𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 !!
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y/n - your name
w/n - weapon's name
r/n - reincarnated name
c/n - courtesy name
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LAN Y/N WAS FORCED TO KNEEL IN FRONT OF HIS ELDERS, AND HE OBEYED SILENTLY, BUT AGAIN, HE HAD THAT MOCKING SMIRK ON HIS LIPS.
behind him were the three disciples he drank with the previous night, and sitting beside him, was his brother, a hard and shameful look on his face. "hm?" lan y/n tossed his head to the side as he inspected his older brother's face. his smirk turned into a mischievous grin as it nearly reached all the way to his ears. "er-ge, did wei-shixiong bully you last night~?" lan y/n teased with a giggle. out of all the disciples, he was the only one who had two seniors holding him down by his arms, locking them in place behind him. they were the same seniors who always held him down every time he received punishment.
earlier that morning, they were also the ones that dragged him out of bed, and out the chrysanthemum house before they hauled him and jiang cheng, who spent the night with him, to the punishment chamber. lan y/n couldn't help but let out a laugh as he remembered that morning;
when the two seniors marched into his bedroom, they were utterly horrified when they saw lan y/n sleeping beside jiang cheng, both of their robes messy, and red marks turning purple, were peppered across lan y/n's pale skin. they automatically assumed the worst; they had engaged in an act of debauchery.
they weren't wrong though, which made it all the more funnier to lan y/n. although, he definitely wasn't expecting to react in such a lighthearted way, as he had just lost his chastity to someone he had just met.
since lan qiren wasn't present at the time, lan wangji had full control of handing out the discipline, and he decided to hand out a more serious punishment. wangji kneeled on the floor and bowed to his seniors before he sat straight. "do it." at his command, the paddles were raised and brought down on all five disciples. jiang cheng and nie huiasang were included, as wangji had seen them the previous night.
as he was already used to being paddled, lan y/n wasn't reacting to the hits at all. he kept his signature lopsided smile on his face as he stared at his brother. "does this hurt for you, er-ge?" lan y/n mused, poking his brother on the arm. wangji ignored him as he gripped onto his robes, a deep scowl on his face. "don't move!" one of the seniors exclaimed. they quickly bound his wrists, making sure that it was tight.
it was definitely tight enough to leave a mark.
sweat dripped down wangji's face as he was being paddled. "er-ge- ouch! hey, was that my head you just hit?!" lan y/n whined, his brows furrowed as he looked back at the senior that was holding a paddle behind him. "quiet!" the senior hissed angrily, hitting him hard on his back. "ouch~!" lan y/n whined mockingly, feigning hurt. the senior growled and hit him harder, but lan y/n wasn't fazed at all, he was smirking as he continued to test the tempers of his senior.
still, he couldn't help but cringe internally at the pained noises the three guest disciples were letting out from behind him. "hey! take it easy!" wei wuxian whines as two other seniors held him down. jiang cheng tried his best to remain upright as he let small grunts slip past his lips every now and then while huaisang groveled on the floor, whining about how hard they were hitting him.
for the rest of the day, they were punished until they received the number of strikes they deserved.
wei wuxian received the same amount of strikes as lan wangji, but unlike him, he was whining uncontrollably, completely unable to get up. jiang cheng had to carry him on his back despite the searing pain on his back as he received at least 100 strikes for his act of debauchery with the troublemaker, lan y/n. huaisang received the least strikes, with fifty strikes, unlike wei wuxian and wangji who both received three hundred strikes.
while lan y/n... received four hundred. for drinking, debauchery, laughing with no reason, sneaking past night, and so on and so forth. but he was walking just fine, and he could only laugh at wei wuxian's pained howls.
huaisang smiled sheepishly as he fanned wei wuxian's back. "slow down, jiang cheng, or i'll fall off!" wei wuxian whines. jiang cheng clicks his tongue. "you make me carry you and you're complaining?" he says with a tone of disbelief. "i didn't ask you to!" wei wuxian pouted.
"shut up. if i hadn't, you'd have embarrassed our clan by lying on the floor all day. lan y/n got a hundred more strikes than you, yet he can walk just fine on his own." the said lan chuckled. "of course i can. they always strike me at least a hundred times when i cause trouble, no matter how small it may be. i guess i just got used to it." lan y/n says with a smile as he tucks both his hands inside his sleeves. "i don't think that's something to be proud of, lan y/n." huaisang nervously says as he hides his face behind his fan. lan y/n only raised a brow in confusion.
jiang cheng continues to walk ahead before he heard another whine from wei wuxian. he finally grew irritated by his brother's whining as he yells, "ugh, get off me already and use your feet!" jiang cheng stands straight as he threatens to drop wei wuxian. "no way! i'm injured!" wei wuxian exclaims, tightening his hold on jiang cheng's neck, but the expression on his face falters when he noticed something interesting that caught his eye.
"huh? looks like lan-laotu is back." huaisang says, pointing with his fan over to a magnolia tree where two men sat underneath, having tea. lan y/n pouted and crossed his arms above his head. "great. shufu's back." he blows the bangs out of his face.
wei wuxian smiles, which makes jiang cheng nudge him. "hey, i know that smile. whatever you're planning, do it while standing on your own feet!" jiang cheng says. "no, we're just going to listen!" wei wuxian reassures, pointing to a bush where lan y/n was already hiding behind in. "what? maybe my shufu finally decided to disown me." he chuckled. the four teenagers crouched down behind a bush and began listening.
"the waterborne abyss is tough to get rid of, so i'm afraid you will have much on your plate to attend to." the three overheard lan xichen speaking. "human lives are at risk, there is no time to lose. i will accompany you immediately." he continued. "oh, by the way, i caught some fierce corpses to help with training the students."
"have wangji inquire with their spirits first and see if they had any wishes before they died." lan qiren says. lan xichen keeps his hands together along with that charming smile on his face. "wangji is still young, but his skill at inquiry is unmatched." xichen praises. "indeed. very much unlike your youngest brother, lan c/n." lan qiren scoffs, flicking his sleeves in an irritated manner. "that disastrous child... i heard from the disciples, that wangji got punished after getting entangled in wei wuxian's schemes, and that lan c/n was among the students that were caught."
lan qiren stroked his beard, and lan y/n mockingly did the same, earning him a few stifled laughs from his three classmates. "among all the students and disciples that i've taught, i've never had anyone as aggravating and uncontrollable as wei wuxian and that lan c/n." he shook his head at lan xichen.
wei wuxian frowned. "he's going to give me another scolding again..." he dejectedly says. lan y/n pursed his lips. "aww, don't worry a-xian, knowing shufu, he'll give me an even worse punishment than you. i can take the heat from him if you want." lan y/n smiles as he rests a hand on wei wuxian's shoulder. wei wuxian sniffled before he pulled lan y/n in for a hug. "a-y/n, you're so nice." wei wuxian cries softly as he rubs his cheek against lan y/n's head.
lan y/n playfully rolled his eyes before lightly shoving himself away from wei wuxian. "wei wuxian and lan y/n aren't as terrible as you say. they're both still children at heart, so they can't help but want to enjoy themselves, especially while they are young." lan xichen tells his uncle with a smile. "a-y/n hasn't interacted with another human soul in so long, and he never exactly had a normal childhood, maybe his meeting with wei wuxian awakened the little boy inside him?"
lan qiren hummed at lan xichen's explanation while he stroked his beard. he turned around, and could only scoff as wei wuxian stood up, but was quickly pulled down by jiang cheng and nie huaisang. lan qiren huffed before walking away.
"huh? what does that mean?" wei wuxian ponders as he pops his head out the bush. jiang cheng scowled at him. "he can't even be bothered to lecture you anymore. to him, you're a lost cause." jiang cheng huffs.
lan xichen chuckles. "stop hiding there. you can come out now."
the four of them quickly scrambled towards lan xichen. "um, xichen-shixiong." huaisang nervously says as he scratches his head with his closed fan. xichen looks towards wei wuxian. "you seem to be in a lot of pain, i doubt you would be able to stand on your own for a few days." jiang cheng furrowed his brows. "what? a few days?!"
lan y/n stifled a laugh. "i guess that means you'll be carrying him in your back for a few more days, jiang-shixiong." he teases, which earns him an irked look from the older. "a few days? lan wangji was too hard on him, he's-" jiang cheng quickly shut his mouth when wei wuxian nudged him. lan xichen gave them a close-eyed smile. "don't worry too much. i know how you can recover quickly in just a few hours." xichen looks towards his younger brother.
"a-y/n could even accompany you there." he adds. lan y/n quickly shakes his head. "no!" he exclaims, but he quickly looks away once he realized his sudden outburst. "no, i'm fine. just fine! i can walk perfectly by myself and i-" xichen quickly cuts him off. "no need to be so stubborn, a-y/n. wei-gongzi still needs someone to help him walk, and you know how to get there." lan xichen gave his younger brother a pleading look with his eyes, which made the younger lan frown.
"fine."
lan y/n helped wei wuxian over to the cold springs, making sure that the older of the two was holding on to his arm for support. of course, knowing the two, they kept getting distracted on the way, so when they arrived, it was already dark. "what is this place?" wei wuxian asked as he looked up at the rock formation, where it covered a small spring that seemed to glow from the center as water dribbled down from above.
lan y/n rolled his eyes as he saw the figure of a certain someone in the middle of the spring. "looks like we're not the only ones who came here to use the spring." he says with a tone of boredom, which he used to hide the bitterness in his voice. wei wuxian takes note of his tone. "in any case, let's just get in the spring." wei wuxian pulls himself away from the younger, laughing before he throws off all his outer robes.
lan y/n smiles and removes his outer robes, leaving him in only one layer of robes. "ah, lan zhan!" wei wuxian calls. he looks towards lan y/n and they both share a look. wangji looks back to the two of them, but instead, he gets splashed by water as the two dove into the springs. wei wuxian rose from the water. "woah, it's cold!" he shivered, rubbing his hands on his arms.
"how did you find this place?"
"oh, a-y/n told me!" wei wuxian smiled, pointing to lan y/n, who only had his eyes above water, while he was blowing bubbles underneath. "and also because zewu-jun suggested it." wei wuxian says before he begins to swim closer to wangji. "what are you doing?"
"it just seems warmer where you are." wei wuxian laughs. "it's not." wangji insists, leaning back from the approaching wei wuxian. lan y/n swam towards him as well, like an alligator that was hunting with only his eyes above the water. "lan zhan, you're so mean!" wei wuxian whined.
smirking, lan y/n rose from the water, from behind wangji. "boo!" lan y/n exclaimed with a big smile on his face as he jumped onto his brother's back, wrapping his arms around his neck and his legs around wangji's torso. "wha-" lan y/n laughed as he placed his chin in between his brother's shoulder and neck, nuzzling against it.
wangji was sure that he was going to push him away, but for some reason, he just couldn't. "get off." he commands, but lan y/n stubbornly remains. "come on lan zhan, don't be so cold to us. and besides, lan y/n is your brother, so be nice to him." wei wuxian chuckles, swimming closer to wangji.
"yeah, er-ge, can't you be nice to me? just this once?" lan y/n playfully whines, nuzzling his cheek against wangji's. he looks at wei wuxian, and they both shared a look, especially when wangji's ears began to turn red. wei wuxian smiles. "lan zhan! why are you being so mean? come on, let's be friends!" wei wuxian persists, tapping wangji on the shoulder.
wangji only turns on his back as lan y/n slides off his back, a pout on his lips. "there are many benefits to being friends with me you know?" wei wuxian says as he moves closer to wangji. lan y/n decided to push his luck with his older brother. he rested his entire upper body on wangji, his arms just hanging off of wangji's shoulders while his chin was leaning on his head.
wangji ignored him, well, tried. he wanted to push his brother off of him, but he couldn't say it. whatever the reason was, he just wanted his brother to get off him immediately. "i can take you to yunmeng to pick lotuses and catch pheasants! it'd be so fun!" wei wuxian smiles. "oh! i wanna come, i wanna come!"
"of course you can come, a-y/n! we're friends after all." lan y/n grins at him before he turns to his brother. he raised a brow before he poked his brother on the cheek. "er-ge, are you listening?" he asked. "no." wangji replied coldly. wei wuxian hums as he swims to the other side of wangji. "girls don't like guys who keep saying no all the time." he says with a brow raised towards wangji.
wei wuxian nudges him and smiles. "i'm telling you, the girls in yunmeng are really cute!" he smiles. lan y/n pokes his tongue out. "gross. if they're cuter than me, i don't want them." he says. wei wuxian laughs as he splashes him with water. "hey!"
lan y/n yelped as he suddenly slipped off his brother's back. wangji swam forward away from the two. wei wuxian and lan y/n looked at each other before they smiled coyly. they got out of the water, and wangji looks at them with a glare. "what are you two up to now?"
wei wuxian laughs as he picks up wangji's robes. "you keep saying no to us, and we've decided that we're very unhappy with it." he says with a smile as he flips his hair. lan y/n playfully rolls his eyes at his friend before he looks at his brother and shrugs his shoulders. "bye er-ge! enjoy your lonesome bath!" he laughed, clumsily slipping onto the rest of his robes.
the two began to walk away. now that the two were done messing with wangji, wei wuxian could finally get a proper look at lan y/n's chest and his entire upper body. the one layer of robes he was wearing, barely covered his body, or rather, the red and purple bruises that formed along his chest and stomach. a few ran down his arms, they looked old, unlike the fresh bruises on his back.
lan y/n could feel wei wuxian's stare, and he immediately got self-conscious. he fumbles slightly as he wrapped his robes around himself. wei wuxian shook his head and tried to apologize. "a-y/n, i..."
"wei wuxian!" he looked back and saw wangji glaring at him. wei wuxian hummed. "what's wrong, hanguang-jun?" he laughed. "you have a great bod, you know?" wangji quickly turned around, his ears turning red. "you!"
a vicious snarl suddenly echoed in the night, catching the three's attention. "fierce corpses?" lan y/n asked, staring up at the stairs where the sound was coming from. he narrowed his eyes before fixing up his robes. he dashed off without another word, ignoring wei wuxian's calls for him. wangji furrowed his brows. "shufu brought them back for me to play inquiry with them." wangji spoke up. "how did they escape?"
"none of us have our weapons. this is bad." wei wuxian quickly dashed off, following after lan y/n with wangji's robes still in his hand. "wei wuxian!" wangji called. wei wuxian stopped in his tracks and turned around. "what?"
"give me back my robe."
wangji quickly chased after his younger brother, going down the path he took. he followed the flurry of white that was dashing down the mountain at an almost impossible speed. suddenly, he stopped, and a fight had ensued. lan y/n, completely unarmed, was surrounded by fierce corpses, all lunging towards him with an intent to kill.
lan y/n raised his leg, which became wrapped in a glowing red aura, before he kicked a fierce corpse in the face, sending it flying off the cliff. he panted, before performing a backflip over a fierce corpse that lunged towards him from behind. he pressed his hands on its back, pushing the rotting corpse towards another and accelerating his movements.
his feet planted on the cliff, he launched himself off and landed on top of a corpse while using a talisman that made him heavier to crush the corpse underneath his feet. two others tried to lunge for him, but wangji warded them away using his spiritual energy, with a magnolia branch acting as his medium.
lan y/n looked towards his brother, his eyes wide. wangji only narrowed his eyes at him, before his eyes widened. a fierce corpse had snuck back up the cliff, and with a hand outstretched, the fierce corpse lunged towards his younger brother. "c/n!" wangji exclaimed. lan y/n reacted to his voice and tried to dodge. the fierce corpse's nails scratched him in his lips, barely missing his eyes.
a short scream echoed throughout the cliffs, followed by a, "lan c/n!"
"hanguang-jun, your guqin!" a wooden instrument was thrown up in the air. wangji grabbed his brother, who was groaning, both in pain and disgust from the blood that was dripping down his lips. he hung him on his back as he jumped up and grabbed his guqin. he strummed his fingers against the strings, releasing a wave of spiritual energy that crushed the fierce corpses under its gravity.
when the fierce corpses collapsed, wangji landed on the ground. he gently laid his younger brother on the ground, watching with worried eyes as two horrible gashes were bleeding from lan y/n's lips. wangji tried to clean the blood off with a cloth he pulled out of his robe, but the blood just kept running.
jiang cheng appeared beside wangji, looking around for his brother. he looked down at wangji, about to ask him, but he nearly fell back in shock as he saw the wincing lan y/n, who was laying his head in wangji's lap. "wei wuxian went in the other direction." jiang cheng gulped before he reluctantly left them alone.
"er-ge..." lan y/n mumbled, his hands trembling and his eyelids struggling to open. "i'm here." wangji whispers, gently wiping the cloth over his brother's lips. "i'm here."
( 𝖾𝖽𝗂𝗍𝖾𝖽 | ✓ )
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