#Xuanli

[lxh-arts]

冬至~ || Dongzhi~ || Winter Solstice~

Trying to describe it, one cannot,

Deep red like fire in the midst of snow.

Northern Song Dynasty, SU Shi, The Shaobo Fanxing Temple Camellia

[soursoppi]

plucked by the lotus picker

[bishy437]

"Don't talk to me or my child ever again"

[littlesmartart]

Jiang Yanli 🤝 Jin Zixuan raised by angry controlling mother + distant emotionally unavailable father

I think it's incredibly easy to be sympathetic to Yanli and see how the trauma from her disfunctional parents has shaped her personality and created very specific coping mechanisms, but it makes me sad that people very rarely seem to extend that same sympathy to Zixuan - perhaps because we get to see less of his home life, and it's all filtered through the POV of a protagonist who doesn't like him. at any rate, what is shown is that he has a mother who does not hestitate to publically humiliate him and cares far more about her own interests than his happiness and fulfilment, and a father who... well, it's difficult to imagine JGS having much of a real relationship with/influence over a son who feels as strongly about honour and doing the right thing as Zixuan (see: standing up to Wen Chao, his friendship with and defense of Mianmian, leading the Jin forces during the war, confronting Yanli over believing she stole credit from a servant girl, etc.)

I can just really strongly imagine their relationship blossoming quickly on an emotional level because they both really crave that intimacy they lacked in their childhoods (Yanli had her brothers but she was always parentified and put on a pedastal, Zixuan had Mianmian but how close could they really get with a mother like Jin-furen, likely watching them like a hawk to look for Any Funny Business?), and given that it's canon that they stay up late talking and "tell each other everything", they were starting to break the cycle of horrible resentful marriages that traumatise their kids!!! 🥹🥹🥹 truly they were too powerful to be allowed to live

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed + ao3 tags

[menelaus-blue]

hello tumblr god spoke to me in a vision and told me i needed to make this so i did.

[junodoom]

swordtember day 10: ceremony

[artsy-alice]

jin zixuan doesn't throw money at his problems. he throws money at his solutions.

(or, the late valentines 2024 post!)

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[tossawary]

Thinking about an AU where Jiang Yanli's "weak / mediocre cultivation" was caused by a horrific training accident when she was pretty young, in part to explore the tragedy and disability of it all and in part for the humorous "older relative casually drops wild personal lore that changes your entire perception of them" angle.

Like, Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan's firstborn child is a girl, which is not ideal in this deeply sexist world, but the sect motto is "attempt the impossible", right? It's not unheard of for female cultivators to lead sects and Yu Ziyuan wants her daughter to be the first female Jiang sect leader, to show up the cultivation world, and Jiang Fengmian isn't against the idea and wants the best for his daughter (although he probably doesn't want her to be a copy of his wife). So Jiang Yanli starts her cultivation training pretty early. There's a lot of intense pressure, a lot of expectation and projection and some arguments, and it all culminates in this poor child getting badly injured, with permanent damage to both her body and to her cultivation. It's a "no one's fault and everyone's fault" thing.

Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan quietly drop their plans for Yanli to become the sect leader and focus on a very young Jiang Cheng instead, which is easy in part because everyone expects the son to inherit anyway. A young Jiang Yanli is betrothed to the heir of the Jin Sect and this is basically never talked about ever again. General perception is that Jiang Yanli is a mediocre cultivator at best because she was born that way (she's a WOMAN, after all) and/or because her disposition is just too sweet and agreeable, and OF COURSE the son became the heir as soon as the Jiangs had a son. That's just how things work!

So, in an AU where Jiang Yanli (and Jin Zixuan?) lives and teenage Jin Ling is freaking out about some embarrassing and/or dangerous mistake on a night hunt...

Jiang Yanli, patting her son's shoulder: "It's going to be okay. You know, when I was a young child, I permanently injured myself in a training accident and could no longer become the Jiang sect leader, and it felt like the end of the world, letting everyone down, but it all worked out in the end!"

Jin Ling, whose entire 15-year-old worldview just got flipped upside-down: "...Mother?! What?!?!"

[mushroomwriter]

THE UNTAMED | Totally Canon Quotes (x)

[angie-s-g]

💜💚Another Reverse Big Bang Collab!💚💜 I'm excited to reveal that the talented Jaimeblue has written an amazing fic inspired by this art.I hope SangCheng nation enjoys it just as much as I did! this fic has it all! Matchmaker Yanli, clever Huaisang coming up with solutions to the yiling laozu problem and a lovely slow romance simmering for Jiang Cheng and Huaisang.

The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You

💚 Sangcheng 💜canon divergence

"Wedding bells are in the air with the date of her wedding approaching, and Jiang Yanli is helping to make preparations around Lotus Pier for her coming departure. Her primary concern is Jiang Cheng, who works himself to the bone and rarely allows himself a moment to breathe, let alone have a decent meal. She worries for him, about who will get him to eat when she's living in Lanling and who will remind him that there's a life outside of work.

On a whim, she decides to invite Nie Huaisang to visit for the last few weeks before the wedding. Hopefully his presence will help her brother relax, or at the very least, Nie Huaisang can distract Jiang Cheng so that she can get some work done!

But when the young man arrives and her brother actually *smiles*, she thinks she sees something else between them. Could it be that her brother is genuinely attracted to Nie Huaisang, who is so obviously infatuated with him, or is she so in love that she sees romance everywhere? To find out, she'll give them a few little nudges to see what happens."

Read it here and do not forget to leave lovely comments! Jaime has finished the fic and all chapters are up :D

[worse-name]

i guess i never cross posted this??? from twitter in 2021: happy #XuanliWeek2021 day 6! xuanli get married, and then after zixuan transitions they have another wedding! when jin ling is 6 he has a meltdown about how he wasn't at EITHER of his parents weddings and they're like "well, i guess we have to have another one! :')" 😌💕✨

[slimemanagement]

Sangcheng arm-in-arm

Xuanli goofs

Nie bros + Sangcheng: The one about communication and relying on your loved ones where Nie Huaisang makes the shocked tails face twice

[nixster627]

Jiang Cheng: *holding Jin Ling for the first time* He's very big for a premature baby.

Jiang Cheng: *looks at Jin Zixuan suspiciously* Almost as if he were a fully developed baby.

Jin Zixuan: *laughing nervously* How would that be possible? We only got married 6 months ago.

[littlesmartart]

DRAWTOBER #7 - i believe that we can make it (i believe in all of you) by Stratisphyre

“You see the problem?” Jiang Wanyin continued. “Your brother is an idiot. My brother is an idiot. And we think that it’s to the benefit of the world at large for them to get married and subject us all to their joint idiocy?” “Perhaps not,” Lan Xichen said slowly. Jiang Wanyin looked disappointed, apparently hopeful that Lan Xichen would disagree, but the expression eased when he continued, “But it is to the benefit of the two of them.” In which onetwothreefourfive six amateur wedding planners (and Jin Zixuan) have good intentions and try to save the day.

okay so, disclaimer: there is actually a lot more to this fic than what this goofy comic indicates BUT. but. JC vs LXC competitive wedding planning was just SO freaking hilarious to me!!! I couldn't resist!!!! pleeeease read this hilarious fixit fic AU if you need a good laugh

[themaymoth]

she doesn't see red flags she sees an opportunity

If you want to see more of them in the tma au:

Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan

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