beautiful monster and the brave little boy who was his friend. Thirteen years later, the monster returns.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Under Extreme Duress by SSSRHA

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2020-08-29)
  • Synopsis: Later, curled up at Lan Wangji’s side in a meadow behind the Cloud Recesses, something suddenly occurs to Wei Wuxian. He sits upright. “Lan Zhan,” he says, “my brother thought we were having sex. Why would he think that?” Lan Wangji glances pointedly at the forehead ribbon that’s currently wrapped around Wei Wuxian’s wrist. Wei Wuxian laughs. “Ah, fair enough.” Or: Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji bond over being the only betas in the Cloud Recesses, surrounded by horny alphas and omegas who just want to bang. And, of course, they’re the ones tasked with making sure no one has sex, because the universe apparently hates them.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

undying by synonemous

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Soulmate AU Fic. Before he broke the Stygian Tiger Seal in two, he took one last look at his wrist. Everlasting, it said. Even after everything, his other half still considered their love everlasting. Wei WuXian murmured a quiet apology to the soulmate he had never met and then he unleashed an unholy nightmare.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

until daybreak by chattoyant

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Wei WuXian dies for the second time, and Lan WangJi makes a bargain.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

We'd roll and fall in green by x_los

  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2020-06-14)
  • Synopsis: Rule 63 AU. In which Lan Wangji marries Wei Wuxian in the Cold Cave, but she doesn't know it.
    • Praying for Cleverness: The Cloud Recesses Qixi Festival is a bit of a mess this year. Wei Wuxian won't stand for anyone insulting her sister, while Lan Wangji cannot quite work out whether he got married today.
    • You and me/Won't be unhappy: On Qixi, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian may or may not have gotten married while pledging themselves to Lan Yi's quest. A few weeks later, in the wake of a night-hunt that tests them both deeply, they may or may not consummate the union.
  • Pairing: Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian

When fish soar by mondengel

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Mermaid AU. The second Wei WuXian hit the water Jiang Cheng knew it was over.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Would You Come Home? by s6115

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Suddenly, Lan Sizhui finds himself in Lotus Pier, the home of the father he'd forgotten, but surrounded by his things. Can he unravel the mystery of who his father was? With his friends, can he even find a way to bring him back from the dead?

You still sound like a song by Moominmammashandbag

  • Rccomended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Dormant (last updated 2022-04-04)
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji is summoned to Yunmeng by the two heirs. They want him to make contact with Wei Wuxian, sole casualty of the Wen assault, now guardian of all Yunmeng's rivers. Things do not go exactly as planned. It is fortunate his family is amenable to his marraige to a god.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

you've got to find a way, say what you want to say by Quixote

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy, eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Every month, a man comes into the post office with a letter that cannot be sent to the person they are intended for. The saga of letters sent to the Yiling Patriarch, as told by the mail carrier.

我拿青春赌明天 / I’ll wager my youth against tomorrow by tombenough_and_continent

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: The dust of this mortal world cannot fall upon him—he is a strand-dancer, a weaver of time’s tapestry, dispatched by Gusu Lan’s Symphony to climb upwards into the knots and gnarls of alternate timelines and coax them towards the future in which Gusu reigns, benevolent and peaceful and supreme—the future in which Lan Wangji himself is sung into existence.

sowing seeds in the cold palace by sweetlolixo

  • Recommended by: cute_heart
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Wei Ying is wed to emperor Lan Wangji in order to save the Gusu Lan empire. But instead of the blissful marriage he was promised, he is spurned and sent to the cold palace—until a chance encounter changes his fate.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

The Price Of Old Wishes by SoManyJacks

  • Recommended by: cute_heart
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: With Lan Sizhui almost grown, Lan Wangji began to question if there was much else to live for. Then an old wish came true, but at what cost?
    Or, a retelling of the events of the novel from the perspective of Lan Wangji.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Birthday Party by waffles_4_breakfast

  • Recommended by: cute_heart
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: What if Jin Zixun didn't attack Wei Wuxian at Qiongqi Path and waited until the party to attack?
    A fix-it fic where Wei Wuxian gets to attend the party and an entirely different cascade of events follow.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Second Summer by Anonymous

  • Recommended by: cute_heart
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: A year after the mysterious death of the Jin heir, Lan Wangji runs across the secret, long-lost, amnesiac love of his life while on a night-hunt.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

The Housewife's Guide to Causing Chaos by dvasva

  • Recommended by: cute_heart
  • Status: Incomplete
  • Synopsis: After being dead for four years, Wei Wuxian wakes up in a body he doesn't really feel comfortable with, in a place that he's sure wants him dead, and married to a man who surely hates him.
  • Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

    Jin Guangyao/Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue 
Chattel by TiredRazzberry
  • Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Dormant (last updated 2022-02-19)
  • Synopsis: Rule 63 AU. At the first opportunity, Jin Guangshan sold his bastard daughter off, like a cow to the butcher. He valued her meat more than her words. A fatal mistake. The discovery of Jin Guangyao's true gender sets her on a new path - to the altar alongside her sworn brother. Unexpected allies come together. They wage another war and build a new peace.
  • Pairing: Nie Mingjue/Jin Guangyao

Lies You Told, Lies You Didn't by names_for_dusk

  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: You refused to think of it as love. It was an illness, an affliction. Everyone had something wrong with them; you had Zewu-jun.
  • Pairing: Lan Xichen/Jin Guangyao
  • Notes: Part five of the To the Ends of the Earth series.

Obligation by ilgaksu

  • Recommended by: heartss, regicidaloptimism
  • Status: Dormant (last updated 2022-04-08)
  • Synopsis: The first gift arrives after the war.
  • Pairing: Lan Xichen/Jin Guangyao/Nie Mingjue

    The Junior Quartet 
A Civil Combpaign by Ariaste
  • Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: “And,” said one of the pompous ministers, “there’s the matter of a marriage to consider as well!” Jin Ling, who at the beginning of that sentence had expected to slam into the very last wall of his patience and lose his temper entirely, paused. “A what?” Thing was... it wasn’t such a bad idea.
  • Pairing: Lan Sizhui/Jin Ling
  • Notes: Has a companion fic, Besieged.

Everyone's Got a Theory about the Bitter One by [1]

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: It's better that Jin Ling's soul-name is dead, because he can't afford to be in love with him. He can't be in love with any man, but he definitely can't love a Wen.

Lurking by giorassol & Verse

  • Recommended by: yin_13147, Acrow
  • Status: Disappeared from the internet
  • Synopsis: There is something wrong in the Cloud Recesses.
  • Pairing: Lan Sizhui/Jin Ling/Lan Jingyi

    Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen/Xue Yang 
Bitter Heart by KyuuTheDevil
  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: After the entire ordeal from that particular night-hunt, Xiao XingChen had begun to feel very self-conscious whenever Xue Yang was in the room. He could feel the hair on his hand stand whenever Xue Yang leaned in too close...
  • Pairing: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen
  • Notes: Part of The Story of Yi City series.

Heaven Has A Road But No One Walks It by Silvestris

  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Synopsis: One of the most complex spells of demonic cultivation the world has seen is brought to fruition, and Xiao Xingchen draws his first shaking breaths in over seven years. This, it turns out, is only the start of his problems.
  • Pairing: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen/Song Lan

how easy you are to need by 75hearts

  • Recommended by: regicidaloptimism
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: It takes a while for Xue Yang to notice that Xiao Xingchen doesn’t touch him. (Contains sexual content and backstory rape.)
  • Pairing: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen
  • Notes: Has a sequel, you ain't seen nothin' yet, gonna treat you right.

lover to your nightmare by Zaatar

  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Xiao Xingchen gets sick. Xue Yang has fun.
  • Pairing: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen

tear out all your tenderness by Lise

  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Here’s the thing: your Daozhang is glorious when he kills. Xue Yang wants to see Xiao Xingchen lose control.
  • Pairing: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen

Three Springs by Verbana

  • Recommended by: heartss, regicidaloptimism
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: When Xiao Xingchen takes in a wounded stranger, he doesn’t expect him to stay.
  • Pairing: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen

    Other 
an unnecessary distraction by Wildehack
  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Jiang Cheng draws a deep breath, then asks: "Do you want a distraction?"
  • Pairing: Jiang Cheng/Lan Wangji

Death of a Ghost by Gotcocomilk

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: There was a ghost that haunted the decks of Lotus Pier, it was said. If you stepped across the wooden planks at night, walked along the endless docks and flying purple banners, he would appear. He was always in darkest black, dressed as specter and shadow. In the emptiness where a face should be was a thick fog, features washed away and leaving behind only glimmering red eyes. He looked ferocious as a ghoul, it was said. Jin Ling thought he looked sad.
  • Pairings: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen/Jin Guangyao

I am cursed to love you (to the grave) by Iamthedarkoverlord

  • Recommended by: Kakai
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Jiang Cheng can't sleep.
  • Pairing: Jiang Cheng/Lan Xichen
  • Comments: The main focus of the fic is less the ship and more the mystery and horror surrounding Jiang Cheng's bizarre situation.

in the blue night by roseclaw

  • Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
  • Status: Completed
  • Synopsis: Accidents keep happening around Jin Rusong.
  • Pairing: Jiang Cheng/Qin Su

Letters to My Partner in Crime by pupeez4eva

  • Recommended by: yin_13147, eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Jin Zixuan is hoping that his engagement to Jiang Yanli will be cancelled after his fight with Wei Wuxian. Instead, much to his frustration, he finds himself being forced to exchange regular letters with her. He is expecting little from this correspondence. The last thing he expects is to be dragged into a matchmaking scheme to pair Wei Wuxian up with Lan Wangji of all people.
  • Pairings: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Jin Zixuan/Jiang Yanli

Marriage Troubles by nirejseki

  • Recommended by: yin_13147, Dame-Amaryllis
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: In order to get married, Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang have to follow the traditions handed down by their respective ancestors. It's only that those traditions are so damn weird, is all.
  • Pairing: Jiang Cheng/Nie Huaisang

our crooked aim by 75hearts

  • Recommended by regicidaloptimism
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Lan Wangji kisses like a punishment, and Jiang Cheng thinks savagely, good.
  • Pairing: Jiang Cheng/Lan Wangji

side business by tangerinechar

  • Recommended by: yin_13147, eeveelutionlover2000
  • Status: Dead (last updated 2019-05-20)
  • Synopsis: Nie Huaisang notices a lack of romance novels in the Cloud Recesses, takes it upon himself to rectify this problem, finds inspiration, accidentally becomes a famous author, and gets found out by his friends, in that exact order. And if, in the process, he ends up matchmaking Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, that's a whole different problem.
  • Pairings: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng/Nie Huaisang

Thank You, and I'm Sorry by Hamliet

  • Recommended by: yin_13147
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Jin GuangYao might be dead, but his story is not. Taking advantage of the chaos he instigated, someone makes an attempt on the life of the young new leader of the Jin Sect. When Jiang Cheng takes Jin Ling to the Cloud Recesses to have him study while he attempts to work with Wei WuXian and his husband Lan WangJi to eliminate the threat, he encounters a mourning Lan XiChen, lovestruck teenagers, and a persistent corpse — and both pairs of brothers find themselves struggling to move on.
  • Pairings: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen/Jiang Cheng, Lan Sizhui/Jin Ling

the final cut by Wildehack

  • Recommended by: heartss, Dame-Amaryllis
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: A boy is going to die. The only question is: what is Huaisang going to do about it?
  • Pairing: Nie Huaisang/Mo Xuanyu

welcome to my table, bring your hunger by Sour_Idealist

  • Recommended by: heartss
  • Status: Complete
  • Synopsis: Carp Tower is a dangerous place to be a young widow who is known for her gentleness. The reeking cellars beneath the stairs are no better, but they're honest.
  • Pairing: Jiang Yanli/Xue Yang

Alternative Title(s): Mo Dao Zu Shi Shipping

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