The Heaven's Plan

Wei Ying

When Qingqiu opened his eyes that morning, it was raining pretty heavily outside the windows. He could hear the never relenting traffic of Shanghai, with cars going in all directions. He slept pretty well since the day before was so absolutely crazy.

He still couldn't understand how he found himself in that absurd situation. The detective sighed, bringing a hand on his face and slowly getting up to get ready. He looked at his phone. 6.30 am. Well, he needed to get out as soon as possible, because he was pretty sure Lan Wangji was going to arrive soon.

That man was always at least 30 minutes early. After getting dressed, he took his bag and took the elevator to the ground floor. As he anticipated, the unmistakable second son of the Lan family was waiting for him on one of the hall couches.

Qingqiu got near and greeted him.

"I hope Xie Lian has good coffee."

The other just nodded and showed his way to the car waiting for them at the hotel entrance. The road was very busy, so he kinda understands why Wangji asked him to meet so early. Used to the countryside and small town, he forgot how crazy was the metropolis.

They still made it in time and seeing Puqi restaurant, Qingqiu started getting excited. He could understand how he had lost all his passion in that unknown hole.

The two detectives entered and the small sound of the bell rang. Xie Lian and Luo Binghe greeted them, but looking around Qingqiu didn't see Hua Cheng. He checked the time. 8.15.

"Maybe I got it wrong?"

Maybe he was just his own personal

"Wouldn't be the first time." A voice behind said. A very familiar one.

"San Lang!"

Shen Qingqiu was speechless at the other appearance. He remembers Hua Cheng as a young adult, just outside of his teens. In front of him, there was a man, way taller than him and full of tattoos. So different from the aspirant policeman he saw so many years ago.

"Gege." He greeted Xie Lian, with a mischievous smile. Qingqiu chuckled.

He is different in appearance, but in the end, he is still the same punk.

"You got me scared for a second."

"I am not famous for being on time."

Xie Lian smiled and walked outside the counter to get near him. Even if not visible to a stranger, Qingiqu noticed the criminal got tense for a moment even if he was displaying his smile.

"You have a lot of tattoos, San Lang"

The other's smile trembled slightly. Qingqiu was having fun looking at someone suffer like he was the day before. Xie Lian was dense, but he wasn't. At least, not in other relationships. He turned to see Wangji already sitting at the table together with Binghe and decided to join them. He wanted to get the best view of the show. 

"Binghe bring me some coffee" he whispered to the younger and the other flashed to the counter to get him a carafe.

"Yes, I know they are not very appealing-"

"What are you saying, they look very good on you!" Xie Lian quickly said, touching his arm. Hua Cheng froze there and then, while Qingqiu's smile was getting bigger and bigger.

He turned to Wangji. "Can't wait to see you panic with Wei Wuxian."

Lan Wangji turned to the other two without changing expression, but the tips of his ears were getting bright red.

Xie Lian took his hand off the younger man quickly, like he was burning. 

"Ah ah, I see you are very good! You got very handsome too, I mean you were before obviously. San Lang is San Lang-" the more Xie Lian blabbered the more his face grew hot and red. Qingqiu decided to end the torture of the two and called for their attention. As fun as it was, they didn't have much time.