a home.
They fall together, like fresh snow off the mountaintop: first, in measured, patient, cultivating reunion after an extended dinner at their inn. Then, with passion. Then, syrupy and slow, with morning. In a rare, turn, after bathing, Lan Wangji denies himself the rigors and discipline of morning and coaxes them back abed, to hold his lover throughout his rest near sunrise, until halfway to midday.
He stirs them, inevitably, when the blinding bright white of the day overwhelms, and they must set for the road to make good pace to Cloud Recesses while still enjoying their stroll. They arrive, meandering, in the depths of a trickling, golden afternoon, when much of the clan is distracted with the latest lecture of a visiting hermit — they say, an aspiring immortal — and neither Uncle nor Sizhui can be politely parted from his wisdom. First, a brief stop with Liang. Secondly, for Lan Wangji, yet slowed by his fading wounds and bruises, to test the recovery of his disciples.
Lastly, facing the dregs of an afternoon together with no duties, no assignments, no occupation — curiosity wins over. With the packed necessities of a quick meal in his qiankun pouch, he steers Wei Ying to walk the winding, if peaceful path toward the peripheral territories, past the liminal, isolated quietude of the jingshi and into the periphery of Lan Wangji's inherited grounds.
A short walk, yet they may have breached the threshold of a brave new world. He had chosen the space for its proximity to river water, cunning, lively spikes of rice stabbing the field, alongside feral flowers. Already, the builders and architects have marked a path to make a road, but they have yet to set down wood or stone for steps. These, he knows, are still young days for their home, Wei Ying's house, rising on strong, sprawling bones that stretch out over a considerable territory: a number of rooms, some superfluous, including an isolated study for Wei Ying's pleasure and a music chamber. A large kitchen, for all much of the house yet misses its roof. A segment for the archery post Lan Wangji had bidden. The house, designed to host an inner garden, even boasts the allocated space for a pond men had been digging until mere hours prior, when their toil ended.
"To grow lotus," he murmurs, nodding ahead where the pond is yet to glisten and crest, where its waters are short of rising. And he does not ask, Do you like it, what it can be? But his gaze flickers between Wei Ying's face and the home in desperate, hungry study.

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His eyes drift closed on command and he gets down onto his knees, turning himself around with a few crawled shuffles. He could take Lan Zhan in his hand or in his mouth immediately, but that would show too much eagerness for this poor maiden. “Yes, yes, I’ll do it,” he says, licking his lips without thinking about it. “Thank you, thank you. I’m to be married in the fall. Thank you for leaving me intact.”
He lifts his hands blindly, feigning hesitation while caressing his way from Lan Zhan’s knees up across his inner thighs and towards the ultimate destination. He knows Lan Zhan wants this just as badly as he does. He parts his lips, waiting for Lan Zhan to guide himself in.
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Yet the thought of Wei Ying married to another inflames him, drives him to catch Wei Ying's hair, to toss away the blade until it lands mutely on their bed's spread — and to take himself in hand, wetting the rim of his husband's lips with the tip. After, a slow insertion, careful not to catch on Wei Ying's teeth. An inert recipient of his affections is an interesting proposition: he had not realised, before, how much he depended on Wei Ying's participation for safety.
Now, he fits himself inside and does not wait on his lover's approval, only forcing Wei Ying's nearest hand to clasp Wangji's wrist, where it's bound in his hair. Remember, he does not say, the old agreement: let go when you cannot bear to breathe.
"Intact. Whom do you deceive?" The first thrust is slow, but deep, forcing Wei Ying's head still to receive him, denying him the chance to pull back. Again. Again. "You —" The breath that pulls from him is guttered. "Will have only the wet of your mouth to ease my path after."
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His hand clasps Lan Zhan’s wrist and he gives it a few showy tugs with no strength behind them. He doesn’t want him to let go. If anything, he’s excited by the prospect of it. Lan Zhan is usually so much more careful with him.
There’s no warning before the cock in his mouth pushes in as deep as it can go. He gags on it, but he still holds onto Lan Zhan’s wrist. It doesn’t take long for him to anticipate the thrusts and train himself not to gag again. His own ignored cock feels hard enough to burst, but he somehow restrains himself and doesn’t grasp it.
He whimpers at the promise of moving to the next step. Will Lan Zhan truly only use his spit as a lubricant? It won’t be all that different from the first few times they slept together. The memory just makes him want it more.
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He uses Wei Ying thoroughly and indiscriminately, at times seemingly forgetting he is a beautiful creature struggling between gags and making use of him as a thing for Lan Wangji's own staggered pleasure. His thrusts stay short throughout, if meanly relentless. Undaunted, despite the tugs on his wrist, he rewards each of his lover's instinctive, minute pull-backs by forcing his head forward, the hand in Wei Ying's hair vice-like and undaunted.
He has only ever made love to his husband; he ruts in his mouth today, greedy between harsh, aborted inhalations.
In the end, he pulls back, cock swollen near precipice and the wet of Wei Ying's mouth a greedy sheen on his flesh. For Wei Ying's trouble, Lan Wangji only releases his hair, passes the back of his hand over the virgin maiden's cheek with amorous, tolerant fondness.
Then, all at once, he dips in to snake his fingers in the cord of Wei Ying's robe, pulling it free.
"Open your eyes." The sight of Wei Ying, hazy-eyed and mouth abused and trembling on his knees, will prove intoxicating. "And hold out your hands. A whore need not touch me."
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He sits back on his heels, looking up at the handsome form of his husband leering down at him. He wipes some spittle off the sides of his mouth with the back of one wrist before offering up his hands to be bound in whatever way Lan Zhan sees fit.
His own sex is standing at attention and waiting for one of them to have some mercy on it. Preferably before it starts to ache, but he’s not going to be picky about it. He’s in the middle of being thoroughly used up by his loving husband. “What do you have planned for me?” He asks because he wants all the lurid details, but his character would be asking out of fear. It comes out sounding horny instead of frightened.
There’s something different about this than their usual games, but not in a bad way. It’s exciting and keeps him on his toes because he can’t predict what’s coming next. Will Lan Zhan go back to being careful or will he show the same disregard for his comfort as he has so far?
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Still, for the sake of the game, Lan Wangji takes pity on his lover as he binds his wrists once, then again, and knots tight like a sailor, permitting minimal maneuvering and barely enough mobility to avoid chafes. He watches Wei Ying after, like a tyrant befriending the sight of a coveted prize that he gets to have now, to own.
"Whatever I desire." The simple, greedy pronouncement of an unstoppable force. He need not spare Wei Ying kindness, not in this role. And so he takes his husband by an arm, wrenching him up to carelessly, expediently throw him on the nearby bed, sparing no care of Wei Ying's violently pulsing erection, or how his bound hands will prevent him from breaking his fall. Their mattress is soft, their cushions await. He will manage.
"Hands, knees. I will take you as you are, until you have opened for me. " And hissed, after, "Then, you will work to satisfy me."
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Pleasant surprise takes him as he’s thrown towards the bed. He lands on his shoulder and face before scrambling up to a sitting position. “No, no, please don’t do this,” he says, unable to completely stifle the grin that wants to paint his face.
Maybe he should cower some more. Instead, he gets up onto his knees and supports his upper body by resting his weight on his elbows and forearms. It’s a lot more comfortable than trying to use his bound hands as support. He hangs his head down between his elbows and adjusts himself to be open for Lan Zhan’s pleasure.
There’s a part of him deep down that feels like he deserves to be treated like an object for his husband to use and discard as he pleases. It’s something he should probably work through or at the very least let Lan Zhan know about it, but he’s worried they won’t get to play scenes like this if it comes to light.
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He leaves the garment just so, half wilted over his lover's thighs, half propped over his back, a clean stroke following the line of Wei Ying's spine. Creak of their mattress as he joins, only one knee, then the second, hunting and looming over Wei Ying like a predator zeroing in on his prey. Two fingers kiss the ridges of his vertebrae through silk, then descend down, down and onto the still bath-wet line of his entrance, dipping once within.
No lubrication, he had promised, but Wei Ying's mouth. His fingers dip in, curling once to test the fit stayed loose and promising after their latest coupling, only a night prior. He thrusts both fingers in, nearly to hilt, without ado or preparation. Again. Again, waiting to test out the strain in Wei Ying's voice.
"Your mouth refuses, yet your body invites. Why does it clutch me?"
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He bites at his lower lip, shivering from just the touch on his back. He presses his forehead down onto the mattress and braces himself for what’s next. Relax, that’s it, don’t clench. Without lubricant, it will be a rough ride for both of them.
His moan is muffled and despite his willingness, he tenses at the intrusion. “Stop, please,” he says, face still pressed to fabric so his voice doesn’t carry as much. “If you must do this, then please be quick. I can’t bear it.” What he can’t bare is his own arousal going ignored. He knows Lan Zhan will take good care of him, rough and mean and altogether intensely satisfying. “Please, don’t leave any marks on my flesh.” Except maybe a few bite marks or some bruises to remind him of this evening for days to come.
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He withdraws it with harsh abandon, dragging it instead over Wei Ying's sweet, fattened cock with easy, tightening tugs, as if he is ignorant or surprised by the generous gift he has discovered. After, he shifts forward to loom, chest pressing over Wei Ying's back, the thick shape of his own length cradles against his husband's ass, his mouth catching on the collar of Wei Ying's robe and bidding it lower.
He bites, hard, nearly to a point of bleeding. Again, at the junction of Wei Ying's neck.
"No marks," he mutters dark like crumbling charcoal, "So you may lie to your groom?" And another bite, higher on the jade pillar of Wei Ying's throat, suckling in a bruise that will darken and keep as he works his lover's arousal with clean strokes. "No. Let him know he weds a whore."
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He cries out, arching his back. He can’t decide whether he likes or dislikes the feeling as it does remind him of the way it felt being bitten by an actual dog. He can handle it. He winces at the second bite, hips stilling until it’s over and Lan Zhan moves to more pleasurable marking. He can’t blame him. He’d been the one to bring up leaving marks in the first place.
Still not realizing what’s triggering an aggressive response from Lan Zhan, he continues his pleas. “Please, he won’t love me. He’ll abuse this poor maiden and leave her cold on the wedding bed. Won’t you have a little mercy on me?”
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Each breath comes short, stilted. He releases Wei Ying's neck with slow, apologetic licks, sucking in marks that his uncle will doubtlessly take note of and begrudge the wrong man between them. They should speak of his jealousy, perhaps, only not tonight. Not when they have already devastated themselves with their misunderstandings.
Mercy.
Before Lan Wangji himself might know, he is lifting off Wei Ying's back, receding behind him. Taking himself in hand to check for lingering wetness and, one hand still connected to Wei Ying's hip — he enters his lover completely in two hard, punched thrusts that bring him deep. Air burns his lungs, slow to ease out on the next exhalation. Tight, always, but this nearly stings, on the cusp of discomfort in ways that they had not experimented with since the early days of their lovemaking.
Somehow, the memory calms him, steeling him to discipline, even as animalistic arousal eats at his limbs, begging him to move and take and take and take.
"No. Be silent," he murmurs to distract himself, poised and straight-backed, watching his husband below. Then harder, aligning with a sudden thrusts of his hips, "You will not go to him. You will come with me."
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After the first few thrusts, he pushes back, meeting his husband halfway. Maybe a little blood wouldn’t be such a bad thing if it eases Lan Zhan’s ride. Besides, he has always liked it a little rough, animal-like and desperate.
His hands curl into fists, straining the binds that fasten them together. His head droops down again until his forehead is against the bed. The pain is overshadowed by the wisps of pleasure he feels every time Lan Zhan thrusts just so. It’s a good thing it hurts because otherwise he wouldn’t last long enough for Lan Zhan to have his fill. Dancing on the dagger’s edge between pleasure and pain, he doesn’t bother hiding his grunts and moans.
“Come with you?” He repeats, grinning a little at the ambiguity of it. “I thought being with this maiden - this whore, as you call her - is beneath you. Would you change your mind and treat her well or will you imprison and torture her for your satisfaction?” His words are broken at times when he feels bursts of pleasure that promise his eventual release.
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He fucks into his lover, until the clutch of Wei Ying's body, unlubricated, turns punishing. Until, hissing, he despairs of it, wondering fleetingly how they could ever achieve satisfaction in such a primitive, inefficient way. Grasping Wei Ying's hair in one hand, he exerts himself to exit Wei Ying's flesh, pulling back to lie knelt on his heels on the bed, his angered erection wilting heavy on his side.
"I shall bind you to my bed, where you will attend me. Gratefully," he murmurs, because that is the fate of every war spoil, however charming and beautiful, however alluring.
Then, in brief renunciation of his role, he turns to raid their bedside, clearly knowing of where to search for the pot of salve that assists their bedplay. He applies a sheer, generous, floral layer of unguent to himself, more spread on his fingertips.
Yet he does not join Wei Ying's body again, waiting. "But you are a poor lay. A cold fish. Earn my attention, else I shall leave you to your groom to find despoiled."
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He sighs, taking the time to catch his breath. He pushes himself up on his wrists instead of his elbows and looks over his shoulder to see what his husband’s doing. Ah, good. Lubricant is a good call.
“Grateful to be your slave, you mean? Show me what I have to be grateful for,” he says, more challenging than he means to. He’s supposed to be a mistreated maiden here. Fearful and wanting to be freed from this wretched fate.
He fixes the robe, covering himself with it before he crawls towards this lovely predator. He throws his arms over Lan Zhan’s neck and grins at him. “You call me a whore,” he says, nudging his husband’s cheek with his nose. “I can be your virgin or I can be your whore. Whatever you have in store for me is a better fate than what he will do to me. Why don’t you tell me what you want and I can show you I’m no cold fish.”
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He pulls away to regard his handsome prey with an air of studied indifference, brows pulled and mouth pursed, gaze considering. Then, his hand wanders down, sight unseen, to where he feels the chafed, fattened length of his husband's beading arousal, and offers it the respite of a few tight strokes, to the beat of his voice.
"My virgin. My whore," he corrects, then his spare hand slips to tap Wei Ying's silk-saddled rump, nudging him forward, where Lan Wangji's own erection awaits with soaring, heated interest. "Ride. Show me you are worth keeping."
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“Yours,” he agrees, parting his knees and rocking against Lan Zhan’s hand eagerly. It’s a little hard for him to want to stop long enough to change positions with the delightful friction, but he manages to crawl into Lan Zhan’s lap with one knee on either side of his lover’s hips.
He reaches between them and takes Lan Zhan’s girth in one hand, giving it a few slow strokes while he gets up onto his knees. It takes a little creative contortion, but he guides his husband’s cock right to his entrance. It stings some - small tears in the skin, then - but he sits down on it anyway with a long groan.
He doesn’t wait before lifting himself and lowering himself again. “You said ride,” he says, feigning shyness. “Is this how you mean?”
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He hisses as Wei Ying takes him in hand, pleasure bloomed and raw, the heat of him growing. Then, Wei Ying — and there is a tremor, isn't there, a slight pause that so often betrays the discomfort his lover does not confess — settles down, and Lan Wangji's hands come to his waist to steady and slow his pace. Easy, beloved. Easier, at least, than where his natural passions might take Wei Ying.
"You find the way shamelessly," he croons, appreciatively, rewarding Wei Ying with slow, guttering moans and the return of his hand on his husband's length, after casting aside his robes to reveal him. There is a trick to pleasing Wei Ying, and it comes down not to the roughness he requests in perpetuity, but to keeping him just on the edge, before the treatment he receives hardens into it. A steady, firm grip, without meanness or cruelty, while Wei Ying chases his pleasure in between Lan Wangji's lazy thrusts.
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The desire to kiss Lan Zhan overtakes him and he sheds the role of a misused maiden when he closes the distance between them and seals their lips together. The kiss is at once heated, tongue slipping between them to lap at his husband’s bottom lip. He throws his arms around Lan Zhan’s neck and holds him close.
“Lan Zhan,” he says without ending the kiss, “You’re so good to me. You did well. Next time, you should hold my head down against the mattress or lift me up by the hair when you’re inside of me. Choke me, tie me up, have your way with me however you feel like.”
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Throughout this, slow, leisurely thrusts, the purpose of their night unforgotten. His hands move, from forcibly maneuvering Wei Ying's hips to cradling his lower back, allowing his husband to seat and control himself. To move as he pleases.
"You are unharmed?" He cannot bring himself to ask, did he cross a line and inflict too much, too suddenly? The deluge of Wei Ying's requests for even more roughness indicates otherwise. Briefly overwhelmed, he chases Wei Ying's mouth again to silence him. "Veteran or virgin, my beloved takes me so well. So tightly. So warmly."
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He laughs, forehead to forehead with his husband. “You surprised me with the biting and I’m going to be sore tomorrow, but no. You didn’t injure me. You really got into your role tonight,” he brushes their lips together between his words.
They’re going at a subdued pace right now, but it still feels good. They’ll speed up naturally when they get closer to finishing, but for now he’s enjoying the feeling of being filled up by the man he loves more than anyone or anything else in the world. “You fit so snugly like you were made just for me.
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Not obedient or submissive, certainly not tonight — but attentive, doting, responsive. To show Wei Ying the full extent of his care and adoration, following a gutting instance of quarrel.
Perhaps they should have stayed by their edict. Even now, arousal tightly nestled inside his husband, the sweat of their coupling beading on his back, mouths orbiting close together in fleeting kisses — he feels distant from Wei Ying, fearful for their connection. He clings, hands gliding over Wei Ying's back, anchoring as he thrusts in, less to chase the peak of his pleasure than to sustain the simmer of their passions.
"You are pleased?" His mouth latches onto Wei Ying's, snake-fast, unwilling to hear a no.
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Laughing, he kisses his lover for several moments before pulling back enough to look him in the eyes. “You didn’t give me a chance to answer,” teasing and playful, “I’m pleased. Happy. You’re amazing.”
They rock together at relaxed pace, enjoying the proximity to one another without hurrying towards their completion. It’s comforting and familiar to be like this together. He squeezes his arms around Lan Zhan’s neck and buries his face there, kissing and nibbling at Lan Zhan’s shoulder.
He finds that after being brutalized by their little game, he especially likes to just be held close for a little while. This time, the holding is coming a little early in their fun and he likes it too. All he wants to do is be close to his husband for the rest of the night.
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"You feel like home," he murmurs, and he has told Wei Ying so before, constantly failing to explain himself. "Like silk, cut for my purpose. Like kindness. I return to you, and you alone receive me."
Unquestioning, without complaint. Pleading for more, stoking the flame of Lan Wangji's impossible, unyielding passion. His hips piston up, chasing the residue of their pleasure, building momentum again — until temptation seizes him, and he tips Wei Ying over, on his back, their bodies yet bound.
Control is his now, but the anger, the poison of before has deserted him. He hunts their mutual enjoyment, hand crafty when he encircles Wei Ying's arousal again, and it is not to steal or prove a point, but to gladden them both. He remembers Wei Ying's preference: together. He runs towards that, timing his own thrusts and his attention on Wei Ying's body to hit synchrony.
"My love. My sweet love. No man deserves you, yet I have hold."
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He’s ready to go when Lan Zhan starts moving again. Instead of the languid pacing and shallow thrusts of before, they move more feverishly. More deeply. He follows Lan Zhan’s lead, laughing a few short syllables when the position changes. This. This is what he wants. He wraps his legs around Lan Zhan’s thighs and uses the stability there to add to his own momentum
He moans his husband’s name, writhing under the attention to his nearly painful erection. It feels like they’ve been going at it for almost too long without release. “Faster,” he requests and speeds up his own movements to ramp up the frequency of those hints of promised pleasure.
“Lan Zhan. Husband. Lover. My whole world,” he says in short, staccato impulses between their thrusts. “I’m close. Just a little more. That’s it, Lan Zhan. Almost there. Do you feel it too?”
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