fic: the dark, the light, the flame

No Fannish Friday this week--I was too busy writing! Or maybe you can just think of me posting fic as Fannish Friday, albeit one not everyone on my flist cares about. 😂

(Yes, I wrote this entire thing in the past week. Yes, it is going to have a sequel. No, I did not plan any of this!)

Title: the dark, the light, the flame
Fandom: The Untamed, Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Characters/Pairing: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, with Wen Chao, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli in supporting roles
Chapters: 2/2
Rating: T
Wordcount: 17,206
Warnings: This is pretty angsty and explores the aftermath of emotional torture. But there is no non-con or sexual assault in this fic.
Additional tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sunshot Campaign, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Golden Core Reveal, Wei Wuxian Whump, lan wangji’s typical inner maelstrom of emotions, there is no noncon or sexual abuse in this fic just fyi, just the aftermath of emotional torture nbd
Summary:
Wen Chao had not kept Wei Ying as a hostage in the traditional sense. He had kept him as a prize of war, a statement to his own troops, not to his enemies. Look at this defanged, declawed thing. This once-untamed creature made pathetic, all his light doused by the Wen’s black sun. Every time he hauled Wei Ying out in chains, used him as a piece of furniture, Wen Chao had been flaunting his power.

Wen Chao doesn't throw Wei Wuxian into the Burial Mounds. Lan Wangji finds him anyway. And then they both have to deal with the aftermath.