Hi plan. About your last post for Lan Xinchen there probably thinking about this tweet. It’s also linked a fic that’s full of wrongs like it makes your head break. Twitter. com/ yllzsexc/status/1512818253344940034
Re THIS post?
oh boy... link. To me that is as annoying as jc stanning. There's no difference. jc stans project on jc. These people project their reactions on WWX and are upset he didn't act a certain way or take things a certain way. It's sad when it comes from accounts with generally good opinions but it is what it is. As for the fanfic it's just fanfic. I read it before for an ask, there's nothing canon about it and in fact it reinforces some common errors.
People just need to stop treating fanfic like it's canon. Even if it comes from accounts that say they respect canon. Bc they need to actually understand canon, and canon characterization first, and even then - still not canon. fic is just wish fulfillment. That one has a clear bias too and reiterates several mistakes people make with canon. The author just wants to get their own issues off their chest Re: whatever problems they have w LXC and makes up a completely different dynamic between the actual characters and characterization.
It does cement in my mind how happy I am with the way MXTX wrote the story. Such dialogue and cringe melodrama not only doesn't add anything to the story but would have been completely out of place. Certainly for those characters.
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What do you think of nielan as a ship?
Tragically lovely. Honestly jokes aside on how Xinchen recognized whose corpse his bro and his bro in law are carrying around by looking at those ABSSSSSSSSSS , but???imagine the PAIN? the disbelief?
Xinchen met and forged a bond with Mingjue through the most traumatic time of his life. People say you bond with those who act the most closest to the ones who raised you and Mingjue's strict morals but beneath it all, deep love which can make him compromise is so much like a "mini" Lan Qiren? His taciturn nature and "telling something but thinking something else" attitude is so much like Lan Wangji? You can tell why he would instantly feel comforted and drawn towards him.
I saw that about WWX, how he may laugh at Lan clan's 3000 rules, but for a man who spend his entire life in an unstable household where there seems to be no hard and fast rule on what could get him punished or verbally harassed by the elders, the stability of those rules and elders being determined to correct you gently looks so appealing? the reverse can be true just as well for LXC, who was brought up in this environment and falling in love with a man who embodies that value as well he is able in a jianghu where no one seems to want to be honorable is a goner. Especially after the traumatic event of his home and his clan nearly being decimated by Wens.
Also in a way this ship reminds me of songxiao. Both in terms of how they are and also how it ended. Destroyed by a third entity who one or both of them trusted simply because their whim got the better of them. The way Mingjue died has to be one of the most unfair among the main cast line. He is a man who by the way of his comments on Wen Qing is clear is a hardliner when it comes to morality. Yet he COMPROMISED on something like that just so Jiggy would do the bare minimum and STOP being a turd...yet he didn't and got a horrifying death for it to boot( srsly if his bro has not sewed him up and did what he did, their would be no moving on and reincarnation in cards for him.)
How does someone move on from something like this? have someone you love be ended by someone else you trusted like this? Damn I get why Xinchen would have such a hard time coping for the first three months or so. Bet LWJ was just as broken on first few years of his seclusion.
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Nie Huaisang's Master Plan
I've seen a few misunderstandings regarding Nie Huaisang's role in uncovering the murder of his brother, Nie Mingjue.
I wanted to go through a brief summary his entire master plan, that he carefully thought out, chronologically, since he deserves a LOT more credit than he's given.
~~The events follow the novel story-line solely!~~
Under the cut of course, because it's quite long~!
We know and love how Nie Huaisang is first presented in his comical, innocent even scaredy facade. He is not known to put that much effort into cultivation and his studies results (especially at Cloud Recesses) are exceedingly poor.
He’s also always gladly participating in Wei Wuxian's shenanigans, indulging in drinking nights and pranks + that small fact abt him owning an entire library of pornography.
Worth mentioning, that Nie Huaisang has always shown interest in demonic cultivation when Wei Wuxian first mentioned it. Especially since he wasn't adept at cultivating himself, which proves he was already ready to use all the means/short-cuts necessary to achieve his goals.
(This is presented solely from his POV but a bit of background of each situation is needed, yet I will try not to go into too many details and keep it NHS centric as parts of his plan are unfolded, which is why other main story elements are naturally skipped)!
His plans begins after his brother Nie Mingjue's death through qi deviation.
Nie Huaisang naturally becomes the new Qinghe Nie sect leader. He is still unwilling to cultivate the saber, lest the same fate befalls him, as previous Nie sect leaders have also lost their lives through qi deviation.
When Nie Huaisang notices that his brother's corpse has gone missing, he begins his search. He is only able to track down his left arm that he can neither suppress nor control.
Thus, his first goal is to find the remaining pieces.
His plan unravels chronologically as follows. step by step:
step 1. MO XUANYU
Nie Huaisang seeks out the traumatized Mo Xuanyu and goads him to perform the sacrificial summon with the incentive of revenge against his abusive family to summon Wei Wuxian back from the dead.
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step 2. MO VILLAGE
Nie Huaisang lets Nie Mingjue's left arm loose in Mo village when the Lan juniors (Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi) arrive to help solve the issue of increased number of fierce corpses recently. Nie Mingjue's left arm ends up claiming the lives of all of Mo Xuanyu's aggressors; Mo Ziyuan, Madam Mo, her husband and A-tong, hence freeing Wei Wuxian from the debt of the sacrificial summon by fulfilling Mo Xuanyu's wish for revenge.
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step 3. THE BODY PARTS SEARCH.
Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji’s search for the other body parts begins:
The left arm is taken to the Gusu Lan sect and it directs them north-west, to Qinghe. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji encounter Nie Huaisang who tells them about the "Man-eating castle" which is revealed to be the Nie Sect’s Ancestral Hall.
Backstory: The sabers cultivated by the Qinghe Nie Clan became strong enough to have a desire to kill evil spirits on their own even of their owners' died. As this created even more bloodshed, the sixth head of the Nie Clan came up with a plan to appease them. He built a tomb for the sabres with a number of corpses that were going to turn into fierce corpses. This way, the sabres could continue to fight with evil spirits even after their owners' deaths.
-> Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji discover the legs of the corpse in the wall of this Nie Sect’s Ancestral Hall
->The left arm then points to Yueyang next, where they witness the torso of the corpse being dug up by an unknown Gravedigger (who turns out to be Su She)
->Lan Wangji finds the corpse's right arm in Yi City after splitting up with Wei Wuxian.
-> The corpse reassembles itself in a headless body in a garden in Tanzhou. After fighting the corpse and playing 'Rest' to appease it, Lan Xichen recognizes its movements as that of his sworn brother. Nie Mingjue.
4. GETTING THE JUNIORS TO YI CITY
Nie Huaisang goes to great lengths to lure the junior disciples into Yi City.
It is presumed that technically he would go that far as to put the blame on Jin Guangyao quicker, if the juniors were to die at the hands of Xue Yang, which shows how strong his resolve is.
Nie Huaisang first targets Jin Ling, in an inn located in Qinghe, by nailing a dead black cat to the door of his room and a pool of blood outside as he wakes up. This happens night after night, despite him going from inn to inn, which eventually prompts him to investigate.
At the same time, Lan Sizhui, Lan Jingyi, Ouyang Zizhen and a few other juniors had been night-hunting in Langya. They first find the head of a cat in their soup, and then the corpse of a cat in their beds. This prompts them as well to investigate, ultimately meeting up with Jin Ling.
Ultimately as they met, Nie Huaisang disguises himself as a hunter from a nearby village to point them accurately, directly towards Yi City, which was his goal for this part of the plan.
5. SISI & BICAO
Nie Huaisang frees Sisi and asks Bicao to inform Qin Su about her true relationship with her husband Jin Guangyao. Qin Su receives the letter the night before the Discussion Conference, which makes her take her own life.
6. MENG SHI’S GRAVE
(Jin Guangyao buries Nie Mingjue's head in an iron box with Meng Shi's body in Guanyin Temple.)
Thus, it's Nie Huaisang who retrieves the head and removes Meng Shi's body, placing a poisonous trap in its place.
7. THE LETTER -> second Burial Mounds siege
Nie Huiasang sends Jin Guangyao a letter warning him that he will expose all his secrets in seven days.
!This triggers the Second Siege of the Burial Mounds. Jin Guangyao uses the Stygian Tiger seal to control the corpses there and Su She seals the cultivators' spiritual power. After Wei Wuxian’s thorough analysis in front of the hundreds of cultivators present, Su She reveals himself as Jin Guangyao's accomplice.
8. LOTUS PIER
As the cultivators recover after the second siege and go to Yunmeng, at Lotus Pier, Bicao and Sisi (instructed previously by Nie Huaisang) arrive to tell their stories:
> Sisi tells how Jin Guangyao murdered his father Jin Guangshan
> and Bicao tells how Jin Guangyao's wife Qin Su was his own sister.
Hearing this, the clans begin to plot his downfall furthermore.
9. GUANYIN TEMPLE
Despite popular belief Nie Huaisang isn't captured against his will or helpless at Guanyin Temple. Everything he planned for Guanyin temple was extremely deliberate and well thought out as it's the final piece of the puzzle.
His plans were as follows:
He released Nie Mingjue's fierce corpse onto Yunping to hunt down Jin Guangyao
He was willingly "captured" by Su She to play on Jin Guangyao’s pity through seeing him defenseless and scared
He deliberately allowed Su She to cut his leg because Nie Mingjue’s fierce corpse can still sense that his brother is hurt
He also uses his leg wound at the very end, by overreacting to the pain, distracting Lan Xichen from a very wounded Jin Guangyao, so that he makes him think he attacked him from behind. This results in Lan Xinchen stabbing his dear sworn brother, ultimately leading to Jin Guangyao’s death.
Wei Wuxian pieces it all together at the end, deducting the lengths Nie Huaisang went to and the magnitude of his plan.
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