✧𝔻𝔼𝕍𝕆𝕋𝕀𝕆ℕ~ 𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃~✧

✧Lan Zhan- Lifesaver✧

"No! N-n-no! Xichen gege... he... he can't handle it!" Lan Zhan sobbed.

"Well, for your sake, he's going to have to," you responded rather harshly. "Come, let's go back home."

"H-home," Lan Zhan whimpered, burying his head in your chest. "G-go home."

You half-dragged, half-carried your younger brother to the gate of Cloud Recesses, then into the Jingshi, where Xichen and... oh great-

Grandmaster Lan Quiren sat there, bent over a book with Xichen by his side. You didn't want him to see this, but it was too late for you to leave, you were already standing in the door. So you gave Lan Zhan a comforting hand squeeze and called out, "Xichen gege! We need to talk to you."

Xichen looked up at you and paled when he saw blood covering his younger brother's chest and wrists. He got up, then staggered down onto his knees and choked up blood, aggravated at seeing his brother so badly injured.

"What is it, A-Huan?" Quiren asked, sounding irritated and calling Xichen by his birth name, which was unusual.

When he saw blood covering his young nephew's hanfu, he choked out so much blood that you were afraid he was going to die, and screamed, "WANGJI!"

You felt Lan Zhan's hand that you were holding start to tremble. To comfort him, you hummed a soothing melody your mother had sung to you when you were younger, and you felt the trembling wane before ending entirely.

"Mama," Lan Zhan whimpered, burying his head in your shoulder. "Mama."

"No, di di. I'm Y/N. Not mama," you whispered, concerned about his mental state at the moment. It was as if he had become completely shattered, like a pot that had been dropped on the ground. How could you put him back together again? How could you get the brother you loved back?

"Wangji..." Xichen said, his voice cracking with unshed tears. "My poor Wangji... poor, suffering Wangji... how can I make it better?"

Lan Zhan broke free of your grasp and threw himself into his older brother's arms, clawing at his back and sobbing loudly.

As Xichen murmured comforting words to his younger brother, you pulled Grandmaster Quiren aside and told him all about his nephew's grief. When the grandmaster heard that Lan Zhan had been cutting himself, he hung his head, feeling ashamed for not noticing the pain of the young man he loved so much before it became this serious.

"He misses Wei Wuxian so much he'll hurt himself over it?" Quiren said questioningly. "I doubt that very highly. There has to be an innate mental issue present in his mind for him to hurt himself over a simple loss of a young man."

You were about to snap at the grandmaster, but then you realized that he didn't know that Wei Ying and Lan Zhan had been in love. To his knowledge, they were just two good friends. And of course, why would a friend get so worked up over the death of a friend?

"Lan Zhan and Wei Wuxian were very close. I would even say they were in love with one another," you said.

"Y/N!" Xichen snapped. You knew how much Lan Zhan didn't want his personal life revealed, and you had just revealed a major detail about it. Of course Xichen, the protective ge ge, would get all worked up about it

Forgive me, brothers. But it's necessary.

"In love? Two men! How... how scandalous!" Quiren howled, clearly worked up about this, which was what you had expected.

"It's not scandalous in the least!" Xichen said. Oh, Xichen, how bullheaded you are...

"If two men are in love, let them be in love!"