#Madame Lan

[jiaoji]

Little Lan Zhan asking his uncle to buy some candy's for him but turns out he was hiding them in his sleeves to give to his mother, she always liked to share these candy's to see his reaction, always delighted to see how her baby blank face tastes the different flavours

Years later, when Wei WuXian start to give him some of the same candy's, this make him have a short flashback from his mom and he can't help but smile and look at his cute husband, loving every candy that he gives him

#mdzs #modaozushi #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mo dao zu shi #madame lan

[otgo-brooklyn]

The Asclepias of Gusu Lan

Asclepias; better known as Butterfly Weeds mean "Let Me Go".

I am on the kick of giving characters (particularly the Mothers) who are really just forgotten recognition, so this is Long Xinyu, who would later become the (former) Lan-furen, and mother to both Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji. While imprisoned at Cloud Recesses she planted fields of Asclepias, showing her unspoken desire to be free.

#Long Xinyu #Madame Lan #gusu lan #Long Xinyu is Madame Lan #mdzs #digital art #procreate #The Mom's of MDZS Deserve BETTER #They Deserve Names #They Deserve Stories #I will write about this

[robininthelabyrinth]

Madam Lan was WRH's youngest sister's granddaughter. WRH demands the Second Lan Heir as retribution for her imprisonment. LQR has other ideas.

“You’d already disowned her entire family branch,” Lan Qiren said flatly.

“She’s still Wen blood,” Wen Ruohan said, smiling. “Am I not entitled to be protective of my own blood?”

Lan Qiren snorted. “That might have been believable if you’d made any sort of protest when they first started fucking. Or when her imprisonment first happened, and not, say, when she is conveniently pregnant with our Lan sect’s next heir.”

“Very convenient,” Wen Ruohan agreed. “None of my business, though; that’s your problem. Anyway, as you say, she was already disowned – my delay is completely reasonable.”

“The entire world knew that they were courting,” Lan Qiren said flatly. He himself had been against his brother’s pursuit of his now wife from the beginning, and her (somewhat tenuous) bloodline relation to Wen Ruohan had barely made the list of reasons that he’d found her objectionable, even though it was currently the matter causing them the most trouble.

Well, the second-most. That business of her murdering a Lan teacher in the Lan sect’s own grounds remained, and would always remain, the worst thing she’d ever done – not just for its own sake, but for the way it had driven Lan Qiren’s brother into seclusion on her behalf, robbing them of their true sect leader and forcing Lan Qiren to assume the job on a ‘temporary’ basis…with ‘temporary’ meaning the next twenty years of his life at the minimum.

Was Lan Qiren bitter? Yes, immensely so. But it was what his sect required, and so he would defend it, as he was doing now.

“I don’t really pay attention to things other sects are doing,” Wen Ruohan lied with a straight face. “And certainly not to news involving people who are disconnected from my sect…anyway, you’re getting away from the point. She is a relation of mine, however distant, and therefore I have some rights in respect to her.”

He leaned forward across the negotiating table.

“So tell me, Lan Qiren. Are you going to send her back?”

Obviously they were not.

“In that case,” Wen Ruohan continued, getting to his real point, his smile widening, “how are you going to repay me for her imprisonment?”

He’d already made his demands, which was to say, he wanted Lan Qiren delivered up to him as some sort of counter-hostage. Ridiculous, of course, given that Lan Qiren was currently acting in the role of sect leader – this was so obviously a ploy to weaken the Lan sect by robbing them of any legitimate leader that Wen Ruohan’s shamelessness barely needed to be scoffed at.

Pity he was trying it on the wrong people.

“First things first,” Lan Qiren said. “You’re claiming her as kin, are you not?”

Wen Ruohan’s smile faded. “Why do you ask?”

“I need to confirm it,” Lan Qiren said briskly. “As of course we only forgave the matter of a dowry on account of her being a rogue cultivator with no family. Normally, of course, a marriage to a sect leader of a Great Sect is no little thing – I would anticipate you carving out a considerable portion of the territory you control to give to us –”

“Absolutely not!”

Lan Qiren arched his eyebrows. “A woman’s dowry is an indication of her worth to her maternal family. You want to make a claim, you will naturally need to pay up.”

So Wen Ruohan was trying to harm the Lan sect by laying claim to Lan Qiren, was he? Lan Qiren thought belligerently. He’d shove that offer so far down Wen Ruohan’s throat that he’d choke on it!

#mdzs #lan qiren #wen ruohan #madame lan #my fic #my fics #alt headcanons

[fandom-trash-goblin]

unpopular opinion, but I think we should stop comparing madame lan and madame yu

#for those who get asoiaf parallels. you're comparing lyanna stark and catelyn. #madame lan #yu ziyuan #madame yu #mdzs #might expand on it if i feel insane enough

[saiaisaiko]

A thing I'm working on...

So, I'm currently working on a Winx Club fusion MDZS fanfic and wrote the first instance of empathy. I don't know if it will stay in the end, but in the meantime, I intend to use this for the final story. under the cut is the written product.

Not knowing what else to do, Wei Wuxian touched the comb and gently picked it up, ready to bring it back, before he was filled with another person's memory. He knew of the magic used, he had developed it to connect with Suibian in Yilling after all, when the pixie had been too young to speak more than the gibberish infants spoke. He knew this kind of magic and knew it was futile for him to try to block it, so he let it happen.

Grey filled her vision immediately when she opened her eyes. The white walls of her prison turned grey from the dim light outside. It was daytime, she knew, the bells for the night rest not having sounded yet. She wondered if her ‚husband‘ -the word, a curse and cuss all in one- would visit her again this night. She had born him an heir already and his visits had lessened over her pregnancy and her recovery from birth, but now, a year after her son was born, they had started again. Did he hope to bind her to him more, when he made her pregnant with a second child?

She snorted, an undignified sound nobody could punish her for as she served the greatest punishment already. She knew his son would soon be taken from her, only allowed to visit a few times a week until they would let him forget about her altogether. She was not sure she would survive the separation, but she had to try. Her ‚husband‘ -she still did not know how the man could be called that- did not know about the tiny spark of magic and life growing inside her.

It had been many years and everything still was grey and lonely in her prison. Her youngest son had turned six a few days ago. She had not been allowed to see him on this proud day, it was not the allowed time for the visit of her children. Once a week, always on the same day of the week, at the same time, she would have her sons back in her arms. She knew of the strain it put on her sons, saw them freezing their emotions under emotionless ice and rigid stone, as their uncle taught them that emotions were the downfall of their life. It strangled the magic inside them and maybe it damaged it as well.

She was interrupted in her musings as two sets of arms hugged her from her sides, her oldest son on her right, her youngest on the left. They soon composed themselves again, her youngest turning so fiercely serious, that she couldn’t help but tease him about it. She could feel her time slipping, her health failing and wished to only impart and leave happy memories for her sons. They were the only good thing coming out of the ‚marriage‘ -a word as cursed and acridly stale tasting as the word describing her relationship with the man responsible for her plight-.

It was the day before her sons would visit again, a week after her youngest sixth-year celebration when she felt her time run out. She struggled with breathing, the everlasting grey turning dark and black, drowning in the salty bitter tears she couldn’t contain with her waning strength. Her voice had left a few hours ago, leaving her unable to utter her death wishes. She thought about her two sons, about their pale faces, burdened and marked by life's hardships already, and wished with her last strength for their happiness.

#winx au #mdzs #wei wuxian #fanfic #writing #snippet #Madame Lan #I don't even know why I share this #You should all ignore it #I should just delete it and never speak of this again

[niobefurens]

Cloud Recesses Halloween decor.

Shufu... trick or treat?

#halloween #greenwich village #mdzs #cloud recesses #Madame Lan #bunny

[ladysunamireads]

#AO3 Link #FanFiction #AO3 Wangxian #♥ #Wangxian #Lan Huan #Madame Lan #MDZS #⚣ #⚔️ #R:G #Future Fic #Fluff #A:Pink Icicle

[pakhnokh]

Birthday boy whose only wish is to be next to his mama :(

(Originally drawn two years ago, on January 2022.)

#lan wangji #lan zhan #lan furen #madam lan #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #crown of gentians for baby boy!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

best BEAST!!

#fanart #Xuanwu #in case it does not show credits: Thank you to Minilisko #And a huge thank you for letting me post this to The Blog <3 #The best is real! The details and edits are so on point! What a marvelous creature!!! #There is an innocence to the beast...A porcupine dilemma of being unable to be close without hurting others. #The knife is protection and the knife is isolation. Safety over companionship... #It was just sleeping in cave when the cultivator's showed up. It woke up to arrows and swords! #Did it mean to harm anyone or did it just react to the world around it? #(speaking of the actual beast in mdzs now:) There was a tunnel to leave the cave and it stayed. #Do you ever wonder if the beast found it's way inside but grew to big to leave? If it entered to be safe but ended up trapped? #This is all to say: Hey Madam Lan I think I have a new friend for you. She understands your plight. #Forfeit your worries to the turtle. Let the turtle bring you joy

[jiaoji]

Madame Lan seeing how the little A'Zhan doesn't want to go off her lap when the visit is finished so he stares so deeply in the Lan Elder eyes that the visit ends up taking a little longer because every time he tries to take him, he meets that disturbing side eye of a 3 years old

#mdzs #modaozushi #lan wangji #lan zhan #madame lan

[hellinglaozu]

To the Immaturity of the Season

CW! Blood, murder

I’d like to think Mama Lan made a choice of leaving love in her boys’ hearts over bitterness. I’d like to think there was an initial attraction between mama Lan and qhj, removed from other social context and ties that they later had to discover. I’d like to think mama Lan found a value in remembering that, as fleeting as it had been. I’d also like to think mama Lan had a hint of sardonic sense of humour while qhj was a blushing fumbling straightforward boy.

#Mdzs #mo dao zu shi #fan comic #qhj #wangxian #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #gusu lan #madam lan

[robininthelabyrinth]

How about if everyone got the story wrong, and the Twin Jade's father is the one who was imprisoned for murder while their mother went into seclusion?

“What am I supposed to tell them?!” Lan Qiren hissed, slamming his hand down on the table in a most-un-Lan-like manner.

“Do not succumb to rage,” his brother’s wife reminded him.

He ignored her. She was the problem here.

No, that was a lie.

His brother was the real problem, but his choice in women wasn’t exactly helping.

“They are your children,” Lan Qiren insisted. “Both of you chose to bring them into this world. You have a duty to them!”

“A duty you are fulfilling most admirably,” his brother said.

“I am not their father.” Lan Qiren glanced at his sister-in-law and pressed his lips together. “Nor am I their mother.”

He Kexin ignored him, just as he had ignored her. “The decision has been made,” she said. “Your brother has approved it.”

And he’s the real sect leader here, not you, she meant, and Lan Qiren gritted his teeth together.

“They’re too young,” he tried instead. “Lan Wangji is only six. I know that for most children that’s the age they separate from their mothers and go to live with their fathers, but he’s still very attached to you – you have no idea how much he values your time together. You can’t just decide to abandon him.”

“I feel that I have been more than generous with my time,” He Kexin said, and Lan Qiren’s brother winced at the reams of context hidden behind there.

I never wanted to marry your brother in the first place, He Kexin meant. But he gave up his life to kill someone for me, so I married him and bore him two heirs. What more can you ask of me?

Lan Qiren could ask for a lot more, in fact. He could have asked her to actually care about her children, or at least care more about her children than she did about her cultivation; from the very first second that Lan Xichen had been born, she’d been trying to bargain down the amount of time she had to spend with them – he’d only managed to get her to agree to interrupt her precious seclusion for one day a month through throwing an absolute fit over it, and even that one day he knew she begrudged.

After all, now that Lan Wangji was old enough to officially live with his father’s family, she wanted to give up even that.

Lan Qiren’s hands were clenched into fists so tightly that he could feel liquid beading up in his palms from where his nails had drawn blood.

“How am I supposed to explained it to them?” he asked again, nearly begging, and yet his brother wasn’t looking at him at all. He was looking at her, because he was always looking at her – her, and no one else. “What am I supposed to tell them?”

“Whatever you wish. You’re the one raising them, not me,” He Kexin said with a shrug. “If it makes it easier for you, tell them I died.”

“The rules say, do not tell lies,” Lan Qiren reminded her bitterly.

“Then come up with something else, or else don’t and submit yourself to punishment for breaking a rule,” she said coldly. She had always had the bearing of a queen, icy and above it all; she was a cultivation maniac, intent on becoming the next generation’s Baoshan Sanren, and she didn’t appreciate all the obstacles life had placed in her way. Her husband, her sons, and most of all Lan Qiren who kept bothering her with practicalities – no, she didn’t appreciate any of those. “I have already told you: the decision has been made. I am committing myself to full seclusion, not to be interrupted by anyone, and that includes my children. The decision is final.”

“I hope you burn,” Lan Qiren snarled at her, and stormed off to tell his nephew that there would be no more monthly visits.

(One day, many years later, she did – but by then, Lan Wangji had long since stopped trying to visit.)

#mdzs #lan qiren #madame lan #qingheng jun #my fic #my fics #alt headcanons

[korpikorppi]

Guys, I just now noticed one more interesting little detail in the Untamed!

You know the names of the buildings in the Cloud Recesses: the lecture room/hall Lanshi (兰室, Lánshì, "Orchid Room"); Yashi (雅室, Yǎshì, "Elegant Room") – the reception room/hall; the spirit-summoning room/hall Mingshi (冥室, Míngshì, "Underworld Room" or "Room of Darkness"); Hanshi (寒室, Hánshì, "Frost Room") - Lan Xichen's residence; and Lan Wangji's Jingshi (静室, Jìngshì, "Quiet Room"), right?

The character used to write the "shì", room, in the names is 室, here seen in the Lanshi and the Yashi (the names are read from right to left):

As a side note, the Lan seem to use the traditional rather than the simplified characters, so the "lán" in the Lanshi is written with 蘭 rather than 兰.

BUT. Not so in the Jingshi! Instead of the 室, a slightly different character is used for the "room":

My trusty dictionary did not know the character in question, so I started to look at what was different:

As such, the character 凶 (xiōng) means act of violence, murder, evil. An evildoer. A murderer. And as Lan Xichen told Wei Wuxian, we know who lived in the Jingshi before it became Lan Wangji's residence: "It is the place where our mother lived in the Cloud Recesses".

So, it seems that when the house became Madam Lan's prison, the character was changed to reflect her crime, denoting the place as the quiet room of a murderer. Accentuated by the reversed colours of the sign:

This has probably been quite self-evident to anyone who actually speaks and reads Chinese, but was quite an oooff! to me as I realised. One more killer detail in CQL 😟.

And while I was at it, I just had to check what it says above the gate (seen here when LWJ returns home with the Emperor's Smile):

As far as I can read it, the characters are 影竹堂 (yǐng zhú táng), which I freely translate as "Bamboo Shadow Court". An apt name for the place.

Hopefully it offered some solace to Madam Lan.

And oh, I just have to add! As Hanshi is the Sect Leader's residence, Lan Xichen is living in their father's house, while Lan Wangji is living in their mother's. And the two houses are more or less identical, down to the furnishings (just check the scene where Lan Xichen confronts Wen Chao and his muddy boots in ep8 vs. The Wangxian Scene in ep43). So did Qingheng-jun have the house built for his wife, identical to the house she was not allowed to live in? That is quite plausible, in universe. Out universe, they probably had only so many buildings to shoot in :).

#jingshi #madam lan #lan wangji #cloud recesses #theuntameddaily #all the details they put in #the untamed #cql #cql meta #translations and explanations #my translations #so they might be questionable #random late night thoughts #korpikorppi #mine

[theballadofmars]

I need a fic where the war never happened because I like to imagine that when wangxian starts dating (but only jc, yanli and lxc knows and the rest of the cultivation world think they hate esch other), wwx jokes that if lwj wants to marry him he has to ask first to jiang fengmian and madam yu.

But lwj, bless his heart, actually does it. Also this is the time when yanli and jzx broke their engagement so when people start to talk about the lan clan going to yunmeng with the intention to marry a jiang, everyone thinks that it's yanli and jzx starts to panic.

So, lwj gets to yunmeng, madam yu is looking at him like she's about to kill him if he does something wrong, jfm is at his wife's side but we all know she's the one who takes the decisions.

Madam yu: so, you want my daughter's hand in marriage. Well, you're not jzx, but the second jade of lan is not...

Lwj: sorry, but I'm here to ask for Wei Ying's hand.

Wwx can't take it anymore and starts laughing.

Wwx: LAN ZHAN! I wasn't being serious!! I can't believe you actually did it!!!

Jfm and madam yu are confused, yanli feels sorry for them but at the same time this is too funny, and jc wants to die.

Because holy shit??? What do you mean that lwj, the amazing lwj, wants to marry wwx????? Madam yu and jfm are in shock. They obviously accept but they're like. So confused. Didn't they hate each other???

It gets worse, because a few days later jzx arrives to yunmeng and suddenly yells: "PLEASE LET ME MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER I REALLY LOVE HER PLEASE DON'T MARRY LAN WANGJI" or something like that.

It's pathetic. Jzx is there with only jgy and its obvious that he spent the last days flying as fast as he could to yunmeng, because he looks like shit.

But yanli finds it adorable, and jgy convinces madam yu to accept jzx terrible proposal.

#mdzs #wangxian #the untamed #wei wuxian #lan wangji #madam yu #jiang cheng #jiang yanli

[jengarie]

baby a-zhan and a-huan with mama lan 🥺

(originally tweeted on oct 2021)

#mine #doodles #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #lan wangji #lan zhan #lan xichen #twin jades #madam lan #babyji

[nixster627]

The backstory that I want to know the most from MDZS is Madam Lan. I have so many questions about how that story went.

Why did she kill the teacher? I doubt it was just a fun little murder she committed cause if it was then they never would have let her live let alone let her children be the heirs of the sect. Plus a woman killing a man in a position of power is usually for a good reason.

If she and Qingheng-jun were in seclusion in different houses, how did Wangji and Xichen come about? Like did they have conjugal visits with each other or something? Was it only because Qingheng-jun needed and heir? If so, why was Wangji also allowed to be born?

How did she die? Was it suicide because she was confined to a home and only allowed to see her children once a month? Did she get sick?

Why were her children only allowed to see her once a month? That is a really long time to go in between visits especially for kids who were probably taken away from her right after being born.

I just think there is a lot about her that needs to be explained.

#mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mxtx #lan clan #madam lan #lan wangji #lan xichen