[Fic] Becoming the Phoenix - One (1/11)

Fandom/Arc: The Untamed / Lodestone
Characters/Pairings: Jiang Wanyin, Lan Xichen, Meng Yao, Nie Huaisang, Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen/Meng Yao
Summary: Meng Yao is just a little less reticent, and Lan Xichen, very taken with him, offers to arrange for him to stay the summer.
Meta: Drama with a hint of Romance, I-2
Word Count: 3457

It was fine to take this stolen moment of formal farewell to bask in that warmth, but he shouldn't mistake it for something personal. No matter how he might wish it were, or how it had seemed it might be, for that one moment during the presentation of gifts when their hands had touched. He couldn't lower his guard just for that. He drew in a breath to offer back light words of excuse. He was still only a servant of Nie, after all, barely even a disciple of the sect, even if Huaisang insisted on braiding his hair up as if he were.

And then he made the mistake of looking up.

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