#wwx parents are alive bc i want to

[bnnywngs]

"mom, i'm home and brought lan zhan to do homework with me!" wei ying yelled as soon as he opened the door to their cramped apartment.

"welcome, sweetheart!" cangse sanren yelled back, waving a red stained spatula to the boys "are you staying for dinner tonight, a-zhan?"

a door opened somewhere inside the corridor and footsteps could be heard.

"yes, if i can?" lan zhan bowed as politely as he always were.

"gege!" a soft, happy voice exclaimed, before a body crashed into wei ying's back.

"a-yu! you're home already?" wei ying laughed, turning his face enough to boop his brother's head with his own forehead.

"yep! got our early today because i wanted to see gege~"

"xuanyu." lan zhan greeted the younger one.

the boy only glared at him with a disgusted expression.

"are you a kid?" wei ying laughed and tapped the arms around him "let gege go, i want to clean my bedroom a bit before lan zhan goes there. wait here, lan zhan, i'll call you."

"hm." lan zhan nodded.

xuanyu smiled brightly at his brother, asking if he needed help and being asked to keep their guest company. but, as soon as wei ying turned his back to them and walked further inside the apartment, xuanyu dropped his happy face so quickly it was almost scary, straight up glaring at lan zhan.

"go away, you pest." the boy said.

lan zhan sighed, already used to this.

"wei ying wants me here."

xuanyu glared even harder, sneering, but before he could say anything, a hand chopped his head quite hard.

"your brocon is too much." cangse sanren said with a loud sigh "leave your brother's boyfriend alone."

lan zhan bowed to the woman with respect, and took a package from his bag "uncle sent this."

"oh, my! you shouldn't have! but thank you anyway,~!" cangse sanren pinched lan zhan's cheek and went back to the kitchen with the package and her youngest "have fun with a-ying! and let the door open!"

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

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1. Hi! I’m looking for a fic I read on AO3, I don’t remember anything really more than that there was some kind of big entity in a town which noone but Wei Ying could see? The other character’s would be like ”nothing is wrong with this town :-)”. Thankful for help! Have a nice day and thank you for your work <3

#1, can u ask the requestor is Wei ying lived at the edge of the woods/forest ??

FOUND! Not What We May Be by brooklinegirl (E, 29k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Mutual Pining, Bedsharing, casefic, Hurt/Comfort) though its not only wwx who sees it. Great fic.

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2. Hello! I'm trying to find a fic where LWJ was cursed/blessed by his mom with a truth spell for LWJ's safety? It's not really the typical, your average "I speak the truth" one, but it's how LWJ can hear lies in the form of sounds that only he can hear! If i remember correctly, LXC knows about it and asked NMJ (blunt truths) and NHS (white lies) to help him control it. There's also scenes where he's stumped because WWX almost always speak the truth (thus making no lie detector sound for LWJ — which boggles him so much because no one always speak the whole truths even in CR — except the couple of times when he was speaking about his time in Lotus Pier). Thank you! (I'm pretty sure this is a fic by @i-like-plan-m but I can't remember the name rn 😅 - Mod C)

FOUND! in the shadow of moonlit flowers by Reverie (cl410) (T, 48k, wangxian, LXC/NMJ, cloud recesses, NHS & LWJ friendship, developing relationship, LWJ pov, minor injuries, autistic LWJ, implied/referenced child abuse, aka YZY warning, genius WWX, light angst, hurt/comfort, WWX protection squad, WIP) this one perhaps?

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3. hi i’ve been looking for a fic that i read a while ago but can’t remember what it’s called. Basically WWX is hired by LWJ for company/sex and he’s kinda like a sugar baby and stays at his house a lot. LWJ is a rich lan and both end up having feelings for eachother but bc LWJ started basically as WWXs client of sorts there’s some confusion. I remember at one point WWX gets sick and lets LWJ come to his house which he usually wouldn’t do with past clients and LWJ helps him shower and there’s a line where he talks abt the intimacy of letting LWJ wash his crotch (pretty sure he lives w wen qing) Then i think LWJ takes WWX to like new york or something on a work trip

these were the only things i could remember lol @st3wartladle​

FOUND? The Sugar Daddy AU Series by vesna (mrsronweasley) (E, 106k, wangxian, modern, sugar daddy, sex work, dom/sub, aftercare, semi-public sex, exhibitionism, bondage, boundary setting, relationship negotiation) specifically the first part A Sure Thing

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4. Hi! For the fic finder, two fics I enjoyed but apparently failed to bookmark, and now cannot find back...

A) Complete, medium length: Lan Zhan steps into the path of Wen Zhuliu coming for Wei Ying, loses his golden core. Afterwards, he tells no one but goes into seclusion. WWX is fine, and eventually comes to visit in Gusu. LWJ is reclusive as he is not a cultivator anymore (so he grows old faster than WWX), but they still build a connection. No solution for the golden core, just dealing with the new facts of life for LWJ, and building back some hope.

B) Similar in vibes, also complete: WWX travels to an alternative universe, where JC died and WWX is somehow the Jiang Sect Leader. He meets LWJ at a conference. The new universes' WWX was not friends with LWJ. LWJ's leg was still broken after the Wen Indoctrination and never healed, so LWJ is wheelchair bound (pushed by Jingyi). WWX builds up a friendship with LWJ but I think in the end he goes back to his own universe. This one sounds like that one fic where the theme was something like 'be careful what you wish for', iirc WWX wanted to see either his parents or JYL alive 🤔 ~Mod L

Any help would be much appreciated! As well as any other dimension travel recs anyone has. Thanks again for this wonderful blog! @vasterthanempires

I found 4A myself! It was love some littler things by shipyrds

4B remains elusive, although the comments so far seem to refer to the same fic. still looking for it!

4A)

FOUND! love some littler things by shipyrds (G, 17k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Angst, LWJ Loses His Golden Core, Canon Divergence, No Golden Core Transfer, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst with a Hopeful Ending, Disability)

4B I have read but also cannot recall! Additional details, it was an alternate dimension talisman WWX created, and when he leaves any changes he might have cause are erased but somehow wheelchair!LZ starts an actual friendship with local!WWX? not sure if it was a bonus chapter or an endnote but I recall I was happy that it was a hair ending for both sets...

4B)

FOUND? empty as the sky by incendir (T, 23k, wangxian, JYL & WWX, CSSR & WWX, be careful what you wish for)

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5. Howdy fine folks of the internet! I'm looking for a Twitter thread fic that disappeared from my bookmarks during some twitter turmoil, if any of yall can help. It was a modern au where wwx got kicked out of the Jiang home and stayed in a shed on school property while using the school showers and eating leftovers from the cafeteria overnight, until lqr, lxc, and nmj catch him. It had some really great depictions of panic attacks and I want back. Thanks

FOUND! Where is home? by SpicyRamen_10969 (M, 16k, wangxian, modern, high school au, implied/referenced child abuse, implied/referenced homophobia, coming out, not Jiang family friendly, supportive LQR, good sibling LXC, fluff, angst w happy ending, WIP)

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6. Hi, I'm looking for a fic where lan xichen had harsh realization of his wrong doing by supporting jin guangyao. (If this is actually an Itmf let me know and I will move it - Mod C)

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7. Hi, I've been trying to find this wangxian fic so badly. Like canon divergence lan xichen notices that wei ying likes lan zhan during cloud reases arc and starts convincing his teachers to change their style for him and his ADHD Genius and teach him about his own self worth so as to steal him away from Jiang sect. Like Jiang chan has an argument where Wei Ying finally stands up to him and it's so good. Think its ABO, dont remember. Please help

FOUND? might be 💖 Hoards and treasures by apathyinreverie (T, 21k, WangXian, Siblings, Family, not particularly Jiang friendly, YZY Bashing, slightly darker Gusu Lans, LXC being the best brother, Some manipulation, But with the best of intentions, and not between wangxian, Dragon LWJ, Fox WWX, Smitten LWJ, Fluff, perfect happiness, adorable WWX, Romance, Some worldbuilding, courting) although it's FoxWWX and DragonLans not A/B/O

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8. Hello <3 I'm looking for a modern AU fic where Lan Wangji contracts Mo Xuanyu as a companion for the night but mistakes him for Wei Wuxian in the hotel they would meet up. So they spend the whole night together and the chemistry is off the charts until Mo Xuanyu sends him a message later (or in the morning after, I can't exactly remember) saying that he never showed up. Lan Wangji tells Wei Wuxian about the misunderstanding and Wei Ying, who was thrilled with his attention, gets pretty hurt and they end things pretty tense. I remember that it's the anniversary of the passing of his mother or her anniversary, and Lan Wangji didn't want to spend it alone. After he explains that to Wei Ying, they try giving their date another chance. That's all I remember for sure that happens, I hope these details are enough!

FOUND! Many happy returns. by orange_crushed (E, 25k, WangXian, Modern AU, Mistaken Identity, Misunderstandings, Grief/Mourning, Loss of Parent(s), Implied/Referenced Suicide, Past Suicide of a Parent, References to Depression, Anxiety, Therapy, References to Anti-Depressant Medications, Escort Service, Loneliness, Everybody’s Abandonment Issues, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, Domestic Fluff, Moving In Together, Oral Sex, Penetrative Sex, Hopeful Ending, Recovery, References to Escorting/Sex Work but No Actual Escorting/Sex Work)  

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9. I need help on finding a fic. It's about how wei wuxian created his own sect from a past syndicate movements, he transformed it into a merchant/shops/silk road or something similar. He never went with the jiangs or any sects. When he was still on the streets he got betrayed by an "esteemed" cultivator because of false accusations (vendor told the cultivator that he caught wei wuxian stealing from him, but in actuality wei wuxian was at the wrong place at the wrong time), it was another kid that stole a toy from a merchant, if I'm not wrong. He was also a part of an illegal underground fights where he "won the bet" against the strongest fighter. He's also claimed by wen qing to be the killer of a murder because the only one who knows around needles is herself, and she met wei wuxian and taught him the arts of needles. There's also a wei wuxian - xue yang connection by said syndicate because the chang sect was a part of it.

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10. hi! i was wondering if you could help me find this one fanfic that i can't for the love of me remember at all!!!

the details are a bit hazy, but basically burial mounds era something happens that fucks up wei wuxian mentally and physically and he starts dreaming about things in the future,,,, meanwhile the whole jianghu is plunged into chaos with disasters and that one specific bird thing.

i think there was one time wei wuxian did a "no shit serlock!" joke but then said "oh wait, wrong timeline."

FOUND? To Ride A Stygian Tiger by Madyamisam (M, 93k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel, Angst with a happy ending, BAMF WWX, Dark LWJ, Slow burn, Family Feels, Misunderstandings)

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11. hwoooooo! :D back at it again with the asks, thank you so much for your services to the community!

im looking for a time travel fic for my bff!

it's in Lwj's pov in which he dreams about an older version of him, who tells him to treat wei ying kindly, and how the future lwj's world is completely frozen as a result of his sacrifice in order to safe a different timeline.

Future Lwj gets a happy ending in the last chapter!

FOUND? 💖 Looking at You Always, All Ways by Keysmashed T, 29k, wangxian, time travel fix-it, fluff, nostalgia, mild angst w/ happy ending)

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12. hi! i'm looking for a fic where there was quarantine and wangxian went to stay at the family house (it was so big like a mansion or an apartment i don't really remember).

remember a scene where jingyi was having a panic attack (?) and wei ying came to calm him down. they were at the balcony. i think they were adopting jingyi.

i don't know if it is finished or deleted.

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13. hello!! i hope y’all are doing well ☺️ the fic I’m looking for was definitely on ao3 but idk if it got deleted or I just can’t find it again but here’s what I remember

1) Wei wuxian died taking the arrows to save jin zixuan’s life. Initially people celebrated until the (sentient) burial mounds retaliated and destroyed most of the jin sect and people started panicking and trying to bring back wwx (jin zixuan, jin ling, and Jiang yanli all live)

2) parts of Wei wuxian’s diary was scattered amongst the cultivation world and Jin ling buys the pages and develops a sort of parasocial relationship w his dead uncle who he idolizes based on the image he creates of him thru wwx’s writing

3) i think one of the latest updates (it wasn’t finished when I read it) is wwx coming back as Mo xuanyu and running into jin ling and jiang cheng who recognize him.

Im pretty sure the wens are alive as well (not 100% tho). If this rings any bells please let me know - I’ve seriously looked for this for a solid couple of weeks and I loved it a lot 😭 thank you!! 💓

FOUND? To Be Named by Suibian_613 (T, 18k, WIP, WangXian, XuanLi, Canon Divergence, WQ is out of character, Everyone is probably ooc, canonical violence, Canonical Character Death, Somewhat Sentient Burial Mounds)

FOUND? I shall pay for all your sorrows by MidnightLightHowlite (G, 3k, JZX & WWX, XuanLi, angst with bitter ending)

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14. A fanfic where Wei Wuxian is found by Lan Qiren as he saves him from something and then faints. It’s a modern AU, Lan Qiren takes him to the hospital and later they learn that he has fits and he becomes a teacher at the school. Lan Zhan and he marries later on and adopts Wen Yuan from an orphanage run by Wen Qing and Wen Ning. @hebbbb

FOUND? Against Entropy by Duochanfan (M, 40k, WangXian, NieLan, Modern AU, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, of an underaged character, Amnesia, Drama, Romance, Family Feels, Hurt WWX, Older JC, Homelessness, Angst with a Happy Ending, Protective LWJ, Protective LXC, Supportive LXC, Protective NMJ, Supportive LQR)

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15. Hi I want to ask is there a wangxian fanfiction where lan zhan is a prince and wei wuxian is a huli jing and becomes his consort by forced marriage but instead wei ying is against this loveless marriage and so everytime they sleep it's always hate s£× until he gets preg and gives birth to a yuan and tries his best to give him love until he dies protecting a yuan from a wen attack and that day he realises wangji actually loved him dies and gets reincarnated and tries to fix things @random-online-reader

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16. Hi there! I am looking for a fic that takes place during the war against the wens and mo xuanyu does the self sacrifice to summon wwx who is thought to project himself as his original form, but (SPOILERS) he is immortal and lwj is the reincarnation of his lover. Baoshan Sanren also makes an appearance after the last stand against wen ruohan

FOUND? Old Foreshadows by protos_metazu_ison (M, 15k, WangXian, YLLZ WWX, BAMF WWX, War, Universe Alteration, Sunshot Campaign, Rated For Violence, Timeline What Timeline)

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17. Hello, can you help me find a fic?

Generally, all I remember was that WWX went back to the past (Studying at GusuLan Arc) after dying during the Burial Mound Siege. He was so traumatized over it that he has decided he does not want anything to do with the cultivation world anymore. His personality changed (from cheerful to downright depressed, from lively to soulless) so much that everyone began to notice and wondered what was up.

However, I remember a scene which pushed him to flee Gusu. He was walking and listening as NHS talked and talked trying to get him back to his old personality. They met NMJ on the way. WWX on pilot mode said that he (NMJ) has heart demons and without ado removed the resentful energy lingering inside NMJ. This shocked the Nie brothers, the Twin jades and JC (the latter two having just arrived and witnessed WWX manipulating resentful energy).

WWX obviously panicked, packed his belongings and flees from GusuLan because he thought they would kill him again due to his manipulation of resentful energy.

Please help me find this fic. I've been searching the web for weeks. Sadly, my browser history was disabled at that time and I don't remember the title. @heratheslytherinqueen

FOUND? Possible Works 2 - Numb by Hauntcats (M, 6k, wangxian, angst w happy ending, unhappy WWX, time travel fix-it)

FOUND? Without end by barisan (M, 70k, wangxian, major character death, time travel, suicide attempt, hurt/comfort, depressed WWX, protective LWJ, good uncle LQR, bad parents JFM & YZY, not YZY & JFM & Jiang friendly, implied/referenced child abuse & self harm, BAMF WWX, WIP)

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18. So there was this fic in which wei wuxian modified nei huaisang's fan or something like that so it can be used as a weapon while in CR and also at some point nmj wrote a letter thanking him and asking him what he would like as payment but wwx replied that it was a gift for a friend

I don't think this was a major plot point of the story though. Thanks

FOUND? Eyes Wide Shut by Netrixie (T, 65k, LXC/NMJ, wangxian, canon divergence, no sunshot, everyone lives au, enemies to friends to lovers, identity porn, mistaken identity, misunderstanding, slow burn) when I read that I immediately thought of this fic just bc it sounds so similar, but it's lxc that gives nhs the fan, and nmj gets mad at lxc for it. and also it's nielan. maybe this is what you're looking for?

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19. Hi again! I'm in need of help for finding a fic that I forgot to bookmark AGAIN🥹

How i remember it, It's how WWX died and get "resurrected" as a ghost thing by another character (could be Hua Cheng, could be Luo Binghe idk they definitely wore robes with the color red and black lol). So WWX started chatting with his "savior" and they told him that he can grow powerful by eating other demons in the BM(?) But as he grew powerful, he also shapeshifted as a white tiger for a while because he needs to hunt to maintain his human form, and by doing so he needs a lot of demon meat so he needs to catch food with his tiger form a lot (I'm kinda confusing myself if WWX started as a tiger from beginning or not, but it definitely involves him as a ghost/tiger!)

Other details that I kinda remember: 1) he re-introduced himself to the cultivation world as "Wei Wuqian" or something similar, he thought it was funny 2) nearby people who lived around the place WWX would hunt depicted him as a guardian/god and would gift him some spicy meat as prayers 3) said people would defend him when cultivators were trying to hunt this weirdly nice, babysitting as a secondary job, only likes his meat spicy tiger kitty that they call "evil spirit, dangerous and needs to be gone" 4) I think he has white hair but can change to black, it could be somewhat glowing hair but I'm not sure about this detail 5) LWJ definitely tried the "give big kitty spice and he'll play nice" trick he got from the village people to see if it was a malevolent ghost or not 6) tiger!WWX had been written eating a corpse in the fic at least once

FOUND? Wuqian, the Local God of Yiling by Grace_ShadowWolf (TaubeLePigeon) (M, 77k, wangxian, WWX & LSZ & LWJ, major character death, canon divergence, angst w/ happy ending, god WWX, Chinese mythology & folklore, pining, temporary character death, WIP)

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20. Hi, I'm looking for the the story I've read before. I think it's about Wuxian are cursed to feel pain each time Jiang Wanyin close to him at Cloud recesses. It's kinda Jiang Wanyin bashing. I think Wei Wuxian took the cursed meant for Lan Wangji.

FOUND? I’ll Take the Path of Thorns by Admiranda (G, 6k, wangxian, cloud recesses study era, curses, not JC friendly, clever WWX, baby wangxian)

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[piosplayhouse]

Au where transfem Jiang Cheng gets her egg cracked by drag queen Wei Wuxian dressing her up for shits and giggles as a prank

Imagining this in an au where everyone is like late 30s- early 40s -- cssr and wcz are alive (and they do crazy genderplay shit every day well into their 60s ok) so JC and jyl and wwx are just close childhood friends. wwx came out as bi in his teens to very supportive parents, but gets looked at weird by the mildly homophobic Jiang parents after that, leading to wwx and jc spending most of their time together skipping school and slipping out by paying NHS to cover for them.

Eventually Jc makes it thru high school and uni as a business major and makes it up the company ranks. her parents are happy that she's "normal" unlike wwx , who majored in theater and became a drag queen during uni, but JC still feels distinctly unfulfilled in typical JC fashion. Wwx and JC end up losing contact for a while just bc of adult things, wwx and lwj get married, JC becomes increasingly a workaholic, jyl has jl, y'know. Eventually wwx finds out JC is going to be in NYC at the same time he's doing a show so he invites her over for drinks to catch up and she doesn't rlly have a reason to decline (jyl has been to all of wwx's plays and always gushes to JC about how amazing they are and how she should come sometimes).

JC doesn't realize it's a drag show at first until she gets there and is kind of ruffled about it at first but stays out of pride and bc she doesn't betray promises. Wwx invites her backstage after and they have a little banter as he dresses down ("Wow, Jiang Cheng! Look at you, uni really paid off huh? All dressed up in that fancy suit for lil ol me?!" "And I see uni made you... A transvestite..?" "Yep!!!") and then they have a few drinks. While tipsy JC gets dared into getting a drag makeover courtesy of wwx, on honor of her manhood (hahaha).

When she gets all dressed up and looks in the mirror she gets all quiet and feels like the world stops. It's like there's no wwx, no dressing room, no show. Just her and a bold red lip and mascara and a long silky black wig and the realization that for all those times she'd stared in the mirror hating herself before she'd wanted to see this. This face staring back at her.

Wwx gets kind of nervous like 'uhh JC I can take it off if you're not cool with it haha, it's ok if you're not like even tho lwj doesn't mind the crossdressing he's not really into the heavy makeup and such so I get it and' and JC is like. I have to leave immediately.

And so begins a long overdue process of JC trying to find herself after always just finding what other people wanted of her

[llycaons]

oh I never posted about the fic I read that was like...kind of weird and transphobic. so it was tagged trans lwj which I was like cool and it referred to him exclusively with he/him pronouns and there was some like sexy ghost activity going on bc in this one wwx died in the xuanwu cave then returned as a ghost king and it was supposed to be about grief I think but wwx was just so confident the entire time and pleased with himself for being alive again so lwj was sad for a while but he got better and I was like when is wwx going to sound like his canon self?? I love the ruthlessness and power but he's got so many issues around vulnerability and being loved and feeling guilty and not prioritizing his own well-being but this wwx was just really suave and smooth and sexy and there was no issue with DC I guess oh and jc was like a great sect leader and he and wq were implied to maybe have a thing which. okay! there were a lot of tgcf references so I guess op was modelling him after hc a bit which SUCKS but anyway he called lwj his wife like multiple times and I was like okay this is weird maybe and then this is in the author notes

trans lwj/trans mc; lan wangji has a pussy. whether he's trans or not is never touched on. take it as you will

????? okay OH but the most insane thing was that there was a pregnancy fetish going on and lwj was like almost immediately ohh I want to have his kid it'll be so hot and it'll make my uncle SO mad to see me showing so he's like yess get me pregnant and that's the ABSOLUTE extent of the thought that goes into it??? he's just like yes I do want a child right now it'll be so hot. omg. no other consideration that would go into raising a child or being a parent or anything like that. it was such a strange fic

[dustyf0x]

Ok so this is a universe where alpha women and omega men exist but they’re largely considered to be infertile and sort of a biological mistake haha (bro you fools it’s for population control you absolute idiots) ok so wwx is an omega and basically somehow during their time in cloud recesses stuff gets tweaked just a bit and he and lwj end up having sex oops and wwx ends up getting pregnant

We don’t see this scene at first, it’s mostly implied but we should work in a flashback at some point and show it in detail (especially if it’s late enough that we’re really craving a sex scene but not so late that wwx and lwj’s relationship has developed enough for them to have sex (again)

Anyway, we jump in as wwx is leaving the cloud recesses and disappearing into the night bc having premarital sex is like the greatest shame he could bring upon his own sect and also lwj so he becomes a peasant once more 

We see flashes as he travels around

Might fudge with the timeline a little idk

Anyway, we see flashes as he travels around. As he gets further along in his pregnancy more and more people start assuming he’s a woman bc he’s so pretty and obviously there’s no such thing as a pregnant male omega and if he was seen as a mpreg obviously that would get a lot of attention so he starts dressing in the feminine style of robes and such 

Obviously you shouldn’t night hunt while pregnant- no one wants a haunted baby- but wwx can’t be stopped so he keeps doing it anyway against his better judgment and he sort of gets famous/ rumors start going around about that incredibly skilled and charming pregnant cultivator.

He ends up giving birth on the road, totally alone cue whump 

Shot where he’s curled up leaning against a tree fast asleep cradling his newborn in his arms

Oh maybe when A-Yuan is first born he’s not breathing and wwx has to spark life into him

It feels weird writing wwx out of the cave scene and such but I can’t really justify him showing up until the jiang clan gets decimated 

Maybe a scene where wwx almost bumps into lwj on a night hunt haha

Maybe ch2 is sort of shenanigans where wwx is traveling around and still night hunting even with a baby on his hip

So I guess continuing his fame as a crazy cultivator/ disguised as female

Also almost bumping into jiang cheng or actually bumping into nie huisang could be fun

He hears about what happened at the wen archery thing

Or that- yeah that just gets cut out

But he does hear about theeeeeee idk what it’s called but where all of the babies were held hostage 

I think we don’t see that on screen though I think we jump right into jiang cheng’s perspective post lotus pier burning running into wwx and somehow it’s alluded to

Like wwx heard that lotus pier burned and rushed to check it out (omg he would be so certain that he would find jiang cheng and jiang Yanli’s bodies and like he didn’t want to see them but also asldfjcsdbhj like unable to stop himself or desperately needed to or like there was this sick need in him pulling him there as if he was possessed 

Anyway

So like off hand comment as that’s being explained like “He definitely wasn’t in yunmeng in the first place bc he had heard the rumors about what had happened @ the wen archery thing”

Anyway it’ll be super fun bc the readers will be like “What the fuck happened to A-yuan” but it will be from jiang cheng’s perspective who doesn’t even know A-Yuan exists and doesn’t know anything is wrong

Wwx gets Jiang Cheng out of there and like there should be some amount of like,,, jiang cheng is pissed bc wwx has just been gone for like 3 years now and Jiang Cheng just didn’t know where he was or if he was even alive and he’s missed him so dearly and also been so worried and is pissed that wwx has been alive this whole time and just chose not to be there and also is super pissed that he finally has his brother back but it has cost him the lives of his parents and his entire sect.

Oh he’s definitely like crying pissed about how if Wwx had just been there he could have stopped all this from happening

Anyway, great news, Yanli is still alive and they can and should meet up with her asap

Bad news, Wwx needs to make a pit stop to grab A-Yuan from wherever he’s hidden him but Jiang Cheng doesn’t know that so he’s absolutely livid (What could possibly be more important than meeting up with Yanli right now of all times) but Wwx will not be budged and is just like “Hey, you’re welcome to go on without me” and Jiang Cheng is like “Fuck you, as if I would let you leave my sight again.”

Ok so I’m thinking that wwx paid a prostitute to look over his kid bc hey, brothels always have kids around, and looking after one more for a little extra cash is no hard sell

Anyway so the result is Jiang Cheng is like “YOU TOOK A DETOUR FROM MEETING UP WITH A-LI TO VISIT A BROTHEL???” and wwx is like “Ahhh, Jiang Cheng, you’re so loud. It’s fine it’s fine” and then goes in and comes out WITH A BABY??

And Jiang Cheng is like ???? what the fuck

Whose baby is that

“I found him growing in a patch of turnips and he was so cute I just had to scoop him up for myself! Isn’t that right A-Yuan?” A-Yuan nods eagerly

Wwx introduces Jiang Cheng to A-Yuan “This is your Shushu. Can you say ‘Hi?’”

“Hi Shushu!”

Jiang Cheng is still acting pissed but secretly his heart is melting lmao. Absolutely in love with his new nephew even though he doesn’t realize it actually is his nephew.

[watchingthingz]

I can’t get the image of wwx singing little A-Yuan Safe & Sound after he wakes up from a nightmare

[plan-d-to-i]

I just saw the weirdest ask about the gc reveal. It insinuated that WN didn't yell at JC because he had it coming but bc "WN can condone really dubious things if they're done by WWX," and that "WWX has also done bad things to WN but chooses to live in denial so that he doesn't need to face the consequences of his actions." And that WN only lets it slide bc it was done by WWX. Like, what story did you read/watch/hear about bc it's not the same one I did.

Lol ofc jc stans would go after Wen Ning. They hate Wen Ning bc he threw a beautiful dose of truth right in jc's bratty, ungrateful face. Not to mention the way they infantilize him to try & discredit his opinions.

As far as I'm concerned Wen Ning can kill jc if he wants to. After all the only reason jiang cheng is alive is because Wen Ning saved him. Without him, jc wouldn't have his life, wouldn't have Zidian, wouldn't even have the ashes of his parents. Something jc certainly doesn't think about when he's throwing his little tantrum by the ancestral hall. Just like he didn't think about it when strategized and led the siege to kill everyone Wen Ning had left. When he didn't open his mouth to talk about what Wen Ning and his sister had done for him. If anything Wen Ning saw first hand how good WWX is. How WWX took the time to treat a total stranger like him, from a competing clan with kindness and civility. How he did everything to try and bring him back. How he always treated him with the same empathy he would show a live person after he died. How he never schemed to take his mind or free will away from him the way Xue Yang did with his puppets.

"Right as he turned around, Wen Ning kneeled before him.

“What are you doing?” Wei Wuxian asked.

Wen Ning said nothing, hanging his head.

“Do you have to speak to me this way?” Wei Wuxian said.

“Young Master, I’m sorry,” Wen Ning said quietly.

“Fine.”

As the word left Wei Wuxian’s lips, he also knelt in front of Wen Ning. Startled, Wen Ning hastily kowtowed to him, and Wei Wuxian promptly kowtowed in return too. Wen Ning immediately leapt up in alarm. Only then did Wei Wuxian stand back up.

“Can’t you stand straight while talking to me from the start, like you are now?” he said, dusting off his clothing." (Chapter 44).

Honestly ppl can go squat in another fandom if they have to keep inventing things in this one because they're too lame to stan their fav as he is. jc is a shitty, ungrateful asshole. Constantly trying to bring other characters down isn't going to change that. They're mad Wen Ning is such a sharp contrast to jiang cheng. Wen Ning doesn't look for ulterior motives to all of WWX's kind or heroic actions because he's good himself. He realized what a rare person Wei Wuxian is right away, and met it with appreciation and loyalty instead of envy and resentment.

[wangxianficrecs]

FIc Finder

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1. Hey Mojo! All kneels before your greatness! [heeheehee] I was looking for a fic, it was like VERY long. Probably 500k. It was a canon divergence where Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze live but cangse is paralysed(?) from waist down. And the three went live at Lotus Pier. I also remember that cangse and madam Yu became sworn sisters at some point. Thank you in advance❤️

FOUND!  Building a home by R95irth (G, 586k, wei parents, jiang parents, wangxian

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2. Hi, i just wanted to ask if anyone could tell me a fic where (a modern) wei wuxian and 20ish other characters ( inc JC, NMJ, NHS, and LWJ) were dropped into a ice world where these snowmen were hunting them and it was some weird tv broadcast death/adventure show, in the past before the fic started they had kidnapped other people Inc Mo Xuanyu and they had all died in a previous version of the show people didn't realize was live

FOUND!   and from our own/live to ourselves by betweentheheavesofstorm (m, 75K, WANGXIAN, wip)

NOT!   and so my heart beats wildly by lily_winterwood (E, 106k, wangxian, my post)

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3. Hello! I was wondering if your find a fic is still open? (New to the blog and really love your stuff btw!) [Fic Finder is a regular thing, usually about 1x/week] I was hoping if you could help find this fic in which Wei Wuxian was kinda su*cidal and Lan Qiren saw his arms with signs of it was like 'Oh no not again, Brother! ' cause madam Lan was apperantly kinda suicidal in that fic too? Qingheng jun was also there and helped Qiren take WWX to cloud recesses where they have a sort of mental facility hidden away? (sorry for my bad english this is my first time doing this > < ) [Your english is fantastic!]

FOUND!  Silent Goodbyes Taste Bitter by Starlight1395 (not rated, 26k, wangxian)

FOUND!  We Can See a New Start by preciousbunnynoiz (M, 128k, wangxian, xicheng)  - I think they were describing a scene that starts halfway through chapter 33 ending in 34 or so.

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4. Hi! I’ve been looking for a wangxian fanfic wherein lan zhan is gravely injured and lan xichen becomes angry with wei wuxian. Lxc brings lz to lanling for him to heal, but told wwx that lan zhan died. So wwx became depressed about it and realized his feelings, then he discovered months later that lan zhan is still alive. Pls help me look for it, if you know it! 😭😭😭 I can’t find it on ao3, and I deleted my downloaded copy accidentally! Would appreciate the help. Thank you so much!

FOUND!  bloom into the ground by tattletold (M, 58k, wangxian, my post)

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5. Hey Mojo! First of all, I love this blog so much. I use it constantly to get my wangxian fix! [Ah, thank you!] I was hoping you or someone could help me find a fic! I remember it's a modern gender bent AU, where Wei Ying ends up moving in with Lan Zhan? And they're university students? I remember specifics like Lan Zhan leaving her door open for Wei Ying to come in an cuddle, and Jiang Cheng ending up yelling at Wei Ying in a park? Thanks for the help! ~ @ohbrilliant-1​

FOUND!   And they were roommates... by harriet_vane (M, 41k, wangxian)

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6. Hi I was hoping that you could help me find a fic!! I remember that it was a modern au and wwx and lwj dated in high school but then broke up afterward. Wwx was broke in college but started a fashion channel on YouTube which blew up and now he’s kinda rich and part of the fashion community. He comes back to his home town for a reunion or smth and lwj is so happy about it and they manage to talk during the reunion. Lwj ends up kissing wwx but then wen chao walks in on them and accuses wwx of stealing his date bc lwj was forced to go to the party with wc. Everyone hears and gets mad at wwx, who gets pissed at lwj before running off. When Nhs finds out he chastised lwj for being an idiot. Uhh that’s all I remember! I think it was only a few chapters in when I read it tho…. Any help would be much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏

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7. Hey Mojo! I love your blog and thank you so much for doing this!! [you're welcome!] I was looking for this fic which has lan Zhan marrying wei Ying (I don't remember if that's the whole fucking or just a part of it) and he has lwj has to do all these tasks. One of the tasks had the end result of let finding a small vial in the bell of the youngest disciple of the jiang sect which it turned out every disciple had. And the last task turned out that lwj had to fight jyl, jc, and jfm I think. Thanks!

FOUND!   Let's Switch Spots by Cinder46231 (G, 13k, wangxian)

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8. Hey Mojo! I am looking for a fic where Jin Ling grows up with the ghosts of the wen remnants in lotus pier. I think it had a sentence somewhere along the lines of wwx was hated by the whole world except the people of lotus pier (and maybe JC) cause they remembered the young smiling boy.

FOUND?  Could be a mashup of these two, one with Wen ghosts kind of commenting on all the living and nurturing the juniors; and the other with WWX as the smiling boy in ghost echoes.

like the setting sun by silversshadow (T, 60k, wangxian, my post)

❤️scatter and sunder by silversshadow (T, 16k, wangxian, my post)

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9. Hi wonderful mojo! Thanks so much for all you do. Could you please help me find a fic where lwj leaves the Lans cuz lxc is gonna give A-Yuan over to the Jins and he winds up in Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen's sect? LXC is v regretful and constantly trying to make amends. I THINK it's a WIP but I'm not sure.

FOUND!   You in me, you are mine, my everything by BriaPia (M, 25k, wangxian)

NOT  ❤️And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Glitterbombshell (T, 24k, wangxian, WIP, my bookmark) -  has lxc deciding to hand over a-yuan to the jins part and lwj running away part but not that sect of song lan and xiao xinchen part

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10. Hey Momjo, I love your blog so much and I have fun reading all the fics that you post, Is there a way you can find this fic for me , it about that Wei ying created like a time machine and ayuan uses it and goes back to the future as a child, to where they are having classes and then talk about the future etc. until Wei ying has to come and get him and act all civilized and confuses everyone I think this is how it goes.

FOUND!  Baby Of Mine by pupeez4eva ( not rated (I’d say G), 3k, wangxian, my post)

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11. look. i have been trying to find this fic for AN HOUR NOW. and i don't even know which tags to use because i only remember the summary a bit. basically i think it's written from lwj's pov? a modern au i suppose? something about "there was wei ying, teaching art, on the screen"???? i think they knew each other (maybe where together idk) and lost contact or something and yeah. the only thing i really remember is that line about wwx teaching something, which i think was art, and it was like on a screen which is why i think it was a modern au. i haven't read it yet but i wanted to !! i swear i put it on my to read list and even opened the first chapter but i can't find it?? and i don't remember the author or title either ahhhh this is making me go crazy

FOUND!   Ink Lines by ShenWeiLightning (M, 57k, wangxian, WIP)

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FOUND!   How to Draw Clouds, a Guide by Little Apple's Emotional Support Human by sweetiejelly (M, 7k, wangxian)

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12. Hello there. Hope this finds you in radiant health. [That's so positive! Thank you.] I would like some help finding a fic. It's a fic that centered on madam yu, where she and JFM died and got sent back to the time when their children is still babies. I think WWX is their biological child and in the first life (also in the first fic, I recall it's a continuation from a fic which centered on wangxian) they failed their children (they hate their parents and press charges?) and in this fic they're redeeming themselves by loving their children. Can you help me? And thank you for your help, you're the best!

FOUND!   Purple, Red and Golden by DonCielo (M, 33k, jiang parents, jiang family, wangxian, WIP)

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13. Hi! This site is so amazing and I have found so many interesting fanfics from your recommendations. [Yay!] I am looking for a fic where Wei Ying gets taken in by a sect and is related to the current sect leader. That sect uses crystals/gems as their power source? There are a lot of OC characters who are hybrids/shape shifters and are all very beautiful so they need to wear veils and the current leader of that sect is blind and keeps bumping into doorways. Many thanks!

FOUND? In The Mountains of Xianxia by ThePathUntaken (T, 74k, wangxian, fix-it, fluff, hurt/comfort, angst, everyone lives au, mythical beasts, implied mpreg, panic attacks, WIP)

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14. Hi there! Love the work you do, I've been trying for days to find this work. Its a Wangxian wedding fic that takes place is Gusu, but the focus is on Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's reconciliation. I know there's quite a few of those out there but this one is from Wei Wuxian's POV, and there's a particular scene where Jiang Cheng unknowingly accuses Lan Wangi of stealing Wei Wiccan away like his father did his mother. Hope thats enough, and thank you ❤❤

FOUND!   the only way out by cafecliche (T, 12k, wangxian, my post for the series) -  in which Jiang Cheng is in Gusu to plan a discussion conference and eventually accuses LWJ of forcing wwx to be “the perfect gusu bride” or something

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15. Hi so am looking for a modern au were Wie ying is a sex worker on onlyfans and Nie huinsang is non binary . Pls help me find it 🥺 ~ @astralruby186

FOUND! See all this and more for just ten dollars a month! by ScarlettStorm  (E, 344k, wangxian, series in progress)

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16. Hi Mojo thank you for everything that you’re doing for the MDZS fandom! [I have so much fun here!] I was wondering if you could help me find two fics that I can’t seem to find no matter how hard I try. I would be so grateful if anyone knows which fics these are! Thank you so much!😊

16a. I remember this one being told from an outsider perspective, a random female cultivator comes across WangXian in the words while they’re having sex. She ends up watching them from a tree keeping herself concealed with a talisman. After watching their interactions with one another she comes to several conclusions about her own romantic relationship with her husband.

FOUND!   Countless Roads by SunBlueSun (E, 6k, wangxian)

16b. I remember last details about the second one but I do remember one key part of it was that I think it’s some sort of canon divergence as Jiang Yanli and Lan Xichen end up exchanging letters after the lectures at cloud recesses since they realize their little brothers have feelings towards one another. And I think WangXian relationship is more positive than the one in canon as WWX ends up taking several apprenticeships after the lectures to learn more skills and he ends up sending LWJ a pair of gloves made from white dragons scales…

FOUND!    Instead of rabbits, I'll give you this by Bloodcoral (T, 95k, wangxian, xicheng, WIP)

[the-0th3r-side]

Ok, so I'm going to refute all the points a JC stan made on twitter about Wei Wuxian being a villain and a morally gray character, which I couldn't answer directly because they closed the account. ( This is a very long rant drived by my feminine urge to hate everyone who talks bad about WWX )

Starting with how the fact that Wei Wuxian was labeled as evil is related to classism. First of all, WWX was the son of a servant, who despite being considered a 'brother' for the Jiangs, no one ever recognized him like it and he also didn't hold a very solid position at Lotos Pier, although he was the head disciple. Wei Wuxian was the most powerful person in post-war era, and those above in the social hierarchy hated it, they couldn't handle the fact that a servant's son was the most powerful cultivator ( EX: Jin Zixun complaining that wwx  took 30% of the prey but nmj doing the same thing, and i see no one saying anything about this). As WWX already practiced demonic cultivation, which was something unorthodox, he became an easy target, mainly because they knew he couldn't fight back bc if he attacked someone with resentful energy even as self-defense, they would bust him, that is, he was already in a very vulnerable position with his sect and his cultivation, and people took advantage of it. Elitism was one of the driving forces of the narrative, even because no one would believe the word of a servant's son above that of a sect leader, so they didn't even make the effort to investigate his claims that the Jins were becoming like the Wens, and also because the "righteous" cultivators didn’t give a fuck about innocent people dying, as long as it didn’t affect them. When Wei Wuxian lost the only defense he had, which was his position in the Jiang sect, it was just a matter of time before someone attacked him, bc he had no protection, he had no power in his name, if someone killed him, they would not suffer any consequences, it didn't matter if he had done something wrong or not. (Ex: Xue Yang massacred an entire clan but received no punishment because he was being protected by the Jins, a large sect that held a lot of political power)

Wei Wuxian was a good person just bc he was, he couldn't see injustice and keep silent. They said that WWX was a murderer. He killed people in the war just like everyone else, guess why? It was a war. As for the battle in nightless city it was not even him that start it. Let's give some context, Jin Zixun ambushed WWX with over 300 soldiers to kill him, while WWX only had WN to defend himself. Jin Zixuan, seeing the situation as it was, tells WWX to put down chenquing, his only form of defense at the moment, that if lowered he would be killed for sure. Then Jin Zixuan starts fighting with him and then lauches at him, WWX loses control and JZX dies. WN and WQ sacrifice themselves to keep him and the Wens alive, but JGS still breaks his promise and keeps wanting to kill the wens remnants, WWX demands that he keep his word but he is attacked, having done nothing to provoke it, bc they didn't care if he was really a danger, they just wanted to kill him. Jiang Yanli arrives and asks him to stop, which he does, only to be attacked again, so JY saves him by taking the blow. And then, after being attacked so many times without provocation, he still chooses to destroy the tiger's seal, because he recognizes that it was a mistake and could not fall in wrong hands, so he dies to destroy it.

They said he was a torturer, and in that they were kind of correct, that even WWX recognizes that he was wrong and redeems himself for it by saving the Wens remnats. But first, let's give another context. Chinese culture give much importance to family ties, and it's actually an honor for you to avenge your family. WWX had just lost his entire sect, his home, the people who were his family, his adoptive brother had lost his Golden core and his parents and on top of that, he had also lost his Golden core and thrown into hell to die. The desire for revenge and the need to protect his family were one of the only things that anchored WWX in the Burial Mounds. So, he comes back cultivating resentful energy, tortures the people who massacred his family, goes to war with them and is very cruel, mostly wanting to blow away all the hatred he had for the Wens. But after the war he realizes that not all Wens were bad, that not all were fighting bc they wanted to, so he saves as many people as he can, to pay his debt to WN and WQ, to redeem himself for what he did in the war, and bc he could not stand back while seeing innocent people being killed for no reason.

About him being a canibal as they said, the story only implies this line of thought, but does not specify it. However, despite being only a headcanon, I also think that he had to resort to that at some point, even by the way he tortures WC, but I don't have a solid opinion on it. Like, it's absolutely terrifying yes, but as he says, "when people are hungry enough, they can eat anything", survival will always be our top priority, even if we have to do atrocities to go forward (which, actually speaking, it was the only way for him to get out of there, he was the only one actually alive, the souls of those bodies were already corrupted and dishonored, I'm a very practical person, so for me, if you haven't committed any crime deliberately, whatever you do to survive is ok, it reminds me a lot of a Spanish movie I watched that deals with this subject in a very crude but accurate and good way, it's called “O Poço” by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia ). But it's like I said, this was not cleared by Mxtx, so there could be a possibility that he was not referring to this specifically.

About demonic cultivation being disrespectful and breaking the reincarnation cycle. WWX is one of the characters that we see being the most respectful to the dead, he used bodies already corrupted by resentful energy, that is, which were already going to be eradicated, with no chance of resuscitating. When he is not using the bodies of the wens to torture their enemies, a fact that he recognizes was wrong. In fact, if what he was doing was really breaking the reincarnation cycle i think people would have reacted to it much more violently than they do, they would thrown it at his face at any opportunity, and more, the “ righteous “ cultivators are the ones who dumped bodies of eldery, weak and woman in a blood pool without a proper burial and with no chance of reicarnation.

They said that Wei Wuxian was a resentful ghost possessing a person's body, even if he had no choice in the matter. ???? make this make sense, i didn't even know people really thought like that. So, he was resurrected, MXY offered his body forcefully (even though he wasn't in a right state of mind ) what could Wei Wuxian do? The ritual was already complete, if he didn't complete MXY revenge against the Mo (which, even when he was at risk of never incarnating again, he still hesitated to do, and in the end he didn't) he would die to never reincarnate again. The only course of action he could take was to live the second chance he had been given.

Anyway, I wanted to conclude by saying that Mdzs is a book about consequences, when WWX 'chooses' (in fact, this is something I wanted to talk about, WWX almost never has the privilege of making choices, or he gave his GC to JC or JC would’ve died, or he learned DC or he would’ve died, or he saved the wens or he let 50 civilians die, or he saved  Mianmian or she died, along with LWJ and JZX, and probably everyone else in that cave...) to continue using DC and saving the wens, it leads to JY's death, while when  WQ decides to help WWX and do the GC transplant, it condemns her own family, bc WWX becomes a driving force for the efforts of war, turning the fight in his favor, basically winning the war. So, no decision he makes is bad, just the consequences of those decisions, which for the most part, are caused by outside forces that he has no control over. Conclusion, WWX is a very good person for his own good (in addition to knowing how to recognize his mistakes and redeem himself for them) that's why he is the protagonist.

(sorry for any grammatical errors english is not my native language)

[neverdoingmuch]

when people call wangxian a boring ship i want to gentle reach out, cupping their cheeks in my hand, look them straight in the eye and ask if they read the book. did they miss the way that wwx’s presence helped encourage lwj to develop his own passions and opinions outside what he was taught to have? did they miss the way that lwj was the first person who was ever wwx’s equal and challenged him like no one else but still saw wwx as human, as fallible and worthy of protection? did they miss the way that all of their “relationship drama” stemmed from the fact that: a) lwj genuinely acted like he hated wwx in his first life and wwx was never shown any different until it was too late and that wwx could never afford to take the time to work through his own feelings even though they were clearly there bc he was so busy just trying to stay alive and he just wasn’t ready for a relationship and b) the fact that wwx’s closely guarded secrets and insistent pride and confidence that he could handle himself even though he was barely holding on combined with lwj’s moral rigidity and unwillingness to change or adapt meant that they were constantly at odds? did they miss the way that their growth together as love interests and independently (inspired by each other or just by themselves) is some of the most wonderfully written arcs ever, creating dynamic characters who progress in a way that wholly and completely suits them? did they miss the way that even when they were at odds, wwx and lwj still cared enough spend time together and check in on each other? did they miss the way that wwx, who has never been the first preference and has always been left behind alone, marries lwj, who welcomes him into his life and his family full-heartedly and puts him and his happiness above all else? did they miss the way that wwx does the same? did they miss the way they parallel their own parents’ and their relationships and how they have to overcome the legacies/trauma of their parents as well as themselves and they do it because they’re such a good couple? did they miss the way that wwx and lwj genuinely love each other and cherish each other? because that last point alone is more than what half the ships in this fandom canonically have. 

[bnnywngs]

when wei wuxian asked lan wangji to marry and received a positive answer, most of the lan sect knew there wouldn't be grand courting gifts, nor it would be expensive, as he and his parents were rogue cultivators.

what they didn't expect was wei changze himself arriving in cloud recesses with four big wooden chests, intricately carved with wedding symbolisms saying it was his son's gifts.

they sat inside the formal room, curiously waiting to see what was inside the chest. lan wangji looked impassive as usual, but his fingers were twitching with barely stifled desire to open the chests himself.

the first one was opened.

"lan-er-gongzi, here's the first gift from your betrothed." wei changze smiled softly and brought his hands out of the chest, a beautifully made sky blue robe with a silver dragon embroidered on the back "a robe for you made by your betrothed's hands. a-ying not only embroidered but also sewed the cloth he himself chose especially for you."

all the lans were surprised and impressed, it was clearly well made, it could easily pass by professionally made.

"the second gift" wei changze continues, opening the second chest "is a pair of bunnies carved in white jade by your betrothed." he put the, frankly big, pair of jade animals on the floor in front of lan wangji, who immediately snatched one to look up close.

again, the lans were impressed. who would know that wei-gongzi was so accomplished.

"the third and last gift for now" wei changze opened the last chest "is a pair of guans carved in wood, a pair of hairpins of blue and white jade, and a pair of tassels in the same colors." he put one by one beside the lonely bunny "all made and carved by a-ying himself."

the lans were truly astonished. the gifts were all beautiful and well made, almost as if wei-gongzi was a professional in these sections. and were all of immeasurable price. blue jade! the boy had blue jade to carve! and many white jades to choose what to do with it!

lan xichen could barely blink! lan qiren felt his own mouth open.

"thank you.... a-die." lan wangji bowed, showing, for once, his shy side.

wei changze just chuckled "there's nothing to thank me, a-zhan, just make our a-ying happy."

"mn." lan wangji nodded firmly "will make beautiful gifts for wei ying."

the rogue cultivator chuckled again, and bowed "for the next round of gifts, a-ying wishes to focus on cultivation, if it's ok with you?"

"definitely." lan xichen said, before coughing softly into his hand and smiling "we will be happy with anything wei-gongzi thinks is valuable."

"of course." wei changze nodded with a smile.

later that night, past curfew, most lans that were inside that room would find hard to sleep, thinking about the gifts received and the ones yet to come.

all but one.

lan wangji slept soundly, a tiny smile in his lips as he dreamed of his future.

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

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1. sorryi send a fic find request on the other blog!!!! please ignore that one!!! i am looking for a fic that wwx was never taken by jfm! he grows up on the street and ends up adopting many street children!! i think is a no war au!!! lwj meets wwx and the kids in a inn on a very rainy day!!! a yuan is one of the toddles and there are twins that don’t speak because of trauma. i think it was also a case fic because people went missing if they get inside a forest!!! thank you very much sorry for the wrong ask @yourefinallysafefromshialabeouf

FOUND? ❤️ Seen and not heard by eatmyass (E, 51k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Case Fic, No Sunshot Campaign AU, Kid Fic, dadxian, Strangers to Lovers, Found Family, Fake/Pretend Relationship, First Time, Mojo's bookmark)

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2. Hello! Im looking for a fic where JYL called WWX and invited him to the engagement party i think. In the second call LWJ answered it and told that WWX was bathing their som. She didn’t know WWX was married much less hv a son! Can u help me find it?? Oh and I remember the Jiang parents were alive

FOUND! Me and my husband (we are doing better) by like_a_bird_that_flew (G, 5K, WangXian, Modern AU, JYL POV, Family Feels, Coming out, Light angst, Relationship Reveal, Attempt at Humor, Fluff, Established Relationship, Toddler A-Yuan)

SIMILAR! should i fly to los angeles (find my asshole brother) by belovedmuerto (T, 7k, WangXian, Modern AU, JC POV, Reunion fic of sorts, Southern California, Relationship Reveal, Established Relationship, Toddler A-Yuan) (If you liked the above fic, you might like this one too ^^ ~ Mod C)

MORE SIMILAR RECS -

Other works by like_a_bird_that_flew fit this theme, esp “Unexpected invites.” See also h0peless-oblivion, which has some similar fics. “A Sequence of Coming Outs,” by kippalittlefox, “Found Family” by fyredancer & “Love Me Just A Little” by mostlynonsense (travelingpsycho) might also be good for fans of “Me and my husband” & “should i fly to los angeles”

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3. I was hoping you could help me find a time travel fic. I don't remember much but it was LWJ wanting to marry WWX but he refuses. I think it's bc he doesn't want to marry before JC. Thank you for your help

FOUND? Come Back to Me by s6115 (M, 8k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel Fix-It, implied soulmates)

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4. Hi! Thank you for all your hard work! I'm looking for a fic where wwx runs away (i think that he ran bc he took on JC's money debt but im not sure) and lwj finds him after accidentally walking into his restaurant. I remember a scene where sl comes into the restaurant and over a meal tells wwx about how hes looking for xxc and wanting to apologize to him and then sometime later xxc comes to the restaurant and that message gets passed on. theres also yummeng trio reunite and tears and soup! TY!!!

FOUND? This one sounds like 不晚 | a lovely light by seagaze (T, 62k, wangxian, modern, midnight diner au, slice of life, angst, fluff, happy ending)

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5. Hello mods! I was hoping you all could help me find a fic. It was definitely foxxian. I think it was an arranged marriage, but WWX marries into the Lan clan and is unhappy with it so he basically stays in his fox form all the time and screams constantly. That’s all I’ve got 🥲 I haven’t been able to find it myself so I turn to you 🙇‍♂️

FOUND? 💖 All According to Plan by cerbykerby (M, 2k, wangxian, fluff & humor, arranged marriage, fox WWX, dragon LWJ)

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6. Heyyy I've been looking for a fic where wwx was found by lwj after golden core transfer and was able to stop wwx from falling into the burial mounds but lwj nowknows about the coreless condition of wwx but jc so something happens which leads to wwx and jc to fight in the woods and jc lashes out with zidian and hits wwx on the chest and crashes on the tree and goes unconscious(oh! and hiz heart stops) lwj finds him and gove him spiritual energy. Thank you

FOUND! these colours fade for you only by @wei--wuxian (doodlebutt) (T, 36k, wangxian, fix-it, fluff & angst, happy ending, WWX gets a new core, hurt/comfort, slow burn, pining, canon-typical violence & gore)

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7. hi!! i’m looking for the fic where mo xuanyu drops baby ayuan at wangxian’s doorsteps. I think he was a addict and also lwj and wwx were living together but not dating in the beginning. thanks!! <3

FOUND! so take my hand (take my whole life too) by cicer (E, 92k, WangXian, Modern AU, Idiots in love, Accidental baby acquisition, Mention of Drug abuse, Mention of minor Character Death)

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8. Good evening, Mods! I was just wondering if there were any fics you know of that involve Wangxian hiding their pregnancy from LQR (specifically LQR but not from anyone else), who finds out only after the baby is born and is hurt to realize that they didn't trust him with their growing family? I feel like I've read something similar before but for the life of me, I can't seem to find it. @alovelyocean

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9. Dear wangxianficfinder. I am in need of your help with a fic. I'm trying to find a specific post-canon fanfic where in the story itself and the summary, when Wei Wuxian asks if LWJ wants him to come to Gusu, LWJ instead says take me with you. Could you all please help me find it. I tried the tag and couldn't find it. @kaitou-cure-prism12​

FOUND! Out of the darkness, into the day by ilip13 (E, 39k, wangxian, post-canon, getting together, hurt/comfort, slow burn, sharing a bed, intimacy, kissing, healing, tenderness, first time, smut)

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10. Do you know the fic where A) wwx time travels (? I think?) (and loses his memory) and lands in wen ruohans garden? B) And another one where wwx is the 3 young master wen? Thank you :D

10A)

FOUND? Grave of a Living God by Gotcocomilk (T, 35k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel, Fix-It, Angst with a happy ending)

10B)

FOUND? The Third Young Master of the Qishan Wen by KouriArashi (T, 138k, WangXian, Canon Divergence,Hurt/comfort, Angst, Eventual Happy Ending)

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11. Er, what’s the time travel fic where Wei Wuxian starts avoiding Lan Wangji because he can’t stand to be around someone so close but not actually his husband? It’s from Jiang Cheng’s POV, and it ends with Lan Wangji barging into their room, tripping Wei Wuxian into his lap, and after some intense eye contact, Wei Wuxian declares their going to marry. (Turns out, Lan Wangji came back too. In the authors note, Wei Wuxian is saying they need a wedding date or premarital sex is going to happen.)

FOUND! rerun from the outside by Eicas (T, 2k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time travel, Crack, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, JC POV)

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12. hello can i ask for help i have been trying to find this for weeks now. its a wangxian fic about wj keeps visiting the burial, slowly replacing his money in like a vault with rocks. and once he got enough he suddenly vanish. pov with xc how the pet vanished nie hui sneaked them away. one day xc, qiren and elders saw wj with wx yiling selling wx inventions. also kids where doing wj hair and it was like a rule in lan to not be vain(?) also in end xc asked for bunny as conpensate and the end thx

FOUND? Might this one be Unpack Your Heart by Terri Botta (Isilwath) (T, 22k, wangxian, 1st in series, canon divergenec, romance, everyone lives au, LWJ stays at Burial Mounds, not lan elder friendly)

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13. hi, do you know about a fic where lan qiren decided to act as a good father figure for the two jades and gives advice to the disciples, i lost the fic, and its killing me

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14. Houhoi! I love what you all are doing for us unfortunate souls who lost our ficlists! I'm looking for a fic where wwx was is an actor and helped mianmian get away from a party after she was drugged. Everybody was oissed at him bc they thought he drugged her. He starts working at lwj law firm to get ready for a new roll and tjey get together. Thank you in advance. @follyfallenflapdragon

FOUND? Make It Count by wearing_tearing (E, 46k, WangXian, Modern AU, Actor WWX, Lawyer LWJ, Secretary WWX, Light angst, Date Rape Drugs/Roofies, Attempted sexual assault, Reconciliation)

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15. Hello mods! Wonderfull job you guys are doing😁. This might be for both fic finder and i am in the mood for lists. I just read the story Book Cover (Mojo's Post) that was suggested by wangxianficrecs and it Made me remember this one fic. Its a wangxian fic after the time skip during the events at mo manor, WY gets ressurected as a women. The thing Is that this women Is very plain and a i think overweight??? and everybody else in her family Is really pretty. Anyway i just remember this scene in which WY sees LWJ in the street AND then runs to hide behind him because of a dog and then they go WY bodies family and LWJ says he Is going to marry her AND takes WY to CR with him. Please i Will really like to find this story and see if any of you knows any stories un which WY comes back as a plain girl. Thank you so much! @animlvr04

FOUND! Beauty and the Boot by PTchan (T, 44k, WIP, WangXian, Canon Divergence, WWX is summoned by a girl, Genderbending, Romantic Comedy, Crack-ish)

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16. Hi, hope y'all are doing great!

For the next fic finder, I'm afraid it's super vague but it's all I remember since it's been so long since I read it.

WangXian might've been background, part or all of it was possibly from LQR's pov, and NMJ was courting LXC with sweets and he was getting a little chubby and I remember LQR being like they needed to hurry up and get married. WangXian were there, but I can't remember exactly what they were up to.

FOUND! sentimental education by everythingispoetry (G, 5k, cloud recesses study arc, everyone lives au, fluff, humor, matchmaking, crack)

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17. Hi! Hope mods are doing great! ^.^ I have a weird request, because I need to find a fic, but also ask for others with a similar theme (nice, but will make you cry). It was a modern au, and kind of in the suburbs. I think the Lans are new, and lwj meets troublemaker wwx, but doesn't know how to get close. There's a fire in the Jin house, everyone except jgy and, I think jzx die and blame wwx. I also remember lwj and wq go to uni together, and they usually meet at the library. Pls help me.

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18. Hi! I’m trying to look for a fic where Lan Zhan was planning a proposal but he became a bit distant toward Wei Ying because he was scared of him finding out. Meanwhile, Wei Ying is worried out of his mind because he thinks Lan Zhan is breaking up with him.

FOUND? Don't Leave Me by TrippinOnSkies (E, 19k, WangXian, Modern AU, Hurt/Comfort, Panic Attacks, Angst with a happy ending, Misunderstandings, Fluff, Marriage Proposal)

SIMILAR! the right to choose by wqngji (G, 2k, WangXian, Modern AU, Misunderstandings, Light Angst, Happy ending, Fluff, attempt at humor, Established Relationship, Crack treated seriously)

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19. Hello all, i hope everyone is doing fine. I am so happy we’re all still here 💚💚💚 i don’t know what i’d do without y’all. So i am looking for a fic. Although I’ve never read it 🤦🤦 i know it’s a fix it fic where jin zixuan kinda abdicates to move into lotus pier with his wife. He talks to meng yao and he’s like you are a much better leader than i’ll ever be brother. Meng yao is super touched and actually stops all his evil doing. And they all live happily ever after. I THINK. Since i never read this, it might actually be like just something i saw posted on tumblr and not an actual fic 🤷🤷 i hope it is tho. Much love 💚💚💚

FOUND? could be scorpion, before the frog by Stratisphyre (T, 59k, LXC & JGY & NMJ, JGY & WWX, JZX & JGY, JYL/JZX, wangxian, Dragons, Found Family, Pre-Relationship, Mutual Pining, Canon-Typical Violence, Parental Abuse, Hurt/Comfort, warning for JGS behaving exactly as expected, sometimes a redemption arc is just dragons and kids and found families, allusions to noncon because of JGS, derogatory references to sex work, suicidal ideation and attempt) but I think it only partially fits?

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20. I think this is an older fic as I haven't been able to find it anywhere! Part of that is my fault because I cannot remember what kind of creature wwx was in this fic! All I remember is that he was trying to have a child and ended up finding lwj who remembered him but wwx doesn't have any memories or has very few?

FOUND! Baby, Take a Chance on Me by Anonymous? (E, 28k, WIP, WangXian, Modern with Magic, Mpreg, Reincarnation, Happy ending, Incubus/Succubus AU, Identity Porn, Explicit Sex)

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[zhuilingyizhen]

zhuilingyizhen coffee shop au

I remember I saw someone say that wn always owns a coffee shop in these AUs, and to that I say, yeah pretty much. (ft. wangningxian and jyl x jzx x wq)

Wen Ning owns a cute little coffee shop! He supports his baby cousin, Wen Yuan, for the first couple years.

Wen Qing runs her own practice, for children though, across the street, and three very frequent customers happen to be two Jins & a Jiang, if you get who I’m talking about. 0-0

jl and wy (turned lsz later, long story) probably played a little together as kids but it’s not super important

Anyways, wn’s coffee shop probably burns down or something in a series of arson attaccs against the Wen family. Wq’s practice doesn’t get destroyed though, and she gets some help from a certain extremely rich couple who used to go to her.

But wn is super worried bc his wittle bb cousin is gone 0-0

And then a Yuan runs off and falls into a river and dies.

Jk jk, he almost dies! And loses his memory. He’s about 6 at the time, btw. Some stranger (COUGH WWX COUGH) finds this little baby dRowNinG and saves him, bc ofc only wwx would be suspiciously near a river in the middle of nowhere.

Wwx takes keeps him for a couple days, but realizes that he has no clue how to parent, so he takes him to the Lan orphanage.

(Yes, the Lans run an orphanage and you can take this hc from my dead, cold hands.)

(Seriously, I have so many ideas for this. Ask me.)

(Dw this is still a coffee shop AU!)

Anyways, wwx takes him to his just-a-friend, lwj. Lwj looks at this child and looks at wwx.

He also has no clue who this child is.

But he really goes and named him “to long for”, staring right into wwx’s eyes.

Wwx skips away to annoy his brother or something. Idk.

So lqr, running this orphanage, takes lsz in. He also gives lwj a look when he finds out what this child was named, but... shush.

Since he’s in an orphanage, he takes the Lan name. He also meets Lan Jingyi, who is maybe 7 if this happens after August?

Ljy’s mom was not very good.

Meanwhile wn is crying his eyes out bc his bb cousin probably died in the fire and now he’s sad and it’s all his fault & :(((((

Ofc, being the amazing, bamf older sister she is, wq refuses this response.

She makes wn come work for her now, so yay! They have one less person to support, so it don’t as bad but,, but,, WEN YUAN IS DEADDD :((((((((((((((((((

So sad.

Anyways, jl probably asks once why that kid he used to play with is gone. They attend the funeral, but wn is always on da lookout for anyways who fits the description of lsz.

jl doesn’t remember him that well anyways, so oof. His parents lowkey like wq but jzx is a shy bastard and wq is uselessly gay for jyl so this won’t end up well.

But since this is a lsz-centric coffee shop AU...

Lsz grows up under the amazing teaching of lqr, probably learns an instrument or two from lxc, gets parented w/bunnies by lwj, and uselessly crushes on ljy. Like he does.

And then time skip to him in college, and he wants to start a coffee shop bc it reminds him of his childhood, that he doesn’t remember.

But yeah. Coffee shop AU.

Oyzz, who is jl’s friend goddamnit let jl have friends both his parents are alive, drags him to every coffee/tea shop in the area bc he has an obsession with good drinks. Which eventually leads them to lsz’s cozy little tea shop.

It’s moderately popular, sometimes ljy will sing for entertainment (bc yesss 🥺) and it’s pretty good! Lsz is out of college (so 22, bc he didn’t take a masters) and started the shop, ljy’s doing god knows what (maybe signed a record deal w/ someone who went to the cafe and heard him singing? a dumb luck sorta thing. Or perhaps lxc has a production company :eyes:)

but ljy sometimes helps out or just hangs around the shop.

Anyways, oyzz likes his voice a big lot, befriends ljy, and now jl has to go there every weekend bc he’s whipped for oyzz.

He also gets to watch oyzz and ljy be big gay for each other, so yeah. Huh. jl sorta befriends lsz, bc ofc he does. They’re both a lil sad, but fun!

Also, jl and wn are pretty close now bc jl has wayyyyy too many uncles.

Lsz doesn’t remember wwx, but lwj sure as hell does.

Surprisingly, wwx and wn, going out on a not-date, as just-friends, end up going to the tea shop & wn is surprised at how similar it looks to his coffee shop from all those years ago.

wOw whAt a cOinCidEncE!

jl probably recommended it to wn and wwx, bc ofc he did.

Matchmaker extraordinaire, I say. Jyl and jzx are just 🥺 so proud of their child

But they’re also uselessly crushing on wq, who isn’t usually oblivious but thinks it’s just a doctor-patient transaction.

side plot: wq and jyl go out one night and end up sleeping together and the next morning jzx makes them tea & breakfast and then casually asks how it was and jyl says “it was great” while wq chokes on her tea & is very confused:tm:

Yeah, they get together bc I love background ships.

But wn is kinda sus at how similar it looks. He thinks maybe they went to his coffee shop before, and orders tea. But then he sees the one barista and thinks “wait a second...”

Bc the barista (lsz) looks scarily familiar, he just doesn’t know why. Oyzz is just over in a corner sipping his bubble tea.

One day, after the tea shop closes and the junior quartet are the only ones left, and lsz asks to speak to jl. Alone.

Ljy and oyzz are looking at them like 👀 👀 but they leave together to go to some bookstore or something, idk.

So now lsz and jl are alone. They’re sorta friend-acquaintances, but now jl’s a little confused as to why tf lsz wants to talk to him.

Lsz explains that jl seems familiar (coughiwonderwhycough) and says that he lost his memory at a young age and that wwx found him. jl is starting to put the puzzle together.

Lsz basically asks him out on a date, but neither of them know or think it’s a date, so jl agrees.

They both go there seperate ways, and when oyzz and ljy find out the next day, they realize that they’re going on a date.

Ljy is very excited for lsz!! But what is that pain he feels—

Ofc, they stalk jl and lsz on their date, bc they are stupid and don’t realize they might have feelings for them. At least they realize their feelings for each other. Ljy & oyzz get together!! :))

They’re also oblivious though so they don’t notice a Ling & Sizhui’s :/

Wn ends up taking over the tea shop so lsz can go off and get his masters

Eventually the junior quartet stumble into a relationship ! Hopefully ! it’s really quite a mess until sizhui gets a dna test taken at wn’s request. found family turned actual family is an old trope, but one we will accept <3

[lhaewiel]

So.

Previously on my "The Untamed/MDZS Ice Skating AU".

Unfortunately for y'all I have not finished talking about it. as always, a big thank you to @galaxy-darkmoon for giving me rope, and also @the-nonchalance-blogs for giving me the idea in the first place.

We left things at the double divorce JFM/YZY and JGS/Madam Jin.

At this point in time the other players step in. I will start with the WangXian and continue on with the SangCheng part.

I will do the XiYao drama in the next post cos this is already way too long and I need to think.

Anyway, enjoy. Under the cut

THE WANGXIAN DRAMA

Now, WWX is still competing and training under freshly divorced JFM as a solo - and possibly the star of the Jiang rink. A lot of people and journalists have a lot of things to say about the Choices™(C) made by JFM, but WWX's skills and prowess and several silver and gold medals on his rack, plus several trophies won jot all of that down.

Enter the Lans. The Lans are an extremely traditionalist family of ice skaters, who only skate with classical/traditional music and that has become through the years their trademark.

LQR, the coach and also LXC and LWJ's uncle, after the untimely disappearance of the parents, and the two brothers have trained a lot - LXC is already in the seniors category, whilst LWJ is still in the juniors category.

It's time for regional championship and WWX is also competing.

And it's clichè, but it is love at first ina bauer and toe loop for both WWX and LWJ. They both score first and whilst JFM and LQR are already down to throw hands for the gold medal, WWX blurts out a "why don't we share? we are both really good, so why don't we share the podium." This all whilst being the usual feral gremlin. LWJ is like, "no, it's not in the rules", but LXC is like "uncle, that's a really good suggestion" and LQR is at an inch from losing it, JFM deals the final blow like "you heard WWX, come on! let's praise them both!" and LQR concedes.

JC has seen the thing and he is at the "this might as well happen" point and just leaves the rink where he was watching WWX without a word. I will come back on this in just a moment.

LQR anyway invites WWX at the Gusu rink to train, stuff that happens once every blue moon, and JFM is like "yes, that is my son" "Uncle Jiang I am not your son" "Details, just go." "Ok, let me say goodbye to people."

And by "people" he means JC and Yanli, who were there to watch him compete.

Yanli congratulates him and says that JC is outside.

WWX goes to JC, who has had A Day™ and is just like "congrats, if it had been me at your place my father would have preferred to give up the position rather than have me share the podium" "Aw you know he doesn't mean that. I know you are as good as me and one day he will see that." "well, good luck then, I have stopped competing, say that to Father™"

More drama.

More misunderstanding.

JC goes back home, packs up and rents a flat near the Nie rink. He takes the position as ice skating teacher for kids over there and tries finding some sort of peace, whilst still aching over the above mentioned drama.

WWX goes to Gusu with the ache of having lost a brother completely and yes, being close to LWJ does make him feel better, but he still misses greatly his family.

Anyway the national championships approach and eventually WWX and LWJ change into a pair, become an item and end up skating into the sunset over wangxian.mp3, break several rules, get disqualified and then LQR and JFM, pressed by LXC, make an appeal and get the commission to accept them.

WWX and LWJ skating off into the sunset inspired by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpp5XKiQqBE

THE SANGCHENG DRAMA

I said that JC stops competing, goes away from YZY's rink, rents a flat and goes teaching ice skating to kids at the Nie rink.

Now, the Nie have a team of hockey players. NMJ is the coach, NZH is the captain and NHS should technically be on the team as well, but he'd rather pull out paper and pencil and sketch out the things that interest him the most, birds most notably. NHS has an extensive collection of fans as well.

NMJ is fuming bc NHS has the capability and the potential to be the perfect ice hockey player, but he'd rather just NOT participate in that. NMJ has unfortunately a chronical illness and knows he can't be forever there, he would LOVE for his brother to inherit the team, but he has not said anything about his chronical illness to NHS thinking that if he did maybe NHS would feel too much pressured. He does not know that NHS knows about the chronical illness and is the one making sure that NMJ takes his medications.

In any case, when JC starts teaching, NHS is fascinated. He watches JC gracefully glide on the ice and be generally the Ice Price Of His Dreams, If Not For The Aggressiveness, but considering that also NMJ Tends To Be That Way Too, NHS assumes that there is some turmoil going on and makes it his mission to uncover All Of That™.

THat and also NHS really enjoys drawing JC gliding gracefully on the ice - too bad JC discovers this and also NMJ is VERY perceptive, but NOT subtle at all, so when NMJ says "HUAISANG COME AND PLAY!" "One sec bro, I have to finish something" "STOP LOOKING AT THE TEACHER'S ASS AND COME HERE NOW OR I WILL BURN YOUR FANS." "... Thank you bro for destroying any chance I had."

Awkwardness ensues.

JC is unfortunately very direct and does not beat around the bush. NHS confesses. JC is in a mystic crisis bc "OMG someone likes ME, the CRANKIEST and ANGRIEST man on earth." NHS takes a step back and notes, in his 35 steps plan on how to court and conquer JC that he needs to make him understand that "the greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return".

It takes NHS to step in to win a game, whilst NMJ is in the hospital bc the chronic illness is too much to bear, JC taking NHS to the hospital to see NMJ alive and slightly better, NMJ's blessing to NHS and JC and NHS throwing himself onto JC after NMJ is asleep bc THE PRESSURE, THE WORRY, THE CONCERN, and JC says that he will be there and NHS wanted to be the conquering one, but he ends up conquered by the heart of gold of JC.

JC reveals all about his family and NHS convinces him to reconcile, if not with his parents, with WWX and Yanli. Things work out bc HS is great at mediating and JC is genuinely touched by him.

WWX and Yanli tell JC to go for it, bc it is clear that there is some sort of sentiment, thus forcing JC to sort himself out.

JC sorts his feelings out and declares his love to NHS by performing a choreography on "Nature Boy" by David Bowie.

See you next time with the XiYao and Xuanli part.

[llycaons]

ooh 16 and 21 for cql/mdzs??

16. you can’t understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

ugh so many. well actually that's a lie, I dislike a lot of headcanons and characterizations, like lwj not telling wwx that he hates spicy food and eating it without complaining, because I see why people consider them romantic or sweet even if I do not. but jin ling/lsz and jc/lxc...man those are completely beyond me. if we ignore that jl and lsz are practically cousins, and we ignore that jc and lxc have a vague but clearly significant age gap, there's still ABSOLUTELY nothing there. utterly baffles me why those ships are so popular. like it's completely flavorless and devoid of anything passionate or interesting or even sweet. these characters literally interact like twice with the people they're being shipped with. where is all this passion COMING from. direct it towards yanqing instead. or ly/bssr. or mianqing. or any of the neglected female characters who have interacted more or had genuine romantic subtext or at least COULD have a fun dynamic based on what we know about them. sigh.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

oh DEFINITELY the 'wangxian married with a son!!!!' thing. not that they're married. love that for them. I just think lsz is treated as plot device way too often for me to be invested in his relationships with lwj or wwx, and I don't even really see them as his dads? like, teachers and quasi-parental figures, and certainly important in his life, but I don't think of them as having adopted him so much as looked after him and babysat him...he was raised communally with both the wens and the lans and just bc wwx is the only one left alive* doesn't make him his dad. lwj obviously took an interest in his development and cared for him, but I also don't consider him concretely A Father. and the wiki lists him as a 'ward' which I agree with and I don't want to devalue the significance of teachers in the setting anyway

*wen ning is of course also there but fans seem to regard his blood connection and years of family history with lsz as less significant than lsz's year-long babysitting adventures with wwx, which kind of annoys me ngl!

also im sorry but that child is so boring and brings so little to the series except for the fact that he's alive and nonjudgmental (which is cool! its just not enough imo!) despite having THE most interesting backstory and great potential to be an incredible, complex character whose behavior and choices can provide commentary on the series and its society. and he kind of does, but in such a flavorless and generic way that I really can't get invested in him as a character and I feel absolutely nothing when he shows up and the "!!!! best boy!!!!" tags really do annoy me. um. that's a lot sorry. this is my biggest issue with what I consider to otherwise be a well written series with fascinating and complex characters and relationships, and it bothers me so much that it's so poorly done in comparison and that people eat it up as if it was well thought-out besides 'cute and perfect son for wx' whose treated as a romantic plot device and/or reward for wwx

[robininthelabyrinth]

I need to know what u think of an AU where JC is the one who dies (sacrificing his life to save WWX) instead of JYL, he’s not as angry with WWX bc JYL is still alive so when he sees his brother about to get murdered he just steps in front of him while JYL and WWX see :) I don’t even know what I want u to do with this? Give me some headcanons? Is it a prompt? Idk I just want u to to see what u make of this (I promise JC is my fav but my mind likes to make me suffer :p)

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It wasn’t a matter of conscious thought when Jiang Cheng threw himself between that cultivator’s sword and Wei Wuxian’s unguarded back, all his defenses down in the face of Jiang Yanli’s pleading, same as always; it was just instinct. Wei Wuxian was always the troublemaker, the crazy one, and Jiang Cheng always the one being dragged along; he’d long ago learned to spend all his time watching his shixiong’s back, keeping him away from dogs, away from angry shopkeepers, away from any harm. It was instinct, just as it had been the day he’d thrown himself out into the street to distract the Wens, and he’d always justified that instinct because he knew that Wei Wuxian would do the same for him.

Though – he didn’t know that anymore, not after everything that happened recently. Wei Wuxian had made him all the promises in the world, to stand by his side through wind and lightning, and he’d seemed to have no issue abandoning those promises, picking the remnants of the Wen sect over the remnants of the Jiang sect without a moment’s hesitation and not even the courtesy of an explanation.

The Yiling Patriarch was all but a stranger to him, and Jiang Cheng still didn’t understand why.

So it was probably stupid of him to react as if the person being stabbed at was Wei Wuxian, not the Yiling Patriarch – stupid of him to give up his life for someone who didn’t care about him nearly as much as Jiang Cheng cared for him.

But that’s why it wasn’t a thought. It was instinct.

He heard someone scream “Jiang Cheng!” as if their heart were breaking, and he thought for a moment that it was Wei Wuxian again, the one who loved him best. Wei Wuxian, not the Yiling Patriarch, who threw him to the dogs over and over again, put his sect at risk of utter destruction a second time over, just to indulge himself and his bizarre fixation on saving the Wens at the expense of everyone else. Who didn’t care about their duty to their sect, to their parents - who didn’t care about him at all.

Jiang Cheng’s heart hurt. It was probably just the sword that’d just been driven through it, though.

Hands grasped at his clothing, pulling him back; his sister’s face had lost all blood, and Wei Wuxian looked as if his world had ended – he wasn’t sure why. Jiang Yanli had her son to care for, a new life in Lanling that she refused to abandon even if Jin Zixuan was now gone; Wei Wuxian had his Wens, his new cultivation – perhaps it was some little regret, far too late, for the Jiang sect that would now come to grief, leaderless, the end of their family line and the disappointment of their ancestors. Jiang Cheng’s final and most absolute failure.

Jiang Cheng looked at them both, the ones he loved the most and who had left him without a single glance backwards, and found with his last breath that he had nothing to say to them.

He closed his eyes so they wouldn’t have to.

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The battlefield was full of corpses, and Jiang Yanli didn’t care about a single one of them.

“Do you think he can be brought back, the way Wen Ning was?” she asked, holding the corpse in her arms as if it were still the baby brother she sang songs to as a child, the little crybaby who was so fierce on the outside and so soft on the inside. She had been able to lie to herself with Jin Zixuan’s body – he almost looked as though he were sleeping, head on the pillow beside her own – but Jiang Cheng had never slept well in his life, his brow always furrowed as if he was worrying about something even in his dreams, and the blank peace on his face was so wrong that she couldn’t bear to look at him.

She wasn’t asking Wei Wuxian.

Wei Wuxian had only stopped the massacre when Lan Wangji, of all unlikely people, had bodily tackled him; everyone had always said that the Second Jade was like oil and water with her A-Xian, but he’d unexpectedly taken their side in this battle and was even now letting a barely-conscious Wei Wuxian sob Jiang Cheng’s name into his collar. He looked silently at her, his gaze a quiet reminder that her question was inappropriate – one Ghost General had already been enough to cause all of this tragedy, and certainly no one would ever accept another as a sect leader.

She looked steadily back at him, indicating in return that she didn’t give a damn about the standing of the Jiang sect if it meant she wouldn’t have to bury her baby brother.

Lan Wangji hesitated, looking down at Wei Wuxian. “You cannot stay at Yiling,” he finally said. “After this…”

They’d killed people from virtually every sect; no matter who had sympathized with Wei Wuxian before this or how much they felt he was wronged, they would have no choice but to raise up arms against him.

Jiang Yanli understood. They would be fugitives, condemned by all. She didn’t care. “Will you help us?”

He nodded and stood, Wei Wuxian cradled as gently in his arms as she held Jiang Cheng in hers.

“Will you come with us?” she asked. Anyone who loved her brother enough to defy his sect, to stain his untainted blade with the blood of his own kin, deserved a chance to court him properly, if she hadn’t misunderstood his intentions; she didn’t think she had, not with the expression so clear on his silent face.

“I will help you,” he said, and that wasn’t an answer, wasn’t the one she wanted, but it would have to do for now. “Let us go.”

3

It was Jin Zixuan who figured it out, oddly enough. Perhaps it was because he was an outsider, looking at the situation without affection to blur his eyes.

“You gave him your golden core,” he said, less than a week into his resurrection – Lan Wangji had been very efficient in his help, not only finding a new place to hide Jiang Yanli and the remaining Wens but also returning to Lanling to steal Jin Zixuan’s corpse and little Jin Ling before returning to his own sect at the first sign that Wei Wuxian would awaken from his coma. He hadn’t sent word since that time, whether from regret or other reasons; their only consolation was that there was no news of his death. “That’s why you couldn’t do anything other than demonic cultivation – is that right?”

Wei Wuxian looked at him through blood-red eyes. “Get lost,” he said; the phrase made up the majority of his vocabulary, these days, and because he refused to curse his shijie he mostly ended up not talking to her at all.

“Wen Qing was a famous doctor – she could have figured out a way to do it, and that would explain why you felt so indebted to them,” Jin Zixuan continued. “You never told him because you didn’t want to burden him. But instead you left him without any reason, any explanation: he must have felt that you abandoned him because you didn’t want him.”

“Get lost!”

“You broke his heart,” he said, and looked down at Jiang Cheng’s body – still perfectly preserved, but unmoving. The resurrection spell had already failed three times. “No wonder he doesn’t want to return.”

“I did it for him!” Wei Wuxian screamed, tears of blood dripping down his cheeks. “He didn’t – he wouldn’t – he has to come back!”

Jin Zixuan said nothing.

4

They ended up back in Yunmeng, rather unexpectedly; the new leadership of the Lotus Pier, a distant branch cousin who’d survived the massacre because he’d been night-hunting elsewhere, had all but begged Jiang Yanli to return. Against all odds her reputation had survived the massacre at the Nightless City; the loving wife, sister, and shijie that nearly sacrificed herself to save what lives she could and to banish the dreadful Yiling Patriarch who was never seen again from that day forth –  she was very nearly regarded as an incarnation of the goddess of mercy.

She had no idea where that ridiculous notion came from, but it did mean that she could live in Lotus Pier again, with Jin Ling by her side – she’d told Jin Guangshan to name someone else as his heir, or at minimum as regent; the Jiang sect needed her and her son more. It wouldn’t have worked if Jin Zixuan hadn’t snuck into his mother’s room to convince Madam Jin to throw her support behind it; officially he was still in his tomb, since Lan Wangji had been very subtle, but in fact he lived within shouting distance of the Lotus Pier, spending his days playing with his son.

They all did, actually, the whole lot of them resettled into a tiny adjacent water town populated largely by civilians that relied on the Jiang sect for their prosperity. As long as Wei Wuxian never did anything, which he didn’t, the illusion that he was gone for good in a cloud of self-destruction after his terrible massacre could be maintained; no one expected they could possibly be so daring as to simply go home after all of it.

Lan Wangji was in seclusion, they were eventually told; Wei Wuxian hadn’t believed it for one second, smuggling himself into Gusu to check – he’d come back unconscious, slung over Jin Zixuan’s shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

“Struck by the discipline whip,” her husband, the fierce corpse that wasn’t fierce at all, said, and didn’t comment when she instinctively reached out to touch Jiang Cheng’s body, to trace the scar he had; she often spent her days next to the bed that preserved his corpse. “Many times; his body is ruined. It will take years for him to heal – the Lan sect saying he was in seclusion was their way of saving face. Wei Wuxian wants to bring him back to the Lotus Pier to hide him.”

Jiang Yanli rubbed her face, thinking not for the first time that the world would be an easier place if only her two brothers weren’t so stubborn. One who wouldn’t wake up, his spiritual consciousness all in pieces; the other who wouldn’t give up – “The Lan sect wouldn’t accept that.”

“He wasn’t planning on asking. That’s why I knocked him out. Anyway, they’re distracted with the Xue Yang matter now – my father’s still insisting on protecting him, and the Nie sect gets angrier about it by the day; without the Jiang sect, there’s only the Lan to play peacemaker, stop there from being another war.”

Jiang Yanli, who was very nice but also very much not the goddess of mercy, tilted her head to the side; something of her mother was in her eyes. “A war would be a good cover, though, or at least the rumblings of one. If we were going to steal Lan Wangji away from his sect, that is.”

He kissed her forehead. “I’ll sneak into Lanling to talk to my mother, maybe see if I can follow Xue Yang and see what he’s up to. You go talk to the Nie.”

5

Jiang Yanli’s visit to the Unclean Realm turned out to be more fruitful than anyone had expected. The moment she walked into Nie Mingjue’s receiving room, her Jiang sect bell rang so hard that it shattered, which it definitely hadn’t done during the war – they both stared at it wordlessly for a while.

Eventually, he cleared his throat, averting his eyes. “You know my family history,” he offered as an explanation, embarrassment at the public revelation of his problem already turning to anger but suppressed by his strict adherence to etiquette.

“That’s no family history,” she said, bemused, as she crouched down to poke at the pieces. “The silver bell of the Jiang sect can steady focus and calm the mind, and the ones made for the family are the strongest by far; it would only shatter like this in the effort to resist a spiritual poison…how are you feeling now, Sect Leader Nie?”

He considered for a long moment, and his face grew black with rage. “Better. I feel – like my mind has been filled with fog, and a clear breeze has blown it clear.”

She smiled up at him. “Perhaps you should visit Yunmeng.”

He scowled, and she realized he must know about Wei Wuxian’s presence, though she wasn’t sure how; despite that, in the end, after a roaring argument with Nie Huaisang in another room, he agreed to go, even if the idea of staying willfully blind clearly pained him to the core.

Jiang Yanli quietly approved of his decision to put family over principle.

When they put their mind to it, the Nie sect  had an underrated talent for saying ‘I don’t know’ to just about everything. Neither brother blinked an eye at the Wen sect remnants that still teetered every time they went on a boat, very clearly not Yunmeng locals; they politely greeted Jin Zixuan as if he’d only been gone a while and not murdered; much to his older brother’s very evident irritation, Nie Huaisang even leapt over to give Wei Wuxian an enthusiastic hug while Nie Mingjue was still talking with Jin Zixuan about what it meant that Jin Guangshan had hidden away the still intact Wen Ning, who Jin Zixuan had found in a hidden part of Koi Tower during his most recent visit and immediately liberated.

“Definitely a case of spiritual poisoning,” Wei Wuxian said after a short examination, and the most reliable doctor they had left in the Jiang sect concurred. “The silver bell can help a little –” 

They’d already shattered seven of them, but Nie Mingjue had actually cracked a smile for the first time in months, to hear a sobbingly relieved Nie Huaisang tell it. 

“–but it can only help so much; that technique is really only meant for acute cases. And you really need to figure out what was doing the poisoning; there’s no point in curing you if you’re only going to get poisoned again.”

“A matter for a later time,” Nie Mingjue, who clearly had some suspicions that made him look as though he’d been stabbed in the back, said. “Now that we know it’s a poisoning, and my mind is clearer, I can take some action myself – the Nie have plenty of techniques to stabilize the spirit.”

Wei Wuxian’s smile was full of self-hatred, as it always was these days. “I don’t suppose any of those are designed to work on the dead.”

“Actually,” Nie Huaisang said. “Several are. Why do you ask?”

6

Jiang Cheng opened his eyes.