#The fight was wwx's idea. Because jc is an enabler (just like jfm and jyl)

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What a plot twist you were. [x]

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Seeing your post about how JYL has a 'ranking system' in her head when it comes to WWX and JC hits so hard, but honestly, the more I read into the Jiang family dynamics, the more I agree. JYL obviously loves WWX, but I don't know if she's capable of putting him above JC. And we see her defending him, and she obviously gives her life for him, but she was also reacting in the moment. Not to speak lightly of her sacrifice of course, but I just feel like there are certain limits to how 1/7

far she's actually willing to go for him. I was initially one of JYL's staunch defenders, and always said that, unlike JC, she didn't have the same amount of political power as him, wasn't in a position to do anything about the Wens, ect. But...I'm starting to question if that's really true. JYL may not have had much direct political power herself, but she was the sister of a sect leader, and even if JC was unwilling to help, JYL had just married into the richest and most powerful sect 2/7

at the time. It was a love marriage, JZX adored her and would've done anything for her if she'd just bothered to ask him for it. Madam Jin also cared for her and respected her, and between her and JZX, had JYL actually bothered to tell them anything, I'm sure they would have been able to sort something out. Or she could have had it as a condition of her marriage - I'm not marrying into the sect that's trying to kill my brother unless you tell your father to stop. Had it been reversed and 3/7

The Lans were calling for JYL and JC’s deaths, no way in hell WWX would’ve just married into the sect, regardless of LWJ’s involvement. Instead she just doesn’t really do anything. We see no proof that she ever tried to see WWX after the wedding dress incident, which — god I instantly saw it as a sweet gesture, but now it just bothers me, because your brother is living in squalor, and you decide to show if the expensive dress that you’ll be 4/7

wearing when marrying into the sect that's trying to kill him, you bring along one bowl of soup for him, and don't even try to explain WHY you're marrying into said sect. Beyond that, we don't see a single moment up until her death where JYL actually seems concerned about WWX, puts in effort to try to see him - she doesn't even ask him how he's doing the one time she does come to see him. When we compare that to how WQ treats WN, yeah, she's outwardly not as loving or sweet, but she 5/7

goes to the ends of the earth for her brother, even going as far as to betray her sect and risk WRH's wrath because he asks her to. And now we come back to that ranking system you mentioned before - yeah, it really does seem like JYL places her blood family first, which definitely hurts, but in comparison, despite only knowing him for a shorter amount of time, WQ truly grows to think of WWX as a second brother. And she treats him as such, at an equal level with WN - after JZX dies 6/7

WQ doesn't attack WWX for what happened. She doesn't try to come up with a way to sacrifice WWX instead and let WN survive in his stead. She and WN, two people who have become WWX's family, both give their lives to protect both him and the rest of their remaining family members. And it's just frustrating to think that the one member of WWX's adopted family who we all thought treated him like an actual brother, might not have really been on his side after all. 7/7

Yes! To start with the wedding dress thing, because it drives me nuts when people treat that like some super sweet act of love: JYL shows up in the Burial Mounds with no money, no sign of having tried to talk the sects around, no news outside of her own, no food beyond a couple bowls of soup (one of which she gives to the guy who can’t eat), and doesn’t so much as ask WWX if he’s okay. She literally came all that way to have a family meal, ask WWX to name the future nephew it’s becoming increasingly clear he’ll never meet, and tell him about her impending marriage into the family that’s currently doing everything in its power to destroy WWX’s life. Like, if you think about it that entire visit is such a slap in the face; “Here’s a bowl of soup while the people under your protection are starving, oh by the way I’m going to marry the son of the guy actively trying to get you killed, okay bye”. All you can say in regards to her helping WWX is that she does potentially manage to persuade JZX to invite him to JL’s one month celebration, but if memory serves the novel never actually specifies whose idea that was and it was JZX who decided to go get WWX after JGY told him about seeing JZXun heading in the direction of the Burial Mounds. And even then JZX does the same thing JYL does; sees WWX outnumbered and surrounded and tells him to stand down. At least in JZX’s case you could argue that the actual fighting hadn’t broken out and JZX probably trusted in his authority to be able to sort the situation out so long as WWX wasn’t actually acting aggressive (or defensive, rather), and he’s also physically strong enough that he may well have been able to intervene if the cultivators had attacked. JYL, when she does the same thing, has no authority and no physical power to defend WWX with. And yeah, both JZX and Madam Jin adore JYL, and neither of them seem super fond of JGS (JZX respects his father, but I don’t get the sense he loves him); if JYL had asked them for help it’s entirely possible they would’ve started at least circulating her version of events and demanding a proper investigation into what happened. But there’s no mention of her so much as trying, and she doesn’t offer to ask them when she visits WWX.

And yeah, compare WQ to JYL and it’s... well. WQ is so quick to offer WWX her love and care? She’s harsh, but she loves him and views him and WN on such equal footing that she and WN willingly hand themselves over to the Jins for WWX’s sake without her so much as bringing up the possibility of saving WN instead. There’s no ranking for WQ; WWX and WN are her brothers, and she loves them, and she’d do anything to protect them. When it becomes clear she can’t save WN (like hell the sects would let him live, and by this point it’s pretty clear that WWX won’t be able to protect them forever) she throws her whole weight behind defending the brother she thinks she might still be able to save, even if it means bringing WN with her to die. WQ knows WWX for... a year or two? Maybe? The timeline is a little hazy. Not long compared to JYL, anyway. And yet she’s willing to walk all the way to Lanling to die in the hope of saving him. It’s for her whole family, yes, but she makes a point of including him. Basically, I think this fandom needs more stuff wherein the Jiangs and Wens survive and the Wens are fully like “Our brother now, you don’t deserve him”.

The thing with JYL is... she loves WWX, she genuinely does, but he is never going to be first for her. To the point where she outright enables JC’s abuse, in places; she always expects WWX to be the one to grin and bear it. Hell, one of their first conversations involves JYL cheerily allowing WWX to cover up JC locking him out of his bedroom and scaring him out into the woods by threatening to set dogs on him! Let me rephrase that: she allows a traumatized nine-year-old to hide the fact that the kid her dad expects him to share a room with locked him out of said room on his FIRST NIGHT and threatened him with his LITERALLY WORST FEAR, and as far as we know makes no attempt to tell JFM herself. To keep JC out of trouble. That is such a thing! WWX was scared to the point of running away and JFM expects him to share a room with the person responsible for that and JYL goes along with him promising not to tell JFM so that JC won’t get in trouble! And from that day forwards everything is just “Boys will be boys” to her. Like, let me put it this way. Before LWJ (and arguably the Wens before that, although WWX saw himself more as protector than protected there) JYL was the person WWX trusted to protect and care for and comfort him above all others, yeah? She’s the one he thinks of as having his back? He doesn’t tell her about JC trying to kill him. JC tries to kill WWX three times before JYL’s death, and WWX doesn’t say a word to her about any of them. You could argue that he doesn’t want to involve her, but... JYL pretty clearly takes JC’s side every time JC starts having a go at WWX. When he chases him out of their room, when he starts snapping about how annoying WWX is, when he stabs WWX... She never outright says it, but there really does come a point where by staying neutral you’re siding with the aggressor, and she reaches that point a lot. Hell, the stabbing is one of those aforementioned near-murders! JC stabbed him! According to WWX (who downplays serious injuries, he never exaggerates them) he had to hold his guts in! WWX is talking about a pretty fucking serious injury (and JYL grew up in a cultivation sect, I don’t believe for a second she doesn’t at least know what constitutes a serious injury) while JC whines about a broken arm like it’s worse than having to physically hold your guts in until you can reach a doctor and JYL acts like those are equal! JC could easily have killed WWX and has enough training with the sword to know better than to go for a blow like that in a staged fight and JYL doesn’t even suggest he should apologise.

Honestly? The more I think about JYL the more it pisses me off that she’s treated like WWX’s best sister more than WQ is. Imagine WQ seeing one brother stab the other in the gut and take the former’s side because the latter broke the former’s arm. Imagine WQ so much as considering allowing a child to cover up the kid he’s supposed to share a room with locking him out and scaring him into running away. She wouldn’t! Because WQ sees her brothers as equals. She won’t pick WN over WWX just because they’re blood siblings; she loves them both, and will choose based on who she thinks is in the right. And she wouldn’t just stay neutral to avoid rocking the boat, oh no. If WQ heard WWX say that WN stabbed him and did enough damage that he had to hold his guts in... oh boy would WN have a bad day. The thing with JYL is that she seems like a good sister in comparison to the rest of the Jiangs; stick canon JYL into a family that genuinely loves WWX and sees him as equal to their other children, and she would not look anywhere near as good.

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Ooooooh lemme try!

Okay, I don't really know how many people love this character, but I know that while watching CQL, I was taken in by Jiang Fengmian. Probably because he is introduced as a kind, genial Sect Leader. And because his wife is introduced as a vitriolic shrew. So a lot of the blame for the Jiang Family dysfunction is laid at her feet. But for all that her actions have caused so many problems, Jiang Fengmian's inaction has enabled her actions and caused problems not their own. (I had a whole essay typed up, but Tumblr ate it so 🤷‍♀️). Basically, I'll never forgive him for his part in their proxy war with their sons and also his utter failure to teach JC how to be a sect leader, specifically the politicking portion. As shown in ep 12, where YZY and WLJ are fighting with words, Jiang Cheng has no understanding and no skill in following the balance of power in a conversation or turning it to his wishes. His version of negotiation is yelling and threatening to "break your legs!" and as father and Sect Leader, JFM really should have caught that and worked on that by that point.

I don't really ship NingXian. It could be because Wen Ning struck me as Ace, so I didn't code his behavior towards WWX as a crush. Even looking at it as a crush, I just don't really feel comfortable with the dynamic, because of how much Wen Ning looks up to WWX (and how WWX low-key treated him like a servant at Burial Mounds). Sorry, just not my cup of tea.

I'm in love with the marketplaces they go to. Just happy and bustling and colorful and I just really wanna be there talking to the ppl, ya know?

Ugh, so many. I feel like a new idea sprouts everyday. I'm actually really proud of myself because I posted FOUR fics for LWJ bday week and one for JZX bday, but everything since then has just .... festered inside my brain.

My favorites to daydream about writing one day are Lotus Pizza: Order the Impossible Delivery Boy!WWX who has gotten a staggering amount of orders from one LWJ in the past week

Time Travel Fix it featuring WWX, LWJ, JC, MianMian (and maybe others) except it goes wrong and they end up in the wrong bodies (specifically WWX → Mianmian so he and JZX can get along and LWJ → JC so we can see his reaction to their home life). And also MianMian being a queen as she ought to be. Very important.

Post-canon or modern AU (can't decide) where WangXian just like ... really softly touch each other a lot and have lots of Feelings™ but WWX thinks they're just not moving very fast (for reasons which may or may not involve a specific deadline after which they can announce their relationship publicly - not that it's not already obvious) and LWJ is convinced that WWX is just going along with this until *deadline* after which he will leave but LWJ can't bring himself to care because a little WWX is better than nothing.

AU which takes place in mdzs setting where JFM dies and YZY becomes the regent sect leader person and like ... Actually makes the effort to prepare Jiang Cheng to be sect leader. Of course, JYL just learn everything as well because it will be useful to her as the future Jin furen. Unfortunately, YZY uses her position to foist WWX off onto the most dangerous and furthest away nighthunts (where he coincidentally meets and falls in love with LWJ, but that's background), but that means he's also moving about relatively free in the world and building relationships that will be important to Yunmeng. Jiang Cheng figures out that he actually doesn't want to be Sect Leader, he's not suited for the politics of it, and he discovers that he really loves teaching his juniors instead (because he just wants to important to people) and JYL figures out that she DOES and she would rock being sect leader. So at JC's crowning ceremony or whatever analog that would be, he defers the position to his elder sister and finds freedom from his parents expectations and his own worries about not being good enough.

5. Um, definitely JGY antagonist speech at the end of the show. I dunno, the whole time he's going on and on about his nefarious plan, I just wanted to yeet LXC out of there as fast as I could. Also, the specific action of LSZ hugging WWX leg. I get it was a callback to his habit as a child, but it was awkward to watch him do it as a man.

Sorry it got so long, but that was really fun! Thanks for sharing!

my MDZS/CQL crowd

I saw someone else make one of these and it’s such a great idea because I wanna know everyone’s opinion on like everything (Idk if you noticed but i love meta so much)

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Character everyone loves and you can’t stand? Why?

Pairing everyone loves and you can’t stand? Why?

Favorite location from either cql or mdzs (novel or donghua) (talk to me about pretty places omg)

Be honest, how many WIPs have you started/finished since getting hooked on The Untamed? what are they about??

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