— Lord Huron
Tag: zhao yun lan
31 for weilan for the “the way you said “I love you” prompt post ;) (also I know this is somehow going to end up sad so I tried to find something that could go anyway lmao)
ahh to my knowledge, there’s like no angst in this so yay. thanks for sending a prompt, i tried but uhhhhh its still not good and im very
but i hope you find a couple of lines you like somewhere. also this got longer than intended, and i never thought i would ever write drama canon but novel didnt quite fit.
so have baby!shen wei and ZYL!KL, enjoy.
WHAT ARE YOU APOLOGIZING FOR IN THE TAGS
THIS IS AMAZING HOLY SHIT I LOVE IT ❤❤❤
Also I saw you gift it to my on ao3, thanks 😘
15. Teaching the other something
Fic based on prompts in this post
A/N: This is 18+ rated…
Zhao Yunlan lay on the bed, the flickering light from the dozen or so candles around the room playing seductively across his naked body, shadows dancing over his skin. He smiled and reached out with his arms invitingly, encouragingly, but Shen Wei hesitated where he was, kneeling on the end of the bed. He was still mostly dressed, though his shirt was completely undone, his tie and jacket slung over a nearby chair, and it was obvious to Yunlan that Shen Wei felt self-conscious, both with his state of dress and lack of knowledge about how to proceed.
“It’s ok, baby – I’ll talk you through it,” Yunlan said, still reaching out. For a moment it looked like Shen Wei wouldn’t move but slowly, hesitatingly, he began to lean forward, bending down to place his hands on the bed as he slowly moved his body between Yunlan’s legs then higher, until their bodies were pressed together and they lay face to face; for a moment they just lay there, staring into each other’s eyes, and it felt like a lifetime passed between them.
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Guardian Meta (Spoilers)
Okay, but there was literally no way Yunlan and Shen Wei could have not fallen in love. They both ensured it. (Obv, I’m talking about the show here and not the book).
It’s not fate, that’s not what I mean. It’s the timeline. In the book it was reincarnation, but even then you could say Yunlan’s slutty personality is what ensured that he fell in love with Shen Wei, and Shen Wei ensured they’d meet at all by semi-stalking him for years. You’re bound to run into each other in that way.
But in the show, what triggered Shen Wei’s devotion to Kun Lun? Yunlan did. Because the moment he sees Shen Wei 10K years in the past, he decides to spend every moment they’re together aggressively flirting with him. He already knows what will get a reaction from the time he and Shen Wei have spent together in the present, so he’s not at a disadvantage here. He doesn’t need to learn Shen Wei’s temperament—he notices as soon as they meet that Shen Wei is practically the same person. So he teases, he gets a reaction, and he keeps teasing, keeps pushing that boundary, and Shen Wei is taken completely by surprise.
Yunlan is thinking: “my future husband is adorable.”
Shen Wei doesn’t stand a chance.
(Now I think we’re all pretty much in agreement over the fact that Yunlan should have spent at least a month or so with Shen Wei for Shen Wei to develop that amount of devotion; one night is a little… Well, he’d certainly be sad, but devoted? Nah. Not with Shen Wei’s personality.)
But Yunlan? What does he like? Attention. And boy does Shen Wei give his his fill from the moment they meet at the university. Shen Wei’s intensity is something anyone would be creeped out by, but our boy Yunlan can’t help but wonder where it comes from. It’s the cop in him; he needs to know the source of the behavior. And because of his suspicions, he spends more time with Shen Wei, so he gets more of that attention—and the fact that Shen Wei grows into basically his caretaker just eggs that on—so he enjoys their time together even more, so he starts to like Shen Wei’s personality past the intensity, they develop a chemistry, they fall in love,
they get married.Yunlan falls in love with Shen Wei over time like a normal romance, but he does so because Shen Wei is already in love with him. If Shen Wei hadn’t been, he wouldn’t have given Yunlan any more attention than he would give anyone else. They would have been acquaintances at most. Shen Wei hadn’t even bothered to show up as his Envoy self since Yunlan became the Guardian.
So in this way, Yunlan doesn’t stand a chance. He likes the attention too much.
And so when he gets dropped back 10K years in the past and he meets Shen Wei’s non-devoted self, his first instinct is to tease the fuck out of him and throw him off his equilibrium, which serves to awaken that devotion. But even at the time, his main concern is getting back to his Shen Wei, the one he practically lives with.
Shen Wei falls head over heels, and the cycle continues.
There was no chance of them not falling for one another because one of them was already in love the moment the other met them.
am i ever going to be free of this
They only have one fight about it, but it’s a bad one: Zhao Yunlan actually goes to his mom’s house and sleeps three miserable nights in his childhood bed. It’s much too narrow, not to mention empty of anybody’s cool body close to his to cuddle up to. He wakes up three or four times a night, and Shen Wei’s never there, already awake or never asleep, watching him with fathomless black eyes, like he’s starving for the sight of him.
It’s too much. Zhao Yunlan wakes up and decides that today he’ll go home and apologize. He’ll say, Sorry, baby, I was a dick about it, I –
He opens his eyes, full of good intentions, but the first thing he sees is Shen Wei, in the actual flesh, sitting on the end of his childhood bed and staring at him with exhausted, ravenous eyes.
Zhao Yunlan yells and flails off the bed, and Shen Wei’s effort to catch him only ends with him tilting over as well, falling on top of Zhao Yunlan in slow motion, like a cartoon.
Shen Wei is very heavy. He looks like a nerd but he’s packed with solid fighter’s muscle. He catches himself before he crushes Zhao Yunlan entirely, but he’s still braced over him, eyes wide. “Are you –”
The door crashes open. “ARE YOU–” begins Zhao Yunlan’s mom, and stops.
Just to make things more awkward, Zhao Yunlan’s dad comes too. He looks at the scene, and then at his wife, and then says, with surprising calm, “I didn’t know you gave him a key.”
Zhao Yunlan hadn’t known that either, actually, but there’s no way to suggest Shen Wei had just ripped a hole in the fabric of reality like fucking Mickey Mouse and appeared without making things worse, so he just says, “Uhhhh–”
Zhao Yunlan’s mom goes, affectionately scolding, like she never fucking does with Zhao Yunlan. (Because Shen Wei is her favorite, fuck him.) “Xiao Wei, even if I gave you the key, what are you doing just sneaking in? I would have made your favorite breakfast!”
“MA,” howls Zhao Yunlan, in outrage. The past two days he’d been lucky to get a sniff from his mother and a bowl of specially-bought off-brand cold cereal slammed in front of him. Then he takes a deep breath in and says, “Ma, I’ll talk to him about it, so can you two–”
“Oh, all right,” says his mother huffily. “Properly make up, you two.”
Okay some more thoughts on how to fix the time travel plot for Guardian!
1) We know that no matter how much time has passed, it isn’t an indication of how fast time is moving in the time they came from, so they could have taken a month or two to get back, it would’ve been fine. For the purposes of fucking Shen Wei up so hard he pines for 10K years (even if most of it is in nap form), let’s give them 6 months. So that’s six months to build a relationship
2) I have no clue how the show would have done it platonically, but Shen Wei and Yunlan would have to build a romance. That’s literally the only type of relationship that would justify that acting from Zhou Yilong, and he fucking knows it. We can even keep that Yunlan and Shen Wei weren’t even a couple yet when Yunlan entered the time portal, they were just going around calling each other “good friends” and practically living together, cuz let’s say Yunlan is an idiot or in denial or what have you. But either way, Yunlan is unaware they were lovers in the past
2a) This works great cuz it’s Yunlan, and to him Shen Wei has always been intensely interested in him, so he doesn’t really notice that his flirting is making Shen Wei fall head over heels for this stranger who knows all the right things to say to knock him off his equilibrium
2b) Because of that, he’s surprised when Shen Wei blushingly confesses to him, or says something like “I know what you want from me, and I want it too, but humans and mutants can never be together. I must turn you down” and Yunlan just has this moment of “huh, I guess to anyone that isn’t a pining, celibate immortal with too many emotional walls up, I look in love”, which triggers the next moment of “oh shit he’s in love with me”, which spawns “oh shit I’m in love with him”
2c) Yunlan struggles for a bit, not wanting to “take advantage” of his younger (I’m assuming in his early 20s; Shen Wei needed the time to get through undergrad, graduate, and post doc, as well as develop that slick sense of style after waking up practically the same age 10K years later) “good friend”, but fuck is he cute. Reminds him of when he met Shen Wei at the university, but with less heartbreak weighing him down, and maybe he slips up and lets his hand linger over Shen Wei’s when they both reach for the same thing, or gazes at him a little too softly while they’re discussing battle tactics with 5 other generals, and gods, he misses Shen Wei so much, his Shen Wei, the one who has already waited, and Yunlan wants nothing more than to return to him and end the wait
2d) when the time comes, before they open the portal, Yunlan sees the devastation on Shen Wei’s face. He had no clue Yunlan would be leaving after this. Yunlan can’t help himself, knows he’s dooming this man to 10K years of yearning, but he can’t stand that look, and he kisses him. Shen Wei kisses back and it’s sloppy and inexperienced and errs on the side of desperate, but Yunlan pours all the “sorrys” he possibly can into it, sorry for doing this to you, sorry for wanting the later you, sorry for never realizing, sorry for what’s to come
3) give Yunlan a “tragic” ending for younger!Shen Wei to witness. the terrible emotions behind that “this is the life I’m returning to you” delivery by Yilong just falls flat if it’s for his comrades and people he’s heard Kun Lun has saved. It speaks of a tragedy Shen Wei has been living with the trauma of for centuries (er, decades, if we go with that nap they said he took). Yunlan would have been sucked into a portal, sure, but what they gave us wasn’t traumatizing enough for Shen Wei to be so protective of him that he doesn’t want him leaving the city or facing mutants without him there to back him up. That protectiveness isn’t just cute; it’s obsessive. It has to come from that trauma, a trauma regarding some tragic fate that had to do with Yunlan being helpless to defend himself in some situation
4) Shen Wei can’t be “waiting”. It would be so much better if he had no idea Yunlan was going to show up later. Maybe he’s hoping for a reincarnation, or he’s hoping that once he dies, he can join Yunlan in the afterlife, but Shen Wei is just doing his job, enjoying the surface now that he’s awake because the light reminds him of his time with Kun Lun, and then he sees Yunlan at the university and time. Stops. His heart nearly follows suit. He doesn’t know what he’s feeling or if he’s even feeling anything, just that the love of his life is for some reason living and breathing right before his eyes. And he doesn’t seem to recognize him at all. But that chemistry still remains
5) This would have a subplot of Shen Wei trying to figure out what exactly happened and whether it was reincarnation or something else, maybe suddenly remember that Kun Lun had been wearing some strange clothing the first time they met, he’d just forgotten in his grief over the years. Tiny details don’t stick around for long
6) Also, in those first few episodes, Yunlan follows Shen Wei around because of suspicion, but Shen Wei also reveals he knows a lot about Dixing to Yunlan in the first episode, which would make more sense if Shen Wei needs to get close to Yunlan in order to understand what he was doing 10K years in the past, so that’s why he’s investigating him and also investigating what the fuck happened 10K years ago
7) Also also, the moment they got back to the present from the time dimension they were in, Yunlan would kiss Shen Wei immediately, right in front of Da Qing, and this time it would be experienced and right and make all the sense in the world, and it would take Shen Wei everything to not crumble under the weight of his elation
7a) “I’m so sorry,” Yunlan would say against his mouth, moving him back into the edge of a gurney, “so so sorry I put you through this, made you wait so long,” and Shen Wei would respond with tears in his eyes that he’d do it a thousand times over if it meant sharing this just one more time
7b) “guys” Da Qing says weakly from the background
“Hello, pretty!” said Zhao Yunlan to the beauty in the tree.
“If you call me that again I will strangle you and feed your entrails to the village pigs when I finally break free from this barbaric eco-friendly prison,” said the beauty, Ye Zun. “But I am pretty, aren’t I?”
“The prettiest.” Zhao Yunlan nodded solemnly.
“And yet you didn’t visit me for how long exactly? Was it a year? A hundred years? An ice age?”
“Two months,” admitted Zhao Yunlan. “But look, I brought you presents.”
“Ah, tribute,” sighed Ye Zun happily. “You may kneel.”
“There’s is Apulian wine, imported mead, raw beef and my mother’s baozi. I didn’t know what you like.”
“You think my righteous indignation can be appeased with a few dishes of indubitably mediocre human cuisine?”
“I will be sure to pass on your regards to my mother.”Ye Zun hesitated. “What are you waiting for, then? I want my gifts. And do open the wine. I don’t have a corkscrew in here.”
Zhao Yunlan pushed a wicker basket towards the hollow of the tree. He had experimented with Ye Zun, and although he couldn’t pass through the cold blue flames of the barrier spell himself, apparently there was nothing that prevented him from pushing inanimate objects to the other side.
When Ye Zun was done eating the baozi and sipping his mead, and started eyeing the raw meat covetously, Zhao Yunlan finally felt safe enough to think of a few neutral topics of conversation.
“I was on a quest, you know,” he said. “I couldn’t visit you because I was busy saving innocent maidens.”
Ye Zun snorted. “I bet they didn’t stay innocent for long.”
“I wouldn’t know,” admitted Zhao Yunlan. “I was rather busy running away when I realised they’d had very little interest in being saved. They enjoyed living in the moors, they said. The oldest almost ate me. She actually got my horse”
“Running away? How dishonourable, sir knight.”
“We reached a mutually profitable arrangement,” anwered Zhao Yunlan modestly.
“Who would have thought. You wouldn’t like my brother at all.”
fkyb:
After ridding of his slippers, Shen Wei sits on the mattress and places Yunlan on the sheets, rubbing him down one more time with the towel he’s cocooned in. Once done, he dresses him in his galaxy- patterned onesie, trying not to think too much of the strangeness of their situation
He’s lived for more than 10,000 years. He’s loved and lost and loved and lost and loved Yunlan again. He hasn’t lost him now, won’t lose him again either. This is just a momentary setback.
Finished with Yunlan’s onesie, Shen Wei pats his bottom approvingly and dresses for bed next.
Bright fluorescent lights turn off as the lamp shade by the nightstand flickers on and bathes the bedroom in a warm, soft glow. He picks Yunlan up and climbs in, a pleased groan rumbling in his throat as he sinks into the welcoming softness of their marital bed, long legs stretched out and leaning against a stack of pillows. Yunlan slides down his front until he’s propped half on his shoulder, half on his chest. He kisses Yunlan’s forehead, fingers raking through silky hair, closes his eyes and hums.
Aaaaaaah yes new chapter!!!!!!! Yay waifu!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
镇魂 GUARDIAN AU: DETECTIVE ZHAO YUNLAN + DOCTOR SHEN WEI
Detective Zhao Yunlan isn’t a stranger to the dark underbelly of Dragon City, nor the stench of greed and corruption that reaches high places. Armed with a gun and his own code of ethics, the determined detective tackles all manners of unholiness while trying to give hope to citizens who believe there’s no saving Dragon City.
Luckily, he has help: Shen Wei, Dragon City Hospital’s mysterious doctor, whose medical expertise and sharp intellect proves invaluable in solving gruesome murders. As the two form a friendship that extends beyond solving cases, Yunlan lands a high profile assignment forcing him to choose between his duty to the public, and his growing feelings for Shen Wei.
The Last Good Bar 
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