he had to be stopped from destroying everything and from destroying himself.
lan wangji didn't care about wei ying destroying everything else until it was just the two of them. however, that's not the case.
wei ying had been ready to die.
but lan wangji can't have it. he can't let wei ying die.
so, he chooses the worst possible but the only solution available to him.
"lan wangji!" he hears an angry shout from the crowd but he ignores, opting to nuzzle at wei ying's scent gland while releasing his pheromones.
wei ying is barely conscious of what's happening around him. he stares back at lan wangji blankly with a small, broken smile.
lan wangji never imagined he'd hate wei ying smiling but at that moment, he did. he hated to see such an expression on wei ying's face.
"ha! if hanguang-jun is doing what i think he is, then maybe that's the only way that traitor can pay for his deeds! submit to a capable alpha like the omega whore he is!" one of the jin cultivator says, letting out an outraged laugh.
jiang cheng watches in horror.
he...he had just watched his gravely injured sister being taken away to be given immediate treatment. and he can barely process anything. is his sister going to make it?
and what about wei wuxian?
should he kill him for escalating a situation to the point that his sister was harmed?
or should he rescue wei wuxian from whatever the fuck lan wangji was doing to subdue him?
and why can't he move to do any of the above?
he can't even be bothered to fight the corpses anymore. not thag they were harming him.
in fact, the corpses were not attacking yunmeng disciples at all.
he doesn't know what to feel about it. he can only stand there, frozen.
that's how horrified he is, by the situation. he can barely process it.
and it doesn't help that no one else seems to stop lan wangji from violating wei wuxian in front of the entire cultivation world (or whatever's left of it).
"wei ying. i am sorry that i must do this. but you cannot die." lan wangji begs as he takes a pliant wei ying.
"i am already dead from inside, lan zhan." wei ying says, his smile turning more morbid as he feels lan wangji try to transfer spiritual energy while fucking wei ying.
"why is it not working, wei ying?" lan wangji grits out, as he picks up the pace.
"i have no core to absorb it." wei ying says simply and horror sets in as lan wangji finally solves the puzzle that's been on his head ever since he saw wei ying kill wen chao.
"i–"
"why are you doing this, lan zhan? you really hate me, don't you? you want to break me, don't you? you want to break an already broken man, huh?"
lan wangji tries to not let the words affect him. but they do. they cut deep.
"only trying to help wei ying." lan wangji manages to confess before wei ying can snort.
"by taking me in front of everyone and treating me like your omega bitch, lan zhan?" wei ying asks, clearly gaining his consciousness now.
"wei ying–"
"go on. use me. use my body for all i care, hanguang-jun. it has no other use anyway. might as well come a breeding toy for the esteemed hanguang-jun." wei ying says, chuckling darkly.
lan wangji closes his eyes, trying not to get triggered by wei ying's words.
"i suppose it's as good a punishment as any. maybe, you'll pass me around too? have every alpha use me and humiliate me as they please, fuck their seed into me–"
"why are you angry, lan zhan? aren't you doing the same thing?" wei ying's eyes are now turning red, the resentment in his eyes growing.
"wangji, leave him! he's far too gone!" lan xichen shouts from he's fighting off a fierce corpse while watching his brother disgrace himself.
"it's not the same." lan wangji grits out as he thrusts deeper into wei ying.
"how so?"
"because i love you, wei ying." lan wangji says and immediately regrets it. because this is not he imagined to ever confess.
on a battlefield, both of them on different sides, lan wangji fucking wei ying publicly to subdue him and stop him from self-destruction.
is that ever a good beginning for a love story?
not really.
"love? you love me so you ruin whatever reputation i have as an omega by fucking me in front of everyone? some idea of love you have, lan wangji," wei ying spits out and arches his back when lan wangji finally knots him.
"wei ying is a danger to himself. this is the only solution i could think of."
"wangji! it's not too late! leave him be and stop this madness!" his brother shouts but lan wangji ignores.
"you heard him. leave me alone to die, lan zhan. i'm beyond saving, clearly. you can fuck me but i can never submit to you. i have nothing left in me to submit to you." wei ying says, smiling sadly.
"i cannot. i cannot let wei ying go–"
"you have to go back home, lan zhan."
lan wangji shakes his head and buries his face in wei ying's neck as he releases inside wei ying and knots him. wei ying lets out a painful exhale but says nothing further.
"come back to gusu with me." lan wangji mumbles and wei ying laughs sardonically.
"they will execute me, lan zhan."
"i will save you. we shall get married. and live in seclusion."
"i would rather die." wei ying says and lan wangji pulls apart, hurt.
"in another life, if you asked me to marry you, lan zhan, i'd have said yes. now though, let me die."
lan wangji doesn't.
not when he has wei ying with him. not when he's inside wei ying.
not when wei ying confesses that he'd have said yes in another situation.
history repeats itself as wei ying becomes the next lan furen. more hated than the one before.
lan xichen looks at a bed-ridden lan wangji with pity and disappointment as he visits every other day.
wei ying is with child. he's locked up. like the twin jades' mother had been.
jiang yanli had survived. gravely injured, but survived. and uninformed of the atrocities.
she didn't need to know how her shidi had been treated after her sacrifice.
in the meanwhile, lan wangji managed to find wen yuan and take him in as a lan. he hoped that wen yuan made wei ying feel more alive.
it worked. most times.
wei ying gives birth on a cold, winter evening. lan wangji is allowed to meet wei ying and the baby. he can barely stand with his injuries but he's been adamant.
his uncle, however displeased with the way things turned out, still loved his nephew. so he turned a blind eye to it
"your son." wei ying says curtly but watches curiously as lan wangji holds their baby in his arms.
"he's beautiful. like wei ying."
wei ying lets out a sarcastic laugh.
"i'm a monster, lan zhan." wei ying says and lan wangji shakes his head.
"your sister is alive."
"madam jin must have survives but i killed her husband."
"no. it was an accident–"
"which happened because of me–"
"alright. the baby is getting agitated. wei gongzi, i suggest the baby be nursed." one of the healers says and wei ying nods.
he looks at lan wangji in anticipation.
"is there something wrong?" lan wangji asks.
"are you going to sit and watch?"
"wei ying, we have done worse." lan wangji says and wei ying nods.
"right. much worse. whatever happened to your 'do not associate with evil' rule?"
lan wangji watches, all focused as their newborn latched onto wei ying's slightly swollen breast.
"wei ying is not evil. he was driven by circumstances."
"which were created by me."
"untrue. you were cornered."
"lan zhan, you're the only man who thinks that way."
that much is true. and it would take ages to prove wei ying's innocence. there had definitely been foulplay. wei ying mentioned hearing the sound of another flute.
"he looks like you." wei ying says, caressing their son's face.
"like wei ying too." lan wangji responds.
"i fear that he may be hated for that." wei ying says, closing his eyes as a tear slides down his cheek.
"wei ying...."
"why did we bring him to this world, lan zhan? where he'll be hated because of one of his parents? why did you–why did you have to do that?"
"i cannot let wei ying leave." lan wangji answers simply. he means that he can't let wei ying die. but he says 'leave' to soften his words.
wei ying says nothing after that but looks down at the baby.
their son is the only reason wei ying is holding it together.
well, their son and lan yuan.
until then, lan wangji will try his best to prove wei ying's innocence, all the while making wei ying fall in love with him and not antagonise him.
it would take a while, but they'd get there. lan wangji is sure.
~the end~
this was just whump😭 i stopped myself before almost writing a sad ending😭
wei ying is standing at lan wangji's doorstep, fully soaked after having walked all the way from the jiangs' place to the lans'. all he has is a suitcase and a raincoat which has barely helped the omega to stay dry.
he'd seen the boy sneaking glances at his crooked ribbon and had tried to reach forward to fix it, only avoided by lan wangji pulling away by sheer instinct.
but then he realises the merit of wei ying pulling off his forehead ribbon.
how did he not think of it before?
wei ying is reckless. wei ying does before he thinks.
it's the perfect opportunity to steal wei ying away, especially after he stole lan wangji's heart with his unabashed behaviour.
AU where baoshen sanren opens up a portal when wei ying is pushed into the burial mounds.
she is quick to catch a semi-conscious wei ying in her arms. he is taller than her but she is stronger than him, being an immortal. she has hundreds of years on him, after all.
she has been watching this child for a while now. she had come across a poster with his face along with two jiangs. people out there were looking to kill them.
she couldn't just let her grandchild die like that.
not after she let her daughter go who came face to face with mortal peril.
bssr sees wei ying's tattered, blood-stained robes, a layer of dust and dirt on his face, and an alarming absence of a golden core.
wangxian a/b/o age difference au where 35 yo omega milfxian is set up on a date with a lan.
it's lan qiren, an alpha.
wei ying is kind of excited because he's going on a date after a long, long time.
little does he know, he's going to meet the date's nephew instead.
as a model in his early twenties, he never really had the time to date. it didn't help that there were always rumours of him dating the alphas he worked with.
and then he adopted a-yuan, so the next few years went in bringing up his son while managing his career on the side.
so when he actually got time to sit down to think about his love life, he realised that he was a true romantic and that he needed stability. he can't just date casually, no.
so he asked his friends to set him up and he gets set up with a lan.
watched a vid where a girl talked about her first blowjob and how her throat started hurting the next day & when it became more painful, she confessed to her mom about it, who told the dad (a doctor)
the dad said it was just strep.
anyway, this but wy with his parents😭
like he had to reveal smth like that to his parents and get embarrassed for nothing😭😭 imagine wcz traumatised by the fact that his baby boy...sigh.
cssr is wildly entertained by the whole thing, after getting over the fear of her son prolly catching an std😭
anyway when wcz does meet the 'boyfriend', the straitlaced (but very hornee) lwj, he tries to glare holes through the boy...this 'disciplined' and 'well-behaved' boy defiled his innocent a-ying.......
(little does he know that his innocent a-ying is actually a slutty minx)
wangxian a/b/o au where wei ying is a model and has signed a contract to be an ambassador for fertility gummies. even though he is single. as fuck.
"wei ying, is everything alright?" is the first thing his bodyguard, lan zhan, asks.
they are in the car and wei ying is resting his head on the headrest while lan zhan is riding shotgun beside wen ning, who's driving.
these two men are the only alpha and beta that wei ying trusts.
they've been with him ever since he went quit the jiangs' agency. irreconcilable differences was the publicly declared reason. however, it was mostly yu furen's unrealistic standards for omega models.