#been thinking about how he found out about the golden core transfer

[veiledvellichor]

baoshan sanren: a symbol of sacrifice and non-conformity

warning: mdzs spoilers ahead

in canon, baoshan sanren really isn’t mentioned all that much. off the top of my head, the only times i recall her name being mentioned is when xiao xingchen is brought up in relation to wei wuxian’s mother and yanling daoren, and when wei wuxian has to trick jiang cheng and pretends that he remembers the location of her mountain.

then why does she even exist? sure, it provides a convenient background for why jiang cheng believed wei wuxian about the core transfer, and how wei wuxian has a connection to xiao xingchen, but it really doesn’t serve that much use plot-wise. we never see her, she never helps out any of the characters, and the fact that she has her own mountain isn’t actually explored on.

so my opinion on why mxtx decided to make her a character is that she’s important symbolically, if not narratively.

wei wuxian, in his upbringing, repeatedly has the fact that the jiangs took him in out of kindness beaten into him. he even mentions multiple times that he owns them a debt because of it, since he would have otherwise died. when he gives jiang cheng his core, he uses his own “connection” to baoshan sanren to justify how jiang cheng received a new core. when wei wuxian lies to jiang cheng, he takes this symbol and uses it to defend his own actions. he says that since jiang cheng is needed for the rebuilding of the yunmeng jiang, his core is needed more than his own. he then gives him his core in an act of selfish self-sacrifice, where he gives him his heart in return for taking back his debt. between brothers, there’s not meant to be a debt, yet wei wuxian leverages a “debt” that was never there to justify why he can rip his golden core out of his body and give it to his brother.

wei wuxian didn’t have to use baoshan sanren as a justification—it was definitely convenient, but he could have just as easily said wen qing found another way or that he found a rare scroll. in jiang cheng’s state then, he would have honestly believed anything as long as it gave him hope. hence why i think the use of baoshan sanren in this instance is meant to emphasise to the readers how baoshan sanren is a symbol of hope to jiang cheng, but in reality the mention of her is only a facade used to hide the incredible self-sacrifice that wei wuxian had in him.

in regards to cangse sanren, she manages to befriend many cultivators, to the point where a lot of them were willing to marry her. but instead, she takes the head disciple of a sect for a husband and becomes a rogue cultivator. she even shaves off lan qiren’s husband for endangering others in a night hunt with his too-strict rules. from the beginning, she’s seen as this saint who disregards societal rules and lives for justice and her own interests. and yet, after her death, her son is left to languish in a village for years, homeless and fighting for his life.

the cost of her choosing a husband that had little political backing other than the jiangs was such—if she had chosen a sect heir as her husband, her son would have been found within weeks. if she had chosen to stay within a sect as a cultivator, her sect would have had a duty to find her body and avenge her. her choices defined who she was as a person—kind and proud, but they also caused her downfall. the imagery of her on a donkey while her husband led them over to a night hunt shows a glimpse of the happiness she had. it’s repeated in wei ying, showing how he managed to break the cycle. still, her fate of dying so young is an extremely tragic one, and one that shows how those who chose to be kind and not falter in the face of the jianghu’s demands weren’t met with kindness in return. in the end, in return for living a life that helped strangers and didn't conform to the traditional route of sect cultivation, she sacrificed the ability to have her son found earlier, safe and sound.

as for xiao xingchen, his work as a rogue cultivator was the subject of much praise. he even earned a nickname with song lan (the bright moon and the gentle breeze), showing at first, he was held in high esteem. but when they brought xue yang in, it went against their interests. suddenly, the jin felt that these people that they had previously praised were a threat. when they let xue yang go free, they knew exactly who he would go after. and yet, even though all xiao xingchen and song lan had did was just by the jianghu’s standards, the jin held enough sway that after quieting nie mingjue, no one dared speak against them.

suddenly, when song lan was blinded and his sect massacred, all of their kindness was met with blank stares and empty hands. xiao xingchen had to beg his master to give his eyes to song lan, sacrificing his own sight for his friend. this act, parallel to wei wuxian’s core transfer, does actually have baoshan sanren in the equation. an immortal should have the sense to deny her disciple, or at least tell him to only give one eye. instead, she fully enables the sacrifice, helping him move his eyes to his friend's empty sockets. her role in this equation is as a enabler, a safe place where xiao xingchen can ask for help and not be denied, showing how in this, mxtx might want us to further draw a connection between baoshan sanren and sacrifice.

lastly, for yanling daoren, his story isn't really given in detail, but what we can glean from the story is that he was kind and virtuous at first but ended up hated by the jianghu. this is awfully similar to wei wuxian's own story, and honestly it only serves to show how history will repeat its mistakes. while we don't know if he was innocent or if he deserved the hatred, we do know that he died under thousands of swords after a drastic personality change. this implies that at the start, he likely helped many of those people holding the swords, yet after a "sudden change" he was resented and killed.

again, any theories is just speculation since we don't have many details, but i think it's entirely possible that he likely angered someone and was framed, hence the drastic change mentioned in canon. this works off the premise that everyone who’s related to baoshan sanren is a parallel to wei wuxian’s journey—he gets cangse sanren’s happy ending; his death is the same as yanling daoren’s; xiao xingchen’s sacrifice is so so so similar to his core transfer.

so what does this all mean? in my personal opinion, i think baoshan sanren is meant to be removed from society, a symbol of what humanity can achieve away from the gossip and strict societal structures that we have come up with. all of these people who came from baoshan sanren faced the world with such kindness and were met with such cruel fates in return.

tl;dr: i think the fact that baoshan sanren is a deux ex machina but never expanded on is a purposeful choice as she serves a greater symbolic purpose this way :)

(if u want more bssr content u can check my fic out: wild winds by @veiledvellichor on ao3)

[sandu-zidian]

An Uncontainable Sacrifice

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

Jan 10th

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1. Hi! Happy New Year! I hope 2025 is a blessed year for you all!

For FF: I read a LJY/LSZ fic a couple years back and I thought i bookmarked it but can’t find it now. It’s where LJY developed a voice cultivation(?). He was not vibing with any instruments so he used his voice. He also almost die saving LSZ on a night hunt. Both became quite a legend themselves among the juniors and guest disciples.

Thank you for all your hard work! @bitemepotter

FOUND! anyway, here’s wuji by kakikaeru (T, 18k, ZhuiYi, WangXian, Post-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence)

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2. Heya, looking for a fic but only remember one little thing about it. It had a scene where Jiang Yanli and Jin Guangyao had tea and JYL ended up poisoning JGY. I think she might have been testing him but he failed it but I'm not sure if it was this one or some other fic :')

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3. Happy new year! Thank you for all your help. I have a fic finder request, please! The story was a long canon au with red-string-of-fate soulmate mechanics. Lan Zhan and Wei Ying followed their string to meet during the Cloud Recesses lectures, but Wei Ying cut it during the golden core transfer (or maybe the transfer... withered it? blackened it? I can’t remember). The fic then picks up when Wei Ying is brought back to life and the red thread forms between them again, allowing Lan Zhan to find Wei Ying again. I would love to read this story again! If anyone has any clues, please share. Thank you!

FOUND? the heartlines on our hands by occultings (microcomets) (E, 47k, wangxian, Soulmates AU, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mutual Pining, First Time, Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death)

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4. HI! For the FF: I saved a great line from a fic but *didn't* save the title, so now that I want to re-read the fic, I'm stumped. Thank you and the Hive Mind for any help. The line is: A-Ran had flung himself at A-Yuan like he was a landslide and A-Yuan was a badly built village. @songscloset

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5. Hey yall! I hate to add to your load, especially when I know it’s a fic you’ve found before, but scrolling through I can’t seem to find that silly fic where lxc was in denial about wangxian’s marriage and kept giving lwj marriage offerings. Hopefully it’ll be easy for you to find since I know I saw it on this blog

FOUND? happy not knowing by plonk (Not Rated, 16k, WangXian, Canon Era, Canon Divergence, Established Relationship)

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6. Hello lovely mods, I think I'm losing my mind. I saw two wangxian fics on ao3 recently that I planned to come back to but then couldn't find again with (various permutations of) the same tags. Did I dream them? Halp!

A) First fic: it was a modern au, something about fashionista LWJ, and WWX in a dress or feminized in some way. I think it was a PWP where it starts with them going out to dinner but may be mistaken on that point.

B) Second fic: time travel fix it but it's jin guangyao traveling back. There's something about how he'll do anything to make lan xichen smile, and that's how wwx becomes his problem. In the notes it mentions how jin guangyao remains as morally grey as ever, or something like that.

Do these stories exist outside of my head??!

TIA ❤️ @themoonmothwrites

6A)

FOUND? Cute Femboy Gets ~*HUGE SURPRISE!!!*~ by ScarlettStorm (E, 32k, WangXian, Modern AU, onlyfans au, Porn, sex worker wwx, Adhd wwx, autistic lz, Fashionista lz, Nonbinary NHS, genderfluid WWX, Feminization, (absolutely not forced and in fact very desired feminization), Date Night, Fluff and Smut, Established Relationship, Gender Exploration)

6B)

FOUND? Shards of Hope by Dreaming_Days (T, 89k, XiYao, WangXian, Time Travel Fix-It, Redemption, Character Study)

FOUND? I Have Been Selfish, Too by osiesaur (M, 176k, 3zun, background wangxian, Canon Divergence, Time Travel Fix-It, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, POV Outsider, Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst, JGY's Customer Service Smile, JGY Scheming is Used for Good, Scheming NHS, Protective NHS, 3zun | Venerated Triad Dynamics, Anxiety, PTSD, Mental Health Issues, Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, canon typical abuse and bigotry, rated M for violence, The Kissing is Rated T) If the one alreasy recced for 6b isn't it and the person is going based just on a recall of summary+tags rather than having read the fic, 6b sounds like it could also be I have been selfish too. It's jgy pov + time travel + save wwx to make lxc happy. jgy just isn't the one time traveling.

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7. Hello. I search a fic but i just remember a moment of the fic + some infos: Wei Wuxian is taken in by the clan Lan after have been too much punished by Madam Yu. He's betrothed to Lan Zhan, adopted by the Lan Clan and at a point adopt baby Yuan. The scene that i remember is when Madam Yu visits Guzu and sees Wei Wuxian (with A-Yuan in his arms) and she uses Zadian at him. Huaisang, who was there, protect Wei Wuxian and is hurt by the whip. After that, both Madam Ju and Jiang Cheng have problem with both the clans Nie and the Lan. Thank you for you help.

FOUND? Consequences by Remma3760 (Not Rated, 58k, WangXian, XiSu, XuanLi, Canonical Child Abuse, Abusive YZY, Good Uncle LQR, WWX is a Lan, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Bad Parents JFM and YZY)

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8. Hi, I'm looking for a fic where gusu lan elders mind control WWX or smth into following all the rules when LWJ wasn't around.

I think it was a rec on wangxianficrecs but I can't find it anymore. It had an excerpt like, Sizhui was leading LWJ into the Jingshi and WWX was sitting at the table with perfect posture and stuff. Sizhui said smth like, " He's not hurt but acting weird." @shylurker111

FOUND! Perfect to Me by theearlymorningmist (T, 12k, WangXian, Protective LWJ, Good Uncle LQR, Yunmeng Siblings Feels, JC & WWX Reconciliation, Gusu Lan Elders Bashing, Curses, WWX is Loved, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Good Nephew JL, Protective JL)

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9. Hi so I'm trying to find a podfic that I have no idea what the name is and I really want to listen to it so here's what I remember lwj's big brother was awake and doing some stuff in the kitchen or whatever and wondering why his little brother is not awake yet so he goes to his baby brother's room trying not to feel guilty about it because he knows that his brother wakes up at the same time as him 5:00 a.m. you know at the jazz and so when he opens his door he sees his brother and wwx in this bed curled up together I was like very confused until later where they explained that wwx got kicked out by madam yu for something or another and that I don't remember and so wwx stays with them until they go to college it's a modern au @constancebloodstone

FOUND? Found Family by fyredancer (T, 10k, WangXian, Modern AU, Fluff, Getting Together, POV Outsider, Dysfunctional Family, Coming Out, Bad Parenting, Protective Older Brothers, Protective Siblings, [Podfic of] Found Family by Fyredancer by AuntieIroh)

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10. Hi! I want to find ff which is about wwx being traumatized because of zidian and he is also scared of storms/lighting (?). there was some kind of scene after he punched peacock in face that madam yu was about to punish him however lan wangji protected him. thanks a lot!

FOUND! Thunderstorm in the Library Pavilion by ZamaShines (M, 22k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Hurt/Comfort, Bad Parent YZY, Abusive YZY, Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Whipping, Astraphobia, phobia - thunder, Thunderstorms, Panic Attacks, WWX Has Self-Esteem Issues, WWX Needs a Hug, and gets the hug, Good Sibling JC, Good Uncle LQR, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fix-It of Sorts)

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11. Hello! For Fic Finder please: I am looking for a fic (possibly two) where Wei Wuxian played GusuLan music during the Phoenix Mountain hunt, which other disciples recognized and they all clamored "why do you know Gusu folk music?" I think I might be confusing two fics though, and if either or both could be found that would be great! In my first thought WWX used Lan musical cultivation songs to help on the hunt (maybe to calm down crazed disciples?) and the Lan disciples got angry that an outsider knew Lan sect secret music. The other thought is that it was when WWX was blindfolded and resting in the tree he played Lan folk music, and I think a commotion was caused by disciples thinking he was trying to seduce Jiang Yanli but Madame Jin defends him saying she recognized the songs and that they were harmless. I can't remember if these two scenes came from the same fic or from two separate fics. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you! @gloriousclotpole

FOUND? Until The End by abCEE (M, 365k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, war changes people, no pinning, LWJ learns how to speak, WWX is not oblivious, Established Relationship, wangxian are married and have a son, Mpreg, Good Uncle LQR, a little grey LWJ, a bit of JC bashing from LWJ, BAMF JYL, 16 years of yearning, Canon-Typical Violence, LSZ is LWJ & WWX's Child, WWX Has a New Golden Core, Canonical Character Death - WWX, Canon Rewrite, Happy Ending, Fix-It of Sorts) WWX is playing Yunmeng folk songs, not Gusu ones, but the latter do come up in discussion after he finishes playing; the scene is about two thirds into the first chapter

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12. it's a fic where WWx, JC, and JFM are on a night hunt and everything goes wrong, JFM dies and JC's golden core is destroyed, YYZ has WQ do a golden core transfer, and after WQ takes WWX back with her against YYZ will. Meanwhile WN steals WWX body camera which recorded the whole process

FOUND? 🧡🔒 Truth Will Out (when caught on video) - End_OTW_Racism! by KizuKatana (E, 178k, WangXian, WN & WWX & WQ, graphic depictions of violence, modern cultivation, canon divergence, YZY abuses WWX, caught on camera, partial core removal, WWX kicked out of Jiang sect, livestreamer WWX, meet ugly, dual cultivation, smut, no war)

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13. For ff please! I am looking for a canon-divergent au where Wei Wuxian was some kind of creature shapeshifter, and his animal instincts gave him pack instincts which in turn caused him to fuss over and mother many of his same-age companions (like Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli, Nie Huaisang, Wen Ning, I think Jin Zixuan and a few others). I feel like this kept cropping up at the Gusu Lectures because the other sects didn’t know Wei Wuxian was a shapeshifter so everyone thought he was just a mother hen-type friend. At some point he whipped out some territorial/protective mothering and protected the students against … someone? Maybe on a night hunt? I can’t remember. Any thoughts? Thank you!

FOUND? 🔒 flame and rust by Reverie (cl410) (M, 34k, WangXian, Dragon WWX, The BSSR lineage are dragons, Canon Divergence, Happy Ending, BAMF WWX, Child Abuse, via Madam Yu, Fluff and Humor, Protective Siblings, Time Skips, Supportive LQR, Angst, Golden Core Reveal, Good Uncle LQR)

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14. I am looking for a fic where Wei Wuxian hid in Lotus Pier after the Sunshot Campaign. With Jiang Cheng's help he disguised himself as a frail woman and the cover story was that "she" was a Jiang cousin or something, come to take refuge. I think Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng even pretended to get engaged to further the disguise. Everything was revealed comedically at a Jin conference where *shock and awe* Wei Wuxian couldn't help himself from flirting with Lan Wangji. Would love to read this again!

FOUND? By Any Other Name by ShanaStoryteller (Not Rated, 31k, Wangxian, Canon Divergence, Crossdressing, Misunderstandings, Identity Porn, Identity reveal) this one is similar, except it's not after the Sunshot Campaign, it's when WWX wakes up in MXYs body, except MXY did the ritual a bit too early and as a result, WWXs soul isn't properly seated in the body so he's frail / though wwx & jc are assumed to be engaged, rather than pretending to be

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15. Hello, I am looking for a fic where LZ and WY first meet at some kind of music summer camp as teenagers. LZ quickly decides that they are dating, while WY is under the impression that they’re a camp-only couple. Every year, LZ also has a detailed schedule of things to do together since they can’t see each other for long. They eventually clear up their relationship status misunderstanding and go to college together. Thanks!

FOUND! I think 15 is Chapter 3 in this threadfic/chat fic collection by x_los

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16. Okay, I've been looking for this fic for the last few days, but I really need some help. So WangXian are arranged married, I'm very sertain it's canon divergent and the war doesn't/hasn't happened yet. WWX tries very much to become a productive member of the Lan clan, but his efforts are unappreciated, and the only thing he's allowed to help with is some basic talisman that any junior can do. He can't leave because he doesn't want to shame the Jiangs and also doesn't have any money because Madame Yu negotiated his marriage contract to put him at a disadvantage. LWJ doesn't yet know how to defend WWX and doesn't go against his family, but he eventually realizes that he hasn't been a good husband and cries about it to LXC because he doesn't know what to do. In the end, WWX secretly tries to destroy Lan Yi's Yin metal and wad willing to sacrifice himself because it's the only thing he believes he is useful for, LWJ stops him and it ends about there.

FOUND? Concord by Deastar (T, 41k, WangXian, Arranged Marriage, Gūsū Lán Sect Rules, Depression, Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending)

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17. Hiyaaaa I am back with another request hehe. It's where Wei Ying thinks that Lan Zhan is dead and then he dreams about Lan Zhan a lot during the 16 years of his punishment (because he turns himself in to the sects). But then he was invited to the Nie sect by Nie Huaisang and he actually meets Lan Zhan who is alive and he still thinks that he is dreaming and breaks down in front of Lan Zhan, Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue and Lan Zhan looks at his brother with betrayed eyes because Lan Xichen hid the fact that Lan Zhan is alive from Wei Ying deliberately. Thanks!!!! @yilinglaobunny

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18. Not sure if it was on AO3 or here on tumblr (although I have a feeling that the latter is more likely), but I'd love to re-read this fic where WWX (I think in MXY's body) staged Qin Su's death and got her safely out of KT and into CR. He then of course got blamed for murder before things were revealed. Thank you! 🖤🐇 @linderel

Yes, I think that's it! I may have been partially mixing up two fics in my mind but this is the predominant one. Even got lucky and hit the correct chapter on the first try, heh.

FOUND! 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) I think that's one of the later plot points in Love Song in Reverse, by timetoboldlygo.

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19. Fic Finder request please!

WWX dies via being thrown into a pit with some awful entity and comes back all wrong. I only remember this scene where he threw up Wen Chao’s sword or skull in the middle of a meeting? Idk which one and LWJ is just being super horny for him even though it’s clear that something is very wrong with WWX. I tried searching tags and I can’t find this. Plz help!! 😭😭😭

FOUND! You are what you eat by deliciousblizzardshark (E, 17k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Eldritch WWX, Horny LWJ, Body Horror, Possession, of a sort, Cannibalism, kind of, Mild Gore, Teeth, Fluff and Humor, Smut, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Monster sex, Switching, Light BDSM, Rimming, Self-Lubrication, Seriousness treated Crackily, Implied/Referenced Torture, Dead WWX, 🔒[Podfic] You are what you eat by irrationalpie) One of the best 3H - horny, humor, horror - in Fandom, a yummy 🤣treat😍

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20.I’m looking for a wangxian fic where they are both ballet dancers and they are doing Matthew bourne’s all-male version of swan lake, and lwj and wwx dance it while having a debate about whether or not it is a gay romance. Thank you!

FOUND? space, skin, muscle, bone by tombenough_and_continent (T, 23k, WangXian, Modern AU, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Non-Linear Narrative, Dance, Background SongXiao, background NieLan, a surprising amount of texting, gratuitous use of ballet terminology)

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[lgbtlunaverse]

A slightly unhinged case for jin guangyao knowing about the core transfer while WWX was still alive

Ok. SO. In chapter 101, during guangyin temple, Jin Guangyao clearly knows about the golden core transfer. He uses it to bring Jiang Cheng off-kilter and stab him and simultaneously reveals to wwx that jc himself now knows about the golden core transfer.

I've always wondered exactly when he figured it out. The most obvious explanation is that he pieced it together after hearing about Jiang Cheng asking everyone to unsheathe suibian (also? jgy? how the fuck do you know that? You were already going to/at Guanyin temple at this point! Did you just have people listen in on rumours from Yunmeng and report back to you for that?? Did you tell your spy network where you were going? My whole kingdom for a retelling of this arc from the pov of these random jin disciples seeing their sect leader start spiralling. He's diggin up random tombs? Fleeing the country? And threatening the heir's life?? What was random Jin cultivator #6 thinking of this before Nie Mingjue turned him into minced meat?)

BUT.

The first time I read that line I was like "oh so he's known for a WHILE." I mean, the line "I've always found it peculiar [that wwx never took his sword anywhere]" does indicate he's been thinking about this for a while, but it doesn't have to mean he knew back then. So I absolutely can't say with certainty that my instinct was right. But I DO have some decent canon backing for how he might have potentially figured things out as early as before Wei Wuxian's death. Specifically, after the discussion scene that takens place when wei wuxian does his thing with the wens and dissapears.

Cause, see, Wen Chao would definitely have bragged about Wen Zhuliu crushing Jiang Cheng's core to his father. He killed the current sect leader, and then permanently disabled the only heir. He did it! the Jiang are gone! I bet he was very loud about it until, a few weeks later, Jiang Cheng suddenly strolls up to the battlefield, with Zidian on his finger, cultivation very much intact, looking for Wei Wuxian.

That must've been fucking baffling if you were Wen Chao and/or Wen Zhuliu and/or any other cultivator who was there and definitely saw Jiang Cheng's core get crushed. They must have assumed something went wrong, or he faked having his core destroyed, but we've never heard of something like that happening before, and they tortured him for hours! It wasn't a quick batle where Wen Zhuliu must have missed in haste, he would've noticed!

Now, by the time Meng yao arrives, wen zhuliu and wen chao are both long dead, but that kind of thing would at least still be a source of gossip among the other Wen. The only time the core melting hand ever failed!

It might be something that, say... a very careful spy with a perfect memory looking for information... might pick up on in his stay with the Wen, no?

So, Meng Yao has heard the rumour that sect leader Jiang got his core crushed but somehow managed to... still have a core.

Independantly of his, Wei Wuxian is being really weird and refusing to carry his sword. His primary concern there is wwx stirring shit up, he has no reason to believe these things are connected yet.

But then Wei Wuxian runs off with a bunch of Wen, and before he is cut off, Jiang Cheng tells everyone that after the siege on lotus pier, he and wei wuxian were helped by Wen Qing and Wen Ning! Jiang Cheng doesn't get to say how, which is good for jgy in this moment because he's trying to steer the conversation as such that no one gets mad at the Jin sect for all the war crimes, but even if his goal is for everyone else to forget Jiang Cheng said that, he'd remember it.

So... after the moment where jiang cheng, according to rumours that were contained to the wen, lost his core, he was helped by wen ning and wen qing, who is a really good doctor. And, in canon, had written theoretical proposals on core transfers before, just never experimented on them. Were these available for others among the Wen to read? Did jgy read them? We have no way of knowing. But if he did, he remembers them. Either way, he knows her reputation.

And Wei Wuxian disappeared right round that same moment, only to resurface with his demonic cultivation, at which point he never touched his sword again. Not even in the middle of a dangerous war. Not even when he was public enemy number one and it would do wonders for his reputation if he was seen cultivating the traditional path. When doing so would have made not just him but the 50 people he was shielding safer! if Jin guangyao was somehow in his position, he'd immediately do everything he could to counteract the narrative of beign a dangerous madman who'd left the straight path. Wei Wuxian has been in absolutely desperate situations and still refuses to pick up his sword...

The saying doesn't exist yet, but i'm sure someone like jgy, more competent than everyone around him, is intimately familair with at least the sentiment of "never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence" He is helping spread the narrative of Wei Wuxian as a violent madman, sure, but does he believe it? If it makes no sense for wei wuxian, no longer a privileged young master but an outcast, to not pick up his sword again out of arrogancy, the most reliable explanation is that he... can't.

So Jiang Cheng, who got his core melted, got help from Wen Qing, an incredible doctor, after which he coud cultivate just fine but Wei Wuxian, no matter how desperate, never used traditional cultivation ever again...

Hm. interesting!

It's likely no one else in the jianghu outside of the wen even knew Jiang Cheng lost his core to begin with. And Jin Guangyao was never given wwx's excuse of Baoshan Sanren owing him a favor like Jiang Cheng was. He has all the puzzle pieces in front of him and... if anyone as gonna put them together, it'd be him.

And that's my unhinged case for why I believe Jin Guangyao knew Wei Wuxian didn't have a golden core anymore years before anyone else did. He just never told anyone, because why would he?

I think this adds a whole other level to his speech to Jiang Cheng about how everything could've worked out if he'd just trusted Wei Wuxian more and stood by his side. He saw it all play out in real time knowing there was more going on beneath the surface!

Now the really interesting question becomes: When did he figure out Jiang Cheng himself wasn't in on it? Did he piece it together immediately from remembering seeing jiang cheng berate wwx for not carrying a sword, a thing he should've known he couldn't do? Or was it not until later, maybe the fake yunmeng bros fallout, or the REAL fallout when Jiang Yanli died? Or was it still the news of Jiang Cheng going around and asking everyone to unsheathe subian that made him realize that oh my god this stupid bitch had no idea the whole time.

[wangxianficrecs]

💙 Away from Trouble by Ilona22

💙 Away from Trouble

by Ilona22

M, 15k, Wangxian

Summary: An overheard conversation changes the way Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian part before he ascends Baoshan Sangren's mountain. From that point onwards, things go differently. Kay's comments: The story that made me fall in love with Ilona22 as a writer! I was immediately gone, the story was just too much to my liking. I'm just so weak for stories where Wei Wuxian thrives outside of the cultvation sects. Here, he leaves after the Golden Core transfer, because Jiang Cheng told him to get lost. Luckily, he soon finds his footing again without a trip to the Burial Mounds, since he didn't wait around for Jiang Cheng. Thanks to Wen Qing, he even has the hope to cultivate a new golden core, but for now, he finds a new profession, as a travelling painter. Meanwhile, Lan Wangji pines. I loved how the canon divergence played out in this story and just the found family vibes of it all. Excerpt: The during their conversation, they had all introduced themselves, too. The monk was Lu Lei, the other man was Lu Zhao. The later was an artist and calligrapher of some renown, Wei Ying had admired one of his paintings on Jiang-Zongzhu’s wall in his study. Lu Lei was the abbot of his monastery. The two of them new each other for a long time, and Lu Zhao had painted for the other on several occasions. Though he was more known for his paintings of plants and scenery. Lu Lei was highly skilled in the healing arts. And unwilling to let his patient escape, especially as he had saved both of them. As Wei Ying had guessed, neither was even slightly skilled at fighting. And so, Wei Ying agreed to travel with them. It turned out to be a good decision. Over the next two weeks, he rested and recovered, spending a lot of time talking with the two men. It were long conversations, often about heavy topics, as Wei Ying finally had the time to grieve the friends he had lost during the fall of Lotus Pier, and to adjust to the changes his life had gone through in such a short time. But they also had a lot of fun discussing art styles and philosophy. Lu Lei and him had several long talks about cultivation, and it was fascinating to learn more about the non-martial styles practiced by monks. Lu Lei was interested in his thoughts about talismans. The first time someone was so willing to talk about the branch of cultivation Wei Ying had always quietly hoped to be able to eventually gain his mastery in. In Lotus Pier, that would have been difficult. But now, he had realized during those conversations, there was no reason not to pursue that path. And so, slowly, he had come to look forward to this new chapter in his life.

pov alternating, canon divergence, wei wuxian leaves the yunmeng jiang sect, wen remants live, wen remants deserve better, families of choice, artist wei wuxian, rogue cultivator wei wuxian, golden core transfer fix-it, lan wangji/wei wuxian get a happy ending, mutual pining, developing relationship, not jiang cheng friendly, genius wei wuxian, inventor wei wuxian, sunshot campaign, love confessions

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[mediocretosubpar-soup]

if the possibility of a core-transfer ever breached containment, the consequences would be....

they find the the laboratory months after fact. at first, they don't know what they've found until wei wuxian finds a hidden cache and inside the cache wen qing's notes. he recognizes the words but not the writing. jin guangyao is the first suspect. but then a-yuan goes pale when he sees what wei wuxian found.

poor boy. he wanted to preserve wen qing's genius, her greatest achievement and so without anyone knowing he recorded it for the lan archives.

they must report it. another tally on the long list of things the lan sect will be blamed for. nie huiasang and jin ling are concerned. but the minor sect leader on whose land the lab was found protests, "a report was made and the matter dealt with."

"we went directly to sect leader jiang, of course. no use in wasting time."

nie huiasang who so often seems to know everything repeats, "sect leader jiang?"

"everyone knows that sect leader jiang is the one to call upon when dealing with the fo." the sect leader's eyes fall on wei wuxian and he changes the word to "demonic cultivators." the jiang sect is not anymore helpful and jiang cheng is missing out on this discussion conference.

in the end, it's sect leader yao who finishes the discussion. "it's always been on the jiang sect to do away with the consequences of their sect leader's fancies. so why should this be any different?"

this leads to nods all around, even among the nie and the lan elders who travelled to the conference. yunmeng jiang accepts this without protest.

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jiang cheng is indeed quite busy. he has got the doctor, the man who hired him and the surviving test subjects in for an interview.

to the surviving test subjects, he offers shelter, a new identity, a new life within or without the jiang sect if only she permits them to study her. but what convinces them is the promise that in the end they get to finish off the good doctor.

the doctor is questioned not tortured madmen always want to talk so it is unnecessary. jiang cheng only needs to hint at having been treated by wen qing during the war and the man is all over him. "you were the one to kill wen zhuliu too?" he asks, while his hands press against jiang cheng's stomach. they are sweaty. "such a fascinating person. a genius, a visionary one might say." jiang cheng recalls how his arm shook while wen zhuliu kicked and struggled and lets the doctor talk.

the man who made all of this possible jiang cheng teaches about the many downsides to having a body supported by a golden core. yunmeng jiang sect has always prided itself on attempting the impossible and its research team is an example of that. jiang cheng watches over every procedure. he is there when the first qi deviation happens.

jiang cheng's team informs him that unless he permits them to test on human subjects, this is as far as they go. jiang cheng puts a stop to the research. lets his new disciples have their way with the doctor.

once knowledge is out, it's out. eventually a new monster will think themself more clever than the rest of the world and jiang cheng will welcome them to lotus pier. and maybe some day, jiang cheng dismisses the thought, it bears no thinking about, he's behind on his correspondence.

[trans-yllz]

judgement: reckoning, awakening, purpose, reflection

coltsfoot: justice shall be done

star of belthleham: atonement

traditionally, judgement is about self reflection, rather than the externally inflicted reflection depicted in the justice card, but I chose the core reveal for judgement because I think its what kickstarts jiang chengs self reflection, and it's such a huge moment of reckoning for him. judgement tells us to evaluate our own actions, which is what wen ning is essentially doing to jiang cheng in this scene. because that moment it is not only about a secret being revealed, it is about jiang cheng having to face the fact that he was wrong. that he was cruel and critical of someone who gave everything for him. that so much of wei wuxian's suffering would not have happened if it had not been for jiang cheng, and wei wuxian's love for him. and as much as wei wuxian did not want him to know, I don't think jiang cheng ever would have been able to self reflect and reckon with his mistakes if he had never found out about the core transfer, if no one had ever told him to his face that he had done something terrible to someone he was supposed to love

suibian is centered in this card as a vessel of judgement - it is literally the weapon that deals truth upon jiang cheng and forces him to face it

wei wuxian falls from the sky like a realization falling upon jiang cheng. I imagine that in this moment, for him, everything goes black and as he races through his memories - his regrets - it pinpoints into a single event

wei wuxian falling from nevernight in the background also mirrors his fall into the burial mounds in the tower. the aftermath of the tower is the star - jiang chengs revitalization - and judgement is his atonement for this series of events

the golden core in this card is again something that spreads. the way their shared core is depicted here is most similar to how it's drawn in the star, to tie the two cards together - actions and their consequences

I wanted jiang cheng to look small and meek in this card, truly shrunken and crushed by the weight of the situation. and also wen ning should always be six and a half feet tall and built like a bulldozer ❤️

the flowers are placed very intentionally with each person's role - jiang cheng with the star of belthleham is facing his atonement, wen ning with the coltsfoot is dealing justice

I added the silhouette of a railing behind them to sort of bring it back in and ground the piece, otherwise they're sort of just floating in nebulous space

xx. judgement

id in alt / cql major arcana cards

[idlebeks]

PodFic Recs Part 1 MDZS

Why pay for an Audible membership when we have an incredible community of people willing to provide us with narration of our favorite fanfics for free?! Podfic readers are amazing, and crazy talented and don't get enough love. So, if you listen to and enjoy any of these please leave a comment or kudos for both the original author and the reader. Also, most of these readers have whole catalogs of fics and I can't link them all, so be sure to check out the author page of any that you like, you might find more to love.

[PODFIC] The One-Body Problem by Gwogobo

The good news is that Lan Jingyi has found a mentor, friend, and constant companion through the difficulties in life.

The bad news is that that’s because he’s been accidentally possessed by the Yiling Patriarch.

[PODFIC] Lynchpin by Gwogobo

He can’t get Jin Guangyao’s words out of his head.

If he’d only believed in Wei Wuxian, if he’d only been willing to stand up for him, could it all have been avoided?

[PODFIC] In Your Room, In Your Bed by Gwogobo

After Wei Ying is disowned, Yu Ziyuan forbids Jiang Cheng from letting Wei Ying live with him. Jiang Cheng lets him stay anyway because Fuck That. He tells his parents Lan Zhan is his new roommate instead.

OMG, they were fake roommates.

[Podfic] Drowning in the Sun by flamingwell

He was vengeance, he was hatred. He was the last sons of Lotus Pier, combined.

A fill for a kinkmeme prompt: Golden Core transfer, but Jiang Cheng's aware.

[Podfic] his heart an open wound by flamingwell, jellyfishfire

It's Sizhui who brings it to Lan Wangji's attention, his words so careful and apologetic that at first, Lan Wangji wonders what his son could possibly have done to be so apprehensive.

[Podfic of] the necromancer's fairytale by exmanhater

The Prince of Gusu is kidnapped for ransom. He’s saved by a nightmare made flesh.

Or: A necromancer, his palace of bones, his long-lost husband, and the rise of their dark kingdom.

The Same Moon Shines [Podfic - Cold Read] by kisahawklin, sami

"Zewu-Jun. You once told me about a house surrounded by gentians, where you visited once a month, and how Lan Zhan still waited there, even when the door no longer opened."

Xichen feels light-headed. He feels shocked, and angry. He has never told anyone such a thing, but Lan Zhan is giving Xichen a look of utter betrayal.

"You told him?" Lan Zhan whispers. "When?"

Wei Wuxian takes Lan Zhan's hand. "About twenty years from now."

a yiling laozu who lived [PODFIC] by exmanhater, isweedan, miss_marina95, Opalsong, RevolutionaryJo, Rhea314 (Rhea)

The ancient and powerful villain may have had a calm and gentle face as he spoke, but he was furious, not at the hero, but the gods for continually sending kids and teenagers to fight their battles.

[Podfic of] Covered in Bees by exmanhater

“Cloud Reccesses Apiary,” says a toneless, deep masculine voice, with zero question in it. Wei Ying doesn’t care, because whoever possesses that voice is probably going to come save him from bees like a fucking hero while wearing like, a suit of armor. That’s what you wear to catch bees, right?

“I have like, so many bees outside my front door right now,” he says, mouth running out ahead of him before he can even begin to think about reining it in. “It’s like a sandstorm of bees out there. There are so many bees. I got out of my car and there were just bees and I don’t want these bees. Do you want these bees? Please tell me you will come get these bees. I can’t leave my house and I have enough food for maybe a week but then I’m gonna have to learn how to cook dry beans and no one wants that, especially not me.” Wei Ying runs out of air, takes a breath, and belatedly adds, “My name is Wei Ying. Hi.”

Or: The beekeeping AU that no one asked for.

[Podfic of] this moonlit heart is home by exmanhater

The thing was, Wei Ying wasn't always chaos in feline form. Most of the time he was a perfectly normal human, or at least, as normal as a werecat could be. As normal as anyone could be if they were forced to spend three nights every lunar month in a cat-shaped body.

And besides, it wasn't as though Wei Ying wanted to be a part time cat. He didn't. The moon nights were an inconvenience to be endured, and the rest of the time, he was as human as possible and that was that as far as he was concerned.

Meeting Lan Zhan in cat form was entirely accidental.

Ghosts Shouldn't by ShanaStoryteller [Podfic] by Rhea314 (Rhea)

Wei Wuxian's spirit lingers.

[Podfic] Live from New York by jellyfishfire

Wei Ying lets out a long, ugly groan. “I am fine, Lan Zhan. Everybody is overreacting, it’s so embarrassing for all of you.”

“You had undiagnosed pneumonia, which you walked around with for weeks until you passed out during dress,” Lan Wangji corrects him. “It got a big laugh, until everyone thought you were dead.”

He keeps his voice even and does not tell Wei Ying that it had been Lan Wangji who caught him, who called the ambulance, and who rode with him to the hospital, where he was yelled at by nurses who wanted to know why he hadn’t noticed that Wei Ying couldn’t stop shivering or string proper sentences together.

“Rumors of my demise have been vastly overstated,” Wei Ying says. “Anyway, I’m already feeling much better. Basically fine. Really almost completely back to normal, so stop babying me and tell me why the fuck you let your stupid brother hire the worst man in the world to host our show.”

OR: the one where they all work at SNL, Yanli's ex-boyfriend is hosting, and that's just the beginning of everybody's problems.

[Podfic] Cold read of Battle Chefs by kisahawklin

BATTLE CHEFS IS COMING! by Qin Su

The new season of Battle Chefs is upon us, and once again I will be recapping every episode. Join us to discuss the latest season of everyone's favourite video-game-themed cooking contest!

Wen Qing is returning as the Referee and Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli will be our Players for the PvP section once again. Raid Boss Wei Ying is sure to make things interesting as always, and the trailers for this season promised us new heights of drama and excitement.

They honestly could have just promised us pretty. It's going to be great!

in the arms of the angel [PODFIC] by read by Khashana (Khashana), ScarlettStorm

So there was this jar, and it had so much peanut butter still in it, and when his fox nose scented it and didn’t catch any poison or spoilage, what was he supposed to do? Not avail himself of this gift? No. He shoved his delicate little snout right in there and got to licking, but, you know… Elegantly. Definitely not snarfing and making horrible little fox sounds and rolling around on the ground while he went ham on the jar. Sure, he had to work a little bit to get at the last of it, but anything good is worth working for, right? So finally, triumphant, no longer starving, and maybe a little thirsty now from eating half a cup of peanut butter in about two minutes, he’d tried to remove his head from the jar.

Operative word tried.

Or: Wei Ying gets stuck. Lan Zhan helps.

[Podfic of] save a sword, ride a socialist by exmanhater

In which Lan Qiren and Jin Guangshan are conspicuously terrible, Lan Wangji decides to fake-date Wei Wuxian about it, and literally no braincells are consulted.

through a window softly by impossibletruths [podfic] by Rhea314 (Rhea)

Wei Wuxian plays the flute. Someone in Wei Wuxian's apartment complex plays violin. Sometimes, they play the flute and the violin together, and it's... nice. It's really nice. It's sort of the nicest thing going on in his life right now, honestly.

It's like the poets say: Music is love in search of a word.

misunderstood 'verse by sysrae [podfic] by andreannaness (andreanna)

Lan Wangji has known Wei Ying for a fortnight, the first time he sees him get hit by a car.

[Podfic] speeding up my heartbeat by plonk by inkjunket

The guy is so stupid hot that Wei Ying doesn’t turn away in time. He can’t be absolutely sure, but he thinks the guy sees him sort of turned towards him. Not as bad as being caught outright staring at someone on the subway, except that it’s actually probably worse, because they’re in the cultivation gym’s locker room.

Wearing Down Every Bone [Podfic] by Rionaa

“Sizhui, tell me,” Wei Wuxian says. “Does this feel... familiar to you?”

or

After running into Lan Zhan on a night hunt, Wei Wuxian is cursed to live the same day over and over and over.

[Podfic] One Good Thing by jellyfishfire

Wei Wuxian has been haunting his childhood home for three years. He's perfected the fine art of scaring away all the tenants, and has grown used to living with the dying flowers in the garden as his only company.

When Lan Wangji buys the house, Wei Wuxian fully intends to drive him off too. Except Lan Wangji is beautiful, and interesting, and captivating company - even if he supposedly doesn't know Wei Wuxian exists.

These Things Stay the Same [Podfic] by Rionaa

After a career covering news across the world, journalist Wei Wuxian is unexpectedly on his way home with a child in tow. Unfortunately, the path home isn't without obstacles.

[Podfic] Wireless by semperfiona_podfic (semperfiona)

The Jiang Sect was famous for its marvelous creations. Lan Wangji is just as enthralled as everyone else until he gets a closer look.

It's Sizhui who brings it to Lan Wangji's attention, his words so careful and apologetic that at first, Lan Wangji wonders what his son could possibly have done to be so apprehensive.

[Podfic] Cold read of you by kisahawklin for sami

The crow must be lonely, Lan Zhan thinks.

My Brothers, My Sister and Me: Episode One [Podfic] by blackglass, pandamug, RevolutionaryJo, rhythmia

"Me: [comes charging out of the kitchen dripping dish soap and water to feverishly boot up my laptop and type] MODERN AU WHERE THE JIN SIBLINGS HAVE A MY BROTHER, MY BROTHER, AND ME-ESQUE PODCAST"

[Podfic of] The Cycle of Regret by knight_tracer

After Wei Wuxian's death, Lan Wangji finds himself trapped in a loop, living the same week over and over again, struggling to save the man he loves.

[Podfic] I feel like I win when I lose by sisi_rambles

Wei Ying is at his first Grand Final, rated fifth in the solo cultivator rankings, with the Qishan and Lanling silver medals tucked away in his sock drawer, and he’s about to walk into the arena for a match that everyone knows he’s going to lose.

A modern competitive cultivation AU.

In The Dark Right Now [podfic] by someplacelikebolivia

What used to be a wide open cave mouth, propped up with stalactites and mites, has collapsed, leaving a wall of uneven rock. Caving is always a danger, but they’d thought this cave was pretty safe for their study of bat behaviours. The colony living in it is stable, had been here for at least fifty years, and of course the cave has been here for millennia. Nothing going wrong for so long and then a bunch of rocks falling? It’s just his luck, really.

[PODFIC] By Any Other Name by sakizar

Wei Wuxian wakes up in Mo Xuanyu's body and heads straight for Lotus Pier. Wu Yingtai is the newest member of the Jiang Clan and rumored to be the future wife of Jiang Wanyin.

Lan Wangji is not in love with her.

anyway, here's wuji [PODFIC] by Opalsong

The melody gets a little clearer when he breaks out of the trees, and Jingyi changes course with certainty, barreling down the back hill and through the Cloud Recesses, dodging scandalized disciples left and right. He throws open the doors to the Receiving Hall without announcement and bows nearly double, eyes on the floor instead of on the shocked faces of the Mei delegation and the impenetrable gaze of the Chief Cultivator.

"Forgive this disciple," Jingyi shouts, because he's going to get punished for rule breaking regardless. "From the back hill, Hanguang-jun, there is a song in the wind!"

[robininthelabyrinth]

Wei Wuxian comes back from the Burial Mounds with the inability to lie. Somehow it seems to be a curse inflicted by Suibian- Sandu?- who is not amused by wwx's decision to just give his core away.

Thank you! <3

“You cannot do this to me,” Wei Wuxian hissed at his sword.

His sword did not respond.

This was not a surprise, since it was a sword, and yet Wei Wuxian was convinced that Suibian was to blame for his current dilemma. After all, what else could explain such a very specific issue tied directly to his golden core other than the only other thing he had allowed a direct tie into it?

Besides, everyone knew that spiritual weapons were temperamental, in need of careful care and consideration, and Wei Wuxian had, well, more or less done the one thing that meant he was going to have to give up using Suibian. It made sense that Suibian would be angry enough to curse him.

Also, when Jiang Cheng had handed him Suibian and their hands had been on it at the same moment, the sword – Wei Wuxian would swear – had very briefly vibrated, as if in response to a command.

And ever since then…

Well.

Listen, it’d be one thing if he walked out of the Burial Mounds without the ability to lie, okay? A weird churning compulsion to tell the truth, originating deep in his belly right where his golden core had once been before he’d given it up...yes, it would make sense. It would be – weird, incredibly so, but it wasn’t like his particular brand of demonic cultivation had much precedent, what with all the other variations involving a great deal more murdering people to harvest their power. Not to mention the whole idea of cultivating post-golden core; that wasn’t exactly something that had happened many times before!

So that would have made sense. Since it was new, it was reasonable that there would be side effects, even bizarre side effects.

It was not reasonable that the side effect in question – the inability to lie – had an area of impact that tied directly into the presence of one Jiang Cheng.

No Jiang Cheng? Wei Wuxian could be as free with the truth as he liked.

Jiang Cheng somewhere in the vicinity but not immediately present? He started tripping up on it. Strange restrictions appeared on his tongue, choking him; there seemed to be no logical sense to them or to the way they wove in and out of his speech, presumably depending on where Jiang Cheng was standing at any given moment. Why some exaggerations were acceptable while others were considered untruths and thus forbidden, Wei Wuxian had yet to figure out.

Jiang Cheng standing beside him?

It was time for Wei Wuxian to keep his mouth shut because every word that passed through his lips had to be weighed and found truthful as if he were standing before the judges of the dead.

That was all bad enough, of course, but recently even omissions had started burning at his lips, and that was just very much not on.

“It’s for his own good,” he argued, pleading, beseeching. “You can’t make me tell him. He would only be hurt if he knew!”

Suibian did not respond.

It was, after all, just a sword.

Even if it was currently behaving more like a backstabbing dagger.

(Nie Huaisang would have said that the sword wasn’t acting like anything at all.

Wei Wuxian had circuitously brought up the issue to him on one of his rare visits to the safe back line, reasoning out of sheer desperation that Nie Huaisang was the only person he knew that was gullible enough that he could tell the whole story to him without risking him figuring out the entire thing.

Nie Huaisang had laughed long and hard at it – Wei Wuxian couldn’t really blame him, since he’d claimed it was a story he’d seen in a play and if it had been happening in a play he would’ve found it funny, too – and then said that the playwright had missed the obvious answer: that it wasn’t the sword at all.

What could it be other than the sword, Wei Wuxian had asked.

It’s all in his mind, Nie Huaisang had said. He feels guilty, so he’s doing it to himself, and he’s blaming the sword because it’s the only other thing that he feels guilty towards. What else could it be?)

“Wei Wuxian!” Jiang Cheng called, and Wei Wuxian grimaced, hastily hiding Suibian away so that he could pretend to have forgotten it back at camp - so that no one would ask him to use it. He’d apologize to it later. “Are you ready to go?”

“Physically yes, emotionally no,” Wei Wuxian called back, and heard Jiang Cheng snort like a pig with amusement – at least someone was getting something out of this, and no, he wasn’t counting Nie Huaisang.

He didn’t especially want to go, didn’t want to have to be constantly on mental alert to make sure he didn’t blurt out something stupid and life-destroying, but what could he do about it? In the end, he went.

Jiang Cheng looped an arm over his shoulder. “More Wen sect to kill,” he said, briefly looking tough and serious and even, dare Wei Wuxian think it, manly, and then promptly ruined it by smirking at him with exactly the same sort of dumb face he’d used that one time they'd planned on slipping dye into the water Uncle Jiang used to use to wash his hair. “Emotionally ready for that?”

“Comparatively speaking, yes,” Wei Wuxian said.

Jiang Cheng shook his head. “I’m not going to ask what’s going on with you, because if you wanted me to know, you’d tell me,” he said, demonstrating surprising maturity, and possibly also the receipt of advice from the crumpled letter he’d shoved away half-hidden; Wei Wuxian wondered who Jiang Cheng was corresponding with that would dare give him advice like that. “But – you’ll tell me eventually, right?”

“Yes,” Wei Wuxian said impatiently, and then blinked, surprised at himself.

If he’d said it, here with Jiang Cheng so close, then it must be the truth.

He would tell him.

Maybe not immediately, but – eventually.

When he’d agreed to the golden core transfer, did all those things to keep the secret from Jiang Cheng, to make sure he didn’t know, he’d thought he’d take the secret to his grave. He wanted to. He still thought it would only hurt Jiang Cheng to know what he’d done – Jiang Cheng would take it all the wrong ways, doubt himself, blame himself, hurt himself, when all Wei Wuxian wanted was for him to be happy and healthy.

But – Suibian or no Suibian – he couldn’t lie right now.

And if he couldn’t…eventually, one day, Jiang Cheng would ask.

Something would happen.

He’d find out.

If he did it in an unguarded moment - when Wei Wuxian was drunk, perhaps, or over-tired after battle, or punch-drunk after a close encounter - that would be the worst possible thing. He wouldn’t be able to plan out how to phrase it or how to couch it or how to reassure him; it would be nothing but betrayed looks all the way down and Jiang Cheng storming away and all attendant disasters. He’d have to quit the Jiang sect and go live on a mountain out of sheer shame, and that sounded awful even if he could probably con one of those quiet-loves-solitude types like Lan Wangji into joining him. 

And so the only thing to do was…

“Hey, Jiang Cheng,” Wei Wuxian said. Attempt the impossible. “After the battle today, can we – talk?”

“Of course,” Jiang Cheng said, brightening up like the sunrise. “Any time.”

[wangxianficfinder]

In the mood for...

Dec 13th

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1. Hiiiiiii✨🤗

Sorry if this has already been asked but for the next itmf id like some Wei Wuxian fell first fics (bonus points if it’s canon era but im okay with whatever except for modern AUs)

Thxx<3

Scars of Lightning by The_peregrine_falcon (T, 6k, YZY & WWX, WWX & WRH, WangXian, YZY’s A+ Parenting, Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant, Wen WWX, zidian, YZY is a bitch, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Major Character Injury, Heavy Angst, Lotus Pier, Nightless City, Young WWX, Muteness, Hurt kind of comfort)

How You Would Let Me Have You by longleggedgit (E, 15k, WangXian, XiQing, Arranged Marriage, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon Divergence, First Time, The LXC/WQ is a “mutual beards” situation just FTR)

Honesty is the Best Policy (Except if You’re an Asshole)by piecrust (E, 22k, WangXian, Porn with Feelings, College/University)

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2. Itmf fics where wwx inspires awe, loyalty and respect from the person who actually get to know him and interact with him. I don't want it to be superficial as in the fic just ' mentioning ' wei ying doing and later writing out how this inspired such such emotions in people BUT RATHER It being shown as a gradual thing starting with little things Wei Ying does for people around him and going on with how the people around him changed for this. For example: dispersing clouds (?) (Kinda)

Please make it longer than 50k and NOT VERY comedic tone (as in making everything, even serious things funny) and I'm ok with anything EXCEPT modern au. Thankyou. @constellation-dks

Sunset, Sunrise by Ariana Deralte (ArianaDeralte) (T, 59k, WWX & WRH, WangXian, WIP, Time Travel Fix-It, Crack, Temporary Character Death, sorry I killed a-Yuan for a few paragraphs before the time travel, WWX is a Wen, Genius WWX, WRH gets to rewatch the series as a treat, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, in this house we acknowledge that all the sects have flaws, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, WWX Has ADHD, Bad Parents JFM & YZY, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Autistic LWJ)

golden when the day met the night by glitteringmoonlight (Not Rated, 95k, WangXian, WIP, 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)

Practical Considerations by teawater, the_anthropologist (E, 97k, WangXian, JC & WWX, LXC & WWX, LQR & WWX, Arranged Marriage, Canon Divergence, Found Family, Spouses to Lovers, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst, Politics, Scheming, Lán Elders are assholes, BAMF WWX, BAMF LWJ, eventually BAMF LXC, learning to make decisions, Learning Self-worth, Self-Esteem Issues, Sweet Wangxian, Domestic Fluff, Fix-It, JC is a big asshole, he improves somewhat but it’s open-ended, WWX learns to stand up for himself, Quote: Come Back to Gusu With Me, POV wwx, POV LWJ, POV JC, Golden Core Reveal, Teacher wwx, Golden Core Transfer Fix-It, Alcohol as a Coping Mechanism, Past Suicidal Thoughts, Post-Sunshot Campaign, WWX Protection Squad, Feelings Realization, WWX protector of the twin jades, Protective LWJ, Protective WWX, Protective LQR, Demonic Cultivator WWX, WWX is Loved, Married WangXian, Genius WWX, Everybody Lives)

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3. Hi! Itmf any fics where wwx managed to off Wen Chao in the xuanwu cave, doesn’t need a specific or any pairing. Wip or abandoned also fine. Thanks! @insanitywhat

Trials of Time by Muggle_Diary (E, 32k, WangXian, Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Sex, Not Jiang Family Friendly, YZY Bashing, JC Bashing, Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Artistic Liberties, Butterfly Effect, WWX is free of debts, WangXian in love, Fluff, Established Relationship, Period-Typical Homophobia) Wen Chao's death occurs in chapter 9

💖 The Echoes of that News Ring Loud by Scarlet_Gryphon (T, 111k, NHS & NMJ, 3Zun, NHS/WN, WangXian, Major Character Death, Time Travel Fix-It, NMJ Lives, WWX Raised by a Different Sect, Universal Da-ge NMJ, JGY deserved better, Cinnamon Roll WN, Temporary character death (but they get better), Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Everyone Lives, Good Guy XY, Let's give NHS Battle Fans club member, Gray-Ace power trio 3Zun, Canon Divergence, discussions of JGS's canon-levels of dickery, brief and non-graphic discussion of past rape/non-con due to QS's origins, Mentions of Nightmares, NHS is a Little Shit, Minor Character Death, Happy Ending) Wen Chao's death occurs in chapter 6, although Wei Ying didn't seem to be trying to intentionally kill him in this one

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4. Hi! I'm itmf fanfics in which adult lwj time travels to the cr era, it can be either to his teen body or as an adult and I want wwx to love him a lot, although I'm searching for plot ff some pwp is also fine ty😊💗

❤️ For Both Of Us (And Time Is But A Paper Moon) by sami (E, 65k, WangXian, Time Travel, Some People Live/Not Everyone Dies, Fix-It, Hurt/Comfort, Healing, Yunmeng Shuangjie, Canon Divergence, Asexual JC, First Time, Getting Together, BAMF JC, BAMF LWJ, [Podfic] Cold read of For Both Of Us (And Time Is But A Paper Moon) by kisahawklin, Для нас обоих (И время лишь бумажная луна) (Russian translation) by nomuad) this involves LWJ time traveling to his birth, but the Cloud Recesses lectures are included

Back up and dream again by The Silverfish (ZephyrAndTheSilverfish) (T, 3k, WangXian, Fix-It, Time Travel, Fluff, Flirting, Cute, Embarrassed WWX)

I Have Arranged to Tie You to Me by xxxMiaHikarixxx (G, 47k, WIP, WangXian, Lan protective team, Time Travel, Past, LWJ oriented, Arranged Marriage, Boys In Love, Soulmates, Fix-It, Jiang siblings, not jiang parents friendly, JC is slowly becoming a good sibling, Soft LWJ, Protective LWJ, Genius WWX)

🔒 The Second Hand Unwinds by trulywicked (E, 75k, WangXian, JYL/JZX, WIP, Time Travel Fix-It, Not JC Friendly, Not Yunmeng Jiang Sect Friendly, Not Jiāng Family Friendly, Not YZY Friendly, Time Travelling LWJ, Protective LWJ, Fluff, Minor Angst, Minor Character Death, JGS is his own warning, Wooing, LWJ is romantic af, Inventor WWX, Genius WWX, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Protective Gusu Lan Sect, Supportive LXC, Good Uncle LQR, WWX Protection Squad)

The Wild Geese’s Tomb by The Feels Whale (miscellea) (T, 66k, WangXian, Time Travel AU, fixit, Temporary Character Death, all women live no women die, LWJ’s canonically intense feelings about everything all the time, WWX’s clinical depression gets treated and blamed on resentful energy, navigating gay marriage in ancient china by utiliizing class snobbery for your own ends, if you’re not sure whose fault anything going on in here is then blaming NHS is probably a good bet, WWX plays ‘summon LWJ’ it’s super effective!, the ‘unexploded cow’ approach to dealing with your enemies)

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5. ITMF!!!! A) I once saw people talking about fics where WWX was adopted by the Jin and now I simply have to know if there are any fics like that :D B) I'm also looking for possible whump fics for Wei Wuxian but with a happy ending. Thank you for everything you do, we really appreciate you <3

5A)

🔒 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)

🔒 Twin Treasures by crossdressingdeath (T, 81k, WIP, JZX & WWX, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Can’t quite tag this as ‘everyone lives’ but I promise everyone who dies will DESERVE IT, mostly novel-verse with a bit of CQL here and there, currently being edited)

🔒Mischief & Mayhem by Reverie (cl410) (T, 15k, WIP, Madam Jin/SiSi, Crack, Fluff and Humor, Jīn Sect WWX, Chaos Gremlin WWX, the chaotic jin trio we could have had, Genius WWX, BAMF LQY, Found Family)

Silver eyes meet gold by EuphoricSuds (Not Rated, 3k, WangXian, JZX & WWX, XuanLi, Minor Character Death, Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Character Death, BAMF WWX, Hurt WWX, Genius WWX, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Family Fluff, WWX Gets a Hug, WWX is Loved, WWX is LSZ's Parent, WWX is a Jīn, WWX Isn't Adopted by the Jiāngs, Canon Rewrite, Out of Character WWX, Out of Character, Comfort No Hurt, Cute WWX)

5B)

use the wood brought in by the tide by Lirazel (M, 27k, WangXian, Arranged Marriage, Hurt/Comfort, Warning for Physical Abuse, Falling In Love With Your Husband, pining for your husband, Sibling solidarity, dealing with your in-laws, lwj’s typical inner maelstrom of emotions, WWX Whump, Protective!LWJ, lwj&jyl friendship, intimate hair brushing, Skinny Dipping, Growing Up, Establishing boundaries)

I have died everyday waiting for you by jalpari (M, 7k, WangXian, Canon-typical violence and angst, WWX Whump, LWJ Whump, Ghost WWX, Sentient Burial Mounds, Five Stages of Grief, Getting Together, Angst with a Happy Ending)

Silenced by Tasharene (M, 63k, WangXian, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, PTSD, Temporary Blindness, Aversion to touch, Fear of crowds, Panic Attacks, Post-Canon, WWX Whump, Hurt WWX, Angst with a Happy Ending, world-class troll lxc)

❤️ whipstitch by curiositykilled (M, 131k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Dysfunctional Family, Torture, WWX Lives, but basically no one else, Case Fic, Cultivation Sect Politics, Past Abuse, WWX Whump, YLLZ WWX, JL Needs a Hug, JL Tries, Yunmeng Bro Reconciliation, Past Character Death, Body Horror, Non-Consensual Body Modification, POV Alternating, Flashbacks, Eventual Happy Ending, Heavy Angst, Suicide Attempt, PTSD, Depression, Not A Fix-It, Mouth Sewn Shut) should be noted as "mostly happy ending, slightly bittersweet"

to take his place by Eicas (T, 9k, JC & JYL & WWX, Hurt/Comfort, Canon Divergence: JC does not get caught by the Wens, (Wei Wuxian does.), Torture, Aftermath of Torture, (neither particularly graphic), WWX whump, but also wwx care & reassurance that they still want him so there's that!, Post-Fall of Lotus Pier, Yungmeng Siblings) should be noted as "mostly happy ending, slightly bittersweet"

to hell and back for you by blumeraki (G, 5k, WangXian, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Canon Universe, Protective WWX, Protective LWJ, Everything Hurts, Implied/Referenced Torture, Hurt WWX, Hurt LWJ, Branding Iron, Whipping, discipline whip, jc saves the day, Canon Divergence)

🔒💖 the universe would turn to a mighty stranger by RavenclawLoki (T, 11k, wangxian, Angst, Eventual Fluff, Some mentions of blood, it looks like someone is dead but!!, it is okay, everything is going to be okay i promise, First Kiss, Canon Divergence, Wwx and lwj know they’re in love, They just don’t know the other loves them back, Everyone Lives AU, Hurt WWX, Hurt LWJ)

build me no shrines by occultings (microcomets) (M, 54k, WangXian, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, First Time, Getting Together, Confessions, Sharing a Bed, Hair Washing, Sentient Burial Mounds, Case Fic, Post-Canon, CQL Compliant, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Light Angst, Flashbacks, mild body horror, foot washing, Happy Ending, Non-Sexual Intimacy..., then sexual intimacy, playing fast and loose with mdzs lore, WWX learning to accept intimacy without deflection, occasional LWJ humor agenda, 🔒 [Podfic] build me no shrines by flamingwell)

in your skin by darkredloveknot (enheduane) (E, 10k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Pre-Relationship, Getting Together, Horror, Body Horror, Blood and Gore, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Love Confessions, Non-Consensual Body Modification, kinda??, Reflections over death and self-worth, mentions of canon suicide, Near Death Experiences,🔒[Podfic] in your skin by flamingwell)

The Edge of Night by Hobbsy3 (M, 277k, WangXian, XuanLi, Modern AU, Zombie Apocalypse, Yúnmèng Siblings Dynamics, Accidental Baby Acquisition During a Zombie Apocalypse, Junior Quartet, (except they’re all babies), Angst with a Happy Ending, Minor Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Blood and Gore, Ensemble Cast, Worst Zombie Fighting Team Ever, Found Family)

Game Night by Hobbsy3 (T, 46k, WangXian, XuanLi, NieLan, Kidnapping, Implied/Referenced Torture, Witness Protection, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Dark Comedy, Modern AU, Protective LWJ, Protective JYL, Protective JC, Fusion with the movie 'Game Night', Mentioned Junior Quartet, TGCF cameos if you squint)

💖 nothing you confess by PorcupineGirl (T, 31k, WangXian, Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, POV Alternating, Golden Core Reveal, Depressed WWX, WWX Has PTSD, JC & LWJ Friendship, friendship may be too strong a word more like allies who are gonna love the shit outta post-burial-mounds WWX whether he likes it or not, Hurt/Comfort, Recovery)

To lurk, to lie in wait by trippednfell (M, 124k, WangXian, Modern AU, strangers to co-parents to lovers, Strangers to Lovers, Kid Fic, teenage juniors, background NieLan, Angst with a Happy Ending, Case Fic, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Not Really Character Death, If there is main character death it's very temporary, Fox Spirit WWX, Dragon LWJ, Blood and Injury, Additional Warnings In Author's Note)

Birthday Party by waffles_4_breakfast (E, 102k, WangXian, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Fix-It, Canon Divergence, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Misunderstandings, Sharing a Bed, Angst with a Happy Ending, Happy Ending, Getting Together, Mutual Pining, Canon-Typical Violence, Pining, Slow Burn, Poison, Torture, Requited Unrequited Love, First Time, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Rough Sex, Oral Sex, Come as Lube, Bondage, Dom/sub Undertones, Spit As Lube, Rimming, Consensual Non-Consent, Safe Sane and Consensual, Additional Warnings In Author’s Note)

Stars bring us apart (Stars pull us together) by Sixlayerhouse (sixlayerhouse) (E, 124k, WangXian, Hurt/Comfort, (Vaguely) Star Trek AU, Canon-Typical Violence, Psychological Trauma, PTSD, Body modifications, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Recovery, married!wangxian)

🔒Whumptober: Torture and In The Hands of the Enemy by treemaidengeek (T, 4k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Torture, but not explicitly shown; see author's note for details, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Protective LWJ, Hostage Situations)

🔒ransom by alessandriana (G, 3k, JC & WWX, hurt/comfort, dizziness, fainting)

a buried and burning flame by otherhippo (hippopotamus) (T, 17k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Implied/Referenced Torture, Kinda dark?, Angst with a Happy Ending, does it count as bedsharing if theres…no bed, Imprisonment, Hurt/Comfort)

❤️ the best of you by sysrae (E, 41k, WangXian, XuanLi, Modern AU, College/University, Angst with a Happy Ending, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining, Getting Together, slightly undernegotiated kink, but in a very soft and consensual way, Nightmares, Panic Attacks, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, JFM and YZY's A+ parenting, Dysfunctional Family, Mental Health Issues, Reference to animal attacks/animal cruelty, descriptions of past violence)

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6. ITMF a fic where LSZ either uses demonic cultivation or become a demonic cultivator like his dad @silas-octapisseron

Give Me A Reason by useless_slytherclaw (M, 251k, ZhuiYi, Angst with a Happy Ending, Heavy Angst, Friends to Lovers, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Mutual Pining, Minor WangXian, Minor LingZhen, Aged-Up Character(s), Grief/Mourning, Travel, Death, PTSD, Dreams and Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort, Rogue Cultivator LJY, Family Feels, Demisexual LJY, Canon-Typical Violence, Injury Recovery, Love Confessions) has LSZ using demonic cultivation in desperation and suffering the consequences.

Your Love Keeps Me Alive by locketofyourhair (T, 11k, Pre-Poly Junior Quartet, established wangxian, The Burial Mounds Linger, 5+1 Things, Canon-Typical Violence, Wholesome Necromancy, POV Multiple, Demonic Cultivator LSZ, Badass Juniors, Blood and Injury, Implied past one-sided WN/WWX, Near Death Experiences)

Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses by hansbekhart (Not Rated, 19k, LSZ & LWJ, WangXian, dad wangji, LWJ’s Questionable Parenting Skills, Grief/Mourning, Recovery, Injury Recovery, Hopeful Ending, Canon-Typical Violence, Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses [podfic] by someplacelikebolivia) Lan Sizhui uses demonic cultivation near the end of Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses

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7. Hello!! Thanks for all the hard work! 🩷🩷

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I recently discovered that XiCheng was a ship and have become curious. But I can’t seem to find any fics I enjoy with this pairing!

So I’d appreciate some good recs for Lan Xichen and Jiang Cheng, preferably based in canon era (but I don’t mind modern au’s), if it includes time travel, even the better!!! @jinxedjaz

🔒 A Small Measure of Peace by Sandstone112 (M, 123k, XiCheng, WangXian, Fluff and Angst, Slow Burn, Kind Of, Canon-Typical Violence, Miscommunication, XiCheng endgame, Found Family, Family) for supportive childrearing

My Wingman, Lan Wangji by JiangChengLotus (T, 3k, XiCheng, WangXian, 5+1 Things, Humor, Fluff, Marriage Proposal, Crack, Chaos, Soft XiCheng, Declarations Of Love, Embarrassed JC) for humor

Talent Hunt Crew Finds Angry Guy Shouting On College Campus, Recruits Him For Vocal Projection Abilities by oh_fudgecakes (T, 206k, XiCheng, WangXian, Modern AU, Reality TV, Slow Burn, Romance, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, BAMF JYL) for a modern AU

Two Sides of the Same Coin by JiangChengLotus (T, 4k, XiCheng, WangXian, Bodyswap, Humor, Fluff, Bonding, Chaos, Developing Friendships, Misunderstandings)

I'm Your What? by JiangChengLotus (T, 6k, JC/LXC, WangXian, JC & WWX, Fluff, Time Travel, Humor, Soft JC, Protective LWJ, Family Feels, Kid Fic, Love Confessions, Let LQR Rest)

Disregarding Public Interest (or How Everyone Except Lan Xichen and Jiang Cheng Knew They Were Together) by monoquist (T, 37k, JC/LXC, WangXian, JL/LSZ, Fluff, Crack, Established Relationship, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon)

The Trials and Tribulations of a Modern Father by Bgtea (T, 24k, JC/LXC, JFM/YZY, WangXian, JYL/JZX, JC & JFM, JC & YZY & JFM & JYL & WWX, Modern, Everyone Lives, Crack, JFM POV, JFM attempts at being a father, JC/LXC-centric, JC-centric)

🔒 Emergency Help Wanted by Piyo13 (T, 76k, JC/LXC, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Lawyer JC, LXC is an idiot, JC is the best jiujiu ever, Everyone Lives, Modern, POV Third Person, Fluff, Homophobia as a concept doesn't exist in this verse, Happy Ending, Slow Burn)

How to Escape Your Problems and Live Your Life in Denial – the Jiang Cheng Edition by Bgtea (E, 160k, LXC/JC, WangXian, Modern, Cat Cafés, How to be an adult and fail at it, Slow Burn, Fluff and Humor, JFM's A+ parenting, sex in chapter 23, Anal Sex, Frottage, JC-centric, JC/LXC-centric)

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8. would u happen to know of a completed crossover fic over 50k words?

like with all three of the main mxtx bottoms? @chaosconchick

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9. Hi! Thank you for all you do! I’m in the mood for a fic like “Stunted, Starving, Juvenility” by TomatenMark. I want it to have a heavy focus on Wangxian and their developing relationship. I want it to have a fluffy feel but as long as it isn’t dark or super hurt/comfort I’m ok with it. Ideally it would be multi chapter and take place at least partly when they are teens in Gusu. I just really want a sweet fic with WWX and LWJ being whipped for each other. Thank you so much! @kjwaikiki

These might have a tad more angst than they were looking for for 9 but otherwise fit the request

🧡 Company by WithBroomBefore (T, 29k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Pre-Relationship, Getting Together, POV LWJ, Fix-It, Pre-Canon, at least to start, WWX goes to Cloud Recesses, But Not In The Usual Way, fear of character death, Everybody Lives, Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending, Light Angst, good teacher LQR, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, brief discussion of past minor character suicide, Kitten, Not YZY Friendly)

❤️ Gentians in bloom by teawater (M, 251k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, AU after cold spring, Political Marriage, Dysfunctional Family, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Fix-It, Hurt/Comfort, LQR bashing (not really), POV Multiple, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Eventual Happy Ending, BAMF WWX, JC is actually a lot better than canon, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, YZY bashing (again not completely))

🔒 in the shadow of moonlit flowers by Reverie (cl410) (T, 56k, wangxian, LXC/NMJ, Cloud Recesses, LWJ & NHS Friendship, Developing Relationship, POV LWJ, Minor Injuries, Autistic LWJ, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, aka the Madam Yu warning, Genius WWX, Light Angst And Hurt/Comfort, WWX Protection Squad, Gusu Lan Sect, Slow Burn, Protective LWJ, LWJ-centric) the element of Dispersing Clouds featuring supportive Lans (and bad Jiangs)

🧡 To have and to hold by Moominmammashandbag (M, 78k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Major character injury, CQL verse, Happy Ending)

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10. Hi so I've been watching a lot of anime and you know the main character being like a reincarnated villainous and so I just thought to myself what if wwx got reincarnated into a game that he played through and he is the villain and he like tries to survive everything and he's like he's usual self cheerful and all that and of course lwj is in there too like a main character kind of male or whatever and I kind of want several male leads in there as well I don't know but I just think it would be really cute and I watched too many anime about it and I really want to read about this so if you can find some fic that has some kind of story lineup that is kind of like a villainous setup that got reincarnated that would be great

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11. hello hello this is for itmf

A) are there any fics like this basically, mxy!wwx and yllz!wwx switching places

B) anything and everything with bad ass wei wuxian, or possessive wwx, I'll take anything, open to everything just pls let it be a complete TT

11B)

A Life Without Regrets by naqaashi (M, 163k, WangXian, JFM & WWX, JC & WWX, WRH & WWX, LXC & LWJ, LQR & LWJ, LWJ & NHS, Canon Divergence, Time Travel Fix-It, Angst and Humor, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Crack Treated Seriously, musical cultivation, Slow Burn, Pining, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Murder Husbands, PTSD, BAMF WWX, Demonic Cultivation, POV WWX, Cultivation Sect Politics, Worldbuilding, No Yīn Iron, Genius WWX, Inventor WWX, Artist WWX, Musician WWX, Night Hunts, Fate & Destiny, Bad Parent JFM & YZY, Golden Core, Cultivation Theory, Sentient Burial Mounds, Father-Son Relationship, Dysfunctional Family, Grief/Mourning, Parent-Child Relationship, Angry WWX, Pining WWX, WWX is Not Okay, No Golden Core Transfer, BAMF LWJ, Pining LWJ, POV LWJ, Angry LWJ, One-Braincell Wangxian, Love Confessions, Idiots in Love)

❤️ And Time Is But a Paper Moon by sami (M, 138k, WangXian, XiChengQing, Time Travel, Fix-It, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Healing, Mental Health Issues, PTSD, Hurt/Comfort, Depression, BAMF WWX, BAMF JC, BAMF LWJ, BAMF JYL, Getting Together, And Time is But a Paper Moon [PODFIC] by sami, Winterstar1412, [Podfic] Cold read of And Time Is But A Paper Moon by kisahawklin)

🧡 The Shade of Old Trees by Kryal (T, 363k, WangXian, Ridiculously Long Notes, History, Canon Divergence, Modern AU, Slow Burn, Worldbuilding, Slow Life, Action/Adventure, Magic Returns, BAMF WWX)

We'll Build A Dynasty (one the heavens can't shake) by One_eyed_God (T, 66k, WangXian, canon typical Jiang family dynamics, BAMF WWX, Canon JC Characteristics, POV Outsider, Hurt/Comfort, Pre-Relationship, WWX is a Wen, Sect Leader WWX, Genius WWX, The Casual Intimacy of Hand-Holding, Minor XuanLi, Not JC Friendly, Time Travel Fix-It)

🔒 Whatever you do by apathyinreverie (T, 8k, WangXian, LXC & LWJ, somewhat darker cultivation world, BAMF WWX, BAMF LWJ, BAMF LXC, don't mess with the twin jades, not Jiang friendly, YZY Bashing, WWX is appreciated, genius WWX, everyone is a little darker in this, except for WWX, who is still sunshine personified, Fluff, Possessive LWJ, Gusu Lan would like to send Yunmeng a fruits basket, as thanks for their idiocy, Fix-It)

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12. Hello!! Would it be possible to get a rec list of long, plotty wangxian fics (40k+ preferred) with happy endings that don’t have any wwx/other or lwj/other? (No former lovers, partners, etc.) thank you!! @bookkbaby

Twelve Moons and a Fortnight by stiltonbasket (M, 290k, WangXian, Humor, Slow Burn, Post-Canon Fix-It, Long-Distance Relationship, Epistolary, Love Letters, Family Feels, a-qing lives, teenage romance, Adoption, Romantic Comedy, Happy Ending, Weddings, Case Fic, Parenthood, Politics) is a great fic and part of a series. It is very much a slow burn though.

🧡 Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark (E, 887k, WangXian, WIP, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Getting Together, Supportive LQR, Hurt/Comfort, Fix-It of Sorts, Supportive LXC, Canon Divergence, Inventor WWX, Possessive LWJ, Cultivation Sect Politics, Pre-Sunshot Campaign, Fluff and Smut, Burning of the Cloud Recesses, Fall of Lotus Pier, Angst, Sunshot Campaign, Not JFM Friendly, split into parts, Part 1 complete, Part 2 complete, Original Character(s)) it is not completed though the author is updating about every month-ish and is split in parts within the fic itself.

The Beast of Gusu series by Netrixie (T&M, 212k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Eventual Happy Ending, Unreliable Narrator, Slow Burn, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Angst, Wolf-shifter WWX, Resolved Sexual Tension, Resolved Romantic Tension, Fix-It, Werewolf, Shapeshifters, Sunshot Campaign, Canonical Lan arm strength, Supportive LXC, Good Parent JFM, POV Alternating, Time Skips, LQR is a bad parent and so is QHJ, LQR Being an Asshole, Found Family, WWX is LXC's anger translator, Super Soft, Зверь из Гусу by Den_Allen) which has some supernatural elements as WWX is a wolf shifter but it is a fantastic story.

💖🔒 love, in fire and blood by cicer (E, 360k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, YLLZ WWX, Arranged Marriage, political scheming, Gratuitous Domesticity, Mutual Pining, EXTREME SLOWBURN, the inherent eroticism of the forehead ribbon, The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, neither wwx nor lwj want to be Perceived, but sorry kids! it’s gonna happen!, rated E but the the NSFW stuff doesn’t begin until chapter 19!, bottom LWJ in chapter 20 and 27, Mojo’s post)

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13. For ITMF!

Are there any fics in where lwj or wwx are trans, or for example mxy is trans and the other (or on this case both lwj and wwx) didn't know. and they get their period and freak out real bad.

I'm okay with everything, abo or whatever.

What the Water Leaves Behind by John_lzhc (T, 11k, WangXian, LJY & LSZ, WIP, Trans Male Character, Trans WWX, Menstruation, grief and morning, Hurt/Comfort, Marriage Negotiations, moderate shenanigans, asexual LJY, LJY third generation gremlin, soft italicised 'oh' moment) Not exactly what they asked for but close. Wwx is tranamasc, lwj knows but also goes full panic at wwx+blood

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14. In the mood for fic, where Lan Zhan is the one getting thrown into Burial mounds and becoming demonic cultivator. I wonder if there is such fic like that anywhere. Or even better, if there is Nie Huaisang getting thrown into there as well. Because the idea of demonic cultivator Nie Huaisang scares me more than any other character and I would love to read it.

Gold Blood Eyes by Loveable_Psychopath (T, 72k, WangXian, XuanLi, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon Divergence, Everybody Lives, Except the bad people, Dark LWJ, i guess?, He gets cursed and becomes a demonic cultivator, Established WangXian, Secret Relationship, Sentient Burial Mounds, Demonic Cultivation, Golden Core Reveal, Found Family, Character Study, Character Bashing, Implied/Referenced Child AbuseImplied/Referenced Torture, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Mental Health Issues, Communication, but also miscommunication, Twin Prides of Yunmeng Feels, YZY Bashing, JFM Bashing) I don't think Lan Zhan gets thrown into the Burial Mounds in either of these but he does become a Demonic Cultivator in Gold Blood Eyes and Until The World Embraces Me Home

Until The World Embraces Me Home by azri (T, 5k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, YLLZ LWJ, LWJ Has No Golden Core, Role Reversal, Not LXC Friendly, Not JC Friendly, Not cultivation world friendly overall tbh, Sunshot Campaign, Friends to Lovers, Temporary Character Death, WangXian Get a Happy Ending)

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15. INMF fics like a song in the shadows by alyakthedarklord, aka wwx gives birth to lsz but they get disconnected/think the other is dead when lsz is little only to be reunited when he’s a bit older

I'll Take Such Great Care of You by CheekyBrunette (G, 50k, WangXian, LWJ & LSZ & WWX, Modern, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Family Fluff, Family Feels, Domestic Fluff, Angst, LWJ Adopts LSZ, LSZ-centric, LSZ Needs a Hug, i think it's a canon-typical tragic backstory, so i will say there will be mentions of dangerous and uncomfortable situations from the past, but probably nothing worse than the source material, Panic Attacks, Claustrophobia, Nightmares, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Organ Harvesting)

All The Years Lost by UseMyMuse (T, 26k, WangXian, Teen Pregnancy, Angst with a Happy Ending, Single Parent AU, Forced misunderstandings, Forced miscommunication, Mpreg) All The Years Lost and The Winner Takes It All. Wei Ying and Lan Zhan's separations were forced by Yu Ziyuan in both stories.

The Winner Takes It All by YilingSani (M, 46k, WangXian, Modern AU, Single Parent WWX, Old Friends, One Night Stands, No Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, PTSD, Panic Attacks, Forgiveness, Second Chances, Inspired by Mamma Mia! (Movies) Teen Pregnancy, Mpreg, mention of miscarriage, Birth Trauma, amniotic fluid embolism)

Until The End by abCEE (M, 365k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, war changes people, resulting to OOC, no pinning, Established Relationship, Mpreg, Good Uncle LQR, a little grey LWJ, a bit of JC bashing from LWJ, BAMF JYL, 16 years of yearning, mainly CQL verse but has scenes from the novel as well, LSZ is WangXian’s Child, WWX Has a New Golden Core, Canon Rewrite, Happy Ending, Fix-It of Sorts)

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16. Hi I’m looking for any fics where Wangxian basically have Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan’s story. Like, Wangxian are the ones arranged to be married but they hurt / misunderstand each other etc. I remember seeing a fic like this one time but I never ended up reading it…

forever is home (with you) by moonsteps (T, 23k, WangXian, Arranged Marriage, Canon Divergence, Intimacy, Sharing a Bed, Strangers to Lovers, the inherent romance of the forehead ribbon)

🔒 In Agreement by kuro (T, 9k, WangXian, LXC & LWJ, Arranged Marriage, Canon Divergence, Fluff, Mutual Pining, Domestic Fluff, Developing Relationship)

the river and the sea by sasamelons (T, 7k, WangXian, Soulmates, Arranged Marriage, Misunderstandings, Angst with a Happy Ending, Idiots in Love, Falling In Love, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Mutual Pining)

🔒 Only with Time by adrian_kres (E, 66k, WangXian, WIP, Arranged Marriage, Modern with Magic, fast then slow burn, Mutual Pining, they each sort of think it's unrequited love, it's complicated, possible dubcon depending on your interpretation of events, please see the author's note for chapter 3, Hurt No Comfort, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, but it does eventually get better! promise!, WangXian Endgame, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, it is from the past only, no one is actively self-harming in this fic, unless you count the characters being really hard on themselves from time to time, often with good reason, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse)

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17. Itmf ur fav diverging aus!

🧡 Dispersing Clouds by dreamingofcake (E, 283k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Genius WWX, Inventor WWX, Not Jiang Family Friendly, Abusive YZY, Canonical Child Abuse, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Eventual Sex, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm (Background Character), Background Character Deaths, child deaths, Canon JC, Good Uncle LQR, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Cultivation Sect Politics, Homophobia, Heteronormativity, Feelings Realization, WWX is Not Oblivious) I swear I'm not a paid sponsor for Dispersing Clouds despite recommending it frequently. It's just that great of a divergent AU!

We Meet at the Thousandth Step by Admiranda, Rynne (T, 316k, WangXian, CSSR/WCZ, Canon Divergence, No Sunshot Campaign, CSSR & WCZ Live, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Different First Meeting, Night Hunts, Genius WWX, Inventor WWX, Plot, Romance, Drama, Fluff, Strangers to married, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Everyone Lives, Developing Relationship, Minor Violence, Case Fic, Mystery, Flirting, WWX’s Canon-Typical Flower Flirting, Arson, There Was Only One Bed, Getting Together, First Kiss, Meeting the Parents, Resolved Sexual Tension, Resolved Romantic Tension, WWX Is a Good Big Brother, New Relationship Bliss, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, Blood and Injury, Yiling siblings, Married WangXian, Honeymoon, Wangxian’s Baby Fever)

Lay my body down by tawaen (M, 48k, WWX & WQ, WWX & WN, wangxian, WWX & JYL, Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Eventual WangXian, No Golden Core Transfer, Not Cultivation World Friendly, Canon-Typical Violence, Not JC Friendly, What if WWX saw the first siege of the burial mounds and said Nope to the war, OCs, OC point-of-view for one chapter for plot reasons)

💖 Ghosts Shouldn't by ShanaStoryteller (Not rated, 15k, wangxian, canon divergence, grief/mourning, angst w happy ending)

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains by athena_crikey (T, 59k, WangXian, LXC & LWJ, LXC & JGY, Canon Divergence, Fix-it fic, Whump, Curses, Fever, Delirium, Stabbing, Loneliness, Confessions, LWJ’s emotional repression, WWX giving everything as always, LXC realising sympathy is not support, LQR Being an Asshole)

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[annalacerda17]

Jiang Cheng didn't treat Wei Wuxian with the dignity and respect any human being should be treated with, and that had nothing to do with what he knew or didn't know, because the moment Jiang Cheng found out about everything his reaction was not to think about Wei Wuxian in any way, he didn't think about how Wei Wuxian suffered, he didn't feel guilty about his attitude towards Wei Wuxian all these years, he didn't think about how the golden core transfer affected Wei Wuxian in any way. What he did do was blame Wei Wuxian for making him look like a clown. He got angry that he couldn't continue to blame Wei Wuxian for everything that went wrong in his life without looking like a clown. He was angry that from then on he couldn't continue to claim that Wei Wuxian owed him anything without looking like a fool. That's all Jiang Cheng cared about, so please don't come out here saying that his treatment of Wei Wuxian would have been different if he had known, because when he did find out, it didn't change anything.

Also, even though he didn't know the whole story, Jiang Cheng did know that Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning rescued him from Wen Chao's hands, that Wen Qing provided them with shelter and first aid and he believed he got a golden core back because of a favor that originally belonged to Wei Wuxian and that Wei Wuxian let him have, he knew that Wen Ning returned his parents belongings to him. But none of that mattered at all to Jiang Cheng, because Jiang Cheng is a person who only knows to demand gratitude from others. He is shown, on multiple occasions, to be incapable of feeling grateful to others.

The real reason Jiang Cheng treated Wei Wuxian in such an horrible way was because Jiang Cheng was and entitled person and he was jealous of Wei Wuxian. Jiang Cheng believed that as a clan heir he was naturally superior to others. This something he learned from his mother, and keep in mind that his father tried very hard to teach him otherwise. Because of this mindset, Jiang Cheng felt that everything others did for him was owed to him anyway because of his "superior status", so he never needed to feel grateful, but any small thing he did for others was seen a huge unpayable debt that he would never let go no matter what.

Jiang Cheng was spiteful, bitter, angry and entitled person who refused to take responsibility for his own life, insisted on blaming other people and Wei Wuxian especially, for everything that was unsatisfactory about his own life, threw tantrums everywhere when things didn't go his way and was incapable of showing gratitude where it was due.

Besides, Wei Wuxian was winning him a war, he was the main reason Yunmeng Jiang sect was able to recruit so many more disciples after and during the war (the book mentions that it was Wei Wuxian's the tales of exploits during that war that attracted disciples to Yunmeng Jiang sect), among many other things Wei Wuxian did for Jiang Cheng that Jiang Cheng did know about. Based on those points alone, anyone who had even a drop of leadership skills would treat Wei Wuxian with respect, dignity and grace. Any leader worth a damn would have valued Wei Wuxian and done his best to ensure his wellbeing, because Wei Wuxian's presence was good for the Jiang sect. Even Jin Guangyao mocked Jiang Cheng for being a a stupid and shitty leader and driving away his most powerful ally. The reason Jiang Cheng didn't value Wei Wuxian and instead lied to the leaders of the cultivation world saying that Wei Wuxian had declared himself the enemy of the cultivation world was jealousy (when all Wei Wuxian had agreed with for him to say was that he had left the Jiang sect, so Jiang Cheng was lying to both Wei Wuxian and the cultivation world, here).

Jiang Cheng felt inferior because Wei Wuxian was more talented, more charming, better looking, and a better leader than himself, and Jiang Cheng felt that he should be better because he was a sect heir and later a sect leader, and felt frustrated that everyone saw that Wei Wuxian was simply better than him. That's how the Jin sect manipulated Jiang Cheng, actually. They didn't threaten him, or blackmail him or anything of the sort. They just let Jiang Cheng listen to some people gossiping about how Wei Wuxian was so powerful and how he was more prominent that Jiang Cheng even though he was the son of servant who had no status. Gasp! And Jiang Cheng went ahead and turned against Wei Wuxian. Again, because Jiang Cheng was a jealous, entitled, bitter and angry fool.

None of that was on Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian didn't tell Jiang Cheng everything, but he had no obligation to bare his soul to him, and even if he had, it wouldn't have helped the situation because that wouldn't have changed what sort of person Jiang Cheng was. It didn't change Jiang Cheng's attitude later on. Like, even Jin Ling, an actual child, came to realize Jiang Cheng' attitude was wrong by the end of the novel. Jiang Cheng didn't need Wei Wuxian to bare his soul to him and tell him all his secrets. Jiang Cheng needed to grow the fuck up and learn the meaning of the word responsibility. Instead, he continued to act like a tantrum throwing child even as a grown ass man in his mid-thirties. That's actually embarrassing.

"jc didn't understand wwx".

no, and rightly so. because wwx decided to shut down completely and not let anyone know anything. that was his decision. because yes, we knew why wei wuxian did what he did and we understand him, but other people? other characters? they had no idea, not even the love interest knew what was going on with wwx. jiang cheng didn't knew shit nor did he have enough information until the very end of the story.

you can blame other characters for the decisions they made all you want, but don't pretend that wei wuxian's silence and stubbornness didn't influence these very decisions.

[plan-d-to-i]

Hey plan!!

i found this twitter thread

https://twitter.com/1ov31ac3/status/1492792973536411649?t=ymgKvN5DFn_uCqQ6Ckh2Wg&s=19

and i have to say op has reading comprehension for voicing out that the golden core issue shouldn't be about medical consent etc but how it was the result of jc & wwx's TOXIC relationship. because obviously how can anyone not point out how toxic jc is like he STRANGLED wwx and BLAMED wwx for the death of his parents. jfm and madam ew should know better that the wens could attack lotus pier anytime and that they're literally just waiting for an excuse to attack. jfm and madam ew had time to prepare, they should've known better when the NEUTRAL gusulan was burnt down by the wens 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

jfm & yzy seeing gusulan attacked unprovoked: ignorance is bliss, let's not prepare for an attack, the wens will surely spare us 😊

the wens coming to lotus pier: 🔪🔪

Lotus pier after wen invasion: 🏳

underestimating your enemy will not give you great outcomes guys 😊

Hi! (⁀ᗢ⁀)

lol YZY prepared by screaming at WWX and punishing him for saving her son and her BFF's son 😌 bc she's a super politically savvy strategist. /s

The "medical consent" thing has to be one of the dumbest arguments I've seen in this fandom and that's saying something... I absolutely agree that jc was a terrible person to have in one's life and should be avoided at all costs. I think it's important to remember though that the driving force behind WWX going through with the core transfer is that he'd promised JFM and YZY to take care of jc and jc had decided to unalive himself without his core. Likewise WWX doesn't tell him, not because he thinks jiang cheng would reject the core, but because he knows jc's competitive nature would make it hard for him to know where it came from.

"He wasn’t scared of death. He was only scared that after he died, he wouldn’t be able to save Jiang Cheng and betray the trust that Jiang FengMian and Madam Yu left him." (Chapter 60)

He remembered every single thing he promised Jiang FengMian and Madam Yu—to help and take care of Jiang Cheng. If someone as unhealthily competitive as him found out about this, he’d be dispirited his whole life, too tortured to face himself. There’d always be something he could never overcome, reminding him that he could only reach where he was because of another’s sacrifice. It wasn’t at all his cultivation and his achievement. No matter if he won or lost, he’d long since lost the right to compete. (Chapter 102)

It's not that WWX is insecure, or that he lurrrves jc so so much. In my opinion that diminishes how great his action was. He's driven by his morality, by his sense of duty, and the debt he felt towards JFM for taking him in to do this incredibly heroic, self sacrificing thing. Which is also how he tries to comfort himself whenever he starts to feel his loss too keenly:

The seventeen-to-eighteen-year-old Wei WuXian hadn’t been any less proud or competitive than Jiang Cheng. After all, he had been a prodigy once, gifted with exceptional talent. He could fool around all day, break curfew all night, and still perform way ahead of everyone else, including those who’d practiced and studied in earnest all day long. But whenever these thoughts plagued him during sleepless nights—that he would never again rise to the top using righteous, conventional practices, and that he would never again stun the world with his swordsmanship—he would instead imagine what would happen if Jiang FengMian had never brought him back to the Lotus Pier. Then, he might never have brushed shoulders with cultivation at all. He might never even know of the existence of this mystical, surreal world, and remained a street rat who only knew to run from dogs. Or he might have become a cattle herder who played flutes all day, stealing vegetables to scrape by. Either way, he wouldn’t have been trained in cultivation, and wouldn’t ever have formed a core to start with. Whenever he thought about it this way, he would feel much better.

Just pretend this to be a repayment, or an atonement. Pretend as if he never had the golden core to start with.

Once he’d said these things to himself enough times, he’d actually start to almost feel as unaffected about it as he was pretending to be. He could then even secretly praise himself a little for his at-least-half-genuine magnanimity.

But that was all a lifetime ago.

The point is that the core transfer is not about consent. It's certainly not about consent to jc. jc wants a core and gets a core. It's about WWX sticking to his morals and principles, no matter how little the reward and how hight the cost is to him. It's a very heroic sacrifice, and it looks very foolish when people try to twist it into something wrong or make jc a victim because it completely ignores the intention of the story.

[silverflame2724]

Not entirely happy with how this turned out but meh. It’ll do.

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The moment Wei Wuxian saw the theory on the golden core transfer was the moment he decided to use his own core to help Jiang Cheng.

But something stopped him.

It was a little faded, but in the corner was a note of how a core of different strength might not only fail to be transferred but also harm its recipient. It was an unproven theory, after all.

Wei Wuxian hesitated then. It was well known that he had always been stronger than Jiang Cheng. What if the strength of his core caused harm to Jiang Cheng?

He couldn’t allow that to happen. But what could he do? Jiang Cheng was wasting away and Wei Wuxian did not want him to get any worse.

What if you found someone willing? His mind whispered.

But he shook off the thought. Where would he find a willing transferee?

The Book of the Mind. His brain remembered absently. In the Lan library, there has been a book detailed with songs that could affect the mind. It even contained songs that could make a person pliant and willing.

Such thoughts made chills run down Wei Wuxian’s spine. How could he think of doing this to someone? Was he crazy?

Even if he did find someone, he couldn’t pick from any Wen stationed here in Yiling. Wen Qing would find out about it. He also needed to find someone of similar strength to Jiang Cheng.

Wei Wuxian worried his bottom lip with his teeth. And then made up his mind.

……………

He changed his clothes and hairstyle and informed Wen Qing that he’ll be careful. He’s just going on a night hunt.

Wen Qing looked suspicious but acquiesced as long as Wei Wuxian didn’t bring any trouble to them.

Wei Wuxian understood her worries and waved them off. He can be careful if he tries.

So he left.

………………………

Wen Qing was wary when Wei Wuxian had left on a supposed night hunt despite the ailing condition of his brother. Especially considering how Wei Wuxian had been looking at her golden core transfer theory.

She was worried but nevertheless could do nothing about it. As long as Wei Wuxian didn’t bring harm onto her or her brother, she didn’t care what he would do.

(Though, she would come to regret this line of thought soon.)

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Wei Wuxian returned and with him, a strange young man who seemed……odd, somehow.

“Wen-guniang.” The strange young man bowed. “Wei-gongzi has informed me of his plan to help his brother and I am willing to transfer my golden core to him.”

Wen Qing was dumbfounded. “Wha—” She wasn’t expecting this. “Why?” She asked carefully.

“I owe Wei-gongzi a life debt. And besides, I don’t want to be involved with the cultivation world anymore. This would kill two birds with one stone.”

Wen Qing glanced at the man and Wei Wuxian, who had been staring off strangely in the distance. “You are aware that this is an unproven theory, an untested surgery, yes?”

“Yes. Wei-gongzi has informed me.”

“Wen Qing, please.” Wei Wuxian spoke up. “Jiang Cheng can’t last…..”

“I…..no. Wei Wuxian and this…..gongzi. I am a healer. And I am unwilling to perform such a dangerous procedure that could possibly take your life. I can’t use anesthetics. It would interfere with the golden core.” With that, she stood up and walked out, the feeling of wrongness emanating from that young man not leaving her mind.

Where did Wei Wuxian even find someone like that?

………………

In the end, after a day and a half of begging, Wen Qing crumbled and agreed to the procedure. Wei Wuxian then fed Jiang Cheng a lie about Baoshan Sanren helping him and they were all off to a nearby mountain.

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The procedure was a success. Wei Wuxian breathed a sigh of relief. And the young man who offered his core survived too, but just barely.

It’s too bad, Wei Wuxian had thought. After all, that young man he had brought was one of the Wens that had raided Lotus Pier with Wen Chao. It was a surprise to see that guy nearby by but Wei Wuxian had taken a chance and used that song to make him pliant. After checking his core to see whether it was as strong as Jiang Cheng’s, he quickly fed lies to the young man’s mind.

Wei Wuxian was relieved to have seen that everything went smoothly. Though now, he had to somehow get rid of the man. Hmm, perhaps through an unfortunate night hunt? That was something to think of later.

For now, Wei Wuxian needed to get both him and Jiang Cheng to Meishan.

[wangxianficrecs]

💙 in payment, a hand by justdoityoufucker (orphan_account)

💙 in payment, a hand

by justdoityoufucker (orphan_account)

M, 10k, Series, Wangxian

Summary: “It was a kindness she didn’t take your right hand,” Jiang Yanli is the one to say, when she’s arrived with Jiang-shushu and he’s finally been taken to the healers. Not that the healers can do much. - Or, the one where Wei Wuxian's hand is taken. Kay's comments: I absolutely adore this series and I'm still heartbroken that justdoityoufucker orphaned all their works, but thankfully, the stories didn't get deleted and are still here for us to enjoy! This story has everything that I love: a fix-it that it's rooted in "it gets worse before it gets better", canon-divergence, Wen siblings feelings, Wei Wuxian finding his own path away from the Jiang Sect and Wangian finding their way together, it's the perfect package! It explores how the story could have gone, if Madam Yu had cut off Wei Wuxian's hand to save Lotus Pier and I love which directions it took. Excerpt: When Wei Ying wakes again, he initially thinks himself alone in the room, Wen Qing and Wen Ning’s beds neatly made up and the two of them not in eyesight when he pushes himself to sitting. He’s wrong. He’s not alone. There’s an achingly familiar white-clad form at the low table, sitting with perfect posture, writing with exact precision. Lan Zhan. Lan Zhan, he thinks the other boy’s name but he must say it out loud because Lan Zhan turns to him like a flower toward sun. He doesn’t know why, but upon the sight of Lan Zhan, upon the way his eyes soften with worry when he sees Wei Ying, Wei Ying bursts into tears. It’s all so much, too much, and he wants to go to sleep and wake up and have it be before all this, before his hand got cut off, before the Xuanwu, before everything. If he didn’t know better, he’d think Lan Zhan was starting to look worried about the sudden tears, which was a funny thought, but not funny enough to override the sudden realization of just how much his life has been ruined by those he once thought to be his family. “Wei Ying,” Lan Zhan finally says, standing and stepping forward until he’s right next to the bed. He hesitates for a second, then flicks his sleeves out and neatly sits there, on the edge of the bed, and doesn’t even flinch when Wei Ying collapses into him.

pov wei wuxian, canon divergence, fall of lotus pier, sunshot campaign, family of choice, found family, amputation, injury recovery, major character injury, jiang family dynamics, not jiang family friendly, implied/referenced abuse, love confessions, getting together, first kiss, self-reflection, angst with a happy ending, no golden core transfer, angst with hurt/comfort, recovery, weddings

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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.)

[jiangchengneedstherapy]

To be fair, while I do think JC consented to core transfer, I don't think he was someone who would find inconsistencies in a lie and put them together, he wanted a core, it didn't matter how and or who gave it, just having been told he'd be able to cultivate again he started eating and drinking again. I think at that time WWX could've said 'I found this ritual that can let you cultivate again' and the result would be the same, because how it happened didn't matter either to JC. The consent jc gave however is not in that, it was also not in taking WWX's 'favour' (in his pov) , the consent was when he agreed to wear a blindfold (won't know who would be doing the procedure) when he agreed to not ask questions (how it happened) and when he agreed to take up WWX's name and identity. He agreed to an unknown procedure that would give him the chance to cultivate again, WWX didn't lie about that, if we want to count a lie WWX did tell was that it would be the implication baoshan sanren would be the person doing it but even by that, blindfold means it could be anyone under bssr who did the surgery, not about the core itself. I feel the main argument against this is 'but he didn't consent to WWX's core" to which, its odd because that was not even a question? It's an unasked question 'do you want wwx's core?' it was never asked, we can make assumptions whether he'd refuse it or accept it, but since that question wasn't asked we can't say 'jc didn't consent to WWX's core or jc consented to WWX's core' Yea JC didn't consent to WWX's core, but he also didn't reject it either? Because that was not asked? He wanted a core, there wasn't a list of rejections who he wouldn't accept it from? This isn't even an argument in the context of the novel itself. I hate applying modern comparisons considering a golden core is not an organ or something without which a person would die, but since every argument that says jc didn't consent applies modern ethics its like, even from that perspective, if two characters were on the run, character 2 needed a kidney and character 1 said 'yea there is this place i remember vaguely as a child they'll be able to give you one, but you have to pretend to be me and wear a blindfold' character 2 agreed, and received a kidney, finds out years later the kidney was character 1's. Maybe if character 2 knew things would go differently, but in the circumstances it did happen, it wasn't without his consent, he wasn't tied down and given a new kidney, and by modern law the donors right to remain anonymous is very protected, the donor doesn't have to disclose anything they don't want to? So the question of but 'he didnt consent to character 1's kidney' or Jc didn't consent to WWX's core is so odd. And like look at JC's reaction to finding out, he doesn't think even remotely how he wouldn't accept it or why wasn't he told it's WWX's core because he'd reject it or something, but mad he wouldn't be able to compete with WWX any longer because its his core giving him the power to cultivate.

If I see the ridiculous argument that WWX was bad for not giving JC a choice in the golden core transfer I'm just going to round everyone up and force them to read the novel properly - curing you of your stupidity, clockwork orange style.

JC consented to receiving a new golden core...

There are two ways in which he may have consented, depending on which way you want to believe JC acted, but he very much gave consent either way.

So WWX tells JC he knows where Baoshan Sanren is... You think JC is that DUMB he believes this?! You think the fact WWX knew he had a lifeline the whole time he was starving and fighting for his life on the street, he never once thought - I know, I'll go see Baoshan Sanren, she'll look after me. Or the whole time he was being treated like a lowly servant and whipped for the most insignificant of reasons?! Give me a break!!!

JC either knew this was a total lie and did not ask questions, because he wanted a golden core and he did not want to consider how, who or why. This was consent. WWX fed him a story that was obviously a lie and JC did not point this out - he just took it, because he was desperate to have power once more. He did not give a 💩 where it came from or any real details. THAT'S CONSENT.

And if you think that JC is stupid enough to believe the glaringly obvious lie, then he still consented in taking something from WWX either way. How? Hmmm well JC took the only thing WWXs mother ever left him, her own son, to use if he should need it. He took it with a second thought, without any hesitation for taking something so precious and poignant to WWX. Something that was not his to take. He took it without any humility or grace, without a single word of thanks to WWX. He posed as the very boy his vile mother abused, he posed as the son of the very woman his jealous mother hated - all without any shame. He was greedy and had no thought for WWX. He consented in taking something so precious, it might as well have been his golden core either way.

So either way, WWX received consent from JC.

[chasing-classics]

Good Girl- Nate x Maddy x Reader (Smut)

Pairing(s): Nate x Maddy x Reader

Warnings: SMUT, initial dub-con, language

A/N: This was requested so it is slightly longer than my other fics because I wanted to make it as smutty and as well-written as I possibly could. I’m planning on writing more Euphoria fics, along with Mayans, On My Block, and a few more surprises. Enjoy!

Summary: You’re the new girl and immediately capture Maddy and Nate’s attention. After some time you and Maddy become best friends and you fall in love with her. Once Nate learns you’re a virgin, he knows exactly what to get Maddy for her birthday.

You knew, being the ‘’New Girl’’, that the attention would be on you for the first couple of days as you walked the halls of East Highland. The understandable nervousness of transferring to a new school in the middle of the school year filled your entire being, but you held your head high and tried to appear like you knew where the hell you were going. You quickly noticed the different ways people had began analyzing you. Some of the girls looked at you in confusion or envy, a few guys were catcalling you and trying to get your attention as if you were some golden retriever, others looked with mild interest or cocked their heads at seeing an unfamiliar face in their high school. Finally arriving to your locker, you tried working the combination so you could just get the day over with as soon as possible.

‘’Hey.’’

You looked behind your opened locker door, only to have to adjust your head to make eye contact with a very tall boy with the typical fuck boy type of smirk. You nodded your head towards him, making the effort to try and be polite.

‘’Hi,’’ you offered a small smile.

‘’You’re new here right? I’m Nate Jacobs,’’ he introduced himself as he leaned against the lockers.

‘’Is it that obvious? I’m y/n y/l/n.’’

‘’Yeah, just a bit. Not everyday a fine ass girl walks the halls of East High,’’ Nate grinned down at you. You scoffed and restrained yourself from rolling your eyes. You glanced behind Nate, noticing a very attractive girl with heavy eye makeup and plump lips walking towards your direction from the opposite entrance of the hallway.

‘’What about her?’’ you tipped your head over towards the girl’s direction. Nate followed your gaze and his smirk widened to the point you questioned if this guy was related to Pennywise. He let out a laugh, turning back so that he faced you.

‘’That’s Maddy, my girlfriend.’’

You felt the blood rush to your cheeks in embarrassment, stuttering to offer something between an apology and understanding. Nate just laughed, leaning closer to you.

‘’Relax y/n. She asked me talk to you. She wants you to sit with us at lunch-‘’

‘’Nate what the fuck is taking so long?’’

Both of you turned to face Maddy and you felt your heart literally skip a beat. She was fucking gorgeous, but something told you that she already knew that.

‘’Fuck Maddy calm down. I’m just getting acquainted with our new friend here,’’ Nate rolled his eyes, jaw clenching a bit. You could’ve sworn you saw a flash of anger in his eyes before he quickly adjusted himself and smirked down at you again. Maddy turned her attention to you, her full lips curving into a smile as she looked you over.

‘’I’m Maddy,’’ her eyes stopped a moment at your cleavage before she began analyzing your face, which you prayed wasn’t as red from embarrassment as you thought.

‘’Y/n, nice to meet you Maddy,’’ you smiled. All of your attention was on her at that moment, something Nate quickly picked up on. He knew Maddy was attracted to you and as possessive as he was, he couldn’t blame her. The moment you walked into the school all he could think about was bending you over the bleachers and fucking you raw. You met his mental criteria of what a woman should look like. You seemed pure, but there was a hidden fire behind your e/c orbs. You were shy enough that you seemed you’d be submissive in bed, but stubborn enough to make him fight for it. Nate knew you had Maddy’s attention when he saw the way she looked at you, because that was the same way she looked at him when they first met. What Nate didn’t expect was that your attention (and attraction) was directed towards Maddy and seemingly only Maddy. He’d have to fix that.

As the school year progressed you became extremely close to Maddy, therefore you had developed a sort of friendship with Nate and the others within your little group as well. You adjusted to your new environment, a fact your parents couldn’t have been more thankful for. You were getting straight A’s, had a group of friends you always had a fun time with, and you completely fell for Maddy Perez. You had dated before in the past and all were guys, but it never went past heavy makeouts. In short, you were a virgin and didn’t know the first thing about being intimate with anyone, let alone a girl. Maddy was obviously experienced when it came to sex, she told you as much and even if she hadn’t the hickies that would sometimes appear on her neck thanks to Nate confirmed it. It had stung a little, but you accepted it because you loved her so much and if that meant just having her in your life as a friend, that was better than not having her there at all.

‘’I need to talk to you.’’

‘’Nate what the fuck?? This is the girl’s lockeroom,’’ you shrieked, trying to cover your topless form with the gym shirt you previously had on. Thankfully, nobody else was in here to see this. You didn’t like the way Nate looked at you, like you were some defenseless little lamb and he was a starving, rabid wolf.

‘’I know what tits look like y/n,’’ Nate joked, but his eyes told you he was serious. His gaze on your barely covered breasts told you ‘be careful.’

‘’Get out Nate.’’

‘’Put your arms down,’’ he ordered, the atmosphere changing very quickly.

‘’Excuse me?’’ you scoffed, fighting the urge to shiver in the cold room. Where the fuck were the teachers? How the hell did he even get in??

‘’Put. Your. Arms. Down,’’ he repeated, taking a step closer to you. Your eyes shut and let out a low hiss when you felt the coolness of the lockers as your back was pressed against them. You looked up at Nate, brows furrowing in annoyance as well as fear.

‘’Eat shit-,’’ you screamed when he pressed his body against yours’. One of his hands clamped over your mouth as the other managed to hold both of your wrists above your head and pin them to the lockers. His eyes immediately fell upon your exposed breasts. The low moan in his throat was not lost on your ears.

‘’You’re a virgin, aren’t you?’’ his deep voice made you shudder. You didn’t respond, a million things running through your mind.

Suddenly Nate ducked his head and his lips wrapped around one of your hardened nipples. His leg kicked apart your trembling legs as his knee roughly rubbed against your core through his jeans and your gym shorts.

‘’A-Ahh N-Nate,’’ you whimpered, furiously blushing and struggling against him as he suckled harder, nipping at your breast as he pressed his knee against you harder. Just as soon as he had touched you, he pulled away with that infamous smirk of his on his face.

‘’Definitely a virgin.’’

‘’I’m going to scream,’’ you panted, trying to cover your boobs with your arms.

‘’No, I don’t think you will and I’ll tell you why. Maddy’s birthday is in a few days. I want to do something special for her,’’ you quirked your eyebrow in utter confusion.

‘’Friday night at 9:00 you’re going to go to this Motel off the freeway. I’ll text you the room number and everything. You’re going to wait on the bed like a good little girl in something sexy and me and Maddy are going to meet up with you. And then we’re going to fuck you.’’

Your jaw dropped.

‘’A-Are you out of your fucking mind-,’’

‘’No. I’m not. Maddy wants a threesome. I want to fuck you and her. So, if you don’t want me to tell Maddy that her best friend has a crush on her and if you want to risk losing your friendship, you’ll do what I say,’’ Nate put his hands on either side of your head, ducking down to meet you eye level.

‘’I-I-‘’

‘’Come on y/n. You’re a very smart and attractive girl. Live a little. I know you love Maddy, we both know she’ll never leave me. If I were to tell her that you were coming onto me behind her back, it would crush her and she’d hate you. You’d lose her in a heartbeat. But, if you play along you get to have her for a night. Isn’t that better than never having her at all?’’ Nate questioned, and you wanted to vomit. You knew Nate was an asshole, but never in a million years did you think you’d be in this situation. He was right, you loved Maddy and it would kill you if she thought you betrayed her trust. You weighed your options in your head, sighing in defeat.

‘’Good girl.’’

Friday came around quicker than you had hoped. You wrapped your arms around yourself as you glanced around the worn-down motel room. You felt dirty just by being here. ‘’I should just leave. Just run and pretend this never happened,’’ you huffed, grabbing your phone. The lock screen automatically appeared and you stopped to look down at the picture of you and Maddy smiling like total idiots at one of the school’s pep rallies. Just the sight of her smile filled you with butterflies and you couldn’t prevent the tiny smile that graced your own lips. Maddy was beautiful and, while you knew many found you attractive as well, she was just something else. She could never feel the same way about you as you did about her. She loved Nate, why would she leave him for a shy, inexperienced girl like you?

The jingle of the door handle quickly snapped you from your thoughts. You tossed your phone onto the nightstand and smoothed out the outfit Nate had bought for you. It was a very revealing silk babydoll, lace around your breasts so that it left little to the imagination and the bottom. You weren’t wearing a bra, per Nate’s instructions, and the only other thing you had on besides a matching lace thong were your stilettos. You were scared that your heart was literally going to beat out of your chest as you felt it in your ears. You clutched at the blanket as you sat at the edge of the bed. This was it. Not only were you going to sleep with your best friend and crush, you were also going to lose your virginity to her and Nate-fucking-Jacobs.

‘’Close your eyes,’’ you heard Nate instruct Maddy as he led her into the room.

‘’Open.’’

Maddy’s grin slowly fell as her eyes widened in shock. ‘’Y/n?’’ her eyes looked up and down your body. You felt naked even though you practically already were.

‘’Happy birthday Maddy,’’ you slowly stood, your hands smoothing out the babydoll as Nate was practically eye-fucking you. Maddy raised an eyebrow at Nate but when her gaze fell back on you the smile returned to her face as she approached you. She gently grabbed your hands in hers, your bodies a mere inch apart.

‘’You’re so fucking beautiful,’’ she whispered, eyes flickering over you. The way she looked at you was how you always wished she would and it filled you with the boost of confidence you so desperately needed right now. You pressed your lips gently to hers, the fire in your belly starting to ignite. She released your hands to tangle them in your hair as your kiss intensified. Your hands slowly glided up her body, brushing past her chest so that you held her face in your hands and pulled her deeper to you. You could feel the smirk on her lips as she lightly bit your bottom lip and sucked on it, drawing out the sweetest moan from you. You two were so caught up in your makeout session that neither of you noticed Nate approach you two.

Each of his hands cupped one of your ass cheeks, his fingertips grazing your pussy due to the lack of clothes you were wearing, causing you to let out a little whimper. You and Maddy broke apart as she began kissing Nate’s neck. Your eyes briefly met Nate’s but that was all the time he needed to get his message across; do what I say or else. You swiftly followed Maddy’s lead, kissing his chest up to his neck. You felt one of his hands capture yours and made you wrap it around his clothed dick and you were ashamed to admit the feeling of him hardening under your grasp set off a little spark deep within you.

Maddy was the one to unzip Nate’s pants, her lips crashing against yours as she pulled out his throbbing member. You were able to see a glimpse of it as yours and Maddy’s tongue explored one another’s mouths and you prayed it wouldn’t be you that would have to take him. His dick would actually split you in half. You and Maddy each took Nate into your hands, you not able to close your fist fully around his girth, and slowly began stroking him in tantum. Nate threw his head back, groaning as you two worked on him while you bravely took the initiative to suck on Maddy’s tongue. Her moans were music to your ears.

‘’Who gets top first?’’ Nate’s husky voice caused you two to pull away, the sight of your plump lips causing Maddy to bite her own.

‘’Me,’’ she declared, shrugging out of her birthday dress. Your eyes watched as she undressed, your clit throbbing just from the sight of her body. You felt Nate’s hands on your shoulders, and in a second he managed to rip the babydoll off your body so that all that kept you from being fully exposed was the lace thong. He cupped your breasts from behind, his cock pulsing against your lower back. ‘’Can’t wait to pop your cherry,’’ he growled in your ear as he kissed your neck, causing you to sigh in both arousal and fear.

Nate took his place on the bed, laying flat on his back as Maddy slowly sunk herself onto his awaiting cock. ‘’Ahh,’’ she moaned as she adjusted to his length, slowly rocking her hips on top of him. ‘’Y/n get up here,’’ Nate moaned as you slowly crawled to him.

‘’Sit on my face,’’ he ordered.

You blushed, hesitantly placing your legs on either side of his head as his hands gripped your thighs. You were facing Maddy, one of her hands on Nate’s chest for balance as the other pulled your chin in for another kiss. She swallowed your moans and cries when Nate shoved your panties to the side and thrusted his tongue into you. Maddy kept eating up your cries as Nate began lifting you up and down on his mouth as his tongue entered you. The initial resistance to him melted away and soon you were craving his mouth. You began rolling your hips against him and you felt his smug smile against your soaking pussy as he fucked your virgin hole with his tongue. Maddy’s moans filled the room, you could hear how wet she was as she rode Nate as if her life depended on it.

You pulled away from her mouth to watch as his cock filled her perfect pink pussy every time she bounced on him. You pulled her slightly towards  you so that your chests grazed each other’s as she continued riding his veiny dick while Nate held you rode his mouth. The friction between you and her made each of you cry out. Soon she placed your hand on her clit and she did the same to you, the action causing you to jerk against Nate’s tongue. The loud SMACK from where Nate slapped your thigh brought out a loud moan from you as Maddy worked your clit. You began moving your fingers against her clit, lightly pinching it.

‘’F-Fuck y/n,’’ she moaned, throwing her head back as her pussy clenched around Nate.

You didn’t know what was happening but the knot that had formed in your abdomen quickly tightened, Maddy teasing your clit as Nate ate you out was too much.

‘’I-I’m going to c-cum,’’ you moaned out, tears streaming down your cheeks as the pleasure was so intense it almost became painful.

‘’It’s ok, let go. Cum for us baby,’’ Maddy panted, her own release fastly approaching. Nate’s tongue wildly glided in and out of your tight heat, you crying out as white noise filled your ears, clenching Nate’s hand on your thigh as you came. Nate hungrily lapped at your folds, your juices tasting like complete and utter sweetness to him as he held your shaking body close to him.

‘’Ohh fuck!’’ Maddy cried out, squirting all over Nate’s cock and his abs.

You two were a sweaty, tired mess. Mascara lightly ran down both of your faces from crying from your orgasms. You pulled Maddy into a gentle kiss, helping her come down from her high. Hesitantly, you leaned down and licked some of the juices off of Nate’s abdomen, nipping at the birthmark on his abs.

In a flash you were on your back, lower half hanging off the bed, panties being ripped off of you. Your brain whirled from how fast Nate had positioned you.

‘’Nate, be gentle,’’ you heard Maddy, her long legs on either side of your head.

‘’She’s fine, more than enough lubed up.’’

You instinctively tried closing your legs when you felt the tip of Nate’s dick nudge at your folds, but his strong hands had wrapped your tired legs around his hips as he slowly thrusted into you. As hard as you came and as wet as you were the pain was unbearable. You cried out, holding on tightly as Maddy held your hands and soothed you with her voice. Nate’s hand rested on your lower belly, gently putting pressure as he began pounding into you. You whimpered, the sting still resonating in your core as he stretched you out. Your teary eyes opened and you opted to distract yourself from the pain the only way you could.

‘’Y/n,’’ Maddy moaned, her head resting against the headboard of the bed as you began kitty licking her sensitive pussy. This only encouraged Nate to savagely pound into you, grunting at how your virgin walls clamped around his aching cock. His hand gripped your tit as he leaned over you and bit into your breast, his thrusts shaking the entire bed as your tongue glided past Maddy’s lips, her hands gripping the blanket beneath you.

‘’Shit I’m gonna cum,’’ Nate grunted, the pace of his thrusts becoming erratic and sloppy as all you could do was take it. When you felt his thumb roll against your sensitive clit you cried out against Maddy’s soaking pussy. You struggled against him, trying to relieve some of the tension in the lower half of your body.

‘’Don’t fucking run,’’ Nate growled against your bouncing tits. Your muffled screams led Maddy to her second release as you coated Nate’s heavy cock with your juices.

That was enough to set Nate off, he quickly pulled out causing you to whine from the sudden loss as rope after rope of his thick cum landed on your chest and your face.

The three of you were an absolute mess. Maddy panting as she laid on the right side of the mattress, you in the middle covered in Nate and Maddy’s cum and shaking from the events that just transpired, and Nate standing over you as he looked both of you over. He soon took his place on the left side of the bed, pulling you up against his chest as you were sandwiched between the two of them. Maddy’s slender arms wrapped around your waist as Nate moved his arm to rest under your’s and Maddy’s heads, stroking her hair as you all slowly recovered. You turned to face Maddy, the sweetest smile on her face. You gently kissed her, your foreheads pressed against each other’s as Nate pressed against your back, his other arm thrown over the both of you.

‘’Best birthday ever,’’ Maddy smirked, yawning as she tucked her head into the crook of your neck.

‘’You were such a good girl for us y/n,’’ Nate’s voice rumbled from behind you.

‘’We should do this again.’’