Fics like Tedious Joys

If you had asked Lan Qiren ten years ago, he would have confidently asserted that Lao Nie was one of his dearest friends. And yet – it had been Lan Qiren, who was short on friends, and not Lao Nie, who had many, that had cut off their relationship. Lan Qiren hadn’t truly spoken to Lao Nie in seven years, limiting their conversations to the subject of sect business and keeping their meetings as short as could be allowed by etiquette, ignoring the way Lao Nie looked at him with sadness and regret in his eyes. Even when Lan Qiren’s anger had finally died down from a raging flame to a simmering anger he suspected would never leave him entirely, he had thought to himself that it was too late, that the fire had burnt everything out, that there were only ashes left behind. And yet – on the seventh year, apparently apropos of nothing, Lao Nie wrote to him, requesting his presence. As a friend, he wrote. Come as a friend, or not at all. I have no use for a sect leader.

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