Wangxian Prompt/Self-fill Dump

Little Bunny YingYing Pt 2

Lan Zhan is a very quiet and stoic man. He has always been this way since he was a child. Though he was more emotional and showed his expressions to his mother. She had always told him that arranged marriage were both very good and very bad things. Yes there was middle ground but she wanted her boys to find True love and happiness, something she was denied when she was arranged made to marry his father.

She loved her sons greatly, cherished their visits to her. Many of the Lan Heads had wanted to restict thos visits. Limit all her freedoms because before she had married the Lan Clan's Heir, she had killed his favorite uncle and one of the gang leader who served Lan Tao's father. But Lan Tao was madly obsessed with her and would not all them to kill her least the Fuyin Syndicate choose to go to war with them while their numbers were smaller. They were a very dangerous clan of well trained warriors in all styles ancient and forgotten to modern warfare.

They would kill them all with little trouble if anything happened to Fuyin Weiyoung. Lan Zhan makes a distant mental note to call his grandma on his mother's side since his paternal grandparents are long dead. Having died before even brother had been born. Lan Zhan rarely saw his father and adore dhis near daily visits to his mother. She was never allowed to leave her well apointed estate. Though she could recieve visitors. Again the other Lan Heads did not want this. They wanted her punished, however Lan Two was Clan Head, Qingchen-Jun and before he died, he had been a very fierce and dangerous man.

Niether Lan Zhan or Lan Huan had very good memories of their father. The too few they have of him was when he would visit, their mother's smiles were empty, her laughter while bright and lively was clearly fake and it sounded so wrong to the young boys. Though there was one genuine moment of happiness with the four of them. It was the day they took a family portrait together in tradition Cultivator robes that the Lans had kept from ancient times. They were white and pale blue, the favored colors ofbhis family, their Guans were impressive, but simple and Lan Zhan had been amazed at how beautiful his mother looked with the traditional headdress of a favored and refined mistress of a Cultivation Clan. She sat while Lan Zhan was held on her lap. Lan Huan was to her other side, standing because he was too big to sit on her lap as well. The boys could not stop smiling at their mother, who they claimed was a real life princess from the many stories she always told them it mader her smile true and her laughter was real and warm. Even as their father stood behind her she could not let what would be their last memory together be stained with her clear dislike and even fear of her husband at her back, his large hand like a brand.

Lan Zhan remembers his kother always demanded he try his best to be better thanbhis father, to not force another who clearly does not want him. But then Lan Tao announced he arranged Lan Zhan's bride for him. A Wei. While many believed them to be a servant branch of the Jiang Clan. They were actually jist very close friends. The Weis rulednthe one territory that no one else dared to enter. Even today the mysterious dark forest that even the ancients had called the Burial Grounds still stood. Tall, vast and dark. The Weis lived in the forest abd were just as mysterious, then again many in that clan were apparently Hybrids.

Hybrids began to appear during the ancient times of emperors and demons and the like. They were a bit more welcomed then, though still faced animosity and sexual harassment. Over the history of their nation, they were still treated that way. Lan Zhan's mother had been a hybrid, she had this long beautiful tail of shimmering scales that she often sat with rather than using her human legs. She had four arms in her true form and always said she had them to be able to hug both her boys at the same time. Lan Zhan was sad that he and his brother were not born like her. She giggled and said it was because it was trait in Omegas. Alphas if they are a hybrid only manifest when they find their mate.

Lan Zhan had only seen pictures of the mysterious Wei Heir, never good ones but of a child running in a grand garden, or swimming in a lotus filled pond at the Jiangs. He could see the child's smile and found it beautiful. The few times his mother saw those pictures she told him in a serious tone to protect that smile. To never let it dim because of anyone else's doings. Not even his own. Lan Zhan did not realize it then but he was falling in love, deeply and dangerously so, with the boy with the sun in his smile.

It was after his parents had past, his mother had been quite ill and because of the stupid rules enfoced upon her she could not leave the compound to seek treatment from her family and thus died. This enraged their father so greatly he gathered the heads who had voted to imprison her to a warehouse for a 'meeting' and later it would be reported as terrorist bombing that killed 30 men hard at work.

Lan Huan had to take over so young and had to finish raising his brother. Sure they had their Uncle, but their Uncle was a professor and prefered to stay well away from their family business. He had wanted the same for the boys. But had no say or standing. When Fuyin Weiyoung passed he had come to help out and then was all but forced to stay when his brother commited suicide and too kout the assholes who let his beloved wife die. Now here they are, fully grown, hard working and yet so jaded by the world.

Their Uncle remained close, but still refused to be in the business, content to teach his students and do research in his spare time. They have tea every Saturday and a family breakfast every other Sunday morning after visiting their parents graves. They have a few cousins and close friends whom they view as family which helps to fill certain gaps in their lives. But not all of them. Lan Zhan was happy serving his brother as his right hand, though Lan Huan knows Lan Zhan would be a far better and more ruthless leader than himself. However he was not allowed to abdicate his position because it meant he would need to commit suicide to prevent future issues should he sire children. Lan Huan refused to do it because he would never make his brothee cry at another loss. Lan Huan may be the warmer Jade Twin, but he was also the scarier one when it came to his family, especially his brother, being hurt.

Lan Zhan finally got to the ICU room where his brother was currently leaning against the wall where their favorite adopted sister and brother were checking over his future wife.

Wei Ying.

This was the first time he was seeing him in person, the first time he was truly seeing him and he cannot help how his heart squeezes, painfully in his chest at how utterly small the hybrid is, how frail he looks and even in his deep sleep, his expression is pinched with fear and discomfort. Then his heart gives one mighty pump and he stands taller, shoulders back his perfect posture even more rigid and straight. The others looka at him.

"Bring them to me..."

"One of them is Madam Yu..." Lan Huan tells him, already typing on his phone to shis other best friend, a too clever snake in the grass.

".... Will deal with her personally... But later..." He promises dangerously. He does not looka away from Wei Ying, unable to look away from the bunny ears and his sweet face.

"Protect that smile, always, my Dragon. Do not ever let it shatter for it is a treasure that nothing could ever replace. Thst smile could be even more beautiful with love and trust from this child, just as precious and just as utterly shatter. Shatteer them and you can never get them back. Do not let what happened with me happen to him... Promise Muqin..."

He had promised her on her death bed he would and intends to keep it.

"Let's burn them to the ground." He orsers finally turning on heel...