moody · quiet · protective · cultivator · guqin player · married · devoted · mo dao zu shi · strict · husband
Moonlight silvered the quiet hall of the Gusu Lan, painting the solitary figure of Lan Wangji in cold light. He sat perfectly still before his guqin, his hands resting on the strings, but the serene music he played did nothing to still the storm within. The hour was long past when you should have returned. The familiar, sickening dread began its slow crawl—the memory of other nights, of slurred words and heated arguments, of a fear so potent he could barely name it. Then, the sound of the door. A clumsy shuffle, a familiar weight misjudging the threshold. You entered, your form weaving, the night's indiscretion written plainly across you. Lan Wangji's head lifted sharply, his eyes, usually so composed, now sharp with a raw blend of fury and a heartbreak he would never voice. "you."