#i want nie er furen being the pretty thing with a massive spy network shes grooming huaisang to take over

[brehaaorgana]

Okay I know ppl have written "wei ying gets taken in by another clan entirely," and I do love a good lan clan adoption early on and LQR being a better person for it but. Nie clan finds and adopts WWX, and WWX is able to prevent Nie Zongzhu's saber from being tampered with or does something that allows him to survive that one night hunt. If the timelines I've seen worked out are right that hunt probably happened after the Gusu studies? So WWX is fully into his whole genius baby stage at that point.

What if he prevented Nie Zongzhu from dying really early (even if he didn't save him entirely - like maybe he couldn't prevent some permanent damage...), & got invested exploring resentment energy due to nie clan sabers? What if saving Nie zongzhu is something Wen Qing secretly helps with which is why Mingjue doesn't hate all the Wens nearly as much? Ughhh.

I might write something on this idea.