Dimensions Apart (Wangxian)

*Mo Xuanyu*

"I liked my Ying'er. Ever since childhood. I felt unnaturally protective and attracted towards him. As a child myself, those feelings, all those emotions were quite hard for me to identify. It wasn't until I started feeling jealous even of my own brother whenever he used to talk and laugh with Ying'er that I was able to put a name to those complicated emotions...

Xichen, as usual, was aware of everything! One might think that as a brother, Xichen would have helped me in getting Ying'er attention. huhh! 

Not only he didn't help me, he even started finding ways to keep Ying'er away from me, saying, I wasn't good enough for his innocent kid. He loves Ying'er more than his own brother!" Alpha Lan Wangji said, rolling his eyes

"But how's all this related to that party? Weren't you talking about your birthday party just now? Did I miss something?!" Lan Jingyi asked, scratching the back of his head with his index finger

"No, you didn't! He digressed!" Jin Ling whispered back loudly, staring at the Alpha Lan Wangji and daring him to disagree

Alpha Lan Wangji looked at Lan Jingyi and Jin Ling, boredly, before looking deep into his Ying's eyes and said, "Nothing, that I'm saying is irrelevant. Xichen and I, both knew that I liked Ying'er but that day, my eighteenth birthday confirmed many things. 

It all happened so quickly, I didn't even get a chance to understand what was happening around me, before everything that we brothers had worked on for so long to be free from Lan Qiren and those scientists' vicious clutches, to keep ourselves and our Ying'er safe and protected, went up in smoke.

Xichen was standing beside me on the staircase, greeting one of our guests when suddenly at 7 pm, late in the evening, precisely the time I was born, I groaned in pain, clutching at my heart and hunched over the handrail, gasping and sweating profusely as I climbed down the stairs and stumbled towards my Ying'er, dazedly.

My mind went blank. 

I could hear Xichen's warning thoughts, felt people's intense, curious gazes on me but all my eyes wanted to see, my ears thirsted to hear and my heart ached to be close to, was my Ying'er.

And not a second too late, I smiled inwardly, seeing my baby running towards me, panicking and worried, his cute face streaked with streams of tears as he supported and held me in his arms and fussed over my well-being, oblivious of the all the dangers and troubles he had put himself into in that very moment. Do you remember, Ying'er?"

Omega Wei Wuxian nodded, feeling overwhelmed with emotions.

Alpha Lan Wangji smiled sadly as he continued, remembering the memories lost in time, "As soon as my Ying'er hugged me and I breathed in his jasmine scent, all my pain, the constricted suffocating feeling in my heart ceased, my breathing stabilized and my senses cleared abruptly but instead of feeling the happiness, my world came to a standstill when I heard the thoughts of those scientists who said, 'He Found His SOULMATE!'

In that moment of panic, I extricated myself from my oblivious Ying's arms and harshly pushed him away from me, in hopes of making those scientists believe that whatever they thought was wrong but... the damage was already done. 

Not only to them but also to my Ying'er who was lying on the cold hard floor and staring at me, shocked and hurt. And all I did was...turn away from him. 

Leaving him there, on the floor, in front of all our guests, I turned, coldly, and calmly walked back to where Xichen was still standing on the stairs, feeling enraged, horrified and frustrated with the way things turned out.

While my heart was breaking into pieces, screaming to be closer to my mate, my mind was filled with all the wrongs Lan Qiren did and will restart doing to my Ying'er, all the efforts we brothers made to keep ourselves protected from their reach and all the dangers I had put my Ying'er into just by being his soulmate!