Wei Wuxian blinks, slowly. Much like a cat observing the people before it, mildly surprised at their presence, but accepting they're there, regardless. It's funnier to him now to find he's in a position of knowing more than Lan Xichen, but he'll admit to himself which congratulations is due is one he's... not entirely certain of. Lan Zhan having married Wei Wuxian several times in his clan's ways without telling anyone, including Wei Wuxian? Or the ones that follow? Was that said over tea?
His brow quirks up in small increments, and then he smiles, slow and amused.
"There's a number of things worth congratulating," he says, voice warm with an undertone of his tiredness. "Which he intends I hesitate to say."
The truth behind it rings genuine: congratulate him on having survived, on adapting, on making friends, on finding people he wants to protect, in having reached beyond himself, in having laid parts of his trauma with their mother to rest, in admitting his wants and intentions, in having to face and return and stumble and succeed and fail again in what relationships are. Wei Wuxian has done the same, and he doesn't have the ease of speaking on love that Lan Zhan has managed.
Or congratulations, more important than a social bond acknowledged between soulmates that goes parallel to their existing one, for Lan Zhan finding himself and his way step by step, becoming the man he wants to be, even as he's new to learning who that man is.
"He's found a path for himself. One he sees and acknowledges, here, where the merit of any clan is meaningless, and personal action and decision is all that carries weight. He could mean that."
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His brow quirks up in small increments, and then he smiles, slow and amused.
"There's a number of things worth congratulating," he says, voice warm with an undertone of his tiredness. "Which he intends I hesitate to say."
The truth behind it rings genuine: congratulate him on having survived, on adapting, on making friends, on finding people he wants to protect, in having reached beyond himself, in having laid parts of his trauma with their mother to rest, in admitting his wants and intentions, in having to face and return and stumble and succeed and fail again in what relationships are. Wei Wuxian has done the same, and he doesn't have the ease of speaking on love that Lan Zhan has managed.
Or congratulations, more important than a social bond acknowledged between soulmates that goes parallel to their existing one, for Lan Zhan finding himself and his way step by step, becoming the man he wants to be, even as he's new to learning who that man is.
"He's found a path for himself. One he sees and acknowledges, here, where the merit of any clan is meaningless, and personal action and decision is all that carries weight. He could mean that."