#and Nie Mingjue all reincarnate together into PIDW and are Cang Qiong disciples at the same time as Luo Binghe is AU

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I bet in the 3zun + NHS AU, everyone thinks that Lan Xichen is like a young Yue Qingyuan (except of Shen Jiu, of course)

At least Lan Xichen is "sweet" on a not rude person!

To be more accurate, Lan Xichen is obviously going to appear to be much closer to Nie Huaisang than anyone else in Cang Qiong. He's now in that awkward almost-but-not-really-strangers-but-kinda-are state with Nie Mingjue who died in Lan Xichen's early adult life. Compared to the many many decades he lived after Nie Mingjue's death, Lan Xichen is a very different person.

Nie Huaisang comes off as lazy and unmotivated, but his reputation most certainly does not paint him as someone malicious or evil (like Shen Qingqiu). He's just... pampered and slothful.

If anything rumors might paint Lan Xichen and Meng Yao as having a bad breakup because of how awkward the two are with each other.

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3zun + NHS reincarnated in PIDW au

One day NHS has to go to Qing Jing for something and runs into MY, but it's basically the first time they've seen eachother in person since they got reincarnated. They end up stuck in this horribly awkward polite conversation, which from the outside looks like they're being incredibly terse and icy with eachother.

They're having this intense stare off of "do you remember the whole me killing your brother/you killing my brother and then you killing me/me killing you thing, and most importantly how much are you still mad about it" but from the outside it just looks like two disciples who shouldn't know eachother giving eachother death glares.

SJ is watching this with a single brow arched like, I suppose the disciples are making mortal enemies younger and younger these days

And LBH is like, What do you MEAN my crush RIVAL for shizuns's affection attention already has an archnemesis

To be fair, things are going to be weird AF already because Nie Huaisang is an old laidback man in a young body who likes to make random jokes like "oh I don't think my joints can take that, to be young and carefree again" and "young people these days are in too much of a rush" while Meng Yao died at his prime so he's still ambitious AF, impatient, and anything but laid back...

Add in the fact that Nie Huaisang is used to being respected and obeyed after all his decades of being sect leader vs. Meng Yao who never feels like any of his work results in any true respect...

Things get tense on Meng Yao's side quickly. Nie Huaisang though? He's having fun poking and prodding at this little hissy kitty.

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Nie Huaisang, Lan Xichen, Jin Guangyao, and Nie Mingjue all reincarnate together into PIDW, and become disciples around the same time as Luo Binghe.

The drama of this is of course enhanced by the facts that NMJ & JGY died "early," but NHS & LXC lived to the end of their natural lives as cultivators, and so some of their perspectives and opinions on events have naturally changed with age. (tfw the passage of time renders you unfamiliar to your once-loved ones)

Eventually they talk about their feelings and reconcile and such, and this ends up derailing the plot of PIDW severely as the rest of the PIDW characters confusedly observe quite possibly the weirdest disciples Cang Qiong's ever seen

NMJ on Bai Zhan, with no clue what's going on because he died first and NHS & LXC haven't told him anything

NHS on An Ding, thoroughly enjoying what's pretty much a vacation to him at this point and possibly running an interpeak illicit goods market (definitely not to distract himself from any of the emotions having NMJ & JGY alive and nearby would be causing him, Everything Is Fine) I haven't decided if he'd get involved with the whole og!SQH and MBJ situation tho

LXC on Qiong Ding, because I feel like he'd see himself in Yue Qingyuan and lowkey hate him for it and I think that could be interesting

JGY on Qing Jing, because he's the objectively the funniest/most interesting character to throw into the mess that is SJ and LBH. The way I imagine it, he's doing the most direct derailing of the plot, because he mostly accidentally gets right in the middle of the thing that is going on between those two

I feel like as I wrote this it became more serious than I originally intended so just know that I'm mentally picturing this like a fic that's interspersed with outsider POV of the 4 of them being completely deranged about eachother

(Also I'd feel bad taking away LXC's brother so LWJ and WWX + friends are busy doing hot girl shit being rogue cultivators. I think WWX should be a half demon so he gets to keep the cultivation and steal some of LBH's protagonist energy. If this was a fic then the rest of the Untamed gang would be perfect to use for side characters during off-peak missions)

*grabs popcorn and sits down to hear more*

Nie Huaisang is having too much fun waiting the two idiots called his shizun and shizun's poorly kept secret of a boyfriend go flailing around on these terribly unromantic dates BUT THE TWO WERE TRYING SO HARD that it was cute. He wonders if he should do something to help the poor idiots out... Should he?

Maybe he should...

(Watch Shang Qinghua and Mobei Jun suddenly have a number of sex pollen accidents over the next few months....)

Lan Xichen would be an old man and a good voice of reason for Yue Qingyuan. Although he's head disciple and a very good one at that (if only because his Big Brother instincts can't be held back and he MUST interfere to help prevent history repeating once more), Lan Xichen has made it very clear that he would never accept becoming sect leader.

Also don't forget Liu Mingyan in the background writing about a 4 person sex orgy. At least, that's her personal theory for why there's so much UNRESOLVED TENSION between these four sus male disciples. And also, because it's fun.

It's even funner when you consider that Nie Mingjue is out of the loop of Cang Qiong stuff even on Bai Zhan because he tags along on so many of Liu Qingge's missions that he's probably spending like 8 months of the year outside of the sect.

(Nie Huaisang gets "assigned" to missions that happen to take place near Nie Mingjue's hunts.)

Meng Yao is Meng Yao and he still craves the approval of Male Authority Figures That Could be his dad. Also Meng Yao still likes to climb up the social hierarchy and power. AKA Luo Binghe growing mushrooms in the corner at seeing ANOTHER QING JING disciple THE SAME AGE AS HIM being given SO MUCH ATTENTION AND APPROVAL by shizun.

Luo Binghe develops a complex over Meng Yao of course.

(Shen Jiu approves of Meng Yao because he understands these characters very well and know how to manipulate (cough kill or injury them physically or mentally) them easily. Plus Meng Yao is actually competent.)

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