#jiujiu said no

[evakant]

A-Ling, do you know what it was that made me lose hope completely? It wasn't because in his mind, I was less than nothing to him when compared to Jin Zixuan, or that he took back Mo Xuanyu, or that he wouldn't even let me hold you, or that he tried every possible way to make me a mere figurehead.

#theuntamededit #mdzsedit #cqledit #the untamed #jin ling #qi peixin #dailyasiandramas #cdrama #cdramaedit #fdstuff #qi peixin got so into the part he said damn right i'm my jiujiu's nephew and acted his ASS off. just like wang zhuocheng #like expression of all fucking time. can you believe??? can you believe?? a microsecond that lives in my head rent free #idk why it took me so long to gif it #fragifs #tvedit #tvgifs #tv #i wanted the text on the gif but didn't know how to do it so i settled for this. i don't love it but it is what it is

[demonicfarmer69]

Q: can jin ling give his jiujiu a hug from me? he deserves it 

🍋: i'll give jiujiu all the hugs he needs, so dont be sad, jiujiu 💔

#jiang cheng #jin ling #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #jims2kevent #DONT BE SAD JIUJIU A-LING IS HERE #ppl on twttr said jc was doing the classic Old Man pose and yk what they are right #ive procrastinated on cross posting these for too long its time i start again

[spriteofmushrooms]

The first time Jin Guangyao held Jin Ling did not go as he'd expected. Jiang Wanyin, half-mad and barely functional, for some reason had been allowed into the nursery by Jin-furen. The moment whispers of this reached Jin Guangyao, of course he went to intercede; and it was fortunate he had. He could hear wailing halfway down the corridor.

"Why is he crying?" Jiang Wanyin demanded of the wetnurse as he held the baby incorrectly.

"This one is sure Sandu Shengshou knows better than her," she replied, eyes wide. Jin Guangyao made note of this, but he had few hopes of improvement. Jin servants knew to be meek.

"Obviously, I don't," Jiang Wanyin snapped, brows furrowed as he stared down at Jin Ling. Jin Guangyao purposefully brushed the silk of his robe, and like a dog Jiang Wanyin raised his head at the sound. "Lianfang-zun, what am I doing wrong?"

With a smile, Jin Guangyao moved between the shaking wetnurse and the mad dog of Lotus Pier. "Jiang-zongzhu, babies require support. Adjust your hand--yes, ah, slightly to the side--"

"Please just show me," Jiang Wanyin said, sounding tired as he held out Jin Ling.

The moment stilled. If his cultivation were better, Jin Guangyao believed he would hear the wetnurse's breath stop. She was, after all, expressly forbidden from allowing his whoreson hands to touch his nephew; yet neither of them could deny a sect leader.

A-Ling was warm and soft, sweetly heavy as all babies should be. His embroidered, daffodil-colored swaddling still burned with the heat of Jiang-zongzhu's high cultivation. Automatically, Jin Guangyao checked the boy for a fever; but of course no illness was allowed to fester in this child.

His chubby cheeks were red from crying, but as Jin Guangyao settled him in his arms, Jin Ling slowly quieted.

"As expected of Lianfang-zun," Jiang Wanyin said, slightly mocking.

When Jin Guangyao gauged his expression from under his eyelashes, however, Jiang Wanyin seemed wistful. He looked as young as he was.

(For a moment, Wen Ruohan's laughter filled his mind. "Xiao-zongzhu" had been a common target of derision, in the beginning. Wen Chao's account of the rape of Lotus Pier had been unusually thorough, and its contents were well-known amongst Wen Ruohan's inner circle. Jin Guangyao had not included the details in his reports to either his father or Lan Xichen. He doubted that this discretion would matter at all to Jiang Wanyin, who had tortured Wen Chao at the side of Wei Wuxian. What would he do to Jin Guangyao for being the last to know?)

Choosing to ignore the self-deprecation and memories both, Jin Guangyao instructed Zidian's master on the handling of human children. Jiang Wanyin made an attentive student, but he did not reach to take Jin Ling even once Jin Guangyao finished. "Would you like to hold him?"

Frowning with concentration, Jiang Wanyin nodded and sidled closer. He held his arms as Jin Guangyao had shown him, and then he checked Jin Guangyao's face, seeking approval.

"Good," Jin Guangyao said. Jiang Wanyin didn't smile, but some tension eased. Careful not to touch hands, Jin Guangyao returned Jin Ling to his jiujiu.

The wetnurse's gentle "oh" described the scene well.

Against the black and violet, Jin Ling looked like a ray of sunshine piercing clouds. Jiang Wanyin's face cleared until he looked as delicately beautiful as gossip painted him to be; while Jin Guangyao generally considered him fragile, it was more in the sense of an arrow point designed to break once it pierced flesh. Now, though, he could understand why Jiang Wanyin was so often painted as a mourning lover spurned by the Yiling Laozu.

Then Jin Ling fell asleep, and Jiang Wanyin's eyes watered. He slowly settled onto the couch, careful not to jostle their nephew.

"How long can I stay?"

Ideally, half an incense stick. Jin Guangyao turned to the wetnurse. "Could you please ask Jin-furen to advise us?"

She bowed her head and left.

After a few moments, Jiang Wanyin said, "She needs guards in the room with her. If she can't even tell me I've fucked up, how will she fare against assassins?"

"Gold Scale Tower has many guards," Jin Guangyao began, but Jiang Wanyin snorted.

"Where do you think we are? If some pompous Jin cousin demands Jin Ling, would she say no? Much less someone with weapons drawn."

"As a servant--"

"Jiang servants can and would."

Jin Guangyao smiled. "Is it not true that Jiang servants are entirely comprised of disciples, disciple candidates, and those who failed to cultivate but chose to stay?"

"It's a sect," Jiang Wanyin answered. "Typically, they are operated like sects, yes."

"Gold Scale Tower must run in accordance with its scale," Jin Guangyao said. "The servants are often merely servants."

Jiang Wanyin, whose face displayed his opinion of that, said nothing for a moment, allowing Jin Guangyao to notice his headache. "She needs guards for herself, not just outside of the room," he repeated.

"Perhaps this is something you can address with Jin-furen?"

Looking up from Jin Ling, Jiang Wanyin studied him. "Alright. Is there anything else you want me to say?"

Jin Guangyao's fingers twitched with the desire to straighten his gold robes. "Between Jin-furen and Jiang-zongzhu, I am sure that all concerns have been considered."

"Please, you notice everything and didn't accept one single item I suggested for a-jie's wedding," Jiang Wanyin said. "Do you expect me to believe you don't have opinions on Jin Ling?"

Jin Guangyao inclined his head, and then he tentatively offered an observation and a suggestion. When Jiang Wanyin merely looked thoughtful, Jin Guangyao continued; while Jiang Wanyin occasionally asked clarifying questions, he never reacted emotionally.

It was... strange, to be in a room with this man, discussing the care of a child he wasn't allowed to do anything for. He wondered what he must look like to Jiang Wanyin to be accepted so easily as an expert on Jin Ling, on anything. Unsettling.

Yet unlike Nie Mingjue, being seen didn't seem dangerous; unlike Wen Ruohan, being noticed didn't accompany invitations to violence.

No, Jiang Wanyin observed him, and his conclusion was that Jin Guangyao could teach him how to hold his one treasure.

For the first time, it seemed like sharing a nephew with this man might be interesting, not simply alarming. Jin Guangyao looked forward to observing him further.

#pallas.rtf #mdzs #chengyao #my writing #i've never written from jgy's pov before 🙈 hopefully it's not too wrong #i wanted to show that jgy is the kind of person who is always thinking; always remembering; always connecting threads #you know. the kind of person who won't get dementia because his neural links are too vast and sexy #and also that he's afraid All The Time #anyway. #chengyao real #also that he plays with jiang cheng like a very stupid but cute puppy #this is deeply important to me and my chengyao feelings

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

Jiang Cheng: I said you could invite one friend.

Jin Ling: Jiujiu, they don’t come separately.

Lan Jingyi: Yeah, we’re pack animals!

#source: derry girls #source: unknown #incorrect quotes #incorrect mdzs #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #Jiang Cheng #Jin Ling #jin ling and his jiujiu #lan jingyi #mdzs juniors #Junior quartet

[twilightarc-gm]

Why do you like jiang cheng?

At the risk of liking him for the wrong reasons, let me be verbose and annoying about it.

A short anecdote: I finished the donghua before the novel and I liked JC's aesthetic so I was happy to have that imagery in my head for the novel, but mostly I came out of the donghua like "cool story, the ending was frowny face though" and I came out of the novel like I was lost in the IKEA store "there's stuff here but it's not what I want and it's organized in a way that's hard to navigate through." Bit like giving me a puzzle to solve.

Anyway, imagine a cat bapping at a thing trying to get fandom to show me what to do with MDZS (i.e. reading fanfic) and then I come across anti-Jiang Cheng stuff.

//record scratch

I'm sorry what?

Why?

NO.

I started then on Shuangjie reconciliation fic and quickly evolved into Jiang Cheng "Apologist" ((I actually don't think he has anything to apologize for even if he would do so anyway.))

I've been in the xianxia/wuxia sphere of media consumption for a year or so before trying out MDZS and JC just fits so well as the main character of his own story; destined for a position of power through birth, friends with someone in his life that causes conflict, seemingly betrayed by said friend when needing that friend the most, losing and losing and losing as his trust in said friend proves unfounded because the friend walks a path he can't follow, and then he's left with the tragedy that befell the world because--ultimately he trusted this friend too much.

It's a classic story of love and attachment and how good intentions can have massive consequences. Two men entwined by fate and in the end there's a battle on a hill (off screen in this case) where one is forced to "kill" the other.

MDZS could have ended with the past timeline, and I would have liked it more but at least in the present timeline we get Jiujiu and a-Ling.

Anyway: Excerpts and Commentary Below about WHY I LOVE JIANG CHENG, courtesy WANYIN

Of all the clans to offend, you don’t offend the Jiang Clan, and of all the people to offend, you never offend Jiang Cheng.

We stand by a badass mf in this house. The first thing we learn is that he gets credit for killing a big baddy and the second thing we learn is how fierce the rest of his reputation is. He brooks no shit and leaves no quarter. Amazing 💜

Well, I was done for at "gaze like two streaks of cold lightning" so RIP me, I guess. Reminds me of some antis that are like "you only like him because he's hot" which isn't true but it is a nice plus. He's described as inferior to LWJ so like, if it was only about hotness then wouldn't I like LWJ???

“I am his uncle. Do you have any last words?”

At the sound of that voice, every drop of blood in Wei Wuxian’s body seemed to surge to his head but then immediately drained away again. Thankfully, his face was already a mess of ghastly white, so it didn’t look strange when he went a little paler.

A man in purple attire strode over. He was dressed in a narrow-sleeved light robe, with his hand resting on the hilt of his sword. A silver bell dangled from his waist, yet there was no sound when he walked.

This young man had fine brows and almond eyes, with a chiseled handsomeness to his features. His eyes were deep and intense with a hint of aggression, his gaze like two streaks of cold lightning. He stopped and stood three meters away from Wei Wuxian. His expression was like that of a nocked arrow on a bow, ready to shoot, and even his composure was suffused with arrogant pride.

Jiang Cheng ruled the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng alone, so it could have been said that he was in a state of isolation.

🥺 Alone?? And he could still afford 400 Immortal Binding Nets? Self-sufficient king 🤩 And like, his reputation is so fierce and he's boiling over with anger in that scene, but still he restrains himself because he did the cost-benefit analysis! And then later he takes a huge risk on WWX, like he always does for WWX, and that doesn't work out for him--like it always does.

Seeing that nothing had happened to Jin Ling, Jiang Cheng was greatly relieved. However, that relief soon turned into a furious reprimand:

Parent behavior. Enough said.

He has a twisted smile when encountering a trigger for his PTSD and then he decides to fight it instead of letting it paralyze him. He's such a doer. Like, every other moment of the day he's carefully calculating pluses and minuses to every choice (valid) but when it comes to facing his personal demons he's ready to throw down. Excellent.

A moment later, Jiang Cheng’s lips pulled into a twisted smile. His left hand subconsciously began stroking that ring once more.

He said softly, “Excellent. Back, are you?”

He let go of his left hand, and a long whip dangled from it.

“Oh? Then please enlighten me, what is your type?”

Walking A-Spec flag very concerned about what the man who might be his shixiong thinks about him, more at eleven!

Wei Wuxian waved him off and then hooked his arm around Jiang Cheng’s shoulders. “Who cares? I’ll tease him a bit more before I go. You’ve already collected my corpse so many times. Once more won’t hurt.”

Okay but big lol that JC doesn't get to collect WWX's corpse that final time. //sounds of sobbing

A smile appeared on his face, but then he immediately humphed.

He's so grumpy and adorable! I love him! pre massacre JC is precious and I just want him to have someone to bring out that smile again.

He literally didn't have to do this. He makes all these excuses how he'll be embarrassed if WWX is rolling around 😂 Perfection. Boy, you are still carrying him and he doesn't want you to stop.

Jiang Cheng, walk slower, you’re gonna throw me off.”

Not only did Jiang Cheng want to throw Wei Wuxian off, but he practically wanted to bash his head into the ground to create a human crater. “So fussy even though I’m carrying you!”

“I didn’t tell you to carry me,” Wei Wuxian reasoned.

Jiang Cheng flew into a rage. “If I didn’t carry you, I think you’d hang out at their ancestral hall all day, rolling around on the floor. I can’t afford this embarrassment! Lan Wangji took fifty more strikes than you, but he walked away on his own, and you’re not embarrassed, pretending to be an invalid? I don’t want to carry you anymore. Get the hell off!”

“No, I’m wounded,” Wei Wuxian said.

Alrighty, like I'm just going through the entire book at this point.

Let me see if I can make this more concise:

Sacrifices himself despite his very dutiful nature that would oppose this. He throws away all his responsibilities for WWX, again and again, carrying on a tradition of favoring WWX over his own health and happiness. Citing: JFM favoring WWX to the detriment of his marriage, JYL dying to save WWX, and JC (exhausted and with little or no power) running into danger to save WWX ala distracting the Wen patrol and 2nd Siege.

Can't be honest in his affections and makes up excuses to do nice things for others.

Loves and understands his sister. She wanted JZX so he made it happen when LLJ had absolutely no reason to reinstate the marriage contract between Xuanli. JGS notes in the CR arc that he didn't want the marriage for his son in the first place and that there were better options than YMJ, and that was before the war! JC helped her get to Yiling to show off her wedding dress! Even though she married out he still felt so attached to her son he couldn't not co-parent Jin Ling.

Yes, he has Zidian, but he also has a second horsewhip that he keeps on him which is very exciting to know.

The narrative hates him but he survives. (He survives because the narrative hates him).

Most BAMF entrance in the novel at the temple scene with the busting the temple doors down and coming in from the rain with an umbrella. Like sure the narrative hates him but small blessings that rule of cool still counts for something.

Mama's boy.

Just some dude, shows up late to treasury room nonsense, knows all the gossip, no one has faith in him including himself, but he keeps going and doing what needs to be done even when he's so so tired and his shixiong shows up 3 months late with a ghoul lady and a latte, or disappears to liberate slave property without warning first and now he's called into a midnight meeting after trying to get some much needed rest and now he's got consequences to deal with. Someone help him!

An expert at sneering. Threats as a show of worry and care. This makes all the little and brief smiles so much more endearing.

Sandu Shengshou is an amazing title, get out of here if you don't agree. Holy Hand of the Three Poisons? Brutal, perfect 💜 It gets used like, ONCE. Crime against me personally.

Link to Blorbo Sheet for JC

He loves, he hates, he wants to hate he's not allowed to love. Zero middle ground, he's all in and there's no way out.

//is shot and dragged off stage

But just as the Wei Wuxian of the past who’d extracted his golden core for Jiang Cheng had been unable to tell him the truth, the Jiang Cheng of the present could no longer bring himself to speak up.

#jiang cheng #canon jiang cheng #asks answered #twi posts #yunmeng shuangjie #quotes

[uncorrectintamed]

Jin Ling: Jiujiu doesn't indulge in gossip (so he says) but the way he talks about Cultivation discourse comes very close.

Jiang Cheng: [talking about Wangji] Then he said to **me**-

Jin Ling: Sir please you sound like a high school girl laying on her bed with her feet kicking in the air

Jiang Cheng: Same thing with Wei Wuxian, he was all like, "Oh yeah, everything's fine!" Yeah right.

Jin Ling: Oh my goodness, tell me more.

#the untamed #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #jin ling #incorrect quotes #this house is a fucking nightmare #source: out of context discord

[veliseraptor]

So that latest Zelkam art of the core transfer has been sucking my brain out of my head all night. And now I can't stop thinking of how much JC's inherited that he never wanted or knew: Zidian (mother), the core (brother), Jin Ling (sister), Suibian (brother x2). I'd include the Jiang name and clan if I wanted to include his father. And it hurts me. He's left with so many remnants of his loved ones and yet how hollow does he feel? How unloved? Answers surely depend on post/canon timeline but idk. I'm just wrecked. *dies quietly*

I have a lot of Feelings about the ways in which Jiang Cheng really does just keep getting handed inheritances he doesn't want to have. People keep giving him things (in a material and metaphorical sense), but it doesn't seem like the give him things as an uncomplicated gift but as this enormous, weighty thing that comes with an immense price. "Here, take my life," people keep saying to Jiang Cheng, "take this and my death with it." And the hideous irony of the core transfer is that that's true even when Jiang Cheng himself tries to give his own life for the people he loves, only with the result that Wei Wuxian turns right around and gives up his own to "fix" it.

But yeah! His mother bequeaths him Zidian in the process of sending him away while she dies. Wei Wuxian dies and leaves him with a flute and a sword he doesn't want. Jin Ling...it's not that he doesn't want Jin Ling, he always would have wanted to be in his life, but not like this. oh I know I'm going to do the thing I do and quote my own fic

You, me, and a-Cheng, said a-jie’s voice in his ear. We must stay together, and never separate.

He’d never learned how to let go, but he’d been the one left behind anyway.

for someone who is in a lot of ways defined by the way that he holds on to the past, for better or worse (and I don't think it's all bad! his success rebuilding Jiang Sect is I think owed in part to his drive to never let what happened to it before to happen again), he does keep end up being the one left, and left holding mementos and reminders that are just a constant chafing reminder of what he lost.

it really adds something fun and spicy too to the bit during the second siege of the Burial Mounds, both in the novel and in CQL:

Jin Ling had never seen so many fierce corpses before, much less at such a close distance. He could feel his scalp tingle, and clenched Suihua's hilt. Yet, suddenly, his fist was peeled open, and a cold object was stuffed inside. He looked down in surprise. "Jiujiu?"

Jiang Cheng propped himself up with Sandu, which had lost its spiritual energy. His figure wavered slightly. "Try losing Zidian, just see what happens!"

[...] When Jin Ling saw that all of the people his age had rushed over, he couldn't hold himself back either. When Jiang Cheng was distracted, he stuffed Zidian back into his hand and sprinted toward the front... (Chapter 80, trans. Exiled Rebels)

The way it's acted here in particular it feels very much like Jin Ling at least has a sense of how loaded this gesture is, whatever Jiang Cheng says about giving it back. Here he is! Continuing the chain of just passing down things as a legacy that in no way substitute for the person they stand for.

just to set those screenshots alongside this:

there's something I think to Jiang Cheng that's not just incredibly painful in all the obvious ways about the core transfer, but specifically in the way that it's related to a sacrifice he very deliberately made - and now he finds out that not only was that sacrifice ultimately utterly pointless, or worse than pointless, the person he originally made it for made it so. It's this "oh, you can sacrifice yourself for me but I can't do the same for you?" that's so bitter to feel, both because I do think there's some amount of "why do you always, always get to come out of things the hero" but more than that, "why did you do this when I made my decisions specifically to protect you; does my desire to protect you not matter? doesn't it mean anything?"

Jiang Cheng standing with his hands full of memorials going "I don't want these," because what he actually wanted was his family, but the world kept taking them away, and apparently in at least one case his family actively didn't get the memo.

#conversating #apprenticedmagician #been a while since jiang cheng feelings but here we still are! #jiang cheng #the sad queer cultivators show

[mxtxfanatic]

Hello, new danmei fan here. I'm really late into danmei, just started last year (so I missed the hype). Just when I confused which blog to follow, I found your blog. Thanks so much for this blog of yours, it really helped me to understand more of the stories. I just finished MDZS, TGCG, SVSSS and now I'm reading 2Ha.

For this ask game, can I ask MDZS or SVSSS?

Before I start reading, many people said that SVSSS is inferior to other MXTX works, after finishing the books, I disagree, because I enjoy them all the same....

I mean, if starting last year is considered "late," then I'm also behind, because I only started reading things a few years ago lmao! But it's never too late when fandoms are still booming (for better or worse). So I see we're finishing out the mxtx novels.

MDZS

Favorite Character: Wei Wuxian

Favorite Arc: all Drunk Lan Wangji encounters!

Character I Think is Underrated: Lan Wangji, if i have to hear “he’s boring” from people who can’t read one more time…

Character I Think is Overrated: all of the antagonists and villains. Jiang Cheng is not "single mother!jiujiu," he is just a bitchless Wen Chao. Jin Guangyao is not "poor little Meng Yao forced to do things against his will," he is a a calculating murderer who will scheme against, betray, and kill anyone who stands between him and ultimate power. Madam Yu is not a "girlboss" (unless we accept the real meaning of that word, which is a woman who gains power by ingratiating herself into oppressive systems as the female alternative to corrupt male leaders), she is a domestic abuser who made every single person in her family and husband's clan miserable.

Favorite Ship/Pairing: Wangxian

Something I Love About the Book: I love the way this book is adamant about good always eventually being rewarded. That even if the outcome of doing good was terrible, that does not make the effort wasted or useless. Lan Wangji protecting Wei Wuxian at Nightless City was worth it even if he was almost killed for it, because it made sure that the yin tiger tally did not end up in the Jin Clan's hands as a completed weapon. Wei Wuxian saving the Wen was worth it even though he was killed for it, because A-Yuan got to live. Wen Qing and Wen Ning saving Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian was worth it even though Jiang Cheng betrayed them in the end, because their clan still got to live through its last descendant. None of their actions were met with immediate rewards, but the larger implications of them led to better outcomes than had they just kept to themselves and the status quo of corruption, as everyone else had.

SVSSS (my favorite of the three 🤗)

Favorite Character: Luo Binghe, hands down

Favorite Arc: Holy Mausoleum Arc, cause y'all (Shen Qingqiu 😒) gonna stop falsey accusing my baby, today!

Character I Think is Underrated: Bing-mei version of Luo Binghe, not because he's "unpopular," per se, but because mainstream fandom's perception of him seems to be that he is just Bing-ge who cries, and this is a complete mischaracterization of his character based on popular fanon. I see too much hate for him in this fandom because of it

Character I Think is Overrated: Shen Jiu. The man was a child abuser and died to one of his victims because he chose to be a child abuser. There is nothing tragic or unfair about that. Leave that man in the ether where he'll hopefully never have a chance to harm another person again.

Favorite Ship/Pairing: Bingqiu

Something I Love About the Book: Shen Qingqiu. The man is trying his damndest to do right in what he considers a doomed narrative, but the moment he realizes that his efforts have actually made things worse, he immediately pivots his actions. He never tries to justify himself, deflect from criticism, or misplace responsibility. He has one goal in mind, and that is to make as many people's lives as he possibly can better than what they originally ended up as.

#svsss asks #mdzs asks #ask games #anon #favorite svsss character close *close* second is sqq

[fridaywormteeth]

plot bunny Modern AU where jin ling invites the juniors home and they’re all scared to meet his terrifying uncle. Surprisingly, said uncle also has people over

“I’m friends with jiang cheng”

“impossible, jiujiu doesn’t have friends”

turns out it’s nhs, jiujiu’s old friend from school, and wwx, (one of) jin ling’s estranged uncle(s). And basically they both see how nervous the other juniors are and are just like “??? It’s just Jiang cheng??” So to lighten the mood they start to tell increasingly ridiculous and embarrassing (and true) stories about what they and Jiang cheng used to get up to in school. Story by story Jiang cheng’s scary image starts to crack and eventually just falls of completely when he starts to retaliate by telling of how embarrassing wwx and lwj used to be about each other and how “obvious” it was that they both liked each other and still do. At this point wwx has an epiphany and panics to find some portable speakers so that he can go recreate the Say Anything boombox scene with wuji.mp3. Ozz and jingyi get really into the “go to him”-mood.

more stories are told and somehow it ends with sangcheng, lingyi, and wangxian happening + they’re now Officially Jiujiu Approved friends and everyone’s happy. The juniors are welcome over anytime they like and everyone’s gained new friends by the end of the evening

anyways the fic would be called (Tales of) Jiujiu’s Bizarre Adventures

#mdzs #the untamed #the juniors #junior quartet #the ducklings #ouyang zizhen #lan sizhui #jin ling #jin ling and his jiujiu #jiang cheng #nhs #sangcheng #wwx #wangxian #mdzs modern au #plot bunny #fic idea #lingy #friday's posts

[wangxianficrecs]

to heal with the sunrise by justdoityoufucker (orphan_account)

to heal with the sunrise

by justdoityoufucker (orphan_account)

T, 2k, Jin Ling

Summary: It’s almost eleven years after his death when the Yiling Laozu is revived. Jin Ling does not hear of it until news comes from Lotus Pier—or, more accurately, news comes about Lotus Pier. In the midst of his shushu being exposed as the mastermind behind many recent horrors of the cultivation world, his jiujiu has met a horrific and unexplained end. And Jin Ling cries—not for his jiujiu, no. He cries for his best and only friend, who is now free of Jiang Wanyin. - Or, the one where Jiang Wanyin suffers as he deserves. Kay's comments: A dark Jiang Cheng AU, where he is the one to find A-Yuan after the siege and takes him back to Lotus Pier to kind of life a twisted version of Wei Wuxian's life, by becoming Jin Ling's whipping boy. Luckily, our Jin Ling is a good bean and does his best to help him, teaching him to cultivate and asking for help and double luckily, Wei Wuxian returns a bit sooner and takes matters into his own hands. A very cool read. I loved Jin Ling's POV and how it portrayed his desperation and helplessness, but also the relationship he built with A-Yuan. Excerpt: The year Jin Ling turns twelve, he meets Lan-zongzhu on one of the wide pathways that crisscross the gardens of Koi Tower, and he cannot keep his silence. He cannot bear the thought of another year in Yunmeng, with his jiujiu, where any imagined fault of his will mean that his only friend in the entire world is beaten for it. He’d wanted to leave Fairy behind, when he left that summer, but a-Yuan had merely smiled at him and said that Jin Ling needed a companion in Koi Tower, that he would be fine in Lotus Pier as he always had been. No more! Jin Ling wanted to wail and scream as he stepped back onto the boat that would take them to Gusu and, beyond, to Lanling. Why, why why?! Why keep this boy and hurt him!? Why? Lan-zongzhu doesn’t look as if he believes him, and it is with a sinking feeling in his stomach that Jin Ling leaves their meeting. Hopefully he doesn’t tell jiujiu that Jin Ling thinks he’s bad, cruel for how he treats the boy. It would just mean worse for a-Yuan, and Jin Ling is not sure if either of them could survive that.

pov jin ling, thirteen years of wei wuxian's death, canon divergence, not jiang cheng friendly, dark jiang cheng, non-linear narrative, implied/referenced character child abuse, implied/referenced torture, best friends, whipping, whipping boy, angst with a happy ending, lan jingyi/lan sizhui, shuiyi, pov outsider on lan wangji/wei wuxian, protective lan wangji, protective wei wuxian, yiling laozu wei wuxian, character death

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[jonathankai]

The first thing Jiang Cheng spoils Jin Ling with is physical contact. He just can’t help it after Yanli’s death: whenever he sees baby A-Ling, he needs to hold him close, and thus he becomes the most tactile of newborn’s relatives. In return, baby grows very attached to Jiang Cheng too, and prefers to spend most of their time together in his jiujiu’s lap or somewhere nearby. This doesn’t change as he reaches his first exploring phase. Doing paperwork with a toddler in your lap, who must touch everything, must drop everything, will keep trying to lick ink is a task that seems impossible, but Jiang Cheng manages. Mostly. At times he’s too tired and resigned and lets Jin Ling have his way. He will calm down after getting ink all over table, uncle and himself, and then Jiang Cheng will be blessed with some quiet time, as young explorer recharges for his next big venture.

Soon enough this attachment becomes a problem.

Wherever Jin Ling and Jiang Cheng are reunited, the nephew won’t tolerate two hours apart from his uncle. At three years old Jin Ling already attends all negotiations and meetups hosted by Jiang Cheng. Many guests are less than happy about small child’s presence and some of them ask if maybe Young Master Jin should be somewhere else. But Sect Leader Jiang is unmovable: as a future Sect Leader, his nephew must start his training as soon as possible. Luckily, Jing Ling is either smart enough or too shy of new people, and behaves docile, so many skeptical guests start to respect and even consider this strategy of upbringing. The fact that Sect Leader Jiang was shamefully defeated and forced into obedience by furious tantrums of a small child remains a well-hidden secret.

Jin Ling’s tantrums are furious, dangerous even. Jiang Cheng learns very early that he must never schedule a night hunt while Jin Ling is at Lotus Pier. He can do any sort of arrangements with a kid in his arms by now, but there’s no way he’s taking him to a night haunt! Jin Ling sees his uncle about to leave and he cries and cries and cries and does so in such violent manner that doctors predict danger for his physical health.

The only way to return him safely to Lanling is for Jiang Cheng to take him himself. There Jin Ling can be distracted by other family members as Jiang Cheng makes his escape. Not that he wants to escape, really.  Having a kid by your side all the time is quite addicting, and Jiang Cheng has to multiply his workload three times to make up for feeling of loss.

Despite all difficulties, Jin Ling’s huge attachment to Jiang Cheng proves to have many useful side effects. Jiang Cheng actually tries to make something good out of ink disasters, so he tries to teach Jin Ling to hold brush and draw lines even if he doesn’t understand what he’s doing. When actual writing lessons start, Jin Ling adapts quickly and experiences fewer troubles along the way than expected of a child. Taking Jin Ling anywhere with him means he rides with Jiang Cheng on a horse, which gradually leads to Jing Lin learning to ride on his own pretty early. At age six Jing Ling is very invested in coping adults and Jiang Cheng half-joking allows him to “assist” in youngest disciples’ training. This starts as turmoil for said disciples, who are confused about whose’ orders they should follow: Sect Leader’s six-years-old nephew or older disciple’s, who’s actually in charge of training. But by the time Jin Ling is twelve, he is so familiar with Jiang’s swordsmanship and training routine that he can successfully train Jiang’s newbies on his own, even if they are physically older than him.

Years go by, and naturally outside world becomes more tempting than comforting presence of his adults. Jin Ling develops a new talent, which is – to vanish into thin air. Jiang Cheng even holds an experiment at some time, when they head to town and he asks Lin Ling to stay put and wait for him outside just for a little while. He takes a few steps away, looks back – and yes, the kid is already gone. It’s remarkable. And terrifying. Jin Ling is at that age when he believes himself to be very cunning and all his plans nothing short of genius. Unfortunately, his assertions don’t match the reality, which earns many "fond" memories to him and his uncle, and also leads to Jiang Cheng developing a new habit of checking Jin Ling’s whereabouts every five minutes, but that’s a whole another age of their lives.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #jiang cheng #jin ling #mdzsips

[factsilike]

JC: does one decent thing after a whole book of extremely crappy behaviour

His Stans and the whole MDZS fandom: OMG BEST CHARACTER IN THE NOVEL! SUCH AN AMAZING AND AWE INSPIRING SECT LEADER LIKE HE PIKED UP LITERAL BRICKS TO REBUILD HIS WHOLE ENTIRE SECT FROM THE GROUND! TOTALLY DID NOT REGAIN NEW SECT MEMBERS JUST CAUSE OF WWX'S REPUTATION! SOB SOB SO TRAGIC SOB SO MISUNDERSTOOD OUR POOR BABY OUR POOR MISUNDERSTOOD ANGRY GRAPE 🥺 HE JUST NEEDS A HUG 🥺 BEST JIUJIU AND BROTHER EVER🥹 OH YUNMENG BROS 😫SNIFF 😩 SNIFF WHAT A SAD SOAP OPERA STORY🥺 THEY JUST NEEDED TO ✨ COMMUNICATE ✨

Meanwhile WWX: undergoes tragedy after tragedy and loses home after home; loses his parents at 5, roams the streets as a child for four years, suffers verbal and physical abuse from Madam Yu his entire time in the Jiang sect, has to fight for his life in the Xuanwu cave while injured and weak, gets a beating again by Madam Yu for no real reason other her pettiness, witnesses his sect siblings get murdered, has to look after and and rescue an emotionally numb JC while again injured from the lashings he received from his mother, undergoes a surgery without anaesthesia for two days to give JC his literal golden core, and immediately after gets thrown into literal hell on earth without a core and still recovering from said surgery, survives said hell on earth to immediately fight as a one man army in a war, takes incentive to rescue a group of war prisoners and innocents (two of which JC owed a huge debt to, which he spat upon), again takes incentive to withdraw from his sect so they wouldn't have to suffer any consequences and only he would, and eventually sees his Shijie (literally the only person to his knowledge who ever unconditionally loved him and treated him as family) die in front of his eyes, and finally gives his own life to protect the innocent Wen remnants.

His Stans and the whole MDZS fandom: WOW WHAT AN ARROGANT AND SELF-DELUSIONAL 🫠IDIOT🙄 JC WAS SO MUCH BETTER THAN HIM LIKE ALL WWX DID WAS MESS THINGS UP. OBVIOUSLY HE SHOULD'VE TOLD JC HIS PLAN SO THAT JC COULD DO IT ✨ BETTER ✨ ALSO WWX WAS TOTALLY MORALLY GREY AND WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS JGY AND XY AND I KNOW THIS CAUSE I HAVE THE ABSOLUTE BEST READING COMPREHENSION AND CLEARLY I UNDERSTAND THE STORY BETTER THAN ANYONE

#the low self esteem and self sacrifing takes piss me off too but not as much as takes like these #jc stans you're all brain dead idiots to come with takes like these #mdzs #wei wuxian #wangxian #canon jiang cheng #lan wangji #mo dao zu shi #cql #the untamed #anyone who sends hate come at me all you want I'm really pissed off rn #would love to vent

[demonicfarmer69]

Q: does jiujiu give good hugs? And is he a huggy person?

🍋: jiujiu isn't a huggy person (…and he gives the best hugs, but dont tell anyone i said that)

#jin ling is tsun just like jiujiu #jiang cheng #jin ling #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #jims23minievent #canon jiang cheng #very important for everyone to know that dialogue is from chapter 84 #ka the boat scene where jiujiu defends a-ling in front of everybody #and is ready to smack the bitch that made his little lemon cry

[spriteofmushrooms]

Ask game: 1 chengqing

1. things you said at 3am

Two days after Wei Wuxian died, Jiang Cheng woke from a dream of the dirty Wen child who clung to his leg. Heart racing, skin clammy, he flew alone to the Burial Mounds and scoured the remains, all for nothing. And who could he ask? So the warmth of a little body haunted him on the nights he rocked Jin Ling.

Until a small Lan with a Gusu-softened Qishan accent tripped and fell into him during one of his visits to Lan Qiren, apologizing so desperately that Jiang Cheng couldn't help but focus on him. A sweet, anxious expression modifying Wen clan features. The earnest need to ensure all adults stayed calm barely obscured by Lan-trained restraint.

Just like a-jie, Jiang Cheng thought.

"Are you treated well?" Jiang Cheng asked, interrupting the boy. What was his name?

The little Lan blinked and nodded, going mute from Jiang Cheng's gruff voice.

Jiang Cheng's eyes stung, and he turned his face away. "Be careful."

At least Nie Mingjue was dead. In time, the boy's accent would fade, and the danger would pass. Perhaps his mother's features would develop in time, too, obscuring his resemblance to a skull mounted outside of Bujing Shi.

The nightmares continued anyway.

Two days after Jin Guangyao died, Jiang Cheng woke from a dream of starry black eyes. It was impossible, and yet Lan Sizhui lived and Wen Ning persisted. After another frantic flight, this time to Jinlin Tai, Jiang Cheng found himself in front of a groggy Jin Ling.

"There was a doctor," Jiang Cheng said.

Jin Ling blinked at him. "Okay."

"She might be alive," he gestured at the walls, "somewhere hidden."

Jin Ling was a good boy, so he only complained the necessary amount before dressing and organizing the search. Jiang Cheng held little hope--Jin Guangyao's memory was exceptional, so he had left few notes. Still, servants see more than most, and so Jiang Cheng carefully questioned people until they had several possibilities.

With Jin Ling and a small group of Jin cultivators, they searched the areas of Jinlin Tai that seemed most suspect. Most inspections led to nothing, the result of hindsight casting shadows over Jin Guangyao's every movement. Two ended with Jiang Cheng standing aside as Jin Ling beheld his grandfather's and shushu's legacies.

One, though. One led to a small, dark apartment that locked from the outside.

It was tidy. The first room was filled with shelves and a table. Jiang Cheng picked up the ink stick, rubbing his thumb against it. High quality. Ink he couldn't have afforded for the first seven years after the war.

Like everything else, it was covered in dust.

"Jiujiu," Jin Ling said, and then stopped.

Jiang Cheng ignored him, using a light talisman to check the books and scrolls. Decisive, bold strokes filled many. The writer's thoughts had flowed easily; her brush had not faltered.

"Jiujiu, I'm sorry."

Jiang Cheng shut the book in time for his tears to fall on the cover.

He'd thought she died the same day as Jiang Yanli, as Wei Wuxian. He'd thought Jin Guangshan had burned her with the rest. He had dreamed about it, about begging her to let him save her as she walked with Wen Ning to her death. Not once in sixteen years had she ever turned to him.

This, though.

"Do you want me to check the other room?"

"No," Jiang Cheng said.

A bed. A chest with Wen red robes. A pair of slippers.

Jiang Cheng knelt in the dust and clung to the robes.

"Who was she?"

My zhiji, Jiang Cheng thought, and said nothing.

#pallas.rtf #mdzs #my writing #add1ctedt0you #chengqing #this is based on cql canon which i obviously don't actually know so 🤷 could be wrong as hell #anyway i made myself cry

[travalerray]

do you think if jc got de-aged far back enough he would be really clingy and refuse to be put down

Thanks for the ask!

Okay so um. Assuming that this takes place post canon and JC doesn't like...lose his memories during the de-aging, and just wakes up one day fully kiddified CWN-style, he would probably really....hate it lmao. The Vulnerability of it all, yk? On top of that, while JL might find him cute enough to not put his kid Jiujiu down(except said Jiujiu will hiss and howl until he is compelled to do so), I don't know about a Jiang Cheng who assumes that he's genuinely unlikeable and won't go out seeking affection in general. Because he certainly won't ask it from his disciples and definitely not from Mr "It's all in the past now" "It was repaying a debt" because what is he going to ask? Hi, you gave your core to me and shouldered all of that by yourself because apparently you couldn't bother to tell a single thing to me so now I want so cling to you? Hah. Like he has ever stuck around.

...... honestly it will probably make him feel worse. The first time around his father barely held him and it was because he was too much like his mother (inherently unlikeable). This time too no one will pick him up because.... he's inherently unlikeable. Poor guy. At least he has his nephew.

Short answer: Jiang Cheng would love to be physically clingy de-aged but he would die before asking for it because thank you Jiang Fengmian for being the father of the year and to canon(Wei Wuxian) for making him the isolated widow of the decade.

#......I wrote this with the consideration that he would be able to actually like. Think™. #And wouldn't end up as a mewling infant. Because that would be a whole different level of trauma for everyone involved #kk's ask tag #jiang cheng #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi

[fubuwu]

Me when I lie.

Apparently we're comparing jc with Trump now ig.... Another one for stupid fucking jc anti bingo, ig. How are they not embarrassed?

Also did they read the book? Where does it say that jc and jl never speak again?? And what about the part where jl says his jiujiu would never beat him? Said right after wwx himself gave jl a clout lmao. Braindead takes as always on this app.

Oh and the post they were refering to was just an innocent jc appreciation post, talking about the sacrifices he's made for family and sect.

Yeah, these antis really are just a load of bitter, vicious bullies, stuck in their ways of attacking and accusing jc fans of all sorts. Do they ever get bored?

#mo dao zu shi #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #Yawn #I'm not going to stop calling these mfs out until they stop attacking others with their shit baseless takes #Embarrassing watching them all pop off #Reminder this isn't an excuse to attack the person in the screenshot #I've left out their name but if you know the account just block and don't engage #They're not worth it #Don't stoop to their level