You've been invited to

The Holy Matrimony 
of

Jiang Yanli
&
Lan Xichen

It will be a great honor for you to join us in 
celebrating this beautiful day

at

Cloud Recess Hotel Poolside

Saturday, 8th August 2024

The weather on August 8th was perfect. Sunny, a little bit windy, with no dark cloud hanging around. In fact, it's a perfect day for an outdoor wedding, which was why Jiang Yanli was glowing with happiness. 

She never thought that she would marry Lan Xichen, the one she had had a crush on for years. She never knew that he also noticed her and shortly after Wei Wuxian's departure, he came to the kitchen frequently, and they talked and talked, and finally he asked her out.

Now, three years later, they finally got married. 

Then she heard a knock on her door, and entered Shen Qingqiu with a huge bouquet in his hand. She smiled brightly as she saw who entered the room. 

Ever since Wei Wuxian left, they became close friends and confidants, and finally, when they learned that he was back in business, they supported him. She didn't tell all of this to Lan Wangji though. Ever since he learned that Wei Wuxian was gone, he went nuts for some time, but then he came back with a determination. She also never saw him date again. Or involving himself with the professionals. At least that's what Xie Lian told them, he heard that from his boyfriend, Hua Cheng.

She wondered if he would be happy, or the opposite, when he saw that she invited Wei Wuxian and he said he would come and introduce them to someone.

"Qiuqiu, have you heard from him?" She didn't want to speak his name, afraid that Lan Wangji would hear them somehow. He was nice to all of them, but that's it. He closed himself off, and only focused on his job. Basically he lived like a hermit, no, a priest.

"He said he'll be here after he inspect the kitchen." They used his catering service for this wedding. 

"Good. Pour me some champagne please, I'm nervous."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Shen Qingqiu chuckled as he put down the bouquet and poured two glasses of champagne. "To a new life."

Lan Wangji was downing the second glass of champagne and put the empty glass back on the tray, when he saw the cute little boy around three years old was running to his direction and giggling happily. Then he tried to stop but he accidentally bumped into Lan Wangji's knees and rolled back like a clumsy panda, still giggling.

"Oh my, what a menace you are." Lan Wangji lifted the boy up in his arms and he smeared his spit-covered hand on Lan Wangji's cheeks. "Oh Jesusfuckingchrist that was gross…" but the boy only giggled more and hugged Lan Wangji and gave him sloppy kisses on his face. "Ugh disgusting…" but he didn't turn away, since he found it oddly comforting.

Goddamnit, did he lose his mind, to enjoy kisses from a fucking toddler like this? 

True, he didn't have any relationship, personal or professional, ever since Wei Wuxian left him with a hole exactly his size in his heart. He just was not interested in sleeping around anymore ever since he left him.

"Where's your mommy, little boy?" He asked the boy who kissed him again and giggled. Lan Wangji sighed. This boy was too friendly. What if he was kidnapped or something? 

"What about your daddy? Where's your daddy?" He still tried to ask the boy the whereabouts of his irresponsible parents when he suddenly squealed happily.

"Daddy! Daddy!" Then he jumped down from Lan Wangji's embrace, making him surprised because the little turd was really agile. Then he ran to the direction from where he came from and hugged the slim leg of a man wearing dark pants.

"There you are, Feng Xue. Where are you running off to?" The man took the boy into his arms, and Lan Wangji's heart stopped.

No way.

No fucking way.

The man who stood in front of him in all black with his glorious long hair, was the man who haunted his dreams, even when he was awake. He was trying to look for him to no avail, ever since he left him that day. Even He Xuan couldn't find any trace of him, until he told them all to stop. He would respect Wei Wuxian's decision, while he would learn to better himself, to be a better man if someday Wei Wuxian decided to come back to him. Of course he would wait. He would wait until his hair turned grey. He would wait until his eyes couldn't see and his bones turned to mush. He would wait. Until his last breath.

Right now he looked at the man who stood in front of him, carrying a drooling kid in his arms with a smile on his beautiful face. A smile that he remembered clearly as a day, just like back then when he smiled after they made love.

"Lan Zhan." 

Wei Wuxian whispered his name, and it easily erased the three years of pain and loneliness he felt, wondering where he was.

"Wei Ying." 

Lan Wangji couldn't breathe. Wei Wuxian's beautiful face was still the same as he remembered. He then took a step forward. And another. And another. Until there was only a little space between them.

"Wei Ying." He called him again, breathless, as he tried to touch his face, to make sure that this was real, not some kind of dream where he actually fell asleep on the couch, exhausted, but the bed would only remind him of Wei Wuxian with his lingering sweet scent.

"Lan Zhan." Wei Wuxian's beautiful silver eyes became glassy. "Are you well?" He also seemed to hold his emotion back when he saw the man whom he loved and left back then.

Then the boy, Feng Xue grabbed both of their neckties and pulled them together.

"Daddy! Daddy! We missed you! Now kiss!" He giggled as he smushed his face in Lan Wangji's neck while his body was still in Wei Wuxian's arms.

"Feng Xue, why are you running around alone?" Wei Wuxian peeled the toddler's chubby hands from their ties when he heard a gasp from behind.

"Feng Xue! Oh my god! Where have you been?" A pretty young woman with her hair tied in a french braid, a short dress and high heels came running and took the toddler from Wei Wuxian's arm. "I'm sorry, I just took my eyes off him for a second and he was gone."

"It's fine, Nora." Wei Wuxian smiled at the young woman and Lan Wangji felt his heart clenched. Could she be…

"I'm going to change his clothes. You go on and chat with your friend." She then took the boy away, and Lan Wangji couldn't help but blurted out the question.

"Is he your kid? Are you married now?" He felt like he was going to have a heart attack, but he knew it was all his fault. He was stupid and arrogant and blind. He couldn't see what's in front of him and that's the only thing he regretted.

"Yes, Feng Xue is my kid." Wei Wuxian answered him with a soft voice, and Lan Wangji felt the tears start to fill his eyes. So this was it? The end of his fever dream? He started to tremble. He wanted to kidnap this man and take him away somewhere where there were only the two of them. But was he really his from the beginning? Or was it just an illusion?

"And no, I'm not married." Wei Wuxian smiled and touched Lan Wangji's hand softly. "How could I get married, when my heart already belonged to someone?" He looked Lan Wangji in the eye. "Unless… you're married?" His voice suddenly became unsure and his hand wavered. But Lan Wangji quickly pulled him close and finally touched his face. His hands were still shaking but he felt relief to hear Wei Wuxian's words.

"No, but I already promised myself to someone though." He whispered in Wei Wuxian's lips before he kissed him. He missed him. He wanted to make up for the time they lost. He really really missed him.

"Uhm, really?" Wei Wuxian melted into the kiss. He really missed this, he really missed Lan Wangji. Sometimes when he missed him so much, he just wanted to run back to Lan Wangji's warm embrace and forget about everything he stood for and be his kept man or whatever he wanted him to be. But he steeled himself and moved forward. This was also because of Feng Xue. He wanted to give him the best of everything, the things that he missed as an orphan. He wanted to give him a family.

When he said he had a family emergency back then, it was true. One of his closest friends from the orphanage and her husband were involved in a car accident in Korea that took their lives and left behind a newborn baby, Feng Xue. They didn't have any other families, so Wei Wuxian took the baby and adopted him, just as their will stated. They left their quite substantial fortune to him and asked him to take care of Feng Xue. They also had a quite successful catering business, which Wei Wuxian helped them to establish when he was still in university. Now he already expanded the business to be the most renowned in Korea, before he went back to open a branch here. Coincidentally Jiang Yanli asked him to cater for her wedding, just when he was thinking hard of how to contact Lan Wangji, and found out if he still… have any feelings for him. 

And now he knew.

"Really." Lan Wangji pulled him into a tight hug. "I missed you so much. Where have you been?"

"Here and there." Wei Wuxian buried his head into Lan Wangji's nape and inhaled his familiar scent.

"Tell me." Lan Wangji kissed Wei Wuxian's hair, and let out the one tear that was in the corner of his eyes. "Tell me everything what you did, ever since… ever since."

"I will. I will tell you everything, Lan Zhan." Wei Wuxian mumbled into his neck, then he lifted his head up to look into Lan Wangji's eyes. "Do you want to have dinner with me later?"

"Why? Where are you going?" Lan Wangji tightened his grip on Wei Wuxian's still slim waist. He didn't want to ever let this man go anywhere without him again.

"Well, I'm in charge of the wedding's catering, so I need to be everywhere at once." He chuckled as he kissed Lan Wangji. "And besides, aren't you the best man?" Wei Wuxian touched his drool-stained tie and sighed. "That brat."

"Don't worry about it. I have a spare." Lan Wangji kissed Wei Wuxian's fingers one by one.

"Stop it, I don't want to walk around with an erection in my pants." Wei Wuxian moaned softly as Lan Wangji continued to kiss and licked his fingers one by one.

"A little bit too late for that, you reckon?" He rubbed his own obvious erection onto Wei Wuxian's, causing the delicious friction that made them both groan.

"Stop it, you beast!" Wei Wuxian finally pushed Lan Wangji away with a force and he laughed.

"Well, you have to understand, it's three years of accumulated cum here." Lan Wangji grinned as he spoke those dirty words that caused Wei Wuxian to blush.

"Stop! We'll… talk later. Dinner?"

"Since dinner should be still within the wedding party's allocated time, and I have to do my best man's job, why don't you tell me where you're staying and I'll come to your place after everything is over?" Lan Wangji fixed his erection to place and willed it to go down before he had to go up on the altar. The priest would be appalled by such an act of a disgrace.

"I stay here at the hotel. The suite on the fifteenth floor. Fifteen zero five."

"Don't lock the door." Lan Wangji gave him a quick kiss before he left with a light heart to do his job as the best man. 

This was going to be the best day of his life.