Even the best mum and dad in the world might not believe that their daughter has met fairies at the bottom of the garden. A mum who's a cultivator suffering from a curse should probably pay a bit more attention, though.
Little Mianmian (now grown up) is not going to let her parents live that down.
Sometimes a man's old enough to know his own mind, even if his brother worries, even if his family are living in exile in a mass grave, even if the boy he's set on is an unstable necromancer who could kill them all. Even if he has a history of making dubious choices.
A vignette.
Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui, wandering, falling in love, and coming back together with their family.
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.
Xue Yang's hero comes to visit.
Jiang Cheng searched for Wen Qing throughout the Sunshot Campaign, despite knowing that their obligations had kept them apart before and might always do so.
Wen Qing couldn't allow herself to hope that anyone else would try to save her brother and family. She'd already worked one miracle in her life; why should there be any more?
Under the threat of another open war between the Great Sects of the cultivation world, neither of them knew what to expect.
Xue Yang is apprenticing in demonic cultivation in the Burial Mounds; Wen Qing is trying to keep Wei Wuxian's body and soul together; Wei Wuxian is pretending that everything is all right when it clearly isn't. They all need to blow off a little steam.
"What's wrong, Jiang Cheng?" he asks suddenly, looking up from his bowl.
Jiang Cheng just meets his gaze, not even lifting an arm to convey, Where do you want me to start?
"You've been... staring at me, this whole evening, shidi," Wei Wuxian adds, more slowly. The colour in his cheeks didn't fade after the bath, and now, with the food and candles, the room's got stuffy and he's even pinker than before. It should look healthy but it only highlights the shadows under his eyes, so deep they look like grooves in the skin.
"No, I haven't," he says automatically, and shoves a meatball in his mouth.
Jiang Cheng meets up with Wei Wuxian after Baoshan Sanren restores his golden core, just as they planned. After this, surely things are going to go right, right?
Seven drabbles written for MXTXGenWeek2020.
1. Character Study: Outsider POV (Xue Yang and Jin Guangyao)
2. Worldbuilding: Ghosts and Hauntings (Wei Wuxian in the Burial Mounds)
3. Friendship: Oaths and Promises (Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu)
4. Family (Liu Mingyan and Liu Qingge)
5. War (Jiang Yanli and Nie Huaisang)
6. Humour (Xue Yang and Su Minshan)
7. Trope Subversion: Arranged Marriage (Wen Ruohan, Meng Yao and Wen Qing)