Just Like Your Father (A Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao Fanfic)

I am not my father.

Not my father, Lan Xichen thinks.

Not. My. Father.

But isn’t he? Did his mother not murder his father’s teacher? And did his father not lock both himself and her away in seclusion? Did he not take on her crimes as though they were his own? Together they paid the price. Together they suffered. Together they lived, apart. Confined within a prison of their own design and captive to the past.

Is this not what he has done as well?