[ TFLN 3.0 - 2020 ]

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[inventive]

You talked about how some people aren't this lucky. So either you're in love with someone who you can't have or doesn't love you in return, oooooor you have never been in love. I decided to ask about the former.

[eternalgrief]

Why are you changing the subject? I love someone I can't have, who doesn't and will never love me. You don't have that excuse so you should just talk to him.

[inventive]

No, this is important. Who is it you're in love with? Is it someone I know? Why do you think they'll never love you back?

[eternalgrief]

Why is it important?

[inventive]

Huaisang! Aren't we friends? Of course it's important. I can help set you up, maybe. While working up the courage to talk to Lan Zhan.

[eternalgrief]

We are friends! That is why you should trust me that it’s not a good idea! I know about these sorts of things very well as you know.

[inventive]

Why isn't it a good idea?

[eternalgrief]

Because... I see how they look at another. It's really fine. Just be brave and let me live vicariously through your epic love with the stoic Lan.

[inventive]

How about you tell me who it is and I can be your wingman? While working on being brave and talking to Lan Zhan. We're not going to be some epic love tale like you think we are.

[eternalgrief]

Did you miss the point where they love someone else?

Maybe, maybe not. But your love story might be the death of me.

[inventive]

It's not Lan Zhan you're in love with, is it? I can see why, he's good and noble and everyone should love him, but I really don't think you're his type.

Don't be so overdramatic. It's not going to kill you. But my unrequited love might make me waste away.

[eternalgrief]

Wow. No. He is totally not my type and why would I even do that to you? You're my friend. His type is louder, obnoxious, peanut loving, wine connoisseurs from Yunmeng.

Your love is not unrequited, Wei Wuxian. Do I need to smack you with this fan? I hope not, it's rather fragile but I will if necessary. See, you're going to be the death of me.

The way he looks at you, he doesn't look at anyone else like that ever -- and that is the way the person I love looks at someone else. So, there's no point in dwelling on it for me. Let's just fix your love life instead.

[inventive]

There's another wine connoissuer from Yungmeng?

Who else does this person you love look at?

[eternalgrief]

[ Rolls. His. Eyes. ]

Why does that matter? You're only going to stir up unnecessary drama and you know how I usually love drama!

[inventive]

Since you won't tell me who, I want to know who they look at. We can bitch about them and then maybe you'll feel better. And stop trying to insist Lan Zhan loves me, when clearly, he just feels guilty.

[eternalgrief]

He doesn't just feel guilty! How in the world do you come away thinking that really? It's like you can't say how he's really looking at you because you're looking at it through your own views of yourself.

I don't want to bitch about them. They have had a lot of hardships and deserve to be happy and if they find happiness with him then it should be left alone. It doesn't make me feel better.

And you would figure it out if I told you...

[inventive]

Look, Lan Zhan is kind and noble and good. I know everyone thinks he's cold and a statue, but he's got the best heart in the world, and he cares deeply. So he feels guilty that he wasn't able to help me before I died, even though there was really nothing he could do.

Gosh, you're better than I am. If Lan Zhan loved someone else I'd complain about them all the time. And then make sure they were the best person in the entire world because Lan Zhan deserves that, if they make him happy. But Lan Zhan is the best, so that... probably wouldn't happen.

Nah, I wouldn't figure it out. It's likely a lot of people look at this person? So who is it they love?

[eternalgrief]

I know all those things about him. I notice things even if people think I don't pay attention. It's not just guilt. How he looks at you is the same way he looked at you when we were younger before all that. He looks at you like you're the only person in the entire world. You should stop wasting time. Hasn't he waited for you long enough because he did wait for you, searched for you and longed for you all those years. I know he did.

Wei Wuxian. I'm very good at keeping secrets, especially my own.

[inventive]

Lan Zhan did not look at me in any sort of way when we were younger! Next, you'll be telling me he was grumpy with me because he wanted to have sex with me then. But ah, you have a point about him waiting.

Huaisang. For old time's sake! You know all about my undying love for Lan Wangji, it can't hurt to share something with me. And I can keep secrets, even if no one else thinks I can.

[eternalgrief]

You were even more dense then than you are now. Also, everyone knows about your undying love for Lan Wangji and his for you. You guys seem the only ones walking around in the dark for some reason.

I just don't see the point and you would surely mock me.

[inventive]

Well of course everyone knows about— actually I just figured it out recently, how does everyone know?

I wouldn't mock you for that. Maybe for thinking you can't have them, but not for loving them.

[eternalgrief]

You are not as subtle as you think and neither is Lan Wangji.

I know I can't have Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian.

[inventive]

I'm sorry, you love Jiang Cheng?

Who the hell is he looking at like he loves them?

[eternalgrief]

Now that's none of your business!

And I knew you were going to react this way.

[inventive]

Usually I had to talk him up to people! I'm a little startled, that's all. He deserves to have people love him, especially after he's been alone all this time.

So then whoever it is who he looks at should love him back.