The Golden Shackle

Everybody hates someone.

Maybe it's the way he goes to bed every night at nine o'clock. Maybe it's the three thousand rules he recites night and day. Maybe it's the way he moves with the grace of a predator, silent and with purpose.

Maybe it's because all I felt was his scorn when I caused the tiniest of accidents, the smallest of mistakes. When I accidentally core-bonded myself to the Light-Bearing Lord, Lan Wangji, as soon as our minds touched, I knew that the someone he hates... is me.

But you know what else? Everybody loves someone. Just you wait, Lan Wangji of Gusu, just you wait.

(This is AU to the max and won't follow the proper timeline. RomCom that will get smutty, you are forewarned. Bond premise based on Bond by Anna Fugazzi.)