#jaing yanli

[nutcasewithaknife]

We don't obsess enough over what Wen Qing feels about the core transfer. It doesn't feel right to say she's okay with it in any sense. She didn't want to do it initially! She knew they could both die, knew that the cost of winning was Wei Wuxian’s ability to cultivate spiritually, knew that it would be an extreme violation of Jiang Cheng’s will and trust to keep it a secret. And yet!! Why does she give in to Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning and actually go through with it? Does her Chronic Elder Sister Syndrome make her more sympathetic to Wei Wuxian’s fears for Jiang Cheng? Did she think it was the only way she could make up for the loss of their home at the hands of her sect?

We know she's drawn to the siblings' love for each other, she sees a reflection of what she has with her brother in their relationship. Did she think they would fall apart if the transfer didn't happen, and wanted to avert that at any cost? The implications of this!!! She thought they would be better off dead, or better off despite Wei Wuxian living a half-life with a terrible secret while Jiang Cheng regained a core and Yanli remained oblivious. Either of these options were better than Jiang Cheng remaining coreless, but why? Because she thought Wei Wuxian would have a better chance at surviving without core than Jiang Cheng could? Or because she understood how hard it was to preserve a legacy and protect people against all odds, knew that Jiang Cheng would have to rebuild his sect, and believed it was impossible without a core? Did she think about how broken she'd be if she couldn't protect her people, and didn't want him to suffer that?

Did she look at their life in the Burial Mounds and regret doing it, regret lingering long enough to to be caught and imprisoned by Wen Rouhan? Or did she already know that she and her people were doomed, and wanted to give at least someone a fighting chance to protect their own? Did she watch Wei Wuxian fight everyday to keep smiling, keep living and regret that she did it? Did she think of Jiang Yanli, never knowing what went wrong and struggling to keep them together? Did she think of Jiang Cheng, deprived of a brother and with a core he didn't agree to, and feel revolted at the thought of having her brother cut himself out for her? Does she look around herself and think about how she failed at helping them as well as her own people? How, ultimately, her best was not enough to save anyone?

When leaving Wei Wuxian behind and marching to Lanling with the Wen remnants, did she really give up, or was she still trying to help someone, if not the people she should have? Was she hoping that at least her death would mean something, save someone? Was she afraid that it too would ultimately save no one?

[uncorrectintamed]

Jaing Yanli: Don't you have something to say to each other?

Wei Wuxian: I'm sorry I flicked flour in your face.

Jiang Yanli: A-Cheng?

Jiang Cheng: I'm sorry you were adopted.

[punk-a-cat]

Wei Wuxian and the Jaings, except Yanli

funniest trope is found family but the family you found fucking sucks

[howlmasterlist]

Danmei

MO DAO ZU SHI

Nie Huaisan

Nie Mingjue

Lan Xichen

Jaing Cheng

Xiao Xingchen

Xue Yang

Yu Ziyuan

Wen Qing

Jiang Yanli

Jin Zixuan

Wei Wuxian

Wei Changze

[themackenziemachine]

Modern Jin Ling makes his parents play Cooking Show for him at least once a month. Each kid gets to pick a mystery ingredient and they all gather up to watch them try to puzzle out what to make for dinner. Whoever (Jaing Yanli) makes the best part of the meal Wins (seriously Jin Zixuan hasn't won once [not that he cares]). The judges are the kids and whoever's sibblings happen to be wandering though at the time

[wangxianficrecs]

❤️Love made visible by Moominmammashandbag

❤️Love made visible

by Moominmammashandbag

M, 31k, zhuli (jiang yanli/wen zhuliu - don’t knock it til you���ve tried it, this pairing was **so **perfect), wangxian

Summary:  Wei Wuxian lost his hand.

The Wens occupy Lotus Cove.

Jiang Yanli cooks, and plots.

My comments:  Oh, aaaah, me I feel so delighted and satisfied, which is very bizarre, because the whole first half of the story has some very traumatic circumstances in it: injuries and subjugation and parental abuse and an attempted rape and... so many bad things. And yet, Author ALWAYS takes care of you. Jiang Yanli, even in the midst of the Wen takeover, is so charming and endearing and she comes into her own in a way she's never had a chance to before. (She is absolutely the focus of this story, although everyone is in it.) With wwx wounded and hidden away in the space under Jiang Yanli's floorboards, Jiang Cheng paralyzed by his mother, Madam Yu on a rampage to sell whichever of her children to Wen Rouhan that he'll accept in order to release Lotus Pier, and Jiang Fengmian drinking himself into a stupor... there is no one else to take up all the slack and protect Lotus Pier.

The circumstances are sooo fraught, as a matter of fact, that it sparks the formation of Jiang Yanli's golden core, the expression of which is manifesting her suggestions into the food she cooks.

Wen Zhuliu becomes an unexpected mentor, and his gruff directions about how to feel out the edges of her power and ways to put it to practical use are simply lovely. Meanwhile, Lan Wangji shows up (because of course he does), and immediately scoops up his wwx for cuddles and caretaking, in between which he staunchly stands behind and supports Jiang Yanli as she tries to figure out how to wrest back her home.

And so things get better, and happier and things just work, and the satisfaction in obstacles falling after they've left a bruise is so much more intense.

I'm just happy. And I adore Jiang Yanli more than ever. And Wen Zhuliu, too, who knew!?

canon divergence, fix-it, major character injury, amputation, hurt wei wuxian, angst, jiang yanli is a ROCK, and she cultivates with food, POV jiang yanli, sass and strength and cooking, attempted rape/non-con, sexual assault, hurt jiang yanli, caretaking, jiang siblings, family feels, feels, dysfunctional family, supportive jiang cheng, protective jaing cheng, protective jiang yanli, protective lan wangji, protective wen zhuliu, bamf jiang yanli, powerful jaing yanli, strong female characters, abusive madam yu, abusive jiang parenting, jiangs A+ parenting, fluff, heterosexual fluff, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, amnesia, but only madam yu, happy ending, favorite, @moominmammamia​

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[kshithi-and-stories]

Exactly! She was ignorant and naive. And she was happy to be in her bubble. She never wanted to come out of her comfort zone. She was like an ostrich who would hide its face in sand and chose to be ignorant rather then learn and grow. But she was not malicious like her mom and her brother. Although she showed kindness to WWX, she was not a true sister who would share his burden. I am not sure she was in the right state of mind when she went to the battle field and died. If she was in sound mind, I do not think she would have left her son alone. Both JC and Yanli seems not to be in the right state of mind when they chose to save WWX

Finally! Your post about Yanli! Folks never hold her accountable, always defending Yanlie w this sheltered stuff. She didn't know anything! Jiang Cheng never told her anything and she can't speak. She's so sheltered. Why is her ass outside talking to Wen Ning. She didn't ask WWX shit about his life just twirls around her dress. She could've ask Wen Ning about conditions in the Burial Mounds but she didn't care as long as her family fantasy was playing. Look at this:

"iang Cheng probably hides the worst of it from her; for example, she was actually outside chatting with Wen Ning when the stab wound came up during the wedding dress visit, and I wouldn't be surprised if Jiang Cheng came home after the duel complaining about his broken arm and never mentioned that he stabbed Wei Wuxian in the guts. She also did not visit the Burial Mounds during that visit; Jiang Cheng found an abandoned house in Yiling and they met him in the walled courtyard (so no one would see them together, ugh). So while she's certainly pretty ignorant about money and didn't make the connection that Wei Wuxian would, you know, be dealing with poverty after leaving the sect with nothing, she didn't see it for herself, either. In general it seems like cultivators from the great sects are pretty ignorant about money, and in particular Jiang Yanli is a sheltered upper class young woman. It's not surprising that she's clueless about all of this. Not her finest moment but it doesn't prove anything terrible about her.... She's just...very sheltered and not very knowledgeable about the wider world. In some respects I feel like her character is a commentary on how unhealthy the habit of upper class families to shelter their daughters and hide them away from the world was. Honestly, the next time I see someone disparaging her for being 'nothing but soup' I'm going to scream. She doesn't have to be a skilled cultivator or politician if she doesn't want to be!"

I mean look she's not evil but I find it genuinely hard to care about her 🥲. I didn't think about her in WWX's second life. I didn't think about her after finishing the novel. Fandom really went balls to the wall with the soup goddess of kindness persona or trying to make her some BAMF warrior queen, or complaining MXTX didn't do her juStiCe and a lot of people project on her so it's kind of turned me off her character personally. Back to her character, it depends on how you judge people. Do you think someone kind on the surface but who prefers to remain naive is ideal? There's a point where remaining sheltered is a choice. Her mother is YZY. I can't stand her but she's not exactly cast in the mold of traditional femininity. YanLi only concerning herself with domestic tasks is her choice- a choice she's totally entitled to but that YZY actually reprimands her for so it's not quite accurate to say it was something she was oppressed into. She went through a war. She worked in the war camps. She understands how food and shelter work. There's sheltered and there's thinking someone doesn't understand that people expect payment for goods and services... I think that's taking "sheltered" a bit too far. Gossip was flying like wildfire after the defection and duel. You can't tell me she was living under a rock. She sees WWX when she shows off her dress. She has every chance to ask him how he's doing. If he was wounded, if he's got everything he needs. ANYTHING. 🌝 I didn't even think about it but you're right, she could've asked Wen Ning how things are if she didn't want to ask in front of jiang cheng or something. Instead she lets jiang cheng rudely kick Wen Ning out of the courtyard drops her soup bandaid and asks WWX to put up w jc even though he wasn't doing anything "Both of you can stop fooling around. I brought soup for you two.” and then goes to talk to him. My reading is that it's so she can give jc and WWX time to talk and make up. Her priority is as always everyone getting along or at least acting like they're getting along + soup. Many people are like that - the soup. Are they evil? no. Are they awesome to be around? It depends on if you're the one always asked to do the compromising in the name of harmony.

[jaimebluesq]

After the reveal at the banquet, the Nie and Jiang siblings react to the news.

[chamomillles]

wait watching this movie gives me an idea for a potential mdzs story

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

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1. Hello I am looking for a wangxian fanfic where Wei Wuxian becomes the sect leader of Qishan Wen, He creates rings as a token for his sect and disciples. Jin Guangshan kills Jaing Fengmian and leaves a ring to try and frame Wei Wuxian for the murder. Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen, and Lan Qiren leave the Lan Sect to join Wei Wuxians sect.

FOUND? This sounds a lot like The Dreams of Youth by sami (E, 86k, wangxian, time travel, fix-it, family, not lan sect friendly, canon typical violence & gore, childhood friends to loveres, hurt/comfort, mothers who live, some people live/not everyone dies, Mojo’s bookmark) There’s definitely the rings but it’s Qishan Wei instead of Wen.

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2. I'm looking for this Burial Mounds days fic where Lan Wangji gets cursed and he needs to have s*x with the person he is in love with or he's gonna die. He refuses to tell Wei Wuxian so Lan Xichen gets a Lan doctor to knock Wangji out and take him to the Burial Mounds and basically threaten Wangji to tell Wei Wuxian the truth, kind of "you tell him or I will" type of situation. @awomanha

FOUND? This Tumblr fic by @jingyismom​

FOUND? Night Breezes Seem to Whisper by cqlorphan (E, 16k, wangxian, post-canon, dom/sub undertones, sex curse, case fic, fuck or die, getting together, bottom LWJ, fluff & smut)

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3. hi!! there's a fic I'm trying to find and i would be grateful if you and your followers could help me! it was either during our water the war, but when wwx came out of the burial mounds he was different? like he truly became little more than a guard to the jiang, and didn't seem interested in much else i think? and eventually the people who cared about him realized he was kinda possessed by the burial mounds and they had to go get him back towards the end. that's all i really remember!

FOUND! between the shadow and the soul by cl410 (M, 22k, wangxian, canon divergence, angst w happy ending, family, dark WWX, feral WWX, memory loss, protective JC & JYL & LWJ, grief, BAMF WWX)

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4. I am looking for a fiction that Lan Wangi and wei wuxian are tring to have a baby and it not working and they are invited to jiang yanli's baby shower and wwx breaks down.

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5. Hi mods! I'm looking to find the fic where Wei Ying is resurrected and goes straight to Lotus Pier half out of his mind with fever. Once there he cross-dresses as a female Jiang cousin. He and Jiang Cheng end up visiting the Cloud Recesses at some point, and Lan Zhan ends up both like ??? because he's falling for someone new, and hella jealous because people think Wei Ying is engaged to Jiang Cheng (bc he's wearing Jiang Yanli's clothes/headpiece, etc). Thank you for your help ^.^ @thesavagedamsel

FOUND? By Any Other Name by ShanaStoryteller (Not Rated, 31k, Wangxian, Canon Divergence, Crossdressing, Misunderstandings, Identity Porn, Identity reveal, Polski Translation Pod każdym innym imieniem by tehanu, [PODFIC] By Any Other Name by sakizar)

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6. Hi!! I'm so thankful all the mods on this page because you all are so helpful. I was looking for this fic where modern au WangXian but Lan Wangji is a vampire and Wei Wuxian is a vampire hunter. They go to the same school divided into two sections namely the night school and the day school. I also remember that Wei Wuxian wears skirts and stuff because he feels more comfortable. So Wangji pines for him as always and they have this ball (?) or a party I guess and limited to only the vampires but Wei Ying is invited. Lan Wangji gets drunk and Wei Ying tries to take him back to his dorm but like they detour because they're horny and Lan Wangji bites his thighs and then the next day he relaizes that Wei Ying is half vampire I guess. But somehow Qiren is shitty because he hides the truth about Wangji's parents and he tries to stop Wei Ying and Lan Wangji but they run away from the cultivation world like how Baodhan Sanren and Lan Yi ran away. Because apparently same sex marriages aren't okay in their society. Also Madam Yu also whips Wei Wuxian when she gets to know he's half vampire and Fengmian was keeping Wei Ying so he could gain advantage at some point. I hope you can find this cuz I've been looking for this for ages!! Thank you. @poetic-writes

FOUND? verboten kythe by misbehavingvigilante (E, 66k, wangxian, vampire knight fusion, dub con, dysfunctional family, gnc WWX, vampires)

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7. Since you found me exactly what i was looking for I came back with two more fics and to say thanks for finding the two i requested the first time.

A) So the first fic i want to request is one where wangxian time travel and at first they think its only them but later on in the story its revealed that because of something they did lan xichen, nie huaisang and jiang cheng also come back. but near the beginning of the story lan wangji helps madam lan escape and she goes to lotus pier and turns out she knows madam yu and qinghengjun comes out of seclusion i belive cause when they go to the lectures he and madam lan reunite and then our timetravels tell them what happens and there are multiple training dummies that are destroyed by madam yu and jiang yanli

B) the second fic is where after canon ends i belive almost everyone but wangxian and a’yuan were dead but a’yuan was making his way to deaths door but wei wuxian used this array or talisman yo send them back thousands of years and a’yuan reverts to his child self and wei wuxian and lan wangji get to raise him but eventualy become immortal or already were and i dont know if a’yuan becomes immortal or not but it doesnt really mention him at all after that except a brief passing. As the years pass wei wuxian and lan wangji travel and meet a lot of people including their parents and baoshan sanren. it time skips i belive and its after the lectures(?) and the sects are invited to the burial mounds where a whole bunch of relevant but not totally relevent people are, along with wei wuxian and lan wangji as their immortal sect leaders and the sects read the books but it doesnt actually show that part and madam meng and madam jin meet and at first madam jin is standoffish but eventually get to know each other, i dont know anything after that, most like where the last update was.

Sorry for rambling and making this request daunting and sorry if there is anything that is hard to read im on my phone and the the keyboard is not writing down the letters as i type them in. thank you for your time and i wish you a good day(ᗒᗣᗕ)՞ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ @fanfic-discussions

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8. Hello Mods I need your help finding this fic where LWJ was cursed and I think the purpose of the curse is to humiliate him by giving him a boner/making him horn knee??? And WWX is a doctor or something like that here and he is tasked to help LWJ so he basically gives handjob and other things I think in the end of the fic WWX will stay in cloud recesses?? Amd there is this one part where WWX tries to finger LWJ while helping him but turns out he doesn't like it. Thanks for the help !

FOUND? trust your fingertips by plonk (Not Rated, 15k, WangXian, Aphrodisiacs, Medical Kink, Canon Era, Different First Meeting)

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9. hello lovely mods and fellow readers and writers! i have been looking in vain for two fics and so i am here in hopes that maybe someone can help. A) i think this first one may be a burial mounds days canon divergent fic wherein lwj either comes to stay, or keeps coming back, but that’s just my vague impression. i only remember one scene! lwj is meditating, and a’yuan, sweetheart that he is, sits down with him and copies him. i remember lwj thinking that a’yuan is doing well for such a small kid, he lasts much longer than expected without fidgeting or losing concentration. afterwards he says that he was pretending to be a cloud, i think?? and when lwj (or maybe wwx?) asks him how he feels he says, “Fluffy!” (it’s tbh one of the most adorable scenes ever)

B) second one is an ‘lwj takes a’yuan and jingyi and leaves the lan sect’ joint. i think he leaves bc the elders and teachers are treating a’yuan badly, and lqr is maybe refusing to let lwj adopt him? lwj takes jingyi as well bc he’s a’yuan’s bf and an orphan, and is also kind of shunned and ill treated since he doesn’t conform easily to lan standards. pretty sure lwj tells both kids to call him father once they’ve left, and that they spend the first day or two travelling fast so they won’t be caught, and sleeping rough. i think maybe there was a scene with the kids cleaning up in a river and playing, and lwj being grateful that they feel safe enough to play and make noise… and that’s all i’ve got! i may be completely wrong abt the details, but thank you guys for taking the time to read my rambling. if anyone recognizes either of these i will be so grateful :)

9A)

NOT FOUND! A Myriad of Blossoms by Itszero (E, 56k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Arranged Marriage, Forced Marriage, YL WWX, Hurt LWJ, Cruel wwx, he's cruel until he's not, Protective WWX, Caring WWX, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Eventual Smut, Bottom LWJ, Dark WWX)

FOUND! mercy, tear it down. by orange_crushed (E, 31k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Burial Mounds Settlement Days, Dual Cultivation, Light BDSM, In Which Wangxian Fumble Towards An Understanding of D/S Dynamics, Porn with Feelings, Recovery, Angst with a Happy Ending, Wangxian-Typical CNC Play, Aftercare, Slight Feminization (ie Wei Ying Keeps Saying 'Wife'), True Love, Past LWJ/Other) that dialog shows up at the end of chapter 2

Hey Anon, for 9A, was this a fic where lan yi or baoshan sanren were in it?

SIMILAR! wide enough and wild by impossibletruths (E, 64k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Getting Together, Canonical Accidental Baby Acquisition, Families of Choice, Happy Ending, Noping Out Of Society With Your Boyfriend And Your 50 Wen Refugees: The Novel, Overzealous Use Of Imagery, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Fix-It of Sorts) chapter 1 has a scene like this, however not the dialogue the requestor mentioned

9B)

FOUND! Home isn't Where the Heart is. by Hauntcats (Not Rated, 7k, WangXian)

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10. could you help me find a fic? it was a modern coffee shop au where wangxian got together briefly in school (maybe in uni?) before breaking up due to an understanding that ALSO got wwx kicked out of the jiangs. wwx lived with the wens above the coffee shop i think? thank you so much!! ♥️

FOUND? 💖love wakes me by dea_liberty (E, 46k, wangxian, modern, angst w happy ending, childhood sweethearts, misunderstanding, famous LWJ, coffee shop owner WWX, found families, grand romantic gestures)

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11. heyyyyy! for you next fic finder (if this is how you ask) im looking for this fic(well obvi) but I only remember this one scene. from what I remember it was like lwj was always the top and wwx was going to switch and "take care of him" and he started it off with like a really intense massage and lwj was super upset for finishing so fast and his internal thoughts were so sad but wwx was like "we're not done". it was definitely a modern au and I think autistic!lwj but thats all I remember. thank you, even if you don't find it (:

FOUND? 💖 See all this and more for just ten dollars a month! series by ScarlettStorm (E, 382k, wangxian, modern, onlyfans au, getting together, pining, minor angst, mental health, therapy, autistic LWJ, neurodivergent WWX, domestic bliss, tender kink) defo has lwj with autism and some extremely soft feels and explicit rated scenes

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12. hey guys i searched for this fic everywhere but still couldn't find it so i'm hoping you could help me with it 😭 ok sorry if this is very vague i only remember this specific part where wwx went to the park i think? to meet his family & friends but there is a dog too and it starts chasing wwx so he runs but he got hit by a car :(( i remember lwj and jc are there. again sorry if this is very vague and not very helpful and thanks for all your help!

FOUND? When I hurt you (I hurt myself) by AstaraelWeeps (T, 2k, JC & WWX, hurt/comfort, car accidents, hurt WWX, fluff, happy ending)

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13. I thank you so much for everything that you do 🥺🥺✨✨ I’ve been looking for this for a while but all I remember is the beginning where lwj is dragged to an Halloween party that turn out to be “someone”’s birthday but that’s all I got it was the beginning of the story tho thanks again ✨🥰❤️ @ihaveasoftspotfora-yuan

FOUND? an hour of sunshine by astrolesbian (G, 2k, WangXian, Modern AU, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Mindless Fluff, halloween party)

FOUND? Just Pick Treat by gusucloudbunny (E, 9k, WangXian, Modern AU, College/University, Friends to Lovers, Halloween, Fluff and Smut, Birthday Party, Getting Together, First Kiss, wwx is a barista wwx birate,and no that's not a typo, give lwj friends, let lwj wear a skirt)

FOUND? all the ways to say (i love you) by alcego (E, 24k, WangXian, Modern AU, Halloween Parties (derogatory), Drinking, Literal Sleeping Together, Sleeping Together, Best Friends to Lovers, Explicit Sexual Content, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, (they fuck at a party), gratuitous use of citations)

FOUND? Don’t make me wait too long by Song_of_Storms (T, 3k, WangXian, Modern AU, Birthday Party, Halloween Costumes, anxious lwj, Getting Together, First Kiss, Fluff and Angst, Birthday Cake, College/University, Hopeless Romantic LWJ, WWX'S Birthday)

FOUND? Birthday Smash by Sebastians_Little_Monster (E, 8k, WangXian, Modern AU, WWX's Birthday) POV LWJ, LWJ Has Feelings, Those Feelings Were Horny, Denial of Feelings, Flirty WWX, WWX is a Little Shit, Jealous LWJ, Halloween Costumes, halloween and party shenanigans, Truth or Dare, Exhibitionism, Anal Sex, Spit As Lube, Rough Sex, ass eating, Oblivious WWX, Straight Boy WWX, Modern Cultivation, Wank and Tell)

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14. I’m looking for a fic that’s set in modern times, but has cultivation elements. In it, indelible marks are left when someone who loves you touches you. Wei yong has no marks or only some from his mom and dad, and none since so he thinks no one loves him. It infuriates lan zhan because he knows he loves wei ying and tells his uncle so, he uncle figures out it’s a curse and breaks it, the curser gets called out and punished. I’ve been dying to read this again, please help! (I remember reading a fic like this, Madam Yu is the one who cursed him right? ~ Mod C)

FOUND? pastel by antebunny (G, 6k, WangXian, Modern AU, College/University, Soulmates AU, Heavy Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, Self-Esteem Issues, Misunderstandings, Angst with a Happy Ending, Unrequited Love, but not actually)

Or it could also be the fic it was inspired by, which was -

FOUND? leading tone by silencemostofall (G, 32k, WangXian, Modern AU, Soulmates, with a lil twist, Eventual Happy Ending, lesbian WQ rights, Music, Orchestra, Not YZY Friendly) (this is the fic where YZY was the one to curse him, I think it's this one you were looking for - Mod C)

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15. Hi! I read a fic a while ago but can't remember the name! Do you know the fic where wwx wakes up back in time (he first thinks its a dream) and stops jyl from pushing him away from the blade and dies (while thinking about how he promised he wouldn't hurt lwj and wwx realised he will put lwj through years of mourning)? As he dies, he tells lwj that he loves him. Then he is awakened years later in mxy body, and hugs lwj and hums wangxian. It's complete with 2 or 3 chapters.

FOUND? 💖Shattered Dreams by pupeez4eva (G, 9k, wangxian, time travel, angst, JYL lives, temporary character death, angst w/ happy ending)

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16. Okay so I have a fic finder request for you guys if thats okay!! I don't know if you'll be able to find it for me because I really don't have a lot for you to go on. Literally all that I remember is wwx and lwj talking to someone (a merchant? A shop worker? Maybe something with a festival?) And they had to solve a series of riddles to win a prize (I think it was 3 riddles) wwx solved one but then I think lwj ended up solving 3 riddles instead and gave the prize to wwx. That's all I can remember!! But the scene has been in my head a lot so now I really want to reread the fic haha any help in finding it would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you so much!!! @suibian800

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17. Hello, I would like help finding a post-canon fic where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are invited to visit a primarily female cultivation sect and it turns out that they're homophobic and trying to use guys as sperm donors? I know I tried to bookmark it, but I don't know or remember if I did. Could you help? @kaitou-cure-prism12​

FOUND! Just As Much by Gemiblu (E, 23k, wangxian, post-marriage, jealousy, demonic cultication, powerbottom WWX, cockblocking, smut)

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18. Hiii thanks for all your hard work ✨🐇✨ can you help me please I read a Twitter thread fic but I lost it and don’t think it was over 😅 I was about wwx and lwj being married but wwx became pregnant and wanted ro surprise lwj but he thought wwx wanted to divorce So he called his lawyer and wwx heard it anc that’s all I got. 🫠😭✨ thanks again @ihaveasoftspotfora-yuan

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19. Hi! Can you help me find a fic where WWX is pregnant and goes to the Cloud Recesses (bc he can't keep the baby in the Burrial Mounds with the Wens) and ends up giving birth on the way there LWJ saw the baby outside his home, but I don't remember anything else.

FOUND? A Scent of Pine in Winter by mondengel (M, 5k, wangxian, ABO， angst, childbirth, mpreg)

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20. Hello!! I've been looking for this fic i read (it might also be a twitter threadfic i dont really remember :"") where lwj for whatever reason has to go to the burial mounds to find yllz where he mets wwx and thinks that wwx is yllz's husband... I don't remember much else, thank you in advance for the help!

FOUND? rare the man who'll hold to faith by Fahye (M, 13k, WangXian, Canon, Identity Porn, With Apologies To The Chivalric Romantic Tradition, rare the man who'll hold to faith [podfic] by someplacelikebolivia)

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(@not-a-darkfriend @defenestratedcow)

Okay. So, basically the idea has two parts. The first part is this:

The world MDZS and the world of WoT are not two separate worlds. Their ware one world, at radically different points in history. MDZS takes place in the early '1st Age' (our age), and Cultivation is like being a Wolfbrother: an ancient ability distinct from The One Power, long lost to history. By the time of EoTW, Cultivation is nothing more then a shadow of a shadow of a memory, save in one place: Shadar Logoth. Mordeth who went to the Finn to ask for a power separate but alike to the One Power, was granted 'The Old Magic'/Cultivation in response, but without context or knowledge of the dangers he became twisted by it, unwittingly turning to reckless Demonic Cultivation, which transformed Airdhol into Shadar Logoth. Mashadar is, in essence, a giant undead creature born of that misuse and the resentful spirits of all of the dead of Airdhol. This is one, short of the Choden Kal, the one power can do nothing to stop Mashadar: it requires suppression and containment by Cultivation, and their is no one living capable of doing that.

The second part of the idea, the more lengthy one, is this:

Basically, many WoT characters are MDZS characters reborn, but not MDZS characters of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji's generation, but rather characters from the generation /back/. In the same vein, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, and their 'circle' are destined to be born post WoT in the 4th Age, to help guide and shape it.

To explain what I mean more directly:

Lan Mandragorn and Nynaeve al'Merea are Qingheng-Jun and Madam Lan reborn. In their previous life, where Lan/Qingheng-Jun didn't grow out of his messed up ideas of duty, love, and power, he really thought that 'marry the woman I love to avoid her being executed, then seclude myself because of my shame and failures denying my wife love and freedom, and my sons a father ' was a reasonable response to their situation. Nynaeve fierce and loving and full of fire, denied freedom as well as the chance to watch to love and guide her sons, of course subsumed despair as a result, refusing to live as a caged bird for anyone's sake. Their canon arc is as a result, largely redemption: Lan learning to move passed his messed up ideas of love duty and power, places his faith and trust in Nynaeve, who does the same in return. Their reward is not just a restored Malkier, but a chance to truly be their and love their children (who will include two sons of course, with a remarkable resemblance to each other, who will share in both their father's intense sense of duty and sentimentality.)

Faile is Yu Ziyuan reborn, and unlike before where she married a man who she did not love and who could not love her in return (being hung up on his childhood friend to the point of taking in said friend's son and raising him as his own) for power and prestige, Faile set out to shape her own destiny. She found a man to truly love her, sometimes overwhelmingly, in Perin, Jiang Yanli and Jaing Cheng are (two of) their children in this timeline. Without cause for her bitterness, and with a true partner to helpher, she does a much better job of raising both, and though at their core their still the same (and Jiang Cheng specifically Is Very Much Her Child and also Very Saldean) Yanli is much stronger of will able to assert her power (as the future Lady of the Two Rivers) and Jiang Cheng is more capable of patience and moderation when needed, having learned it from his (new) father.

Now to show my hand as a filthy ChangMian shipper: Jiang Fengmian was a minor Saldaean Lord who Faile's parents (and specifically her mother Deira) badly wanted her to marry. But after Faile ran off to become a hunter for the horn, Fengmian decided to do the same, eloping with his childhood friend and retainer Wei Changze to become mercenaries together. That choice, to commit himself to the man he loved over a lifetime of projecting his regrets onto his own children, and pinning for a dead man, raising Wei Changze's son in penance for failing him, earns him true happiness with said man he loves. After several misadventures (and their own slow burn) they ended up in Seaenchan, post-fracturing of the Empire, and Wei Changze the leader and protector of a small rebellious port town turned independent city state. Their they are raising their son. (And insisting bald faced that he is both of their biological child, impossibilities of that aside).

Elayne's twins? Wen Qing and Wen Ning reborn. Elayne's unification of Cairhien and Andor's crowns has stabilized her rule, and Wen Qing will one day inherit her crown. To that end Elayne and Faile are trying, very very subtlety arrange a marriage between Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng without letting anyone involved know that's what their doing, since it's hard to tell who would go more ballistic: Wen Qing (at having no say in her husband), Jiang Cheng (at being sold like cattle), or Perrin (at having his son's future used as a political gambit). The fact that Jiang Cheng and Wen Qing are very obviously smitten with each other and have no intention of ever admitting it to themselves or anyone else, drives both their mothers insane.

Finally, the Big One: Wangxian.

Wangxian specifically, are Heroes of the Horn, souls spun out again and again to make new legends and help shape the future. Like Birgitte and Gaidal Cain they are always spun out together, and also like Birgitte and Gaidal (who are the OG hate-at-first-sight/enemies to lovers), Wangxian are the OG slow burn/childhood In every life they fall madly in love, but take time and proving it to both themselves and each other. Sometimes they are a tragedy. Sometimes a grand epic. Always is it a long and hard road to loving each other.

In the 4th Age, their a Prince of Malkier (sent to the White Tower to train with the Warders) and a young Asha'man solider, sent to the Black Tower after it was discovered he was born with the Spark. They meet of course, when Wei Wuxian is sent to the White Tower for his Required Exchange Student Credit, and tries to sneak out into Tar Valon only to be caught.

[sapphire--dust]

I finally finished my whole backlog for this year and I´m so happy about it. Looking forward for the next photoshootings and concepts I gonna do next year :] I´m really excited for it. 

here we got some really nice pictures which I took 4 months ago. I really had fun to edit them, but hell the red tones was to much for my eyes. My eyes was so blended xD But it´s finally done :D  -------------------------------------------------------------

models: Shinta (shinta_cosplay) and Jas (arpin.works) : Instagram)

character/anime-manga: 

- Shinta as Jiang Yanli / Mo Dao Zu Shi

- Jas as Jin Zixuan / Mo Dao Zu Shi

📸 - 🖌️ : by me

[puppy-phum]

Now that this hell year is almost over let’s celebrate the good things! If you’re receiving this it means you have made someone’s year better. Tell who on tumblr has made this year better for you (as many people as you like, it can be something as small as liking your posts or sending something sweet) and share some of the content you’ve enjoyed (your own or others)

thank you so much dear anon! ♥ I am happy to know that I’ve managed to make someone’s year at least a tiny bit better :’) as a year on tumblr, this year has been very special to me personally so am happy to know that someone has felt that too!

this is going to be a huge list so be warned! putting it under the cut bc of that~

@i-am-just-a-kiddo you are and will always be on this list first and foremost. you and our friendship is the best thing I have gotten from this hellsite and I continue being thankful for it ♥ I always have so much fun talking to you, you support me so unconditionally, share things with me and allow me to just yell about things every day! you never get bored of that endless stream of random nonsense I pour on you and it means so much to me ♥ I also feel honored to share your things, to see your paintings and read your writings and just be there for you. let’s hope the next year will be kinder to us and the world in general! and hey, maybe you get into guardian at some point heh (and thank you for getting into so many things with me this year already!)

@leonzhng I think I said this at some point too but you were the reason why I got into this community we have going on with @mdzsnet and gave me the confidence to just approach ppl here and love things together ♥ you are always so sweet and kind and lovable and I appreciate you doing all the things you do. your edits are amazing and inspirational and I love all the tag games we keep throwing around :’D 

@ashenwren you!! you are amazing and I’m so happy to have gotten to know you through our network :’) I am excited every day when I get to talk to you, even if it’s just for a moment as our timezones make everything kind of difficult :’D it’s just so nice to share mdzs and dmbj with you, to help you get into these dramas, to share all these ideas and thoughts we have, to share our different cultures and languages and whatnot. you are always so supportive and excited and kind and I wish I could hug you sometimes! I hope I still can write something more for pingxie and that I get to see a ton of your art! ♥

then to all the wonderful ppl in our network who have made my tumblr experience so wonderful this year, who keep being kind and amazing and full of so much talent! to @manhasetardis @aheartfullofjolllly @bees0are0awesome @highwarlockkareena @yibobibo @linglynz @yiqiie @wangxiians @leoyunxi @tiesanjiao @lan-xichens @oneautumnfox @aowyn @wangxianbunnydoodles @weiwuxcian and many others who I might have forgotten: I enjoy seeing you in my notes so much, I enjoy all of your content, seeing us all interact with each other and just being very friendly and welcoming ♥ I am thankful every day that I got to join this network and learn to know so many! continue being awesome and have a nice upcoming year :’)

then quickly to:

@lzswy thank you for loving my music and wanting to know me! I hope we get to talk some more and feel free to push music my way too, am always ready to drown in songs :’)

@kholran thank you for doing my tag games and allowing me to talk to you, to call you my friend, and share my love for liu sang! I will once again tell you that your fic (link here if anyone reading this is interested) was amazing and I hope we get to talk some more! 

and then thank you to all the ppl who I see in my notes all the time and leave amazing tags and just love me with interacting with my content and sometimes making it more known and just giving it their all: @btssjamss @a-force-dyad-in-space @cuppyhands @mylastbraincql @drwcn @fytheuntamed @distantsnows @brutalbeetle @intimisky @kazaore @inessencedevided @bluebelle88 @actualmichelle @sassyassassy @thebeautifulmacabre @merinnan @inkblue-black and many others who I might not recognize or remember or find right now! or who I have already mentioned in the network part bc you guys are awesome like that :’) especially when I have tried out new things this year and have dipped into new fandoms and reached out of this mdzs pit I am still in and unwilling to leave ♥ but you are still there and like my content haha

and then I want to mention some of my favorite works this year (I’ll try to pick one per month from my archives oh boy): 

@i-am-just-a-kiddo‘s amazing niemo fic that owns my heart, soul, and the never to be born firstborn ♥ 

@bloody-bee-tea‘s amazing mdzs related fics that always just make my heart clench but also bring me so much joy!

this amazing wangxian edit that still shatters me

this amazing wwx edit by hanyi ♥ @leonzhng I love the quote in this and this breaks me in all the best ways!

@fytheuntamed‘s whole the untamed memes series that single-handedly has saved this year for me (tho I suppose this started earlier than this year but who cares, quality content either way)

this jc outfits collection post by @linglynz ♥ everything for my am-a-hoe-for-the-angry-purple-guy -needs

this amazing art by @/hana-tox that still gives me so many feels that I feel like bursting 

this stunning edit set for the best album that dropped this year, map of the soul: 7, by @/kassareo

this wangxian edit that inspired me a lot and still makes me catch my breath bc damn that looks gorgeous (by @/itsazbitch)

another very inspirational edit set by @/sammyholdsacandle (some might recognize which one of my edits got inspired by this a lot lol) 

this very beautiful post by @alienwlw that’s really just goals tbh 

@sarawatsaraleo‘s favorite the untamed scenes series, every one of these edits is a huge joy and so beautifully done! ♥

@tiesanjiao‘s wonderful, wonderful wangxian edit that keeps being my one of my favorites ever and just. inspires me to this day, I hope one day I can gif :’D ♥

another one of my absolute favorites is this edit by hanyi again ♥ you just have the best ideas and you make everything so pretty!

this soft but heartbreaking, delicate but so emotional edit by @gusucloud ♥ I think I’ve never loved an edit this much, it’s so pretty and absolutely perfect!

this edit by @highwarlockkareena bc wth, the coloring? the gifs themselves?? gosh it looks so pretty and I might cry

@tiesanjiao‘s wonderful gifset made for the gif challenge that was going around during this time ;; as I was slowly falling in love with the iron triangle and dmbj in general, this felt like a blessing ♥ 

these absolutely stunning pieces of art by @/tiphs 

this absolutely gorgeous post for wwx’s bday by @alienwlw (all of this is just. perfect?? the colors, the gifs, the scenes... everything!)

this gorgeous edit by @distantsnows that makes me smile and cry at the same time ♥

this edit also by @distantsnows that is just. pure perfection?? bc fuck yes, sect leader jaing yanli!! I love you for this one

this edit by @lanzhansmiles bc the colors are just absolutely stunning and I love how they both sit there like that and just? wow 

this edit just makes me feel so many things and just looks so dreamy by @cescedes 

this adorable but also very painful edit by @manhasetardis ♥ I love all about this one :’)

and as a shameless self-promo (bc apparently I haven’t done enough of that lol) I want to mention my wu xie edit which was just so much fun to do and turned out so great and. I just love him a lot ok, he’s a wonderful character and zhu yilong played him so well ♥

I wish you all – all the ppl mentioned here and all who see this and all who still do not – a very merry christmas, happy holidays, and happy new years too! I hope the year 2021 will treat us all well and that you will remain as amazing, lovely, and wonderful as you all have been! ♥ 

[wifiwuxians]

You said SVSSS, soooo....

Liu Mingyan and Jaing Yanli

if you ship this, gentle beautiful girls are your type and you believe they both deserve better

[scarletjedi]

I don’t think it’s a surprise that I read a LOT of fanfic. Recently, that fanfic has been almost exclusively in CQL/MZDS/The Untamed. I have read some truly *mindblowing* and *heartwrenching* fics. I have read some *epic* smut. I have seen some *amazing* art. 

And, of course, I have read a LOT of time-travel fixits. 

I think that time-travel fixits is, by in large, one of my favorite tropes. there’s something about character who have completed their arc going back in time to create a softer world for themselves, a better world for themselves and those they love, or simply addressing issues that they were too young/immature to make that just speaks to me. It’s highly reflective and deeply nostalgic and allows for a greater exploration of canon timelines. 

So, I’ve been thinking, recently, about what would make my ULTIMATE time travel fixit for The Untamed. A lot of this will sound like my Sangcheng Time travel fixit AU, which should surprise nobody, but hey - it’s been a few months. I want some new things now. 

Scarletjedi’s Time Travel Au Wishlist

Both Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian travel back in time

Their type of all encompassing devotion is one of my favorite features of their relationship, post resurrection, and I want to maintain that. I don’t think it would be quite the same if Lan Wangji didn’t mourn for 16 years

...and a Lan Wangji who is willing to look the Lan Elders in the face and say “I recognize that the Council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I have elected to ignore it,” is comedy gold. Also, a force to be reckoned with, and one that will be necessary to facilitate change. 

Sneaking Around Gusu to Fool Around Shenanigans. If this is my AU wishlist, there’s a sprinkling of cherrypicked book canon, and “everyday is everyday” is part of it. Though, please boys, use oil. 

Yilling Laozu’s Wicked Tricks without the bad reputation. Subian and Chenqing. Wei Wuxian’s original body. 

Jiang Cheng has traveled back in time

Jaing “Right in front of my salad!” Cheng!

Sandu Shengshou is a badass, and I love my angry purple lightning baby. I want to see the confidence that he has, the sharp tongue that tells the truth even when inconvenient, because it’ll set some necessary foxes on the henhouse. 

I choose to believe that in cql canon that Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng attempt to reconcile in some way. The “lets be brothers in our next life” well - it’s Wei Wuxian’s next life, so brothers, baby! Only this time they have been learning how to talk to each other, so they don’t need to rely on Yanli to do all their emotional labor. 

Jiang Cheng raised Jin Ling. He built his sect back up from ashes after losing everything and made it a force to be reckoned with. And then he’s a TEENAGER with a CURFEW and yesss

Grown up Jiang Cheng vs his Parents. 

A scene where, during Sunshot when Jiang Cheng is out re-earning his title, Jiang Fengmian is forced to confront the fact that his son is a badass and it had *nothing to do with him*. ...and the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon...

...fuck it, reunite the Yunmeng Trio! Jiang Yanli is back, baby!

absolution for the brothers that only she can give

Let Yanli get Angry, 2021

No, seriously, this is mostly to give Yanli the opportunity to have some fucking agency and be proactive. Perhaps she embraces her Yu side more -- or, as I think Jiang Cheng has embraced his into Yu, she learns to be more Jiang. I think I’d like to see Jiang Yanli out Jiang Jiang Fengmian. 

She deserves more time to be happy, so...

...Jin Zixuan and come back too...

mostly because I like the idea of having everyone come back before the Gusu Lectures start, and I want him to allow them to stay together at the inn. This pulls double duty of making Wangji wait longer for Wei Wuxian (and I would love to see him just loose all sense of propriety and lay on on him the minute they’re in proximity), but also gives us a chance to know this absolute goober. 

because he is a goober. he’s a himbo who loves his wife. They can also have fun sneaking around adventures. For a treat. But, knowing what’s coming, I’m sure they’re able to not bring Jin Ling into this world early....

Give Jin Zixuan friends, damnit. Also, having a Jin on the inside of Jinlintai will also help their plans. Speaking of plans...

...Nie Huaisang, but he’s the last one, I promise!

Listen. They’re facing Wen Rohan and Jin Guangshan, they’re going to need a schemer. 

I can do that think where nobody knows he’s back right away because Meng Yao is there and Nie Huaisang doesn’t want to give anything away, and he can totally figure the rest of them out first and then choose when to reveal himself - likely at the time he’ll find the funniest. 

I’m 100% behind him revealing himself to the group because he starts fooling around with Jiang Cheng. I am 200% behind him letting JC know quickly, and the two of them decide to wait to see how long it’ll take for the rest of them to figure it out. 

Nie Huaisang is Weak For A Nie (which means he’s strong to rival Lan Wangji)

Like I said, they come back as teenagers, before the Wen’s begin their attack. I’d like to see Lotus Pier and Cloud recesses survive, but they don’t have to be unscathed. I’d like to see the Jiang’s survive, but they don’t have to be unscathed. Wen Ning never becomes the Ghost General, but I’d like him and Wen Qing to stay Wens. 

I’d like a Meng Yao redemption arc. why not. and you can kill Xue Yang. Get. Rid. Song Lan and Xiao Xingcheng reconciliation with bonus AQ-Qing. 

A lot of time travel fixits do a lot of these, but none of them do all of it. 

I dunno. Anyway. Feel free to chat with me about this - I’d love to discuss details!

[tanoraqui]

⭐star!⭐

director’s cut includes deleted scenes, right? Here’s a scene that didn’t make it into Chapter 4 of Three Can Keep a Secret. (Note: I’ve been saving this in my drafts until the asker finally caught up with the show, and thus could read my spoiler-ful fic, and lo!) 

How to carry a spiritual dog, for hours at a time if necessary. 

As usual, it started as Jin Chan’s fault.

“That’s so stupid,” he sneered, as Jin Ling practiced directing Little Fairy towards corpses to fight—that is, training dummies sprinkled with grave dirt to have the right scent of death. “How are you going to take a dog on a real night hunt? Real cultivators fly, not run with the hounds.”

“Little Fairy will fly with me!” Jin Ling said hotly. “On my sword!”

“Dogs can’t stay on swords,” another cousin, Jin Ping, scoffed.

“I’ll carry her! Look—Little Fairy, come here!” Jin Ling waved his arm and Little Fairy left off nibbling at the “fierce corpse”’s sleeve to race back with an excited bark.

“Come here,” Jin Ling repeated, kneeling. Little Fairy leaned up to lick his face, and he gathered her up in his arms and stood again, carefully supporting her hindquarters. He staggered a little—dogs grew a lot faster than human boys, and she wasn’t a little ball of fluff anymore. Her head already went all the way over his shoulder. But he managed to step into the first stance of Firelight sword form anyway, 

“See?” he demanded, as Little Fairy nosed at the back of his neck. “She can come anywhere I do.”

Jin Chan just kept sneering. “And what use would she be? Go up to the fierce corpses and lick them?” He pointed at the training dummy across the yard, which Little Fairy had been nosing at politely rather than mauling. 

Jin Ling stifled a satisfied smile. That dummy, he hadn’t just put grave dirt on, he’d also sprinkled heavily with lotus-scented perfume (borrowed from Qin Su’s dressing table when she wasn’t looking) and used a purple ribbon to tie a piece of jerky where a hand would be, so Little Fairy would know it was a friend. She had done exactly like she was supposed to.

“She’s still a puppy,” he retorted, putting his nose in the air at Jin Chan and his cronies and hoisting his dog a little higher against his shoulder. “I bet she could still kill more things than you.”

this scene gave us three important elements of Jin Ling’s childhood:

the cousins who didn’t stop being shitty bullies

the difficulty of integrating Fairy’s protective instincts as a spiritual dog with Jiang Yanli being a fierce corpse

the mental image of Jin Ling carrying a husky half as big as he is while riding a sword. like, this

Jin Ling’s very Jiang willingness to go above and beyond in both stubborn perseverance and dramatic in-your-face-ness, especially for the benefit of his loved ones

I ended up making the Fairy vs. JYL conflict more aggressive, giving Jiang Yanli a badass-in-a-slightly-worryingly-uncontrolled-way moment there rather than on a night hunt, mostly because of, like...pacing? This chapter was a montage with few points in time clear, but I still wanted it to be a roughly chronological progression through the years. And I wanted to establish JYL���s fighting chops early, but I knew they wouldn’t actually take Jin Ling on anything like a night hunt until he was like 12. So, accidental confrontation it had to be! 

As you can see, I ended up sticking the bullying cousins in with Jin Ling being a talisman nerd and JGY being a lowkey menacing mentor in Scene 4, and let Jiang Cheng carry the dog in Scene 5. A little less funny - he’s distinctly bigger than Fairy, rather than, like, just barely outweighs her - but also more touching bc does Jiang Cheng want to be carrying a dog while he flies halfway across China, looking ridiculous the whole time? No. Is he gonna do it for his nephew? With only mild complaining, yes.

I think Jin Ling’s nature comes through pretty well throughout the story.

EVEN MORE DELETED SCENE, specifically from Scene 2, with the lotus soup and abovementioned Fairy fiasco: Jiang Cheng was originally there, too! 

“Why is it so hard for these people to pay their night hunt fees on time?” Jiang Cheng sat at the table behind them, grousing over some letters while Jin Ling had his cooking lesson. “The harvest was good. They pay their taxes on time; I know it because otherwise the imperials would make it everyone’s problem.”

“Make a show of hunting there next week, clear the area thoroughly and then ask if there’s any other problems you can help with, that might be causing the delay,” Jaing Yanli suggested. “They will be shamed by your kindness.”

“And intimidated by our swords,” Jiang Cheng muttered, though not without relish.

“That’s how Mother did it,” Jiang Yanli said. She turned back to the stove. 

[...]

Little Fairy and Jiang Cheng both yelped when Littlw Fairy hit the table.

[...]

At the same time, Jiang Cheng was standing and putting his hands on his sister’s shoulders, carefully positioned so she could see past him to Jin Ling.

“Shijie, you have to calm down,” he said firmly. “Nobody’s in danger—it’s just that dog Jin Guangyao gave him.” He cast a sharp look over his shoulder at Jin Ling. “I thought you left that dog in your room.”

“I did!” Jin Ling protested. “She must have woken up and come looking for me!”

I eventually decided he didn’t add that much to the scene and Jin Ling deserved alone time with his mom, particularly as he got older and Jiang Cheng relaxed his need to helicopter every moment Jiang Yanli might potentially be seen by living people and thus in danger. I do regret leaving out him calmly talking her down from murder mode like it’s a regular thing (it is a bit, when they hunt together), and especially regret leaving out her giving him political advice, which is definitely a regular thing. Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli have an entire messy sibling relationship going on for 14ish years that Jin Ling is mostly not privy to, because, shockingly, they both sometimes prefer to discuss things without a child there. I look forward to exploring that a bit when I’m forced at gunpoint by plotbunnies to rewrite several dozen thousand words of canon for this au.