[Fic] Becoming the Phoenix - Four (4/11)

Fandom/Arc: The Untamed / Lodestone
Characters/Pairings: Lan Qiren, Lan Xichen, Meng Yao, Nie Mingjue, Lan Xichen/Meng Yao
Summary: Political violence erupts, and Meng Yao and Lan Xichen find each other through it.
Meta: Drama with politics, Romance, Porn, I-4
Word Count: 6055

There was a strain of extremism, in Lan. Lan cultivators, especially the ones of Lan clan blood, were rarely capable of half-measures. When they chose a path, they chose with their whole hearts and never looked back. Mingjue had seen it in Xichen’s father’s choice of wife. He’d seen it in Lan Qiren’s choice of the Lan Discipline above all else. He’d seen it in Xichen’s own choice to follow the path of compassion, from which he would not budge for all his uncle’s strictness or Mingjue’s own efforts to get him to consider practicalities now and then.

He’d seen the very same thing surface in Meng Yao’s eyes, like a dragon rising from the still surface of the sea, when he’d heard Xichen might have been harmed.

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