This story started as the XianWang one-shot for my friend Neha's birthday before I realised it had grown into a much longer story. Neha asked me to write a story where Wangji stands by Wei Ying's side and stays there no matter what happens around them. Warning about heavy OOC Wangji. Our Lan Zhan here does everything most of us wished for him to do in the original work. Once again, happy birthday, my dear!