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Greetings,

A moment of your time, should you see this message.

How does one effectively prevent another from contacting them through this device?

You have my thanks.

— 蓝忘机

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[his name is geralt. he's a big, stoic fella and sizhui is slowly but surely adopting him, it's great.

as for jiang cheng, however—] Jiang-zongzhu?

He treats me fine. Some time back, I made homemade vegetable soup and bread and brought them over to the cabin he shares with his sister. Oh, and he also checked up on me during the snowstorm.

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( do introduce them, so that they can be silent buddies. sizhui deserves all the good dads.

and jiang-zongzhu... right. he is that. lan wangji sometimes forgets. or maybe he just gives zero fucks can't bring himself to care enough. it's an odd response to read, but then he is reminded of the temple, of his exchange with wei wuxian then, and lan wangji breathes. )

A relief, then.

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[they'll befriend one another in the least amount of words possible and will already have one thing in common: a too good boy.

let's be honest, sizhui is a polite teenager, especially given his rowdy friend group, and jiang cheng is no exception to that courteousness. being a sect leader in vestige means nothing, so there's really no need to address him as such... but some old habits die hard.]

Of course. You thought he might treat me otherwise?

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( THE BEST. BOY!!! lan wangji is prouder than he could ever possibly and adequately express. he can only hope that sizhui knows, how much he's loved. )

I feared our feud might cause adverse damage.

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[HE'S!! TRYING!!!!! thankfully, sizhui does know how much he's loved, is well-aware actions speak far louder than words most times, and hanguang-jun has proved this multiple times over now.]

Oh. [a beat] I'd hope Jiang Cheng wouldn't treat me badly over a dispute happening between the two of you.

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( but words do count! and he's trying, too. )

You may not share my blood, but you wield my name. The roots of our dispute lie there, yet as long as you remain unscathed, nothing else matters.

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[trying is what matters, dad, and he's proud.]

That is a fair observation, although I believe you have nothing to fear. Jiang Cheng has been civil to me and I've had plenty of practice handling his anger at this point.

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( plenty of practice..............SON THIS ISN'T REASSURING. AT ALL. if lan wangji cursed at all he'd curse right about now.

maybe he will, one day.

maybe they both should. )

Jiang Wanyin's anger should be his own to handle.

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[listen, to be fair, he did flick jiang cheng in the forehead for acting like a sulky toddler during the cave-in way back when. maybe it'll help out in the long run since it was a simple gesture, but sort of conveyed that he wouldn't take his ridiculousness lying down.

also yes, please let father and son say ‘fuck,’ it's what they deserve.]

For what it's worth, he hasn't gotten legitimately upset with me in a long while.