suddenly my eyes are open (everything comes into focus) (джен)

(It also seems that Wei Ying is generally clumsy, because she’d been walking and he had barreled around the corner into her, and Ziyuan had barely managed to catch him by his arm before he tumbled to the ground.
‘Madam Yu!’ he’s said, grin growing even wider, ‘Sorry! Thank you!’
With that, he bows hastily and runs off again.
Ziyuan spares a thought to wonder how this boy could smile up at her like that—she knows she doesn’t have the friendliest of faces—and does not think about his mother.)
 
(or: the au in which jiang fengmian does not care for wei ying as he should, and yu ziyuan ends up taking all three children under her wing.)