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wangxianficfinder · 1 year ago

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In the mood for...

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1. Thank you for answering my last request 🖤

For the next in “ITMF” I would like to read some good fanfics with Lan Wangji being older than Wei Wuxian

I’m okay with omegaverse, fantasy setting and problematic content in case anyone wonders @kanrax-blog

you only ever touch me in the dark by sweetlolixo (E, 5k, WangXian, Modern AU, Dark LWJ, Older LWJ, Age Difference, Boypussy, Intersex WWX, Feminization, Rape/Non-con Elements, Dirty Talking LWJ, Stalking, Size Difference, WWX Has a Non-Con Kink, Dark WWX, Daddy Kink, Mirror Sex, Restraints, Virginity Kink, Blindfolds, Deranged4Deranged Wangxian)

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4018 by sweetlolixo (E, 28k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, A/B/O Dynamics, Older LWJ, Immortal LWJ, Pregnant WWX, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, Age Difference, Boypussy, Vaginal Fingering, Dry Humping, Knotting, Blow Jobs, Dirty Talking LWJ, Angst with a Happy Ending, Size Difference, Feminization) as well as few other works by sweetlolixo. beware tho quite a few of those fics deal with consent issues (although most of the time it is deranged4deranged wangxian)

Like stones on an unseen board by Vir_Abelasan (Not Rated, 11k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Dark LWJ, Older LWJ, Teacher LWJ, dark twin jades, Age Difference, Manipulation, Protective LWJ, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Corporal Punishment, Relatively canon-typical abusive Jiangs, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, Not JC Friendly, Not Jiang Clan Friendly) lwj is mid-20s, wwx is ~18; dark-ish but protective twin jades; not jiang friendly. warning that this one ends pre-relationship!

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2. this is a bit specific but may i ask for fic where someone starts calling wwx 'the son of a-' and gets interrupted by 'the son of who? cssr, bssr's disciple? wcz, a rogue cultivator?' the cinderella fic has a similar line but not exactly (bc its said against wwx's own self deprecation). (honestly, i would also love a cutting response of 'ok he's the son of a servant and still better than all of u, you were saying?' but the gentry probably won't compute that lol) thank you!

SIMILAR! golden when the day met the night by glitteringmoonlight (Not Rated, 95k, WIP, WangXian, Canon, Slow-ish burn, Sugar Daddy LWJ, which is an anachronistic term for this fic but it fits, Light Angst, Fluff, Developing Relationship, WWX gets all the appreciation he deserves, even if he’s a bit confused about it at first, warprize au with a twist, in that everyone thinks WWX is a warprize, but LWJ has only platonic and honourable intentions, at first 😏, Eventual Smut) similar to #2, in the latest chapter of this fic, lwj interrupts someone who's about to call wwx son of a servant

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3. Hello! Do you know any fics with the same vibe as By Any Other Name by ShanaStoryteller? Or any like To Choose Another Path by TsumugiHitomi? Thank you so much!

The Concubine Mo Chronicles Series by Enigmatree (T, 71k, WangXian, Royalty AU, Prince LWJ, Concubine WWX, Mild Hurt/Comfort) maybe ?? or at least i kinda associate them lol

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4. Hi! Do any of you lovelies know of fics in which A) Nie Huaisang is the one to donate his core to Jiang Cheng? I mean, it's not like he's using it, right? And B) fics that feature Jin Zixuan & Mianmian's friendship? That doesn't have to be the fic's focus, but I'd love to see some backstories there. Both canon era and modern AUs are welcome. Thanks! @danegen

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mianmian the disaster lesbian saves the cultivation world by likeshipsonthesea (T, 27k, wangxian, LWJ & LQY, LWJ & JZX, fix-it, friendship, awesome LQY, war, blood & injury, light angst, self-acceptance, awkward JZX)

Candy & Conspiracies by Reverie (cl410) (T, 16k, WangXian, XuanLi, MianQing, Jīn Sect WWX, Chaos Gremlin WWX, Fluff and Crack, Humor, Cloud Recesses, Found Family, pure idiocy, And some light murder, good madam jin, No Angst, Canon Divergence)

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5. anyone has any recommendations of modern with cultivation aus? preferably similar to "the truth will out (when caught in video)" by kizu_katana, or just good and similar to the book characterizations (im also a little in the mood for some not jiang friendly). thank you ♥︎

a tide in two seas by occultings (microcomets) (E, 81k, wangxian, modern w/ magic, parallel universes, post-canon, getting together, pining, case fic) this, is kinda modern, but as in modern wangxian travel back in tima and meet canon wangxian

💙 this river runs to you by sundiscus (T, 53k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, Mutual Pining, Dragons, Literal Sleeping Together, Tender wound tending) and of course, my absolute favorite

Work in Tandem by MimiSpearmint (E, 23k, wangxian, LWJ & LSZ, modern cultivation, single parent LWJ, swordflight instructor WWX, fluff, protective LWJ, getting together, smut) but this one's jiang positive iirc

💙 the soft animal of your body by sysrae (T, 15k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, modern culitvation, Golden Core Reveal, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Animal Transformation, Shapeshifting, Sort Of, Getting Together, Confessions)

Hear a song this deeply by so_shhy (T, 87k, wangxian, modern cultivation, music, kid fic, action/adventure, canon typical JGY behavior, slow burn, fluff & angst, happy ending)

Coil Tightly by Thunderstruck (Blueyed_Impala) (T, 50k, WangXian, Dragon LWJ, Shifters, Modern with Magic, WWX is oblivious to magic, Slow Burn, Fluff, Attempt at Humor, References to Animal Abuse but the animal is LWJ, Hurt/Comfort, WWX Has Self-Esteem Issues, WWX has abandonment issues, Possessive LWJ, Clueless Flirting, OC Lan disciples for plot reasons)

other earths and skies by binghecarer (T, 53k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, (but not in the typical way?), Slow Burn, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Scars and Injuries, Curses, making a deal with a mysterious mountain spirit (?) to help your found family?, there was only one bed and it had narrative significance, (oh my god it had narrative signigicance), Hurt/Comfort)

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6. #itmf some similar fics to "hidden in the clouds" by karmiya, as in cultivator lan wangji and courtesan wei wuxian 🩷🐇 thank you for the good work!!

Some Things Are Just Fate by Signe_chan (E, 24k, WangXian, Prostitution, Rape/Non-con Elements, Injury, it's soppy actually I promise, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending)

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7. Hi. For the ITMF I'd like to ask for fics where Wei Wuxian somehow hurts Lan Wangji unintentionally and obviously feels really bad about it (the more angsty, the better) but no WIPs please

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8. Hi there, can I hop on this IITMF series? Because I am in the mood for ✨️royalty wangxian✨️ and I feel like I've read them all (I know I haven't and need help finding some). Preferrably finished, but not a dealbreaker. I especially love ones that have passion through social etiquette, carefully crafted rituals, and words that mean WAY more than what they seem, you know? Sorry if its too much, its a tall order. Thanks also for this awesome account.

practicing our mistakes | End Racism in the OTW by isabilightwood (E, 49k, WangXian, Fairy Tale, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Friends to Lovers, royalty-adjacent AU, rom com, all the parents live, especially Mama Lan, who needs a divorce, consort competition, lwj does NOT want to participate, fake courting his best friend is the obvious solution, Qīnghéng-jūn's A+ Parenting, matchmaking while mutual pining, wwx is a mostly human-looking demon, Monsterfucking, Submissive LWJ, Dominant WWX, Bondage, (fully consensual), Outdoor Sex, Fluff and Light Angst, wwx's tail expresses his emotions, Bottom LWJ, Top WWX)

Royalty AU Compilation

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9. Hello! As always, thanks so much for all your work, I have found some beautiful works and authors thanks to you ^.^

I need help finding fics where cql! Wangxian meet novel! Wangxian or similar scenarios. I’m so sure I have read some of them but now I can’t find even one! Could you give me a hand please?

I remember enjoying the dynamics of “what do you mean you are/aren’t married!” And I just wanted to re read some :,)

Thanks!! @neko-in-gotham

💙 feel better love by Anonymous (T, 8k, WIP, WangXian, implied WangXianXian, Post-Canon, Crack Treated Somewhat Seriously, in a haha jk...unless? way, Light Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Crack, Crossover)

Key Differences by pupeez4eva (T, 5k, WangXian, Humor, Dimension Travel, Crossover, Drama!WWX meets Novel!WWX, Public Confessions, Post-Canon)

We always get what we deserve!(Doesn't matter even if you think you don't deserve it. Fate has mysterious ways!) by Ajareenlovesbtsandshinee (Not Rated, 16k, WIP, WangXian, Post-Canon, CQL WWX and MDZS WWX Exchange places, Happy Ending, Post-Canon Fix-It)

The Young, the Horny, the Jaded and the Jade: Partners in Time by Admiranda (M, 55k, WIP, WangXian, Established couple, Crossover, road trip with your older selves, teasing your younger selves about their obvious crushes, yin iron does yin iron things, mdzs/cql crossover, adult wangxian, Teenage Wangxian)

not quite the same by M00_Nie (T, 5k, WangXian, Post-Canon Módào Zǔshī Novel, Married WangXian, Established Relationship, Multiverse, WWX in MXY's Body, WWX in WWX's Body, Post-The Untamed (TV), flustered lwj, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, WWX being a menace, wangxian being in love, Dorks in Love, Alternate Universes, Fluff, A little bit of angst, WWX Being WWX, WWX is a Panicked Gay Supportive LWJ)

the roots by thelastdboy (E, 30k, wangxian, major character death, graphic depictions of violence, post-canon, post-untamed, MDZS/CQL combination, transmigrator LWJ, dimension travel, time travel, parallel universes, desperation, WWX pov, LWJ pov, heavy angst, mental health issues, giref/mourning, abandonment, depression, suicidal thoughts, hurt/comfort, getting together, rogue cultivator WWX, WQ lives, found family, cottagegore, it gets worse before it gets better) gotta do some self-promo for #9

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10. Hiii I love your page and I thank you for your hard work in finding us so many fics 😁

For the next ITMF, do you know of any fics about A) JC being brought back as a fierce corpse like WN and this making everything somehow better or B) any good crossover fics of Hualian just taking care of bb WY (or even after he dies) and just WY getting the family and status he deserves? @crazy-gay-killxr

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11. Hello! Thank you for all that you guys do!! <3

I was looking for some fics with wangxian as grandparents

The Boy with the Sunshine Smile by Witch_Nova221 (T, 153k, WangXian, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Post-Canon, Romance, Domestic Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings, Parenthood, Growing Up) it's not a major plotpoint, but wangxian become grandparents at the end of this story

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12. Hello hello! (＾▽＾) I was wondering if you got any fic were WWX's cultivation doesn't corrupt/actively harm him, like it's not really more dangerous then reguler cultivation, like he knows how to do it safely, something like that? it would also be nice if others learn that and/or WWX explain how it's safe,

Did I Not Explain Why the Sunset Turns Red? By 3988Akasha (E, 110k, wangxian, time travel, canon divergence, Canonical Character Death, Soulmates, Demonic Cultivation, Original Female Character(s), Emotional Constipation, Minor Character Death, Hand Jobs, Sexual Content, Bathing/Washing, Idiots in Love, Poetry, Mild Gore, Anal Sex, Angst, Rimming, Blow Jobs)

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13. ITMF the filthiest spiciest hottest WangXian fic you've ever read.

I Won't Tell If You Won't by anxiousTypist (E, 11k, WangXian, Modern AU, Masturbation, Public Masturbation, Semi-Public Sex, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, but not really, no one sees, Coming In Pants, Wet & Messyish, Mildly Dubious Consent, PWP)

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14. Does anyone know if any TopGun Aus exist? I feel like mdzs would have a field day with this concept. Especially with the volleyball scene. I've read Pacific Rim au that was really good so I'm more or less curious since I see both of these movies in the same category. @skylar-lei1634

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15. Hi! So this one is a mix of itmf and ficfinder request, but I remember reading a fic where WWX got pregnant via talisman. Do you know a fic like this? Because I can‘t find it for the love of god, but I want that plot and more of it. Thank you so much! @desperation-is-my-middle-name (also in a previous FF post)

with arms wide open by violia (M, 4k, WangXian, Character Entering Into M/M Marriage Invents Mpreg In Hopes Of Pleasing Their Spouse With An Heir, Fluff, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Slight Misunderstandings, secret reveal)

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16. any fics where wwx comes back to life and lwj doesnt recognize him but falls in love "again"? @chellsky

Love Song In Reverse by timetoboldlygo (T, 237k, WangXian, Amnesia, Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Falling In Love, Slow Burn, agressively mixing and matching novel and cql canon, No Homophobia, Mentions of Starvation, Parental WWX) this one that i recently recced

By Any Other Name by ShanaStoryteller (Not Rated, 31k, Wangxian, Canon Divergence, Crossdressing, Misunderstandings, Identity Porn, Identity reveal)

Tumblr series Lady Mo by Shanastoryteller is ongoing. Here's a link to the latest one because it has links to ask the previous installments so far, but definitely recommend reading in order so start with the first one.

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17. Hello, for the next ITMF(In the mood for), I’m looking for wangxian mpreg fanfictions with scenes of childbirth in. Preferably with Wei Wuxian being the pregnant partner.

Thank you for your work and i hope you have a great day.

Blood, Google, and Love by Prairie_Grass (E, 4k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, they were roommates, A/B/O Dynamics, Getting Together, Mpreg, semi graphic giving birth, Alpha LWJ, Omega wwx, Intersex Omegas, (or you could head-canon WWX as trans if you wanted), Fluff and Angst, the run-on sentences are on-purpose because WWX and LWJ are both:, neurodiverse characters, slightly traumatic birth)

Surprise Baby! by trulywicked (M, 10k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, Modern Cultivation, Mpreg, Unplanned Pregnancy, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Didn't know he was pregnant, birthing scene, Little bit of blood, A/B/O Dynamics, Inspired by Twitter, Established Relationship, Fluff)

On The Way Home by vesna (mrsronweasley) (E, 59k, wangxian, Modern, Mpreg, Non-a/b/o mpreg, Unprotected Sex, Unexpected Pregnancy, Friends With Benefits, Getting Together, Pining while fucking)

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If you didn’t get an answer to your ask here, don’t forget to make use of @mdzs-kinkmeme and MDZS KINK MEME on Dreamwidth. Authors actually do use them for ideas. You may get what you order!***Your prompt doesn’t have to be kink! Fluff, crack, whatever - it’s all good!***

#wangxian #mdzs #wangxian fic recs #i'm in the mood for a fic #the untamed #wangxian fic search #wangxianficfinder #long post

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vrishchikawrites · 3 years ago

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I think you might like Concubine Mo Chronicles by enigmatree. It is an intricate palace drama Wangxian, as someone who watch one, I can feel the intricate world building of the palace drama Wangxian done by the author

Cool, will add that to the list!

#reader asks #mdzs fic rec

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ayanaacorn · 2 years ago

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I read most of the fics in this list and they are fantastic! I second the recommendations about the authors :)

Some other long, plotty fics with good WWX characterization (imo):

An arrow through time:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23414287/chapters/56115766

Sadly abandoned but what is written is amazing, WWX’s voice is on point - he’s clever, teasing and warm at the same time.

By the same author: The golden cutsleeve

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25074262/chapters/60736021

Very smutty (incense burner levels) but definitely the best characterization in any smut fic :)

Teen project to save the world:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25766617/chapters/62577196

A characters watching the novel type of fic, that’s all a love song for WWX, and all the characters from the past timeline learn to value him.

The concubine Mo chronicles:

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1965790

Sadly unfinished but very cute story about WWX pretending to be a quite, demure concubine (not A/B/O)

Return to sender:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34662826/chapters/86298901

Burial mounds era WWX gets his core back from JC when JC is cursed. The rooster’s funeral is peak WWX :)

Awaiting your return:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33537544/chapters/83330236

An AU where everything is the same except LWJ is older than WWX. They meet for the first time at burial mounds and start an affair. Mind the tags - lots of smut.

Red apple, cherry on your lips:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28940406/chapters/71010309

Also an older LWJ AU, but here WWX was adopted by an inn worker in Yunmeng. Unfinished

Stunted, starving juvenility:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35073949/chapters/87366196

Although it’s not tagged CQL , I think WWX’s characterization is a bit more like the drama, but I love the focus on his genius and inventions. The tags make it look angsty, but it’s a primarily fluffy fic about WWX getting the love and appreciation he deserves.

Do you have any fic recs where WWX's characterisation in particular really shines? Preferably longer ones, but shorter ones are fine too.

Thank you!

I do have some recs! I'm usually a bit more picky on LWJ's characterization than WWX's, so more of my fics are once where LWJ is standout, but I am sure some of them will delight.

First I would recommend glitteringmoonlight and Rynne for being incredibly consistent across many stories, both short and long.

As for individual fics, here are some of my favorites where WWX is super stand out.

WWX's Birthday Oneshots

A bunch of little prompts all celebrating Wei Wuxian in some way, so it's a glory of different points in his life.

A Glimpse of Past Glory

Wei Wuxian gets challenged to a duel by a ghost.

fish & wild geese

More LWJ centric, but WWX is fantastic in it, this is a farming au I still like.

make this chaos count

More CQL WWX than MDZS, but he still retains his depth of character. Is smutty, but not the whole fic, so easy to enjoy even if you're not the smut type.

CSI: Gusu Edition

Same goes here; he's a little more CQL than MDZS, but oh is he fantastic in these stories, brilliant and kind and funny.

Four Parts Honey and One Part Vinegar

Back on more MDZS styles, here he is post canon being fantastic and confusing the juniors.

shadows in the sun rise

Lan Wangji is cursed and Wei Wuxian takes care of him, definitely a more introspective look, but as we all know, LWJ can get in deeper than anyone else.

The Guests of Cloud Recesses

Wei Wuxian solves a little mystery in the Cloud Recesses, features him being fantastic both in the flirting and the guidao sides.

feel better love

Incomplete, but lovely! Features both MDZS and CQL WWX and that rare balance of an author who can write both rather than an arrangement of the two.

Letterless

Foxxian and Dragonji, where it captures a lot more of that young-twenties level flirting that most authors seem to struggle with. Also has a smut scene near the end, but a lot of story around it.

And not to toot my own horn too much, but I would recommend checking out some of my own fics if you haven't already, over at Admiranda. Wei Wuxian is one of my favorite characters to write and I haven't had a single complaint yet!

I hope this gives you some good reading material!

#mdzs #mdzs fic recs #mdzs fanfiction #wei wuxian #wangxian

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linoliu · 5 years ago

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Most of the bamboo slips from Bochu Bamboo Slips are based on mathematical probability.

Before 1994, a number of ancient bamboo slips appeared in the Hong Kong heritage market. At the time, Hong Kong scholar Rao Zongyi had bought a small portion, but the quantity was unknown. Later, a Hong Kong cultural relics appraiser identified only ten bamboo slips from the Qin Chu period. Later, Zhang Guangyu, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, went to Ma Chengyuan, the dean of the Shanghai Museum, to see if he could pay for all the batches of ancient bamboo slips on the Hong Kong cultural relics market. Sure enough, Shangbo bought all the huge sums of money in 1994, so is the so-called Shangbo Jian. But it's not over yet, and then the Hong Kong cultural relics market continued to make pre-Qin ancient bamboo slips. At this time someone in Hong Kong (Zhu Changyan, Dong Mujie) bought it and gave it to Shanghai Expo.

I now calculate it purely from mathematical probability. At that time, Rao Zongyi only bought one of them, but the appraiser in Hong Kong believed that only ten of them were real Qin Chu bamboo slips. And how much Mr. Rao bought. Only ten of them are true, so if they are called a batch, then there should be at least twenty, otherwise there are ten really simple Jane, and Mr. Rao bought more than ten, then the conclusion should be called most Jane. But no, so there must be more pseudo-simple than real. In other words, more than half of the so-called pre-Qin Chu bamboo slips bought by Mr. Rao in the Hong Kong cultural relic market that day were found to be fakes.

But the rest are all entered into the blog, then according to mathematical probability calculations, more than half of the samples are false (or most of them are fake bamboo slips). Most of the products bought by Shanghai Expo are pseudo-Qin Chu bamboo slips. This is a fairly simple mathematical probability calculation. Those who engage in cultural relics should at least have graduated from college, and they should have read mathematical probabilities. You see, even if you do n’t look at the so-called evidence that Bo Wei did n’t come up with, then more than half of them are pseudo-Qin Chu bamboo slips. Based on mathematical probabilities, it ’s almost cautious and carefully quoted for research. So as not to become an accomplice in spreading pseudoscience.

Nine volumes of the Bamboo Slips of Shanghai Expo have been published so far, published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, all of which are listed. Scholars should be suspicious, and don't be fooled until Shanghai Expo has enough evidence to be credible. However, before quoting Ru Lin's works and theses written from these bamboo slips, before determining which ones are from them, they are all futile works of no academic value, or they will damage personal academic reputation in the future. Be careful! In particular, the works of Li Xueqin, Yang Chaoming, Liao Mingchun, etc. who are out of the doubtful ancient times, should be cautiously inferred from the academic ancient history made by Bojian! (Liu Youheng, 2019.11.27 in Taipei) —————————————————————————— The first volume, published in November 2001, includes three articles, "Confucius' Poetics", "Yi Yi", and "Temperament Theory". The second volume, published in December 2002, includes 6 "Parents of the People", "Zi Lao", "Lupang Drought", "Politics", "Old Monarch", and "Rong Chengshi". The third volume, published in December 2003, includes four articles: Zhouyi, Hengxian, Zhonggong, and Peng Zu. The fourth volume, published in December 2004, includes "Collected Winds", "Essay Poems", "The King of Cambodia Persuaded by Drought", "King Zhao Destroyed the Room", "Inner Concubine", "The Way of Xiangbang", and "Cao Mo Chen" 7 Articles. The fifth volume, published in December 2005, includes "In Competition for Construction", "Uncle Baoya and the Puppet Friend", "Ji Gengzi Asking Confucius", "Gucheng's Father", "Gentleman as a Gift", "Disciple Asking", "Three virtues", "Ghost and God Ming Rongshi Youcheng" 8 articles. The sixth volume, published in July 2007, includes "Public Malaria," "Confucius Meets the Seasonal Xunzi," "Zhuang Wangcheng Cheng, Shen Gongchen Spirit King," "Ping King Asks Zheng Shou," "Ping King and Prince Wood," and "Shinko Said Gongjian "," Yongyue "," Tianzi Jianzhou "(a copy)," Tianzi Jianzhou "(a copy). The seventh volume, published in December 2008, includes five articles, "The King of the Martial Arts Practices", "The Funeral of the Zhengzi Family", "Why the Kings Are Safe", "The Form of Logistics", and "Wu Ming". The eighth volume, published in December 2009, includes "Hungry for Children", "Yan Yuan asks Confucius", "Becomes King and Both States", "Fate", "The King's House", "The Book of Chronicles", "The Emperor There will be 10 "," Li Song "," Lan Fu "and" Yi ". The ninth volume, published in December 2012, includes "The King's Trip to the City (Part A and B)", "Soul King Sui Shen", "Chen Gongzhi Bing", "Governing the King of the World (Five)", "Bangren are not called" , "Shi Yu asked the Master", "Bu Shu" 7 articles. 提供意見翻譯記錄已儲存社群

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topworldhistory · 5 years ago

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Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.

For enslaved African Americans, the ideal of marriage as an enduring lifelong bond was rarely an option. When couples stood before clergy or other officiants, they couldn’t share the traditional, age-old promises of permanent fidelity because their vows had a built-in asterisk: “Do you take this woman or this man to be your spouse—until death or distance do you part?”

Understanding those altered words, couples married with trepidation, fully aware of the turmoil that might result from trying to maintain and nurture their ties while enslaved. Still, they continually took leaps of faith, driven by burning passions to form families of their choosing—and create fundamental human bonds that could help soften the harsh conditions of human bondage.

These leaps were necessary because, for nearly 250 years, the vast majority of African Americans were considered chattel property. Within this system, white slaveholders made all the decisions: They determined whether and when enslaved people could wed. They split them apart when finances dictated. They sometimes chose who would marry who. Or brazenly violated enslaved couples’ marriages by forcing the women to serve as their own concubines. And those in political power set laws that made it exceedingly difficult for freed black people to reside for long near their still-enslaved families without being sucked back into the harrowing state of bondage themselves.

Since marriage was both a civil right and a religious rite afforded only to those with legal standing, enslaved people, who had no recognizable standing in society, could not make contracts of any kind. Their marriages were neither legally binding, nor sanctified by the Christian church, which routinely allowed one of its holiest rites to be tarnished by power, money and whim. Property owners were its leading constituents, and their rights prevailed over human rights. So enslaved people were forced to settle for conditional unions that could be torn asunder at any time.

The chronicle of African American marriage under slavery is one of twists and turns—of intimate bonds being formed, sustained, broken and repeatedly re-created under the strains of an oppressive system. Below are three stories of how enslaved people were affected by, and coped with, the challenges of following their heart.

READ MORE: The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in 1930. It Just Surfaced

A dramatic escape inspired by family loss

Henry Brown, popularly known as Henry "Box" Brown, who escaped slavery by having himself shipped in dry goods crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

Henry “Box” Brown is not a household name. But he is remembered to history as the enslaved man who mailed himself to freedom. In 1849, he fled Richmond, Virginia, via a custom-made dry goods box that was only big enough to hold his six-foot, 200-pound frame curled up into a fetal position. He arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, met by abolitionists awaiting his delivery, 27 harrowing hours later.

But less widely known is why he fled: His family bonds had been ripped to shreds.

Even though Brown’s mother had warned him of the inevitability of family separation when he was a young boy, nothing could prepare him for the trauma of the actual experience. First, his siblings were split among the heirs of their deceased enslaver. Then he was forced to leave his parents behind to work in a tobacco factory.

He must have thought about these incidents when he began to ponder starting a family of his own. But he put rationality aside when he met Nancy, fell in love and they decided to marry. Their nuptial harmony ended abruptly within a year’s time, however. As Brown later recounted in his memoir, The Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, his enslaver’s “conscientious scruples vanished,” and he sold Nancy to “an exceedingly cruel man” and to a “still more cruel” woman.

They were sold several more times before ending up in the hands of a prospective buyer who offered Brown a deal: If he would pay a portion of Nancy’s sale price, the man would keep her nearby and sell her back to Brown once he had saved enough money. This was a dicey, but tantalizing offer he couldn’t refuse if he had any hope of having a domestic life with his wife and, by then, three children. The new purchaser took advantage of his vulnerability by escalating demands for more money like a hostage taker—and then sold his family anyway.

READ MORE: The Shocking Photo of 'Whipped Peter' That Made Slavery's Brutality Impossible to Deny

The departure of Brown’s family marked the most excruciating days of his life. His wife and young children were caged overnight in a local jail before being auctioned off and marched out of town in ropes and chains. He could do nothing but stand by, watch and listen to their agonizing cries. He chronicled these last moments in his narrative:

I looked for the approach of another gang in which my wife was also loaded with chains. My eye soon caught her precious face, but, gracious heavens! that glance of agony may God spare me from ever again enduring!... I seized hold of her hand while my mind felt unutterable things... I went with her for about four miles hand in hand, but both our hearts were so overpowered with feeling that we could say nothing, and when at last we were obliged to part, the look of mutual love which we exchanged was all the token which we could give each other that we should yet meet in heaven.

After the devastating loss of his family, Brown entertained suicide. Instead, the experience inspired his remarkable escape. Desperate to flee bondage and tell the world about the sufferings of his fellow slaves, he risked bodily injury and death by mailing himself to freedom in the North.

READ MORE: How Sally Hemings and Other Enslaved People Secured Precious Pockets of Freedom

The entangled intimacies of involuntary couples

Slave family on the plantation of Dr. William F. Gaines in Hanover County, Virginia, circa 1862.

Not all enslaved people were allowed to make their own decisions about who to mate with and marry, as Henry and Nancy did. Men and women could be forced to live as husband and wife against their wills, which provoked a range of emotions. Some involuntary couples complied, others fought back and many defied their enslavers by secretly pursuing relationships of their own choosing.

Ellen and Charley Carter and Walker and Alice Wade, who were enslaved in Kentucky, offer a revealing example of the messiness created by unfulfilled love. As we know from Ellen’s Civil War widow’s pension file, Ellen and Charley were thrust together without their consent. Ellen had her eyes set on Walker Wade, but her enslaver, and possibly his, objected to their marriage. Walker had also gotten another woman, Alice, pregnant, and “as he had gotten her into this fix, he married her to save her.” Alice felt the pressure of her slaveholder, who threatened to sell her for having a baby out of wedlock. The reluctant twosome obliged and built a family together.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, it opened up new opportunities. Walker ran away to join the army, but when he later returned home to Alice, their relationship began to fall apart. Alice “was a drinking woman,” Walker complained. He said that he “stood it as long as he could.”

Meanwhile, the other reluctant couple, Ellen and Charley, also had children. When Charley left to join the army, they had one child; when he returned to Ellen at the end of his service, they had another. But the two would soon part. Ellen had never forgotten Walker Wade. She said, “Walker waited on me when we were young & my owners made me take up with Charley Carter, but I never loved Charley & I did love Walker Wade as a girl & on up to today & I never cared for any other man.”

Walker and Ellen did manage to hook up on the side. Alice wanted to legalize her marriage to Walker, which became possible after slavery ended in 1865. She said Walker refused her because of his relationship with Ellen—and that’s what drove her to drink.

Alice and Walker finally split, but not before they had another child together years after the war. Ellen and Walker reunited and legally married soon after. Alice tried to prevent the nuptials but was told there was nothing she could do. She wasn’t Walker’s legal wife, as the terms of freedom newly defined.

This story dramatizes the dilemma of enslaved people who chose to pursue their true love that had been denied to them through no fault of either party. It also illustrates the turmoil that resulted when they were forced to form involuntary unions—and the determination they often felt to follow their hearts, when they were able to do so once freedom came.

READ MORE: Meet Elizabeth Freeman, the First Enslaved Woman to Sue for Her Freedom—and Win

A Faustian bargain: family or freedom

Five generations of slaves on Smith’s Plantation in Beaufort, S.C., circa 1862.

Imagine a free person re-entering slavery—and all its horrors—for the sake of love. It sometimes happened because the families of enslaved people were often tethered to free African Americans in marriages of mixed-status couples. And these unusual arrangements compromised the status of the free person, sometimes posing unique dilemmas that put their families’ safety and security in opposition to their liberty.

In the antebellum South, lawmakers showed naked contempt for free black people, reflected in a tidal wave of legal restrictions designed to box them in or force them to leave the region. In the 1850s, many laws were passed to expel free blacks and to encourage them to submit to so-called voluntary slavery, in which freed people petitioned states to be re-enslaved to avoid expulsion or other dire circumstances.

These maneuvers most often affected mixed-status families, who were put in the position of having to choose between staying together or having one or more members submit to re-enslavement. Some of them had already tried and failed to get legislators to exempt them from laws that forced them to leave their home states. Submission to legal slavery was the last resort. Their families were already constrained by the lower status of their enslaved kin since they were likely to live and work alongside them on the same plantations under the same rules. The privileges that free people in this context experienced were more often abstract than real.

It’s hard to underestimate the gravity of their sacrifices. The willingness to submit to so-called “voluntary” slavery signified that some free blacks were prepared to prioritize their marital and family ties at any costs. Even families already separated by manumission often reconsidered the relative costs of being free. One man left the state of Virginia and moved to Ohio after being freed—forced out by law—but grew to regret it more and more. He returned to Virginia because he said he “would prefer returning to slavery to losing the society of his wife.”

READ MORE: How Slavery Became the Economic Engine of the South

This amplifies how free African Americans did not experience freedom as an absolute condition or right they could take for granted. The increasingly harsh tactics used by Southern states pushed more free people to weigh the costs of being forced apart from family members or remaining intact, even if meant returning to bondage.

Still, despite the reign of terror that slavery spawned and no matter how much it altered and disfigured black marriages, it did not and could not annihilate them—or the love that sustained them. African Americans proved relentlessly creative and resourceful in building marriages and kinship ties that functioned for their survival. We should never lose sight of the depth of feelings and affection that undergirded these relationships and the sacrifices they were willing to make for the sake of preserving them.

Tera W. Hunter is professor of history and African American studies at Princeton University and the author of Bound in Slavery and To Joy My Freedom, among other books. Follow her on Twitter: @TeraWHunter.

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Follower Recs

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Hello!!! I don't know if this series already recommended in this blog. This series is so good. I like how the author include an outsider POV. It's a light hearted and funny story (for me). Slow update so read at your own risk

The Concubine Mo Chronicles

by Enigmatree

T, 79k, WIP, series, Wangxian

Summary: An AU where the Lan Xichen is the Emperor; Lan Wangji is the Crown Prince; the Jin, Jiang, and Nie are Dukedoms; and even 13 years dead, Wei Wuxian is still the most feared man in all of China. Newly resurrected, Wei Wuxian would love nothing more than to cultivate a core and go become a rogue cultivator. Except, there's something very suspicious going on in the Imperial Palace, and while Wei Wuxian might not be able to help Lan Wangji in solving it, the unassuming and soft-spoken "Prince-Concubine Mo" sure can.

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.

#Wangxian Fic Recs #follower recs #mdzs #the untamed #follower rec #I HAVEN'T READ THIS YET #But I've read some of Emi's stories before and she's amazing at worldbuilding!#The Concubine Mo Chronicles #Enigmatree #Teen #Series #WIP #long fic > 50k

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Royalty AU Compilation

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Emperor/Prince WWX

The Last Concubine by deliciousblizzardshark (T, 13k, WangXian, Royalty AU, Emperor WWX, Concubine LWJ, LWJ Whump, Forced Marriage, Starvation, Non-physical spousal abuse, Fluff and Angst, Doing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reasons, Happy Ending, WWX Takes Care of LWJ)

Ab aaja re mere piya by mastani (T, 3k, WangXian, Royalty AU, Emperor WWX, Consort LWJ, lwj being a pouty baby, also lwj being salty, because lwj doesn't not like to be exposed)

Conquering the Emperor by catbrainedschemes (E, 21k, WangXian, Historical, Imperial China, Emperor!WWX, General!LWJ, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love, Historically Inaccurate, Misunderstandings, Fluff, Eventual Smut, Light Angst, Slow Burn, Happy Ending)

catch this manic rhapsody by anatheme (E, 23k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Emperor WWX, Power Dynamics, AU where the Yiling Patriarch became the First Emperor of the Cultivation World, he calls LWJ his Concubine Lan and baobei, Switch WangXian, Mutual Pining, Immortal WWX)

travelers through the empty gate by stiltonbasket (M, 44k, WIP, WangXian, Royalty, Emperor WWX, Mistaken Identity, Poor LWJ, Bookshop owner LWJ, Intrigue, Court Drama, Forced Marriage, Confused WWX, POV Alternating, Parenthood, Misunderstandings, Empress LWJ, Requited Unrequited Love, Fluff, Humor, Married Life, Angst with a Happy Ending)

❤️all your life you'll dream of this by Attila (T, 22k, WangXian, Prince WWX, Cinderella LWJ, Fairy Tale, Cinderella Fusion, Pining)

Every River to Its Sea by knightcaptain (E, 17k, WangXian, Arranged Marriage, Emperor WWX, Courtesan LWJ, Mutual Pining, Praise Kink, Rape Roleplay, Come Swallowing, Blow Jobs, Verbal Humiliation, Historical Inaccuracy, The Sheer Bratulence, Mild Hurt/Comfort)

Silver & Silk Series by farawayanddreaming (M/E, 3k, WangXian, Established Relationship, Emperor WWX, Concubine LWJ, Implied/Referenced Sex, Light Bondage, Devotion, No Plot/Plotless, vibes only, Bottom LWJ/Top WWX)

Son of Heaven and Frost General Series by Aki_no_hikari (M/T, 7k, WangXian, Royalty, Historical, Emperor/General, Fade to Black, Romance)

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Emperor/Prince LWJ

pay no attention to what's behind the curtain by glitteringmoonlight (T, 7k, Emperor LWJ, Concubine WWX, Mutual Pining, only the bare bones of a plot, a little bit of outsider pov, Love Confessions, Happy Ending)

True Gold Fears No Fire by defractum (nyargles) (M, 60k, WIP, WangXian, Royalty AU, Ancient China, Wuxia, Historical Inaccuracy, Arranged Marriage, Identity Porn, Mutual Pining, Emperor!LWJ, empress!wwx, Eventual Happy Ending, Misunderstandings)

The Imperial Jewel by Serinah (E, 39k, WangXian, Emperor LWJ, Concubine WWX, Dubious consent, A/B/O, Fucking while pining)

Kingfisher Feathers by anonymous (E, 122k, WIP, WangXian, Royalty AU, Emperor LWJ, Concubine WWX, A/B/O, Mpreg, Mutual Pining, Angst with a happy ending)

The Concubine Mo Chronicles Series by Enigmatree (T, 71k, WangXian, Royalty AU, Prince LWJ, Concubine WWX, Mild Hurt/Comfort)

of all the hands by typefortydeductions (E, 51k, WangXian, Second Prince LWJ, Canon Divergence, Arranged marriage, Emperor LXC, PTSD, Nightmares, Dual Cultivation, Mental Health Issues, Fluff and Angst, Dom/sub Undertones, Top LWJ, Consensual Non-Consent, Bonding, Mutual Pining, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Politics, Improper Use of the Lan Forehead Ribbon)

The stars in the hazy heaven tremble above you by cicer (G, 64k, WangXian, Fantasy, Cinderella Fusion, Mutual Pining, Background NMJ/LXC, background JC/NHS, Second Prince LWJ)

all rivers flow safely to sea by GenerallyBookish (E, 97k, WIP, WangXian, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mutual Pining, Unrequited Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Royalty, Historical References, Ancient China, Historical Inaccuracy, Oblivious WWX, A/B/O Dynamics, Omega WWX, Alpha LWJ, Soft WangXian, Idiots in Love, Childhood Friends, Childhood Sweethearts, Strangers to Lovers, Concubine WWX, Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, Jealous LWJ, Amnesia, Post Mpreg, Fluff)

The early bird gets the worm, the early fox gets the bird. But the dragon wakes the earliest of them all by sekhmetpaws (E, 52k, WIP, WangXian, Foxxian, Dragonji, A/B/O Dynamics, Royalty, Prince LWJ, dragon LWJ, fox WWX, Arranged Marriage, but not really, Mistaken Identity, Omega WWX, Alpha LWJ)

Corps-à-corps by defractum (nyargles) (T, 10k, WangXian, Historical, Courtship, Prince LWJ)

A Little Closer Than That by airinshaw (E, 19k, WangXian, A/B/O Dynamics, Arranged Marriage, Emperor LWJ, Royalty, Anal Sex, Kissing, Getting Together, Breeding Kink, Knotting, Mistaken Identity)

inevitably, indubitably by friedkiki (T, 24k, WangXian, Royalty, Misunderstandings, Mutual Pining, Curses, Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fairy Tale Elements, Prince LWJ, rogue sorcerer WWX)

雙喜臨門: double happiness at your door by besanii (T, 57k, WangXian, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Fluff, Humor, Fox Prince WWX, Dragon Prince LWJ, Immortals, Xianxia, Romance, Developing Relationship, Three Lives Three Worlds AU, Love Confessions, Weddings)

operation prison break (gone wrong) by bosbie (G, 5k, WangXian, Prince LWJ, Royalty, First Meetings, Fluff, Flirting, Pining, Meet-Cute, Established Relationship)

In the Night, Beauty by JessicaMDawn (T, 17k, WangXian, XuanLi, Prince LWJ, King LXC, Diaster Bisexual WWX, Cinderella Fusion)

La Flûte Noire by arakachi (T, 25k, WIP, WangXian, background XuanLi, Cinderella AU, loosely, WWX is the servant/semi-adopted son of the noble Jiang family, Prince LWJ, Royal Lan family)

i want something shiny by xNailedIt (T, 4k, WIP, WangXian, Cinderella Fusion, Male Cinderella, Prince LWJ, WWX is a Little Shit)

the wei to the kingdom (is through the prince's heart) by Bird_of_Dreams (T, 4k, WangXian, Prince LWJ, historical, royal family, Tournaments, Mutual Pining)

Drama Queen by uglychui (T, 2k, WangXian, Royalty, Arranged Marriage, Attempt at Humor, Romance, Secret Identity, Pining, Mutual Pining, Marriage Proposal, Drunken Confessions, Misunderstandings, Prince LWJ)

My Kingdom for a Song by flowerofgusu (M, 6k, WangXian, Royalty, Canon Divergence, Arranged Marriage, Falling In Love, Mistaken Identity, Wedding Night, Fluff, Prince LWJ)

uneasy lies the head that wears the crown by dangodangomilk (E, 9k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Royalty, Gusu Princes LXC & LWJ, General WWX, Fluff and Angst, Drama & Romance, Falling In Love, War, Bodyguard AU, Protective WWX, Hurt/Comfort, Secret Relationship)

Love in Red and Gold by Kaytla (E, 11k, WIP, WangXian, Arranged Marriage, Royalty AU, Humor, Fluff, Idiots in Love, Pining LWJ, Pining WWX, Prince LWJ)

The Cultivator and the Peasant by Likea_boss9987 (T, 14k, WIP, WangXian, MXY/WX, Princess and the Pauper AU, Swapping places, Friendship, Romance, Pining, Misunderstandings, A/B/O Dynamics, Jealous LWJ, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, Omega MXY)

If You're Still Waiting by Charlie_Lan (E, 36k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Royalty AU, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, Emperor LWJ, Emperor LXC, Post-Sunshot Campaign, Angst with a Happy Ending, WangXian Have a Breeding Kink, Hanahaki Disease, Eventual Smut, Separations, Reunions)

all your life you'll dream of this by Attila (T, 22k, WangXian, Fairy Tale, Cinderella Fusion, Pining)

Witchfinder by misbehavingvigilante (E, 86k, WangXian, Prince LWJ, Merlin (TV) Fusion, Pining LWJ, Pining WWX, Mutual Pining, POV Alternating, Possessive Behavior, Sex Magic, Switching)

The Prince and the Turtle by MountainRain898 (T, 27k, WangXian, Fairy Tale Elements, Prince LWJ, palace servant WWX, Childhood Friends, Getting Together, True Love, First Kiss, Magic, POV Third Person Omniscient)

🧡The Emperor's Portrait by catbrainedschemes (E, 32k, WangXian, Historical, Ancient China, Historically Inaccurate, Meet-Cute, Mistaken Identity, Age Difference, Sexual Tension, Happy Ending, Fluff, Emperor!LWJ, artist!wwx, Misunderstandings, Hand Kink, Strength Kink, Smut, gege kinkl, ots of staring, Dirty Talk, Canon-Typical Bondage)

Three Letters, Six Etiquettes by 2501987 (M, 24k, WangXian, XiCheng, Royalty, Arranged Marriage, A/B/O Dynamics, Arranged Marriage, Angst and Humor, Royalty, Idiots in Love, Eventual Romance, WWX is a Little Shit, LWJ is Whipped, BAMF JYL, Family Feels, Awkward First Time, Loss of Virginity, Bad Sex, Wedding Night, Domestic Fluff)

To Tread Upon Solid Ground by stiltonbasket (G,6k, WangXian, Royalty, Emperor LWJ, Growing Up Together, Friends to Lovers, Jealousy, Mutual Pining, References to Illness(on lxc's part), Eventual Happy Ending, Bodyguard WWX, Fluff and Humor, Misunderstandings, Oblivious WWX, Confused WWX)

Desiderium by seredemia (E, 20k, WangXian, Royalty, Fantasy, Childhood Friends, LWJ as a prince and WWX as his childhood friend basically, Fluff, Eventual Smut, First Time)

A Heart Made of Jade by makkurokuro93 (E, 67k, wangxian, historical au, ancient China, politics, drama, romance, love triangles, one-sided LXC/WWX, slow burn, angst w/ happy ending, switching, fluff, eventual relationship, Doctor/Apothecary! WWX, Heroic Jianghu Bandits! (and Fugitive Princes!) LWJ and LXC, and Emperor! JGS)

How to propose to the love of your life in one simple step by CloudyInk (G, 6k, WangXian, Royalty, LXC is King, Prince LWJ, General WWX)

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Other

The one where WWX is not LWJ's concubine AU Series by Lookingkindofdumb (Varied, 86k, WIP, WangXian, Non-Cultivator AU, Emperor LXC, Concubine AU, Rumors, Humor, Politics, Extended family chaos)

Flowers in the Palace series by stiltonbasket (T, 19k, Female WangXian, NieLan, Female LXC, Emperor NMJ, Empress LXC, Happy Ending, Misunderstandings, Getting together, Harem, Concubine WWX, Consort LWJ)

I'll learn how to defy my fate (for you) by ArbitraryRambunctious (SheepOutTetradecagon) (M, 9k, LXC/WWX, onesided wangxian, royalty, secret relationship)

In the Eye of the Beholder by YumichanHamano (T, 4k, WangXian, Emperor LXC, Royalty, dark LWJ, Possessive LWJ, Impersonation, Crossdressing)

❤️Where the nightingales are singing, and a white moon beams. by Moominmammashandbag (M, 33k, WangXian, XuanLi, Pseudo-History, No power AU, Empires, Discussion Of Murder, aftermath of war, prisoner exchange, Grief/Mourning, LWJ POV, Angst, Emperor JZX, Imperial Advisor LWJ, widower LWJ, JYL is the Empress the world deserves, Happy Ending, POW WWX, Reunions, Fluff, Smut, Dysfunctional Family, Poetry, BAMF LWJ, emotional support goat, poetry as a weapon)

The Faithful Demon of Yiling Series by TriviasFolly (T/M, 92k, WangXian, Prince JC, Royal AU, A/B/O Dynamics, Omega WWX, Alpha LWJ, no cultivation au, Vaguely Historical AU?, War AU, Slow Burn, WWX is a Baddass, Attempted Rape, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, WWX is a Murder Baby, heat, Murder)

A Prince Amongst Peonies by sweethoneypetal (E, 28k, wangxian, JYL/JZX, LXC/JGY, historical au, imperial China, drama, romance, slow burn, eventual smut, intrigue, politics, WWX as a fake prince, scholar LWJ, harems, violence, soulmates, pining, suicide, implied/referenced castration, tension of all kinds, unhealthy relationships, unhealthy coping mechanisms, abuse, manipulation, WIP) Imperial Family Jin Clan; traveler Wei Ying is conscripted by courtier Nie Huaisang to impersonate the deceased Third Prince Mo Xuanyu; scholar Lan Wangji has suspicions…

#wangxian #wangxianficfinder #the untamed #Royalty AU Compilation #Royalty AU Compilation post #compilation post #wangxianficfinder compilation post #mdzs #wangxian fic recs #Wangxian Fic Rec #long post

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In the mood for a Fic...

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1. Hello hello!! For the next in the mood for post, do you know fics where a-yuan remembers wwx during the 13 years?? Like maybe asking for his xian-gege??? Thank you!!

forgetting envies, remembering your loving hold by cosmicfuss (G, 4k, LSZ & WN, travel, remembering)

Lan Sizhui Sees Dead People series by darkbrokenreaper (T, 30k, wangxian, fluff, angst)

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2. for the in-the-mood fics... anything with hurt or sick lwj? i've gone through everything there is with wwx, and i'm in the mood for cuddles, so anything where lwj gets taken care of? thank you so much for all your hard work, this blog is a lifesaver!

my bones into your bones by butterflylungs (M, 17k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Case fic,. Established Relationship, W hump, Hurt/comfort, Angst with a happy ending)

The Concubine Mo Chronicles Series by Enigmatree (T, 71k, WangXian, Prince LWJ, Concubine WWX, Royalty AU, Hurt/comfort) Hurt LWJ is in the last chapters

Shadows in the sun rise by Yuu_chi (E, 24k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Night hunts, Curses, Intimacy, Light Angst with a Happy Ending, They're married and they're in love) Lan Wangji is cursed

Master and Jade/002 by WaffleBunny13 (E, 6k, WIP, WangXian, Rabbit Hybrid LWJ, Human Experimentation, Unethical Experimentation, Doctor WWX, Bottom LWJ/Top WWX, Older WWX, Younger LWJ) Mad Science victim rabbit hybrid LWJ is rescued by Doctor! WWX

5 Times Wei WuXian was a Domestic Goddess by DoAliensLikePasta (G, 6k, WIP, WangXian, Sickfic, Fluff, Suprised LWJ, Established Relationship, Domestic fluff) WWX cares for a sick LWJ

The Cultivator's Cold by Court_on_Fire (G, 6k, WangXian, Post Canon, A splash of Angst if you squint real hard, Mild illness, Tooth-rotting fluff, Happy Ending) the mighty Hanguang-jun somehow catches a plain old cold—to WWX’s dramatic dismay; the author’s summary is a thing of beauty.

💖A Cyborg's Three Laws by FairyGardenCorgis, illustrated by @joshua-beeking (M, 194k, WangXian, Science Fiction, Slow Burn, Medical Procedures, Angst, Fluff, Humor, Eventual Smut, Hurt/Comfort, LWJ has RA, Idiot Friends to Idiot Lovers, obscene amounts of cuddling, like if you're looking for cuddleporn you hit the jackpot, Versatile wangxian) cybernetics scientist WWX converts RA patient LWJ into a cyborg and personally conducts his therapy. No-holds-barred cuddlepalooza, informed by both the author’s and artist’s experience of RA; this fan favorite has inspired too much fanart to list here. The original comics are on Joshua’s Tumblr under #cyborg!lwj au

and until the sun burns out, I will look after you by untakenbeepun (T, 2k, wangxian, post-canon, sick fic, hurt/comfort, established relationship, light angst, fluff)

The Best Medicine by BaconnEggs (G, 2k, wangxian, modern, sick fic, domestic fluff, comfort food, cuddles, forehead kisses)

A Curse of a Different Color by nickel710 (G, 35k, wangxian, JC/LXC/WQ, modern w/ magic, curse breaking, fluff & angst, asexual polyamory, hurt/comfort, repressed LWJ, drunk LWJ, bunnies, anxiety)

💖Careful hands by deliciousblizzardshark (M, 10k, wangxian, canon divergence, BAMF WWX, protective WWX, hurt LWJ, angst, hurt/comfort, getting together, first time, not a fix-it)

a fever, a promise, an unopened door by pale_and_tragic (T, 9k, LXC & LWJ, wangxian, post-canon, sick fic, angst w/ happy ending, hurt/comfort, fever, hallucinations)

A Storm of Laughter in the Stillness of the Jingshi by OnlyMeAndMyBones (T, 73k, WangXian, Angst with a happy ending, Hurt/comfort, Slow burn) Satisfying read where hurt LWJ got taken care of by WWX post Gusu punishment

side effects may include by slightlytookish (T, 14k, WangXian, Post-Canon, CQL Verse, Hurt/comfort, Case fic, Getting together) Another HGJ and common cold 😃✌🏻

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3. Hi! I'm in the mood for a fic where one half of wangxian is from the modern world and the other is from ancient china. Without reincarnation if that's ok. Thanks

Wrong Turn, Right Place by diamondbruise (E, 71k, WangXian, Time Travel, kind of, it's more reality travel but there's modern wwx and cultivator lwj, Mutual Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, Jealousy, Idiots in Love, Slow Burn, Misunderstandings, Cultural Differences)

you mean to make a puppet of me, by TheRealFailWhale (T, 31k, WangXian, Modern AU, Wingfic, Parallel universes, Curses, Getting to Know Each Other, Puppets, Slow Burn Perforce, Because Lan Wangji is Too Tiny to Burn, Crack Treated Seriously, Mojo's Post) LWJ, cursed into the form of a tiny fairy marionette, is transported to a modern AU where he comes into the hands of a handsome and kindly puppeteer; frontispiece by Mojo! (this was their 2022 Reverse Big Bang collaboration.)

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4. Hello again!!! First off I want to say thank you for all your work providing so many hours of reading I really appreciate it! Second would y'all know of A) any mythical wanxian? Or B) a/b/o (again wanxian) centered more around fluffy goodness rather than the uhhh.... more explicit aspect to the trope? Thank y'all in advance!! @yukihyo-no-yosei

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💖Soaring through the skies - together series by Vrishchika (E, 15k, wangxian, fantasy au, dragon LWJ, phoenix WWX, getting together, non-human genitelia, explicit sexual content, getting together, first time, double penetration, oral sex, angst w/ happy ending)

💖Tricks and treats by apathyinreverie (M, 12k, wangxian, dragon LWJ, phoenix LSZ, fox WWX, family, injury, fluff, romance, possessive LWJ, WIP)

💖Hoards and treasures by apathyinreverie (T, 21k, wangxian, canon au, fox WWX, dragon LWJ, not Jiang friendly, smitten LWJ, fluff, romance, courting)

💖a one track mind by bunnxianluvsu (MooseFeels) (E, 11k, wangxian, modern, phoenix WWX, romantic comedy, body image, illnesses, medical, accidental flirting, WIP)

💖fell by you by Vrishchika (E, 44k, wangxian, fantasy au, dragon LWJ, immortals, deities, dragon WWX, angst w/ happy ending)

💖dark and glimmering by Sanguis (T, 5k, wangxian, modern, post-canon, married couple, immortality, technology failure)

Paths of Light and Darkness Converge by ataratah (E, 30k, wangxian, fox WWX, dragon LWJ, secret identity, non-human genitelia, crack treated seriously, fluff, angst w/ happy ending)

雙喜臨門: double happiness at your door by besanii (T, 57k, wangxian, xianxia au, fake/pretend relationship, fluff & humor, fox WWX, dragon LWJ, immortals, romance, developing relationship, Three Lives Three Worlds au, love confessions, weddings)

💖Phantom Leashes by mondengel (M, 3k, wangxian, vampires, horror)

💖Under a Blanket of Black Wings by ChaoticAndrogynous (T, 19k, wangxian, vampire WWX, bedtime stories, implied/referenced character death, gothic fluff, angst w/ happy ending)

💖bloodstained by LilyMaxwell (E, 10k, wangxian, supernatural elements, vampire WWX, human/vampire relationship, smut, bottom LWJ, blood drinkink)

💖The Way You Tremble by themunchking (E, 6k, wangxian, dark wangxian, vampires, blood, mild violence)

💖Like the sea loves the shore by Say (E, 15k, wangxian, implied/referenced WWX/WC, rule 63, fantasy au, sirens, dark LWJ, romance, friends to lovers, fluff, angst w/ happy ending, smut, mild gore, non-human genitelia, infidelity, age difference)

💖Buried in the Sky, Hallowed by thy Depths by themunchking (T, 9k, wangxian, sirens, supernatural elements, dark wangxian)

💖Bottom of the Deep Blue by mondengel (T, 20k, wangxian, mermaid au)

💖oceans, drowned in starfire by stiltonbasket (T, 30k, wangxian, LXC/NMJ, modern, novelist LWJ, merman WWX, accidental baby acquisation, family secrets, domestic fluff, happy ending)

ten hearts for you by athylia (Not rated, 12k, wangxian, mermaid LWJ, harvest moon au)

seeking the magic below by Leahelisabeth (fortheloveofcamelot) (G, 10k, wangxian, modern, highschool au, mermaids, H2O au, transformation, bullying, first meetings, first kiss, necromancy)

sun beneath the sea by cringewerewolf (M, 19k, wangxian, modern, mermaids, merman WWX, human LWJ)

4B)

a-niang by imusuallyobsessed (T, 3k, LSZ & WWX, wangxian, ABO, mating cycles/in heat, grooming, comfort, family fluff)

Baby, Don't Grow Up by FireboltSparks (G, 3k, wangxian, LWJ & LSZ & WWX, ABO, family fluff, established relationship)

I Will Build My Love a Bower by little_ogre (G, 1k, wangxian, ABO, nesting, puberty, cloud recesses shenanigans)

Red Riding by silverclaw (T, 5k, wangxian, ABO, werewolves, human LWJ, alpha WWX, jealous WWX, protective WWX, past injury)

Tenderness by simply_mad (G, 4k, wangxian, ABO, mpreg, fluff, caretaking)

flourish, full-flowered by lazulisong (T, 13k, wangxian, canon divergence, ABO)

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5. So I just finished reading "Advisable Lan rules and other shenanigans" by apathyinreverie on ao3 and it is GREAT. So I was wondering if A) anyone new of other fics in that vein/similar vibes? B) fics where phoenix mountain hunt's feast goes differently C) fics where wwx has to corral drunk Lans E) any fics set post sunshot pre-burial mounds. Esp any of the above that are funny/fluffy/fix-it.

5C)

through all the in-betweens by isabilightwood (E, 13k, wangxian, canon divergence, drunk LWJ, pining, bottom LWJ, sub LWJ, kink discovery, angst, fluff, smut)

All aboard this drunk boat... by Ladycroft4evr (G, 2k, wangxian, drunk LWJ, drunk Juniors, Responsible Adult (tm) WWX)

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6. Hellooooo to our lovely mods 💞💞 For your next, I'm in a mood for recs, A) could you rec fix its?? Any and all type are extremely appreciated. I also have another request, B) do you maybe have recs for the junior quartet being ducklings to mama duck WWX?? Thank you for all your hard work ❤️ @flexible-racoon

6A)

🧡decay by antebunny (G, 15k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Angst, Misunderstandings, Miscommunication, Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, the fluffiest ending, Hurt/Comfort)

🧡Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark (E, 329k, WangXian, WIP, Fix-it of sorts, Talisman master WWX, Not JFM Friendly, Study Arc, Getting together, Fluff and Angst, Engagement)

🧡 Song by WithBroomBefore (T, 41k, Platonic Soulbond, Hurt/comfort, Canon Divergence, No golden core transfer, JC&JZX stay in Xuanwu cave, Fix-it, Temporary character death)

the thread may stretch or tangle but it will never break by @rosethornewrites (E, 70k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Angst, Hurt/comfort) my wip

6B)

Here We Go Again by Alliandra (T, 174k, wangxian, JC & WWX, JC/WQ, post-canon, canon compliant, conspiracy, angst w/ happy ending, pining, possession, family feels, major character injury)

lucky me, i can hear ghosts by monsshi (G, 4k, wangxian, WWX & Junior Quartet, post-canon, night hunts, demonic cultivation, BAMF WWX, mystery, minor injuries, minor violence, ghosts)

Trust by FlyingMachine1 (G, 8k, WWX & Juniors Quartet, wangxian, BAMF WWX, humor)

the stone-filled sea by yukla (T, 9k, WangXian, WWX & LSZ, Post-Canon, senior wei defense squad, a study of the way prejudice and injustice and anger trickle down from generation to generation)

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7. for "in the mood for", fics where wwx goes off to the sect leaders about their treatment of the wen remnants, either pre or post resurrection

Travel Back Down That Road by iSwallowMy_converse (T, 8k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel Fix-It, Somebody Lives/Not everyone dies) time-traveller post-canon wifi goes off at the phoenix mt banquet

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8. hello! do you know any fics where lwj runs away? it can be canon or not, lwj just can't with his family anymore and nopes out of it? normally wwx is the run away in the fics, but ive never saw lwj being the one. OR they can run away together idk. thank you for your attention! <3

With Shortness of Breath by QueenieWithABeenie (T, 72k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Demonic Cultivator LWJ, Hurt/comfort, Hopeful ending, Angst and Feels, Fix-It of Sorts)

the wild hunt series by antebunny (G, 18k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Fix-It of Sorts, Hurt/comfort, Angst) they run away together

💖And They Have Escaped The Weight of Darkness by cosmicmilktea (T, 10k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Amnesia, Memory Loss, Grief/Mourning, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, domestic life, Happy Ending)

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9. Hi! For the next "I'm in the mood for a fic" post... I'm in the mood for fics where WWX is a shapeshifter (any kind!) that take place during the Cloud Recesses study arc! (They can be longer and extend past that point too, as long as shapeshifter wwx at cloud recesses is a thing!)

The Beast of Gusu series by Netrixie (T&M, 212k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Wolf WWX, Slow Burn, Fluff and Angst, Eventual Happy Ending)

flame and rust by cl410 (M, 34k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Happy ending, Dragon WWX, Fluff and Humor, Light angst)

The Tiger has Destroyed his Cage by updatebug (G, 54k, WangXian, Fix-It fic, Hurt/comfort, Tiger WWX, Found family, Angst with a happy ending)

The Light Within the Dark by Dreaming_Days (M, 123k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Shapeshifters AU, Fox WWX, Dragon LWJ, Happy ending)

When fish soar by mondengel (G, 2k, WangXian, Mermaid AU, Mermaid WWX, Dragon LWJ) hope mer shifter wifi with a side of dragonji is ok

Ember clouds by apathyinreverie (T, 9k, WIP, WangXian, Fluff, Fix-It, Dragon WWX, Romance, BAMF WWX) dragonshifter wifi

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10. Hey do you know any good fics where either or both of them are famous?

🧡 Melodies series by sassybluee (T, 241k, wangxian, modern, music industry au, classical musician LWJ, rapper WWX, celebrities, getting together, domestic fluff, body image, depression, hurt/comfort, unspecified eating disorder) I reread the Melodies series on the REG, so good

💖there is a glorious sunrise (dappled with flickers of light) by moonbots (T, 18k, modern, rockstar LWJ, artist WWX, fluff, angst, humor) Also 10, here’s a fic that was written for my edit during the last RBB!

💖Pop and Prejudice by flowerofgusu (E, 25k, wangxian, modern, famous popstar WWX, music critic LWJ, misunderstandings, pining, falling in love, slow burn, fluff & angst, smut, hurt/comfort)

🧡I Don't Want to Debut! by countingcr0ws (G, 56k, WangXian, Modern AU, Reality show, Idols, Actor LWJ, Forced Contestant WWX)

【那夏天的我們】a stroke of fate by puddingcatbeans (G, 59k, WangXian, Modern AU, YouTuber WWX, Musician LWJ, Farmer WWX, Fluff, Slice of Life)

[restoration exercise - no talking] by spookykingdomstarlight (M, 18k, WangXian, Model WWX, ASMR YoutTuber LWJ, Strangers to Lovers, Meet-Cute, Long-Distance Relationship, Identity Porn, Fluff, Light Angst, Loneliness, Yearning)

Confessions of a (Dumbass) Pop Idol by lemonlush with art by Neeska (T, 8k, WangXian, Modern AU, Pop Idol AU, Friends to Lovers, Fluff, Crack, Eventual Romance, Diary/Journal, Mojo's Post)

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11. Hello! Do you have any fic recs for role swap where WWX takes JYL's place when she gets stabbed? Or maybe a full on roll swap where JC or JYL is the YLP/M and WWW dies, maybe he comes back to life?

Shattered Dreams by pupeez4eva (Not Rated, 8k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel, Angst, Fluff, Yunmeng Jiang siblings, Angst with a happy ending)

monsters cannot break her stride by Stratisphyre (G, 3k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, JYL Lives, POV Outsider) not sure if this is precisely what op is looking for, but it’s got a lot of the elements

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12. hey hey! im so sorry if im doing this wrong but for iitm would u mind recommending fics where lxc dies n it shows lwj reacting? preferably somwehere in/after ssc, but reading one after canon—or even before—would be v much welcome! ty for what yall do, hope u have a great day!

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13. A) I'd like some fics that focus on LWJ rebelling against LQR/the Lan clan. He's such a rule-follower, rebelling carries the potential for a ton of drama, both for himself internally and for others who thought they knew him. SHOW ME THE DRAMA. B) related but different: Are there any fics where LWJ _passive-aggressively_ defies his family? Where he doesn't have the nerve (yet) to disobey directly, but makes his displeasure abundantly clear in petty ways? I'd like those fics too. Thank you mods! @invisible-mirror

13B)

it's a long road but we're not alone by Stratisphyre (M, 61k, WangXian, Somebody Lives/Not everyone dies, Getting together, Golden Core Reveal) a fusion of both prompts, hgj is not outright defiant but he’s quietly intractable :)

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14. this is like... a highly specific in the mood for. but i'm hoping for some grandpa!lqr fic recs. i have this image in my head where he looks at wangxian (or lwj's hopeless crush) and realizes 2+2= grandbabies. and i'm just hoping somebody has written it.

The stuffed bunny, the beautiful nephew, and other gifts from Lan Qiren by deliciousblizzardshark (G, 8k, WangXian, LQR & WWX, Modern AU, Single Parent WWX, Good Uncle LQR, Accidental Uncle Acquisition, Found Family, Fluff) (LQR finds out his neighbor WWX is taking care of a child and is immediately like -This boy must marry my nephew - it's great ~ Mod C)

Lan Qiren, Baby Whisperer by Liebing (T, 2k, WangXian, LQR & WWX, Modern AU, Professor LQR, Single parent WWX, Student WWX, College AU, WWX has to bring LSZ to class, LQR can’t say no to a free grandkid, Fluffy, Match making LQR, Lans love a free kid, Happy Ending, Time Jump, Toddler LSZ)

but his smile never dimmed by Stratisphyre (G, 9k, LQR & WWX, Modern with Magic, College Student WWX, Single parent WWX, Professor LQR) CSI: Gusu series by Stratisphyre (esp #2)

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15. Hello! I have two different requests for the next 'I'm in the mood for' you'll have space in, hope this is all right :3? A) Time travel fix it stories, where both WWX and LWJ travel back, and don't try to hide how very much into each other they are - I really want a lot of other people's reactions to Wangxian being shameless! B) The best of dark!LWJ you can think of!

15A)

Til Death Do Us Part by Thyone14 (Not Rated, 55k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship, Soft WangXian, Fluff, Angst with a happy ending)

Sacrifices Made with Blood by NocturnalFriend (M, 80k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Angst, Hurt/comfort, Trauma, Trust issues)

Alternate by Hanashi_o_suru (M, 37k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship, Canon Divergence)

Another chance by lightsfillthesky (G, 41k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship, Hurt/comfort)

the world is but a stage for the two of us by MandMandM (Not Rated, 7k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship, Shameless WangXian)

in case of fire, break glass by Jenrose (T, 65k, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship, Hurt/comfort, Everyone loves/nobody dies)

It is a serious thing just to be alive by Itgoeson (E, 57k, WangXian, Time Travel, Trans WWX, Established Relationship, Angst with a happy ending)

No, Lan Wangji, You Cannot Marry Someone You Just Met! by soulmateenthusiast (T, 40k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship)

The promises we make by LadyKG (T, 2k, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship, Fix-It of Sorts Canon Divergence)

holding up the sky series by LadyKG (Not rated, 13k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel, Fix-It of Sorts) works too

how far beneath the wave by lunarnoncooperation (themoonwouldnotcooperate) (M, 30k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Established Relationship, Old married couple WX, Hurt/comfort)

Wangxian's Time-Travelling Shenanigans Series by pupeez4eva (T&M, 18k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel, Humor, PDA)

Trials of Time by Muggle_Diary (E, 31k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Butterfly effect, Time travel, Fluff, Established Relationship, Not Jiang Family Friendly)

15B)

🧡 Rule Number One: Never get attached. by KizuKatana (E, 130k, WangXian, Modern AU, A/B/O, Criminal underworld AU, Fluff and angst, Crime boss LWJ, Rouge criminal genius WWX, Explicit Sex)

demons run when a good man goes to war by Miranda_Aurelia (T, 20k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Angst, Happy ending, NHS & LWJ Friendship, Not JGY & LXC friendly, Presumed Major character death)

🧡modus operandi by synonemous (E, 21k, WangXian, Modern AU, Serial killer WangXian, Eventual happy ending, WangXian's Canon Kinks, Smut)

🧡in flagrante delicto by synonemous (E, 39k, WangXian, Modern AU, Serial killer WangXian, A/B/O, Mpreg, Smut, Wangxian's Canon Kinks, Modern Yi City arc, Angst with a happy ending)

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