#what if he saw wei ying right after he had reincarnated

[hitorimaron]

funeral clothes

[truly-morgan]

[NHS want NMJ back, feat.WWX (w.i.p)]

Nie Brothers | Mo Dao Zu Shi 13-07-2021

[#niehuaisang #niemingjue , post-canon feat. Wwx]

What if after the event at the temple, nie huaisang as people go and sneakily bring back his brother's body. He finally got it back in one piece (kind of) and he won't let it be caged with the person who killed him. He hates that he has to chain nmj in the secret chamber he has, but it is for his own good and so he doesn't attract people's attention to them.

His second in command is a bit unsure as he looks at the trashing body of the former sect leader. "Nie-zongzhu, are you sure this is the right thing to do?"

Nhs didn't turn to him as he kept watching his brother (or rather the body off). He knew what he probably meant by this question. But nmj was already out of the circle of reincarnation with his present state, What could be worse? Trying the drag back his consciousness would only make it that it was not "necessary" to destroy nmj for being an uncontrollable fierce corps.

He knew it was possible. Wwx did it once with wn while sl still had his too.

"Send the missive to cloud recess" nhs simply said with certainty.

"Do you think he will accept to help?"

"He will" he simply replied, folding shut his fan, "he won't have another choice".

With this nhs turned around, getting out of the chamber, ready to go back to his preparation for his plan. A large part of his plan was finally over.

But it was not over yet and he wouldn't give up now either.

"Wei-gongzi, a missive from qinghe arrived for you" said a disciple as he entered the training ground where he was helping the juniors train.

"From qinghe?" Wwx asked a bit surprised and curious. There was only one person in qinghe he really knew.

He left lsz to train with ljy, taking the letter after thanking the disciple who went back to his other duties. He had a curious smile on his lips as he first started to read, before his face dropped to something a bit more serious, frowning slightly now.

His sudden shift in attitude only made the juniors curious too, wondering what could make the man's mood change so quickly.

"Is everything alright?" Lsz asks a bit worried something might have happened.

"Yes, nothing for you to worry about" wwx smiled, the action looking a bit more forced than it should be. He rolled back the missive, putting it in his robe. "It seems I have some things to do now, you will sadly not have my great expertise to train with," he said, Making ljy eyes roll a bit. Lsz could only watch wwx walk away looking a bit troubled and unsure. He went to warn lwj about it, just so someone could keep an eye on wwx.

Yet, when lwj joined wwx back at the jingshi. But all he could catch was wwx destroying a roll with a fire talisman, frowning a bit as he bit his lip.

"Wei ying" he called out to.

Wwx was surprised a bit, turning with a smile on his lips now, ready to joke before he saw how worried lwj seemed to be. "Is something wrong in qinghe?" He asks.

After all, if sect leader nie needed important help he would most likely have asked the sect. Why asking wwx?

"Nothing too bad, nhs just need my help with something, so I'll be heading to the unclean realm for a while" he explain as he was putting some robes in a qianku bag. "Wei ying".

"I think you should be able to stay here, I might need to stay for a while" "wei ying"

"But like I saif it's nothing dangerous, it's simply that it might take a whi-" "wei ying!".

Wwx finally stopped the flow of words when his husband grabbed his wrist, spinning him around to look at him.

He soften a bit, only now seeing how much lwj seemed to worry. It wasn't as if nhs wanted him gone either (at least he doesn't think he did anything to him to do that).

"Lan zhan, do you trust me?" He asks gently.

"Always"

"Then trust me on this one, it will be alright, Nhs simply need my help for something and after that, I will come back." He assured.

"What does he need you for that gusu cannot do?".

Wwx knew what lwj was implying.

What could wwx do that no other sect could help with?

His demonic cultivation obviously.

Wwx would most likely have little money if it was not for lwj letting him spend as much as he wants.

He had no important connection as wwx didn't touch any of the present relations between sects.

He didn't have a sect to send people for help.

He wouldn't be good for doing relationships with other sects.

And mxy body and golden core were still not as strong as what the original wwx had.

So of course it had to be demonic cultivation.

Wwx smiled slightly to him, caressing his cheek with his free hand in what he hoped would be soothing.

"He needs help with... nmj" he finally admitted, wincing a bit at the grip getting stronger around his wrist, as if to make sure he wouldn't suddenly run away.

"It will be bad for you" lwj then said, releasing the pressure a bit after seeing him wince.

He had already convinced wwx to use demonic cultivation less and cultivate more properly like he did in the past (but how does one switch so easily when in their memory they have gone by with DC for many years already?)

Wwx sighed at that, his hand gently going above the one holding him. "He's not asking me to raise and control an army of fierce corps, he just wants me to do what I did with wn" he precise. And honestly, he wasn't sure anymore how he had actually managed to bring back wn. His time on burial mounds was a bit muddy in his mind.

"Then let me come with you" lwj asked.

Wwx wanted to refuse saying it would be alright, but then he felt like lwj would either come join him if it ended up taking too much time or would just follow him.

He sighed again, thinking it over.

Maybe lwj could help too. Sure he wasn't doing any demonic cultivation, but he would probably still find ways to help him. Plus he could help wash away the effect that would surely stay from using demonic cultivation.

"Okay, you can come with me"

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"Nie-zongzhu" wwx saluted when he finally joined the man, the SIC joining back his sect leader.

"Wei-gongzi," he saluted before his eyes travelled to behind wwx, "Hanguang-jun... gui jiangjun" he trailed a bit.

"Nie-zongzhu" politely replied the two men.

He was not surprised by the former presence, but had not necessarily expected for the latter to also be here. "I hope the travel was not too hard" he smiled.

"Everything went well" smiled wwx, before following nhs gaze behind him, "I hope it is not a bother to bring some help, They both insisted on coming along" he added. The missive never said to come alone, but he still made sure to bring as little as possible (ljy and lsz did want to come along too).

"No problem, it is understandable that wei-gongzi might need help" smiled back nhs. Of course, lwj had asked to come, he could also be of good help too. After all, it wasn't really good if wwx lost it again.

Wn asked to come after he (accidentally!) Overheard them talking about it. He had fought against nmj and wanted to make sure nothing would happen to wwx.

After all, lwj could just attack him with bichen and hurt the fierce corps if the whole point was to bring him back. He was there simply to be a more even match against him just in case.

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[rarepears]

Part 1/7(brainrot!anon) so basically i saw "mdzs favourite ship and what it say about you" video, there is CSSR x YZY Ship and they say ”you like younger wangxian." . Accidentally start brainrot au where after PIWD, where SJ reincarnated as YZY and planning to fake his death after realising that he engaged with JFM(YQY 1.0), CSSR find out about SJ!YZY plan to fake his death and help him because damn,cultivation society sucked for woman. Along the way SJ!YZY slowly getting closer with CSSR.

Part 2/7JFM who actually in love with SJ!YZY realized that he need to step up his game before CSSR elope with his love ,[JFM misunderstanding the whole elope thing, but SJ platonic attraction did happen] so he send WCZ to distract CSSR while he romanced SJ!YZY because CSSR kept accidentally cockblock them repeatedly. Jfm finally won over Sj!Yzy [upgrade to Yqy 5.0] at cost of WCZ elope with CSSR . Rumor still happen in same way.

Part 3/7 But ironically in truth instead of Sj!YZY hating CSSR, it Jfm, for running away with his right man and almost turned his love into cutsleeve. CSSR and WCZ [alive because i say so] visit lotus pier occasionally. Jfm look amicable toward CSSR[Mentally, he will fight her to death if provided reason] ,

Part 4/7 Sj [happy and spoiled rotten by jfm] teach Jyl,Jc and Wwx(sibling in arms) what he learnt from previous life,( Sj will provide and protect his children with his life]

Part 5/7 Meanwhile, in PIWD, original luo binghe obsessed what he saw in SVSS and turned back time, to get kind shizun he want but Sj no longer exist in PIWD so he never find him,

Part 6/7 there is consequences for mixing three incompatible realms when Lbg turned back time, one realms can't return back to three.[ Abyss will take and never let go what it can hold]

Part 7/7 So human and demon race no longer exist, instead all PIDW cast get reborn as abyss creature(or humanoid) but retaining their memories. [Lbg accidentally nefted himself significantly because everyone has demon strength).

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What would be interesting is that Shen Jiu is still a little too harsh, too mean, too demanding as a parent. He doesn't exactly have a healthy example to model after (and there isn't therapy either). And he's trying to be a good parent, he's cut out a lot of the harshness he had has a peak lord, but still his past flashes in his eyes and his mind can't help but whisper how his children are still so pathetic, so spoiled that they aren't properly taking advantage of all their opportunities laid out in front of them.

His words are bitter and cruel sometimes. His disappointment a sharp lashing against the kids. He hates seeing Wei Ying's brilliance not being full utilized because the boy wants to splash around in the water instead. He scorns Jiang Cheng's weak spine, bowing to social pressure because he wants to "fit in", his inability to hide his temper...

Sometimes when he sees the children, on his bad days when all he can think about are memories of his past life, all Shen Jiu can feel is disdain and loathing. As a streetrat, Shen Jiu would had murdered for such opportunities.

(Actually, he technically did that.)

And Jiang Fengmian is a little too in love with his wife that he doesn't do anything about it. He doesn't step in between Shen Jiu's sharp tongue and the children.

Shen Jiu must always be in the right, no? And even if he's not, Jiang Fengmian is sure it's not that big of a deal. No need to rock the boat and make his wife mad at him instead.

[robininthelabyrinth]

I’d love anything from Baxia’s POV. Maybe her spirit stays to protect Huaisang after Mingjue’s death?

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Untamed verse

Humans did not remember the moment they were forged, which was, in Baxia’s opinion, probably the source of most of their troubles.

Baxia remembered her own forging: earth and wood as the raw ingredients, the warmth of the fire to shape her, the hiss of water as she was quenched, the sudden coalescence of her spirit bursting into life. 

It was not dissimilar to the moment Nie Mingjue’s golden core was formed, a moment she recalled quite fondly: they had broken through together, all at once, in an unexpected attack in the middle of an otherwise boring and supervised night-hunt. The night had been dark, pouring rain and pealing thunder, and the blood of the beast they had slain was wet on her blade; his blood had boiled with their frenzied victory, the heat of it shaping him as thoroughly as the flame had her, the rain quenching him even as their cultivation ran wild together, her spirit entwined with his soul.

And yet it was still different – before her forging, she was nothing; after, she was Baxia. But Nie Mingjue still remembered who he’d been before, and perhaps that was where the softness came from. The softness that made him hurt inside when people spoke ill of him, when he saw the man who killed his father, when he stayed his hand against evil because of politics and etiquette, all foolish human concerns…

He’d be better off without that softness.

Baxia herself had none. She was steel, straight and true; she was a saber, vicious and rigid and unyielding. She did not pity the weak or forgive fair-weather friends – she destroyed evil and protected without reservation that which was precious to her.

A very short list.

Mostly just Nie Huaisang, really, stubby little pocketknife that he was, and by association there was Aituan, who was more of a fat metal stick than a proper saber, but who was a great deal of fun to bully. There would be no making something of them – you couldn’t change someone’s fundamental forging without melting them down and starting again, and the pain necessary for something like that was not a fate she’d wish on her precious ones even if she did wish it on just about everyone else – and even Nie Mingjue knew it, but pride was pride and he kept on trying.

But for all that they were useless, they were blood – iron of her iron, made by her maker, and the same pulsing red of her rage lay there hidden deep beneath their frills and fecklessness.

So they were precious to her.

But most precious of all was Nie Mingjue, of course, her master and beloved. His blood had been spilled on the metal that formed her, once at the moment of his birth and once again at the moment of hers; it tied them together, made her a reflection of him and him a reflection of her.

Some sabers didn’t like being mastered like that, but she was proud of it, proud of Nie Mingjue himself. His spirit was as close as she had ever seen a human come to being a saber spirit, steel right down to the core of him, principles held as stiffly as her blade even when the results of those principles turned to cut against him. Full of rage, just as she was, but tempered, just like her – disciplined, fearsome, just.

is he (Nie Mingjue) one (singular unit) of us (swordspirit)? Sandu asked her one day, his voice still sleepy from the effort of starting to wake up. did he (Nie Mingjue) steal (evil) a birth (forging)?

of course not (negative), she said back, haughty and proud. he (Nie Mingjue) would never (negative, past-now-future). not (negative) a thief (evil). and what do you (Sandu) mean, one (singular unit) of us (saberspirit)? you (Sandu) are barely (negative) one (singular unit).

we (saberspirit-swordspirit) are closer (similar) to each other than humans (living), Sandu grumbled.

even my (Baxia) human (Nie Mingjue)?

Sandu conceded the point, muttering gloomily about it, then asked, do you (Baxia) think it is possible (positive) to fix (sharpen) my (Sandu) human (Jiang Cheng) to be more (similar) like us (swordspirit)?

too soft (living), Baxia declared, knowing why Sandu was asking. reforge him (Jiang Cheng).

nobody (negative) needs to be reforged, Suibian said, butting in with a chirp where no-one wanted them as always. humans (living) are just different from us spirits, that’s all, and there’s nothing (negative) wrong with that.

is that (reason) why you (Suibian) keep trying (swing) to talk like them (living)? Baxia snapped. cultivate faster (guai) instead.

Suibian huffed, and Sandu sighed. why do you (Baxia) dislike (negative) them (Suibian)?

doomed (negative) forging, Baxia said succinctly, cutting to the point as their kind always did. bad (negative) fate.

superstition (living), Suibian scoffed. i (Suibian) defy fate!

Baxia wasn’t impressed by such grandiose declarations. then reforge your (Suibian) master (Wei Ying).

never (negative, past-now-future)!

(It wasn’t just superstition. Suibian chirped and Sandu slurred, despite their masters being about equal in natural talent – that was wrong, when they were supposed to be brothers, masters and swords both, but Baxia had scolded them both on the subject in the past to no avail, telling them if the humans weren’t going to straighten themselves out their swords had to do it for them. They didn’t listen to her, so certain that everything was good and that nothing would change, and ignoring the saber-breaking cracks quietly growing underneath.)

Still, the conversation got her thinking. 

Nie Mingjue really was remarkably saber-like, after all, and he had his own doom writ above his head – the Nie family rage, which they’d worsened by tying their souls so closely to their inexorable sabers, and she could already hear Aituan whining leave my (Aituan) human (Nie Huaisang) out of this mess (Nie sect) before he (Nie Huaisang) gets angry – and she didn’t want to give her beloved up to the inexorable demands of fate so easily.

humans (living) are not like us (saberspirit), one of her elders reminded her. they (living) do not (negative) last (future) the way (similar) we (saberspirit) do.

Baxia knew that.

She knew, too, what her own fate would be, when the end came: the elders had been left in a honored tomb to burn with rage until the world’s end or their master’s reincarnation, whichever came first, and in time – sooner rather than later, given her master’s extraordinary strength – Baxia would do the same.

(Aituan occasionally entertained thoughts of being buried alongside his master in a nice quiet grave, rather than in a tomb of his own. Baxia really didn’t know what to do with him.)

But just because she knew her fate didn’t mean she liked it, and perhaps it was the swords’ influence or just her own strength that encouraged her, but she didn’t want to accept things she didn’t like. She wanted to fight fate the way Suibian claimed they would, except unlike Suibian that was all talk, a sword that forgot dings as soon as they were smoothed out, Baxia didn’t make decisions like that lightly.

are you (Baxia) sure (stab) about this (decision)? Aituan asked her, anxious. fate is hard to cut (slice) or even to bend.

Baxia was sure.

She was sure throughout the war, which increased her cultivation and her master’s dramatically – she wished they had had a real fight with Wen Ruohan, rather than a fight with her master shackled and weakened after three days of being beaten and starved, because Wen Ruohan liked to be powerful but didn’t like taking chances – and throughout which her master fiercely kept his principles intact. He paid attention to the innocent, he cared for his soldiers, he maintained order and imposed justice no matter who committed the act, he used all the tactics that were reasonable without ever descending into anything dirty or evil.

She was even more sure later, when the war was over and her master’s so-called friends conspired to steal his good name for their own benefit and began bullying him into agreed to it.

“It’s not such an unreasonable request,” her master said – too soft, as always, when it came to precious things, too soft in dealing with outsiders that did little for him beyond showing him a smile or two, too soft when it ought to just be her and him and Nie Huaisang and, yes, even that plonk Aituan against them all. “Everyone has already started calling us the Venerated Triad; politically, it would be difficult and embarrassing for all of us for me to decline. And as the eldest brother, I would have the right and even the duty to try to help Meng Yao remember how to behave –”

you (Nie Mingjue) cannot (negative) change what (forging) does not wish (positive) to be changed (Meng Yao), she snarled, and wished he could understand her better.

There was a language barrier between the living and the unliving. It was entirely separate from the barrier between living and dead, or different types of being – even plants and animals were more conversant with humans than she, with all their naturally obtained understanding of things like breathing or eating or changing, and ghosts and corpses, although dead, were even easier for humans to interpret. 

Not so her. 

No, the living were so amorphous, the cells within them being reforged every day – melted, quenched, made – and within seven years an average human would be so repaired that the only consistent part of them was their souls and spirits, the reservoirs of memory; whereas she would remain as she was, valiant and true to herself, for centuries without end.

And so Nie Mingjue could understand a ghost well enough to liberate its spirit, he could anticipate an animal’s movements based on its desires, he could even engage in the cut and thrust of sect business with snake-like men who spoke so sweetly they might as well have lotuses on their tongues, but he could only mostly understand what she wanted to convey, getting the feelings and most of the meaning but garbling key parts of the rest. Even that level of understanding was fairly radical for a human, another reason she had in favor of her plan: Nie Mingjue was too straightforward to be a proper human, resulting in him being confused by the complex hypocrisies of most humans just as she was, as all swords and sabers were, and he hated the messy sticky politics of it all.

it (living) isn’t that hard (tough to stab), Aituan mumbled. my (Aituan) human (Nie Huaisang) does it (living) all the time (past-now-future).

maybe if your (Aituan) human (Nie Huaisang) helped him (Nie Mingjue) more, it (living) wouldn’t be so hard (tough to slice).

but we (Aituan, Nie Huaisang) don’t want to (negative)!

then you (Aituan, Nie Huaisang) should stop (negative) whining (scraping rock)!

In the end Nie Mingjue agreed to the sworn brotherhood over Baxia’s objections – it didn’t help that Nie Huaisang was in favor of it, which made Baxia scold Aituan for hours – and naturally it went as badly as could be expected.

he (Lan Xichen) means (motivation) well (positive), Shuoyue said, her voice gentle as a rippling brook. It had once been pleasant to hear. you (Baxia) are too stern (unbending).

we (saberspirits) are unbending by nature (forging), Baxia snapped at her. you (Shuoyue) should (positive) know better (positive)! you (Shuoyue) should have objected (negative)!

i (Shuoyue) do not (negative) have to agree (similar) with you (Baxia), Shuoyue said, a little more peevishly than normal. my (Shuoyue) master (Lan Xichen) likes him (Meng Yao) and your (Baxia) master (Nie Mingjue) both. why should he (Lan Xichen) have to yield (bend) one (Meng Yao) for the other (Nie Mingjue)?

because he (Meng Yao) is (forged) cruel (evil), Baxia said flatly. and even if he (Lan Xichen) does not (negative) see it (evil), you (Shuoyue) can – but (negative) are choosing not (negative) to do so (evil).

i (Shuoyue) do not (negative) accept your (Baxia) judgment (stab), Shuoyue said and she was angry, defensive. She knew she was wrong – she would have denied Baxia’s accusation if she could – but she was choosing her master and his wants over righteousness. my (Shuoyue) master (Lan Xichen) believes that he (Meng Yao) can change (reforge) if he (Meng Yao) is given trust –  

impossible (negative). he (Meng Yao) has not (negative) agreed (reforging).

i (Shuoyue) disagree (negative). regardless (negative) of what you (Baxia) think, i (Shuoyue) will make my (Shuoyue) own judgment (slice)!

Incensed beyond all tolerance, Baxia cursed her with the worst words her kind knew, may your edge (Shuoyue) cut the life of your master (Lan Xichen), and after that they did not speak again.

Nie Mingjue felt her distress and sought to soothe her, with night-hunts and sharpening and everything she liked best, and even Nie Huaisang came to her with buffing cloths and calming oil to coax her back into something more neutral than rage – blinding disappointed rage of the sort Baxia would think was more appropriate against a human than one of her own kind – and for a while they didn’t go to visit the Cloud Recesses at all. 

In the end, mostly in recognition of Nie Mingjue’s confused but unstinting support, no matter how much he missed his friend, she settled for speaking only with Liebing, who wasn’t a sword but who Baxia had noticed went pointedly off-key a few times when Meng Yao was around.

he (Meng Yao) wants too much (evil) from my (Liebing) master (Lan Xichen), she said, distressed. She was younger than the weapons were, having been mastered at a later age – less developed, less attuned to detecting and destroying evil, but she had a good spirit, enthusiastic and true. but (negative) master (Lan Xichen) does not (negative) listen to me (Liebing) – he (Lan Xichen) is more attuned (positive) to swordsmanship (Shuoyue) and she (Shuoyue) does not (negative) agree.

her (Shuoyue) decision (slice) will cost (cut) him (Lan Xichen), Baxia said. Ignoring evil was unworthy of a swordspirit, and very close to evil itself; she herself would not permit such a weakness no matter how much Nie Mingjue pleaded. Indeed, it was her own enmity that kept him at odds and distant from Meng Yao, who he would have rather liked to forgive. the only question (uncertainty) is if it (decision) will cost (cut) the rest of us (general) first.

It did, of course.

Shuoyue refused to yield, Baxia had never known how, and in the end –

In the end, Baxia could only detect the poison that affected her and her master both and seek to expel it, but had no means to identify from where the poison came. Perhaps Liebing would have been able to tell her, if Meng Yao hadn’t hidden his crimes so deeply; or perhaps Aituan, who realized far too late what was the discordant note in Baxia’s whistling song was, could have done more…

By the time her master and her realized that they had been so thoroughly betrayed – that they had anticipated small evils when in fact the evil was thorough and pervasive – it was too late.

But regrets were for those who had not prepared, and Baxia – Baxia had prepared. She might have thought she’d have more time, but once the decision had been made, all those years ago, she had not hesitated to start acting at once. 

She had never been more happy for her straightforward and blunt nature that did not drag and did not hesitate.

The qi deviation came suddenly, Meng Yao unmasking himself at the last for the specific purpose of driving Nie Mingjue past the edge – and he succeeded. It should have worked; it should have killed him.

But Baxia had been stretching herself thin for years now, trading pieces of herself for her master, knowing just as he knew that one day his fragile human mind and body would turn against him, that he would die choking on his own blood – the flame inside of him too hot to tolerate – and that saber-clean spirit she so loved would be lost to the cycle of reincarnation, with Baxia herself left to endlessly wait for him.

She didn’t want to wait.

What happened? he asked blearily, only a few shichen later, and she couldn’t help the surge of joy in her heart when she heard how easily he slipped into awareness, into speech – he really must have been a saber in a past life. Why can’t I see anything? Baxia – is that you?

yes (positive), it is me (Baxia), she said proudly. i (Baxia) saved you (Nie Mingjue).

Thank you, Nie Mingjue said automatically, not even bothering to ask how she’d done it or what it had cost – such a good master, to trust her so. Wait. I can hear you. You’re talking!

i (Baxia) have always (positive, past-now-future) talked, she said. it was you (Nie Mingjue) who could not (negative) hear.

After a moment – she suspected he was processing, or attempting to – she added, you (Nie Mingjue) are a saberspirit now (now-future).

…I’m a what?!

Baxia guided him back to the world so that he could see. His body – what had become of it – was currently chained down on a table in what must be a secret room; it was recognizable as being somewhere in Jinlin Tower, but neither of them had ever seen this room before. The tell-tale marks of Yin Metal poisoning, the signs of turning into a corpse puppet, stretched up his neck and his eyes were blank and full of resentment, his body thrashing and mouth snarling. 

Jin Guangyao was standing beside him and looking down with a frown, asking, “Why is it not working? It worked with the others.”

“The body is too full of resentment,” Xue Yang said – and it was Xue Yang there, standing free and clear and Baxia wanted to murder him, murder them both, they were evil, and she felt Nie Mingjue’s rage right alongside her own; he agreed entirely. “Normally, it takes time for resentment to infiltrate a living body; resentment can affect the physical body faster than it does the souls and spirits…it’s as if his are gone.”

“His spirit is gone? Impossible.”

Xue Yang shrugged. “Perhaps it is only that the qi deviation weakened his ability to resist the resentful energy of the Yin Metal,” he hypothesized. “Either way, there’s nothing more I can do. What do you want to do with him?”

Jin Guangyao scowled – he’d clearly had plans for the corpse puppet he would have made out of Nie Mingjue, and Baxia can feel Nie Mingjue’s betrayal and hurt and rage at the very idea – and then he said, “Kill him.”

Oh no they didn’t.

hey, you (Jiangzai)! she called as Xue Yang moved to draw his sword. tell your (Jiangzai) human (Xue Yang) to use me (Baxia) to do it (slice).

why should I (Jiangzai)? the small-spirited sword asked. Xue Yang’s cultivation wasn’t especially impressive, but it did exist; his sword had managed to develop enough to have a personality. Well, if you called that a personality. what’s in it (benefit) for me (Jiangzai)?

a generous (positive) offer, Baxia declared. i (Baxia) will not (negative) break you (Jiangzai) into pieces.

The other sword had an aura of death, but its master was a coward and so too was it. It yielded at once.

Why do you want to be the one to kill me? Is there some benefit to it? Nie Mingjue asked, sounding curious – curious, and not angry, because he trusted her.

Such a good master. He was worthy of being her beloved. 

a saber (general) should never (negative) cut their human (general), Baxia explained. it is an evil. but that (object) is not (negative) you (Nie Mingjue) because it (object) does not (negative) contain you (Nie Mingjue). they (Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang) have filled it (object) with resentful energy; as soon as it (object) ceases to live, it will be (future) a gui (dead living).

And that means what? That you can cultivate with its energy?

no (negative)! she exclaimed. She would never use anything of Nie Mingjue’s as a tool for her own cultivation like that, treat him like a stepping stone to give herself more power. Hadn’t he faced enough of that? a gui (dead living) is not (negative) restricted by bodily uniformity (singular). it (gui) can be broken (shattered) and remain active (swing); it (gui) can also be reforged.

But what does that matter, since that’s not ‘me’ in there? Is it just so that it will haunt my enemies?

bad (negative) luck, Baxia agreed, because being haunted by a gui was indeed bad luck. but no (negative). the purpose (motivation) is that if I (Baxia) kill it (object), I (Baxia) can capture its vital energy (body) so as to eventually (future) reforge the gui.

Reforge?

remove (negative) the resentful energy (evil), she explained, restore (positive) the vital energy (life), return the souls and spirits (Nie Mingjue).

Are you suggesting that you think you’ll be able to bring me back to life?

Well, that was the goal anyway. Swords could be reforged and given new life, even after they’d been broken, so why couldn’t humans? And anyway, how else was she supposed to save him from an always-fatal qi deviation?

Xue Yang picked up Baxia when Jiangzai bit his fingers, resisting, and she allowed him to wield her – to lift her up high into the air, and to come down on the neck of the would-be gui. It all happened exactly as she would have predicted: the body died, and the gui came to life, and the evildoers only had a little bit of time to applaud themselves for their crime before they were struggling against hands that sought to strangle them and feet that kicked them and even teeth that bit them.

A fierce corpse, in defiance of all the soul-calming rituals that Nie Mingjue had mostly slept through as a child.

Now what? Nie Mingjue asked, and Baxia flung herself out the window in response. Well, that works. I refuse to allow myself to be wielded by him of all people.

it is (now) cute (pointy) that you (Nie Mingjue) expect to be (future) the one being wielded.

I meant it metaphorically…

no (negative) you (Nie Mingjue) did not (negative). you (Nie Mingjue) are too much (positive) of a saberspirit to mean anything else (negative). Baxia paused, contemplating. anyway he (Meng Yao) hasn’t even (negative) managed to bring forth (forge) a spirit in his sword (Hensheng); it (Hensheng) is only dead metal. he (Meng Yao) would be (past-now-future) a bad master (evil). 

I can’t say I disagree, Nie Mingjue said with a sigh. I was a fool. I should have listened to you when you resisted me swearing brotherhood with him.

yes (positive) you (Nie Mingjue) should have. now, you (Nie Mingjue) direct (swing) me (Baxia) – we (Nie Mingjue, Baxia) should go (future) home.

Yes. Let’s go home.

It took a while, mostly because Nie Mingjue didn’t want to startle common people by having an apparently masterless saber hurtling through the air and Baxia didn’t want to risk getting close to any cultivators that might try to capture her (them) as a treasure, but on the other hand they didn’t need to sleep or eat or relieve themselves the way humans did.

According to Nie Mingjue, this was extremely weird for him.

Baxia showed him how to dream – it was a purposeful state for sabers, something to let the time when they weren’t being used pass faster – but apparently it was still weird. Living creatures were so tetchy.

They got home long before Nie Huaisang did, but luckily the little brat had left Aituan at home again and he was delighted to see them, the sound of his blade whistling in the wind as it lunged at them (in a friendly way) almost a shriek.

you (Baxia) did it (positive)! he shouted. my (Aituan) human (Nie Huaisang) will be (future) so happy!

Future happiness? Nie Mingjue interjected. He was doing so well at being a saber; it was so nice to be proven right. What’s wrong with him now, in the present? Is he all right?

he (Nie Huaisang) thinks that you (Nie Mingjue) are dead (broken), Aituan explained.

Shit, Nie Mingjue mutters. He must be upset – devastated.

also angry (rage), Aituan said. he (Nie Huaisang) wants to kill (cut) him (Meng Yao).

He knows? I mean – he figured it out?

yes (positive). he (Nie Huaisang) is angry (rage) and wants (future) to destroy evil (Meng Yao).

That may be difficult to accomplish, without proof, Nie Mingjue said. I want to see him as soon as he gets back.

It took some time for that to happen, even after he did return – unfortunately, Nie Huaisang was escorted by Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen. The three of them were almost never apart, and obviously they couldn’t let Jin Guangyao know about Nie Mingjue’s return.

So they stayed away.

Aituan, abandoned, kept them company, staying away from the dead Hensheng and the living Shuoyue and Liebing.

During Nie Huaisang’s investiture as sect leader, the first time he’d picked up Aituan since everything had happened and even then only because it was self-evident that you couldn’t be sect leader of the Nie sect without a saber by your side, there was at last a brief chance for them to speak.

(Baxia eavesdropped.)

i (Liebing) am so sorry (scratched)! Liebing trilled, sounding honestly despondent. my (Liebing) master (Lan Xichen) is so sad, he (Lan Xichen) misses yours (Nie Mingjue) so much…

is she (Baxia) in the tombs? Shuoyue asked. Her voice was solemn and solid, not nearly as musical as usual. i (Shuoyue) wish to (future) speak with her (Baxia).

may you (Shuoyue) be broken into pieces and reforged into a chair, Aituan said pleasantly, so that you (Shuoyue) may be sat on for all eternity (future).

no need to be rude, she said crossly. i (Shuoyue) want to apologize.

do you (Shuoyue)? Aituan asked. will your (Shuoyue) apology bring him (Nie Mingjue) back? will your (Shuoyue) regret erase your (Shuoyue) complicity (evil)? you (Shuoyue) knew he (Meng Yao) was cruel (evil), and now he (Meng Yao) has destroyed my (Aituan) human (Nie Huaisang) by breaking her (Baxia) human (Nie Mingjue).

do you (Aituan) have proof (solid) that he (Meng Yao) did it (breaking)? Shuoyue demanded. She sounded miserable. you (Aituan) were not (negative) there, you (Aituan) do not (negative) know for sure (solid)…

do you (Shuoyue) still not (negative) admit your (Shuoyue) mistakes?! Liebing shouted. do you (Shuoyue) want (future) to end up like the others (Bichen, Wangji), regretting or pained (cracked), your (Shuoyue) master (Lan Xichen) destroyed (broken) at the hands of evil (Meng Yao)?

i (Shuoyue) just wanted him (Lan Xichen) to be happy…

you (Shuoyue) have made him (Lan Xichen) a breaker of swords, Aituan said. that is bad (negative) fate. how can he (Lan Xichen) be happy in the end?

can it (this) be fixed (positive)? she whispered. is it (this) too late (negative)?

Aituan didn’t respond.

Baxia approved.

After a while, Jin Guangyao left. He had duties, a wife, a small son – he couldn’t remain. Lan Xichen, who was responsible for a sect, agreed to stay a little longer, a few more weeks, but then he, too, would leave.

I’m going, I’m going,” Nie Huaisang complained as Aituan tugged him down into the basement where Baxia and Nie Mingjue had been waiting, killing time practicing their swings, usually while thinking about Jin Guangyao’s head as their target. “What’s gotten into you? You normally like to sit around like a paperweight, just the way we both like it, and I know we’re both raring and eager to go about getting revenge but I don’t see what we’ll find for that in our own basement –”

His voice trailed off.

“Baxia,” he whispered, and there were tears in his eyes. “Oh, Baxia…!”

Oh, Huaisang, Nie Mingjue cried. Huaisang, Huaisang – I’m so sorry for leaving you –

he (Nie Huaisang) cannot (negative) understand you (Nie Mingjue), Baxia said with a sigh. humans (general) are difficult (negative) for us (saberspirits) to speak with (spar).

very annoying (negative), Aituan agreed. do you (Nie Mingjue) have any ideas on how to get him (Nie Huaisang) to stop (negative) crying?

Yes. I need – I need ink, or to scratch something…can we get him out to the garden, maybe? I can write in the ground.

write? Baxia asked. the stupid (negative) thing humans (general) do with sticks and paper (soft)?

It serves a purpose, Nie Mingjue said, long-suffering – Baxia had made her view on his supposed “need” to do paperwork instead of train with her very clear many times. Come on, let’s get him outside. I can’t listen to him cry and apologize for not having done enough to save me anymore.

Whatever writing was, it was very impactful on humans: as soon as Baxia, indulgently following Nie Mingjue’s directions as she always did, started cutting slashes into the ground, Nie Huaisang fell silent, his eyes wide, and then they got wider.

“Da-ge?” he asked, voice tremulous. “How – it’s impossible. You’re in the saber?”

More slashes. Yes, Nie Mingjue said as he wrote. Yes, Huaisang, I’m here. You’re not alone.

Nie Huaisang kept crying for a while after that, but there was also hugging (Nie Mingjue yelled at him for not engaging in proper saber discipline when he nearly cut himself) and lots of very nice buffing with the clothing and the oils and the sharpening stone.

Baxia approved. Both Aituan and his human were handling this change very nicely – much better than she’d expected they would, in all truth.

“What do we do next?” Nie Huaisang asked, wiping his eyes.

we (us) get help, Baxia said. from those we (us) trust.

“That makes sense. But who can we tell?”

do you (Baxia) really mean to allow (positive) her (Shuoyue) to help? Aituan asked her doubtfully. after all (past) that she (Shuoyue) has done?

She has already made her own fate, Nie Mingjue said, his voice solemn. She allowed Lan Xichen to bind himself to Meng Yao, to make himself an accomplice to evil. It will break his heart to learn what Meng Yao has done – and that will be a deeper cut than having kept him away from her at all.

we (saberspirits) should never (negative, past-now-future) have to cut (break) our own humans (general), Baxia agreed. a bad (negative) fate.

deserved, Aituan hissed, vengeful, and when brought in on the discussion Nie Huaisang ended up agreeing with him.

Nie Mingjue was the only one surprised, though he shouldn’t have been. How could Nie Huaisang have deserved to master a saber, any saber, even one like Aituan, if he didn’t have some sharp edges to him?

Those sharp edges had been hidden, once, but that was before the pain of losing everything had melted him into a new shape, reforging him the way she’d once wished he never would be. Him and Aituan both.

They would be able to do what needed to be done now.

“Let her suffer her bad fate,” Nie Huaisang said, his eyes cold. “I supported Meng Yao and I suffered, didn’t I? Why should she be exempt? Let her suffer. Let him suffer. I want Meng Yao to lose everything he’s ever wanted, and then to die alone and with nothing.”

That seems excessive, Nie Mingjue objected. Just kill him and be done with it.

too soft (Nie Mingjue), Baxia scolded.

I said to kill him! How is that soft?!

break him (Meng Yao) in to pieces! shatter him (Meng Yao)! throw him (Meng Yao) into a tomb to wait for a reincarnation that will never (negative) come!

It turned out Baxia had some strong feelings on the subject.

“We can do that,” Nie Huaisang said, his thumb lightly rubbing against Aituan as he planned. “I have an idea.”

[rosethornewrites]

Friday & Saturday NR, E, & M reading

The usual

Finished

Not Rated:

Traditions of Grief, by ReleasedFromHisCage

There's only one night that he allows himself to be freely the Lan Zhan that Wei Wuxian created. The anniversary of Wei Wuxian's death.

Or; In the years of Wei Wuxian's absence, Lan Wangji has a list of traditions that he does every year on the anniversary of his death.

Explicit:

You, at a distance, by Pennandreamer (8 chapters)

Rushed back to Cloud Recesses by Lan Wangji, the newly reincarnated Wei Wuxian is trying to understand his place in the world: the demands of the young man and the sacrifice ritual who brought him back; his place in the cultivation world; his tender friendship with Lan Zhan. Yet when he suddenly catches sight of the whip scars on Lan Wangji's back, things take a dark turn. How will his swelling anger at the perpetrators affect his friendship?

And what is this friendship anyway?

And can it withstand the unnerving discoveries about Lan Zhan's missing years, the ones where Wei Wuxian was dead?

Mature:

Red Lotus, by darkmilko (FreshMilko)

Wei Wuxian hears Madam Yu’s voice, “Do not forget, A-Cheng, this is for you. This is your seal. You are above him, and he is below you, marked with your lotus.”

And then she presses the brand against Wei Wuxian’s shoulder.

holding hands with you in this rain-flooded street, by puddingcatbeans

After the war, the sects come together to write out peace treaties and contracts. As the Wen Sect is all but destroyed, the most terrifying thing in the cultivation world is the Yiling Laozu. Unfortunately, the sects owe him for ending the Sunshot Campaign in their favour.

When Yiling Laozu demands Hanguang-jun as compensation, no one is able to say no.

(or, wei wuxian marries himself to lan wangji for political immunity; but more importantly, he needs to dual cultivate with someone with a strong core or his demonic cultivation will kill him.)

Unfinished

Not Rated:

I'd Give You The Moon, by Teadrenched

Wei Wuxian is very smart, but you wouldn't think that if you saw him now, lost alone in the woods at night and being choked by a witch. Despite his predicament, all Wei Wuxian can think about is how pretty the witch looked, and that he didn't know boys were allowed to wear dresses (but after seeing Lan Wangji, definitely thinks more should)

OR

Wei Ying finds fem witch Lan Zhan in the woods and goes to bother him whenever Madame Yu has been a bit too much

Important family chat for important family questions, by honkie_dough

‘Nobody is whipping Wei Ying.’ He stood up.

Wei Ying looked up at him, blinking slowly.

‘Nobody?’

I am not playing these games, thought Lan Wangji, but he shook his head slightly anyway.

‘But me. Is thai good?’

Explicit:

Birthday Party, by waffles_4_breakfast

What if Jin Zixun didn't attack Wei Wuxian at Qiongqi Path and waited until the party to attack?

A fix-it fic where Wei Wuxian gets to attend the party and an entirely different cascade of events follow.

A Helluva Town, by Unforth

Lonely, Lan Zhan befriends the flute player who busks in the Times Square train station and the child who is always with him.

Love in Red and Gold, by Kaytla

"If you're not happy," Wei Wuxian suddenly heard his own voice saying, not unlike an out of body experience, "you could always express an interest in me."

Lan Wangji's head snapped up, piercing Wei Wuxian with such an intense stare he scrambled to try and explain the words that had just tumbled uncontrollably out of his foolish mouth, wondering faintly if he was going to have any control over his errant tongue today.

"I mean - it's just a suggestion, Lan Zhan. If you've shown an interest in someone, there's less pressure to marry immediately, right?" Gods, what was he saying? His tongue felt like a lump of liver in his mouth, clumsy and unwieldy, but he just kept talking.

Mature:

Keep Holding On, by abCEE

As they reached an inn and Wei Wuxian got them a room with three beds, the world seemed to have frozen for Jiang Yanli when her brother suddenly fainted and Jiang Wanyin was just fast enough to catch him before his body could hit the floor.

"A-Xian!"

"Wei Wuxian!"

In which after the Lotus Pier Massacre: Wei Wuxian was greatly injured by Zidian, Jiang Yanli left the inn to buy the medicines and food, and Jiang Wanyin distracted the Wens.

(With a bonus of Wei Wuxian knowing the title of the song and more things ensued inside the Xuanwu Cave that may or may have not involved Lan Wangji's forehead ribbon)

Canon diverged from there.

To Recollect, To Remember, by of_rivers_and_moons

Lán Xichen comes back from the Burial Mounds with two children, one is an infant that has his brothers golden eyes.

[wangxianfics]

I'm looking for some fics were Wei Wuxian and Jin Zixuan become friends?

Hello nonny, sorry about the late answer!

Here’s some WWX & JZX being friends fics for you:

Candy & Conspiracies by cl410  (16K, Teen)

(Canon Divergence, Jin-Raised!WWX, Found Family, Humor, WWX & JZX, WWX & Mian Mian, Early!Wangxian)

“Wei Wuxian is the son of two rogue cultivators who recently died on a night-hunt,” his mother explained. “We are taking him in as a favor to a friend.”

At least it wasn’t another surprise half-sibling.

It did not take long for Jin Zixuan to reconsider. Wei Wuxian was a gremlin, brought to Koi Tower for the sole purpose of driving Jin Zixuan into insanity.

@i-like-plan-m​​

Detailed comment here

Twin Treasures by crossdressingdeath (81K, Teen, WIP - 14/?)

(Canon Divergence, Jin-Raised!WWX, WWX & JZX, WWX&Madam Jin)

When Madame Jin happens to come across Cangse Sanren's orphaned son on a trip to Yiling, she can't bring herself to leave him there. Wei Wuxian finds a somewhat different family. Jin Zixuan finds a little brother. The course of history changes accordingly.

(Some things are written in fate, but even fate itself changes.)

@crossdressingdeath​

What Lies Ahead by pupeez4eva (30K, Teen, WIP - 8/11)

(Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Everyone Lives, Humor, Hurt & Comfort, Burial Mounds Family, Yiling Laozu!WWX, WWX & JZX, Wangxian Pining)

After their fight in the Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian and Jin Zixuan find themselves hurled into the future, with no idea how to get back.

Now they are both stuck in a time where Wei Wuxian’s future self is apparently the most hated man in the whole cultivation world, and where Jin Zixuan seemingly fulfilled the very thing he desired least, and married Jiang Yanli.

Oh, and Lan Wangji seems to hang around quite frequently, for whatever reason.

(Or, wherein Jin Zixuan and Wei Wuxian travel to the future, and the Cultivation World is way more messed up than they remember it being).

@pupeez4eva

Fatherhood's Calling by Fortune_Maiden (1+K, General)

(Post-Sunshot Campaign, WWX & JZX, Crack, Humor)

Jiang Yanli thought of Wei Wuxian as a son. It made so much sense. Everyone knew that Wei Wuxian lost his mother at a young enough age to barely remember her. And everyone also knew that Madame Yu had never been fond of him. So why wouldn’t compassionate gentle Jiang Yanli start to see that pitiable urchin as her own?

But... if Jiang Yanli saw Wei Wuxian as a son, then didn’t that make Jin Zixuan, her husband, his father?

atlas in his sleepin' by anatheme  (29K, Explicit, WIP - 4/6)

(Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Dimension Travel, Reincarnation, Transmigration, Transmigrator!LWJ, Modern Era, Family Reunions, Scar Kissing,Clothes Sharing)

The thing was, Wei Wuxian was the king of questionable decisions and the paragon of curiosity and bad choices.

A pair of white boots entered his line of sight.

“Wei Ying?”

(or: AU in which Wei Wuxian, Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan reincarnated into the modern world. In a bid to let them see their son, Wei Wuxian ended up accidentally summoning Lan Wangji right in the middle of his apartment.)

What's Wrong With Secretary Lan? by silverclaw  (5K, Teen)

(Modern AU, Inspired by: What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim, Best Friends WWX & JZX)

“That’s where he goes on Friday nights, he goes to underground boxing matches.” Wei Wuxian ignores him, certain in his derivation.

“Why does it have to be underground? Maybe he just does regular boxing like regular people.”

“Then why wouldn’t he tell me?”

“You sound like a whiny boyfriend, stop it.”

“I do not!”

“Just marry him.”

“Wait...” Wei Wuxian says. “That’s not a bad idea actually.”

“Have you been day drinking?” Jin Zixuan asks, baffled.

“You’re the one who suggested it!”

“I was joking.”

“No, before that. You said I should either give him a raise or marry him. Well, I already tried giving him a raise.”

@lwjstiletto

@scifikimmi also recs:

Quartet by WithBroomBefore (70K, Teen, Series)

(Canon Divergence, Sunshot Campaign, Found Family, JZX Has Friends, WQ Lives, WN Lives)

Wei Wuxian almost does not catch the name of the song.

In which the aftermath of the cave battle involves just enough communication to make a difference.

@withbroombefore

[aline-the-cat]

The day they come (DoNA Au)

Based on this

Lan Wangji looks at the street, the soldiers are everywhere... it's not going to take long for them to come here, but that's fine, the game has gone on for too long anyway

"Lan Zhan, Lan Zhan, what did you do? When they come for me you know they'll also kill you too!!" Wei Ying's hoarse voice sounds from the table, Lan Wangji turns to stare at him, a ghost trapped in a foreign body for years and years without a rest; he feels a lump in his throat remembering Wei Ying's words during their card game

~~~~~

"A ghost... there are several ghosts of dead ones that roam this place, I do wish to join them, I do wish to die, but I rather sacrifice that so you can live"

"What?" Wangji had answered "What do you mean you want to die? you... you are my soul, my angel, the only thing that keeps me whole inside these walls... how... why... You are alive so I don't die? What kind of twisted sacrifice..." he couldn't finish, Wei Ying smiled, a sad, resigned yet soft smile that made Wangji's heart break into pieces with the love he saw in his eyes, the love that overrules his own desire for death

That night, after leaving their game to be continued the next day, as usual, Lan Wangji stays awake on his bed, his mind filled with Wei Ying. Decades ago one of the Jin ancestors revived the infamous Yiling Patriarch and put him in an organic yet synthetic body, with him, he blackmailed Wei Wuxian's martial sister so that she married his son; after that, the Jins started a business of bringing dead people back to life in the same man-made bodies, a few years into it, war happened. One of the Lan saved Wei Ying from the pyres and inherited him to Lan Wangji, almost four generations... Wei Ying has been with him since he was a little kid, ever since he can remember the man has been a constant presence of love and comfort... has Wei Ying longed for death all this time?

Wangji frowns thinking about it, the next day he makes a decision.

~~~~~

He walks to Wei Wuxian, and kneels before him, taking his hands and pressing his lips against them

"All these years you've been here you have suffered quietly, who in this barbaric world could think that's fair?" he sends a small smile to the other man's way "You know I'd help you die if I could, but..." Wei Wuxian shakes his head with a bit of difficulty

"No, no! Lan Zhan! What did you do? Puppets are a crime now, Lan Zhan! Now they'll come and they'll... they'll..." a horrified look of realization crosses Wei Wuxian's synthetic face "Lan Zhan! You have to run or else they'll kill you as well! And that's... they can't okay?! it's wrong, you know is wrong, please go away Lan Zhan!" the dull silver eyes are begging, and they make Lan Wangji's heart clench with love and pain

"Some sacrifice it all anyway" he answers with a melancholic smile

"No...No! Lan Zhan, please don't do this! listen, I've watched countless lives pass me by, countless ghosts of selfish and vain people, everything is the same, but you... I can't-"

His words get interrupted by three Nie soldiers that burst into the room

"And on the day we come it's over" the soldier says the military vow with ease "Lan Wangji, you've been caught guilty of possessing a reincarnated puppet and shall face your fate... execution"

"No!" Wei Ying hoarsely yells "Stop! Kill me! He's got nothing to do with this!" he tries to stand but his joints are too old and stiff from disuse

The soldier doesn't acknowledge him and keeps reciting the laws "The sentence for keeping a puppet is, of course, death, it will be carried out this instant, say any prayers or last words you want"

"Stop! No!" the soldiers ignore the puppet's begs as they load their weapons "Stop right now! or... or... one day you will learn! and you will burn like my heart burns!" he throws his curse their way but it's useless, the soldiers aim at them in unison. Wei Ying tries to stand in their way again, he needs to protect Lan Zhan, he needs to protect him, and, and give him time to escape, he needs to-...

"Wei Ying" Lan Zhan's beautiful voice sounds stops him completely, he turns to the man with fear, there, on Lan Zhan's face, there's a look of love and acceptance, and he can't take it, he can't- "It's alright" Lan Wangji says "For some people love is a sweet sentiment, full of bliss and dream states, for others, is kindness and companionship" he smiles "But love can also be a sacrifice"

A cold horror fills Wei Wuxian

"No... No! Lan Zhan! please! Please, my angel, don't!" Wei Ying's body can't move, his legs won't stand and his arms barely can raise, it's useless, he knows that, he knows that! Yet he still tries and fights against this broken and weak body of his. Lan Wangji stares at him and lovingly puts his hand on his cheek "Please my angel! Please!!!" Wei Wuxian's eyes that he thought were dry decades ago, start spilling tears of despair 'Not him! please! anyone but Lan Zhan! Please no my angel!!' how many years he spent wishing death, how many people he wished them to go away, and yet, the one person he can't stand to lose, the one person he loves with all his soul, the one person he would live for... is the only person who is willing to grant his wish, at the cost of his own life. What kind of twisted fate is this?! "Please my angel, please!" he begs again with a broken sob

"Wei Ying, my angel, my soul, my love... please go back to berths of black, to the silent shores from me once more, through veils and gates and seas of slate, and blood-red mores where I'll see you once more" Lan Wangji recites the incantation to send Wei Ying's soul back to the paradise from where he was summoned, the moment his physical body gets destroyed 'Let us be together in our next life as well'

With those parting words, the soldiers shoot at them. Crimson blood runs through the floor as two bodies fall in it

[sizhuyu]

I’m not sure if you do platonic relationships since I can’t find any in the rules. I want to request a male reader who was the older brother of Wei Ying and treated him the kindness and love he deserves but then got killed by the Wens during his reign as the Yiling Patriarch. Then the reader reincarnates into a man who has very identical features from his past body. So the reader goes on a journey to find their younger brother and eventually the reader does find Wei Ying again. Also when the reader reunites with Wei Ying they have this emotional reunion of seeing each other again!

Long overdue request!! And yes I could try this.. And I love thissss! So here is to your request! ( longest fic I have ever written.. )

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ I Finally Found you Brother ☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

You and Wei Wuxian always had a strong relationship. You both were adopted by Jiang Fengmian and studied in Gusu together with Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang. Had been quite the troublemakers. You always thought your brother had developed a liking towards Lan Wangji and you. Of course helped them get together but your brother had no clue... Thankfully Lan Wangji took the hint and tried his best to show your clueless brother... THAT HE LIKES HIM. "A-Xian! How is it with Lan er-gongzi?~" You say to him but.. "Oh it was so boring! He doesn't talk or whatever! But the perfect target for pranks!" You were dumbfounded on how clueless your own brother is toward Lan Wangji's feelings. You feel bad for the boy to be honest.

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ When Jiang Cheng lost his core☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

Your brother pleaded Wen Qing to transfer his golden core to jiang Cheng but you interfered and offered yours instead.

"Are you serious?! You both are insane! The process is painful and almost unbearable! You won't survive!" Says Wen Qing to the both of you.

"Well... What about 50%? Jiang Cheng needs a golden core more than I do."

"Ge..." Wei Wuxian tears up

"F-FINE!" Wen Qing and you have developed a strong friendship but she was against this crazy idea but you insisted.

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ When you transferred your golden core ☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

You felt so much pain during the process... But you don't regret it at all. Jiang Cheng was tricked into meeting Baoshan Sanren. Wei Wuxian cried during the process of seeing you in pain. When you were done, you went down the mountain and saw a little bi- I Mean! Wen Chao. "Oh? The older Wei is here? What a coincidence!" Wen Chao just laughs as you held in your pain "Wen Zhuliu! Melt his core!" You start running but Wen Zhuliu caught you "Oh? Trying to run away?? COWARD!" Wang Lingjiao just laughs with Wen Chao "I hear a drunk dog and a bratty hyena." you say to them "Oh hohoho so thats-" Wen Chao was interrupted by you as you said "What are you now? Santa Claus?" You insult him "You little.." Wang Lingjiao kicks you in your stomach. And since you don't have your golden core, and not to mention.. You just got through the procedure of pain. "Bring him with us." Wen Chao orders Wen zhuliu to carry you by your arm as they land on.. "The burial mounds?!" You exclaim as they laugh like animals. "Nobody has come here, and nobody ever survived! Your dead!" Wen Chao grabs your messed up hair and whispered one last thing to you "Burn in hell Wei Y/N." As he threw you down.

When you woke up you saw lots and lots of resentful energy dancing around you calling your name. You didn't know you were already absorbing the resentful energy. With this new found power, you can take revenge on the Wens.

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ Battle between Lan, jiang and Wens☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

You arrived quite late you must say. Your brother was badly wounded and in shock you died.. And so was the others.. "Looks like it's my turn." You say before putting your Dizi to your lips and play a menacing tune. "Who's that?" Jiang Cheng asks as he and the others stare at the figure with red eyes and and long robes. The dead bodies emerge with new life and the others ready their stances as the zombies rush at the Wen's

You stop playing the flute when it was just Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu left.. "W-who are you?!" Wen Chao crawls back at your presence "Oh? Don't remember me?" He recognized your voice... "Wei Y/N?!.. How.. You died!!" He shouted in horror as you are standing before him as you laugh. "Took you awhile to remember." Wen Chao being the coward he is calls for Wen Zhuliu. You grab his arm and twist it "What a loyal dog we have here!" You shout "Y-You-" After realizing who he is facing with... "That's right! It's me, Wei Y/N." they all gasp as you announce your presence. “Y/N-ge?! They said you were dead!” Wei Wuxian shouts “They were right, I did die but in the same time I did not.” Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian were absolutely relived you were safe. “Wen Chao.. You evil son of a gun. You will pay!” You played your flute rapidly and Wang Lingjiao’s corpse lunges at Wen Chao. “Help me! Wen Zhuliu!!” He cries “His name must taste good in your mouth hm? How about..” You ordered Wang Lingjiao to stop as you cut of his tongue “That will make you shut up.” You also broke Wen Chao’s and Wen Zhuliu’s golden core. You then ordered Wang Lingjiao to attack him once more. “Ge! Stop this!” Your younger brother screams but you didn’t listen. Your brother may be shamless and carefree but now.. He didn’t want this. Jiang Cheng on the other hand laughs like a maniac as other watch in horror. You collect the remaining resentful energy and walked to your little brothers. "A-Cheng, a-Xian, long time no see. Did you miss me?" You smile and the green fire died and corpses fell to the ground. "Ge.." Wei Wuxian's tears began to flow again as he jumped to your arms "Don't leave ever again! Got that?! DON'T." Jiang Cheng says as he joins the hug while you rub their backs to comfort them.

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ First meet in Wen refugee camp for Wen's ☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ ( No, a-Yuan belongs to Wangxian and it shall stay that way. Instead I take place because I want in on the fun )

You meet Wen Qing again when you stroll around Yunmeng "Wei-gongzi!! Help me!" She shouts as you run to help her "Wen Qing! What happened?!" You ask as her face was all scrunched up and dirt and soot covered her face "W-Wen Ning! Grandma Wen! Uncle four..." Tears roll down her face as she says almost every name of the Wen's who are in danger "They all might die! Please help us!" She pleads with you as you agree to help her and when she showed you exactly what she meant.. The people at this point you could compare them to a skeleton ( Sorry if I offended people ). The Jin's were ruthless.. They were whipping some elderly women and some they made them trip and fall. And mind you but it was a cold and rainy night they might catch a cold! "Stop!" You say as the Jins pause for a minute "Or what? Wei Y/N... You can't kill us!" The audacity of some of the people.. "Grandma!!" You hear from the other side and you see a grandma protecting a little girl as one of the Jins raise their sword at them "Die in hell!!" he says as you run to block him from hurting the 2 "People like you hurt the innocent, they did nothing during the war! What makes you have the right to make them suffer!?" You shout at them "Their Wen dogs that's why!" One of them shouts and other agree. This time nobody stopped you from protecting all the Wens in Qiongqi path.. "Wen Ning!" Wen Qing shouts as she found her brother while you help the other Wen's stand up "Wen Ning!.." He was dead. No heartbeat, no movement.. You were too late. But not really to late, the resentful energy was absorbed by Wen Ning and he came back to life! "Wen Ning!" Wen Qing shout but he didn't listen "Wen Qionglin!" You shout at him and he stops. "W-Wei... Gongzi.." He says as he regains his conscious. "Wen Qing, everyone. We will go to Yling since Yunmeng is out of the question. We can stay there." You announce as they nod. "Ge! What are you doing!?" Wei Wuxian shouts from above "Wei Y/N! What are you planning?!" Jin bast- I mean! Jin Guangshan shouts at you, clearly mad about the whole situation of his slaves leaving him. "A-Xian, a-Cheng.. I'm sorry.." and you left them breaking your promise.

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ In Yling where you all settled in ☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

"Y/N-ge!" Wen Xiaoyue shouts as she jumps to your arms "Woah! You're getting heavier!" You laugh "Are you saying I'm fat?.." Xiaoyue's big smile turned into a small pout accompanied with tears in her eyes "No! No! It's a good thing!" And you wipe her tears. "Y/N-ge! There are some people outside the barriers one looks like Y/N-ge and there was 2 other boys. Should I get them?" You immediately knew who who she was talking about.. "Yes, bring them here. I'll be waiting!"

Xiaoyue runs quite fast since she ate too much sugar.. She brings down every barrier with no sweat "Hi!" She finally brings down the last barrier "Really? So the cultivation world is scared of a mere child?" Jiang Cheng looks at Lan Wangji "Hmph!" She kicks jiang Cheng where it hurts =D ( *Not* Sorry Jiang Cheng ) "Watch your mouth purple man." * Que the purple guy xd * "My name is Wen Xiaoyue!" She smiles at them "Follow me to Y/N-ge!" They follow Xiaoyue and Wei Wuxian carries Jiang cheng ( because I kick hard in real life too ) as they reach you "Y/N-ge!!" She hugs you again "Hi guys! And what happened to Jiang Cheng?.." You ask your brother "That brat kicked me in my-" Jiang Cheng was interrupted when Xiaoyue gave him a death glare with a evil smile "basically she kicked him where it hurt the most." Lan Wangji said while Wei Wuxian laughs "She kicks hard right? I am proud to say Jiang Cheng is the 4rth victim of Xiaoyue." You smirk at finally someone felt your paino "Anyways.. Why are you here?" You say as you carry Xiaoyue in your arms "Oh we wanted to check up on you ge!" Wei Wuxian says to you with a smile as you all begin to talk on what happened and Xiaoyue jumps down from your arms "I will go play with a-Yuan!" ( Wen Yuan eats quite long and Xiaoyue eats fast okay? ) You nod and continue with your conversation with your brothers and brother-to-be.

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ Fall of the Yling Laozu ( burial mounds siege )☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

During the start of the siege even after Wen Qing and Wen Ning and others sacrificed themselves they still are after you.. "A-Yue! A-Yuan!" You call as the 2 children ( not siblings ) "Y/N-ge!" They cry "Why did everyone leave?" Wen Yuan asks you and you feel their foreheads "You guys have fever!" You say at them "It was cold at night.." Xiaoyue answers. You sigh and give them medicine and food, you hear shouting outside "Shoot.." You tell the children to hide and so they did as you go outside "Why are you here?" You ask the people "We are here to kill you!" A young cultivator says. You laugh as the battle commences. "A-Yuan let's go!" Xiaoyue cries "Mn.." He grabs her hand and they went outside all the barriers "Xiaoyue?! What are you doing?" Wei Wuxian asks them "Y/N-ge is fighting with some people and we hear metal.. Help him please!" Xiaoyue begs Wei Wuxian "Lan Zhan, Carry the both of them back to Gusu or Yunmeng. Make sure they are safe." Lan Zhan nods and carries them both back to Gusu.

"Ge! stop it!" Wei Wuxian joins in the battle "A-Y/N! Enough!" Yanli joins in "JIe?! What are you doing here?!" Jiang Cheng asks her "Is it bad I want to protect my family from further harm?" She asks Jiang Cheng "Ge! Xiaoyue and a-Yuan is scared! They need you! Snap out of it!" Wei Wuxian shouts "Shut up Wei Wuxian! Wei Y/N is out of control! I told you he couldn't handle it!!" Jin Guangshan bursts out "No one talks to my brother that way!" You play the flute and Wei Wuxian runs to you Yanli follows but you called Wen Ning at the wrong time... "Wei Wuxian!!!" Jiang Cheng and Yanli shout out "A-Xian!" You run up to your brother "Ge.. I'm fine-" He coughs out blood "No your not.." Tears run down your face "Enough ge.. Stop it.." Wei Wuxian still coughing blood says to you "Okay.." You stop the fight and a cultivator swings his sword high "Die Yling laozu!" You block it with your Dizi. "Shut up.." You say to him as you kill him. "Bandage a-Xian, jie.. Please.." She does and Jiang Cheng and Yanli goes to the physician. "A-Xian is hurt badly.. A-Xian.." You say bringing your hand to your hair "Ha..Haha... Damn you all!!" you say and your last words were "I'm sorry, a-Cheng, Jie, a-Yue, a-Yuan.. I have to leave you." You fall down until your body wasn't found... "Ge.. Why did you leave?..." Wei Wuxian asks himself

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ Ressurection ☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

( me and a-Yuan remember each other but not everything else but we have some flashbacks when we see something familiar or we hear something about the Yling laozu )

ages :

Sizhui, Xiaoyue, Jingyi, Zizhen : 16

Jin Ling : 14

Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng, Jin Zixuan, Nie Huaisang : 37

Yanli, Xichen, Mingjue : 38-42(?)

Mo Xuanyu : 21

You woke up in a shed with white and red rouge on your face "What-" A foot stomps on your temple "Hmph! How dare you tell on me?! Lunatic!" You hear a sh- I mean! a 'LoVeLy' voice "Yea! How dare you tell on the young master!" A another voice chimes in "Your just a damn bastard!" Young master Mo says to you “Ha.. Do you know who you just kicked down?” You say to him as you slap him “T-this isn’t over! Mo Xuanyu! You will pay!!” The servant shouts and you grin to yourself “My, my! He’s weak as hell!” You look down to the floor and see the sacrifice ritual written in human blood, tailsmans on the floor, some rogue in the floor for no reason. “Oh?” You say as you look at your arm “Looks like I can’t leave yet hm?” You ride on the donkey and ride to Mo manor

☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆ Meeting you again ☆*: .｡. .｡.:*☆

“And so I would like you to please ged rid of the evil spirts trying to kill our people at night, esteemed cultivators.” Lady Mo asks the 3 juniors. “Don’t worry miss, as long as all of you stay inside and not touch or bring any of the flags. All of you will be saved.” Xiaoyue speaks to the Lady Mo and sips a cup of tea “Yes, like what Xiaoyue said. Everyone should stay inside for the night while the 3 of us work on excorsing the spirits.” Sizhui adds. ( they don’t remeber everyone but they remember each other okay? Refering to Xiaoyue and Sizhui. I wanted to tag along since I can’t let you have all the fun now can I? ) Wei Y/N ( you ) listened to their conversation. At night everyone went to sleep but not everyone.. Young master Mo was one of the hard-headed people stayed up and got one of the flags from the flag formation “Haha.. Mo Xuanyu.. You will die tonight!” He announces, but you were already outside “Hm? This guy is the real lunatic.. Those Lans already warned you.” You cross your arms. Young master Mo fell to the ground absorbing the resentful energy “Oh no..” You say as Xiaoyue turns her head at the noise and sees... “Mo-gongzi! Please stay inside-“ She was interrupted when the man lunges to her. “Sizhui I will deal with this.” She says as she brings out her sword “I’m sorry Mo-gongzi.. But you didn’t listen.” As she pushes forward “Be careful Yuyu!” Sizhui tells her. “Your finished.” As she freezes him with a single strike “You still cease to amaze me when you freeze opponents Xiaoyue.” Jingyi tells her “Thanks and..” She walks up to where you hid “What are you doing?” You scream causing everyone to wake up “Mo Xuanyu! What is the meaning-“ Lady Mo gasps as she saw her (trashy) son “My son!” She cries and calls his name “You! You couldn’t even protect a child!” She points at Xiaoyue whose name seems familiar.. “Child? He was like... 17? Perhaps? Ans he’s a ‘child’ despite his age he acts like a 3 year old.” You tell her and Jingyi just tries to hold his laugh. You hear the wind rustle and push Lady Mo away. “What are you doing?!” She tells you and she sees the servant already going to choke her “Everyone! Stay inside!” Sizhui tells them as they do as what they are told, afraid for their lives. You hear the sound of a Dizi and a flute combined “This must be..” The 3 look up “Hanguang-jun! Senior-Wei!” They run to the pair “How was the mission?” He pats their heads “Good, but 2 people died in the latter.” Jingyi reports “Wait..” Your younger brother spots the sleeves of the corpses “It’s right ( or left ) arm is missing..” He examines the corpse “Check if anybody else is outside, they might be possesed by the spirit.” At just at the moment he said that, Lady Mo attacked him but Lan Wangji blocked her struming the strings of the Guqin “Are you okay Wei Ying?” Wei Wuxian nods at the man which is.. Lan Wangji?! You take a look around to see if you can escape but Xiaoyue found you again.. “Mo-gongzi, I thought we told you to stay inside.” She says to you and the 2 older men stare at you “Ge..” Wei Wuxian’s tears began to form “It’s me a-Xian.” You open your arms wide to hug your little brother “We thought you died..” He tells you “I was summoned, I’m happy to see you again a-Xian.” The both of you cried in each others arms until the next morning you had alot on your plate to catch up on.. “You remember Lan Zhan right? And Lan Xichen? I married Lan Zhan and Jiang Cheng is in a relationship with Xichen!” He announces as you spit your tea out “Really?! Congrats!” You say to them “Oh and.. a-Yue! A-Yuan! Come over here!” The 2 of them walked towards you “Introduce yourselves.” Lan Wangji tells them “Lan Yuki, used to be Wen Yuki courtesy name Lan Xiaoyue.” She bows “Lan Yuan, used to be Wen Yuan courtesy name Lan Sizhui.” He too bows to you “A-Yuan.. A-Yue..” The memories start to flow to your brain as you remembered the 2 and what had happened “We missed you, Y/N-ge.” You tear up seeing the children you took in all grown up “I missed you guys too..” And the both of them and Wei Wuxian hugs you while tearing up again

[myfriendsarerealidiots]

Comparing Adaptations

‘Kay so I went on one of my whims again and did something stupid. Couple weeks or so ago, I wasn’t really in the mood to watch anime so I opened up Netflix and watched a Cdrama that I wanted to watch for a while now.

That Cdrama was ‘The Untamed’ which, prior to me watching it and doing said whim, I thought was just your typical historic Cdrama. Oh boy I was wrong. As I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, “This show’s really selling itself off as BL.” Which, I found out after finishing it was because it is BL. Hah...and that was just the start of it.

As I was doing my ‘Post-show research,’ I found out that it was based of a novel, called ‘Mo Dao Zu Shi’or as translated by the people on the internet as ‘Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.’ Said novel had 2 more adaptations along with ‘The Untamed’ which were a manhua and a donghua. So me being me, I decided to watch the donghua adaptation and read both the og novel and manhua.

So how I went through this was...

The Untamed (2019)

The Donghua aka Anime I guess

The Manhua which I read while having class (such a responsible student aren’t I)

The original novel

All hail this person who has too much free time on her hands.

Anyways, as it says on the tin, I’ll be comparing the 4 adaptations/versions of the story and see what changes between them as well as the pros and cons. (Wow I sound so professional)

Some background of myself just to avoid confusion

I am not a mega hardcore Fujoshi. I don’t really enjoy reading smut, nor am I old enough to do so bear that in mind

I have 7 years worth of Chinese lessons under my belt which means I barely understand a thing and that I can get some of the jokes like how Wei Ying’s sword is called ‘Sui Bien’ and it’s funnier to hear in Chinese. In other words, compared to like actual Chinese people who live in China, I pretty much have the knowledge of a 10 year old.

The versions of the Manhua and Novel that I read were translated in English so somethings might have been lost in translation.

I have a bit of a goldfish brain so forgive me if I wrote something wrong or forgot the name of a certain character, most likely I will look it up to correct it but if I don’t...well sorry.

I am writing my opinions on each version as I finish them, so if they don’t link up to the original that’s the reasoning behind it.

All of these are my opinions and thoughts on the story. You are not entitled to follow them if you disagree. I personally believe that everyone has a voice of their own and they should use it. (Even though I don’t half of the time.)

Slight Spoiler Warning

I will be breaking down some of the scenes and characters for my comparisons so please keep that in mind.

The Untamed (2019)

As this was my first exposure to the story, I didn’t know what to expect. I loved everything about it except for the fact that literally half of the show was spent in the past, building context for what was happening in the present.

The characters were lovable and all had distict personalities, especially Wei Ying and Lan Zhan which I guess makes sense since they’re the main characters (their actors are also cute and have good chemistry.) Speaking of characters, Yanli has a more forward role in the story here compared to the other versions. The way certain characters were introduced was different too. Since it’s live action, it’s also harder to show things like extreme blushing and such so it makes Lan Zhan look very stoic and way more unexpressive here than in the other versions.

The soundtrack is nice to listen to, especially with the 2 mains singing the theme song together it’s so cute and gives it another meaning in itself. Although, I do wonder how that poor bamboo flute Wei Ying made in like 2 mins plays decent sounding music. Chen Qing(is this the name of it?), the flute he uses after his trip to the Burial Grounds has the same sound quality as that bamboo flute which is just, “how???”

They took out most of the extreme BL!!! I feel like that is the biggest difference between this version and all the rest. I know they did that to appeal to more people but it does remove some of the context to things. That doesn’t mean the moments that were kept in weren’t cute though. It did make the pair look more plantonic than romantic.

As for the story itself, as a story on its own, it’s nice, as an adaptation that’s where the line gets blurry but it leans more towards the good side. They did indeed change some things, made them work better with the medium than if they didn’t.

An example I can place is the mask. Where the other versions used white make up with oddly placed red circles around the eyes, this one used a mask instead. I agree with the choice they made, seeing as they removed the fact that Mo Xuanyu was homosexual and so the make up wouldn’t make sense. It also looks nicer than what I imagined what could’ve happened with they kept with the make up. They do make a reference to this in the show when Jin Ling and Wei Ying have a conversation in Carp Tower. “You’ve seen my face right?” “How do I know? Your face is always caked in make up or covered by that mask.”

Another issue I had which I’ll touch on later was the first episode—I had no idea what was going on for those 40 minutes of screentime.

Donghua

As of writing this post, season 3 of this has yet to come out.

My first reaction to this was “Man, the animation’s pretty, and they made Wei Ying look scarier.” Watching stuff at 12 in the morning isn’t the best thing but that’s what I do.

Anywho, this version made Wei Ying really attracted to going down the path of ‘evil’ compared to the other versions. I don’t really understand why they made this change...but they did so we have to deal with that. And his eyes glow red!! It makes him look scary and cool at the same time. I love it!!

The transitions between certain events were a bit weird to say the least. For example, at the end of episode 2/3 Wei Ying gets forcibly dragged into the Cloud Recesses and the episode ends there. By the next episode, we’re 16/23/13 however many years in the past. This makes it really confusing for someone who hasn’t watched or read any other version of the story. It definitely made me confused and I already finished one.

While ‘The Untamed’ told us everything in one long flashback, the donghua broke it up into small chunks placed whenever information was needed. I don’t think that was a good idea, but then I also think it was a better decision than what they did for the Cdrama. As I watched this adaptation, I found myself confused from time to time because what happened in the prior episode didn’t always match what happened in the current episode like I mentioned earlier.

As for the artstyle, personally, I think some of the characters look similar minus the hair. However, I do like the little ways they made Lan Zhan express his feelings towards Wei Ying.

Speaking of which, when I first saw them together in this version in the forest near the Goddess Temple, I had to do a bit of a double take because of the height difference which wasn’t so evident in ‘The Untamed’. I soon found out that Lan Zhan was taller than Wei Ying before and after he gets reincarnated(?) Prior, it was just a small gap of 2cm which later turned to 6cm after possessing Mo Xuanyu.

I didn’t notice their height gaps while watching ‘The Untamed’ because Wei Ying’s actor, Xiao Zhan, is taller than Lan Zhan’s actor, Wang Yi Bo by about 2 inches which is like 5 cm? and so they had to do some weird thing with platforms to make Xiao Zhan look shorter in comparison.

Soundtrack wise, I personally think that ‘The Untamed’ was better in that sense. Where it had an amazing souding flute, this one had minor earrape in a nutshell.

This version made itself, in my eyes look more like a historical fighting anime as opposed to the BL vibes I was getting from ‘The Untamed’ and the other versions. They added a lot of action scenes and made the mystery more interesting for me. Along with this, the overall look and feel of this made it seem like it came from a completely different source material.

Manhua

Small FYI, as of writing this post the Manhua is at 147 Chapters.

(I should’ve kept up the trend and got a screenshot from that scene in the Manhua but I didn’t so here we are with gay rabbits.)

As your local internet friend who reads more manga than normal books nowadays, I enjoyed reading the manhua and finished it in a couple days.

Compared to the first 2 versions here, these last 2 are both things that you have to read to get through, albeit one has pictures and one doesn’t.

While normally, one would read silently, I like listening to music while I do. And seeing as the OST of ‘The Untamed’ sounds really nice, I listened to it while reading both the manhua and novel when I could.

This one brought out the BL elements that were missing from the first 2. They gave Wei Ying and Lan Zhan a lot of kissing or just straight up affectionate scenes which I think ties in with the general theming of the original novel more.

As this one is probably the closest of the adaptations to the original, it’s the least confusing to read, although that might’ve been influenced by my experiencing the story for the third time at this point. I say that, however, there were many story elements that weren’t present in either one prior to this.

Examples this can be seen with their collecting of body parts that belonged to the former Nie Sect Leader. In ‘The Untamed’ they find the sword spirit which guides them through the rest of the story. In the Donghua adaptation, they get the arm, but also get the head of the the Jin with the hundred holes curse which was an original addition. Here, they get the arm from Mo Manor, find the other one then find the torso and so on before finding the head in Jin GuangYao’s possession.

The flashbacks in this version were also executed really well, in my opinion, as it doesn’t feel super confusing while reading it and it gives just enough information to help the events unfold. It also gives us a chance to see how much of an ass(sorry) Wei Ying was when he was the Yiling Patriach from his own perspective as well as give us a moment of WangXian in the middle of all that chaos.

Novel

Here’s a picture of gay rabbits for everyone.

At this point, I was switching between the novel and the Manhua to read whichever one I wanted at any given time which might have blurred my sense of what belonged in each one so I’ll try my best to make sure.

Since this one is the original source material, it was clear from the get go that this will be the one with the least confusing version of events and the most amount of detail.

I was surprised on how close the manhua and ‘The Untamed’ was to the novel. Although, the former condensed the mystery to fit within the timeframe while the latter hasn’t finished just yet.

Personally, I like this author, and will probably read more of her works further down the line. Even though the version I read was in english, I still could feel the meaning behind certain aspects which I think shows her skill as an author.

The novel clearly shows the mischief that goes through Wei Ying’s head and their gradual (I say gradual but I think Lan Zhan just snapped) change of attitudes towards each other.

Arc One- Mo Manor

Past here I’ll break down the first arc of each one because I think all of them did it in relatively different ways. Be warned for spoilers if you haven’t watched or read all of them.

The Untamed (2019)

Out of all of these versions, this one definitely had me scratching my head in confusion the most even after watching it a second time once I finished the entire show.

As the only version that had the curse issued at the start as a moving factor of the story as well as the Yin Iron which was specifically made for this version, it didn’t explain enough at the start.

There were many things I could say were wrong about this beginning, from starting at a flashback to not properly introducing us to our characters but the biggest problem in my mind was the lack of explanation at the present.

Like I mentioned, starting at a flashback is a terrible idea as it gives the viewer high expectations only for it to be crushed the second it ends. Here, it shows a small portion of the battle at the Nightless City without much context then it quickly changes to 16 years later with a seemingly random group of people.

Another issue is the amount of useless characters who were introduced. In the other versions, there were only 2 Lan disciples who were given names and were introduced properly while here there were more than I want to count. Add to that the one telling stories about the YiLing Patriarch and the weird guy walking around with a flag, and you got yourself total confusion.

Donghua

This one was slightly less confusing to watch. As it starts with a clip of Wei Ying commanding corpses which matches the overall feel of the donghua. The rumors that he died stretched over the time skip and we meet this version of Mo Xuanyu who is caked with make up, whether or not he was a cut-sleeve (gay) in this version, I forgot.

It fully explains the curse and instead of having a couple of Lan disciples just standing there watching, we get to focus on the 2 important ones, Lan Sizhui and Lan JiYing. It gives us a slightly deeper insight into Wei Ying’s mind, as he states ‘you got the wrong one,’ just after being reincarnated, indicating that he isn’t as vicious as painted by the first few minutes of the show. Like the other versions, they also show how he considers the cons of using his demonic abilities and that Sizhui would probably tell on him to Lan Zhan, meaning that Sizhui was a keen, observant young man.

Manhua and the Novel

As for the introductions, these two were very similar. Both have the rumors of the Yiling Patriarch across the screen as we get further down the story and meet our main character.

It gets the details from the Donghua adaptation and mixes it with more information to create a more detailed account of what was happening, also making this Wei Ying seem smarter compared to his counterparts in other versions. He also hesitates more on showing his abilities, knowing that he’s going to be caught if he does.

Final Thoughts

As of writing this, I’m only halfway through the novel but it covers the portion until where the manhua is currently at. I would finish reading it before posting this but it would take too long and probably make this post even longer than it currently is, which isn’t such a good idea. If I had much more patience and effort I would really like to break down each arc and their differences from one another but I can’t be bothered right now. (Sorry)

I can safely say that in terms of adaptations, ‘The Untamed’ is relatively close to the novel, albeit a very condensed version. As flashback filled as it is, it wasn’t very confusing to watch past the first two episodes.

The Donghua adaptation takes several liberties, going more of an action oriented route instead of the calmer more, I wouldn’t say love but character oriented novel.

The manhua is definitely the closest to the novel, so if you really don’t want to read a lot of words, and I mean a lot of words, then go ahead and read it.

What else do I have to say...if you’re new to the story, welcome, if you’re a veteran who’s been here longer than me, sorry for taking up space on your feed. And congrats for making it to the end.

[lazyness-alpaca]

Your Reason, My Reason

WangXian Week Day 1

Title                : Your Reason, My Reason

Author           : H.W. Niel

Rating            : Teen

Warnings      : No Warnings

Summary      : An AU where both Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian thoughts about each other when instead of Wei Wuxian reincarnating 16 years after his death, they time travelled to a distant future, where they are married and had a family with A-yuan. Both did not know that they are time travellers and tried their best to take the chances that were given to them.

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Prompts         : Family, Chance, Time Travel AU

Lan Wangji

‘Hanguang-Jun!’

You were so happy, so cheerful and so optimistic in everything that I cannot keep up with anything that you came up with. To be honest, I almost envy you in your optimism, but I can never tell you my true feelings because you can never be serious in anything and that made me annoyed with you.

‘Hanguang-jun! Lan Wangji! Lan Zhan!’

Did you know? Why I never answered your calling? Because I wanted you to call my name as much as possible, just so I know that you can never forget about me. And will never leave my side.

‘Who are you to tell me about the matter of my heart?’

Did you know? How heartbroken I was when you refuse my help? That was the first time I wanted to help you from the bottom of my heart and yet you rejected it. I can never show you my weakness, so I can only walk away, not showing you how I exactly feel.

I was happy when I know that you survived, and I was happy that you were still alive. But I know that you changed the moment I laid eyes on you trying to kill the Wen Clan in the name of revenge. I know you wanted justice on your family, on the people that has brought so much pain and sadness in your life, but that is not the way.

‘Lan Zhan!!’

Did you know? It makes me happy when you called me by name again. It makes my heart beat faster and I don’t know how to express this feelings I kept suppressing inside. I never knew I could be so happy seeing you so happy once again. Even though I know that you were still practicing the dark arts, I knew deep down that I would let you continue if that is what makes you happy.

‘This kid? He’s my child’

Did you know? How devastated I was when you told me that he was your kid? My heart pang with jealousy and the fire within me almost made me do something I would regret. But when you told me that the kid was just some kid you were babysitting, my anger settled down. And another thought made my heart flutter with happiness when I saw how you treated the kid, and thought how happy I would be if I could have your child.

‘Lan Zhan, let me go.’

You spoke so softly and so tender, I almost did not hear it. Even if we fall together, I would never release that hand that has once reached out to me without fail. Because I knew, if I let your hand go, I could never be able to meet with you again in this life and that is something I could never imagined would happen without you by my side.

‘Lan Zhan, please, just let me go’

Did you know? What I feel when I found out you were thrown to the Burial Mounds? When I know you could never be by my side ever again? Did you know? How hard I tried to look for you? To have a chance to talk to you again, to see you smiling so happily with every single thing? How could you ask me to let you go when I never would want to experience the same sadness again? How can you be so cruel as to ask me to let you go ever again?

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Wei Wuxian

‘Entering the Cloud Recesses after hour is breaking the rules’

Did you know? The first time I saw you, I hated you so much with your cold attitude and the way you treated everyone as if they are inferior to you. However, the first time you spoke to me shook me so much I almost dropped my Emperor’s smile and I almost attacked you with Suibian. But I was happy that you spoke to me first, when you only ignored me at the Cloud Recesses gate and it made my heart flutters with happiness. Deep down I knew what I was feeling, but I would never admit it because I never felt this way before you.

‘Alcohol is forbidden in the Cloud Recesses’

Did you know? The first time you got drunk was so cute that I almost hoped you never got sober. I wanted to tease you all night long, and to tease you every day, just to see those face flame up in shyness. But when you were punished along with me for getting caught drinking, I swear to myself that I would not drag you into my trouble ever again.

‘Wei Ying!!’

Did you know? How happy I am when you called me by my name? Even though it was due to anger, I was happy nonetheless. It was the first time you spoke to me without all those one word answers you always replied me with. And there was a reason I wanted to show you those outrageous book as you called them.

‘Did you know she will remember you forever?’

I was shocked when you asked me that. I know you took the satchel that MianMian has given me and I know that you were jealous. But I deliberately answers with the wrong answers. Just so I can see how you react to my answer.

‘Come back to cloud recesses with me.’

I dragged you to my problems enough times. I can never bring you to solve my problems again. Because if you were hurt because of me again, I can never forgive myself. So I’m sorry Lan Zhan, but I have to decline your invitations. Partly because I’m not going to torture myself with those three thousands rules, but also because I wanted you to be safe.

‘I-I’m not his father…….’

I can see how awkward you were with kids when I saw A-yuan clinging to your legs. It was cute to see you being more human every time we see each other. I wanted so much to tease you that I told you that A-yuan is my kid. What a treat that was when I saw the expressions you have. It rotated between anger and confusion and then disappointment. I immediately told you A-yuan was just a kid I was caring for, because I don’t want you to be disappointed in me.

‘WEI YING!!’

Did you know? I never wanted you to see me in this state. I never wanted to feel sadness because of me. I know that you never thought of me as your soulmate unlike what you said at the Baifeng Mountain. It was just a sweet talk you told me to make me happy and to bring me to the Cloud Recesses. There was no way to save this world from evil, and from the internal war unless I died. Technically, I was supposed to be dead when I was thrown into the Burial mound, but I wanted to see you again and I did. So this is goodbye.

“WEI WUXIAN! YOU SHOULD JUST DIE!”

“Thank you Lan Zhan, and I’m sorry”

“WEI YING!!!”

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Two males one shorter than the other with a kid walked out of the cinema, each holding the kid’s hand. The kid happily reveled in the hands holding him.

“That was great, wasn’t it Lan Zhan?” the shorter male asked his companion.

“Un” was the reply

“You really should speak more Lan Wangji.” Again, the shorter male spoke.

“Un” the same reply.

Sigh “Why did I even bother to ask you? Right A- yuan?” the shorter male asked the kid holding on tightly to his hand and smile when the kid only looked at him with confusion before he answered.

“Um” was the reply. He beamed at Lan Zhan and was given a small smile in return.

“I swear you guys are just playing with me right?” the shorter was almost red in the face with anger. He sulked and his lips were pouting when they only smile at him, not saying anything.

“Fine. If you wanna play it that way, then I, Wei Wuxian, won’t talk to you guys ever again.” Wei Wuxian released his hands and started to walk away from the teasing duo. Both the kid and Lan Wangji frowned simultaneously when Wei Wuxian walked further away from them.

“Wei Ying.” Lan Wangji called out, but Wei Wuxian only walked faster as if not hearing his calling. Even A-yuan tried calling for him, but was ignored as well. After few seconds of waiting with no reply, A-yuan started crying.

Lan Wangji, not knowing how to calm a crying child, looked on at the back of Wei Wuxian who still did not look back once. He quickly pick A-yuan up hold him in his arm, and started sprinting towards Wei Wuxian. He followed the path Wei Wuxian took, but Lan Wangji did not see him anywhere. Panicked, with A-yuan crying getting louder, and the people around them looking at him with contempt or a weird look, Lan Wangji almost give up looking for Wei Wuxian when said person called out.

“HAHAHAHA, look how out of place you are Lan Zhan!” Lan Wangji turned around at the laugh and release a sigh of relief at seeing Wei Wuxian there, laughing wholeheartedly. Almost immediately A-yuan stopped crying and struggled in Lan Wangji’s arm only to run at full sprint towards Wei Wuxian.

Wei Wuxian scooped A-yuan and calm the kid down. A-yuan was sniffling and muttering words of apologies and begging to Wei Wuxian not to leave him while Wei Wuxian could only laugh at his words.

“I only wanted to buy some snacks for you A-yuan. I could never leave you and Lan Zhan alone.” He assured the small kid. Lan Wangji came up behind him and hug the both of them.

“Don’t ever do that again.” Lan Wangji said in a stern voice. Wei Wuxian looked back at Lan Wangji and nods.

“I would never leave my family alone.” Wei Wuxian promised.

‘Not when I got another chance for us to try again.’ Their thought were left unsaid as they walked back towards their home.

[ctl-yuejie]

Hi there! love your blog and all the educated answers you give! I still don't get where Wei Ying has been for the 16 years he was presumably dead. Was it explained in the drama? because I really didn't get it ! thanks!

heya!!! thank you so much!!!

tbh i watched most of the episodes without subs because i was confidant i could get by the little chinese i know and my knowledge of the novel.

if this is wrong, please correct me, but he was indeed dead i think? my brain is a sieve so take this with a grain of salt but i think reincarnation is a taboo in tv at the moment so they kind of brushed over the whole thing and just had mxy sacrifice his body, which than took on wwx’s likening.

but prior to that, wwx was indeed dead, which is the reason why lwj playing inquiry doesn’t give him an answer!

i hope you can work with this and if i am completely wrong i am sure you find a helpful soul in the comments that patiently types down the right answer while face-palming at my geschreibsel. 

addition by @tonyglowheart

yep he was indeed dead, and he said he didn't know where he was those 16 years (I think same thing in the novel though?)I think how it is that "Mo Xuanyu"s body has Wei Wuxian's appearance was handwaved away without real explanation. It was sort of implied that he looked like Mo Xuanyu at first? or I thought so? Since the ppl of the Mo family definitely saw him without the mask and didn't seem to be like "who tf are you." No real explanation was given, but I guess if you're looking for an in-text explanation, maybe Mo Xuanyu looked like Wei Wuxian? But I also don't think that's likely because that seems like that's something that would have been remarked upon by SOMEONE in the series. I think it's one of those things that are hard to find a good Watsonian explanation for because the reason for it is mostly Doylist: they cast Xiao Zhan in the role so he's the one playing Wei Wuxian/Mo Xuanyu *shrug*

I need to go back and see if there was a further explanation since I saw a screenshot on Tumblr that said something about Lan Wangji playing Inquiry constantly searching for him and not getting any response, so I need to find out if (1) that's actually in the series and (2) what are the parameters of Inquiry

although now that I think of it, we know spirit-capturing pouches exist, and Meng Yao like orchestrated the whole thing in the drama so I wonder if a possible concept is that he purposefully captured Wei Wuxian's spirit and then released it after driving Mo Xuanyu to perform the Sacrificing Spell....or maybe not Meng Yao but the person who orchestrated the whole Mo village thing to reveal the tainted spirit sword and bring the truth about Meng Yao to light

super interesting addition and you will notice anon, that there’s plenty of unsolved mystery in both the novel and the series.

- the timeline of events, ages of characters etc is all over the place at times

- the untamed contains some easter eggs for novel readers/audio drama listeners that go fully unexplained in the series (the brand on lwj’s chest coming to mind)

- fully agree that casting must have played a major role as otherwise they’d have to cast 3 main leads (cause mxy’s and wwx’s body would take up each one half of the show)

- there’s some plot holes in the novel itself and some of it might be down to wwx being a very unreliable narrator: he as no recollection of things or his interpretation of events is twisted to him not having all the facts/ his biased or self-deprecating view of events etc

[clockworkspider]

Reincarnation AU - pt. 14-15

A reincarnation AU where Meng Yao, Wei Ying, Xue Yang, and Nie HuaiSang meet in elementary school. 

Pairings: Mostly friendship, some SangYao, (very) eventual WangXian. Current Chapters: Meng Yao, Wei Ying, Su She, and some very special guests

Start from the beginning

Wei YIng's previous teacher had warned her about him when she saw his name in her attendance list. “He’s a troublemaker,” she had said fondly. So she expected trouble, what she didn’t expect was for the boy to burst into tears the moment their eyes met.

If this was the first day of kindergarten, it would have been natural. If this was the first day of elementary school, perhaps a bit embarrassing…

But this was high school, and Wei Ying was a teenage boy. So it was… alarming, to say the least. The other kids were too stunned to even make fun of him for it.

His friends didn’t seem alarmed though. They patted him on the back and told him congratulations.

When she tried to ask him what’s wrong in her gentlest voice, Wei WuXian studied her for a long time, before bursting into a big smile through his tears, “I’m happy, I’m too happy.”

Okay????

“Don’t mind him,” Xue Yang, the other trouble-maker she was warned about, barked out a laugh, “He’s can get a bit…” He tapped a finger to his temple.

Right...

“That’s not a nice thing to say about your friend, Xue Yang.”

“No, I’m really okay,” Wei Ying insisted, taking some offered tissue from Meng Yao, “I’m okay."

Thus begun the first day of Jiang YanLi’s teaching career.

A similar thing happened when she ran into another student in the hallway. One of Wei Ying’s friends from the other class, Jiang Cheng, if she remembered correctly. Jiang YanLi really doesn’t know what to think of it… but something about these two boys seemed… oddly familiar, not in a bad way.

After that incident, Wei YIng has pretty much been a model student, if not a bit overeager. As a professional and a woman, she really should be more concerned about these kind of things. Fortunately, underneath his jokester behaviour, Wei Ying seem to be a surprisingly mature kid. Neither he nor his friends ever invaded her boundaries.

His friends.

They’re outsiders, all of them. It’s a strange thing to acknowledge, considering there’s quite a number of them, and a few of them quite sociable. Wei Ying himself can probably even be considered popular.

But Jiang YanLi had begun to take notice after a while, the odd detached way they interact with others and amongst themselves. They’re close enough to be considered inseparable (she’s never caught anyone in that circle alone), yet they all seem to maintain careful boundaries.

She asked one of their previous teachers.

“I guess no one told you… A few years ago, Meng Yao was attacked by a parent after school. They don’t travel alone after that. If they try to take washroom breaks together, don’t stop them.”

Jiang YanLi isn’t sure what to make of that either.

“Hey Miss Jiang! I washed the black board for ya! Look, it’s sparkly clean!” Wei WuXian announced with a bright smile. “Did I do good? Do I get an A for this?”

“Uh, excuse you, we’re the ones who did all the work, you aren’t asking for us to have an A instead?” Xue Yang asked, with clean hands and tidy sleeves that suggested he did no work whatsoever.

Meng Yao snickered in exasperation. Nie HuaiSang flopped his body onto his desk.

All she can do is her job, and she’s going to make sure these kids get the best year possible.

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“I don’t know, MinShan,” Meng Yao said to his dog, “do you think Wei Ying is being creepy? Miss Jiang seems okay with it.”

The chihuahua, being a chihuahua, didn’t answer, and trotted on with its little legs in its regular haughty manner. Another voice did.

“Sect Leader Jin…?”

Meng Yao’s head snapped back immediately.

Standing there, face to face, is an actual Su MinShan, though much much older than Jin GuangYao had last seen him.

The chihuahua launched at the elderly man with all its chihuahua strength.

“MinShan! Heel!”

The elderly man looked to Meng Yao, then at the growling dog.

Meng Yao wants to die.

“Um. I can explain.”

Why did he think the dog was Su She???

The man laughed, a bit breathless.

“That’s okay, I’m glad you remembered me...” he trailed off, looking uncertain.

“Meng Yao is fine. It’s good to see you, Min- Mister Su.”

“I-it’s fine, please, call me by my name.”

The dog growls.

“It’s okay, MinShan, he’s a friend,” Meng Yao picked up the dog. He looks to the elder apologetically.

They move to a bench.

“I didn’t think I’d find you in this life,” Su She, the human, finally said.

“I… I’m glad to see you well,” Meng Yao answers, a bit caught off-guard. Despite his age, Su She seemed healthy.

“You look like you’ve been doing well yourself, how has this life been?” Su She asked.

“It’s been good to me,” Meng Yao said, “sometimes I think it’s much too easy compared to the last one, to be honest.” He gives a bit of an awkward laugh. “Listen… I’m not—“

“I know,” She She answers, “me neither.”

“Has it been hard?” Su She asked, “the memories.”

Meng Yao can only nod. “It’s… I’ve met people to share it with. I’ve met Xue Yang.”

“Really? How is he?”

“He’s doing well,” Meng Yao said, “we’re all doing well, I think. How have you been?”

“I’ve also been well, I worked for the government for most of my life, and I’ve retired for a while now. My granddaughter just turned two*.”

“Oh. Congratulations!”

Su She looked to him for a moment, as if wanting to say something, before pursing his lips.

“When I was younger,” he said, slowly, “I spent a few years working in Japan. I… tried to trace down the location of the ancient ports, and found the place we were meant to dock. But I didn’t know where to go from there. Their records only goes two hundred years back. I visited the oldest cemetery, but I didn’t know if you would’ve changed your name.”

“I’m sorry,” Meng Yao said, “he never made it to DongYing.”

The old man gave a shuddering sigh. “That’s okay. I didn’t think he would, but I still wanted to look.” It made sense, the last Su She had seen of Jin GuangYao, he was barely alive. He looked like he wanted to know what came after, but he didn’t dare ask.

“Would you prefer to know?” Meng Yao asked.

“Only what you don’t mind sharing,” Su She answered.

“Jin GuangYao never made it out of the temple.”

Su She went quiet for a long time, before burying his face into his hands. The entire frame of him shook like a leaf with a single, muffled sob.

“I’m sorry,” Meng Yao apologized again, “but he appreciated it, everything that Su MinShan did for him. Thank you.”

“I’m sorry that I couldn’t be here for you, this life,” the old man said.

“You don’t have to,” Meng Yao answered, “you had your own life, I’m sorry you couldn’t live it sooner.”

“That’s okay,” Su She said, “it was my choice.”

Sensing his owner’s mood, the dog attempted to nuzzle and lick at his owner to get his attention, making low whiny noises until he got Meng Yao to smile.

“He’s very cute,” said Su She, the human, extending a hand to pet the dog. The chihuahua growled at him with vehemous hatred in its large beady eyes. Su She retreated his hand, and the dog went back to affectionately licking Meng Yao’s hand.

“I think I can see why you named him after me,” Su She said with a dry laugh.

Meng Yao smiled awkwardly.

They sat in silence for a while.

“Meng Yao,” Su She asked, “have you ever been to Japan?”

Meng Yao shook his head.

“I go there with my daughter every spring. The cherry blossoms are beautiful there. You should go sometime, it’s worth seeing.”

“I think I’d like that,” Meng Yao answered.

-

“If there’s anything I can help you with…"

“Actually, MinShan, there is something you might be able to help me with."

“Please, let me know.”

“Have you ever met Lan WangJi? Wei Ying is looking for him.”

“…I have, actually.”

“!!?”

“It was many, many, years ago, unfortunately.”

“How long ago? Where?”

“It must have been at least 14 years ago. I think I saw him as an infant at the airport. I couldn’t be sure, but… Well… You know how I felt about Han GuangJun in the past-life. I somehow felt certain it was him at that moment.”

“Do you know where he was flying to?”

“I’m sorry. I only saw him at customs, so it must have been an international flight. Maybe his parents were taking him on a trip. I really can’t offer any more help on it.”

“I guess he could technically be anywhere, at this point… Thanks for the help, MinShan.”

“Wei WuXian…” Su She asked,

“He’s a friend,” Meng Yao said with a smile.

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Sometimes in the distant past, at the oldest cemetery of Japan, a single white poeny was left in front of every grave marker with the last name of Jin**.

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Jeremy and Thomas Xie*** believed there was something special about their sons.

As second-generation Chinese-Americans, neither Jeremy or Thomas Xie spoke any Chinese at home. Their sons, Lan Zhan and Lan Huan, were adopted from China during toddlerhood and infancy. The most Chinese the kids were exposed to was when they visited their grandparents.

Yet, when they were at the age of six and eight, the boys started speaking to one another in fluent Chinese. Not standard Mandarin either. A dialect, with an accent neither of them recognized.

“It’s Shanghainese,” their Chinese linguist friend, Ling Wen, pointed out to them.

They could not have learnt that from Chinese class.

When asked, Lan Zhan simply said, “we remembered it."

“From Duolingo,” Lan Huan added, helpfully.

“The app?”

Lan Huan nodded, Lan Zhan looked to his younger brother, and nodded along.

They weren’t very good at lying.

“How did it teach you guys Shanghainese?”

“We just know,” was the most informative answer they got.

-

“You know,” Ling Wen said, "there’s a term called genetic memory, memories present at birth without conscious learning. There are quite a few recorded cases of savants, people who suddenly gained knowledge or skills they’ve never learnt in their life. I’ve never heard of knowing an entire language they’re never exposed to. Perhaps your sons have a gift.”

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*Su She’s granddaughter is Qin Su, but that’s not something Meng Yao needs to know. 

**Technically would be pronounced Kin in Japanese, but Su She is Chinese and I didn’t want to make it confusing. 

***I was going to make Xie Lian and Hua Cheng their parents, but in order to flow with the whole narrative of second-generation parents that barely spoke Chinese, they had to have English names. You can choose to think of them as HuaLian or just random OCs... Incidentally, China actually doesn’t allow adoption from same-sex parents, but laws were a bit lax after a major flood.

Lan Zhan and Lan Huan are not actually genetic siblings, but both lost their parents in the same flood. The fact they end up as siblings again is as much a fated accident as the fact that everyone else happened to meet up in the same elementary school. 

The TGCF cameos are just normal humans here. 

Belated happy birthday to Shijie. 

[jiang-xinfei]

Ok! Great news! Cause I finally have a backstory of jiang-xinfei which is gonna turn into wei-xinfei!

At first I thought being the daughter of wangxian or being the soul inside Stygian seal/yin iron that instead of a normal immortal that doesn't include in politics a-fei was different she turned into an immortal at the age of 18-22 and made the yin iron to sleep in/live in and that because the Yin iron was a powerful spiritual tool that xue chonghai fed resentful energy and xinfei couldn't resist it cause after all she was sealed there and put into sleep and when Stygian seal was created and destroyed although she has still his memories and all her original body turned into 10 yr old child and once the Stygian seal was purified she was able to get out and welp adopted by wangxian in the process.

But I got a better and well angstier ver! And I'm making it! 😃

So me like irl me died by accidentally falling into a pit as to why I'm there? Well I was lost on camping and that wasn't supposed to happen and "god" (heavenly officials) gave me a choice to be reincarnated as wwx older sister! And ofc I said yes cause I'm Overly obsessed by wwx story especially him and I love him(non-romantic) sooo I said yes(yes it is tgcf x mdzs au maybe even svsss idk) and since it a mistake death they gave me a chance to choose one of my belongings to become my spiritual tool and well obviously I chose the phone(in another world with my smartphone ref:)

And this is where it starts

And the process of reincarnation happens the rebirth of "insert name" and the birth of the first born child of the Weis wei-yue courtesy name xinfei and since I'm planning to at least lessen wwx burdens or entirely changing the past the moment wwx was born I spoiled and coddled him like no tmr all I did was for him and well he needed it cause in this world wwx was vulnerable towards resentment because resentment gathers towards him more than spiritual and since were a sanren blood also known as the disciples of balance it literally means everything needs to be balanced we can filter resentment to spiritual, or if were in a place theres no resentment we can filter spiritual to resentment, once the energy is slightly tilted off your life is in danger but not to much to death but slowly and wwx was overflowing of resentment and attracted resentment rather than both so he was always in bed or whenever we travelled he has to stay back or always near cangse, not allowed to walk, play around, and etc. Or he'll pass out

And when wwx was 3 and bedridden and we needed to meet the jiangs(I was 6) wwx stayed behind with only weichangze greeting and leaving right after

Before he left He was about to say that he needed to take care of wwx but I intervene and told jfm that wei-xinfei my younger sister needed father to take care of her since she was very week and was sick,I sent weichangze a wink letting him know I was kidding around(which I was in fact not) and he wanted to reprimand me but I shooed him away and cangse saw the wink and went along

So I introduced myself playfully as wei-ying courtesy wuxian 3 yrs old and a boy and since me and wwx was a splitting image with eachother like twins although I'm 3 yrs older and the same height as wwx and no i am not short wwx is just incredibly tall for his age(I'm sure in the future although I'm shorter than him I'm taller than an average girl) and not to mention I act like him only a bit calm and reserve sometimes but nonetheless I'm a splitting image of him (not that I was acting ofc it's just the fact that I'm reincarnated in the world I love and the mere fact I can lift wwx my favorite character/person his burdens up excited me to the point my hidden personality of causing mischief, pranks,curiosity, cheerful, funny, kind, caring, and self-awareness hidden by that bored lazy doesn't give 2 shits about the world persona that I built up washed away) so yes I'm a splitting image of wwx and also I kinda dressed like a boy especially like wwx does in the future like wearing black and red or anything that is black

(So jfm didn't notice anything when he came to pick wwx up later)

Anyways after all of that it was well known in the world that the youngest child of the Wei family I, Wei-xinfei is a fragile, easily sick, weak at cultivation, in near death kid. Not the genius, powerful core that is even as strong as changze(who although is weak compared to everyone but was still not strong compared to normal cultivators)who accidentally made a spiritual tool like yu ziyuans famous first class spiritual tool zidian by accident 😀in the cultivation world

Wei changze thought it was a bad idea that xinfei was known as weak and etc. But I said I like working in the shadows rather than up front and besides they'll know eventually anyways. So they left it at that and by the age of 8 weichangze and cangse sanren died

But we never went into the streets my plan was to bring us to our grandmasters mountain to train there but me and wwx always ends up late everytime we went there since the entrance of baoshan sanren was at random times it was almost impossible to know where it will open up if not for my phone so since we were always late and since I made/saved upmoney before our parents died with the help of my beautifully crafted toys and accessories we were able to meet ends meet for a year but that it our savings was dried so I made accessories that gives a lot of money and toys to sell to the shops loads of them at the same time thought wwx about balance and selfishness derailed him with it including some selfesness but always reminded him to put himself first before everyone else.

At the 3rd yr (wwx 8 Wei xinfei 11)And the entrance to the spirit mountain was opened at burial Mounds since we we were technically not harmed by resentment we can and also pay respects to our family we can go in with this no problem.

Unfortunately we were too late...

So we came back at the foot of the mountain sold a bunch of the accessories , charms, and toys and stayed for 3 days we sent off our journey we were at the outskirts of yiling when wwx was hit with a concerning fever

And we stopped by a near river to rest and attend to wwx . I left him behind a tree because he can't play in the water when his sick when a dog came and wwx was scared with dogs so he ran away from there with a fever and stopped and he was lost in yilling his head panging he stopped at an alleyway with no dogs and laid down.

While in xinfeis pov she searched for him frantically using whatever she could find with the family navigator it was a fire that glows in ur sub conscious mind to navigate ur blooded family or ur adopted ones although it has its downside if ur balanced just right yin and yang energys u can pinpoint exactly where they are or are they alive while if ur not and ur not balanced and filled with resentment yes u can be assured that the other person is alive the problem is ur sense of direction is clouded because after all resentment is everywhere it can pinpoint a general direction but it was troublesome if ur in a place filled with nothing but resentment while having more spiritual in ur body and not balanced with resentment u can only know there alive nothing is else nothing more there personification is gone in the world to put it simply there spirits and cannot be found though you'll know there very very much alive but that it.

And well yilling is so full of resentment especially with burial Mounds the direction was clouded and the more time went bye I could feel the lost of direction slowly out of earth. Meaning wwx was unconsciously filtering resentment to spiritual energy and his presence was slowly fading in xinfeis mind only seeing the flame brighten more and more. And looked and looked for him but he was never found. Something was getting in between them so they could never meet someone who-no it doesn't want them to meet and it's working it was always there even before like a reminder of what will happen and I just ignored it thinking it was nothing until our parents died it slowly shifted into a warning saying he couldn't stop what will happen and that it was hopeless but he still ignored it now... Now that small warning turned into a threat a threat saying that everything that had happened before will happen again but 100+ worse to both of them. She couldn't ignore it anymore but she couldn't stop it from growing too because she was too weak she can't handle this, this is a new dangerous being that once it's ready it will hunt both of them down growing and waiting in the shadows wanting to use there life, and suffering for amusement. And she hates it. She hates feeling useless but she can't help it.

And since then 3 yrs had passed since xinfei was now 14 and he still couldn't find her little brother she gave up everything about going to their grandmaster learned cultivation herself both resentment and spiritual and kept looking for him she already went to yunmeng but he wasn't there gusu, nie, lan, Jin anywhere he wasn't there or more specifically the thing his wwx his yingying from her... The only thing that she's still grabbing the hope too is the flame that was stronger than ever but thats it.

At the fourth year she came back to yilling just one chance and goes to the alleyway wwx was going to be picked up by yunmeng but... He wasn't there... Nothing was there... No life that indicated someone was living there... She... She changed the past... Again... And she didn't have any control of it... And it scared her... That somehow her existence here made everything worse... That somehow she was at fault... And that broke her she cried and cried in that alleyway didn't acre what the people looks sent to her. She just cried and cried.. .

And then a hand reached out to her.

It was the one and only legendary baoshan sanren the mother of her mom, her other family that is alive and well aside a-ying, her grand master, there grandmother...

Lol I might make another one but I'm really sleepy and shit I'll just finish this later as a head canon style or prompt style idc anyways bye!