The line between love and obsession

The new beginnings

WARNING:

This chapter contains implied suicide(past), Manipulation, Suicide used as a tool for emotional-manipulation. Lan Xichen doesn't commits suicide, but he orchestrates to make it look like one for manipulation.Though the suicide part is not detailed, If this is triggering to you, please don't go further.

I just added few tags and removed few. I started this fic as a fluffy one, somehow it ended up becoming something else entirely. Sorry about that.

Chapter Text

Lan Xichen lay awake all night, twisting and turning, drowning in the whirlpool of emotions; his mind in shambles. The earlier events had destroyed the dam he had built to protect himself from his memories. Now, those dark memories flooded his head, threatening to wipe out his entire existence.

All those memories were flashing in front of his eyes- how Meng Yao's betrayal had crushed his heart, rendering him damaged forever, how his soul had left his body when he had heard about Meng Yao's suicide, how his lungs had almost given out when he had read the police report of Meng Yao's suicide against his better judgment.

Suddenly, something clicked in Lan Xichen's head. A plan. A seed of a plan. But he would need the help of a few people to carry his plan through.

*

It was almost 6 pm on a Friday and Lan Wangji was still in his office. He felt tired, but the excitement over the upcoming weekend was helping him push through the exhaustion. He was going to the planetarium on Sunday with Wei Ying and A-Yuan, as stars were A-Yuan's latest obsession. That thought made him smile. He swiped his phone and stared at the picture he had taken surreptitiously of Wei Ying and A-Yuan together at the park, his fingertips gently caressing the picture. His Wei Ying, he thought. His A-Yuan. His family.

Then, after texting How are you, Wei Ying? What are you doing right now? He put his phone down, focusing on the work at hand.

Lan Wangji had never expected himself to be that kind of lover, texting his lover several times a day, asking what they were doing, but Lan Wangji couldn't help himself, he wanted to know what Wei Ying was doing at all times.

Lan Wangji sometimes felt that he was being clingy, but his Wei Ying would always indulge him, texting back right away, several paragraphs-sometimes, about what he was doing or how he was feeling. The thought of it made him smile again.

Nowadays, Lan Wangji smiled a lot, throughout the day. He never expected himself to be this happy, smiling so much, but Wei Ying was magic, and with Wei Ying, anything was possible.

He checked his phone again, no reply. That usually happened when Wei Ying was busy with something or working. Right on cue, Lan Wangji remembered Wei Ying telling him he had work today.

Missing Wei Ying, he put his phone down, focusing on work. After some time, he left his office to go to his brother's. He needed his brother's signature on some documents and his brother being a workaholic, there was a high probability his brother was still in his office.

As he entered, his brother wasn't inside, but his brother's assistant was wrapping a gigantic bunch of red roses.

"Did brother leave already?" Lan Wangji asked.

"Oh! Mr. Lan just left. You missed him by a few seconds. Is it about something important?" His brother's assistant, being a complete drama queen, replied dramatically.

"No, nothing big. It can wait until Monday," Saying as much, just as he was about to leave, he heard the other man utter something. "Umm. You must be curious about these roses," his brother's assistant spoke, gesturing at those enormous roses.