This is the person Jiang Cheng stans believe WWX should have left LWJ for and gone back to Lotus Pier with when he came back to life.
chapter 10, 'Only moments before, Jiang Cheng had been so certain this person was Wei Wuxian that all the blood in his body had gone cold and then boiled over in rage. But now, his Zidian told him loudly and clearly that he wasn’t. Zidian couldn’t possibly lie to him, and even less could it make an error. The Clan Chief rapidly calmed himself, and silently thought: It isn’t as though I can’t deal with this. Worst comes to worst, I’ll find some excuse to bring him back to Yunmeng, and then use every method I can to beat the truth out. There’s no need to worry about failing to get anything from him. He can hardly keep everything hidden. It’s not as though I haven’t done this type of thing before.'
Yeah, right.
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As bad as YZY is for Jiang Cheng I think Jiang Cheng has far more daddy issues then mommy issues.
With his mother, as awful as she is to Jiang Cheng he always knows where he stands with her. When she’s upset with him he’ll know why. He’s upset by her, hurt by doesn’t stay up at night thinking about it.
But with JFM he’ll never know where he stands with him, what can he do to make JFM like him. He agonises on why his father doesn’t like him. He wants his father to like him so fucking badly.
If anyone has mommy issues more it’s likely Yanli and WWX than Jiang Cheng
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Hardly a day goes by without me thinking about what could have been if Jiang Cheng instead of Lan Xichen had been the object of Jin Guangyao’s undying affection.
Imagine. Jiang Cheng, new to leading a sect, new to being an uncle, new to being the only one left alive in his family, who only knows how to bite back and how to shield himself from all the pain through anger, comes to know sweet, accommodating Jin Guangyao who has just been accepted as his father’s son, proclaimed war hero but can never be good enough, who has to endure endless amounts of scorn and hatred and who has to act as his father’s vessel all the same. And suddenly they are facing each other over a screaming Jin Ling that they both rushed to see and they understand: We’re family now.
Imagine, one day Jiang Cheng finds Jin Guangyao, shaking from exhaustion, sitting in a corner of the gardens at Koi Tower. And even though he insists that he’s fine, that he does not need to be looked after, Jiang Cheng pulls him away to his rooms because this hardworking little weasel needs a rest. (Jiang Cheng used to know another weasel who was even more effective in brushing off his injuries than Jin Guangyao is and he will not have it again.)
Jin Guangyao is completely astonished by all that grumpy caretaking. Who does this Jiang Wanyin think he is, putting him to bed like a maiden? Because you are a fucking maiden, Xue Yang suggests. Unhelpful.
Time goes by and they develop a certain acquaintance? A closeness, even? They talk (bitch) about Jin Guangshan, Madame Jin, Lan Wangji, never Lan Xichen who Jin Guangyao still adores and Jiang Cheng is indifferent towards, Sect Leader Yao and basically everyone under the sun. And they like it. They like each other. They like taking care of their nephew together. Occasionally, Jiang Cheng will find himself feeling a weird warm sensation in his chest but he doesn’t linger on it. He only goes “Huh. Strange.” and thinks nothing of it. At one point, he will be the one catching Jin Guangyao’s hand and saying “Don’t be silly, there’s no need for these formalities here.” Jin Guangyao beams.
And is in despair. How could this happen? How could he fall in love with someone other than the girl his father had picked out for him? And it only adds one more thing to the long list of reasons why Jin Guangshan has to die.
When he finally is dead and Jin Guangyao is made leader of the Jin sect and Chief Cultivator all at once, Jiang Cheng comes to congratulate him. He stays until late at night and many cups of sweet wine later (Jiang Cheng has had many of them, that is. Jin Guangyao only had one or two and did he really? Or did he use them to water a nearby plant?) Jiang Cheng says, eyes sad and cloudy and serious “Why can’t I hate him, Jin Guangyao? Why can’t I condemn him, after all these years, after all that he did to my family? He was my family, dammit! Why do I keep his fucking flute under my bed like a fucking-“
Jin Guangyao thinks about this. He thinks about retrieving Chengqing from Lotus Pier and using it for his purposes. But he discards the idea, just like he discards all thoughts of ever harming Jiang Cheng. Ever. He takes the tall angry sect leader into his arms and holds him and lets him cry into his shoulder just like Jiang Cheng let him time and time again.
Sap, Xue Yang provides. Jin Guangyao doesn’t care.
And imagine, after many happy years (more or less), a certain demonic cultivator appears and it all comes down to Guanjin Temple. It is Sandu that pierces Jin Guangyao’s chest and it is Jiang Cheng who swears to stay behind with him, to endure anything that may follow.
But Jin Guangyao pushes him away and Wei Wuxian pulls his shidi away from death. Maybe Jiang Cheng screams that he doesn’t care, that he would have killed Nie Mingjue, Jin Guangshan, all of those people himself if Jin Guangyao had asked him. But it’s irreversible now. Jin Guangyao is dead, the Jin sect is finished and it’s Jin Ling’s task to rebuild it, just like Jiang Cheng rebuilt Lotus Pier many years ago (something like that at least.) Jiang Cheng will find a purpose in helping his nephew with that task and he might begin to think of something else occasionally, over time. But he will never get back those few years, a little domestic, a little fucked up but still their years.
Idk i just think about that sometimes yea
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what does "jiang cheng is a tsundere!" even mean?
Tsundere (ツンデレ, pronounced [t͡sɯndeɾe]) is a Japanese term for a character development process that depicts a character with an initially harsh personality who gradually reveals a warmer, friendlier side over time.
[quoted directly from Wikipedia]
when does this "warm, friendlier" side of jiang cheng emerge? he literally participated in a massacre (you know, the victims of whom were innocent farmers, even a granny and could have even been a child). he was instrumental in his martial brother's death, knowing full well his sister sacrificed herself to save him. he literally physically and verbally abuses his nephew. he captures and kills anyone who resembles WWX slightly for years after his death--- you know, even if he just hates WWX for some miraculous justification, he is killing innocent people. he even blames and mocks WWX for giving him his golden core.
what "warmer, friendlier" side, dude?
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I don’t think things would change THAT much if Wei Wuxian was the youngest in the Yunmeng Trio considering he and Jiang Cheng are so close in age that I still think they would be compared to one another by the Jiang Parents (derogatory) and he and Yanli already have a very emotionally close older sister/little brother dynamic (plus I’m very fond of eldest daughter jyl, middle child wwx and baby jc dynamics) but it is both a little funny and absolutely nauseating to imagine Jiang Cheng absolutely fucking losing it over his little brother like randomly fucking off to frolic in secret Lan caves and the burial mounds and shit.
I also do think that instead of just telling off Jin Zixun in this universe during the Phoenix Mountain Hunt Jiang Yanli unhinges her jaw like a snake and eats him
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