Thread by @yibabyboy, you know what i want? lwj and jc becoming buddies and raising [...]

you know what i want? lwj and jc becoming buddies and raising their kids together during (and after!) the 13 years wwx was gone

I’m so sick of them always being portrayed as two people who hate eachother because of what happened to wwx. like. you have 13 years talk it out. also i think it would be really cute huhu

them ignoring each other at first until a night hunt gone wrong and they get stuck in a cold dark place (lwj has flashbacks to the xuanwu cave) while injured and exhausted. a lot of things are talked about that night. a lot of things are yelled, screamed at the top of their—

lungs, crying until they can’t breathe anymore, and then finally, rest. they come to an understanding. they both miss the same person, for different reasons, but they know there’s no point in hating each other over it. a tentative friendship begins to form.

they get out, of course. support eachother to an inn, where they dress wounds and collapse. still woozy and disoriented, jiang cheng laughs and goes, “jin ling would freak out if he saw this” and lwj is silent. because he knows the pain of raising a child that should not have—

been in the circumstances they are in right now, knows how hard it is to live with the fact that one day, the child will grow up and know the truth about themselves that could hurt more than any killing blow. he keeps quiet, but in a rare act of companionship, rests one hand—

on jc’s arm. “a-yuan would as well.” barely a whisper. jc turns to look at him—he holds his gaze.

“they should meet sometime.”

“come to gusu. bring jin ling. we can discuss about rebuilding.”

a prickle of familiar anger. “we don’t need your pity, lan wangji. we can do perfe—“

not pity, lan wangji thinks. not at all. but he does not know how to say that out loud. “i am sure jin rulan would like to have a friend around his age, someone he will be around often in the future.”

and jc caves because he’d do anything for his nephew turned son, and yes—

jin ling does need friends his age. so he agrees. and he knows this isn’t an offer out of pity, for after all, both yunmeng and gusu will benefit from the strengthened trade relations. he arranges plans to take jin ling there soon, as soon as they are furnished with this—

hellish nighthunt.

AND HERE COMES THE GOOD PART: lwj and jc raising their babies together! lwj showing jc the rabbit patch, a-yuan giggling as he and jin ling (his tiny bff!) are buried in it, just as he recalls the feeling of being buried in a patch of... radishes? so long ago

chubby baby jin ling clapping along to a new piece a-yuan is playing on the guqin while sitting on his baba’s lap, smiling and laughing and bringing so much joy to the two grown cultivators in the room. more joy than either of them ever thought they could experience again.

when lwj and a-yuan go visit lotus pier (official sect business, they say, definitely not because a-yuan misses his little buddy and angry grape uncle) lwj doesn’t forget to bring along emperor’s smile, the best candies for jin ling to gnaw on, and new knives to add to jc’s—

ever-growing collection. jiang cheng teaching jin ling and a-yuan to swim in the lakes of lotus pier, robes drawn up and disheveled, laughing full-body when the other little disciples coerce lwj into the lake as well. he’s never seen hgj so unkempt, and teases him about until—

lwj flicks water right into his face, elegant as usual. cue a water fight, the babies screeching with happiness and filling the air with the brightest sounds. jiang cheng is shit at cooking, so one day he asks lwj to help him recreate shijie’s lotus pork rib soup, and lwj—

agrees, partly because he remembers how much his love used to gush about it and partly because he wants to help jiang cheng after everything the man helped him overcome as well. the two of them arguing in the kitchen, to the surprise of the servants, over which pot would hold—

the flavor the best. lwj giving jc the silent treatment after jc spits out the soup on his first attempt. he gradually gets better, until jc tells him one day, on the verge of tears but trying to look tough, “it’s ALMOST like shijie’s. you’ll never get there tho” lwj has a smile—

on his face the rest of the day. after that, he makes it all the time—in gusu, for his baby (he lets him indulge in meat sometimes despite the strict diet of gusulan!) in yunmeng, on days where his grief threatens to consume him—

anytime he needs a bit of comfort. jiang cheng cries the first few times he eats it, but he begins to remember his sister with more fondness than despair, eventually. they are healing.

next time lwj comes to yumeng, he brings along little jingyi as well, whose parents were—

also lost in the war. jin ling is overjoyed to have another companion and the three babies waddle around the lake shore while jc and lwj watch over them and share tips about raising their little rascals:

“jin ling won’t sleep through the night, i don’t know what’s going on.”

“perhaps he seeks companionship. a-yuan refuses to eat more carrots. i dont understand, he’s always loved them.”

“that’s probably because you’ve fed him more of them than your own fucking rabbits, lan wangji.”

“language.”

silence. then:

“you may be correct.”

“fuck yeah i am”

OMG them being absolute bitches at cultivation conferences. whenever that one dumbass sect leader says something (yeah u know the one I’m talking about) they make eye contact and jc outwardly rolls his eyes (lwj does it in spirit bc he has a reputation to uphold)—

just. lwj and jc becoming BEST FRIENDS and RAISING THEIR KIDS TOGETHER!! ouyang zizhen joins them at some point and their little junior trio turns into a quartet! they grow up together and love eachother more than can be described

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when wwx comes back, he sees the two people he loves most in this world, and how they love eachother, and how they helped each other heal and grow and his heart is SO FULL. ofc he’s also really whiny bc they have SO MANY inside jokes he wasn’t there for—

like one day lwj goes “the lotus seeds aren’t ripe yet” and jc looks at him and they just. burst into fucking GIGGLES for like 15 mins straight and literally no one understands what’s happening and wwx is super annoyed for a hot sec but then he turns all mushy inside

LET LWJ AND JC BECOME BFFS!!! LET THEM HEAL TOGETHER!!!! LET THEIR KIDS GROW UP HAPPY AND SAFE AND WITH SO MUCH LOVE!!!

end of thread! thanks for staying xx

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