#an improvement on my original jin guangyao is harriet idea

[winepresswrath]

trying to plot out a xichen/huaisang emma au solely for the purposes of slotting jin guangyao and nie mingjue into the already married siblings role. in theory this leaves us with no one to play emma's dad but no they're both emma's dad for maximum impact. and obviously jin guangyao is also the nanny. and it ends with huaisang vowing to be worse, actually.

#they still get married tho no one is escaping the toxicity #i think everyone lives? maybe? #an improvement on my original jin guangyao is harriet idea #wwx is now harriet and nhs is insanely smug about wangxian #thus his vow to be worse actually #i think jc and wq are frank and jane #sorry to jc! and also frank actually they're a terrible mashup except i cannot resist them having a secret engagement on account of wq's #controversial connexions and related poverty #however since this is jc he obviously does not succeed in his plan to flirt with nhs for cover #making nhs obviously even more smug. and again #worse #originally i was also going to have jgy kill nmj after huaisang hooks them up but it's just too sad even if it's the right choice i shan't #it IS the right choice though like it should be a murder mystery-emma mashup from xichen's pov #where he's soooo concerned about huaisang and jgy after mingjue dies #and huaisang is like. using his matchmaking as deep cover to send jgy to the gallows #but that version of the story is so miserable #and i think unfair to both mingjue and jgs neither of whom are likely to get to that place in their relationship under the conditions #of this au. they're busy being married and fighting about whether mingjue should be more politically active or w/e #jgY now that was unfair to jgy #emma but no one learns anything. emma but one of the brontes was there giving notes #not anne sorry anne i love u anne