Wei Wuxian died. Wei Wuxian died and he never came back, not after thirteen years, or a hundred, or a thousand. The year is 2019 and Lan Wangji is still here, having reached the highest point of cultivation that has gifted him with immortality. It's supposed to be a gift, an honour, yet to him it's nothing but a curse.
Wei Wuxian is dead, and life is colourless. Lan Wangji ghosts through time, simply living each day in monotone.
That is, until he meets a man who has the same face, same name, same smile as Wei Wuxian. Suddenly, there's colour and hope back in his life—but it's not long until he realises Wei Wuxian in this timeline has not escaped the sorrow that plagued his past self.
Maybe history really does repeat itself after all.
Spoilers wise, since this is an AU based on WWX not returning after 13 years in the original novel, anything mentioned about what happens in this fic after he died is made up by me. I also make numerous references to the novel so it may be best to have read that first.
Also just a disclaimer that this fic is set in a modernised version of MDZS. I've tried my best to make it as close to what China is like today, but my knowledge with the country is very limited and Google sometimes doesn't help enough. Just know that any laws/politics/place names aren't going to be the same.
LASTLY, this fic will have a lot of sensitive themes such as depression, violence, and alcohol abuse, etc. It's not all knives and doom and gloom (I promise) but I will be adding warnings before the chapters too if they have triggering content just to be safe.
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