#like no. i did read the novel. i love og! jiang cheng and cql! jiang cheng literally the same amount

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the thing i feel the most cheated out of? confused about? when it comes to mdzs/cql is people telling me i would hate jiang cheng once i read the novel and me going chapter after chapter just waiting for the moment this beloved character would be taken from me and then nothing. just. just a guy, really. like, where are the atrocities?

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short n sweet: cql headcanons

Lan Qiren becomes very fond of Lil Apple and ends up spoiling her (credit to @dragonji).

Lan Wangji habitually plays guqin for the very young junior's naptimes.

Jiang Yanli and Lan Wangji are both very fond of romance novels. Jiang Yanli reads for fun while Lan Wangji gets deeply absorbed and takes them very seriously.

Wei Wuxian gains a significant amount of weight after living in cloud recesses for a few years (partially confirmed by cql mobile game but too dear to me to leave out).

Lan Wangji likes to hum to himself + his husband at home. It’s one of the ways he thinks of new songs to write.

Lan Wangji likes all the layers of the Cloud Recesses robes for sensory reasons.

After Nightless city and throughout the present-day arc , Nie Huaisang is having his own epic romances with various fascinating and sophisticated nobleman, but we don’t see this because it’s not relevant to Wei Wuxian’s journey.

Wei Wuxian draws a lot postcanon for stress relief and processing grief, and gives Jin Ling and Lan Sizhui illustrations of their family members he misses.

Lan Qiren has a soft spot for Lan Jingyi, who becomes the next Lan sect leader (not mine originally).

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian regularly visit Mianmian and her husband postcanon for dinners and babysitting (credit to @chthonicillness).

Lan Wangji gets really bad motion sickness but you wouldn't know it to look at him. In a modern AU he claims he prefers to walk for the health benefits but in reality he gets carsick and he hates driving because he parallel parked wrong one time and it eats at him (credit to @spockily).

Wei Wuxian and Lan Qiren become closer as time goes on and Lan Qiren begins to tell Wei Wuxian more stories of his mother.

At one point during their reconciliation, Wei Wuxian punches Jiacng Cheng in the face. I believe in reconciliation, this one just makes me smile.

“At the absolute height of their relationship, lwj and jc are are like two dudes who nodded to each other in an elevator once” (credit to @chthonicillness).

Postcanon Wei Wuxian is very good at making friends with old people! They love him!

Lan Wangji came to Wei Wuxian at the cliffside reunion in blue robes instead of white because he’s no longer in mourning.

Lan Wangji started tending to the flowers from his mother’s house and gardens regularly.

Wei Wuxian was intentionally flirting with Wen Ning in the Cloud Recesses.

Lan Wangji was fascinated and in awe of insects as a child and still likes them as an adult. He especially like the ones with weird looking bodies who move in that articulated way or the colorful or detailed ones. He appreciates them for a while before sending them outside (not mine but I can’t remember who made the og post). He is also fond of cats.

In a modern AU, when they plays super smash bros, Wei Wuxian always picks pikachu, or sometimes kirby. and wins. Jiang Cheng picks falcon. and loses.

When Lan Sizhui and Wen Ning return to Qishan to pay respect to their ancestors, they find the old caretaker still looking after the graves and tell him who they are.

In a modern AU Jiang Yanli would be married as in canon, but she also have a little crafts business she runs from her home (not mine).

Nie Mingjue was very fond of Lan Wangji and was the only person who called him "Wangji" outside of his family (semi-canon).

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, being hopeless romantics, mutually and nonverbally decided to hold off on confessing until they were both sure they could be together with nothing in between them, which is part of the reason it takes so long to get together.

We don't see their first kiss but if we did, wuji would be swelling in the background.

After the golden core reveal, Jiang Cheng starts projects that he can succeed at that don't require cultivation, like tailoring and woodworking. He also spends a lot of time in meditation.

Postcanon Wen Ning helps the juniors on night hunts and has a place to live in CR, and also spends a lot of time babysitting wangxian’s kids.

Modern Lan Wangji would just be transfixed by aquariums.

Modern Lan Wangji would hate gory horror movies but Wei Wuxian really likes them. Can love bloom on a battlefield?

Wei Wuxian ends up doing slasher horror movie nights with Wen Ning, Wen Qing, Jiang Cheng, and Nie Huaisang instead. Lan Wangji likes psychological horror so that’s what they go to for horror nights with Wei Wuxian

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian both really like romances. Lan Wangji also likes nature documentaries and Wei Wuxian likes science fiction/speculative fiction.

Postcanon, Lan Qiren ends up as a very affectionate great-uncle to Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji's kids.

Finally...in my most indulgent daydreams I like to envision a lotus pier wedding for Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji as long as the Wens are there too.