The Pain Between Two Souls

"Do not come near me. Do not speak to me. I do not like you."

Lan Wangji meant those words.

Years later, chained in a Wen prison, he learns exactly how wrong he was.

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A soulmate AU where soulmates are rare and can feel each other's pain.

Lan Wangji spent his childhood feeling the suffering of a boy he had never met-hunger that never faded, injuries that appeared without cause, whip marks that burned across his back.

Years later, Wei Wuxian arrives at Cloud Recesses and immediately recognizes his soulmate.

Lan Wangji feels nothing.

Wei Wuxian thinks he has been rejected.

Lan Wangji thinks Wei Wuxian is the most irritating person he has ever met.

Then the war begins.