Wei Wuxian, pining in the Burial Mounds.
Tfw you think of a great fic title out of the blue, but then realise that the kind of story it would fit is Too Sad to Write. Not!fic, archived from Twitter.
There's got to be a way to bring back Wen Ning's consciousness, Wei Wuxian knows, and if he can't do it himself, then maybe Lan Wangji can help. Unfortunately for Lan Wangji and his suffering heart, he would do nearly anything for Wei Wuxian. Wen Ning did not get a say, because that's the root of the whole problem.
Two months after the night hunt at Phoenix Mountain, Lan Wangji visits Yunmeng to try, once again, to convince Wei Wuxian to come back to Gusu with him. Wei Wuxian is getting drunk with resentful energy for company, and would rather mess around with the esteemed Hanguang-jun than confront literally anything in his life.
Neither one of them expected their meeting to go like this.
Lan Wangji will never tell Wei Wuxian what he did after the massacre at Nightless City—what his brother would call the only mistake he ever made. Nor will he forget it himself.