baby lwj being a picky eater.....no one really clocks it except lxc.....he lets his little brother give all his boiled radishes him under the guise of jiacai as a love language & lxc very graciously accepts all these nasty little things & says "wangji is so generous ^^"
after lwj grows up, they stop being able to take all their meals together; lxc gets busy with sect business, lwj starts school & lives in the dorms, &.....lwj grows up. their parents passed & their uncle impresses expectations upon them & lwj shoulders it, like lxc did before him
so after a while of not eating together, they sit for a meal & lxc still somewhat expects lwj to resume old habits; he almost welcomes it, for a reminder of a secret communication they share & childish amusement. but lwj silently eats every single thing in his bowl, hated or not.
the only indication, so subtle that lxc wouldn't have caught it if he wasn't staring so intently at lwj eating, that he disliked something was the slightest clench of his jaw as he chewed. no pouting, no big eyes glancing up at lxc, no clumsy chopsticks & "...here, gege".
lxc can't swallow for a moment, for how his throat burns at all the bittersweet reminders that lwj has grown up, has begun carefully curating an image befitting a second young master. it just. pulls at him. he misses those miserable little radishes plonking in his bowl.
gently, lwj says, "xiongzhang?" & lxc looks up to meet his eyes & realizes he's stopped eating, a turnip halfway to his mouth, & lxc knows what he wants to do. he reaches over & snatches the vegetable out of his chopsticks with a grin & plops it into his own bowl.
"wangji, give me some too," he chides. boldly, he digs into lwj's rice & picks out more. "don't you remember how you used to give ge all the radishes?"
lwj's ears redden at the tease but he doesn't stop lxc. it's enough tht lwj relaxes & quietly deposits a radish into lxc's bowl.
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modern au where lwj grows a quaint little garden of vegetables & fruits in his backyard & he's in a war with a black fox who keeps coming to his house at night & EATING HIS GARDEN.
he's very particular about his plant children, so he's built a strong fence, bought them each a specific type of fertilizer, & inspects them every day even if they don't need watering so one morning when he walks out & sees one of his tomato plants missing a tomato he Knows
lwj is half-perturbed, half-impressed bc his fence looks perfectly untouched how did this cryptid tomato-eater GET IN? and what night creature eats only one tomato? no digging up the plant beds, not even the little signs have been tilted to make way for paws!
college au wangxian where they meet at uni & wwx is instantly enamoured w first-in-class, aloof, perfect, popular, shiny, beautiful lwj & thinks to himself "that's my husband" & concocts a horrible plan to get himself noticed among all the suitors
everyone in class is bringing him flowers & asking him to dinner & requesting tutoring help & confessing directly, so what is there left to do? well. is there anything like bonding over solving a unique & intruging problem? no, wwx thinks,
& that's why he, off the cuff, out of his mind, shouts at lwj one day "lan zhan! i really need your help with... mending my comforter!"
meng yao's last name 孟 is the same as the meng po's 孟 who makes you drink forgetful soup at naihe bridge & sure, it is bc it's a common last name & possibly the only meng last name, BUT.
What If.
no one actually knows meng po's origin, & there are in fact some claims that discuss the possibility of her being 孟姜女/meng jiang nu, whose fiance/husband was drafted to work on the great wall & died & she had so much grief she "collapsed a portion of the wall w her tears"
in the speculation that says she became meng po, she learned how to make the soup to forget her sorrows, & then possibly once she passed, she gave these to the spirits to forget the sorrows of their past life & move on.