#Mingcheng

[sairusboom]

peak character design

#mingcheng #mdzs #jiang cheng #Nie Mingjue #nie huaisang

[least-carpet]

jiang cheng ships by whether they're about wei wuxian or not

our boy wwx's protagonist halo is more like a gravitational field in his effect on jc's emotional development. he probably didn't, like, invent jiang cheng's abandonment issues, but he certainly made them worse! so here are jiang cheng ships grouped by whether or not they're actually about wei wuxian. the ones in the middle could go either way.

definitely about wei wuxian:

chengxian: obvious. wei wuxian is literally there.

zhancheng: obvious. they're both obsessed with wei wuxian.

ningcheng: obvious. they're both wei wuxian's horrible/beloved science experiments/little brothers and neither of them are normal about it. to be fair, wei wuxian is also not normal about it, thus the science experiments.

definitely not about wei wuxian:

mingcheng: I think this is more about theoretical temperamental compatibility and letting jiang cheng date a hot male authority figure who at least kind of approves of him.

sangcheng: I think this is in some ways often about giving jiang cheng a human who is *not* obsessed with wei wuxian. like, give jiang cheng his own bf who can be into him on his own merits.

chengyao: they're coworkers! they're inadvertent coparents! they're both wildly competent and also incredibly bitchy if the situation calls for it! if anything this is about jin ling instead.

chengyi: I don't know what this is about other than getting jiang cheng a boytoy. I don't rightly know that he would want one of those but why not! get down with your bad selves!

could go either way, Schrödinger's wei wuxian:

chengqing: this one I wasn't sure about because actually a lot of writers are pretty careful to make chengqing actually about them but wei wuxian got up in there with great determination and made that threesome happen (wen qing's hands, wei wuxian and jiang cheng's holes... surgical holes... I regret this already). hard to totally extract him from the dynamic after that. the wei wuxian must be contended with. depends on when in the timeline it happens and what canon you're working from, since cql made it canon pre-surgery.

xicheng: this is less likely to explicitly be about wei wuxian and more likely to be structurally about wei wuxian. not only does it make them match (twin prides dating the twin jades) but the brothers-dating-brothers situation ties them tightly to wangxian from multiple directions. in other words, if it's about wei wuxian it's because it sort of re-joins them as family through a different method. if he's not your "real" brother, becoming an in-law is fine?

disclaimer: I acknowledge it is possible to, for example, write a zhancheng fic which is not about wei wuxian, I'm not saying you can't! through the power of AU all things are possible, etc. but you have to actively remove him from the dynamic, because canon embeds him there very deeply, vs. something like chengyao, where they have a totally separate relationship (via jin ling- and their working relationship).

#mdzs shitposting #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wen ning #nie mingjue #nie huaisang #jin guangyao #lan jingyi #wen qing #lan xichen #chengxian #zhancheng #ningcheng #mingcheng #sangcheng #chengyao #chengyi #chengqing #xicheng #least-carpet thoughts #mdzs +

[soursoppi]

MingCheng commission for @/felinesomnambulist !

#Jiang Cheng #Nie Mingjue #MingCheng #MDZS #Mo Dao Zu Shi #Commissions

[artsy-alice]

☕️ #MayKofiRun23 Day 8 a birthday gift for @feline-somnambulist from @trixietricoter

'take him to a couples baking class!' nie mingjue’s brother said- 'me and a-xuan had so much fun!' jiang cheng’s sister said- 'well they are eating these horrible cookies!!!' nie mingjue decides.

#nie mingjue #jiang cheng #mingcheng #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #MayKofiRun23 #(art) #(fanart) #(june2023)

[lilapplesheadcannons]

Beep

Cheng-Cheng: Hate to say this, but I need help.

Wei Ying is the best: He he, call me big brother.

Cheng-Cheng: FUCK YOU!

(Jiang Cheng set the nickname for Wei Wuxian to The Big Dumb Dummy)

(Wei Wuxian set his own nickname to The Yiling Laozu)

Cheng-Cheng: Seriously!

The Yiling Laozu: Okay, what?

Cheng-Cheng: I have to meet your brother-in-law, Jie's brother-in-law, and HuaiSang's brother tomorrow morning with the proposal I was talking about. I need an edge, something extra that would ensure me getting through to them. I'll buy you dinner.

The Yiling Laozu: And dessert?

Cheng-Cheng: Obviously!

The Yiling Laozu: Undo the first button of your shirt. Show some skin!

Cheng-Cheng: FUCK YOU!

(Jiang Cheng has unfriended and blocked Wei Wuxian)

Jiang-xiong: Hey, HuaiSang. Can I ask for a favour?

HuaiSang: Sure. What's up?

Jiang-xiong: I am meeting your brother and Xichen-ge and Meng Yao tomorrow with a proposal. Any idea what might make things easier?

HuaiSang:..........You won't try to kill me if I say what would help? You prommy?

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs crack #mdzs headcanons #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #nie mingjue #lan xichen #nie huaisang #meng yao #xicheng #mingcheng #chengyao

[demonicfarmer69]

da-ge the didi collector! (or jiang cheng the da-ge collector..?)

#this was a gift for ash (stilldrivingaw1) on twitter hehe #jiang cheng #nie mingjue #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #what can i say..nmj is fond of grapes #mingcheng

[justacoyote]

This pic is for @felinesomnambulist for their stories where Jiang Cheng and Nie Mingjue return with god like powers and starry eyes.

#nie mingjue #jiang cheng #fanart for fanfic #mingcheng #the untamed

[addictedtoking]

You know how they wear a lot of layers in the lan clan? It makes them look bulky, right? So, when jc and wwx arrive and they have on their less and thin layers, the lans just think they are bulky because of the layers. But no- they are ripped as fuck and could pick up nmj and throw him and bride carry lwj for miles and leave hand-shaped bruises on nhs skin and hold lxc up against the wall-

#mdzs #sangcheng #wanxian #mingcheng #xicheng

[whumpbby]

I really like the idea of JC with NMJ during the Sun shot campaign, the big belly is really doing it for me. But also, it's during (or soon after) Sunshot, so both WWX and JYL would be alive to see it, later on JL would have siblings and NHS would be an uncle. I wonder how it would change the plot, would anyone survive thanks to baby fever or would it somehow cause more deaths. Would NHS involve JC in his plotting now that he's family or can having family distract him from his grief enough to not plot. What if NMJ didn't die (unlikely but still). Also I can't use question marks for some reason.

Anyway back to the actual babies, of course they're big. Biggest babies you'll ever see with lungs that can scream your ears off. They will be given the most appropriate and lovely names possible of course. JYL will get to pick one.

I have so many ideas now about thisTT more or less sad/happy

How about just after Sunshot, when WWX is being dumb and staying with the Wens and JC is desperate to save him. Desperate enough to go to the one man that stood in his way - and the one that he had a chance of convincing, the one he had something to offer to...

He goes to NMJ and offers him an heir.

There's not a lot of gentry omegas left after the war. There was never many of them, but the Wen liked to target them to demoralise their families and so there's just a few left and they're all staunchly protected by their packs.

Jiang Cheng knows that the Nie are traditionalists, that their heirs are meant to be born from an alpha and an omega. He knows that the Nie don't have any omegas of an age and position appropriate for Nie Mingjue. He knows that for all his sect being a shadow of what it was, he's a perfect option for the alpha - he's an omega from a good bloodline, he has proven himself in the war, he's young and has a chance of carrying well, their characters are compatible. His pack is small, but dedicated to him and through his sister he has ties to the Jin sect.

Nie Mingjue will have problems finding a better carrier for his heir.

"Most importantly, do you even have the time to wait for another match, Nie-zonghzu?"

Nie Mingjue scoffs and wants to call Jiang Wanyin shameless, but the truth is... no, he doesn't. He knows he doesn't have as much time as he'd like to have - not only to sire a child, but to raise it, to see it grow, to prepare it for the role it will take in the future. He didn't think about it during his youth, because he was focused on raising Huaisang, and during the war there was simply no time.... but now, when they're all focused on rebuilding and repopulating their ranks, the idea of a child came back. His advisors mentioned a heir a time or two already and Nie Mingjue knows it will keep happening more and more as times goes by. He is expected to sire a child, and soon.

And yeah, maybe Jiang Wanyin is desperate enough to shamelessly sell his body for a group of Wen dogs and the shixiong that abandoned him, but Nie Mingjue is just as desperate to not leave his brother in the position he never wanted to be.

Can he weight his hatered for the Wen against his responsibility to his pack?

"I can't advise you on that, da-ge." Huisang's face didn't show a sign of sour, but his fingers were tellingly twisting the tassel of his fan. "Jiang Cheng is a good man, he sticks to his word. If you think he will be a good option, I will have nothing against it."

"It's shameless," Nie Mingjue said sourly. "For an omega to use their body in a trade."

"Certainly. A pitiful thing, to resort to such means," Huaisang looked at the wall as he spoke. "Alphas certainly don't need to lower themselves in such ways."

His little brother, so scathing in being of offhand.

"I'm certain your sworn brothers will have more insights into the situation than me, da-ge. I don't really know about politics," Huaisang noted with a sweet smile "You're lucky indeed to have their support."

Ah yes, quite cutting, his didi.

They didn't exclude Jiang Wanyin from their brotherjood on purpose - they just... didn't think of him at the time. The Jiang sect was non-existent and Jiang Wanyin was chasing shadows on the battlefield, searching for his shixiong, staying on the outside, tending to his hatchlig sect and costing up to Jin Guangshan...

"After all, I'm an omega myself, brother, I cannot be expected to keep up with all that, right?"

Not like Jiang Wanyin, who was raising his sect from the ground on his own shoulders, with little help from anyone. Was it a wonder he wanted his shixiong back, then? Even at the cost of his own body, was it a wonder he was desperate for the support from the last of his family left?

Mingjue burned to consult with Lan Xichen, who was always so balanced and objective when it came to inter-personal politics. But he didn't. Lan Xichen, raised in righteous and prohibitive sect, wouldn't understand. Romantic as he was, Zewu-jun wouldn't approve of the idea - whereas the Nie sect was fine with having their pups born out of wedlock, the Lan were conservative enough to demand marriage and mating before the offspring could even be discussed.

They could not marry, they could not mate - not two sect leaders. What Jiang Wanyin was offering him was a business transaction, borrowing his body for nine months in exchange for shutting up about a handful of Wen dregs.

He could carry on his vendetta against remnants and follow Jin Guangshan's lead, a case he had nothing to win in. Or he could have a strong heir born out of a strong omega of good blood. Jin Guangyao was his sworn brother, but Jin Guangshan was nothing more than a slimy, greedy, distasteful little man that needed someone to cut him at the knees from time to time. Jiang Wanyin was young and inexperienced, but Yunmeng had a strong trading history, with all the rivers going through it, and getting his hands into it ahead of time was just good politics. Once the Jiang sect recovered, good trade deals would put the Nie ahead of others in terms of recovery from the war.

Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao were his sworn brothers, but his father taught him to never put all his eggs into one basket.

And Jiang Wanyin was in no way hard on the eyes either.

(Mingjue could only imagine the spark in his father's eyes as he smacked his shoulder in glee and approval. The same spark he saw the few times when his father looked at Jiang Furen during sect conferences she deemed to be present at, to argue for her sect when Jiang Fengmian was happy to settle for less.)

("A good omega." Mingjue remembers his father saying. And somehow it didn't sound the way everyone else used these words to diminish the gender, didn't sound pitying or off-hand. These were words of admiration, a rare thing from his father.)

In the end, he'd be a fool to decline the offer.

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It can go two ways ;) Either the happy ending when the pregnancy changes things: WWX sees how much JC is willing to sacrifice to help his case and comes to reason, NMJ gets himself roped into saving the Wen and that leads to Wen Qing helping with his health, so he doesn't die and so he can raise his child and slowly fall for the omega that birthed it.

Or it can go as canon goes: the seed takes, but WWX still looses his mind and kills JZX, and the siege happens, with a pregnant JC leading the charge and then birthing the pup in bitter resentment of its life making no difference... all he had sacrificed, and it still wasn't enough. The Nie get the pup, but NMJ still gets murked, and Huaisang makes a production out of not knowing how to take care for a pup, so he hands them over to JC to raise and so JC is a lonely omega of Lotus Pier, raising two heirs of sects that won't be his...

#headcanon #jiang cheng #nie mingjue #mingcheng #abo headcanon

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Need people to consider. Lesbians MingCheng.

#like butch lesbian sect leader nie mingjue. thinking 'jiang cheng is the only other woman Sect leader. and the youngesg here.' #and takes jc under her wing. and jiang cheng is like 'oh thank god a Sect leader who doesn't make me want to rip my hair out.' #and also 'i cannot have a crush on my best friend's older sister for reasons one to infinity' (platonic sangcheng y'all!) #nie huaisang could still be a man in this au i think it adds a little spice to the whole situation. #ANYWAY. consider it lesbians mingcheng #mingcheng #nie mingjue #jiang cheng #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #i'm saying stuff #gender bend

[nixster627]

Tournament of Jiang Cheng's Lovers

Round 2, Bracket 4

Link to bracket

#tournament of jiang cheng's lovers #nie mingjue/jiang cheng #mingcheng #jin guangyao/jiang cheng #chengyao #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mxtx #jiang cheng #nie mingjue #jin guangyao

[bloody-bee-tea]

I commissioned @silverink58 for another #mingcheng pic and I couldn't be more pleased with how absolutely stunning it turned out🥰 only happy marriages for our boys💚💜

#mingcheng #bt commissions #this is so gorgeous #and it's what they deserve😤

[slythmultishipper]

College AU

Nie Mingjue scribbling on his notebook during free time between classes with a very serious expression.

everyone thinking that he is continuing the notes of class and revising it.

Nie Mingjue doodling NMJ and JC in a heart or under a love umbrella.

#jiang cheng #nie mingjue #mingcheng #NMJ is the kind to do something that people associate most teenagers doing to their crushes with an absolute straight face #or more like an angry face #that's why for a while JC couldn't understand if the love letters NMJ was giving him had threats in them instad #of course until he actually read the letter and it was the sappiest thing he'd ever gotten

[the-pudding-is-a-lie]

D2 but it's Jiang Cheng and Nie Mingjue and Lan Xichen???

Since I already drew D2 here, I went with B1 since the vibes are very similar. Hope you still like it! :D

(I am doing this little poly pose challenge thingie!)

#jiang cheng #lan xichen #nie mingjue #lan huan #jiang wanyin #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #chen qing ling #fanart #pose challenge #xicheng #nielan #mingcheng #mingxicheng #pudding answers

[artsy-alice]

☕️ #MayKofiRun22 for @felinesomnambulist​

quiet reading time with mingcheng 📚💚💜

#mingcheng #jiang cheng #nie mingjue #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #(art) #(fanart) #(july2022) #MayKofiRun22

[artkhallandranet]

(Edit: First automated post some artworks from August and September, some more will be posted next week same time)

Digest of Artworks: Firefighter Wanyin, Modern AU MingXiCheng, In the Mirror, Hot Springs Lan Xichen, Hot Springs Jiang Cheng, Xichen Sunnies, Wanyin Sunnies, Annoyed Court Witch Wanyin, FBI Agent Wanyin and Castlevania MingCheng

#Jiang Cheng #MDZS #Danmei #Fanart #Modern AU #Procreate #Lan Xichen #XiCheng #MingCheng