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 Nervously watching the sun peek over the horizon as they approached Lanling, Su She cursed Wei Wuxian, not out loud, of course, but in his thoughts. A few hours back, he’d started to suspect that Wei Wuxian had lied when he’d said they’d be back at school in time for Su She’s first class. He would have turned the car around but, somehow, and Su She didn’t know exactly how, Wei Wuxian had ended up driving his car. “How long is this going to take?” he asked as Wei Wuxian parked the car at the train station. “I can’t afford to miss my classes.” Wei Wuxian scoffed. He just didn’t understand how important it was to show professors you were serious by attending each and every class. That alone could make the difference between a passing and a failing grade. Hey, had Wei Wuxian walked off without him? “Hey, wait for me.” Wei Wuxian didn’t bother to slow his pace even though Su She was panting after running to catch up. Some people were so rude.

Lan Qiren’s glare suggested a gross dereliction of duty. “While you were away …”

“To be fair, uncle, we did agree to let him take a vacation.” Ah, Meng Yao had wondered if the suggestion had come from Xichen alone. Apparently not. If the family had discussed Meng Yao, that suggested they were starting to see him as a problem.

“While you were away,” Lan Qiren repeated, “Wangji married that, that …” He petered off as if he couldn’t find a word bad enough to describe Wei Ying. “You were hired to prevent exactly this type of …”

“Mistake?” Xichen interrupted.

"I want to be like you when I grow up."

Andromeda had suggested Hermione Granger, who had saved the world, or Auror Patil, or lovely Luna Lovegood. "I'm just an old woman poking her nose places it doesn't belong. I'm sneaky, and sometimes I'm mean. I'm no hero."

The girl had shaken her head. "But I want to be me, don't you get it? I'm a Slytherin. And you're the first person I've ever met who made it look like being me was an ok thing to be. I can't be anyone else. I've tried."

Seduction By Winglet pairs Tony Stark (Marvel Universe) with Martin Crief (Cabin Pressure). It looks like a crack pairing, but it's not. They are both such geeks that it works. Diversions, which is a spin-off by another author, is also excellent.

In the Morning of the Magicians (BtVS): I don't care what any canon authority says, this is definitely Ripper and Ethan's backstory.

And a video: Trisha Jain thought that My Tears Ricochet "perfectly encapsulates, line for line, the fractured sibling relationship between Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng." She's so right.