#ghost!lwj verse

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Thanks for tagging me! I've been working on Ghost!Lan Wangji, sporadically, here's JWY and LWJ in the Ghosts' realm...

“Aw cutie, I’d take you if you wanted,” the white-haired ghost says, turning to Jiang Wanyin. “A week in my bed if I win, a week in yours if you do.” “No,” repeats Lan Wangji, resting a hand on Jiang Wanyin’s shoulder while he sputters for an answer. “Yeah, hell no,” he manages, finally. “Brat. If you break my silly disciple’s heart I’ll have to beat you up again,” says someone else ducking into the room from a small door in the back. He looks a little older than the first ghost, though he only has a single streak of white in his hair. He looks at Jiang Wanyin, coldly. “Be careful where you speak of hell, idiot boy.” “Old monster, my A-Xu would be there too, of course!” whines the white-haired ghost. His tone changes as he looks back at them. “The person that you’re looking for,” he says, thoughtfully. “He must be very important to you. This Zhen Yan will offer to help you find your person if you answer a simple question.” “Yes?” The white-haired ghost taps his closed fan to his cheek, looking somehow both coquettish and terrifying. “Are you looking for your zhiji… or his?” Jiang Wanyin can’t answer. Can’t make himself open his mouth to say mine, not when he knows Lan Wangji would echo it. He blinks when there’s only silence from the man at his side. When the silence stretches longer, Jiang Wanyin fills it. “His?” he asks. But Zhen Yan does not meet his eyes, he’s watching Lan Wangji with a strange smile on his face. Jiang Wanyin elbows him, quickly, and that just makes Zhen Yan laugh. “Ah, White-robed-gongzi, that is the wrong answer. Cute-gongzi,” he says, leaning forward a little, “Nice try. I hope you both find the person you’re looking for. Be careful not to let strangers in at the wedding.”

I'm tagging @ibijau, @marbleglove @vandrell @marsdiogenes, @mega-mathi and @ladyteldra Once again, no pressure, see you!

(Mya and Pearl, I have... been off tumblr so long I don't remember how to tag you!!!)

WIP Snip!

I was tagged by @tavina-writes 💜 I actually have more WIPs that are *not* for exchanges than I normally do? Wild

This WIP is titled "removing the mask" and it is a TGCF AU inspired by season 2 of the donghua where LQQ decides not to remove XL's mask (only here he does)

"Xie Lian isn't going to ascend again," Lang Qianqiu said darkly. "He's dead." The laughter of the other officials cut off immediately, and the silence that followed was heavy. "Dead?" Ling Wen asked, always seeking to make sure her records were the most complete. "Your Highness is sure the Crown Prince of Xianle is dead?" "Of course I'm sure," Lang Qianqiu bit out. "I killed him myself!" "You--!" That was General Nan Yang, Lang Qianqiu thought. He'd not made trouble with the martial god of the southwest in the years since he'd ascended. He knew there was little chance that the general had flaunted the rules of the heavens to help his former prince get revenge on Yong'an. But he'd kept his distance, not willing to make friends with a god from Xianle. "How dare you??"

Tagging @nemainofthewater, @kasasagi-eye (i still need to do the other one you tagged me in oops), @blondejaneblonde, @ilthit, and anyone else who wants to! (no pressure of course!)

[wangxianficfinder]

I'm in the mood for...

July 31st

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1. Hii I'm kinda new here but if you can help me it would be awesome!! So basically, I don't know if there really a fic like that exactly, but anything close is great. I'm looking for a fic where lan zhan locks wei ying (probably in the cloud recesses), and for some reason, wei ying can't see/has eye cover. The idea is based on the scene where lan zhan says he wants to take someone (wei ying) and hide this someone. Thanks a lot😁 @untamedlover

A Way Out by pinkquilts (E, 143k, WangXian, Angst with a Happy Ending, Living Together, Canon Divergence, Slow Burn, First Love, Locked In, Major Character Injury, Fluff, Sharing a Bed, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Tension, Drunken Shenanigans, WWX misinterprets literally everything, Miscommunication, Mutual Pining, Eventual Smut, Fix-It, Injury) Lan Zhan takes an unconscious Wei Ying back to Gusu and locks him in a warded cottage in A Way Out so it's close to the request but not quite what they ideally wanted.

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2. Hi! I would love recommendations for Wei Wuxian/Nie Mingjue if anyone has any! I loved “Better Things To Do With A Flute In Wartime” for the sexy times but mainly for the feeling like Nie Mingjue recognized that Wei Wuxian was more than just a troublemaker, he saw that Wei Wuxian was a strong, capable, smart man. Would love any recs people have for this duo! Thank you!

An Elegant Solution by giraffeter (E, 205k, niewangxian, canon divergence, arranged marriage, friends to lovers, fix-it, everyone lives au, courtship, polyamory, smut) unfortunately I don't have any nmj/wwx, it's nmj/wwx/lwj but I found the fic very enjoyable!

I’ll grow you a garden (in my fortress of stone) by Lyna_Mei (M, 16k, WIP, MingXian, Canon Divergence, CQL-Verse, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Cultivation Sect Politics, Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Past Child Abuse, Self-Esteem Issues, Genius WWX, Inventor WWX, Not Jiang Family Friendly, JYL is Not Angelic, No MY redemption, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Slow Burn, Age Difference, Sporadic Updates)

When Night Falls by aspiratixxn (M, 28k, MingXian, canon-divergent, depictions of war, mild nudity, Slow Burn)

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3. hi there. this is an itmf request for baoshan sanren coming down from her mountain and claiming wwx as her grandson/disciple. in front of gentry would be great, but other instances are also welcome. thanks for all your hard work!

Become Tomorrow by ShanaStoryteller (Not rated, 39k, wangxian, BSSR/LY, Alternate Universe, a story full of tragic pining gays, and one chaotic gremlin, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, WWX is BSSR’s disciple)

Can't Tell Me Nothin by natacup82 (T, 35k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, Everybody Lives, Family Feels, Communication, BAMF Women)

🧡 Ghosts Shouldn’t by ShanaStoryteller (Not Rated, 15k, WangXian, Grief/Mourning, Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending)

🔒Through the Storm by marhikit (T, 33k, WangXian, WX/OMC, Not JC Friendly, Canon Divergence, Not Madam Yu Friendly, Not Jiang Family Friendly, WWX gets big siblings that love and adore him, JZX ends up with someone different, No Golden Core Transfer, Creepy JGS, JZX & WWX Friendship, WWX in a different sect)

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4. Hi!! 👋🥰

It's me! I'm on vacation finally, I missed you all so much, but I couldn't read fanfics during my exams (it's too distracting). But now I'm free again, so I'm here to ask a ITMF! Yey!

Lately I'd like to read fanfics in which:

A) LQ discover about the absence of WWX's core and decides to help WWX and the Wens. And bring all of them to Gusu.

B) LQ discover about the abuse of Madam Yu and decides that WWX will stay in Gusu. (I love when this happens during the Cloud Recesses Study Arc, but it's ok if this happens in other moment).

I like happy endings, and I prefer when the good people live (Wens, JY, JC...) and only bad people dies. Long fics if it's possible, but shorts are ok too. No modern fics.

Thank you for everything! 🤟🥰💕 @wangxiansgirl

4A)

Righteous at a Cost by thunderwear (G, 21k, wangxian, LQR & WWX, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, no one dies, LQR finds out about WWX’s core, WWX and LQR are friends??, In My Fic?, its more likely than you think, LWJ in the bg like whats happening?, Fluff, WWX goes to Gusu, Mutual Pining, Golden Core Reveal)

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) Not quite the request, since it's LXC who ends up inviting WWX & the Wens to come to CR, but iirc LQR grudgingly agrees the Wens need help & can stay? So may be close enough to scratch that itch

Discordant Rhapsody by nirejseki (T, 49k, LQR & WWX, wangxian, JC & WWX, WQ & WWX & WN, LWJ & LQR & LXC, canon divergence, fix-it, hurt/comfort, trauma, politics, protective LQR, protective LWJ, protective WWX, LQR centric, whump, angst) 4a similar. It's been a while since I read the fic so I don't remember if there's an eventually Golden Core reveal, but it's not the reason LQR has for inviting WWX and the Wen to the Cloud Recesses. But hopefully this is similar enough that the requester will enjoy it anyway.

No Strings Attached by stiltonbasket (G, 3k, WangXian, NieLan,Canon Divergence, Fix-It, LQR is a good uncle, Smitten LWJ, Golden Core Reveal)

Righteous and Devoted by thunderwear (T, 7k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Golden Core Reveal, LWJ's POV, Barely Any Pining, thanks lqr, Fluff, lots of fluff, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies)

4B)

Lessons relearned by Iamnotawriter (T, 44k, WangXian, LQR & WWX, Not Madam Yu Friendly, Time Travel Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Inventor WWX, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, No Golden Core Transfer, YZY Bashing)

🔒🧡 rain falls and soaks into the earth series by RoseThorne (T, 57k, WangXian, WIP, Near Death Experience, Attempt Drowning, Madam Yu Bashing, Recovery, No war AU)

💙 Holding shreds by barisan (T, 5k, WangXian, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, No Sunshot Campaign, Body Swap, Not for sexy shenanigans, Chronic Pain, Hurt WWX, Hurt LWJ, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Abusive YZY, Bad Parent YZY, Bad Parent JFM, Good Uncle LQR, Hurt/Comfort, Medical Inaccuracies, POV WWX, Angst with a Happy Ending, Jiāng Family Bashing, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Getting Together, Smart WWX)

🔒 Warming up (to him) by barisan (T, 9k, LQR & WWX, WangXian, Hypothermia, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Temporary Character Death, Medical Inaccuracies, YZY Abuses WWX, JFM Bashing, pre-wangxian, Good Uncle LQR, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort)

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5. Hello everyone! I am on the search for case fics which are spooky and creepy! The kind of thing you would want to read to set the mood for Halloween, but it is actually July and thunderstorming and the wind is howling and you want to curl up with a scary story and a cat on your lap. Preferably everyone lives in the end, but I am down for angst or temporary character death in the in between. Thank you!!

You are what you eat by deliciousblizzardshark (E, 17k, WangXian, Graphic Depiction of Violence, Major Character Death, Canon Divergence, Eldritch WWX, Horny LWJ, Body Horror, Possession, of a sort, Cannibalism, kind of, Mild Gore, Teeth, When the eldritch abomination possessing you is less of a pining idiot than you are, I did not expect there to be so much fluff when I started writing a fic about an eldrich horror, Fluff and Humor, Smut, LWJ is so fucking thirsty, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Monster sex, Switching, Light BDSM, Rimming, Self-Lubrication, Seriousness treated Crackily, Implied/Referenced Torture, Dead WWX, Podfic Available) Eldritch horror!WWX

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)

爱不释手; never let me go by yiqie (E, 68k, WangXian, Case Fic, Blood and Injury, Demons, Body Horror, [Podfic] 爱不释手; never let me go by argentumlupine)

lan wangji sees dead people by mountainrain898

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6. Hi, I'm ITMF a fic where; (a) teenage wangxian meets adult wangxian maybe during cloud recess study arc and older wangxian time travel on purpose or accidentally and find themselves itn cloud recess (or something similar) (b) the other sects gather to plot against wei ying and they spy on burial mounds or find a way to view wei ying's memories (similar plot to seek and ye shall find) (c) do you know any au's where wangxian are professional gamers or play gaming competitions. @purplefuzzypickle

6A)

River Stones by littlesystems (M, 18k, WangXian, Time Travel, Post-Canon, Cloud Recesses Study arc, Junior Quartet, Oblivious WWX, Suffering LWJ, Voyeurism)

How did I end up with this Frozen Heart? by Grace_ShadowWolf (TaubeLePigeon) (T, 53k, WIP, WangXian, Time Travel, Fix-It, PTSD, Angst with a Happy Ending, YP!WWX, twin prides of yunmeng are horrified at the relationship between their future selves, YP!WWX has short hair, Canon Divergence, Self-Indulgent, wangxian get together early, Songfic, JC Bashing, LXC Bashing)

Timely by apathyinreverie (T, 8k, WangXian, Time Travel, Domestic WangXian, Fluff, Fix-It, Post-Canon, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, Mutual Pining, wwx is sunshine personified, Smitten LWJ, Genius WWX, Romance) I'll also throw in Timely which just has Lan Wangji's spirit traveling from his teen years to when he's married to Wei Wuxian.

6B)

💖 The Path by Seastar98 (Not Rated, 279k, WangXian, CQL Verse, Golden core reveal, Fix-it of sorts, Angst with a happy ending)

6C)

simping for hanguang-jun by defractum (nyargles) (T, 6k, WangXian, Modern AU, YouTubers WangXian, Fluff, Among us game, Streamer AU)

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7. Hello, could you please recommend works where WY and LZ meet for the first time when they are older. For example over 30.

Thank you!

The Fault in Our Stars by Vamillepudding (T, 17k, WangXian, Modern AU, Getting Together, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Misunderstandings, the title makes it sound like a cancer story, it's not a cancer story)

International Baby by AceBij (E, 21k, WangXian, Modern AU, Pilot!LWJ, CFO!LWJ, Regional Manager!WWX, CEO!LXC, CEO!JC, CFO!JYL, Secretary!WQ, Meet-Cute, baby!A-Yuan, baby!JL Mpreg, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Carrier!WWX, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Mild Hurt/Comfort, WWX's canonical breeding kink, LWJ's Canonical Breed WWX Kink, Communication, Implied/Referenced Sexual Harassment, It's only at the start and will not go into much detail, Love confessions)

Deep Dive by MimiSpearmint (E, 24k, WangXian, Modern AU, Twin Prides of Yunmeng Feels, Are Bad at Communicating, LWJ is a Panicked Gay, Therapy, Fluff and Humor, Getting Together, Angst with a Happy Ending, Career Ending Injuries, counsellor!lwj, give lwj friends agenda, background NieLan, Melbourne, Eventual Smut, Crack, Baby JL, domestic abuse is discussed but does not happen, Baby LSZ, Baby LJY, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Good Sex Practices, Implied Slight D/s, WangXian Have a Breeding Kink, Cameos by various minor characters)

Breathless by tiptoe39 (E, 69k, WangXian, Fashion & Models, Modeling, Getting Together, drunk lwj, Cranky LWJ, Model!LWJ, stylist!wwx, Happy Ending, WangXian Endgame, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst and then fluff again, Mustache-Twirling Villainy Just Off Camera, JYL Deals With So Much Brother Shit, LWJ Is Working Through His Own Shit, WWX is WWX, LWJ's Bunny Obsession, MianMian Is In Charge of Shoes, JC's Issues Have Issues)

不屈从于天 | not submitting to fate by starborst (E, 20k, WIP, WangXian, BAMF WWX, God!wwx, dream of red tower, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, but loosely based, there's a lot of oc characters & gods, Character Death, time skip, from when wwx was dead and also a god, lots of landscape description, it'll be really really slow paced) Technically it's god!WWX meeting reincarnated!LWJ bit if it's just about their relationship then this might fit! LWJ shows up at the end of chapter 3 and chapter 4 is basically just about their interactions in different situations. Might also fit for #10, seeing as LWJ is a reincarnation (I asked to make sure)

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) I can't remember how old Wei Ying & Lan Zhan are in We Meet at the Thousandth Step but I'm quite certain they're at least in their mid- to late-20s when they meet.

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8. itmf a wangxian fic where Jin Guangyao is forced to apologize to Lan Xichen for tricking into helping with Nie Mingjue's murder. Preferably a fic where wangxian comfort him afterwards. Any lxc ship is OK (xicheng, nielan, xiyao), I just want Lan Xichen to get a proper apology and for jgy to acknowledge how truly messed up it was and accept responsibility for being an asshole to poor lxc (and nmj tbh)

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9. Hello! For your next ITMF, could you find me some baby trapping fics please? Whether LWJ traps WWX or WWX traps him 🤗

(and I'd love you forever if you manage to find a fic where Lan Qiren think Wwx is baby trapping his precious cabbage and either it's all Part of LWJ's Plan or the baby was a mutual decision from the both of them)

Thank you!!

truly a love story for the ages by sweetlolixo (E, 4k, WangXian, Modern AU, Dark LWJ, Dark WWX, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, Dark!Wangxian, Power Couple, Happy Wangxian Ending, slight daddy kink, Humor, Crack, Pregnant WWX) Of course I gotta rec the mutual baby trapping fic

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10. Do you have a comp fic of reincarnation? If not can you make this for next ITMF? (No comp as of yet though it is on the list! ~Mod L)

不屈从于天 | not submitting to fate by starborst (E, 20k, WIP, WangXian, BAMF WWX, God!wwx, dream of red tower, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, but loosely based, there's a lot of oc characters & gods, Character Death, time skip, from when wwx was dead and also a god, lots of landscape description, it'll be really really slow paced) (link in #7) Technically it's god!WWX meeting reincarnated!LWJ bit if it's just about their relationship then this might fit! LWJ shows up at the end of chapter 3 and chapter 4 is basically just about their interactions in different situations.

the recluse at the end of the moonlit path by beesinspades (T, 28k, WangXian, Modern AU, Reincarnation, Post-Canon, Jack of All Trades Artist WWX, Immortal! LWJ, Mutual Pining, Light Angst, Reunions, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied Sexual Content, Asexual Character, good vibes, [Podfic] the recluse at the end of the moonlit path by b_ofdale by Beria1021)

🧡 We Were Never Strangers by NeverEnoughWangxian (M, 36k, WangXian, Modern AU, Reincarnation, Modern Cultivators, POV WWX, (mostly), College Student WWX, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Immortal LWJ, Immortal LSZ, Dreams, Pining, Sharing a Bed, brief mentions of wwx's past death(s), WangXian.mp3, Getting Together, I guess getting back together technically, Happy Ending, Sexual Tension, Sexual Content)

🧡 All Old Things are New Again by The Feels Whale (miscellea) (M, 51k, WangXian, Reincarnation, Modern AU, canon still happened, extreme post canon, Sugar Daddy, Kink Negotiation, gentle dom!LWJ, canonical levels of consent play, Modern Cultivators, cultivators can recognize important people from previous lives, vaguely, this started out as a cute sugar fantasy and got just incredibly horny very fast, blame LWJ)

忘不了你的爱 (can't forget your love) by PorcupineGirl (G, 25k, WangXian, Time Travel, Modern with Magic, Modern Cultivators AU, Canon Divergence, Time Traveler WWX, discussion of canonical character deaths, a whole lot of handwaving, conveniently localized fires, Discussion of Canonical Suicide Attempt, mostly happy but slightly bittersweet ending)

Closer Than Eternity by Netrixie (T, 26k, WangXian, Modern AU, Reincarnation, an unhealthy addiction to starbucks, Immortals, cultivation is -kinda- commonplace, Self-Doubt, POV Alternating, Minor Original Character(s), Canon Compliant, Post-Canon, Temporary Character Death, Angst with a Happy Ending, not for jc fans, This is not a reconciliation fic)

Have We Met Before by thelastdboy (T, 7k, WangXian, POV WWX, Modern: No Powers, First Meetings, College/University, Reincarnation, Strangers to Lovers, Slow Burn, Getting Together, Developing Relationship, Love Confessions, First Kiss, CSSR and WCZ Live, WWX Has a Family, Older Sibling WWX, Queer Themes, Demisexual WWX, Parent-Child Relationship, Friendship, Heteronormativity, Pining WWX, Fluff, Madam Lan Lives)

living in my memory/living in my mouth by tardigradeschool (T, 32k, WangXian, Reincarnation, Canon Divergence, College/University, Modern with Magic, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Sharing a Bed, Nightmares, Light Angst, Epistolary, (sort of), POV Alternating, Mutual Pining, Friends to Lovers)

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11. hi everyone! I am looking for modern cultivation aus where, this may sound redundant but ya know, cultivation is used in tandem with modern living. For example, I really liked in “The Shade of Old Trees” by Kryal how WWX used his cultivation to do sick tricks on a skateboard. Or in "Truth Will Out" by KizuKatana how the night hunts were filmed and uploaded to an internet forum. So yeah! Cultivation working with modern things, cool magic in tandem with modern science and tech. thanks tlm!!

speeding up my heartbeat by plonk (Not Rated, 24k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, Gyms) has cultivation specific gyms and sports, with WWX doing cultivator level parkour

🧡🔒Night of the Living History (an edutainment special!) by Aerlalaith (T, 51k, WangXian, Modern with Magic, Workplace Relationship, Fluff and Humor, Museums, living history, Some Plot, Slice of Life, Injury, a minor haunting) has cultivation working (or not, as the case may be!) alongside modern tech

A Different Yarn by donutsweeper (T, 1k, WangXian, Urban Fantasy, Yarn store AU, Modern with Magic, Modern Cultivation) it's really short but in it knitting and crochet is used for talismans

Hear a song this deeply by so_shhy (T, 87k, wangxian, modern cultivation, academia au, music, kid fic, action/adventure, canon-typical violence, canon-typical JGY behavior, slow burn, fluff & angst, happy ending) has modern cultivation history researcher LZ and municipal cultivation employee WWX working within (or not, on occasion!) modern day cultivation rules, laws, and customs

and so my heart beats wildly by lily_winterwood (E, 106k, WangXian, JYL/JZX, Modern Cultivation, Rivalry, Competition, Competition-Set Fic, Athletes, Multimedia, Miscommunication, frenemies to lovers, Rivals to Lovers, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Seemingly One-sided But Actually Mutual Pining, Oblivious WWX, Competitive Cultivation, Anal Sex, First Time, Angst with a Happy Ending, Olympics, Inappropriate use of an Olympic gold medal, Breathplay, Rough Sex, Food Porn, Tanabata, Lily's back on her Qixi bullshit, Switching, Bottom LWJ) has cultivation Olympics

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12. Hi all! Im in the mood for Jiang yanli bashing! I want her to also be angry and entitled like Jiang Cheng and then get, well, bashed for it!

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 wouldn't say she's angry, but she very much expects WWX to be a doormat for the sake of keeping things how she is used to them being

Hua Xianle by Tiffany_Guinne (Not rated, 260k, hualian, wangxian, TGCF, canon divergence, not Jiang friendly, madam lan lives, WWX adopted by hualian, WWX with different name, overprotective hualian, hurt WWX, WIP) crossover with TGCF, Hualian raises WWX, plenty of Jiang bashing all around

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13. for the in the mood for, may i have your most gutwrenching jiang cheng & wei wuxian sibling hurt/comfort please. preferably with reconciliation. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

ransom by alessandriana (G, 3k, JC & WWX, Hurt/Comfort, Dizziness, Fainting, Character is Injured while Protecting Another, Yunmeng Shuangjie, Yunmeng reconciliation, [PODFIC] ransom by Gwogobo) 

love lies beyond words by acrosticacrumpet (G, 4k, JC & WWX, Post-Canon, Whump, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, canon-typical dysfunctional relationships, Yunmeng Shuangjie Reconciliation, not a completed reconciliation but the beginning of one, Twin Prides of Yunmeng Feels, Self-Worth Issues, WWX's notoriously poor self-worth vs JC's legendary rejection sensitivity: FIGHT, painful conversations with a tasteful smidgeon of, Cuddling & Snuggling)

we’re starting at the end by Miss_Enthusiasimal (M, 92k, WangXian, JC & WWX, Time Travel, Canon Divergence, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Golden Core Reveal, Burial Mounds, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Starvation, emaciation, Cannibalism, Self-Harm, Amputation, Suicidal Thoughts, Sunshot Campaign, let JZX and WWX be friends club)

JC and WWX's Get Along Sweater series by newamsterdam (T, 29k, JC & WWX, Trapped In A Closet, Cultivation as Plot Device, Reconciliation, Miscommunication, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Panic Attacks, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Novel Spoilers, Post-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Night Hunting, Ghosts, Action/Adventure, Brotherly Love, Complicated Relationships, Yunmeng Shuangjie)

In The Dark Right Now by phnelt (T, 10k, WangXian, graphic depictions of injuries, trapped in a cave, Near Death Experience, fatalistic thinking, established wangxian, Family Feels, mention of unnamed illness of an offscreen character, Nobody dies in this fic, Alternate Universe - Modern AU, jc and wwx are caved in and lan zhan talks to them through the radio, Hurt/Comfort) if modern AU is acceptable

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14. For the next itmf, can you please recommend to me some fics where Jiang Cheng raises both Jin Ling and Wen Yuan . Preferably where both or at least A-yuan knows his father is Wei Wuxian

What Remains After the War by Swan_Song (T, 44k, JC & JL, JC & LSZ, JL & LSZ, WIP, Canon Divergence, LSZ is a Jiang, Good Uncle JC, Cousins JL & LSZ, JC Needs a Hug, JC Needs Therapy, The juniors solve a mystery, Junior Ensemble Shenanigans, Good Uncle LQR, he tries his best, LSZ Needs a Hug)

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15. itmf fics where instead of lan xichen, lan wangji becomes sect leader/king/emperor/etc. With happy ending for wangxian! Any length and rating works and if there's smut, can I get top plan wangji please? And nothing where lan wangji is with someone else romantically/sexually even for a bit in the course of the fic I don't have any other triggers/squicks!

The Wrong Man by Remma3760 (Not Rated, 103k, WangXian, WIP, Sect Leader LWJ, Evil JGS, Canon Divergence, Golden Core Reveal) Not exactly LWJ becoming sect leader *instead of* LXC, but does have LXC getting killed off in chapter 1, & LWJ becoming sect leader & instituting sweeping reforms. Still a WIP but the main story is over & is a happy ending (WWX is actually alive in this, so no having to wait for resurrection)

I Am Happy I Met You by Bhargavee00 (Not Rated, 34k, WIP, WangXian, Get a Happy Ending, Sect Leader LWJ, Chief Cultivator LWJ, Dragon LWJ, Top LWJ/Bottom WWX, Madam Lan Lives, Minor Madam Lan/Qingheng-jun, Qingheng-jun, Lives, Dark LWJ, Protective LWJ, Protective Gusu Lan Sect, Protective LXC, Protective LQR, Good Uncle LQR, WangXian Are Soulmates, WWX Goes to Gusu, Yunmeng Jiang Sect Bashing, Jiang Family Bashing, LWJ is So Whipped, Older LWJ, Good Older Sibling LXC, Sunshot Campaign, No Golden Core Transfer, WWX is a Lan, WWX is So Whipped)

The Straightest Path by meyari (T, 30k, WangXian, NieLan, MingLi, ChengSang, war and death, Grief/Mourning, Politics, plotting for neuroatypicals, Autistic LWJ, WWX Has ADHD, Non-Canon Relationship, No Yīn Iron, Sect Leader LWJ) LXC and LQR die leaving Lan Zhan to becoming Sect Leader

🧡 Discarded by teawater (E, 260k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Dying Lan children, Hurt/Comfort, YL WWX, Golden Core Reveal, Case Fic, Depression, Family Issues, Self-Esteem Issues, Self Confidence Issues, Self-Worth Issues, Angst with a Happy Ending, and it's not always dark, POV Multiple, BAMF WWX, dubious morals in the Lan sect Feels, Pining, Grief, Fix-It, BAMF LWJ)

golden when the day met the night by glitteringmoonlight (Not rated, 95k, slow burn, sugar daddy LWJ, light, angst, fluff, developing relationship, eventual smut, WIP)

Temptation by Karmiya (E, 23k, WangXian, JYL & WWX, WIP, Sect Leader LWJ, domestic abuse) LXC dies after the Sunshot Campaign and LZ becomes Sect Leader

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16. Hii!! does this count as an itmf? if anyone knows a fic where LZ gets married or bethroted during the thirteen years but then WY comes back anything like that ?? if it doesnt it definitely should ill take anything similar tho @yesibest

patching the road with vague intentions by loosingletters (T, 39k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Humor, Developing Friendships, WWX Resurrected By Others, Trans WWX, Case Fic, POV WWX, POV LQR, Family, Good Uncle LQR, Hurt/Comfort, Golden Core Reveal, Slow Burn, Canon-Typical Violence, MXY Lives) To be fair, LWJs wife is the one who summons WWX into her body so it might not fully fit

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) For 16, if what you're looking for is wangxian struggle with their feelings for each other post ressurection while lwj is already commited to someone else, you might like Love Song in Reverse where WY comes back but without his memories so he believes he's MXY and he and LZ navigate their feelings while LZ is still commited to his feelings for WY.

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17. for the next itmf what about a fic from when lwj and jc are searching for wwx when he was in the burial mounds

in our respective ways by Lise (T, 5k, JC & WWX, JC & LWJ, Missing Scene, Bonding, (sort of??), POV JC, Canon Compliant, that brief period of time when lwj and jc were solidly on the same page, JC's jealousy could be a third character, Twin Prides of Yunmeng Feels, Brothers, Canon Era, Not Friends to Still Not Friends, canon typical abuse of pows)

waiting, shivering by kornevable (T, 2k, JC & WWX, Introspection, Missing Scene, background wangxian)

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[lmao-ooooooo]

new god by moon walker has been stuck in my head all day and as always i found a way to wangxian it haha

lwj visits the bm and the ghosts basically sing the chorus to him with his mother and wwxs lives, showing how the 'old gods' failed them (ref to the last verse "raise your boys to be sons and your girls to be daughters" bit)

then he kills the bad people who fucked up their lives (he just barely spares his uncle and brother, but hes taken over the lan clan and gets rid of a lot of dumb rules + punished lqr and lxc) he uses all the people he killed to bring back wwx to show him how well he honoured his death. he manages to bring his body back into one piece but the body has no soul. this is when he finds out wwx ascended and became the god of the dead and justice. the god has a few shrines but none with his face showing and he wants to see his beloveds face.

so he builds a new shrine in the burial mounds, where his body is kept and preserved. people try to burn the shrine bc the drasted yllz will never be a god to them! but lwj kills them all as well.

word goes around that the benevolent hgj is building and worshipping the god of death and justice and they think this god has taken their hgj under his wing.

wwx who just woke up in heaven as a god is very confused. as to whats going on. like what do the other gods mean that the man he who was supposed to hate him reseructed his dead mortal body and built a shrine for him while deathly injured with his own two hands?

what is lwj DOING??????

wwx dosent remain very confused for long because lwj spends a long time nearly every night repeating "wei ying" and "i love you" and "i did this for you" and "i avenged you" repeatedly.

so wwx goes to investigate, taking on the form of 'mo xuanyu' when the man dies sacrificing himself to kill his relatives and the two finally reunite.

[petirrojo57]

2022 Top Reads on AO3

I find it really hard to pick favorites when I have read so many good/great/fascinating stories but here goes (and apologies in advance to my lovely writers who I have not mentioned but adore all the same). Let me add that these are all in the #MDZS #MoDaoZuShi fandom, and almost entirely #WangXian centric

The one with the toast (or more accurately, no toast) the earthquake in the room - phnelt - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Lan Zhan saves the Most Beautiful Man in the World (aka Wei Ying) from horrible dog and learns about love  leave all your love and your longing behind - Chapter 1 - ScarlettStorm - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Have a little post-apocalyptic wangxian as they figure out how to repopulate their world  When the Sky Settles and I'm Still Here - Chapter 1 - celerydragon - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Grad school’s expensive, all the more so when your mother cuts you off - it’s duck research and sugar daddy for Jiang Cheng November Baby - Chapter 1 - astrophyllite - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Granny Wen gives the best presents in this comical wangxian tale A Game of Chance - thievinghippo - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

WWX and JC co-parent JL and run a grocery store, LWJ runs a martial arts studio where JL takes classes, they meet and it’s meet cute The Way of the Golden Lotus - Chapter 1 - DizziDreams - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Modern wangxian arrange a casual meetup that becomes something special cold green summer night - Chapter 1 - Pettecal72 - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Short 2-parter modern wangxian in which LWJ helps WWX understand why he’s accident prone

misunderstood 'verse - sysrae - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Canon-ish AU in which ‘MXY’ copes with feelings for LWJ who was married (it seems) and is not certain how he can compete against a dead love

Love Song In Reverse - Chapter 1 - timetoboldlygo - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Excellent long-running series concludes: beginning at canon-era meeting of LWJ & WWX and from there diverging with elements of magical creatures, even time-travel - all highly creative Magical Marriage Ribbons - starandrea - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon) [Archive of Our Own]

Modern setting in which LWJ helps his mother post-accident paired wings soaring - Chapter 1 - typefortydeductions - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Post-canon, NHS can’t figure out how WWX turned up sad and alone in Qinghe & does something about it Story-Shaped - Chapter 1 - lingering_song - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Modern setting, LWJ arranges for WWX to house-sit for him and finds he likes the company All the ways that you remain - Spodumene - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Medium WWX helps LWJ with his murder ghost in this modern AU come to the harbor of your longing - Chapter 1 - occultings (microcomets) - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Highly evocative, SE Asian setting for this AU (made me want to try durians) 流连忘返 | cat mountain king - Chapter 1 - auberjing - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Spooky little casefic with ghost-seeing WWX helping LWJ with his family history evening sun - Chapter 1 - grapesoda - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

[nillegible]

The shrine was tiny. A very tiny thing, small enough perhaps for just one slender person to squeeze inside beside the narrow altar to get safely out of the rain. Or it must have been, once. The shrine’s roof had to pieces, and the sagging, broken roof can’t have kept out rain in decades. Wen Ning, like everyone else, had always known that it was there - but as there was no spiritual or resentful energy concentrating at it, and it was such a small shrine, the Wen sect was content to leave it alone. Seeing it now, it makes Wen Ning’s heart ache, a little. Like the shrine is as tiny and alone as he is, hiding here without anyone to care for it.

(“A-Ning, don’t be silly,” A-jie would say if she was here and saw him moping around. “If you’ve got enough time to be miserable then you have time to help,” she’d say, and give him dried herbs to sort and fill into sachets, or simple poultices to mix. But she had to go to the Nightless city, Uncle wanted his personal physicians to test A-jie’s knowledge of medicine because she’d been making a name for herself, even at fifteen years old. Wen Ning could have gone too, but the thought of spending a month within Wen Chao’s reach had been too frightening.)

It really is such a sorry, lonely looking shrine, the leaf litter and grime of years accumulating so that he can’t even make out the statue’s face. ‘If you’ve got time enough to be miserable, then you have time to help,’ his inner A-jie insists, so Wen Ning hurries home to gather supplies.

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For all that it’s a small shrine, it’s dirty enough that it takes Wen Ning the rest of the day and multiple trips to the closest stream just to clean it all up. He has to get rid of the leaves and mud and dirt, and then scrub everything over three times just to get the years’ worth of accumulated filth off. It’s a bit sad that no one had cared in so long, but the cleaner it gets, the more obvious it becomes to Wen Ning that someone had cared once. The statue is beautifully made, a young man with a kind and gentle face, holding a sword in one hand and holding up his other hand with fingers curled like he’d been holding something with that hand as well. He hadn’t found any other object amongst the leaf litter that would fit. Perhaps someone had stolen it from the shrine? They’d probably taken the other artifacts of the shrine that also seem to be missing.

Wen Ning tells himself that it hardly matters, the shrine looks so much nicer already. While the shadows are stark, the crimson sunset sky doing little to pierce through the leafy canopy sheltering the shrine, but a few rays make it through, lighting up the gentle face of the statue. With a last polite bow, Wen Ning makes his way outside, leaving a silent promise to bring incense here when he can.

He’s not far from the shrine when he sees a butterfly, shining as if lit with moonlight. The moon won’t rise for hours more. The sun isn’t even fully beyond the horizon. And yet, it glows with a gentle white light, fluttering self-importantly. Unsure why, but able to gather that the butterfly wants him to follow it, Wen Ning does. They don’t go far before the butterfly finds what it’s looking for; a simple white flower. The gentle glow of the butterfly reflects off the flower, making it look rather otherworldly.

Wen Ning stares for a few moments, while the butterfly flutters insistently.

“F-for the shrine?” he asks, and the butterfly does a happy circle around the flower. Wen Ning kneels down to pick it.

The butterfly follows him all the way back to the shrine, and hovers like a night-pearl as Wen Ning settles the flower into the idol’s hand.

It fits perfectly.

(Appeased, the little creature flies up to rest atop the lintel, it’s glow fading to just a faint glimmer.)

[wangxianficrecs]

Fic Finder

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1. Hey Mojo! I hope you had a good New Year! I was wondering if you could help me find a fic. Basically instead of Wen Chao throwing Wei Ying in the Burial Mounds he has him killed and hung from his ribbon in Nightless City. Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji find him, but Wei Ying is a resentful spirit and ends of possessing Jiang Cheng (with his permission I think) in order to finally get his revenge on Wen Chao. I've been looking everywhere and its like the fic just disappeared. Thank you for your time!

FOUND? Missing Pieces by LixyStrange (T, 10k, WangXian, ghost, Death, Revenge, biggest fear, Dogs, hounds, Gore, Dismemberment, revenge is a dish best served searing hot, Heartbreak, Hurt No Comfort, Bittersweet Ending)

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2. Hi.  I'm searching for a fic which may or may not be a part of a series. What I remember is that LQR is teaching WWX and is irritated by him. WWX has also adopted A-Yuan. LQR is teaching because his core has some problem. It is a modern AU. IIRC LQR convinces WWX to write a thesis.  That is all I can remember. Thank you for your time and help.

FOUND!....LQR fic anon here, I found the fic I was looking for it's CSI: Gusu Edition by Stratisphyre (M, 39k, wangxian, lan qiren & wei wuxian, 3 works, series in progress)

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3. Hii, id like to ask abt a fic wherein there's a problem with the whole mxy resurrecting wwx thing and because of that the ghost mxy kept on trying to kill wwx so that he can prevent a painful death. And it turns out that Wen Qing is alive and have saved WWX by transferring JC's core to WWX. huhu just cant remember the titleeee.

FOUND!  Twelve Moons and a Fortnight Verse by stiltonbasket (M, 470k, wangxian, my post)​

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4. Hi! Hope you're having a lovely day and all is going well in the new year. I haven't really sent an ask (well ever) so I hope I'm not offending you but I've been looking for a fic for ages. It's set post canon and I remember a major plot point was that wei ying had a collection of (very sad!) letters he kept in a box addressed to lan zhan that he never sent. The box I believe was cursed, and I think ghosts were following him around, or at least lingering in the places he had frequented. Juniors were there as well, and Sizhui reads the letters which causes a sort of blow up, where he asks that if Wei Ying feels so awful on his own why couldnt he come to live with his family (this outburst and intrusion into his privacy I think is explored in a second part of a series?)  If you can help I would be super grateful!!!

FOUND! dock of the bay by Haysel (T, 21k, wangxian,  here, have the wayback machine link to it since it’s been taken down)

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5. Do you help with finding fics? If not, no pressure, please ignore this! 🥰  I'm looking for a fic I read abt 1 Yr ago, I think it was a famous fic at the time. It had Nie Mingjue also brought back to life, and I think it was from his pov. But noone recognised him and he was going round learning what has changed in his absence. It was a multi chapter fic.

FOUND! ... Hello this is the anon who asked about a NMJ fic before, don't worry about it. I found it!  Once Upon A Time in Qinghe by paranoid_fridge (T, 22k, nie mingjue & nie huaisang, wangxian, my post)

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6. Hi! I am looking for a specific fic that I know I bookmarked but can’t seem to find. Its post-canon. It had a/b/o, lwj was alpha and wwx was omega because of mxy. wwx original body was alpha. past!wwx from the war arrives in the future and i think future!wwx, pst!wwx and lwj has threesome. past!wwx was kinda annoyed at the beginning because he thought lwj dragged him to gusu. I have tried to use simple tags like time travel and abo, but i didn’t find it. Hope I didn’t explain it too bad😅

FOUND!   How to Deal with the Conundrum of Your Past Self: A Case Study by anatheme (E, 17k, wangxian) -  “Wangxian now have an extra wwx! Such fun abo dynamics, eager bottom lwj, toppy/dommy omega wy, sweet wwx, and shennaningans”

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7. There are two fics I am looking for. (7a) Modern au where Wwx paints a picture of lwj's hand and they date about it, then take off onto an adventure when Lqr tears it into pieces. (7b) Wwx realizes that pieces of his body are changing, like his hands are bigger and then his hair is longer, stuff like that. He slowly gets his body back piece by piece and wangxian thinks he's dying.

7a FOUND!   Hangover by TriviasFolly (T, 83k, wangxian)

7b FOUND!  Saw My Life in a Stranger's Face by timetoboldlygo (T, 27k, wangxian)

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8. Hello Ive been trying to find this fanfic for ages now i cant seem to find it. This fanfic is about how the JinSect captured wei wuxian just before he died and kept him as some sort of sex slave and constantly rapes him (Im pretty sure it starts with JiangCheng trying to have a conference with JinGuangyao while JinZixun is fucking wei wuxian infront of him but cant tell its him cause his wearing a blindfold)huaisang end up saving him with others, he also secretly save JinLings parents and WenQing ~ @emily22006

FOUND!  Find Someone to Carry You by Aquadrazi (E, 77k, wangxian)

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9. Looking for a fic! It’s a fic where WangXian get cursed to be unable to touch each other and there is a scene where they’re staying in lotus pier and they find out that they can touch while in water. For some reason I didn’t bookmark it even though I love it! ~ @waitingfortheoncomingstormpilot

FOUND!  ❤️爱不释手; never let me go by yiqie (E, 69k, wangxian, my post)

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10. hi mojo, thanks for your blog! I found some good fics thanks to you and so many reminders of great fics to re-read! If you have time, I'm looking for a WX fic that I read some time ago on AO3. Somebody (JC?) erased WWX from existence. The sunshot campaign happens, does not go well. Then WWX is summoned back, and teams up with NHS to fix the war. I think at some point JYL and babyJL are saved by WWX from being held hostage by the Wens. LWJ has missed WWX and joins the team. Hope you can find it! ~ @vasterthanempires

FOUND!  The Way It Wasn't by KouriArashi (T, 72k, wangxian, xiyao, my post)

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11.  Hey!! Thank you for working so hard, i am sad that you are receiving such terrible messages. I was trying to find a fic (probs post canon) where lwj was dying bcoz oh his love for wwx so wwx curses lwj to forget him. But the story starts when wwx comes back to cr to research the curse and spends time with lwj. Lwj falls for him over again but believes that wwx already has a spouse. Thank you sm hope you have a nice day!!

FOUND!  Unavoidable by diamondbruise (T, 19k, wangxian)

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12.  Hiii! So glad you're back, hoping you have an incredible new year full of health and happiness! I was wondering if you or anyone might recognise this fic? It's a Canon AU, where Jiang Yanli and JGY become friends and he gets to hold Jin Ling, and I'm pretty sure it's a nobody-you-care-about-dies fic. I know there's a scene where JGY thinks about how powerful WWX is, but he knows WWX doesnt trust him so he plans to stick close to Yanli as like a "If i die, she'll be sad, so Wei Wuxian will protect me as long as I don't hurt anyone he cares about" deal. It's wangxian but i dont think the romance was the focus, more a bamf!WWX. Unfortunately thats all i can remember so any help would be really appreciated! ~ @warriorwerewolfheart​

FOUND!   at the end of a storm (is a golden sky) by KouriArashi (M, 106k, wangxian, jiang cheng & wei wuxian, chengqing, yunmeng siblings)

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13.   Hello, I don't really remember much from the fic other than its a wangxian romance and I remember a scene when the two are in the library (as teens) and wwx asked lwj to read to him. The chapter (or maybe the whole fic) was from lwj's pov as he thought something along the lines of "nobody liked his voice and the other kids wouldn't listen when he read in class." Thank youuuu, if you can find it or just for looking anyway.

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14.   I’m looking for this fix where Mo xuanyu was the Yiling Patriachs disciple and they were called to help the sects take care of the Wens. I don’t remember. Whole lot it was a long fic the main ship was wangxian

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15.   Hello! I’m going in circles trying to find something I am very sure I read and did not imagine..Wangxian as members of a mountaineering club. A misunderstanding happens, one gets jealous and rushes out into the snow. It ends with Wei Ying being picked up on the road and rescued by Lan Xichen and Lan Qiren, and wangxian reunites. Does that sound remotely familiar or did my brain somehow combined a few fics into one…

FOUND!  green the ground below by azurewaxwing (t, 4k, wangxian)

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16.   Hi! I am looking for a specific fic. It takes place during the cloud recess study arc. All I can really remember is that Wei Ying and Lan Zhan start meditating together to merge their spiritual energy and eventually they are able to actually merge together into one being. I do remember that they merged together during the Wen attack and Wei Ying used talismans on both Jin Zixuan an Lan Qiren. I hope I'm not combining fics together LOL. Thank you!

FOUND!   ❤️Gentians in bloom by teawater (M, 251k, wangxian, my bookmark)

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17.  Hi! I was recently told there is a time travel fic where LWJ travels back in time by possessing the body of his younger self and each time he time-travels he has to sacrifice a part of the next timeline LWJ's golden core. Does this ring any bells? Do you happen to know it? ~ @vikreads

FOUND!  Looking at You Always, All Ways by Keysmashed (T, 29k, wangxian, my post)

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18.   hi i’m looking for a canon divergence fic; the nie sect ends up helping wwx and the wen remnants, wq found a way to help wwx restore his core and i specifically remember wq, maybe wn and another nie sect doctor having to heal wwx’s past wounds first and so when he stopped using the resentful energy they all opened up, both lz and jc were there

FOUND!   ❤️ everyone has a braincell of their very own by MarbleGlove (T, 18k, wangxian, 2 works, series in progress, my post)

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19.   Hi! I’m new to your blog (it’s been a god send by the way I’ve been stuck rereading my favorites) but I was hoping you could help me find a fic I forgot to bookmark? Basically it’s a pseudo time travel fix it but Adult LWG goes to the past meeting up with young WWX while young LWJ goes to the future meeting up with Adult WWX. Then the pairings switch places, then both pairings end up in future where they give advice and do the obligatory teasing! However it’s a bit different in the young Wangxian universe is a divergent universe. Something to do with the Nie family tree? I really hope you can find it! Thank you so much for your help and all your wonderful fic recs!

FOUND! Back to the Seasons of My Youth by justdoityoufucker, MeliorismMint, Potatoes_Radishes, Vrishchika (T, 14k, wangxian, lan sect & wei wuxian)

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20.  Could you help me find a fic? It goes something like - JC performs the summoning ritual instead of MXY . When wwx opens his eyes he sees himself in JC's body with him gone.Thank you for your help! ~ @lostsoul234​

FOUND!  might be this Saddest Timeline prompt/ficlet by @tanoraqui​ or something written in response to it like The Worse Tomorrow by donutsweeper (T, <1k, wangxian).

FOUND!   A Worse Timeline by donutsweeper (T, 2k, wangxian, series in progress)

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[vrishchikawrites]

Swords are very important to the holder or user in the MDZS verse and hold a lot of weight. If you don't have one I guess you seem very disrespectful or an arrogant person similar to WWX. I wonder for a while that a lot of disciples practice sword technique and styles suited for them but how come I never really seem them practice hand to hand combat. I find it could be it could really be put to good use for self defense purposes. Note. I'm only a dongua watcher that is now just delving into the novel. I really find your meta interesting since they provide clarity. Also, how come NieHuisaung wasn't given the same energy when he also rarely brought his sword along

I may be mistaken but I believe it is the 'Cultivation Path' that is in question here. Most of the cultivators in MDZS follow the Sword Path. They cultivate their cores with their sword skills along with things like meditation and all.

When WWX stopped carrying his sword around (for good reason, he would've been challenged to a spar and his inability to fight with it would reveal everything), people took it as him believing his new cultivation was superior to their traditional path.

It is important to remember that WWX was one of the best of his generation. He matched LWJ, he was forth on the list of young masters, he has never been shown to lose when he has a sword in his hand. So if the best of them thinks his new Cultivation is better, what kind of message does it send to the people weaker than him?

As for hand-to-hand combat, I believe they do recieve from training in it. Their education seems fairly well-rounded. Cultivators develop skill to handle supernatural threats. They're not really cultivating to engage in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat with ghosts, demons, and corpses. So it makes sense that swordsmanship, archery, and talisman arts are more useful than hand-to-hand.

Finally, on the matter of NHS. The difference is that NHS is no cultivator prodigy. He has disappointed everyone's hopes in him a long time ago, lmao. He's not the bright young master with a stellar track record for being brilliant at everything. He isn't well-known for his skills. So it is no surprise if NHS doesn't carry a sword. It is actually expected of him because he has already disappointed those hopes.

That is what NHS uses to ruthless advantage after NMJ dies.

[changyang-cloud]

Cloud’s Fics Masterpost

View all my works on ao3 !

Couple of Mirrors/Shuangjing

脸慢笑盈盈 相看无限情 - Ongoing, 2+ chapters - yiwei - 2155

fix-it, yiwei married with two kids endgame, li hongmei lives

MDZS/CQL

keep me in your clouded mind (set the fire and let it burn) - Completed, 1/1 Chapters - xueningyu - 4122

valentines day, gift-giving, extra for the skin im living in, mxy pov

a song that must be meaningful (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 1/1 Chapters - xuanxian - 18442

arranged marriage, cisswap (jc, wwx, jl), body-sacrifice ritual x2, wwx pov

To Bear Responsibility (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 9/9 Chapters - JC harem - 31115 words

fix-it, cisswap (jc), jc deserves a harem, jc pov

are we friends? - Completed, 1/1 Chapters - Wen and Jiang sibs - 12946 words

canon-divergence, age swap, fluff, sibling bonding, minor relationships

i’m sorry, i love you - Completed, Oneshot - qpr xianqing - 3167 words

canon-compliant, bad ending, wq pov, burial mounds era

to have and to hold - Completed, Oneshot - juniors ot5 - 1666 words

modern setting, trans jin ling & lan sizhui, nonbinary ouyang zizhen & lan jingyi, gnc a-qing, living together, cuddling, polyamory, lan sizhui pov

the skin i’m living in - Completed, Oneshot - Xueyu, Ningyu, Xueningyu - 6691 words

canon-divergence, fix-it, domestic fluff, cuddling, mostly mxy pov

can this be forever? (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Yunmeng Shuangjie, Chengxian - 22462 words

canon-divergence, arranged marriage, cisswap (jc), mostly jc pov

fall in love with me again (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 646 words

canon-divergence, mxy pov

whistle through the trees to remember my old friend - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Sangyu, One-Sided Sangxian (past), Nie bros - 27699 words

canon-divergence, demonic cultivator nie huaisang, temporary character death, mostly nhs pov

when all is shaken - Completed, Oneshot - Chengsu - 7791 words

canon-divergence, jin rusong lives, marriage of convenience, qin su pov

falling to our demise - Completed, 3/3 Chapters - Sangyu - 7371 words

royalty au, time travel, tragic ending, somewhat unreliable narration, switching pov

living is enough (Like Mother, Like Daughter) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Zhancheng, Wangxian, Yunmeng Shuangjie - 23304 words

canon-divergence, marriage of convenience, queerplatonic relationships, jc-standard inferiority complex, cisswap (jc and wwx), varied pov

the corpse and his ghost - Completed, Oneshot - Ningyu - 4853 words

post-canon, soulmates, mxy pov

white is the colour of mourning - Completed, Oneshot - Wangxian - 5732 words

canon-compliant, mourning, colour theory, lwj pov

red silk and white jade for you (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 4471 words

canon-divergence, happy ending, switching pov

Cloud’s Asexual Awareness Week 2021 - QPRs

featuring wwx/wq, jc/qs, nhs/mxy, wn/jyl, lwj/lqy, ljy/lsz, wwx/lwj

obscured in the shade of the willow, bathed in the light of the moon (Write Our Names Verse) - Ongoing,  17+ chapters - Wangxian, Sangcheng - 43310 words

fix-it, yiling sect au, lots of baby acquisition, varied pov

Building A Family, Rebuilding A Home (Write Our Names Verse) - Ongoing, 3/4 chapters - Sangcheng - 8916 words

fix-it, mostly just fluff, accidental baby acquisition, nhs pov

sing me to sleep and hold me in your arms (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 1855 words

canon-divergence, mxy pov

lantern light at midnight (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 1863 words

canon-divergence, switching pov

more than one way to love a cat (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 2036 words

canon-divergence, switching pov

painting a rainbow to remind you of home (MXTX Storm) - Completed, 1/1 chapters - Ningyu - 627 words

canon-divergence, jinlintai era ningyu, wn pov

if you love him, never let go - Completed, Oneshot - Wangxian - 2207 words

canon-compliant, 3-1 format, lwj-pov

[trans-axian-archive]

we all go crazy go stupid over the fact that lan wangji was already like. In Love with wei wuxian in that goddamn cave but if we're being real here wei wuxian also already liked lan wangji So much he just had no fucking clue. he saves the medicine for him? teases him about being uptight? teases him about flirting? teases him about mianmian and then promptly becomes so Visibly anguished when he thinks lan wangji actually Does like mianmian only to repress whatever That means and just grins up at lan wangji with that dazzling smile? he tucks him in using his own outer robe? wei wuxian sweetheart we're going to need to have a talk about your emotional awareness

thinkin about how disgustingly and Obliviously infatuated wei wuxian was with lan wangji in that fucking cave

[gloriousmonsters]

...goddamn, I’m still thinking about this wen ning-su she swap AU, because the question occurred ‘if you can use demonic cultivation without a core, and awakened fierce corpses seem pretty similar to humans aside from the lack of spiritual energy... could an awakened fierce corpse use demonic cultivation?’

anyway in this ‘verse WWX decided to go on a little sabbatical to the Burial Mounds to meditate or something, and then wound up staying there because the pressure for him to Stop Being Him kept growing and him and Jiang Cheng’s relationship was becoming more strained; this was still meant to be temporary but it gets complicated when rumors spread that he’s starting a sect based on demonic cultivation, and wwx is like ‘lol no I’m not?’ only to poke his head out of the cave he’s been napping in and find out that sms has returned from wherever he went to brood last and has been recruiting people that show up as disciples

screaming arguments happen where sms is like I’M SORRY FOR ATTEMPTING TO GET US MANPOWER WHEN WE’RE ABOUT TO GET ATTACKED ANY DAY NOW and wwx is like STOP TELLING PEOPLE THINGS AND SAYING I SIGNED OFF ON THEM oh wait i’ve packbonded with some of these losers you brought in now. i guess i’m a bit more ok with it

(jgy is currently hiding the whole wen fam in his basement and repeatedly hurrying his assistant, a-ning (who definitely isn’t a wen who thinks he looks like  a wen? don’t be silly) away from jin zixun before things go bad on either side)

I’m seeing wwx’s death in this ‘verse either being a modified Qiongqi Path - there’s no Hundred Holes Curse in this scenario, but look, I REALLY don’t think you need to try hard to make jin zixun want to try and take out wwx; and it would be so easy to play a scenario where wwx and sms argue about him going, causing wwx to slip off to go alone and get caught without backup--or some kind of scenario where the Jin kidnap one of the Yiling Wei’s younger disciples and use them as bait for wwx to come over and get killed. either way, he still dies around the same time, but sms--and the rest of the sorta-sect--still have demonic cultivation on their side, and they successfully defend the Burial Mounds against siege. everyone thinks about their life choices for a bit, someone yells ‘we’ll get ‘em next time, boys!’ and we cut to 13-16 years of very very uneasy peace

(in this scenario you could TOTALLY still have at least jiang yanli, and maybe even jin zixuan, alive if you wanted! just realized that.)

(in the wwx-is-dead interim, wen ning assists jgy in killing nmj quick n’ sweet with some untraceable poison or something. rip nmj. wen ning is also REALLY useful in knocking people out for ‘assassinations’ to be conducted by ‘outside forces’, etc. he also gets along great with all the kids! great guy)

i could see sms as, before wwx’s death, basically trying to pretend he hadn’t died (don’t read into the amount I cover up or the fact I never use qi in public anymore! I still carry a sword AND my robes are wrapped the right way. shut up) but after, leaning ALL the way into the oldstyle Yiling Patriarch, nightmare of the battlefield aesthetic. the Yiling Wei have almost a Ghost Valley rep--are they human? are they demons? we just don’t know, etc; and sms gets ALL the atmospheric mileage he can out of being Actually Legit Dead. god. he’d probably get some kind of White Grim Reaper moniker and encourage the fuck out of it. wwx is going to die of secondhand embarrassment when he comes back to life and sees how edgy everyone’s aesthetic is

(look I don’t know HOW this happens exactly but in this AU i need jin rusong to live also. usually I don’t really care but I just reread what i wrote above and pictured Wen Ning--possibly not able to see his family all that often because jgy got them settled somewhere safe, but rather out of the way, and he has duties in Jinlintai--bonding with jgy’s kid, and my heart is FULL i need this)

also there’s so much delicious tension in the idea of WWX coming back to a world where the Yiling Wei/Burial Mounds are an entity, and are locked in a vicious semi-cold war with Lotus Pier (sms would Absolutely capture and torture jiang disciples as retaliation for losing his demonic cultivators) meanwhile LWJ is. still just trying to do his thing, waiting to see if wwx’s spirit ever shows up, wishing he didn’t really fucking hate everyone else who used to know wwx

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

Nov 21st

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1. Hello! I'm trying to find a fic that I've read a long time ago. it was a modern/reincarnation au where Wei Ying is hired at an academy as a (history?) teacher but is unaware that the academy that hired him is actually a modern cultivation school where they practice cultivation secretly and learn the history of the canon mdzs timeline... Also Wei Ying can see ghosts/spirits. Thanks! @sheepie9967

FOUND! Retrouvaille by wxparoxysm (T, 75k, WIP, WangXian, XiCheng, Modern)

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2. Hi, I am looking for a smut fic. Lan Zhan is having an orgy with multiple versions of Wèi Wúxiàn, including a yiling laozu version, and Lan Zhan is pregnant. Eventually even more Wei Yings show up.

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3. Hello!! I am trying to find a WangXian fanfiction, but I really can't seem to find it. From what I remember, it was an arranged marriage when they were about fifteen, they haven't met each other yet as it was pre-cloud recesses study arc. The Gusu Lan Sect came to Lotus Pier to negotiate the betrothal. WWX made a condition before accepting it, he wanted to duel LWJ to see if he was worthy or not. I think it also has some JFM, YZY critical/bashing/canon characteristics. @lonelynebula5149

3 is a Preludian_Staves fic im pretty sure but it may be one of the ones they hide in that collection

FOUND? I Have Arranged to Tie You to Me by xxxMiaHikarixxx (G, 82k, 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)

FOUND? 3 sounds like Truths Laid Bare For All by Preludian_Staves as someone commented earlier but that work currently is unrevealed and cant be accessed

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4. Hi so this fic is that wwx take Wēn Yuàn to Jin ling 100 month celebration with him and there's this particular scene where he comes in jin tower with Jin what's his face that has the 100 souls curse and the peacock

And Wēn Yuàn was clutching his robes and they were all arguing until leader Nie shuts everyone up and then Ask wwx to show them his chest so wwx hands his little radish too the ghost general and show everyone his chest that's a scene that I could simply remember @constancebloodstone

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5. Hiiii! Hope you're having a great day/night! So I've looking for this one particular fic in which wy see lz with a woman who had her hand around his elbow while walking together on night then smells some foreign sweet smell on him in another night plus lz keeps coming home late so he starts thinking that lz is cheating on him but instead of getting angry he feels hurt and start blaming himself and thinking ofc lz is perfect so he deserves someone just as perfect and beautiful and eventually he confronts lz about it then find out that he was just escorting an elder Immortal ancestor wtv and spending time with her before she chose to end her Immortality since she lost her will to live after all her beloved ones died during her seclusion

FOUND! White Flag by incendir (T, 37k, WangXian, NHS/NZH, OMC/ OMC)

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6. Thank you for existing! I'm looking for a fic, modern au, where it turns out the reason Wei Ying got hit by a car (I think it was a car) was because he's deaf/hard of hearing on one ear so he didn't hear it coming. The cause of his damaged hearing is physical abuse from Madam Yu. Please help! @ilolatthis

FOUND! misunderstood 'verse by sysrae (M, 7k, WangXian, Modern, College/University, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, getting hit by cars, Past Child Abuse, Friends to Lovers, Abusive YZY, Caring LWJ, Injured WWX, partial hearing loss, the real OTP is everyone x therapy)

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7. I'm begging you to help me. I cannot for the life of me find the fic in which Lan Zhan has been asked by his brother to act in a PSA that Xichen wants to film at school, where he works. Xichen always ends up having sex with everyone at work, so when Wei Ying, a teacher at the school, comes in as Lan Zhan's scene partner, Lan Zhan assumes Xichen and Wei Ying have slept together. The PSA is about global warming, carbon emissions, etc. They shoot the scene several times and each time they get increasingly familiar with each other. The shooting ends with Wei Ying asking Lan Zhan out.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

FOUND! Worship you till morning comes by feyburner (E, 6k, WangXian, Modern AU, Meet-Cute, First Dates, First Time, Fluff, Kissing, Hand Jobs, Falling In Love)

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8. Hi! I only remember one specific scene from the story I'm looking for. Modern AU, JC and WWX are yelling at each other, and JC says something like "where did you get these stupid self-deprecating ideas/ the idea that you're not wanted in this family from" and WWX goes, in the same tone as a grade schooler, "your mom."

JC: NOT FUNNY.

WWX: IT KINDA IS THOUGH

And then they both cry and laugh at the same time and that's the reconciliation.

I think the main story might have been Wangxian? Pretty sure I only read that back then, but I can't remember anything else and I've looked everywhere. @rights-for-redshirts

FOUND! say it’s here where our pieces fall in place by Lirelyn (E, 68k, wangxian, Family Feels, Modern, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kid Fic, Adoption, Foster Care, most of the angst is backstory and we’re working through it, several characters have had therapy thank god, there’s a good amount of domestic fluff but also a lot of crying, Often at the same time, oh yeah eventually there will be smut, possibly also with crying, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Podfic Available)

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9. Hi again, Team! I’m going to feel absolutely /stupid/ but there was a fic I read where LZ secretly rates other people’s dicks & WY keeps trying to score 10/10 but is unable to do so. The only other things I can recall are NHS had a starring role & WX got together at the end! Any help would be appreciated! @arisuamichan

FOUND? Thank You for Submitting by westiec (M, 3k, WangXian, Dick Pics, Getting Together, Humor, NHS is here too, but he's mostly offscreen, Modern, United States, Podfic Available)

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10. For fic finders: the start of it is that a class of lans including LWJ were affected by a curse placed on the platform/building they were in and WWX and LXC tried taking them to the cold pond

That doesn’t work so they head off to LWJ to see how he’s handling it and the two Lans wonder why WWX doesn’t seem to be affected when he was also there. He laughs his way through having the same mental fortitude or whatever as LWJ before just coming out and saying that no one noticed he’s been missing his core for years and without a core it didn’t affect him

I think the curse was placed by JGY but that was kinda secondary detailing since WWX and LWJ got together because of this situation. A completed one shot, no multi chapter casefics here

FOUND! Stainless by Fahye (E, 6k, WangXian, Sex Pollen, Yuletide Treat)

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11. Hi! Please help me find this fic. I'm becoming desperate! Wei Wuxian is somehow turned into a kid. Some plot happens and Wei Wuxian turns back into an adult but in his original body and everyone is shook by this turn of events. They celebrate or something and then at the end WangXian adopt a baby named Yanli and the juniors and Jiang Cheng adore her. Please I loved it but firgot to bookmark it and can't seem to find it 😭 @pancakeshitdifferentat4am

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12. hi im looking for a wangxian fic i read a while ago and i cant find it so i forgot the name but i remember that lan wangji lost his golden core he was attacked by wen zhuliu on his way back to cloud recesses after he and wei ying were rescued from the xuanwu cave , he manages to kill wen zhuliu but he lost his core and wei ying was the one to find him. thats all i remember i hope you can help me find it . Thank you so much in advance.

FOUND? stay, fury, your wrist wrapped in silk by spookykingdomstarlight (E, 228k, WangXian, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Canon Divergence, YLLZ LWJ, LWJ loses his golden core, yiling wei sect, Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery, Temporary Character Death, War Crimes, Wen Remnant, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, Revenge, LWJ goes dark for a while, WWX has a hard time with the bad shit going on around him, JGS is a bastard, Protracted Sunshot Campaign, War is war and hell is hell and of the two war is a lot worse, temporary impotence, growing intimacy, LWJ & WWX and the Wen Remnant live in the Burial Mounds together, WWX travels with LWJ and stays at his side post-Sunshot, Spanish Translation)

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13. Hello! I've had this scene running through my head from a fic that I, for the life of me, can't find.

It's a canon divergence fic where WWX brings the Wens to Gusu and humanizes them to the rest of the cultivation world in the proceas. The fic talks about PTSD and I could have sworn I bookmarked it but here we are! The scene I can't forget is:

On the way there, WWX makes A-Yuan a whistle that he can blow whenever he's afraid. At first the whistle blows often, but eventually A-Yuan gets more comfortable.

Any help would be most appreciated, thank you! @theonlysureprediction

FOUND? Grave dirt by esama (T, 92k, WangXian, canon divergence, yiling wei sect au, demonic cultivation, farming, found family, pre-slash, politics, fix-it of sorts) The whistle part could be Grave dirt by Esama (chapter 2)

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14. heLLO its my first time doing this and ive no idea how tumblr works im usually just here to browse

anyways just the other day i read the desc of a fanfic where wwx was forced to top by a lz who was riding him and wwx was yelling hELP rAPE RAPE IM BEING RAPED lol

but i forgot to bookmark it and now i cant find it if you could help PLSS thank u ily guys🥺😭

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15. Okay so this will be for fic finder.

I swear I had this bookmarked but I spent 2 hours searching and can't find it at all.

What I remember is that wwx makes a clay doll for a-yuan. It falls into the lotus pond, but falls apart. A-yuan is distraught, of course. Sometime during the following night though wwx is woken up by a baby screaming. The burial mounds somehow turned the clay baby to a real baby girl. Wwx raises her and she ends up going to koi tower with him. I think wangji escorts wwx, the baby, and wen ning??

Please help me find this! @grainstealingthot

FOUND! An Old Cardboard Produce Box for a Cradle by julomaiboulomai, mischiefseven (T, 25k, WangXian, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Canon Divergence, Sentient Burial Mounds, Golden Core Reveal, Everyone Lives)

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16. for ficfinder

I swear I have thus marked some where but I just can't find it

it'd the fic where lsz/wen yuan has a twin who's raised by lwj and lwj n wwx think that the other twin died. it's a parent trap au @bunnycoffeeumcat

FOUND! 🔒❤️ kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight by AlfAlfAlfAlfAlf, tardigradeschool (T, 75k, WangXian, Hurt/Comfort, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Eventual Happy Ending, Getting Together, Burial Mounds Settlement Days, Inspired by The Parent Trap (1998), Kid Fic, teen shenanigans, two a-yuans, Fluff and Angst, [Podfic] kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight by contributor-sky (deepestbluesky), esbielle was also here (esbielle), glittercracker, GodOfLaundryBaskets, jellyfishfire, kisahawklin, Koontyme, Rionaa, semperfiona))

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17. i have not used tumblr so sorry if i am asking in the wrong place- but i am going crazy trying to find this fic! it has some explicit scenes, it is an omega/alpha type fic, where alpha lan xichen and omega wei wuxian are married. alpha lan zhan lives with them, but struggles seeing/hearing their intimacy and closeness because he was attracted to wei ying on their first meeting. wei ying gets drunk and sleeps with lan zhan thinking hes lan huan twice while lan huan is gone, but claims to forget

FOUND? they call me homewrecker by sweetlolixo (E, 12k, XiXian, WangXian, Modern AU, Omegaverse, Dark LWJ, Dark WWX, Pining LWJ, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, Dubious Consent, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual WangXian)

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18. Hello, I have another request please, there was a modern day no powers fic where WWX was a baker, who also delivered his cakes, idk what kind of social media he had, because all I remember a girl was looking at his post and he leaned in and said smth like "that Yiling Patriarch is pretty cute" or smth, and there was a skateboard, maybe? That's all I got. Thank you so much!

FOUND? i swim in hollow lakes carved from memories by spookykingdomstarlight (T, 154k, WangXian, XiYao, Modern AU, Coffee Shops & Cafés, Music, Baking, Social Media, Misunderstandings, Consequences of Fake Dating Schemes, Flashbacks, Vlogger WWX, Professional Musician LWJ, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mistakes, Pining, Matchmaking, Romance, Illnesses, Slow Burn, Background SangNing, POV Multiple, Second Chances) I think it was wc not jzx who was hired, otherwise matches

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19. Hello!!! Thank you for your hard work!!!!

I'm looking for a fic where it mostly canon compliant but the only thing I vividly remember it's that when LWJ appear at the Mo Mansión to rescue the Junior it's that he has some grey/white hairs and maybe it was a omega verse (not very sure about that).

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20. Hi. I’ve been trying to find a fic where WWX decides to take the imperial examinations, live as a magical farmer in the south and later found out Wei Changze was the son of the Emperor and WWX ends up taking in the young princes for tutoring. Also I don’t remember how he meets LWJ but they ended up being engaged and the Emperor sends like Imperial Auditors to the sects because of what happened to his grandson… It may or may not be a time travel fix-it, can’t quite remember 😫 @skycookie472

FOUND? Starting Over by SplitGirl28 (M, 69k, WIP, Time Travel Fix-It, Back to Childhood, Change his life, Different lifestyle, Unrestrained WWX, Living his ideal life)

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[besanii]

Hi! Am rereading your shattered mirrors verse and I love it so much. Are we going to get the scene in which WWX explains everything that’s happened to him (with the poison) etc to LWJ after they meet wen yuan?? I’m dying for the angst but also fluff and comfort 🥺🥺🥺

@lurkingscientist asked:

I can’t wait to hear about all the sad things wwx experienced!!! :D my “stabby stabby stab stab stab” is feeling slightly neglected

Shattered Mirrors #61

“I haven’t told you everything.”

In the thirteen years Wei Wuxian had been gone, Lan Wangji searched desperately for every scrap of information he could get his hands on, from every channel he could access, in hopes of finding him. Or finding out what had happened to him. What he could find was piecemeal at best and unreliable at worst, often conflicting depending on the source. The result was him, driven mad by desperation and grief, chasing ghosts in the shadows until he could no longer tell what was real.

Even now, with Wei Wuxian back at his side these last two years, happy and content and safe, he still does not have a clear picture of what had happened during the war. If he’s being honest, he’s afraid to ask, and even more afraid to know. He tells himself it’s enough just to have Wei Wuxian by his side again. He doesn’t need to know, if Wei Wuxian does not want to share.

So Wei Wuxian’s confession punches the air from his lungs and he feels in its wake, his hands trembling where they’re entwined. Wei Wuxian watches him with the same care one would give to a startled animal ready to flee.

“That is,” he amends hesitantly, “if you wish to know.”

Lan Wangji inhales, and exhales again, with a shudder. Squares his shoulders. Looks him in the eye.

“Yes,” he says. “I do.”

It is Wei Wuxian’s turn to take a deep breath, the tentative little smile on his lips giving way to steely resolve. On his other side, Wen Yuan kneels by the bed, wordlessly offering his unwavering support. Despite all this, it takes Wei Wuxian some time to find the right words to convey the enormity of what he is about to disclose.

“I don’t know where to begin,” he admits with a shaky laugh, looking down at their joined hands. “I suppose you already know how Yunmeng fell.”

Lan Wangji nods. He has heard scattered details, enough to know that there had been a traitor in their midst, someone who had fed false information through their intelligence network while Wei Wuxian had been in Gusu. They had managed to secure Yunping, but sustained heavy losses that severely weakened their defences. The traitor had been found, but by then the Qishan Wen army was already at their doorstep, ten thousand strong, and they had no way out.

“We evacuated as many civilians as we could. Jiang Cheng, Jiang-wang and Yu-wanghou stayed behind to defend the city,” he says. His eyes and voice are distant, lost in his memories. “I took Shijie and we escaped via the lakes, with the rest of the civilians. Our priority was to get to Yunping, and then to Lanling. Shijie was engaged to Jin Zixuan, so they would definitely come to our aid—or at the very least, they would keep her safe while I gathered reinforcements.

“They were there,” he continues, still in that far-off voice. “Wen Chao and his men. They had split their forces to ambush us while we were defenceless. Our boats were burned, our people drowned—we in Yunmeng are strong swimmers, but even the strongest swimmers cannot survive when arrows rain down from the sky.”

He shivers with his next breath, but his voice is steady.

“I entrusted Shijie to my lieutenant, instructed them to use one of the overturned boats to cover their escape, while I distracted Wen Chao.” He smiles, but it’s stark and without humour. “We’ve had…altercations in the past, so I knew I would be an adequate distraction. I held him off for as long as I could, kept his attention on me. But I was only one person, and he had an army.”

The reports that had come out of Yunmeng around that time—the ones Lan Xichen had allowed him to read while recovering from his punishment, at least—had painted a picture so bleak, so devastating that he had wept. The lakes of Yunmeng, once teeming with colour and life, stained red with blood over the course of one night; and Lotus Pier, its seat of power, that had once risen from the depths of the lakes like a mirage, burned to ash. He had been back to the ruins of Lotus Pier in the intervening years as it was slowly rebuilt after the war—Gusu had offered aid wherever possible, in both money and manpower, as well as political support for the Yu family of Meishan, the maiden family of Queen Yu Ziyuan, who had been installed as stewards in the absence of the ruling family—but the shadows of war still haunts its streets and darkens its waters even now.

Wei Wuxian’s eyes fall closed and his fingers tighten around Lan Wangji’s.

“There’s a stronghold in Yiling,” he says. “Some call it the Burial Mounds, or the Mass Grave. Beneath the fortress, there’s an extensive network of cells that run beneath the mountains. That’s where they keep their highest security prisoners, the ones who get…special treatment.”

There is no need to ask what ‘special’ means, so Lan Wangji stays silent. His blood, however, runs cold—as cold as Wei Wuxian’s voice as he continues his narrative, detached.

“Wen Chao had a special—” that word again, spoken with such venom that it curdles in Lan Wangji’s stomach and burns his throat, “cell prepared. More a cage, really. Every second shichen, it would be submerged in water up to the neck, and stay there for another shichen until it was raised again. In the interim, the prisoner would be left soaking wet in the cold, damp cell.”

The memory of Wei Wuxian at the water’s edge, the frantic terror on his face as he struggles to breathe despite not having come into contact with it, the frailty, the susceptibility to cold and illness—it is all starting to fall into place, one horrifying piece at a time. But Wei Wuxian is not finished.

“There were beatings, of course.” A sudden, fierce anger wraps around Lan Wangji’s heart at the matter-of-fact way in which he says it. “Wen Chao always did have a sadistic streak. He liked to hang people up by the arms and have them whipped, or burned, or flogged. Sometimes he’d leave them there for more than a day, weighed down at the ankles, blindfolded, while they tortured others around them.”

A hand extricates itself from Lan Wangji’s death grip and peels back the edge of a sleeve to reveal the scars along his arms. Dozens of them, some longer and thicker, others as thin and fine as thread, criss-cross along the pale flesh. As he traces quivering fingers along the skin, Lan Wangji feels each cut, each slice, on his heart. Then Wei Wuxian turns his hand over, revealing a large, pale scar on the inside of his wrist, and a matching on on the other, too precise to be self-inflicted. He inhales sharply in realisation.

“Your hands—” he chokes, eyes wide as he stares at the scars. “He didn’t—”

Wei Wuxian lets the sleeves fall back down to cover the scars.

“If you fight back,” he explains woodenly, “they cut the tendons in your wrists and ankles. They’ll send a doctor to look over your injuries, of course. There is no benefit, no value, in a dead prisoner of war. That’s how I met Wen Qing and her brother, Wen Ning.”

“My aunt and uncle,” Wen Yuan, who has been silent until now, explains. Lan Wangji had almost forgotten his presence. He smiles sadly. “They were taken by my great-uncle as hostages to ensure our branch of the family supported the war effort, and served as doctors on the front lines.”

Wei Wuxian’s lips curl into a smile—not the harsh, bitter ones from before, but softer, tinged with grief.

“They took care of me,” he says. “Wen Qing was the best doctor in all of Qishan. There was no illness she could not cure, no injury she could not fix. And Wen Ning…Wen Ning was the kindest person I have ever met. Too kind, too gentle for war. They did their best to help me—slipped me medicines and food whenever they could, diverted Wen Chao’s attentions away from me when it got too much.”

His voice wavers and breaks.

“They died trying to get me out,” he says hoarsely. “First Wen Ning, then Wen Qing. And I couldn’t—I couldn’t do anything to save them—”

Lan Wangji gathers him into his arms, crushes him against his chest as he cries out in anguish, his body wracked with sobs. His own eyes are hot, and he sees Wen Yuan’s are also bright with unshed tears when their gazes meet over Wei Wuxian’s head. They stay like this until he quietens, curled in Lan Wangji’s embrace, eyes hollow and wrung out. Lan Wangji is about to suggest that they continue this another day when Wei Wuxian rouses himself with a shaky breath, and continues.

“They killed Wen Ning in front of me,” he says. “And then they forced Wen Qing to take the same deadly poison they had been using to experiment with on us—”

“Qianji poison,” Lan Wangji says before he can stop himself. Both Wen Yuan and Wei Wuxian turn to him in shock. He lowers his eyes. “You fell ill after your performance at Caiyun Pavilion,” he tells Wei Wuxian. “I had a physician brought in to see you.”

He is careful to leave out Mo Xuanyu and Madam Zhang’s involvement, but Wei Wuxian is not fooled. But rather than get angry, as they had feared, he only shakes his head and laughs.

“I should have guessed,” he says. “They always liked to make a fuss.”

“They care about you,” Lan Wangji chides him gently. “And I am glad they told me, so I was better prepared to take care of you like I promised.”

This time when Wei Wuxian turns into the cradle of his arms, it is out of exhaustion, as if a great weight has been lifted from his chest, and his eyes drift closed as Lan Wangji strokes his hair with gentle motions. There is still more to the story, Lan Wangji knows—and there are questions burning in his mind. But he feels the sag of Wei Wuxian’s body against his, the heaviness of his breath, and cannot bring himself to press him further. They have time. After a moment of silence, when Lan Wangji thinks him asleep, he stirs.

“I’m tired,” he murmurs. “So tired.”

“You’ve done well, Wei Ying,” Lan Wangji reminds him. “Get some rest.”

Wen Yuan excuses himself as Wei Wuxian hums and nestles deeper into his arms. Lan Wangji nods at him gratefully and watches him leave, keeping his movements quiet so as to not disturb Wei Wuxian’s rest.

“I think I’ll close my eyes for a while,” Wei Wuxian agrees, his words already starting to slur. “I just need…a little break.”

Lan Wangji presses a light kiss on his forehead.

“Take all the time you need,” he says. “I’ll be here when you wake.”

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For renouncement verse; I just binge-read all the ficlets instead of doing assignments and I'm so! overwhelmed! by how easily lwj displays his love for wwx. So can we get lwj being sick/hurt/in some situation where wwx gets all protective of him (and the children?) and just, idk, HUSBAND FEELS

anon 1: Renouncement verse: they are night-hunting together and lwj gets injured? Or lwj comes back from a night hunt injured?

anon 2: Renouncement verse. LWJ is injured. It makes his husband and children very concerned and over-protective.

anon 3: Arranged marriage au! lwj or wwx getting sick/hurt and the other taking care of them :DD

anon 4: prompt for the arranged marriage wangxian au!!!! CUDDLING AND HURT-COMFORT THATS IT SEND TWEET, brain empty nothing but wangxian, maybe like wwx gets hurt doing something stupid idk anyway i love you and your writing is incredible :)

(brief author’s note: please please reblog if you can, since that’s how we get prompts for future updates!)

The last time Lan Wangji was wounded on a night-hunt, he was not quite thirty, and found himself distracted when the haunts he was fighting feinted towards the disciples standing behind him. It hardly comes as a surprise when the same thing happens again nearly a decade later; the snake demon darted towards Sizhui two seconds before Lan Wangji would have sliced its head off with Bichen, and distracts him just long enough to sink its teeth into the meat of his thigh. 

Snake yaoguai don’t tend to be poisonous, as a rule, but this one is, and by the time Lan Wangji is carried a few hundred yards from the demon’s den, his delirium worsens so sharply that he can scarcely recognize the faces around him. Sizhui is there, and Jingyi, though Lan Xichen sends them away as quickly as he can—and then there is Wei Ying, who shouldn’t be here because the serpent demon is still after them, and Wei Ying cannot fly—

“Run,” Lan Wangji pleads, trying to push his husband back. “Wei Ying, go!”

“I’m fine,” he hears Wei Ying say, speaking through a throat swollen with tears, and Lan Wangji cries out in pure anguish because his beloved will not leave him no matter how desperately Lan Wangji begs him to.

And then Wei Ying screams his name, and Lan Wangji wails out loud at the realization that his husband is gone, gone, and it’s his fault. He has lost Wei Ying, and Lan Wangji stumbles in the direction of his voice before someone grabs him and drags him away, forcing him back down onto a bed. 

“Wei Ying!” he sobs, howling at the top of his lungs when his fingers close around empty air. “Wei Ying, answer me! Please, beloved, please!”

But no answer comes, and Lan Wangji sobs himself hoarse until he can no longer speak because his very life has been ripped away from him, gone beyond all hope of saving when the yaoguai snuffed out Wei Ying’s. There will be no one to bring him back this time, no one to sacrifice body and soul and summon Wei Ying for the sake of justice unfulfilled, and Lan Wangji sinks into darkness with that knowledge tearing his heart into pieces before it shatters completely. 

“No,” Lan Wangji whispers, as the last echoes of his husband’s sweet voice fade into nothingness. “Come back, xingan. Come back…”

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“And it’s out of him now, Xichen-ge? You’re sure?”

“He ought to wake in an hour or two. I’ve cleared as much of the venom as I can, and the rest ought to pass through his kidneys.”

“Why does he keep crying? I—I’m—I don’t know anything about snake demons, we only ever got tiger yaoguai and boar ghouls in Yunmeng, and I was bait for a shark ghost once, but—”

“A-Xian, calm down. This particular type of serpent causes delirium in its natural state, there’s a farm about two hundred li away that milks them for anesthetic. He’ll be fine as soon as his thigh heals, and the wounds have already begun to close—see?”

Lan Wangji hears a hiccuping sob, then. “I do see.”

Xichen and Wei Ying keep talking over his head, which he cannot understand just at first; it is far past mao shi, or at least he guesses so from the angle of the sun on his face, and Wei Ying is crying with every word, pressing kisses to Lan Wangji’s limp hands and his forehead and every other part of him not covered by the sheets and blankets. 

“What happened?” he tries to mumble. But his lips feel heavier than iron when he tries to move them, and in the end he slips back into unconsciousness until late that afternoon, when he opens his eyes to see Wei Ying leaning over his head with a wet handkerchief in his hand. His husband is bathing his brow and cheeks, patting away the sweat and anointing each patch of clean skin with his lips, and Lan Wangji’s heart melts on the spot at the sight of him. 

“Wei Ying,” Lan Wangji rasps, as his beloved pulls him into his arms and bursts into tears. “Wei Ying, what—”

“You got bitten by a snake demon!” Wei Ying yells, shaking him by the shoulders. “You stupid man, I told you not to leave me behind, and you almost—you could have—”

“How could I have taken you?” he whispers. “You—how could I put you and the little one in such danger, xingan? I would rather give my life a hundred times over than do such a thing!”

“You almost did!” his husband shouts, before falling into another fit of sobs. “Never do that again, you hear me?”

Wei Ying scolds him through his tears for another ten minutes, and then he brings Lan Wangji a bowl of his favorite soup—vegetable broth boiled with fresh bamboo shoots and cabbage, with tofu and delicate pepper-seasoned glass noodles for strength. Lan Wangji only has to part his lips for the spoon and chopsticks, because Wei Ying refuses to let him eat by himself; he puts every morsel into Lan Wangji’s mouth with his own sweet hands, even the last few shreds of scallion clinging to the bottom of the bowl, and then he bathes Lan Wangji’s face again and rubs the blood back into his feet before wrapping them up in a pair of warm woolen socks. 

“Promise you’ll be more careful next time,” Wei Ying murmurs, after Lan Wangji eats his fill and bakes in front of the kitchen fire for a while. “Please, Lan Zhan.”

And then A-Yuan comes in, his face as red as a winter plum, and bawls into Lan Wangji’s neck like the baby he was when he first clung to him in a crowd eighteen years ago—and then Xiao-Yu toddles into the jingshi after his sobbing xiongzhang, crying loudly enough to wake the whole compound as he wriggles into his father’s lap next to Sizhui and wipes his nose on Lan Wangji’s shoulder. 

“A-Yu was scared!” the baby wails, clinging to his sleeve with his tiny dimpled fists. “A-Die, don’t go away! Don’t leave A-Yu and Yuan-gege! Protect A-Niang, and A-Lan—A-Die promised!”

“I’m not going anywhere,” Lan Wangji vows, gazing at his husband over their children’s two precious heads with his very soul in his eyes. “I’ll never leave you, sweetheart. Never.”

(And then Wei Ying is in his arms, too, and Lan Wangji’s world attains perfection all over again.)

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MDZS fics i treasure (2)

parts 1, 2, 3

The Simplest Way Forward by harriet_vane

[explicit, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 71k, complete]

one of the classics. this is also the fic that got me into the whole mdzs fandom. i literally just searched up kid fic on ao3 and this one seemed promising... so i read it without knowing who tf lan wangji or wei wuxian are... fast forward a few months later and all i can think about is “wangxian are married and have a son.” THEY’RE MARRIED AND HAVE A SON. now take that knowledge and add in modern wangxian as university music students who get married to take care of a-yuan and you’ve got yourselves this brilliant fic. also, i did not know you can endlessly pine for your own husband but with wangxian, anything’s possible

Neatly Arranged by thunderwear

[teen and up, lan wangji/wei wuxian, jiang yanli/jin zixuan, 45k, complete]

yes. i love arranged marriage wangxian fics okay ! they’re my guilty pleasure. this one’s unique because lwj’s actually bethrothed to jiang yanli and jin zixuan’s bethrothed to wwx which is actually kind of funny especially when jzx asks lwj if he wants to switch. it does get angsty but there’s a happy ending !

Night of Sixth Magnitude Stars by Leffy

[mature, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 22k, complete]

modern au with student lwj and teacher wwx although it’s only for the first chapter. THIS FIC. OH MY GOD. i literally got tricked, i thought it would be lighthearted and fluffy but the angst (specifically for wwx’s character) broke my heart. THE PLOT IS AMAZING, PLEASE READ IT

one good thing by Yuu_chi

[teen and up, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 26k, complete]

this one’s a classic, one of the first few mdzs fics i read and i absolutely love it. modern au with ghost wwx and house owner lwj *squeals* IT’S SO FLUFFY... and then gets quite a bit angsty at the end, i swear your heart stops at that scene. anyway it’s such a good read sigh,,, might re-read

Pigtail Pulling by protos_metazu_ison

[general, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 3k, complete]

whenever i’m feeling down, this fic always manages to cheer me up. it’s very lighthearted, just fluffy wangxian in cloud recesses: wwx teasing lwj and lwj teases back and absolutely flusters wwx. it’s just SO CUTE

Rush Hour by Ulan

[teen and up, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 3k, completed]

basically modern wangxian in public transport, pressed up against each other, with a dash of protective lwj and damsel in distress wwx. warning, there is minor sexual assault but the rest is just fluffy wangxian <3

seldom all they seem by Fahye

[explicit, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 24k, complete]

yes... another arranged marriage fic... i have nothing to say for myself. but this one’s just the usual fic with lwj finding wwx annoying at first and then pining so hard afterwards once he realizes wwx is his entire world. the author also changed the wwx escaping with the wens scene and OH MY GOD THEIR VERSION *chef’s kiss*. READ IT !

silhouettes to steal this night by moonsteps

[teen and up, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 51k, complete]

MODERN WANGXIAN AS ASSASSINS/HITMEN AND ROOMMATES. WHAT MORE DO I NEED TO SAY. guys, they just flirt every time they’re assigned to the same hit i am literally crying. top tier fic as expected from moonsteps (read the rest of their works you won’t regret it at all).

so you’ve been robbed by a museum by yukla

[mature, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 5k, complete]

immortal cultivators wangxian in the modern world !! to summarize, wangxian somehow does *not* get their shit together in the ancient times and pine all the way into the 21st century until lwj sees an entire section of paintings of himself hanging in the museum... you can guess whose yearning-induced artistic creations those are ;)

soft-hearted by @sarah-yyy

[general, lan wanji/wei wuxian, 6k, complete]

are you wondering what happens if child lwj found child wwx in the streets and brought him back to gusu with him? this. this is what happens: SOFTNESS, FLUFF, AND WWX CALLING GEGE. i literally didn’t know how much i need childhood friends to lovers wangxian until i read this and every time wwx called lwj gege? hello? i was pretty sure i was going to burst into flames if i kept screaming. also, read the author’s wangxian rebuttable presumption verse on their page bc it’s absolutely genius oh my god i’m never going to shut up about the rp verse

take yourself home by ribena

[mature, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 26k, complete]

okay, this one is HEAVY. like you would seriously just want to wrap wwx in a blanket and feed him soup kind of heavy. to summarize, radio host lwj keeping plant dad wwx company with his voice and then himself once he moves into the same apartment as wwx. honestly, this one hits home for me, it will definitely make you sob but the ending is so hopeful and i need a sequel of just plant dads wangxian being domestic 

tame by rikke

[mature, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 11k, complete]

IMAGINE IF LWJ DID NOT LEAVE WWX AFTER THE XUANWU CAVE. just imagine oh my god, maybe they would’ve gotten their feelings resolved faster... or hatched a baby xuanwu, and wait what? yes, you read right. this fic is about xuanwu dads wangxian in yunmeng, it’s fluffy and funny and just a perfect lighthearted read if you’re having a bad day

The Fire Lapping Up the Creek by notevenyou

[explicit, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 66k, complete]

in which wwx travels to lanling alone for jin ling’s one month celebration and gets heavily injured, cue in very heavy hurt/comfort. warning, there’s major illness and surgery in this fic. so basically, lwj stays in the burial mounds to guard wwx and the wens while wwx recovers from his injury. LISTEN, burial mounds husbands wangxian and heavy hurt/comfort, what more do you need. go read it

The Lotus Defense Society by mondengel

[teen and up, lan wangji/wei wuxian, jiang yanli/jin zixuan, 3k, complete, only available for registered users of ao3]

i have lost count of how many times i’ve read this one, i love it so much. lwj and jzx bond over their mutual pining for wwx and jyl and accidentally starts a cult with nhs to prevent unsuitable people from courting them. where do i even begin with this fic, it’s literally so amazing !! very crack-y, my favourite line is “Young Master Jin!  It’s Lan Wangji! He’s enacting Phoenix Mountain Part 2!” and then what happens after is my favourite scene

the secret ingredient by queen_gee

[teen and up, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 8k, complete]

WWX BAKING FOR LWJ WHO HAS A SWEET TOOTH OH MY GOD I AM SOBBING. modern college/university wangxian with lots of pining and baking, i am literally banging my head against a table this is the sweetest fic, but they’re also idiots in love so there’s some light angst but you’ll literally melt at the ending !!

The Trials and Tribulations of a Modern Father by Bgtea

[teen and up, lan xichen/jiang wanyin, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 24k, complete]

written in jiang fengmian’s pov where jfm realizes jiang cheng attracts a lot of attention from... old men. cue in lan xichen and his charming smile and this spells trouble to jfm so he enlists wwx’s help in operation protect jiang cheng. endgame xicheng with side pairing wangxian, this is absolutely cute and very humorous

with you, I am home by tellthemstories

[mature, lan wangji/wei wuxian, 47k, complete]

MODERN CULTIVATORS WANGXIAN DECIDE TO FAKE DATE *SCREAMS*. slow burn (but not if you read it fast enough), the way they are so domestic in this one oh my god, a LOT of oblivious wwx, and lwj meeting the family. i’m a sucker for fake dating fics and this one is just SO right. i’m urging everyone to read it for self-care

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My MDZS/Untamed Fic Masterlist

Try to Praise the Mutilated World series (post-canon, unfinished)

It might be over, but there’s still residual trauma. Mostly CQL-canon. Some titles from a poem with the same title as the series.

Spectre - Lan Wangji wakes from a nightmare shortly after Wei Wuxian returns to Gusu after his travels following the defeat of Jin Guangyao. (lwj POV)

leaves eddied over the earth’s scars -  Lan Wangji wakes to find Wei Wuxian quietly grieving his shijie as her birthday nears. (lwj POV)

remember the moments when we were together -  With Wei Wuxian grieving and not eating or sleeping well, Lan Wangji asks Sizhui to eat with him. Sizhui learns more than expected. (lsz POV)

rain falls and soaks into the earth (no war AU, unfinished)

Based on a prompt from @angstymdzsthoughts, Wei Wuxian is nearly killed by Madam Yu. Some titles based on poems by Mei Yaochen, including the series title.

a candle blown out - Gusu Lan takes in Wei Wuxian after Yu Ziyuan nearly kills him punishing him. (lxc POV)

a ghost in the mirror - Lan Wangji is losing hope as Wei Ying withers away, but he keeps trying. (lwj POV)

this body yet survives - Wei Wuxian continues to recover from his traumatic near-death experience, and the cultivation world slowly reacts to the event as well. (lwj POV) 16/? 

moonlight falls (modern corporate spy AU series, unfinished)

Based partly on a prompt from @angstymdzsthoughts, but also started for the WangXian Lunar New Year gift exchange, wherein Wei Ying is accused of corporate espionage and blacklisted from the tech industry, and Lan Zhan follows and supports him. Titles based on poetry by Li Bai, who was exiled and often wrote about missing home, friends, and family.

I look up and see the bright moon - A fluffy found family piece written for @wangxiangiftexchange. Five years after the corporate espionage accusation, the Wei family is ready to add a new member. (wwx POV)

frost on the frozen ground - A few weeks after “I look up and see the bright moon,” Lan Qiren shows up. It does not go well. (wwx POV)

a pool of light - With the trial and incarceration of the real culprits, Wei Ying's reputation officially cleared by the courts, things have settled down for the Wei family. They don't stay that way, as Jiang Cheng attempts a reconciliation in an emotionally constipated way. (wwx POV) 3/3

Wangxian Tax Universe (crack tax benefits AU series, collaboration, unfinished)

Friends with Tax Benefits (by adrian_kres) - Wei Ying suggests he and Lan Zhan should get married for the tax breaks. It works out.

Gimme a Tax Break -  Wei Ying tells his adoptive family. (wwx POV)

Tax B(racket) (by adrian_kres) - Betting Pool Group Chat!

Tax Haven -  Nie Huaisang initiates a group call. (wwx POV)

Capital Gains (by adrian_kres) - Wei Ying wants to talk about Lan Zhan's uncle.

The Sin Tax -�� Lan Zhan gets Wei Ying a gift. (wwx POV)

Hope universe (botched time travel AU, amnesiac!wwx)

the thing with feathers (time travel transmigration, 17 chapters, finished) - A night hunt gone wrong leaves Wei Wuxian facing life without a husband and son. He refuses. Using an experimental array, he attempts temporal transmigration, but it goes wrong. Pre-canon kidfic as of yet, with some reference to MDZS and CQL canons. Frankencanon. Various perspectives. 17/17

and sings the tune without the words (epistolary, unfinished) - Letters exchanged over the next five years. (11/?)

sore must be the storm (dual wwx POV) - Wen Ruohan wakes Wei Wuxian. It does not go well for him. Set in chapter 8 of “and sings the tune without the words.”

紅線 universe (canon divergence, lwj stays in Burial Mounds)

the thread may stretch or tangle but it will never break (lwj pov, unfinished)- Following the return of Wen Ning's spiritual cognition, Wei Wuxian doesn't pull away quickly enough to avoid Lan Wangji discovering his secret. Largely CQL-verse with some frankencanon. (lwj POV) 24/?

Honor Good People (lxc pov, to be read after part 1, ch. 22) - Lan Xichen does not ask permission before adding Wei Wuxian to the family registry as Wangji’s husband. Lan Qiren disapproves.

illuminate the world (jzx pov, to be read after part 1, ch. 24) - After the events of chapter 24, Jin Zixuan must consider the request to swear siblinghood and the entire situation, including the actions of his own clan.

like mayflies wandering universe (post-canon cql)

a grain of millet drifting (wwx pov, finished) - Post-canon, Wei Wuxian is traveling when he catches a Nie disciple killing an assassin apparently after him. Turns out it’s not the first, so he heads toward the Unclean Realm and his old friend. 3/3

hold the bright moon in my arms (wwx pov, unfinished) - Visiting Qinghe, Wei Wuxian tries to find peace, balance, and purpose. Nie Huaisang is not entirely helpful with this. 4/4

Operation Barking Dog (post-MDZS canon, unfinished)

In a world where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji didn’t have drunk sex and there was no confession in the temple, the pining continues as they travel across Jianghu post-canon. In which Wei Wuxian learns Mo Xuanyu adored Xianzi (Fairy) and decides to honor him by again attempting the impossible: curing his cynophobia. Largely novel and donghua canon. Very loosely based on an @angstymdzsthoughts post. WangXian Winter Solstice gift fic for @rymyanna. (lwj pov) 7/8

a pear blossom bathed in springtime rain (one-shot, finished)

Wei Wuxian has a habit of being a messy drinker, letting alcohol slide down his chin and neck. He didn't realize there was enough on his skin for Lan Zhan to get drunk off of. (wwx POV)

trees long for peace but the wind will never cease (one-shot, finished)

While he's missing, Lan Wangji can't help but fantasize about rescuing Wei Wuxian from the Wens. Set during episodes 19-20 of The Untamed. (lwj POV)

a song of joy and regret (one-shot, finished)

Wangji hadn’t dared remove the mask the entire trip back to Cloud Recesses, the unconscious body of what could be Wei Ying solid and limp in his arms. Set during episode 3 of CQL. (lwj POV)

ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water (accidental time travel, one-shot, finished)

Being in the Cloud Recesses facing his fifteen-year-old self, surrounded by other fifteen year olds, many of them long dead in his time, is… sadly not the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to him. (wwx POV)

藕断丝连 (during the years of wwx’s death, one-shot, finished)

The first Qingming after Hanguang-Jun's seclusion, Lan Sizhui is introduced to lotuses. (lsz POV)

卧薪尝胆 (post-canon, one-shot, finished)

Wei Wuxian comes across Ouyang Zizhen in the bunny fields, there while his father petitions the Chief Cultivator. Unfortunately, Lan Wangji is a bit petty toward those who continue to call him the Yiling Patriarch and blame him for all ills. Honestly, what were things coming to when he had to be the reasonable one? (wwx POV)

感情用事 (in the Xuanwu cave, one-shot, finished)

Beyond words, Lan Wangji intended to bite his arm. But he made the mistake of looking at Wei Ying's face... (lwj POV)

手下留情 (post-canon, one-shot, finished)

Wei Wuxian had been back in the Cloud Recesses a week when he first heard the gossip. He was only somewhat surprised—if any rule was going to be broken, that one would be first anywhere. The cultivation world loved gossip, and even if the Lan sect was founded by a monk, his descendants weren’t all ascetics by any definition despite their airs. (wwx POV)

beneath rose-colored clouds (post-canon, one-shot, finished)

Lan Wangji comes across his husband asleep amongst the bunnies. Written for @writersmonth 2021, prompt “feather.” Title from a Hanshan poem.

Impossible Things (post-canon, The Untamed, one-shot, finished)

As he leaves the Cloud Recesses and his zhiji to travel, Wei Wuxian doesn’t know what he yearns for, only that Lan Wangji grounds him. Written for @writersmonth 2021, prompt “darkness.”

mountain peaks shatter and crumble (Burial Mounds, wwx’s canonical death, MDZS, one-shot, finished)

He’d felt it, ever since he’d first fallen into the Burial Mounds, like glass burrowing beneath his skin—resentful energy, tearing him apart inside. For the August 11 prompt “glass” for @writersmonth 2021. Title comes from Poem 193 of the Shi Jing.

do not go gentle (post-canon, Wen Ning POV, MDZS, one-shot, finished)

During their travels together, Wen Ning realizes there is a non-resentful spirit attached to Lan Sizhui, and brings it to the attention of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji when they return to Gusu. For the August 13 prompt “night” for @writersmonth 2021. Title is from Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night.”

只羡鸳鸯不羡仙 (post-canon, crack, one-shot, finished)

Wei Wuxian has an accident with an experimental talisman. Now he has to find his husband. For @writersmonth 2021 day 14, prompt “duck.”  Title is from the Lu Zhaolin poem, “Chang’an nostalgia.”

a flower beyond the edge of the clouds (Nightless City, Soulmate AU, The Untamed, one-shot, finished)

In a world where the first time Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian meet a red thread ties them together, Lan Wangji does not acknowledge the soulmate bond. Things unfold much the same way, at the edge of a cliff. @writersmonth 2021 has two prompts each day, and this time I used both of them: “edge” and “soulmate AU.” Title is from “Long Yearning” by Li Bai.

拨云见日 (post-canon, self-indulgent, one-shot, finished)

When Wei Wuxian attends the first cultivation conference since Lan Xichen left seclusion, he doesn't expect a demand he stand trial. Apparently others planned for that contingency. The title is an idiom. Literally, to dispel the clouds and see the sun, but figuratively to restore justice.

suddenly an old song fills my heart with home, my eyes with tears (post-canon, one-shot, finished)

Jiang Cheng was presumed dead 16 years ago, but was actually de-aged, his memories sealed, by a dying yao's curse. He should have died of exposure, but when Wei Wuxian found an abandoned infant he decided he and Lan Wangji had gained a new son. Raised Wei Yanyin, his memories return during a night hunt, and he must tell his now-parents who he once was, and decide who he is. Based on an @angstymdzsthoughts post.

dragons white to ride (dragonji, smut, one-shot, finished)

On their steamy wedding night, Wei Wuxian learns some rather unexpected things about his new husband. Written as a lwj birthday fic. The title is from a Qu Yuan poem, “Crossing the River.” He was rumored to be the lover of an emperor.

separated hearts (CQL missing scene, one-shot, finished)

The cultivation world consumed Wei Ying as surely as fire, a sacrifice to its greed, and Lan Wangji thought them parted forever, Wei Ying somewhere Inquiry couldn’t reach, separated from the world as surely as Chang’e from Houyi. The title is a reference to the Zhang Jiuling poem “Looking at the Moon and Thinking of One Far Away.”

born under unlucky stars (canon-adjacent, ghosts, one-shot, finished)

Mo Xuanyu comes to awareness with surprise, then anger. He let go after summoning Wei Wuxian, freely offering his body in exchange for revenge and the oblivion of non-existence. He had expected nothingness from the Soul Sacrifice Summons spell, and he has been denied even that. The title is taken from Bai Juyi’s poem, “Li Bai’s Tomb,” specifically a translation from Tumblr’s hunxi-guilai.

a cup of sugar (modern!AU, pet loss, one-shot, finished)

Late one night, a haggard-looking Wei Ying knocks on his neighbor’s door to ask for a favor.

blue flies buzzing (post-canon, one-shot, LJY POV, finished)

At a discussion conference hosted by Lotus Pier, a disciple accuses Lan Sizhui of being a Wen survivor after losing an archery competition. Jingyi knows if the adults handle this, it’ll end in bloodshed, and he’s not the unLanest Lan for nothing. Title from a classical Chinese poem about slander.

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[More from the ghost!LWJ verse, still dealing with the aftermath of LWJ’s death. See the rest of the posts here.] “There were toys and spare robes,” says Jin Guangyao. “I’ll bring them here, perhaps it will be suitable as a relic, if there’s no luck seeking Wen Yuan’s body. A well-loved toy may have enough energy left over to establish a connection with his spirit.

“There were children’s things at the burial mound?” asks Lan Xichen, looking up at Jin Guangyao. “Why didn’t you tell me? You knew there was a child there!”

“Er-ge…”

“You knew. You could have stopped them.”

This expression is not one that Jin Guangyao ever expected Lan Xichen to turn towards him. It shows betrayal.

I never betrayed you.

(Liar.)

Don’t look at me like that.

(What would he do if he knew it was your fault his brother died?)

No! I didn’t mean for Lan Wangji to interfere! That’s not my fault!

(You betrayed him. He trusted you.)

Jin Guangyao cannot stand the accusation in Lan Xichen’s eyes, not from the only person who’s had unwavering faith in him still. For the first time, he raises his voice at Lan Xichen, cries “Of course, I knew! I knew all of them, not just Wen Yuan! I worked with them for four years, Er-ge! The Wen clan is big, but not that big. I knew all of them.”

Lan Xichen’s expression only sharpens. “And yet you didn’t even try to stop them, A-Yao,” he says.

Them? shouldn’t he be saying us?

“For what? Everyone already thought that my loyalty was suspect! Who would have listened to me? You think my Father would have listened, when he blamed WWX and the Wen for the death of his son and nephew? Was I supposed to tell him, that the Wen did nothing wrong? To tell Da-ge that? If I had defended the Wen remnants, I’d just be ONE MORE BODY left on the burial mounds when you all came for everyone there!” He stresses the you, even knowing how much it would hurt Lan Xichen, even though it twists deep inside Jin Guangyao’s own throat to do it. “If you think there was anything I could have done-”

“MENG YAO, ENOUGH!” says Nie Mingjue’s voice, and Jin Guangyao whirls around to see him walk into the room looking incandescently furious. Jin Guangyao flinches back in terror.

What am I doing? What have I done?

Lan Xichen was the last person who cared at all what happened to him, to strike at that friendship, what was Jin Guangyao doing? (Why did it hurt so much, to see Lan Xichen look at him like that?)

Only, instead of punching him for the words he’d spewed in anger, or worse, drawing his saber, Nie Mingjue just sets his hand firmly on Jin Guangyao’s shoulder. “Calm yourself, Meng Yao,” says Nie Mingjue, and there is something almost like kindness in his voice. “It was not your responsibility to hold the sects accountable.”

What? Jin Guangyao stares at Nie Mingjue incredulously, but the man says, “Xichen is distraught, he did not mean his words.” He looks over Jin Guangyao’s shoulder, expression sharpening. “Apologize, Xichen. That was inappropriate.”

What?

“I’m sorry! A-Yao I’m sorry, you’re right. You couldn’t have done anything, I shouldn’t have implied–”

Jin Guangyao turns back around to see that Lan Xichen has gone white, he’s stepped closer, hand out like he wishes to reach out and hold him, but can’t decide if he’s allowed to step closer or not.

“–I know you always try your best, I didn’t…” and then. Lan Xichen just. Crumples.

Outstretched arm wrapping back around his stomach as he falls to knees with a broken cry.

“Er-ge!” “Xichen!”

“…not your fault. Was mine. I just…”

Jin Guangyao is the first to reach him, kneeling in front of him and supporting him, keeping him from falling further. “Er-ge, please, I’m sorry,”

“No,” says Lan Xichen vehemently. He’s trembling faintly, but there’s a thread of steel in his voice as he speaks, as he says, “Even if, if you’d said. Would I have listened? Wangji told me and yet I only told him to try, I didn’t believe… I don’t know if I would have listened to you, A-Yao.”

“Xichen, you’re not to blame either,” says Nie Mingjue, also kneeling beside them now. His voice is gentler than it had been when he was scolding Lan Xichen just moments before.

“Aren’t I, Da-ge? The deaths of Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli compromised the Jin and Jiang sects, we should have, I should have looked into it, but I just agreed, didn’t check. It’s my fault.”

Something’s wrong, something’s very very wrong, and it takes Jin Guangyao several moments to realize that Lan Xichen is breathing too fast; shallow, gasping breaths as he tries to hold himself together. “Er-ge, slow down, you’re going to hyperventilate!” he says, placing a palm on Lan Xichen’s chest.

“I - I. I stepped. As-side, and. and let. them k-kill, kill my b-b-broth-er. I ki-killed him, A-A-Yao, just for. For do-ing the right. right thing. I–”

“Er-ge please,” Jin Guangyao begs, “Don’t do this to yourself, it’s not your fault, you didn’t know! Please control your breathing, you’re frightening me.” Lan Xichen doesn’t though, although maybe he cannot; his eyes widen more as he seems to choke on his gasped breathing, short, sharp gasps that seem to catch in his throat, and Jin Guangyao has no idea what to do. He’s never seen Lan Xichen fall apart like this before.

“He-he’s go-ne. Not supp. supposed. to. I w-want. him. back. want. M-my fa-fault. Pun-ish me.”

Lan Xichen shows no signs of becoming less hysterical, and before Jin Guangyao can plead further, Nie Mingjue pulls him into his arms, tucking Lan Xichen into a hug, his head nestled beneath Nie Mingjue’s chin.

“Xichen,” he says, “Breathe. You can cry, but you have to breathe,” and somehow that gets through to him, he gasps and splutters some more but he tries, and when he finally starts sobbing into Nie Mingjue’s chest, broken and desperate, at least Jin Guangyao is no longer afraid he’s going to hurt himself.

Nie Mingjue holds Lan Xichen as he shakes apart and cries, and when Jin Guangyao meets his eyes over Lan Xichen’s head, he sees some kind of reflected grief there.

Nie Mingjue mouths, ‘Water.’ Nodding, Jin Guangyao gets up and fetches some, coming back and asking quietly, “Er-ge, would you like some water?” Three hands, from three different people help steady the glass as Lan Xichen sips slowly from it, every one of his hitched breaths still tugging at Jin Guangyao.

Why does it hurt so much?

You were never supposed to be hurt.

It takes some time, but eventually the glass is empty, and Lan Xichen is only crying silent tears into the collar of Nie Mingjue’s robes.

“It’s not your fault alone,” says Nie Mingjue, after the long silence. “I was hasty too. The blame belongs to all of us.”

“I disgust myself,” Lan Xichen whispers, after he lets go.

“It’s fine. They’ll have moved on, perhaps be reincarnated. Isn’t that why-”

“They wouldn’t have. Wen Qing’s ashes were scattered at the Nightless city, and the rest were thrown into a pool of resentful energy at the burial mounds. Their souls would not have escaped,” says Nie Mingjue.

Oh.

It’s at times like this that Jin Guangyao remembers just how cruel cultivators are.

“I’ll find them all, and put them to rest,” says Xichen. “Not just A-Yuan.”

“You’re a sect-leader, Xichen. You can’t just leave everything to do this. Assign it to your cultivators, not-”

“I won’t hurry. But I will give them all rest. I swear.”

“Xichen-”

“Maybe then Wangji’s soul will forgive me, and deign to speak to me,” says Lan Xichen, and Nie Mingjue stops protesting.