Then what was your plan, exactly? To settle me and the Wens in a nice little empty spot on the mountainside? How long do you think you could have kept the Jins away, or your own family?
[it's not what he wants to ask or say. the futility of it still feels like a stab through the stomach, even now: a slow and painful realization that no matter what path they took, it couldn't have ended well. it would have always ended like this. at least the way it went meant Lan Wangji didn't get dragged into it.
his breathing evens out, steady even as he digs his nails into his palms so hard they draw blood]
...It was better than you didn't. There was nothing you could do.
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Date: 2021-01-12 09:10 pm (UTC)[it's not what he wants to ask or say. the futility of it still feels like a stab through the stomach, even now: a slow and painful realization that no matter what path they took, it couldn't have ended well. it would have always ended like this. at least the way it went meant Lan Wangji didn't get dragged into it.
his breathing evens out, steady even as he digs his nails into his palms so hard they draw blood]
...It was better than you didn't. There was nothing you could do.