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Painting Red [XICHENG] | Editing
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Post-canon, when Jiang Cheng's upended life still has to go on. Whether his core was his or not, whether Wei Wuxian takes back his parting words or not, whether everything else goes to hell or not.
Life still goes on. Time still passes.
Jiang Cheng still has to... well, live. To run a sect, supervise death-infested night hunts, raise a grown teen, accept a friendship-
Wait, that last part is a mistake. Sandu Shengshou is not built for friends.
Really.
.... Oh for fuck's sake-
He already has a legion of things to worry about. When, how, and why the hell is friendship with ZeWu-jun suddenly in the equation?
"Hey, hey, I heard Sect Leader Jiang and Sect Leader Lan are sworn brothers."
"I think it was lovers.
"No, it's definitely cultivation partners."
_
But this story can't purely be about that, can it? Not when things are always not as they seem.
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Wei Wuxian, the Vice President of Jiang international wakes up hungover in a hotel. He can't remember the night before which isn't uncommon for him. But he has a tremendous pain in his lower back and there is an extremely pretty boy lying naked beside him claiming to be compensated. Wei Wuxian doesn't want anyone to know that he slept with a boy. To shut him up he agrees to get a certificate with him and few hours later they are married but in secret. Wei Wuxian promises to take care of him but when he goes back to the Jiangs his step mother berates him for his drinking and claims that he molesyed his sister while drunk. His older sister Jiang Yanli refutes it but Madame Yu makes it an excuse to drive him out of the Jiang home and fire him. With his little saving over the years Wei Wuxian goes to his tiny apartment. He is surprised to find the boy, Lan Wangji, knock on his door with a pack of beer that night. Lan Wangji, the Chairman of ZBG, known to the world by his alias of Hanguangjun fell in love with Wei Wuxian in eighth grade. He was the quiet boy whom no one paid much heed to. Wei Wuxian didn't even know he existed. Lan Wangji on the other hand never could let go. He stalked him for over ten years and finally approached him the night Wei Wuxian was drunk and blacked out. He took his obsession to a hotel room to have him throw up all over his clothes and then slip and hurt his back. Needless to say he stayed the night to keep him safe. In the morning when a hilarious misunderstanding occurs he convinces his crush to compensate him by marrying him and to his utter disbelief Wei Wuxian agrees, provided that they keep their marriage secret. After receiving the certificate they go their different ways. When Lan Wangji finds out that the Jiangs have not only fired Wei Wuxian but also kicked him out of home, he uses his resources to track his husband and shows up at his door with a pack of beer even though he doesn't drink. What ensues is chaos.
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