Thread by @zarasu333

#2ha role reversal #ranwan
On Cwn's birthday, Shizun Mo Ran takes him to a fortune teller.
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"Are you afraid?" Mo Ran was looking back at Chu Wanning with a teasing grin.
"Of course not," Cwn scoffed and quickly entered the fortune teller's house.

The inside was dim but Cwn could still see the little woman sitting behind a low table, writing something.
His shizun caught up to him and the woman lifted her head.
"This is my disciple, Chu Wanning," Mo Ran said. "He's eighteen now and wants to have his fortune told."

She told them to sit down and began to ask Cwn all kinds of questions about his birth date and place and asked to see his hand and face. He didn't have the heart to tell her that he didn't really know either his birthdate nor his exact birth place

so he just told her what he had told Shizun. After all, this day was just as good as any other.

She spend a few long moments scribbling things onto the paper before looking up again. "So, what do you want to know about?"

"His future success, of cou-" Mo Ran started to say before Cwn interrupted him.
"No," he said. "I know I'll be successful if I work hard enough. I want to know about my future love life."

Beside him, Mo Ran froze.

Cwn ignored his shizun's strange behaviour and kept looking at the woman. She stared back seriously.

After a while of watching him, she nodded and looked back down at her paper. "I will tell you about your future love. It's very clear to me."

"In all of your life, you'll only ever love one person and you'll remain faithful to them until your death. Forces outside your control will try to keep you apart, but once they love you, they'll love you single-mindedly and forever.
Was that all you wanted to know?"

Cwn nodded and ducked his head to hide his blush. "That was all."

"But-" his shizun said in a strange tone of voice before Cwn grabbed his sleeve and began to drag him out of the house. "I said that was all, Shizun!"

"At least let me pay!"

They walked back through the village in silence until Mo Ran said: "So, uh, your love life, huh?"
"Hn." Wanning really didn't want to talk about this.

"But..." Shizun couldn't leave him be, could he? "Aren't you still a little young for love and all that?" He laughed awkwardly.

"Isn't that a bit hypocritical?" Chu Wanning asked flatly. "Sect Leader Xue told us all about Shizun's exploits when he was much younger than me."

Mo Ran stumbled, a grimace on his face. "Aah, he told you that, did he?"

Cwn didn't answer and, after a while, Mo Ran got over his embarrassment. "Anyway," he threw an arm over Cwn's shoulders. "Before you fall in love with that," his voice tightened, "...person, spend a little more time with Shizun, alright? Romantic love is overrated anyway, haha."

Cwn couldn't help tensing up under Mo Ran's arm. "Does Shizun think I'm not good enough to make someone fall in love with me?"

"What?" Mo Ran flailed a bit. "No, no, of course not! I think A-Ning could make anyone fall in love with him, everyone... uh."

Cwn narrowed his eyes at him. Mo Ran quickly continued: "I just think that falling in love would distract A-Ning from his studies! You'll have lots of time for all that stuff later, hm?"

Cwn continued walking in silence, Mo Ran jogging to catch up with him again.

"It's too late," Cwn finally murmered.
Mo Ran hummed questioningly
"It's too late," he repeated. "I've already fallen in love."

Abruptly, Mo Ran stilled. "With whom?" His voice was suddenly a lot darker than before.

Cwn stopped too and looked at him.

"Is it Shi Mei?" Mo Ran's hands were balled into fists. Cwn couldn't look away from them.

"Shizun, you're speaking very loudly."

"Is it?" Mo Ran took a step forward and Cwn quickly stumbled back. "It's not!" And then again, quieter: "It's not."

"Xue Meng, then?" Mo Ran laughed. It wasn't a happy laugh. "Is it that little fucker?"

"Shizun!" Cwn hissed. "Don't talk that way!"

"A-Ning, just tell me. Is it Xue Meng?" Mo Ran sounded kind of pathetic now, rather than angry.

"No," Cwn frowned. "Shizun, you're behaving very strangely."

With a pleading expression, Mo Ran grabbed his arms and pulled him closer. "Please, A-Ning, who is it?"

Cwn didn't know what was happening. But his Shizun looked desperate, so he awkwardly patted his hand.

"Shizun..." Cwn hesitated. "You're hurting me."

Mo Ran exhaled heavily before slumping forwards. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, A-Ning. I swear I'll do better."

Cwn had actually meant that Mo Ran was gripping him too tightly. "Do better?"

"I will try to keep it under wraps, A-Ning, I swear. You won't have to deal with my mess, shizun promises."

Finally, he looked up again but his eyes seemed to stop at Cwn's mouth. "Just because your shizun is such a dog..."

Now, Cwn might have been a little dense regarding these matters, but he wasn't stupid.

He brought a shaking hand up to Mo Ran's face and cupped his cheek. His shizun leaned into it with a sigh. "A-Ning," he breathed. "What are you doing..."

Cwn wasn't completely sure but he had a feeling. So he said: "But I don't want Shizun to hold anything back."
He cringed internally. He had sounded like a whiny child.

But Mo Ran only shook his head. "You don't understand. I'm... I'm not good..."

He didn't seem to feel all that bad, though, because his eyes were focused on Cwn's mouth again.

It was that which gave Cwn the courage to say: "You."

"Hm?" Confused, Mo Ran looked up.

Cwn pressed his lips tightly together before he said again: "You. That's the answer to your question."

It took a few seconds for Mo Ran to understand and Cwn spent those seconds watching the light slowly return to his shizun's eyes until he was grinning like a child.

"Me?" Suddenly, he was standing upright again and pointing at himself with a blinding smile. Cwn's lips only grew thinner in response. "Wanning! It's me? You love me?"

With a bright blush, Cwn pushed Mo Ran away and turned on his heel to stalk away.

"Don't ask such an obnoxious question!"

Behind him, Mo Ran laughed and ran after him. "A-Ning, wait! Really? Me?"
"Ugh."

But Mo Ran quickly caught up to him and turned him around again. At his hopeful expression, Cwn sighed. "Yes."

Mo Ran beamed. "A-Ning! I swear I will treat you right! That fortune teller was right. I swear I will love you forever!"

Cwn flushed even brighter. "Hn."

"Wanning." With a tender look in his eyes, Mo Ran reached up and cupped his face in his hands. "Wanning, can I kiss you?"

Cwn's eyes widened but he managed the slightest nod. Carefully, Mo Ran traced the lines of his lips with his thumb. Then he leaned closer and his hot breath wafted over Cwn's mouth.

He took a shaky breath and, in the next moment, Mo Ran's lips closed over his.

Panicked, Cwn's hands came up to claw into Mo Ran's shoulders but his shizun was undeterred. With slow movements, he started moving his lips against his and Cwn could only hope to keep up.

Then something wet touched his bottom lip.

Cwn needed a moment to realize that it was Mo Ran's tongue but, when he did, hot arousal flashed through his body.

It was this arousal that broke the trance he had fallen into. With a firm shove, he pushed Mo Ran away again.

"Shizun!" he said roughly but less scolding than he had intended to be. "Not in public!"

Mo Ran blinked at him and, realizing what he had just said, Cwn quickly turned around and started to run to the stairs leading up to the sect.

"Wanning," he heard Mo Ran's laughing voice behind him as he followed. "Does that mean I can kiss you more when we're home?"

Chu Wanning didn't turn around, but he also couldn't stop the small, giddy smile from spreading over his face.

Maybe this fortune telling thing wasn't that bad, after all.

-The End

Happy Birthday, Chu Wanning<3