Silver & Silk
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Wei Wuxian allowed himself the rare luxury to simply look and enjoy the music for long moments before stepping into the room and drawing Lan Zhan's formidable attention. He himself had put the delicate chains and the heavy cuffs around Lan Zhan this morning and it was good to see his handiwork still intact after a long day full of court intrigue and boring games of politics.
(Emperor Wei Wuxian visits is favorite, aka the-only-one-that-matters, concubine.)
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- Part 1 of Silver & Silk
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"They will remember your family and what was done to them, Lan Zhan. They will see you, beautiful and glittering like the night sky at my side. You'll be the most ethereal being they've ever seen, dazzling and so far beyond them that they can be lucky to catch a glimpse of you."
(Emperor Wei Wuxian once again puts his beloved Lan Zhan into silver jewerly and silk robes.)
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- Part 2 of Silver & Silk
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Bonus: The first meeting between the emperor-to-be and his future concubine/personal assassin by farawayanddreaming
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 May 2023
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Lan Wangji is fourteen and has barely received his courtesy name when his immediate family gets pulled into the bitter fight for the throne for real.
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- Part 3 of Silver & Silk
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Wei Wuxian carried Lan Zhan, trembling and nearly clinging to him, straight out the charred gate of Cloud Recesses with Jiang Cheng less than an arm’s length from his shoulder and snarling threats at anyone who even looked like they were going to question the rumpled, dirty burden held close against Wei Wuxian’s chest but clearly bearing all the markings of the last living threat to his throne.
Wei Wuxian is the strongest runner-up to the failing Emperor's throne, but first he has to clear the path...through Lan Clan Gusu, who have pocketed their two young heirs to make a bid for the throne themselves. The eldest, Lan Xichen, escaped into the night with his uncle, but the youngest is left behind, undefended, after his mother gives her life trying to protect him.
In the aftermath of the battle, Wei Wuxian finds the boy, rumored to be his greatest enemy, is in truth lost, alone, helpless...and quite possibly the most beautiful thing Wei Wuxian has ever seen.
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- Part 4 of Silver & Silk
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'What did you dream?' Lan Zhan asked.
'It’s…' Wei Wuxian grimaced. He didn’t need to recall the dream. It was the same one every time. He knew it by heart after all these years. 'I don’t even know,' he admitted softly. 'I think it’s about my father. But I never met him, so I’m not sure.'
'Your father…the Emperor?'Wei Wuxian has nightmares of the battle that lost his father his throne and cast his only unborn son into uncertain waters stirred by the winds of fate and political intrigue. Lan Zhan has nightmares of his own, mostly about whether his brother is safe and if Lan Xichen will ever know that Lan Zhan found safe haven after all in the least expected of places.
Together, perhaps, they can find peace enough to put the nightmares to rest. For a little while at least.
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- Part 5 of Silver & Silk
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'If you train me, I would make myself into the mightiest Cultivator and most valuable tool you will ever have. But I refuse to be used against you, and someone will try. I would rather die weak than ever be the blade that turned on you.'
Lan Zhan barely whispered the words, but there was steel beneath them. The steel of determination. More than that there was.
Devotion.Wei Wuxian discovers his feelings for Lan Zhan may not be entirely one-sided, and that Lan Zhan's stubborn refusal to accept Wei Wuxian's offers to train him may not be solely out of reticence, but a gesture of protection--the only kind Lan Zhan is capable of offering.
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- Part 6 of Silver & Silk
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Lan Wangji has been in Lotus Pier for over a year, training hard to fulfill his vow to stand as Wei Wuxian's greatest asset in the coming conflict. While Wei Wuxian is absent on an undisclosed mission, Yu Ziyuan takes it upon herself to test Lan Wangji in his purpose, and Jiang Cheng proves that even though he may not understand his brother's reasoning in keeping Lan Wangji so close, he is still wiling to follow his lead. Wei Wuxian returns, wounded, with a new set of doubts and uncertainties where Lan Wangji is concerned.
Tensions are rising from without and within, and Lan Wangji decides to cement his position with Wei Wuxian once and for all.
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- Part 7 of Silver & Silk
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"Lan Zhan! Even you need sunlight to flourish! You look just as beautiful under the sunlight as you do under the light of the moon so there's really no excuse for you!"
(A heatwave. A private pool. Small acts of service and lots of love and complete devotion to each other.)
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- Part 8 of Silver & Silk
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After nearly two years on the run, an injury forces Lan Qiren to find a safe place to hide the First jade of Lan, and he decides on Qinghe. The Qinghe Nie have been notoriously disinterested in the politics of the Cultivation World at large, and specifically the political snake-pit that is the competition for the dying Emperor's throne. It's as good a place as any, and it is successful. For a while.
Enter Nie Huaisang, and his mischievous need for a great calligrapher's hand, followed by his Da-ge's short temper and impatience with Nie Huaisang's reticence to buckle down in his training and start taking responsibility. Top that with a long ago memory of Nie Mingjue meeting a sad young boy years ago in a lonely garden in Wen Ruohan's palace...
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- Part 9 of Silver & Silk
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'He did what you trained him to do, A’Xian,' Jiang Cheng said somberly. 'What he’s meant to do.'
Wei Wuxian jerked his head in harsh denial, and Jiang Cheng held him fast when he tried to rip out of his embrace. 'I didn’t mean for this to happen!'
'But he did,' Jiang Cheng said softly. 'He wouldn’t have it any other way. It was your life or his.' He stroked Wei Wuxian’s hair a little awkwardly in his effort to comfort. 'For him, that wasn’t even a choice.'
The bond between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian has been growing ever stronger even as Lan Wangji's deadly skills and his Core keep pace with it. Wei Wuxian, however, has exhibited a strange reluctance to take the final step that will tie them forever. But when Lan Wangji intercepts an assassin's poisoned blade meant for Wei Wuxian and nearly pays with his life, Wei Wuxian decides he can no longer afford any reluctance. He's done waiting for fate. He's made his choice.
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- Part 10 of Silver & Silk
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Wei Wuxian's and Lan Wangji's devotion to each other continues to grow and evolve.
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- Part 11 of Silver & Silk
- Part 7 of BL Prompts: Random little bits of love and angst
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"How can you even look at me, Lan Zhan?" Wei Ying said. "I am a murderer."
Tensions are rising around Wei Wuxian's claim to the Emperor's throne, and Wen Ruohan has gone one step too far in trying to stop his ascension. Lan Wangji is left to pick up the pieces.
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- Part 12 of Silver & Silk
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"What kind of emperor would I be, if I paraded by husband around with a heavy collar around his neck? People would get the wrong impression!"
Lan Wangji returns home from assassinating a troublesome official to a blindfold made out of silk, a new piece of jewelry for his ever-growing collection, and the most satisfying sex imaginable.
(Or: Wei Wuxian taking care of his beloved in all ways possible.)
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- Part 13 of Silver & Silk
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Treading on Sacred Ground by farawayanddreaming for InTheGreySpaces
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
12 Jul 2025
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The it does not hurt he'd meant to say didn't make it past his lips. Instead, he bared is neck in an calculated submissive gesture. Nothing more, nothing less. It fell to Wei Ying to brush away the strands of hair that had shifted and covered his ear again while he'd been walking towards their bed, to expose his right ear for thorough inspection. His hands stayed on Lan Wangji's head, immobilizing him. The casually possessive gesture settled something deep inside of him that had been left unmoored for far too long and he breathed out deeply as he let the power of Wei Ying's presence - his true, full presence - wash over him.
(Lan Wangji comes back home from a mission to a recovering Wei Wuxian marked in a way he never wanted to be. Cue mutual care-taking, lots of reassurances, and, of course, sex.)
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- Part 14 of Silver & Silk