Thread by @cicerfics

#WarprizeJiSeason

cw mpreg

In an A/B/O AU where LWJ and WWX never met: I just think it would be Fun if Omegaji meets a handsome traveler in an inn and gives in to a moment of reckless passion.

Yes, yes: debauchery is forbidden in Cloud Recesses.

But they are not IN Cloud Recesses. Cloud Recesses was burned and there's a literal war happening, and this guy is very attractive and flirtatious and obviously DTF.

And LWJ is just...tired.

It's the middle of the Sunshot Campaign and he is TIRED. He's very aware that he could die at any moment. He's very aware that his uncle and brother could die, could be dead already and LWJ just doesn't know it.

He's exhausted and lonely and he wants something nice for himself.

So yes, he's gonna fuck that attractive alpha with the flirtatious smile. He's gonna get buckwild in the bedroom he reserved at this inn for the night, and then tomorrow he'll go back to his duties and be upstanding and respectable for the rest of his days!

And he follows through with his promise to himself, of course.

The next morning, he leaves the inn and finishes whatever tasks brought him to that particular village. Then he returns to the front, prepared to treat the whole incident as a simple lapse in morality and judgement.

He's prepared to make himself forget about what happened in that inn.

...But, like. Of course he gets pregnant. OF COURSE HE DOES.

And of course he REALIZES he's pregnant about two days before the YLLZ sweeps in to end the war and kill WRH.

LWJ has practically no time to absorb the news of his pregnancy before he discovers that:

-The war was finished while he was fighting Wen troops in another region
-WRH is extremely dead
-That guy who calls himself the YLLZ did it
-The YLLZ wants a warprize for his efforts

And, sight unseen, the YLLZ has requested LWJ specifically.

And that would ALREADY be a very upsetting and awkward situation. But now LWJ has to figure out how to tell his brother, "Well, I can't go be the YLLZ's concubine because I AM ALREADY CARRYING ANOTHER MAN'S CHILD. 😭"

"And no, xiongzhang, I have no idea where that man currently is or what his name is or what region he's from, because I just hooked up with a random stranger who flirted with me in the dining room of an inn. 😭"

...Anyway. *jazz hands* Identity porn!

I like to think that LWJ can't quite work up the nerve to tell his family about his condition.

I like to think that LWJ decides it's actually less intimidating to simply tell the YLLZ himself.

He'd rather receive insults and recriminations from the YLLZ for his reckless debauchery, rather than see his family disappointed in him.

So he finds out which tent the YLLZ is currently staying in, while the various sect leaders divide up the spoils and settle the treaties.

He marches into the tent without waiting for permission.

The YLLZ is alone.

That is, LWJ assumes this man is the YLLZ. A thick black veil and cloak shroud his head and shoulders. But the resentful energy rolling off of him is unmistakable.

LWJ does not stop to wonder why the YLLZ is veiled. Perhaps corrupt methods of cultivation make a person extremely ugly and deformed?

It doesn't matter. LWJ has come to say something important, so he says it. Bluntly and directly.

He regrets that he cannot comply with the YLLZ's demands. He is not refusing out of selfishness or from an unwillingness to serve his sect by brokering a peace. Rather, he is not fit to become a concubine in his current condition.

He had a reckless affair during the height of the war; he is currently with child. The YLLZ would not wish to claim a concubine who is impure. The YLLZ would not wish to bed an omega who is carrying another man's child.

LWJ plans to say something else, to offer something else from the Lan sect's vaults as an alternative, so the YLLZ does not feel entirely spurned or disrespected.

But the YLLZ crosses the tent in three steps and takes LWJ's jaw in his hand.

LWJ thinks about pulling away.

He doesn't.

"Oh? Is that right? You're pregnant?"

The voice is strangely familiar, but LWJ cannot place it. Not until the man reaches up, tears his veil away, pushes back his cloak.

And he finds himself looking into a pair of eyes he hasn't seen in two and a half months. A pair of eyes he did not think he would ever see again.

All the breath goes out of LWJ's lungs.

The man's hands settle on his hips.

"Are you really, sweetheart?"

His voice is like it was back at the inn, but darker. Hungrier.

Stunned, LWJ can only nod.

The man smiles.

His smile, too, is darker and hungrier.

His hands tighten on LWJ's hips.

And he laughs.

"Then you're DEFINITELY coming home with me, Lan-er-gongzi."

...AND THEN THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, THE END.

The YLLZ rails LWJ within an inch of his life every night and LWJ thanks him for it, and the YLLZ loves his babies and kisses their little round tummies in between raising corpses and controlling restless spirits, THE END.

...Also, while I do like the idea of leaving WWX's motivations open-ended and letting readers guess how much he knew, I'll just tell you what I think:

I think he knew the pretty omega from the inn was Lan-er-gongzi, AKA Hanguang-Jun.

I don't think he was there deliberately, or contriving to meet LWJ. It just so happened that the same cultivation-and-war-related event that drew LWJ to the village also drew WWX to the village! They met by accident...but WWX definitely flirted and tried to seduce LWJ on purpose.

I think he was well aware that an omega like LWJ doesn't usually roll around in the hay with random alphas.

So I think he planned to claim LWJ as his war-prize because, after all, he already deflowered the poor thing!

LWJ was a high-born omega; the person who took his virginity had to take responsibility. It was only fair! And WWX didn't object to bringing LWJ into his household.

I don't think WWX knew about the pregnancy until LWJ told him.

But that definitely clinched his determination to claim LWJ. WWX certainly wasn't going to allow LWJ to sneak back to Cloud Recesses and hide the baby there, or give birth secretly and adopt the baby out to some farmer's family!

So he quickly pivoted from 'I'll claim him as my war-prize/concubine' to 'I'll marry him so the baby is legitimate, LWJ isn't humiliated/disgraced for having a child out of wedlock, and there's no question of anyone hiding the baby away from me.'

That's what I think!

But if anyone wants to do an AU of this concept that takes a different approach, please feel free!!