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shanastoryteller · 28 days

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HAPPY GALANTINE’S SHANA

I would love some Momma Hera or anything MDZS. THANK YOU. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Xichen isn't in his room.

"Told you," Wei Wuxian says. "Bet you a bottle of wine he's in Da-ge's."

"Do I look like a fool to you?" Nie Huaisang demands.

Wei Wuxian whistles. "We'd need a lot more alcohol and maybe a flow chart to answer that question."

Nie Huaisang hits him with his fan.

Lan Wangji takes a deep, calming breath. There are plenty of reasonable explanations for why his brother is out of his room after curfew that don’t involve Nie Mingjue.

He can’t think of any, currently, but that’s because the two of them slap fighting each other behind him.

“Enough,” he snaps. He can’t turn them over to the one duty senior disciple because they’re clan heirs and any punishment could have political implications, which means Xichen or Uncle need to be the ones to issue them. But Xichen isn’t here and Uncle won’t be pleased to be woken up over a couple tardy disciples. The issue of the wards is concerning, but they’d been back in place when he’d gone to check, and there’s no real reason it can’t wait to morning. “Go to your dormitory. I’ll report your actions to my uncle in the morning.”

Xichen would have been more lenient, but he thinks they could benefit from a strict punishment.

“Why don’t you escort us there?” Wei Wuxian asks with a smile that makes Lan Wangji want to lean away from him or maybe lean cl – no, definitely away. “This place is so big. You don’t want me getting lost, do you?”

The paths are rather easy to follow, even at night. They hadn’t seemed to have any trouble getting here in the first place.

Nie Huaisang retches. “Seriously? First Da-ge and now you? What is it about the Lans?” He pauses, looking Lan Wangji up and down in a way that he’s not totally certain he’s comfortable with. “Okay, I mean, I suppose I see the appeal, but still.”

Wei Wuxian reaches out to punch Nie Huaisang in the side without looking at him. “Shut up.”

“Maybe we should get more alcohol,” he continues, not listening. “I think I’m going to need it.”

Lan Wangji leaves them still bickering.

The next morning Nie Huaisang wails all throughout his punishment. It’s not even that bad – he doesn’t even have to do a handstand, just copy rules of punctuality and prohibition.

Wei Wuxian, on account of meddling with the wards (Xichen had been impressed but Uncle hadn’t been), has to a handstand for several hours in the courtyard.

Doing it shirtless seems unnecessary.

Winking at him every time he walks by also seems unnecessary.

“Wow,” Xichen says, the time he’s unfortunately there to witness this behavior. “Are you sure he’s adopted?”

“Shut up,” Nie Mingjue grumbles.

Xichen listens about as well as Nie Huaisang had. Lan Wangji can’t mind, because he shouldn’t be saying that to him anyway. “Because I remember you at a certain age-”

Nie Mingjue draws his sword and Xichen is laughing as he mirrors him, the two of the sparring across the courtyard.

Lan Wangji is glad that Xichen has a friend.

He just wishes him visiting wasn’t necessitated by Wei Wuxian and Nie Huaisang making a mess of everything as quickly as possible.

#prompt answers #prompts are closed #asks #brownielocks57 #untamed

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justaghostingon · 11 months

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When Your Brother Thinks You’re Being Cheated On: How Not to Introduce your third

A 3zun crack au

Jin Guangyao, Lan xichen, and Nie Mingjue have recently become a triad, finally taking their sworn brotherhood to the next level after many talks, tears, confessions, and scheming of a one Lan xichen to get both his boyfriends to be boyfriends together

Guangshuan is also dead far earlier than in canon under mysterious circumstances, which greatly helped the three come together and absolutely was not a bonding expierience for the three

They’re pretty happy, however this realtionship is still new, and with politics being as it is, (wei wuxian being out there in his burial mounds scarinf everyone by existing and stressing out lan zhan, jin zixuan a new sect leader and expecting a child soon, and nie mingjue suffering baxia’s backlash) they’re trying to keep it on the down low until things stablize a bit

What they forget to take into account, are there brothers

Lan xichen is probably the most innocent in this, he fully believes he’s told lan zhan, he talks about his lovers all the time! Surelly lan zhan was listening?

Lan zhan was not listening. He was brooding over wei wuxian.

He is vaguely that lan xichen liked nie mingjue from way back when they were kids, and hasn’t thought it changed, since lan’s can only love once. It’s their families curse after all. So when lan xichen talks about a-yao this, a-yao that, lan zhan thinks its just friendship talk (like what wei ying used to do to him in cloud recesses) and tunes it out.

Jin Guangyao has an excuse. His position in the jin clan is destabilized by the shift in leadership. The last thing he wants is for jin zixuan to think he can’t do his job because he’s also kissing the leaders of two rival sects.

Jin zixuan for his part, does not see the other sects as rivals to beat like his father did. He’s not thinking much of anything except that he’s really drowning in work, and both Jiang Yanli and Jin Guangyao are lifelines.

Jiang Yanli he can show his gratitude by being the best husband he can be. But jin Guangyao? How can he get his brother to stop being awkward and take a break, (and maybe be closer like everyone else is with their siblings?)

Then jin zixuan catches the heart eyes that jin guangyao throws lan xichen at a sect conference, so much warmer than how he acts towards his other sworn brother, with all that bickering (flirting).

So jun zixuan tries to set up jin guangyao and lan xichen, giving every excuse for one to visit the other, and ample alone time when they do. He’s rewarded once by coming in a room wirh out knocking to see them holding hands.

Jin guangyao pulls his hand away, but its too late, jin zixuan saw it, his mission is complete!

Nie Mingjue is the only one who was no excuse. His brother asks him about his love life all the time. He wants to know!!!

But nie mingjue does not want a meddling sibling in his buisness, and anytime it comes up he gets so embarrassed he can’t speak, so he shuts him out.

Nie huaisang has to use his own brain, and so wjen he spots nie mingjue blushing and braiding a flower into jin guangyao’s hair, he realizes his answer. Nie mingjue has finally acted on his old feelings for meng yao, now his awful father isn’t here to keep them aprart.

All three brothers are thrilled. Until….

Lan zhan finds out first. He’s walking in the cloud recesses, when he sees two people making out. One in a now familiar green, and one in …yellow.

Nie mingjue is making out with jin guangyao in the cloud recesses, right under his brother’s nose! The nerve!

Lan zhan is frozen solid for a good five minutes, just watching in horror, before he turns and storms away, determined to save his brother from such a faithless match.

Jin guangyao and nie mingjue were absolutely doing it on purpose. They caught a glimpse of lan zhan’s white robes and handsome appearance out of the corner of their eye and thinking he was lan xichen, decided to give him a show. When they weren’t hit with a solid body joining their embrace they realized something was wrong, it wasn’t xichen, but lan wangji. They both feel very embarrassed and do not want to bring it up to lan xichen that they ruined his brother’s innocent with the sight of their kissing.

Lan wangji meanwhile tries to tell his brother, but his brother won’t hear a word against nie mingjue, (and lan zhan’s phrasing was also really vague, stuff like: “nie mingjue is a bad man, and jin guangyao is a snake in the bunny feild” but give him a break, he was traumatized)

Lan’s only love once, lan zhan justifies to himself, its gonna take more than words to convince him.

So he goes to the only person he can think of in times of crisis, wei wuxian.

Wei wuxian isn’t very close to those three, he thought nie mingjue was a better man than that, but then again, all the sects did turn a blind eye to the wen prison camps, so what does he know? No. He’s only mad about this because lan zhan came to him so obviously upset, and wei wuxian can never resist an upset lan zhan.

So he works day and night, (while lan zhan gets covered in blankets by the wens and hugs a-yaun for comfort) to create a talisman that can capture an event in the instant it happens, like a painting!

(Its a camera, he invented a camera)

He then starts marketting them to the common people under a psydonim, so it will be a trusted device by the time news reaches the cloud recesses.

He then gives it to lan zhan and instructs him to get a photo of nie mingjue cheating to show to his brother as proof.

Lan zhan accepts with the gravity of a man going to war, and prepares to stalk his brother’s boyfriend.

Meanwhile, nie huaisang is in for the shock of his life at the next sect conference, when he sees thr flowers he had sent to jin guangyao’s rooms on his brothers behalf, were instead decorating the rooms of a blushing lan xichen, who said “someone very special gave them to me.”

This may seem an innocent gesture of regifting, but nie huaisang smells a rat. You don’t regift a lovers gift to another person, u certainly don’t leave the other person blushing and saying it was from someone “very special”

Clearly jin guangyao is two-timing poor nie mingjue! But don’t worry! Nie huaisang has the perfect plan! First he’ll expose jin guangyao for the liar he is, then he’ll have both nie mingjue and lan xichen rebound with each other, effectively ensuring their happieness while punishing the guilty party! (Lan xichen can’t know. He’s to good to cheat, and he loves nie mingjue to much,” nie huaisang thinks, missing the obvious)

His plans however, face problems from the start. He first tries to expose jin guangyao as having a failed relationship before with qin su, to show to his brother jin guangyao’s track record isn’t great. But when he finds the actual reason “the mother told them both they were siblings, since she was no longer afraid of jin guangshan’s retribution since he was dead” it doesn’t help him at all! If anything it makes jiggy look even more honorable for covering it up and makinf it look like it was because he wasn’t good enough.

Then he tries to expose him as a liar in koi tower, lots of corruption there! But his every step is thwarted by some unknown force, one even he can’t out think

His only hope lies in the new talisman on the market that allows you to capture images. Surely if he catches jin guangyao in the act, that will be wnouggh to prove him unfaithful (even if it will prob take a few more steps to convince da-ge that lan xichen didn’t know actually and is s good choice for rebound)

The person who is thwartinf nie huaisang is in fact jin zixuan, mostly by all the back breaking work he’s done to weed out corruption, tiredness, and trying to keep jin guangyao to simpler, easy to do jobs.

See, jin zixuan saw lan xichen kiss nie mingjue on the cheek a couple weeks back, and even though he’s not certain if its actually cheating or lan xichen and a-yao broke up and lan xichen moved on far to quickly, he knows it must be taking a toll on jin guangyao

Not that jin guangyao is showing any signs, but that’s just the mask he’s always wearing. If Jin zixuan wants to see the real him, he needs to prove he can be someone he can trust.

So he starts giving jin guangyao simpler tasks to do, paired with babysitting the new born jin ling, things that keep him away from all the husle of court politics that put him into contact with his ex and his ex’s new man.

Jiang yanli is more than happy to help, talking about her own brothers to remind jiggy he has one too, and having tea with him while he holds jin ling.

Jiggy is glad for time with jin ling, but he likes doing things! He has to fight tooth and nail to get jin zixuan to let him help with the one month ceremony, and is far to busy with that to do any scheming of any kind

Everything comes to a head at jin ling’s one month celebration, where nie huaisang tries to publicly expose jin guangyao by working pictures of him with lan xichen into the slide show (yet another wei wuxian invention, he’s really on fire with these)

He then points out the obvious by “accident” and tries to reassure mingju there’s no way lan xichen would ever betray him like that

Lan zhan (who has brought wei wuxian for moral aupport) sees this and panics, showing his pictures (which he originally wanted to give to his brother in private) to prove his brother’s innocence and that its the other way around, actually.

To which jin zixuan angrilly stands up and points out how nie mingjue and lan xichen were the one’s who left jin guangyao and he’s not going to stand for anyone insulting his brother actually, and this is his psrty so they better back off or get out.

“Your here for formalities sake, we could easily have this with just the jins and the jiangs!”

“Anf me!” Goes wei wuxian

“And the wei sect!” Goes jin zixuan, accidentally acknowledging wei wuxian’s group of outcasts as legitimate and thus changing the course of history

It is at this point when 3zun realize the jig is up. In their attempt to keep quiet for politics, they made everything even worse.

They stand up and point out that no, no one is cheating, and yes, they are all together, all THREE of them, and that is not going to change anytime soon, and also could they have those photos? Lan xichen’s starting a scrap book.

See this is why i don’t tell you things, goes jin guangyao to jin zixuan, (secretly pleased he’d be willing to go against two sects for him)

“What the f- goes on in your head?” Goes nie mingjue to nie huaisang

“Brother i told you this ages ago,” goes a very disappointed lan xichen

“Lan’d can love more than one person?” Lan zhan says, eyes wide and uncompeehending “do i have to love more than one?”

“Don’y worry about it lan zhan,” goes wei wuxian. “You can love exactly how you want too.” Lam zhan looks at him with wide eyes, makes three leaps of logic, a d assumes this is wei wuxian acknowledging lan zhan’s feelings and giving him permission to court him.

Thus 3zun live happily ever after, having learned that communication really is key when you have three very over-protective brothers.

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fengshenjunlang · 1 year

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I have seen that post about how WangXian owe their happiness to Nie Huaisang.

Okay, I don't know how people even come into such conclusion, but it is very clear that between WangXian and Nie Huaisang, it is a win-win situation. If anything, it is even more beneficial to Nie Huaisang.

1. NHS knew where did NMJ's body parts got thrown into. But he needs someone, to uncover the case.

Someone with considerable status and weight in their action and words. That someone is Hanguang-Jun. NHS must be betting that between JGY and LWJ, Lan Xichen would listen to his blood related brother more. Or even in the worst case where LXC was caught too deep in the lies woven by JGY, there are still Lan Qiren and other Gusulan member who would definitely chose to support their own kin Lan Wangji over the outsider, JGY (when things got worse).

2. However, just to uncover the case is not enough. He needs to completely overthrow JGY. And to achieve that smoothly, Nie Huaisang needs cover. Desperately needs someone who can cover the sky and the ground, and make him completely invisible.

That person can only be Wei Wuxian. WWX is like a bright light bulb, whenever WWX appears moths gathers. Whenever WWX appears he would always be the center of attention. It has always been the case. The reason why NHS chose to revive WWX was not only to add more manpower to fight against LanlingJin who has Xue Yang and Stygian Tiger Seal, or help to quell NMJ's transformed ghoul, but also to make WWX attract all the firepower and attention.

To put it simply, WWX is there to attract aggro from the monsters in a game! LOL

So when WWX is there, NHS can leisurely hide in the shades, leisurely pull the string, until the end of the orchestra. And that is really how it went on, in MDZS.

Why did NHS need cover? Naturally to hide from JGY and from the rest of cultivation sects, so that they won't meddle and ruin all his plan. WangXian knew from the early investigation that there are 2 parties who wanted to hide and wanted to uncover. So, how could JGY not notice such thing when he heard Hanguang-Jun is investigating NMJ body parts?

However, when there is WWX who attract all attention, JGY will have no time to think about the mastermind and focus on how to quickly reclaimed NMJ body parts, Xue Yang, Wen Ning, Yi City, and Stygian Tiger Seal. And that is how it did in MDZS. JGY was suddenly poured so much trouble in just 1-2 months of WWX's revival that he has no time to properly sort out the real enemy. He will focus more on how to lie toward LXC about the body parts, how to throw the blame into WWX, how to arrange things etc. But will have no time to investigate the mastermind behind.

***

Just like how WWX understands that NHS is not the pustule waste everyone mocks him as, but someone whose intelligence was put on something else, based on his observation during the 3 months of their acquaintance,

NHS also understands that WWX is someone who is destined to be the center of the room whenever he appears, based on WWX's personality and ability. This person will definitely gain his own place, and attract all attention wherever and whenever.

During their youth it is has been so. During the Qishan Education and Xuanwu cave it was also like that. During the war it was especially so. And even during his retreat as Yiling Laozu it was still like that. And finally even dying he has always been the center of attention. Lol.

NHS knew that perfectly. WWX is destined to gather all eyes on him and leave no space for others to be noticed😂 and that is why NHS chose him as the best cover.

#wangxian #nie huaisang #lan wangji #wei wuxian #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

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rarepears · 1 year

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I feel like Ming Fan would have a glow up post canon and after becoming Qing JIng peak lord, it would just be like he's the new SY!SQQ.

I also feel like, through a comedy of errors, he gets nie Huaisang as a disciple.

It would also be hilarious if the events of MDZS happen in line with this timeline. I feel like it could be canon divergent for MDZS where Ming Fan meets the Venerated Triad and somehow hits it off with all of them : JGY bc Ming Fan definitely has cunning similar to the guy and would go good for him seeing him kill JGS but still stop him from atrocities as best he can (being the eldest daughter of Qing Jing does That).

In terms of Lan Xichen, they get along bc tired matchmaking masters of the four arts.

For NMJ, I just like to think that Ming Fan finds abt NMJ's attitude at NHS and goes like

Ming Fan : pulls out a battle fan I wonder if fans are really that week :)

NMJ just freaking out about why this pretty peak lord has so much pent up rage.

Just some fun chaos.

What I'm hearing is that a modern person transmigrates into Ming Fan (hence Ming Fan's sudden an unexpected "glow-up"), said transmigrated person decides to travel a bit and stumble upon a young Nie Huaisang and goes, "fuck, I'm in the same universe as MDZS?!" and decides to meddle.

This transmigrated person isn't familiar with SVSSS. BUT they are very Familiar With Modern Chaos Fun inspired by anime. Just imagine MDZS trying to do the Naruto run because look! This immortal cultivator does it! It might hold the secrets to the universe!

(And then there's Shen Yuan and Shang Qinghua in the background who are both too busy getting railed to notice that Ming Fan got replaced, sorry Ming Fan.)

#mdzs #mdzs ideas #svsss #svsss ideas #svsss au #mxtx #the scum villain's self saving system #ming fan #nie huaisang #a transmigrator transmigrates into peak lord ming fan and messes up mdzs AU

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stiltonbasket · 6 months

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anything to share from flowers in the palace verse? :3

(take a short preview of one of the upcoming oneshots!)

“I want to send Wei Ying to the Cloud Recesses with A-Cheng.”

Jiang Fengmian glances up from the kite he was painting.

“Why?” he asks, perplexed. “Her education has been more than satisfactory. If she went to the Cloud Recesses, she would find the lessons terribly dull: and you know how A-Ying hates to be bored with her lessons. Lan Qiren would be half out of his wits by the time she left.”

“Of that I have no doubt,” Ziyuan says drily. “But I have more practical intentions for this venture, if you will hear me out.”

He nods and lays down his brush. “What are they?”

“Wei Ying is nearly seventeen, and we have not yet found a bridegroom for her,” his wife explains, seating herself on the chair across from his. “A-Li’s future is assured, and A-Cheng will not take kindly to our meddling in his prospects—and he’ll make a more attractive husband after he passes the imperial exams, so we needn’t think of him now. But finding a suitable groom for A-Ying will be difficult, so why not send her to Lan Qiren’s academy and let her look for a bridegroom there?”

“It is a good idea,” muses Jiang Fengmian. “But A-Ying is still young. If the choice were left to me, I would not have her wed within these next five years at least; and I do not think she would agree to look for a bridegroom so soon, even if we asked her to.”

“I’m not going to ask her,” Ziyuan scoffs. “I already have a family in mind, and Wei Ying already has friends among the clan. She need not do anything more than secure one or two banquet invitations before the end of the lecture course, or drag a few of the boys into whatever mishap she will surely have planned for Lan Qiren.”

“Which family do you mean, my lady?”

“The Nie family. You know A-Ying cannot live in just any household, Fengmian: and now that I think on it, she will fare best in a military clan like the Nie. She has studied military history, and she can manage an estate upon a fraction of the budget it ought to have—and most importantly, no relation of Nie Huangyin’s would dare interfere with her schooling if she chose to stay on at Pan Gaolin’s academy after her wedding.”

“Neither would a Lan,” Jiang Fengmian points out. “Why not ask A-Ying to consider one of them?”

His wife scowls at him. “I want to inconvenience Lan Qiren, not kill him.”

“Very well,” he says, laughing. “Let it be as you say, then.”

“Good. Now, write to Qiren and tell him to prepare an extra place in the girls’ dormitory. Most likely, he will ask one of his nieces to look after her until she settles in; and if we're lucky, it will be the one betrothed to Nie Mingjue.”

So A-Ying goes off to the Cloud Recesses two weeks later, taking a box of A-Li’s baked sweets and a very apprehensive A-Cheng with her. To Ziyuan’s disappointment, Lan Xichen is too busy with her own duties to spend much time with Wei Ying; but three days after A-Ying’s departure, she sends Jiang Fengmian an exhilarated letter that appears to be almost entirely about Qiren’s younger niece, Lan Wangji.��

“Well, that’s something,” Yu Ziyuan says slowly, when Jiang Fengmian reports to her office with the letter. “If Wei Ying has made friends with Lan Wangji, then she is sure to be welcome at the Unclean Realm after Lan-guniang and Nie Mingjue are married.”

Jiang Fengmian nods. The words of A-Ying’s letter are already fading from his mind, for he had received so many over the course of his travels throughout the country, but in later years—after his first daughter lost her betrothed, and after both she and her sister were shut away behind the high walls of the palace hougong where one of his mother’s distant cousins had taken her own life to escape her emperor husband—he would return to his study and open the old desk drawer devoted to his children’s keepsakes, and realize that the seeds of A-Ying’s true marriage had been planted beneath his very nose.

He and Ziyuan sent her off to find a husband, and in her dear, wild-hearted way—she found a wife instead.

#wangxian #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #jiang fengmian #yu ziyuan #flowers in the palace #my fic #fic preview

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onhoude · 1 year

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Jiang Wanyin, Nie Huaisang, and Wei Wuxian teaming up (sworn brothers) would've been extraordinary. In canon it wouldn't work (it would also make an entirely different tale). For plenty reasons. For one, I think Jiang Wanyin would have too little insight to play along with their schemes, and Wei Wuxian too reckless to play things strategically/politically, but if we pretend the stars are aligned it would have been amazing.

More under the cut because I'm rambling. It all boils down to Nie Huaisang interacting with Jiang Wanyin and Wei Wuxian more before Nie Mingjue's death and having a tight leash on them both while being pitiful and feigning as politically insignificant.

Jiang Wanyin is actually fine with creating some unrest in the cultivation world if he has another sect's (combative) reputable backing (which used to be Nie Mingjue, so his early presence would be part of the whole 'stars must align' deal). After all, he was also one of the main instigators for the Sunshot Campaign, as a gongzi who just lost his entire sect against largely hesitant sects.

Jiang Wanyin also rebuilt an entire sect and elevated it to a high position in his own generation, all while during a war. That said, he's respectable and efficient but lacks the influence, charisma and sway to be truly persuasive.

Nie Huaisang would garner information, offer what Jiang Wanyin lacks in cunning, and set things up for Jiang Wanyin to honourably settle things publically (or lets things be taken care of, less publically). His timid reputation would soften the fear people have of his other sworn brother, Wei Wuxian.

Now, Wei Wuxian (pre-death) is a powerhouse with or without Golden Core (the archery competition, for example) and intelligent, but unorthodox and brash. With Nie Huaisang placating him (and helping him stay out of trouble), Wei Wuxian might be more likely to leave things up to Jiang Wanyin (who, at this point, would have a greater chance of actually succeeding in back-stabbing cultivator land) while his presence alone suffices as a threat.

But not too much of a threat! After all, if the Head Shaker cries on Yiling Laozu's lap after only half a cup of wine, then he can't be entirely ruthless, shameful and without compassion. Especially if Wei Wuxian is as charismatic as he usually is towards Nie Huaisang in public, as well.

Sect Leader Nie Mingjue is also not to be messed with. Even though he openly dislikes Wei Wuxian (demonic cultivation is dishonourable), Nie Huaisang does like him, and at least his younger brother's meddling is pulling some weight politically. Additionally, Nie Mingjue respects Jiang Wanyin for his role during the Sunshot Campaign. If Wei Wuxian is still in good standing with Jiang Wanyin, then altogether it's good for the relationship between Qinghe Nie and Yunmeng Jiang (as well as Gusu Lan, though Jiang Wanyin and Wei Wuxian have yet to figure out that Wei Wuxian's antics have a beneficial effect on one Hanguang-jun and thus Sect Leader Lan Xichen - who is of course sworn brother of Nie Mingjue himself as well as Jin Guangyao).

And even if Nie Mingjue still dies (which he likely will, especially if the alliance between Qinghe Nie and Yunmeng Jiang stabilizes), that would only make Nie Huaisang (tragically) more driven. And he'd be less alone, having the support of brothers to get him through it.

Tensions would be so, so, so high because Jiang Wanyin (as the de facto leader) isn't technically politically powerful, but everyone has to concede to him a little anyway because of the sheer pressure the three hold.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #gusu trio #im pretending to understand cultivator politics #and of course jiang yanli's marriage into lanling jin #jin guangshan's greatest success was isolating wei wuxian the way he did #mdzs spoilers #minor sect head disciple: we're listening to this?#minor sect leader: points at the gleaming red eyes (with nie huaisang seemingly just happy to be there) behind sect leader jiang

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ailelie · 1 year

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Huaisang knew he should walk away, but Lan Wanji had been acting strangely all day and now the man was telling his brother why. As he listened, though, his eyes grew wide with horror.

Lan Wanji's explanation was slow and would have been opaque had Huaisang not heard the exact same thing only hours before from Wei Wuxian.

Lan Wanji and Wei Wuxian were not together. When they had been found kissing, that had been their first kiss. Lan Wanji had kissed Wei Wuxian because he had heard the rumors of an arranged marriage and had kissed Wei Wuxian out of desperation. He'd thought that if he pretended to like Wei Wuxian, the arranged marriage would be canceled and then Uncle would forbid his relationship with Wei Wuxian, leaving Lan Wanji single as he preferred.

(Wei Wuxian had had different reasons, but similar actions.)

As soon as he'd done, he'd regretted it. However, instead of shoving him off, Wei Wuxian kissed back and it was good. (Lan Wanji did not say much on this matter; Wei Wuxian had been overly eloquent, however). Then, when they'd gotten caught, instead of Wei Wuxian telling the truth, he'd agreed that he and Lan Wanji liked each other.

And though Lan Wanji knew Wei Wuxian was lying, Wei Wuxian's comforting hand in his and his careful glances when the others were not looking made Lan Wanji realize why Wei Wuxian had lied. Wei Wuxian liked him.

(Wei Wuxian had been less certain of Lan Wanji's regard, but he'd assumed a good reason and that Lan Wanji definitely didn't hate him).

When they were alone again, Wei Wuxian had shakily said, "I didn't know you liked me."

And Lan Wanji realized that he could only hurt Wei Wuxian by telling the truth, so he only made an agreeable noise.

(Wei Wuxian had been prepared to apologize and explain before Lan Wanji made that noise, before he began to think and hope that Lan Wanji liked him).

So the charade had continued. Lan Wanji pretended to like Wei Wuxian to avoid both the arranged marriage and hurting Wei Wuxian. He'd still expected Uncle to put an end to everything. Uncle could be the one to hurt Wei Wuxian.

As the two weeks passed, however, he found himself liking Wei Wuxian and wanting to be closer to him. Then, when Uncle didn't react as he'd expected and the families started to discuss an official relationship between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wanji, he'd been happy.

But then he'd overheard Wei Wuxian tell his sister that the relationship wasn't supposed to get that far, that it had all been pretend.

(Wei Wuxian had been afraid and confiding in Jiang Yanli about how much he wanted and feared being married to Lan Wanji and how he'd never expected that. Lan Wanji had missed too much of the conversation).

Heartbroken, Lan Wanji had told his uncle the truth. (This is what Wei Wuxian had heard).

So now Lan Wanji can't marry or be with Wei Wuxian. He can't trap Wei Wuxian into a marriage he doesn't want. Only, when Uncle had announced that, Wei Wuxian had looked so hurt and resigned and Lan Wanji's heart hurt. He didn't know what to do and wanted to go home.

Huaisang threw his gaze up to the ceiling, beseeching the universe. He'd promised no more schemes in exchange for his brother's health and this is what the universe gave him? How was he supposed to not meddle in this? Wei Wuxian was his friend; he couldn't do nothing.

That's when he realized--intervening didn't have to mean scheming.

Huaisang took a deep breath, pushed off the wall, and walked into the room where Lan Wanji and Lan Xichen were speaking. He kept his fan closed at his side so that he would be less tempted to hide, both literally and metaphorically.

"I was eavesdropping," he said when Lan Xichen pasted on his placating smile and Lan Wanji turned away, trying too late hide his red eyes. "It is strange. Kissing someone you don't like, falling in love, and then realizing the other never meant it all along?" He tapped his folded fan to his chin. "That is the second time today I've heard that story. Wei Wuxian is very heartbroken."

Lan Wanji whirled around, his usually expressionless face naked with hope. "Wei Ying," he said, not quite asking a question, not quite trailing off.

Huaisang waited a beat, mourned all the far more elegant ways he could have arranged their reconciliation, and then said, "Loves and wants to marry you. He is very sad that you don't."

"I have to--" Lan Wanji looked at his brother and Lan Xichen nodded toward the door.

"Go."

"He's with his siblings in the garden," Huaisang said as Lan Wanji darted, almost running, to the door. "Be very direct!"

Lan Wanji glanced back, nodded once, and was gone.

"Thank you," Lan Xichen said in his quiet way. "If there's any way I can return this favor, please let me know."

That was when Huaisang realized that what the universe had granted him had not been a test, but an opportunity. "Actually," he said, his grip on his still-folded fan tightening, "I would like to talk with you about my brother."

The Lan had many healing techniques the Nie did not. Perhaps this was how he ensured his brother lived.

#mdzs #fanfic #huaisang #wwx/lwj #this was supposed to be not!fic #but then i had that image of huaisang in the hall asking the universe why #vaguely modern!era in my head but could also just be an alternate universe #nie huaisang

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jaimebluesq · 11 months

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Happy Birthday to my beloved Blorbo, Nie Huaisang!!!

Here's a little prequel vignette in the universe of my fic "It Was You All Along" - but it's perfectly understandable without the fic as context!

Takes place post-NMJ's death, pre-WWX's return - The SangCheng is one-sided pining in this vignette (but rest assured, it ends up requited eventually :D)

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Nie Huaisang had been at Koi Tower the day he received the invitation.

In all honesty, it wasn’t where he’d wanted to be for his birthday. He longed to be back at the Unclean Realm with a good book and a full bath, and afterwards he would curl up on the bed in his brother’s room – which had not been touched since the day he died, other than to keep it dust-free – and cry himself to sleep. Birthdays hadn’t been the same without Nie Mingjue there to act grumpy and threaten to sling Nie Huaisang over his shoulder and drag him to saber practice, and then surprise him with something truly special.

The last birthday gift Da-ge had given him had been a beautiful silk fan. It had burned along with the rest of his things on that fateful day...

But instead of being in the familiarity of home, he was in Koi Tower. Lan Xichen and Jin Guangyao had insisted on him spending his birthdays with them as an attempt at keeping his spirits up, both saying that it’s what Da-ge would have wanted – the thought had turned his stomach. He had never fought them, though, needing to continue the appearance of being addled by grief – and currently, he was trying to establish just how much Lan Xichen knew about Nie Mingjue’s death. Jin Guangyao continued to act as if it had been simply a terrible tragedy of fate and he was foremost in Nie Huaisang’s plans for revenge, but he had yet to completely discount Lan Xichen’s potential role in the matter. Perhaps Er-ge was innocent. Or perhaps he too had betrayed Nie Mingjue.

Perhaps Nie Huaisang was exhausted and tired of pretending, of spending his days filled with terror and suspicion. Perhaps he was hollow and lifeless beneath the surface of his skin, and perhaps he had a desperate hope that the moment his brother was avenged, that the life within him would no longer be smothered by grief.

But that day, there was the invitation.

It was on fine quality paper with the emblem for Yunmeng Jiang, and clearly stated that there would be a courtship tournament for Jiang Wangyin. He remembered the cultivation conferences where the matter of Jiang Cheng’s marriage prospects had been discussed, with the other sect leaders treating his bachelorhood like a problem that needed to be solved, rather than it merely being a matter of a man living his life the way he wished and damn the rest of their opinions. He’d done what he could to distract them, but sect leaders were mostly busybodies by nature and enjoyed meddling where they weren’t wanted – particularly those whose wives and daughters had caught a glance of the handsome Sandu Shengshou and wished a piece of him.

Honestly, he couldn’t blame them – he’d fantasized of that very thing since he’d been a boy in Cloud Recesses.

He had been given the invitation by Jin Ling himself with the expectation that he would bring it back to Qinghe and post it for his disciples. It was a reasonable expectation, and Nie Huaisang did intend on doing just that. Even if he wished he could destroy it. Even if he wished the tournament would never happen.

That night, after putting on an excellent performance at playing the fool for Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen, he lay in his night robes, curled up in his guest bedroom with the invitation in his hands. His thumb rubbed against the ink forming the name Jiang Wanyin - oh, Jiang Cheng must have hated that they’d used his courtesy name.

In the dark of night, he indulged himself in a fantasy – it was his birthday, he deserved it – that he himself would enter the tournament. He would dress in his best robes and put on his best airs, and every step of the way he would beat out the competition. And when he won, he would offer Jiang Cheng his freedom – a promise that he would hold him to no commitment unless he wished it... and then Jiang Cheng would look at him, profess his undying love, and take him to bed without another moment’s hesitation.

It was, after all, a fantasy.

He finally folded up the invitation and placed it on his night table. Fantasies were wonderful, but he could never confuse them for reality. No doubt only women would be allowed to enter in the tournament. And he truly didn’t have the time to participate in such a thing – he had clues to dig out and suspects to eliminate or verify, and there were still parts of his brother’s corpse that he hadn’t found yet, not to mention the daily duties of being a sect leader that he tried to manage despite all appearances otherwise. There were so many things to do; what time did he have for something so frivolous, even if he were allowed to participate?

After all, wouldn’t Jiang Cheng toss him out the moment he showed up? “Very funny, Nie-xiong,” he imagined him saying, the nickname something Nie Huaisang hadn’t heard since before Wei Wuxian’s death and missed terribly. “Now stop making a joke of this and get back to Qinghe where you belong.”

He chuckled, imagining in his mind’s eye the huge eyeroll he would receive for even trying to put himself forward as a candidate.

“Don’t laugh,” another voice spoke in his mind, turning his chuckle into a sob. “You may be lazy and frivolous, but you’re still my Didi and anyone would be lucky to have you. If anyone ever said you weren’t good enough for them, point me at them and Baxia and I will inform them otherwise.”

He sniffed and wiped the tears from his cheek. “Goodnight, Da-ge,” he whispered into the darkness.

“Happy birthday, Huaisang,” he heard as his brother’s voice faded from his mind.

He closed his eyes, intent on trying to push his emotions aside and fall asleep. In what heart he had left, he sent a wish to the Heavens that they show Jiang Cheng some kindness and bring him a spouse that would make him happy and love him for who he was – even if that spouse could never be him.

#scbirthday520 #nie huaisang #sangcheng #during the time skip

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robininthelabyrinth · 2 years

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Nielan. Everyone knows they are a thing but nobody actually says anything. Until one day they are at a conference, banquet, something, and some oblivious idiot asks them when they're gonna find nice girls to get married and settle down. (Could be Nielan+Yanli if you're in the mood)

ao3

There’s always someone who asks, eventually.

Most of the time it’s because they’re new, or because they’re stupid, or because they’re disliked and no one read them into the gossip. Sometimes they do know the gossip and they’re just being malicious – Wen Ruohan did that a few times, they say, but of course, look what ended up happening to him. In the end, it’s better to just…not bring it up. The whole cultivation world knows, all right?

They just don’t talk about it.

If the idiot in question is lucky, he – sometimes a she, when a meddling old grandmother or eagle-eyed mother is out on the hunt and not too thoughtful about her targets, but usually a he – will pick Lan Xichen as the target for the question. It’s not unreasonable, if you look at it sideways and squint a bit to make it work: Lan Xichen used to be known as the most desirable young master, ranked first out of them all. He still is, by some means of counting – certain of his loyal and avid following among the female (and occasionally male) cultivators maintain that a man is still eligible for the list until they’re officially married, and never mind the details, but no one listens to them, they’re crazy. But either way, he’s in the prime of his life and still beautiful, still talented, still polite and gentle and smiling, an exceptional cultivator, as good with the sword as he is with the xiao or the guqin or the brush or – he’s just really good at everything, okay? Everyone admits that if you were an idiot, you might think to ask him when he was going to find a nice girl to settle down with.

If you were an idiot, to be clear.

Because everyone who’s not an idiot knows that Lan Xichen’s idea of a ‘nice girl’ is a towering mountain of a man with a temper like a volcano, and odds were that said man was probably already staring a hole into the asker’s back at that very moment, thinking about the best way to challenge them to a spar.

That was still the luckier approach, though. Lucky, because Lan Xichen really is a gentleman the way everyone says he is; because he’ll smile and laugh and fob off the person asking with a joke or a misdirection or something like that, and if they go away after the first asking he won’t think twice about it. If they’re stupid enough to persist and ask three times or more, or else try to offer him a meeting with some poor girl that they know, some sister or cousin or daughter or niece, then he’ll get a little more stern, a little more direct, but they’ll still mostly come out the other side intact.

(And if later on they get challenged to a fight by a certain towering mountain of a man and chased around the training field for a good long while, well, that’s the cost of being an idiot – idiot enough to accept an invitation to spar with Nie Mingjue, even if you put aside all the other idiocy they were doing.)

Now, if they were moderately unlucky, which they sometimes were, they would go try the same exact trick on Nie Mingjue himself. And that, too, made sense: the Nie were the most respected out of all the sects, led by a war hero and the leader of the Sunshot Campaign himself, the man who united the sects and led them to glory and then gave them back their autonomy without taking any of it for himself, and Nie Mingjue was the oldest of the current set of sect leaders. If he didn’t make a good example of himself by marrying, who knew how long it would take the rest of them to get moving? And it wasn’t as if he weren’t handsome enough in his own way…

This could be termed unlucky on account of the way that Nie Mingjue would first laugh in the face of anyone who asked and then get angry if they persisted, and people generally did not last long in the face of Nie Mingjue’s anger. If some brave soul persisted in that case, Nie Mingjue would usually just shout them out of the room, and then after that Lan Xichen would often come meandering by with a smile that was a little more stiff than usual and – well, Lan Xichen was a gentleman, you know, but there isn’t anything anywhere that says a gentleman can’t get revenge when someone’s trying to steal away his lover right in front of his nose. Rather the opposite, really.

(Anyone stupid enough to accept an invitation to duel Lan Xichen when he was in that sort of mood couldn’t be termed an idiot, because that implied some presence of brain, rather than none at all. Surely there had to be some term referring to a grade lower than idiot that would suit them better.)

Still, though, that was not the most unlucky.

The most unlucky ones were the ones who approached neither Lan Xichen nor Nie Mingjue, but who plotted or schemed or made mention of their ambitions anywhere in the vicinity of Nie Huaisang and Lan Wangji, who were – it was said – the two responsible for introducing their older brothers to each other, to cajoling their stubborn relations to get past their own inhibitions and get together, and who were ferociously devoted to ensuring that they stayed together, no matter what obstacle. Those ones ought to count on their luck and pray to their gods that they only ended up with a nice duel in a field in the blazing hot sun, Lan Wangji looking at them like an icy cold god of death from across the battlefield, because if they weren’t they’d face Nie Huaisang who was completely useless in every respect except for getting people into trouble. And if they both happened to be around, well…

It was said that Nie Huaisang and Lan Wangji had either not gotten along as children or had gotten along wonderfully, that they had gotten into some silly argument as teenagers that no one understood, that they hated each other or that they were so close that it was as if they could read each other’s minds when they wanted to, or maybe some weird amalgamation of all of that at once. No one knew the truth.

But what people did know is that they certainly did agree on protecting their brothers.

And the idiot who asked… Did not ask again.

#mdzs #nie mingjue #lan xichen #nie huaisang #lan wangji #my fic #my fics #lil bit of third party perspective

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odetoviscera · 7 months

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Title: there were thirst and hunger, grief and ruins

Chapter: 4 of 12

Fandom: MDZS/The Untamed

Relationships: Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao/Nie Mingjue

Major Tags: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con

Summary: What should have been a three-day trip to hash out new territory boundaries becomes a two-week delaying tactic as Nie Mingjue attempts to solve a crime, since no one else seems to be interested in doing that.

Jin Guangyao tries very, very hard to get him to stop that and go home.

Neither of them gets exactly what they want.

(Meanwhile, in Cloud Recesses, Lan Xichen would just like someone to tell him what the hell is going on in Jinlintai.)

Chapter Excerpt:

He scowls. “You agree with Jin Guangyao. You think I should stop meddling.”

“I think,” says Nie Zonghui delicately, “That Jin Guangyao knows the Jin better than we do.”

“He’s been here a month.”

“Respectfully, Nie-zongzhu… I remember what Jin Guangyao can do with a month.”

#nieyao #mdzs fanfiction #3zun #ao3fic #untamed fanfiction #you're not hallucinating the chapter excerpt is a new addition #an experiment in “does this make the chapter announcement more interesting”#anyway new chapter!

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wangxianficrecs · 9 months

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The Misunderstanding by kisahawklin

The Misunderstanding

by kisahawklin

T, 9k, Wangxian

Part of the MXTX Bargain Bin

Summary: Lan Huan sees some unusually pricey things on Lan Zhan's credit card statement. Wen Qing sees Wei Ying coming home from dates with expensive jewelry. They have some concerns. Kay's comments: Ah, meddling brother Lan Xichen and meddling sister Wen Qing doing their best, completely misunderstanding the situation and almost wrecking Lan Zhan and Wei Ying's brand-new relationship - I really liked this one! Never read something like it before and the outsider POV is beautifully done. They really do just misunderstand everything. Excerpt: Lan Huan doesn't think much more about Wei Ying until the next credit card statement shows up with two pricey dinners at high end restaurants, multiple cash withdrawals, and some expensive jewelry. It is possibly Lan Zhan going overboard for someone he likes. Lan Huan thinks he has probably dated a little, here and there, but he's never liked someone enough to mention them to Lan Huan, much less be this extravagant with his money. He tries not to let the nagging feeling that's settling into his stomach turn sour. Maybe it's just Lan Zhan not being sure of himself, wanting to present himself as a worthy partner. He texts Lan Zhan and asks to meet for dinner again. We should do this every month! I miss your cooking and I don't get to see you enough. How's next weekend?

pov outsider, modern setting, modern no powers, protective lan xichen, protective wen qing, wei wuxian & wen ning & wen qing, lan wangji/wei wuxian get a happy ending, humor, misunderstandings, miscommunication, light angst, angst with a happy ending, single parent wei wuxian, getting together, dating, @kisahawklin

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

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3cosmicfrogs · 2 months

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they do scream arranged marriage, yes..

Zhanyao happening during LZ seclusion because A-Yuan got found out as a Wen and Jin Guangyao takes care of it.... they should be pen pals.. Lan zhan gets two very morally grey men... these two arent even in love... theyre there for The Lan.

more Correct opinions from the zhanyao anon...

AND THEY ARENT EVEN IN LOVE i am hollering yes Yes you Get It you understand my vision!!

during lz seclusion his adopted charge gets revealed as a wen, and his uncle and brother desperately need to find a way to re-integrate lwj into Proper Society. Fantastic that Xichen already knows just the man! his good and trustworthy a-yao is surely the finest man who will help bring wangji out of his grief. and a-yao is still so torn up about da-ge's tragic death, it would be good for the three of them to be close and console each other, and perhaps wangji and a-yao could find solace in each other...

simultaneously jgs is looking for a way to remove jgy from the direct line of succession... and so through the power of societal expectations and xichen's well-meaning but incessant Meddling, we have an arranged marriage zhanyao au!

i think theyd probably be very formal with each other at first, quite distant, but amicable. jgy adores lan yuan, of course he does, so lwj cannot outright hate him.

then jgs dies and lwj realises that his husband is not as squeaky-clean as he pretends to be. this...is very attractive. simultaneously, jgy realises that lwj knows, but does not care... this is also quite attractive.

xichen understands nothing but is delighted that his two favourite people have finally FINALLY gotten this marriage thing worked out!

when 10 years later a resurrected wwx arrives on the scene, jgy heaves a put-upon sigh and sets to pull the right strings to get as many of wwx crimes forgiven as possible, because wangji wants this flea-ridden sex pest and what his husband wants jgy will move mountains to get (damn his lan kink!)

in this au nmjs murder never gets found out, so we fade out on a pleased lwj strutting around like a peacock with his two twink husbands in tow, each atop their own pile of corpses. theyre not in love with each other, theyre here for The Lan, but they get off on the competition (its a Thing).

#zhanyao #wangxianyao #why do my answers to these always end up as essays my god

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tavina-writes · 11 months

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a fic idea I will probably never write because the experience would be SO HARROWING I might as well bury myself first but that I have had since AT LEAST November 2022:

JYL is the only Yunmeng sibling to survive Nightless City. Badly injured, with a whole bunch of physical and mental scars, BUT! Congratulations! Both JC and WWX have died! JYL is the only Jiang who survives.

This means that Yanli has to return to the Yunmeng Jiang. (And also so I can do Yu politics. And also locate some Yu women for Yanli to be friends with. And also flesh out the Yu Matriarch and JYL's maternal aunts and cousins because yes.) 2b) Undecided about how and where Jin Ling is going in this AU because on one hand: I'm pretty sure if Yanli is returning to the Jiang for her three year mourn her husband period she'll want to take Jin Ling with her, but ALSO JGS is in a position of great power here so we have no idea what the situation is here and I haven't decided bc idk how much I want the vibes to just be RANCID and also bc I'm not writing this so idk!)

LWJ, post his 3 year seclusion due to the discipline whip related situation, partially wants leave the Lan/partially Xichen thinks maybe him having a change of pace would be good/partially the Lan Elders Are Meddling Again/partially because Grandma Yu is ALSO meddling, gets an arranged marriage to Yanli set for when Yanli's mourning period is over. LWJ is agreeing to this partly bc of his complicated feelings about WWX.

LWJ brings A-Yuan with him for mental support. Also because has trust issues.

At some point these two scrape together a platonic arranged marriage of necessity so hard it keeps the Jiang from sinking into the lake.

JUST IN TIME for NHS's ten year revenge plot to kick off and congratulations WWX is alive again!

The vibes are extremely fraught and awful because HELLO WEI WUXIAN WOULD YOU LIKE TO RUIN SHIJIE'S MARRIAGE A SECOND TIME AND ALSO CONGRATULATIONS JC IS DEAD STILL. He's fleeing for the hills.

Anyway this is also why I would never write this because 1) I have found a time skip option where LWJ is the most mentally well person in the room and 2) a canon timeline more terrible than what actually happened in canon. :DDDDDD

#fic ideas #my writing #jiang yanli #lan wangji #wei wuxian #I have created a fic idea so evil and I just keep swirling in case it grows a resolution #but yeah I don't know what the resolution is here

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