#please no lan qiren watching friends

[xiakeponz]

for modern AU fics - what chinese media did diaspora consume?

making this post because some of us in the diaspora server were having a chat about what Chinese media "Diaspora Chinese" watched in the 90's - 2000's (and even sooner than that) while not having access to satellite chinese media or streaming services - this is in the context of writing modern AU fics based off Chinese media/novels (so your main character's grandpa or uncle is not, in fact, watching an episode of Friends or Shortland Street or something as flavour text because sorry what the hell-)

We generally watched a lot of stuff on VCDs, including bootlegged and non-bootlegged movies, shows, anime/donghua. My household had a whole VCD album of this, and a lot of VCDs (even if they were pirated editions) would have a fancy hardcover box with a magnetic clasp and some artwork representing the show on it.

All of this is Mandarin - so not TVB stuff, because I'm from Northern China and I don't know any cantonese - but Canto friends, please feel free to add to the list! This is mostly stuff my parents liked to watch, or I liked to watch with them, with the exception of a few which I mainly watched with friends/cousins when I was maybe (in most cases) eleven/twelve years old onwards. This is a pretty personal list, meant to give people general idea of a possible "ballpark" of sorts, and by no means exhaustive.

Now, for the list of shows which I can confirm I had or someone I know had on VCD or some kind of offline media format lol (I'll try add release year stamps and links to the EN wikipedia where possible):

Period dramas (mostly Qing Dynasty stuff):

Huan Zhu Gege 还珠格格 (1998, April-) This is a classic, so many memes come from this show; hugely popular series, basically cemented Zhang Tie Lin's face as the face of the Qing Emperor for about a decade. Tie Chi Tong Ya Ji Xiao Lan 铁齿铜牙纪晓岚 (2002-2010) - I loved this show as a kid and watched all four seasons on repeat with family... The "trio" in this show are well known and loved.

Amazing Detective Di Ren Jie / 神探狄仁杰 (2004) A very popular and addictive show. Ok now the Big Four:

Romance of 3 kingdoms 1994 / 三国演义 (1994) - a classic that has had many remakes, my older cousin would play this on repeat...

Hong Lou Meng/红楼梦 （1987） - another classic with many remakes, but I think the most recognised by the public one is the 1987 one.

Journey to the West / 西游记 live action (1986) - I think the 1986 version of the live action is the most recognised one. *Shui Hu Zhuan / 水浒传 (1998) - I am not too familliar with the live action of this one in my household tbh bc my mum doesn't like it lol (she keeps saying it's too depressing) but I'm sure it's up there with the rest of the big four, if anyone has an opinion on this one please let me know!

Modern setting shows:

My dad loved all the Sun Honglei (孙红雷 - actor name) stuff, iirc it was a lot of MinGuo period espionage stuff, your shanghai 1920's sxc aesthetic. This actor has been around since 1999? Qian Fu （潜伏）was very famous, and Ren Jian Zheng Dao Shi Cang Sang （人间正道是沧桑）。 These were around '08 and '09.

Chuang Guan Dong - 闯关东 (2008) (Baidu link, sorry - couldn't get an EN wikipedia one). This show was huge when it was airing, everyone was watching it. I was pretty young but even I watched it and got invested ... and I thought it was such an "old person" show at the time lmao. Xiao Bing Zhang Ga / 小兵张嘎 （2004） (sorry, again Baidu link) - yo, anti-japanese war movies set between 1937-1945 were crazy popular - this is one of them and was very popular):

Donghua/Anime (all the stuff kid me watched and some which I didn't but were popular):

喜羊羊与灰太狼 (2005-) Calabash Brothers / 葫芦兄弟 （1986-1987） Black Cat Detective / Hei Mao Jing Zhang 黑猫警长 （1984-2010） Lan Mao Tao Qi 3000 Wen 蓝蓝猫淘气3000问 AKA 蓝猫 (blue cat) (October 1999 - Present) Legend of Ne Zha 哪吒传奇 (2003) Journey to the West/Xi You Ji 西游记 This was truly the Donghua I grew up on from when I was a bb, the OP song and ED song are classic bangers all kids know. Slam Dunk/ 灌篮高手 - People truly watched a lot of anime that may or may not have been terribly dubbed into mando (possibly canto too). Late 80s and 90s kids were all over this, and Dragon Ball, Crayon Shinchan (labixiaoxin).

Taiwanese Dramas:

This is mid-late 2000's, I would be remiss to not talk about the Taiwanese dramas of this era. Mike He, Rainie Yang, Wu Zun (amongst many, many others) were huge. Stuff like Dou Niu Yao Bu Yao, it started with a kiss, Hua Yang Shao Nv (Taiwanese version of Hana Kimi) were all pretty popular. Not sure if these shows all hold up in 2023, but boy were they popular at the time.

Note about CNY:

For CNY, people would try to tune into 春节联欢晚会 (the CCTV official CNY show) at that One Friend Who Had China Satellite TV's house. Zhao Ben Shan / 赵本山 was a comedy staple, and the show would often feature people from the music industry to perform. Eventually these people became more and more relevant to my gen and Jay Chou etc started appearing.

Last but not least Xian Jiaaaan 仙剑:

In 2005 I was all over 仙剑奇侠传 (Chinese Paladin), based off the video game. This show was crazy popular and probably sent me and a whole lot of other kids into Xianxia / Wuxia hell (and Hu Ge hell, and later I came back to love Liu Yifei). Thank you. The OST is a true banger.

#cnovel #mdzs #cdrama #chinese diaspora #danmei #not a lot of jinyong wuxia shows here so people who have opinions please chime in! #whew that was more than i thought #music could do with another post #but i dont know too much about my dads music i was just a 2000s cpop nerd #also this doesnt cover movies either #please no lan qiren watching friends #this breaks me out of my immersion immediately unless there was a specific reason why shufu is watching friends #not even sure how to tag this #late 2000s you could pretty much stream and download stuff i think i did that for bbjx when it came out #even tho my parents hated The Internet i managed #feel free to add more to this in a post or tags or whatever

[wangxianficrecs]

the world wags on by justdoityoufucker

🔒 the world wags on

by justdoityoufucker (orphan_account)

T, 5k, Wangxian & Wei Changze/Lan Qiren

Summary: Wei Ying learns quickly that he cannot be seen by the Jiang. Or, more specifically, he can’t be seen by Madam Yu, who seems to be around the streets of the city more than she ever had been before. Her seeing him will result in the usual spoken barbs, but also in lashings with the sparking purple of Zidian if there are few around. - Or, the one where Wei Changze returns. Kay's comments: Recently re-read this gem and loved it just as much as I did when the story first came out. Having Wei Changze and Lan Qiren getting together works surprisingly well and of course it's a delight to have Wei Ying grow up in Gusu, as a Lan. It starts out heart-breaking and then it turns out so soft and the petty part of me enjoyed watching the Jiangs flounder as well. Excerpt: Qiren looks as if he’s seen a ghost when the disciple leads Wei Changze into his office, dropping his brush. In a way, he has seen a ghost. “Changze,” he gasps, stumbling to his feet, nearly overturning his desk in his haste, “you—how? The boy??” “She’s gone, a-Ren,” and he can’t keep the grief out of his voice. He’s had five years, yes, but really he’s only had the past week. “I almost died during the hunt; I didn’t remember anything—not until a week ago. a-Ying—” He almost feels like he’s going to collapse if he has to think about what a-Ying went through for months, years, when he should’ve been loved and cared for. “Sit,” Qiren says, leading him to the table, hand remaining on his arm as if when he lets go, Wei Changze will disappear again. “a-Ren, they threw him out,” he says, because he has not been able to talk about this with anyone else and he cannot hold back any longer. “Fengmian didn’t even know if he still lived; my son, like he was naught but some trash!”

pov wei changze, canon divergence, pov wei wuxian, wei changze lives, lan qiren/wei changze, somebody lives/not everybody dies, dysfunctional jiang family, jiang family bashing, past child abuse, parent-child relationship, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, childhood friends

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#April 2024 #Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #Wangxian #MDZS #Kay's Rec #short fic <15k #teen #the world wags on #justdoityoufucker #pov wei changze #canon divergence #pov wei wuxian #wei changze lives #lan qiren/wei changze #somebody lives/not everybody dies #dysfunctional jiang family #jiang family bashing #past child abuse #parent-child relationship #hurt/comfort #angst with a happy ending #childhood friends

[wangxianficfinder]

Fic Finder

Feb 15th

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1. Hi! This is for fic finder. Its similar to "wide enough and wild" by impossibletruths. The difference is, in the fic that i want to find again is WWX is a sect leader of wen remnant. There are a fight between the wen remnant because of land and WWX has to resolbe it as sect leader. WWX and LWJ adopt Wen Yuan formally like they ask granny wen for permission to adopt Wen Yuan and there are some ceremony to solidify the adoption. LWJ get drunk and stole a goat (?). It involve a goat but i dont remember if it was LWJ or JWY who stole a goat. WQ has a student. Close to the end of story, WQ goes to Yunmeng with JWY and the title of sect healer goes to WQ's student. I think thats all i can remember. Thank you! @idontknowwhattowriteforusername

NOT FOUND stay, fury, your wrist wrapped in silk by spookykingdomstarlight (E, 228k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, YLLZ LWJ, LWJi loses his golden core, yiling wei sect, Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery, Temporary Character Death, War Crimes, Wen Remnant, Wangxian Get a Happy Ending, Revenge, LWJ goes dark for a while, WWX has a hard time with the bad shit going on around him, JGS is a bastard, Protracted Sunshot Campaign, War is war and hell is hell and of the two war is a lot worse, temporary impotence, growing intimacy, LWJ and WWX and the Wen Remnant live in the Burial Mounds together, WWX travels with LWJ and stays at his side post-Sunshot, Spanish Translation)

FOUND! sounds like the epilogue chapter of A Narrow Bridge by FrameofMind, Jo Lasalle (Jo_Lasalle) (E, 700k, wangxian, time travel fix-it, slow burn, getting together, first time, pining, pining while fucking, burial mounds settlement days, angst w happy ending)… but that's a really short piece of that particular fic to remember so I have doubts ^^; the goat part sounds like way earlier tho, when they get a goat, if I remember well.

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2. hello! I’m looking for a modern wangxian fic where wwx and lwj are high school (?) lovers but then lan qiren (who is also the director of the school I think) finds out about their relationship and sends lwj to the Lan school London. And then there’s a time skip and lwj ends up working at the school and the school system gets hacked so they engage the tech company that wwx started to fix the problem. And then they get back together - please help me!

FOUND? Tempo Rubato by Spodumene (E, 107k, WangXian, Modern AU, Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Persuasion au, Separations, Mutual Pining, Depression, Miscommunication, Emotional Roller Coaster, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Reconciliation, Eventual Smut, Jane Austen Fusion, Underage Kissing) / Hello! I'm fairly certain that #2 on the most recent fic finder is in fact Tempo Rubato. I just finished doing a reread of that one and the details provided all line up :)

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3. hello! i hope u guys can help me find this fic. wwx and lwj are camboys then one day, wwx watched lwj for the first time just before his stream. (i think lwj is the no. 1 in that site) lwj watched his stream, wwx gave him his address and lwj went to his house. i know that its in my bookmark but i cant really find it. thank you in advamce!

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4. hi there are some fics that are continuously bouncing around in my head so some help in finding them would be very much appreciated and if my memory serves me correct all these stories were one shots

A) all I remember is that WY was a phoenix captured by the wens and LZ meets him during his capture and falls in love around this time, also not very sure if WY had healing powers or his tears turned to peals because he heals LZ and that LZ tells him to cry just because WY feels like crying

B) the story starts of with WY and LZ on a date arranged by all of their friends and other memories of it include NHS telling WY that LZ had made a separate group without him to warn them from ever repeating what they did WY also went out with LQY in (idk) high school and with WQ but they broke up because WQ had to focus on med school and didn't want to do Long distance and that WY seems to know that LZ is in love with him and LZ cries after telling WY that he's happy being his friend along with ending on the note where WY and LZ confirm that they are officially friends to every one else

C) this one revolves around WY being a sacrifice and LZ is guardian till his death but they fall in love I think WY was to be sacrificed on his 20 some birthday also the way the sacrifice was interpreted wrongly by the sects and in it WY and LZ also sleep together before WY is ultimately sacrificed but it was a happy ending that's all I remember I apologize if the descriptions are too vague but I read them a good while back and thank you so much for your help

4A)

FOUND! a thousand hills, no birds in flight | 千山鳥飛絕 by defractum (nyargles) (E, 26k, WangXian, Mythology, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon adjacent setting, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort)

NOT FOUND! Breathing Firestorm by ladyshadowdrake (M, 110k, wangxian, angst, fluff, captivity, creepy WRH, no non-con, dreamsharing, politics, people making the best decisions they can, epic length, mythical creature WWX, canon-typical violence, dark, happy ending)

4B)

FOUND! yeah theyre just bros thanks for asking by victortor (T, 10k, WangXian, Intimacy, Modern AU, Aromantic Character, Established Relationship, Communication)

4C)

FOUND! The Sacrifice's Last Guard by 0_Heta_0 (E, 24k, WangXian, Falling In Love, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending)

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5. hi there! for the next fic finder — im pretty... sure... this is a jiang yanli-centric fic? but a lot of the POV was also madame yu. i remember that cangse sanren survived (this is not time charm). cssr, madame yu, and,, another woman who i forgot (possibly lwj's mother?) get into a relationship, and they raise the children together. im pretty sure jfm also dies alongside wcz (unless im mixing up two fics). either way, theres a scene where someone sneaks in the wives rm n mdme yu kicks their ass // (i'm the yzy/cssr/madame lan anon) i know for *sure* now that im mixing up two fics, but same ot3. it's not sami's sail away sweet sister. the character pov was yzy annd she was a lot more unsure about the whole thing bc she was painfully aware what she's like.

For the most recent fic finder #5 is absolutely Sail Away Sweet Sister. It's in Chapter 3, 2/3 of the way through. It may be conflated with another one, though, as that particular section is in Madame Lan POV (her name is Tang Lijuan). Sami tells stories in multi-POV though, so there are other sections from Yu Ziyuan's POV relating the incident.

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6. Okay so, looking for a fic where lwj or wwx accidentally summon incubus/succubus wwx or lwj. (I can't remember who was the sex demon or who was the human but it is a wangxian fic)

So, the succubus needs food and it is, unsurprisingly, cum. As in they have to literally eat cum to survive. So the human lets the demon feed from him. The human is followed by this succubus/incubus everywhere he goes to including his university.

The human loves feeding the sex demon and even lets him feed in the uni bathroom during breaks.

Does a fic like this exist? Does it ring any bell?

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7. Hi I'm looking for a fic in which Lan wangji and Lan Zichen got yin poisoning. And because Lan wangji in on the verge of death. Lan zichen decided to ask for Wei wuxian help on extracting yin energy but Lan Qiren prevented LAN zichen from fetching Wei wuxian because of his injury and decided the LAN Qiren himself will go and get Wei wuxian. And in this story Lan zichen and Jin gungyao will end up together jin gungyao was poisoned by his father. And wen Qing helps treat him thank you for the help @routel

FOUND? The Untamed: For the Love of Two Boys by YenGirl (Not rated, 181k, wangxian, JYL/JZX, JC/WQ, 3zun, Yin Metal poisoning, wangxian wedding, XiYao wedding, 3Zun wedding, Single minded LWJ, Caring WWX, Supportive lxc, Supportive LQR, Prickly JC, Sweet JYL, Good JZX, Badass WQ, Cinnamon roll WN, adorable a-yuan, Supportive NMJ, Redeemed JGY, Evil JGS, Supportive Madam Jin, Annoying JZN, Evil XY, Rescued SS, Jealous SS, Useless Sect Leader Yao, Supportive Lan Healer OC, Accupuncture, Golden Core Reveal, Yunmeng sibs reconciliation, Implied mpreg jokes, stygian tiger seal, Burial Grounds fight, Meng Shi's grave, Jiang Sect Ancestral Hall, Lan Sect Ancestral Hall, wedding nights, minor OCs,nMingshi & Calming Bell)

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8. Hello I am looking for a fanfic where Wei Ying finds out that he still has family that’s alive on his fathers side. He travels with Lan Zhan and ayuan to meet them and finds out his father was from a rich merchant family but his father left them to become a cultivator. He meets his grandmother who has dementia and his family business ends up boycotting the Jins when they find out what they did to Weiying. I know I bookmarked this fanfic but I can’t seem to find it.

FOUND? Keep Holding On by abCEE (M, 316k, JC & WWX & JYL, wangxian, canon divergence, role reversal, YLLZ JYL, yunmeng sibling dynamics, good uncle LQR, sunshot campaign, PTSD, established relationship, angst w/ happy ending)

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9. Hi I really loved the fic A Myriad of Blossoms!! It's one of my favs now! Thank you so much for suggesting that fic.

Next I was looking for two fics :

A) Where Wei Wuxian after being expelled from CR is also "expelled" from YMJ and he works as a spy for Madam Yu and later when she dies the spy organisation is taken up by Nie Huaisang.

B) Where Lan Wangji asks Wei Wuxian to give up the Yin Tiger Tally and as a result WWX loses his new Yin core all over again and is severely hurt and LWJ regrets.

Thank you again!! @yilinglaobunny

9A)

FOUND! 🔒 Pendulum by ShippersList (M, 69k, wangxian, graphic depicitions of violence, rape/non-con, underage, A/B/O, Canon Divergence, Non-Traditional A/B/O Dynamics, Alpha LWJ, Omega WWX, Misunderstandings, Canon-Typical Violence, Spies & Secret Agents, Fake Character Death, Slow Burn, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, BAMF WWX, Attempted Sexual Assault, Canonical Character Death, Mutual Pining, Good JGY, Introspection, Self-Sacrificing WWX, Love Confessions, Protective LWJ, past child sexual abuse)

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10. Hi! I was hoping to have some help finding a specific fic? It was really long, a zombie apocalypse au? Where WWX gives birth to A-Yuan and LWJ is the father and then they get separated? And there's a big cruise ship? I remember the title was something like Nowhere Man? And it was finished! But I can't find it anywhere! Appreciate any help in finding this fic, thank you!!! @ariel-nolikeshakespeare

FOUND? For #10 could it be that its this fic? nowhere man - Red (zuwujun) At least if you search on google "nowhere man zombie ao3" thats the first result and it is a wangxian fic from the summary snippet visible from google. Sadly its currently hidden for a challenge

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11. Hi! I really appreciate the work you do. I'm looking for two fics: A) a deity!wwx au fic (not many tags beyond pairing, incomplete, hasnt been updated in a few years). Lwj meets night deity!wwx as a teen, befriends him, and during sunshot everyone thinks hes blessed by the sun god bc he has a branding iron he uses as a weapon. wwx turns himself mortal. B) The second is a cql post-canon fic: wwx sends lwj note hes in trouble from a night hunt. Family brings food to cave. Sex curse? Defeat Yao in lake. @classygreydove

11B)

FOUND? Fire in the Blood by Jo Lasalle (Jo_Lasalle) (M, 20k, wangxian, First Time, Post-Canon, Angst with a Happy Ending, hurt/comfort themes)

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12. Hi! I'm looking for these two fics:

A) WWX is the boss at some company and wants to keep LWJ from leaving because he's such a good employee so he offers him to double his salary or whatever he wants, LWJ says he won't leave if WWX offers himself. It's a modern AU.

B) During his stay in cloud recesses, WWX overhears two guys planning on cursing a woman with a toy connected to her, WWX stops them and changes the curse towards himself. The issue is that LWY confiscates the toy. That's what I remember.

Thanks!

12A)

FOUND? What's Wrong With Secretary Lan? by silverclaw (T, 5k, wangxian, LXC/NMJ, Modern, Inspired By What's Wrong With Secretary Kim? (TV), JZX and WWX are best friends, LWJ is "going through a rebellious phase")

12B)

FOUND? 🔒 The Golden Cutsleeve by syrus_jones (E, 77k, WangXian, Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff and Crack, Humor, Aged-Up Character(s), WWX POV, WWX is a gremlin, Internally Screaming LWJ, No Sunshot Campaign, First Times, Accidental Sex, Masturbation, PWP, Porn with Feelings, WWX experimenting with things he shouldn’t like always, Happy Ending, Porn With Plot)

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13. Hello— looking for a fic (au).

A) The Twin Jades go to Lotus Pier. Madam Yu makes WY stay out of the way (maybe even sleep outside?). LXC sees WY using talismans & is impressed. The next day he brings his brother & LWJ falls for WY:)

B) The twin jades are at Lotus Pier & MY makes WY sleep outside? But LWJ runs into him (and sees him using talisman:)

Thanks!!! @snowrose24

For number thirteen in the last item finder, I know that fic is an omega Wei Wuxian, but I can’t recall the title. Hope that helps? Definitely an alpha Lan Wangji.

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14. Hello, I am not sure how this works 😅. I think I am supposed to write my request here. I am trying to find a WangXian fic. It is a modern au. Lan enterprises is hacked and Nei Mingjue send Wei Ying to help them and by the end of day Lan Wangji and Wei Ying are set for a date. In this fic Wei Ying is a CEO of a big security company I think. Also they decided that Wei Ying will be an intern to catch the hacker. @veeru19

FOUND? Wangji's Beautiful Stranger by xxxMiaHikarixxx (G, 47k, wangxian, WIP, Modern, Soulmates, older LWJ, younger WWX, LWJ is So Whipped, Not Jiang Family Friendly, A-Yuan and Jingyi are best boys)

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15. Hi there! I'm looking for a fic that I sadly don't remember much about. The few things that stick in my mind are (1) Lan Wangji's father is alive, but they do not get along since his father left them, (2) Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian have a baby (can't remember if it's A-Yuan or an OC), and (3) there's some family event where Lan Qiren brings Lan Wangji's father and Lan Wangji (somewhat reluctantly) allows his father to feed the baby as a sign he's willing to try to start mending their relationship. Thanks for all the good work you do! @lucky-cat-13

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16. Hi! This is for fic finder. I dont remember much, unfortunately. What i remember is WWX send a letter to other clan. Like, there should be someone who married in to wen remnants right? So he send letter to those family to ask if they want to take their wen family back or not. I think LWJ help him too. That is all i can remember. Thank you! @idontknowwhattowriteforusername

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17. Hello! I'm looking for a fic where Lan Wangji is an emperor. Lan Xichen dies in the war against the Wen and none of the other clans provided support to the Lan. Wei Wuxian helps in the background, including saving the Dafan Wen. Lan Wangji demands Wei Wuxian as part of the treaty/alliance with with other clans post winning the war. Wei wuxian thinks he is a war prize/prisoner, but he is treated really well by the Gusu Lan for his efforts in the war.

It was WIP and I thought I had this bookmarked, but I lost it 😔

Thank you!!

FOUND! golden when the day met the night by glitteringmoonlight (Not rated, 95k, slow burn, sugar daddy LWJ, light, angst, fluff, developing relationship, eventual smut, WIP)

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18. Hello again! Thanks as always for your help. Do you happen to remember that one fic where wwx has wildly overworked himself by taking in too many foster kids, and LWJ, his boyfriend, buys him a Fitbit to gently dom him into eating and sleeping enough? @balleyboley

I know number 18😭 I'll try to look for it. Wei ying wouldn't sleep or eat and didnt realize it, I hope someone finds it!

FOUND? underweight by sixstepsaway (E, 7k, WangXian, sex used as bribery lmao, Eating Disorders, Anxiety, full time dom!lwj, consensual control, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs)

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19. Hi, So i'm looking for two fics a) pretty sure his one is a one shot but it's basically during the sunshot campain and wwx is putting souls to rest when one of them wants something for him. The soul is all flirty and so on and after some time they find out it's nhs and nmj's father. b) also during the sunshot campain, nmj sees wwx being sickly and is like I'll take you under my wing, he feeds him just takes care of him @thatperson0-0

19A)

FOUND! Win Some, Lose Some by nirejseki (G, 3k, wangxian, Canon Divergence, Ghosts, Talkative Ghosts, Marriage Arrangements, NHS & LWJ friends agenda)

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20. hii. this is for ficfinder

I haven't read this but the summary of the fic was smth like wei wuxian disappears and I think sometime later lan wangji finds a man named mo xuanyu, I think it's a modern au, but I might be wrong!

thank you!!!

NOT FOUND! 🔒 Where You Fell by Sweet_William (E, 303k, wangxian, 3zun, JC/NHS, JYL/JZX, Modern, Angst, Mutual Pining, Homeless AU, Getting Together, Slow Burn, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, accidental sugar daddy LWJ, Suicidal Thoughts, Self-Esteem Issues, Coffee Shops & Cafés, Autistic Character, WWX Has ADHD, Panic Attacks, Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Sex Work, Implied/Referenced Substance Abuse, Eventual Happy Ending)

NOT FOUND! vintage youth by sami (E, 13k, WangXian, Modern AU, references to past LWJ/others, references to past WWX/WQ, Family, Sexual Tension, set in the early 90s, Background Xicheng)

FOUND! don't leave me waiting, don't leave me here by sassybluee (M, 13k, WangXian, WangYu, Modern: No Powers, Missing Persons, Sex Work, Lawyer LWJ, Ambiguous Relationships, Hopeful Ending, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Angst, POV LWJ)

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#wangxian #mdzs #wangxian fic finder #wangxian fic search #the untamed #wangxianficfinder #long post

[robininthelabyrinth]

Sub!nmj, preferably with some flavor of trans, pick your pairing. I just want nmj to be told he's a good boy.

ao3 link

WARNING: explicit content, mildly degrading dirty talk, voyeurism

This probably wasn’t what his father had meant.

“While you are at the Cloud Recesses, you might as well pay close attention to acting Sect Leader Lan,” his father had said offhandedly, in that way he had when he was completely serious and you had better obey or else but also he wanted to reserve the right to say he’d just been kidding later on if you screwed it up. “Particularly if he’s meeting with any other sect leader. I’m sure it’d be extremely…educational.”

Jin Zixuan had saluted and agreed, of course. What else was he supposed to do?

If it were Lanling City, he could have gone to complain to his mother, who was usually pretty good at deflecting his father through sheer rage if nothing else, but once he was away, out of her reach, he would be surrounded by his so-called friends, which were really mostly his father’s lackeys, and they knew a thousand and one ways to make his life miserable without ever impugning on the Jin sect’s face if he didn’t at least appear to be trying to follow his father’s orders.

(Sometimes Jin Zixuan wistfully thought of all those bastards that his father was said to have out there, and wished he could switch places with them. They were tainted by their illegitimacy and probably impoverished, yes, but at least they remained free of the stinking golden pit filled with vipers that was his home.)

At the beginning, there was nothing he could do to demonstrate his diligence to his father but attend his classes, which was where Teacher Lan spent a fair amount of his time, but he knew that wouldn’t be enough. He worked out a way to get to Teacher Lan’s quarters without being detected, and even a way to observe him: wiggle through a little-used window, then hide in a closet with the door cracked open so that he could watch him working on paperwork. Of course, there were disadvantages to this method – namely, once he was in, he couldn’t get out until Teacher Lan had left once more, and also that he couldn’t see what was on any of the papers Teacher Lan was reading or writing on – but it was better than nothing, and he dutifully reported on his progress to his father.

There was no response, of course. His father would never put anything on paper that might incriminate himself, while Jin Zixuan’s own letter could always be said not to have been read, and would have been burnt (or ‘lost’ in transit) if it was too indiscreet.

But then, one day, Sect Leader Nie came to visit the Cloud Recesses, and Jin Zixuan heard with his own ears Lan Qiren inviting him to come by his quarters for tea later in the afternoon so that they could speak in private, one sect leader to another. Obviously, with a cue like that, he couldn’t not go, right?

Only…well…

They weren’t exactly talking.

Or…they were. But not about – sect business.

“What a good boy you are,” Teacher Lan said, his hand in Sect Leader Nie’s hair. “So eager to please.”

Sect Leader Nie didn’t respond, probably on account of the fact that his mouth was full of Teacher Lan’s cock.

Jin Zixuan’s mother’s strident efforts aside, Jin Zixuan wasn’t a virgin or anything – he’d been to a handful of top-end brothels, played around a bit until he had at least a general idea of what he liked. The whores he’d slept with had been beautiful and gracious, perfectly poised, and not one of them had sucked his cock with anywhere near the enthusiasm that Sect Leader Nie was displaying right now.

He hadn’t even said a word upon coming in – he’d just closed the door behind him, walked over to where Teacher Lan had risen up from his desk to greet him, and dropped down to his knees. Teacher Lan was still dressed, Sect Leader Nie having just shoved aside his robes and buried his head in there, his activities mostly identifiable on account of the familiar sounds, wet on flesh, and the motion of his head.

Teacher Lan just looked – amused.

Not surprised, not in any way; he’d clearly expected something like this. Now that Jin Zixuan thought about it, he’d probably invited him to tea specifically for this purpose – their eyes had met while he’d issued the invitation, and Sect Leader Nie had nodded stiffly…Jin Zixuan had realized they were subtly signaling to each other, just he’d thought they were going to talk about sect politics! Not – this!

“Eager little slut,” Teacher Lan said, his hands still running over Sect Leader Nie’s thick dark hair, and Jin Zixuan hadn’t even known that Teacher Lan knew that word, much less that he could look like that while saying it. Teacher Lan was a boring old stick in the mud, like his father was always saying; he didn’t get to look stern yet kind, like someone you could trust with your worst insecurities and they would gently scourge you raw with them in the best sort of way. “You’ve been wanting this all day, haven’t you? Or even longer, I’d wager.”

Sect Leader Nie hummed in obvious agreement.

Teacher Lan chuckled, then tucked his hands behind his back – standing with perfect posture, in the proper pose, just as if he were standing at the front of his classroom, and Jin Zixuan was never going to be able to attend another class with him ever again. He looked cool and calm and commanding, stable and secure, unshakable.

“Enough,” he said, an order, and Sect Leader Nie stopped at once, immediately unmoving, although he let out the very smallest little whine of denial. That just made Teacher Lan chuckle again and reached back to run his fingers along Sect Leader Nie’s jawline. “Don’t worry. Haven’t I said that you’re a good boy? Good boys that know how to properly greet their teachers get rewards.”

Jin Zixuan’s hand found its way into his lap before he even realized he’d gotten hard.

Fuck.

He was never going to be able to go to class again. Any class.

“Stand and remove your clothing,” Teacher Lan instructed, and Sect Leader Nie complied, pulling off of Teacher Lan’s cock with a small pop – and, uh, wow. From the angle he was at, Jin Zixuan hadn’t been able to actually see it before, but his first actual glimpse of what Teacher Lan was hiding under his robes was…sure something. Were all the Lan sect main family gifted like that?

Great, now he wasn’t going to be able to meet eyes with Lan Xichen or Lan Wangji anymore either.

“Beautiful,” Teacher Lan said, palming his cock in his hand, and Jin Zixuan tore his eyes away to look at Sect Leader Nie, who had removed his clothing and was now standing nude and proud in the center of the room, his own hands tucked behind his back.

Teacher Lan was right: Sect Leader Nie was beautiful.

Broad wide shoulders you could run your hands over, a narrow waist, supple ass, powerful legs, lots and lots of flesh out there for the looking…he didn’t have a cock, which was momentarily disconcerting until Jin Zixuan suddenly remembered something his mother had mentioned once about the Qinghe Nie tradition of recognizing ‘misaligned’ individuals, who lived their lives with the gender that matched their spirit rather than their body; she’d been complaining about some matchmaking she’d been planning on falling through because the pair she’d had in mind wouldn’t be able to have children, which they both wanted. It seemed that Sect Leader Nie was one of those ‘misaligned’ people.

Jin Zixuan didn’t know what it said about him that the fact didn’t make Sect Leader Nie either more or less attractive to him.

Maybe it didn’t mean anything at all. Sect Leader Nie was just – gorgeous.

“Good boy,” Teacher Lan crooned, and he stepped forward and ran his hands along those shoulders, just the way Jin Zixuan had wanted to. His fingers dragged over Sect Leader Nie’s shoulders and back and arms, then dipped down and cupped Sect Leader Nie’s chest, pulling a gasp out of him.

That didn’t stop Teacher Lan, though. He kept running his fingers all over him, wrapping his hands around his waist, cupping that ass, even drifting over to rub briefly between those legs, coming away wet and slick…

“Teacher Lan,” Sect Leader Nie rasped, his voice deep. “Please.”

“Good boy,” Teacher Lan said again. “Go lie on the bed.”

Sect Leader Nie ardently obeyed.

Jin Zixuan shifted uncomfortably in his place. He couldn’t see the bed very well from where he was – Teacher Lan had a screen up to separate his sleeping area from his working area, and all Jin Zixuan could see were shadows on the screen, figures moving. It meant he could see what they were doing, but couldn’t see exactly what they looked like – he could see the silhouette of Sect Leader Nie lying down, his hands holding his legs up and spread, and he could just barely see Teacher Lan kneeling down between them. He could see Teacher Lan’s head dipping down, out of sight. He could hear the wet sounds as Teacher Lan ate Sect Leader Nie out until he was twisting and turning and even thrashing, until the sounds of his whimpers and whines and “Teacher Lan! Teacher Lan! Please!” were the only thing that filled his ears. Until Sect Leader Nie was sobbing from the pleasure of it, rendered completely incoherent, mumbling nothing.

But he couldn’t see it.

He couldn’t see Sect Leader Nie’s gorgeous body, twitching desperately with need. He couldn’t see his expression, undoubtedly drunk with sensation, pupils blown and expression dazed, blissful, the way it had been while he’d been sucking cock earlier. He couldn’t see Teacher Lan’s face, probably wet with slick, when he rose back up, settling back on his heels to regard his fellow sect leader and asking, ever so gently, “Do you want me to fuck you?”

Yes, Jin Zixuan shouted in his mind when Sect Leader Nie didn’t answer. He didn’t know at what point he’d shoved his own robes apart, wrapping his hand around his cock to furiously work himself, but he’d already come twice and it hadn’t so much as slowed him down. He was a teenager, he barely had a refractory period, and he was watching the hottest thing he’d never even imagined – none of the brothels he’d visited held so much as a candle in comparison to this. Yes, fuck him, do it, do it now.

Luckily for all of them, despite Sect Leader Nie clearly having been tongue-fucked too stupid to answer, the question had been rhetorical.

Jin Zixuan couldn’t see Teacher Lan’s cock through the screen, but he had a vivid imagination and that glimpse from earlier, long and thick, and the guttural way Sect Leader Nie grunted when Teacher Lan put it to him made Jin Zixuan shiver from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet.

“You don’t mind if I make use of you, do you?” Teacher Lan asked, his voice still damnably steady, gentle. “No, of course you don’t. You’re a good boy, a good little slut, made just for me. You don’t mind if your teacher borrows your body for his own purposes…”

Sect Leader Nie most certainly did not seem to mind, keening in mindless pleasure, and Jin Zixuan had to stuff his fingers into his mouth to keep himself from echoing that sound. He didn’t even know which one he wanted to be, which one he was jealous of – probably both – his mind kept switching between roles like rapid-fire, imagining on one hand the heat of Sect Leader Nie’s cunt around him, his hips pistoning as he carelessly held Sect Leader Nie by that tight little waist of his and pressed his cock into him in any position he so wished, and Teacher Lan pressing him down on the other, murmuring filth into his ear as he ‘made use’ of his body as he wished, commanding and inflexible, inexorable, accepting nothing but perfect obedience. He imagined himself in between the two of them, even – his fever-hot brain wildly spinning crazy impossible scenarios, a sect conference in the future where he, dressed in the regalia of Sect Leader Jin, knelt in front of Teacher Lan, side by side with Sect Leader Nie, and obeying the old teacher’s commands to fuck Sect Leader Nie for his viewing pleasure, his entire body a puppet for their pleasure as Teacher Lan intoned orders and Sect Leader Nie begged Teacher Lan for mercy.

Jin Zixuan just barely managed to swallow his cry as he came a third time, listening to Teacher Lan’s own satisfied groan as he emptied his balls into Sect Leader Nie’s cunt.

He did it without hesitation, too, despite the dangers that must be associated with it – Sect Leader Nie must have taken some sort of contraceptive in advance, surely. Or maybe he hadn’t, and they were just playing with fire, Sect Leader Nie willing to risk showing up to the next discussion conference with a belly bulging with another sect leader’s bastard. If Jin Zixuan’s father ever found out about this…

Jin Zixuan’s father, Jin Zixuan decided, was never finding out about this. It wasn’t what he’d meant, anyway.

#mdzs #jin zixuan #nie mingjue #lan qiren #my fic #my fics

[bnnywngs]

mdzs kindergarten au where 10yo nie mingjue went to pick his baby bro a-sang and baby a-ying and a-cheng look at him and go woah you're so big gege are you adult?? a-sang your brother looks so cool!! and start following mingjue gege around like little ducklings, a-sang loves this because he loves his dage and loves when people love him, so he's a very happy child; on the other side, shy a-zhan is silently jealous and bit a-sang until he bleeds because a-sang is a friend thief and a brother thief

they grow up and wei ying and jiang cheng still look up to mingjue, now 20yo, and start playing football ⚽ because of him and huaisang is like "please don't ask me to do this with you guys or i'll hate you forever and tell dage to not talk to you guys ever again" so he ends up as they supporter from the stands while they play and always ask mingjue ge to watch their big games, trying to shoot as much goals as they could; while they're at it, lan zhan, still jealous of mingjue but now for a different reason, decides to play basketball (because he is higher than everyone in school) and try to show off to his best friend wei ying in hopes he'll finally fall in love with him, and even asks huaisang for help sometimes (he doesn't know, but wei ying is already head over hills in love with his lan zhan, but is afraid of losing his friendship over a (im)possible unrequited love)

now they're all in college, jin zixuan finally realized how much of a idiot he is and now is trying to court jiang yanli (and is somewhat successful although nothing he does go exactly the way he wanted to), mingjue is married to meng yao, and both wei ying and jiang cheng still look up to him but now they're more mature about it. wei ying stopped playing football so he could chase his dream of being an artist, going to university with huaisang who's studying fashion. lan zhan thought very seriously on what he wanted to do and he more or less disappointed his uncle when he said he would go to the same uni as wei ying and huaisang because he wanted to study music. xichen asks, very seriously, if he chose this so he could still be beside wei ying and lan zhan is quite offended, but doesn't really deny it. jiang cheng went to another uni the same as jin zixuan and senior lan xichen, still plays football and still asks mingjue ge to watch his important games together with his friends and sister

and when they're finally adults, during wangxian marriage (after do many years pining stupidly), huaisang smirks and start his maid of honor speech with a power point presentation full of pictures and some short videos about their love story, talking about wei ying's crush on his dage and lan zhan's cute childish jealousy (and he can clearly see xichen's fingers in this, he didn't remember being filmed while crying that wei ying loved mingjue ge more than him, but he was six for the love of the gods!!) and proceedes to show embarrassing pictures of both of them pining from afar and everyone just laugh and share their own stories and the couple is embarrassed but a bit more in love with each other. they're all happy

by the end of all the speeches, lan zhan very calmly take the microphone, thanks everyone for being present, his uncle for everything, his parents in law for wei ying, his husband, and then he turns and look to his brother for a long moment with a tiny, tiny smirk and then look to huaisang ans says, very serious "thank you huaisang for being our friend, and for holding my brother's heart with so much affection, i can't wait for my turn to make a speech on your marriage"

wei ying and jiang cheng laugh so hard and so loud, mingjue chokes hard on his wine and laugh and cough at the same time, wei ying's parent try to hide their own laughter and uncle qiren just sigh with a head shake, while both xichen and huaisang just turn bright red with embarrassment, huaisang glaring at lan zhan before sighing loudly and muttering "i hate you, you petty bitch"

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[wisedawn13]

#xiantober Day 11: Courtingxian

Wei Ying has known Lan Zhan for many years. They're best friends and know each other incredibly well. That's why, at this point, Wei Ying is fairly certain that Lan Zhan reciprocates his feelings.

It took Wei Ying years to realize he likes Lan Zhan in a romantic and sexual way because, as he has recently come to find out, he is demi. Feelings are weird, but he's done a lot of thinking and he is 100% sure that he likes Lan Zhan in an "I want to marry you" kind of way.

He knows he wants to spend his life with him.

Now, having figured this out about himself, he's focused hard on how Lan Zhan talks and acts around him and other people. He's fairly certain about where they stand and is willing to put himself out there.

Lan Zhan may say no, but Wei Ying can't see him ending their friendship over Wei Ying having non-platonic feelings towards him, so he feels secure in that knowledge.

Does that mean he's not scared? No. Not at all. He's genuinely terrified, but he wants this.

And if he says no, Wei Ying will fully accept that. It won't really change much about their relationship anyway. Wei Ying is mature enough to stay close to someone he likes even after rejection. Especially if it's Lan Zhan.

So. That's where he's at. Now he has to do this right.

Wei Ying figures the best course of action is to be proper about this. He cares about Lan Zhan deeply and he knows his family is very traditional. He wants to not only do right by Lan Zhan but also by his family. He wants them to know his intentions and to bless his decision.

That's how Wei Ying finds himself outside of Lan Zhan's uncle's house, dressed up in a button-down and slacks. His palms are sweaty as he knocks.

Lan Qiren answers the door and looks at him with a look of confused caution.

Wei Ying bows deeply. "Lan-xiansheng," he says.

"I ask for your blessing. I wish to court your nephew, Lan Zhan, with intentions to marry. I know not how he feels yet, I wished to speak with you before I bring it up at all. I know how much he respects your opinions."

There's silence. Wei Ying's heart beats wildly.

"Wei Ying," Lan Qiren says. "Stand up properly."

He does, meeting the man's stern gaze.

"It is the 21st century, you don't need to ask this kind of thing anymore. Having said that, I am pleased you chose to. You are a very respectful young man when you choose to be."

Wei Ying resists the urge to fidget. "Thank you, Xiansheng."

"Mn. I give you my blessing. Treat my nephew well, young man."

"Of course! He means the world to me! Thank you!" Wei Ying bows once more and rises with a wide smile.

Lan Qiren nods. "Very well. You may go."

Wei Ying lets out a shaky breath, walks off to the nearest flower shop, and picks up a single red peony.

With that, he walks to Lan Zhan's apartment and takes a steadying breath before knocking on the door.

"Wei Ying?" Lan Zhan asks when he opens the door.

"Good evening, Lan Zhan," Wei Ying says and holds out the flower. "This is for you."

Lan Zhan takes it, holding it carefully in his hands as he looks at Wei Ying with clear confusion.

"I have come to express my interest in courting you. Properly. With intent to marry."

He all but blurts that out and watches as Lan Zhan's face morphs into a look of shock.

"Wei Ying?" Lan Zhan asks, voice small.

"Please do not feel forced to say yes, it will change nothing if you refuse me. I just felt I needed to let you know of my feelings."

"You like me?"

"Yes."

"You wish to court me?"

"Of course."

"You wish to marry me?"

"Someday, hopefully."

Lan Zhan exhales a stunned breath. "Wei Ying—"

"Again! Please don't feel pressured to say yes! No is a completely valid option!"

"Yes."

"I don't want you to feel—"

Wei Ying pauses. "Wait, what?"

"I said yes. I feel the same way, Wei Ying."

"You do!?" he gasps.

Lan Zhan laughs. "Of course I do. Wei Ying is Wei Ying, how could I not?"

Wei Ying flushes. "Lan Zhan!" he whines. "You're not allowed to be that sweet to me! I'll melt!"

Lan Zhan huffs.

"Ah, I'm so happy you said yes! I even went to ask your uncle for his blessing and everything!" Wei Ying exclaims with a laugh.

"You did?"

"I want to do this properly, you know. You deserve the best!"

"Wei Ying is the best, he is all I need."

The earnestness in Lan Zhan's voice makes Wei Ying's throat close up with emotion. "Ahh... Well." He clears his throat. "I should head out, but I'll text you!"

Lan Zhan's face seems to fall at that. "You are leaving?"

"I mean, yeah? We're not supposed to be together alone."

"I see..."

"So, yeah! Have a wonderful evening, Lan Zhan! I will see you soon!"

"Mn... You as well, Wei Ying."

Wei Ying flashes a smile and then walks off feeling like he's on cloud nine.

Lan Zhan likes him!

~

Three days later, Wei Ying walks into a cafe with Jiang Cheng.

Lan Zhan is seated at a table, waiting for him. This is their first outing as an official courting couple. Wei Ying's nerves are on edge.

Lan Zhan stands when he sees him but then frowns when his eyes land on Jiang Cheng. "Wei Ying, why is he here?"

"I told you! We're not meant to be alone!"

Jiang Cheng scoffs from beside him. "Not like I wanted to be here to witness you two moon over each other, but this idiot wouldn't drop it."

Lan Zhan ignores Jiang Cheng entirely. "Who says we are not meant to be alone?"

Wei Ying shuffles. "The internet?"

Lan Zhan narrows his eyes. "I see. This is a courting thing?"

"Yeah. There's a bunch of rules."

Lan Zhan hums. "What is another rule?"

"No touching."

Wei Ying watches as Lan Zhan's eyes widen in shock. "No touching," he repeats dully.

"I know! It'll be a challenge for me to adjust to that since I'm so used to draping myself all over you, but it's worth it."

"Right... Why is it that you chose to court me and not date me?"

Wei Ying tilts his head. "Eh? Dating is all casual and stuff. Courting is serious."

Jiang Cheng groans. "Dating can be serious too, dumbass! Courting is so outdated."

Wei Ying squawks. "What? But no! Courtship has the outright intention for marriage and dating doesn't! I want Lan Zhan to know I'm serious about this!"

"Wei Ying," Lan Zhan says slowly.

"Kiss me."

Wei Ying chokes on his own spit in his shock. "WHAT!?"

Lan Zhan takes a step closer and grabs Wei Ying's hand before he can move away. "I want you to kiss me."

"What? But... The rules—you like rules! I—"

"I do not wish to court you if we cannot kiss or touch."

Wei Ying feels his heart plummet. "Huh? But, you said you liked me?"

"I do, very much," he replies calmly. "Which is why I do not wish to go through this process if those rules are in place. I want the freedom to touch and kiss you as I see fit."

Wei Ying makes a garbled sound.

"Dating, courting, it doesn't matter. I like Wei Ying and wish to be with him on my own terms—our own terms—not some outdated terms set by puritanical people. Will you allow that?"

"I only wanted to do right by you," he says rather weakly.

"Mn, Wei Ying is good. But you do not need to worry about that. We can allow ourselves to figure this out together. Whatever we're comfortable with. We will talk openly, and discuss boundaries and wants. This isn't casual for me either, Wei Ying. So, will you kiss me?"

Wei Ying perhaps lets out a small whimper before he moves in, placing his lips on Lan Zhan's.

It's...

Awkward. Weird. Dry and wet at the same time.

And yet...

It's the most wonderful thing Wei Ying has ever experienced in his life.

He starts to pull back but Lan Zhan brings up his free hand to cup the back of his head, pulling him back in. Lan Zhan tilts his head and it becomes a million times better. Their lips move together, exploring each other slowly and curiously.

Wei Ying's legs nearly buckle when they finally part. "Wow," he breathes.

"Mn," Lan Zhan agrees sounding a mix between smug and stunned.

"We're definitely doing that more. Like, a lot. So often. All the time. Kiss me again?"

Lan Zhan complies easily.

Eventually, they pull apart and desire to sit down and order from the cafe. It takes Wei Ying far too long to realize that Jiang Cheng is no longer here. He idly wonders when he left but quickly shoves that from his mind when Lan Zhan sits down beside him and kisses him.

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#xiantober #wangxian #mdzs #threadfic #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei wuxian #wei ying #from twitter #wisedawn13 #fanfic #fanfiction

[twenty-orange-balloons]

A Modern AU where LQR finds a fox outside of his house, looking weak and hungry and decides to give it some leftovers he had, and when the fox keeps coming back, getting more playful and "annoying", he at first tries to shoe it away but reluctantly starts to enjoy having it around. He later finds out this fox is a shape shifter named Wei Wuxian. Lan Wangji comes to visit his uncle and meets this fox he's been taking care of and instantly falls in love the moment Wei Wuxian accidentally shifts in front of him. Lan Qiren is both pleased and horrified that his nephew and his... new friend? housemate? are hopelessly in love with each other. He spends the rest of Lan Wangji's visit watching the two fumble around their feelings.

#cell rambles #mdzs #cql #wei wuxian #wangxian #lan wangji #lan qiren #cell's plot bunnies

[onlyhope93]

He's not as bad as he seemed to be - Chapter 3 - hmm... interesting

They walked down the least known and the most covered paths.  

Lan Qiren led them close to the healing pavilion and left them just out of sight, but still in hearing range. He decided it would be the safest to go in alone and ask for head healer in case of presence of others. It turned out to be a good idea, because as soon as he went in, the healing assistant on duty greeted him. 

“Could you please fetch Lan Liangchen daifu, I need to speak with him urgently,” said Lan Qiren and watched the healing assistant scamper off to inform the head healer of his presence. 

Soon enough, the head healer, a man few years Lan Qiren’s senior with no nonsense attitude, came to the reception room of the healing pavilion. By looks he was a clear representation of Lan nurture, with regal posture and hidden strength emanating from him. Lan Qiren known him as Qingheng Jun’s year mate and close friend before his brother’s unfortunate marriage, and after that as a staunch supporter of keeping the main Lan family at the helm of the Lan clan and sect. Lan Qiren often sought his advice when he was still a healing assistant when his nephews were feeling off, or when he needed backup when the clan elders tried yet again to take over the leadership or tried to control Lan Qiren. Fortunately for Qiren, Lan Liangchen had a real talent in medicine and penchant for revolutionising the medical arts in Cloud Recesses, so helping him get to the position of head healer had additional benefits for the both of them. 

“Liangchen daifu,” greeted Lan Qiren, “could we speak in private?” 

~~~ 

Seeing the usually serious Lan Qiren even more serious is a clear give-away that something major just happen and that nobody can find out. 

“Of course. Xiangxi, take a break, some fresh air will do you good. Xiansheng, please follow me to my office” Lan Liangchen waited for his assistant to leave and wanted to lead Qiren ahead but seeing him turning to the door instead and calling for his younger nephew stopped him in his tracks. And piqued his curiosity even more. 

Wangji came in with a man in his arms, clearly in need of nutrients, medicine and proper rest. The young man was the same age as young Second Jade, or at least close enough to be believed as such. Liangchen was not sure which sect does he belong to, as his clothing was not in any sect colours known to him. 

“Lan Zhan,” said the young man petulantly, “I told you I can walk on my own, why must you carry me like a delicate maiden? It’s so embarrassing.” 

Calling Wangji by his birth name got Liangchen to rise his eyebrows. As far as he knew, the young Lan does not have any close friends apart from his older brother, and even Xichen calls him by his curtesy name. 

Wangji just looked at him with worry in his eyes and seeing the pouting face of his charge softened visibly and just said “Wei Ying.” 

Said Wei Ying only grew more petulant, but stayed where he was.  

So, the birth name thing goes both ways... Interesting.  

It was quite shocking seeing the Second Jade so expressive after so many years of blankness on his face.  

Liangchen could see, however, that the whole secrecy is closely connected to the Wei Ying person, so without any more questions, he led the three to a private healing room, where he told Wangji to lay the patient on the bed. 

“Qiren, will you tell me what is going on, or should I guess?” asked Liangchen, reaching for the Wei Ying’s wrist to start examination. 

“Liangchen, before you start anything, listen,” said Qiren looking straight into the head healer’s eyes. “Whatever you will find, and whatever we tell you, must stay in complete secrecy. No one else apart from us four can know about anything that will happen in this room.” After Liangchen nodded, the teacher continued. “Do you remember the information I got about Wens carrying someone to the Burial Mounds?” 

“The one that came when we were discussing plans for the new healing pavilion?”  

“Yes. He was that person.” 

“He has a name xiansheng, no matter how much you don’t like me,” said his patient irritated. “My name is Wei Ying, curtesy Wuxian, head disciple of the Yunmeng Jiang sect. I would gladly bow, but I am being prevented from doing so by this stubborn Second Jade of yours.” He looked at young Wangji reproachfully, but with fondness in his eyes, that he visibly wanted to hide. By the look on Wangji’s face, he was not regretting it at all.  

“No need to bow young master Wei, you are clearly in no condition to do more than rest and replenish your strength,” he said, reaching again for Wei Wuxian’s wrist. 

What he found there was more shocking than he anticipated.  

The most glaring was an utter lack of a golden core. And to add salt to injury, it was clearly surgically removed, rather than crushed.  

Liangchen gave Qiren a pointed look, but only received a nod and silent nudge to continue. 

The techniques Liangchen invented and developed in spiritual examination allowed him to reach earliest sicknesses. He worked on this technique for years, ever since he was a young healing assistant. He discovered that bones and other tissues have a memory far greater than anyone ever anticipated. Each injury and health condition leaves a mark, which changes the way each tissue functions, no matter how slightly, and in turn can be used by an experienced healer to define the age and possible cause of the injury. His innovations and medical treaties got him wide recognition among the famous healers and allowed Qiren to promote him to his current position. He was never as grateful for his insight into patient’s medical past as right now with his current patient. 

Even considering he was thrown into the Burial Mounds, the extent of Wei Wuxian’s injuries was beyond any imagination. Counting from his 5th to 9th year Wei Wuxian experienced severe starvation and what looks to be animal bites and beatings which left him with several bruised bones and even broken ankle. Afterward, even if his starvation was decreased, there are periods in his early teenage years, during crucial growth spurts, when he was not given proper nourishment. Scars from regular cultivation training and night hunting were to be expected, but the lashes he received imply serious criminal offences, more than punishment for bad behaviour and mischievousness most of junior disciples partake in. He also had several broken or fractured bones in this period, all spread out throughout the years, but of minimum one every 8-12 months. It was shocking to know that this young man was a Head Disciple of a great sect, rather than a mercenary or a criminal with how many injuries he sustained in his young life. Even more so was the fact that Wei Wuxian was even able to move.  

When he finally got to the point where he suspected the massacre of Lotus Pier happened, the history of his health only gotten worse. The whipping from spiritual weapon, most probably Zidian, followed shortly by throat injury and another period of low nutrition, were the last recorded before major trauma which was the core removal surgery. Although the surgery site itself was clean and precise, the beating he received shortly after, and the stab wound caused the stiches to rip and the wound to get infected. The next set of injuries happened only hours later. Broken and bruised bones, dislocated discs, severe concussion, bruised and split internal organs, including kidneys and liver... It is a miracle the young man is even alive.  

The more he examined, the more injuries he found. Even as detached as a healer should be he could not ignore how difficult Wei Wuxian’s short life was. No wonder Qiren brought him to Liangchen directly. There is only one other doctor he knows of that could treat the young man efficiently, and she’s most likely either dead or imprisoned. Thinking about it, he does not know any other surgeon who would be able to remove golden core so precisely. 

“Qiren, you need to find Wen Qing, and bring her in immediately.” 

#ao3 fanfic #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #good teacher lan qiren #golden core reveal #Lan Zhan/Wei Ying #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian

[rosethornewrites]

NR , E, & M reading since 7/17

The usual

Finished

Not Rated:

Go Hiking With a Blindfold On, by Hauntcats

This is a continuation of a chapter from Jiang Cheng - Dumb Ways To Die by such_stuff_as_dreams_are_made_on

Not Jiang friendly. If you don't like that, please, don't read. It will only make you unhappy.

maybe friends, but not lovers, by Cy_an_Blue (2nd in a series, locked)

After some revelations with the Juniors, Wei Wuxian makes his way to Qinghe to visit one of the few old friends he has that doesn't hate him.

He did not expect to come away from the night with two sworn brothers.

Explicit:

hear my voice and it's been here, by Sour_Idealist (reread, 5th in a series)

Jiang Yanli never expected to lead the Jiang Clan. But here she is, and the people she loves need her to lead it well. Her weapons are not conventional, but she'll use everything she has.

unbreak you to the day you met her, by Sour_Idealist (reread. 7th in a series)

Jiang Cheng and Wen Qing have a great deal to discuss, after she begins to bolster her forces.

In the Cold Dark, by mondengel (reread, locked)

More than just the guqin attacks Wei WuXian in the cold spring.

Mature:

brave enough to breathe, by Sour_Idealist (reread, 1st in a series)

Wang Lingjiao takes her time mentioning the Wen Supervisory Offices. Yu Ziyuan cuts off Wei Wuxian's sword hand in compliance with the Wens' demands, but Lotus Pier still falls. Its children manage as well as they can.

to do whatever must be done, by Sour_Idealist (reread, 3rd in a series)

A-Cheng looks up at her.

“It’s going to have to be you, a-Jie,” he says. At first she simply doesn’t understand; then she can feel the realization there, waiting to be let in.

“What’s going to have to be me?” she asks, as if it will be easier to bear if she’s not the one who says it.

“To lead the Jiang Clan,” a-Xian says.

impossible with two hands, no more impossible with one, by Sour_Idealist (reread, 4th in a series)

A First Disciple with no sword hand. A former clan heir with no golden core. A leader who was never meant to hold the role. Their disciples are killed or scattered; their home is in enemy hands. The Jiang Clan of Yunmeng is not in an enviable position.

Fortunately, they're the Jiang Clan, and they're going to make it work. Wei Wuxian is going to make sure of it.

we shouldn't always get what we think we want, by Sour_Idealist (reread, 6th in a series)

Meng Yao did not come to Nightless City for the sake of Wen Qing, but he has benefited her immensely regardless.

For whose sake did he infiltrate the Wen?

a long way to find peace of mind, by Sour_Idealist (reread, last in a series)

A year after the Sunshot Campaign, Nie Mingjue has business once again in Qishan.

Unfinished

Not Rated:

"Thank You": 5 times Lan Qiren thanked Wei Wuxian and 1 time Lan Qiren returned the favour, by iris_fire

Lan Qiren has spent nearly two decades hating the boy who turned to taboo methods and caused his nephew to rebel. After the revelations at Guanyin Temple were shared with the rest of the cultivation world, Lan Qiren gained a new perspective on his nephew's husband. He begins to watch Wei Wuxian in his daily life at the Cloud Recesses with a slightly more open mind. However, one emotion he never expected to feel towards him was gratitude.

Explicit:

you'll find my heart on the mountainside, by lulu_kitty

After parting ways with Lan Wangji on the mountain path, Wei Wuxian takes some time to consider what it is that he wants with this new second chance at life.

The answer finds him coming back to Lan Wangji, his zhiji, but after they reunite and set forth to embark on their new life together, an unexpected surprise awaits them on their journey home.

Or, a post-canon CQL/Untamed getting together story: accidental baby acquisition addition.

Mature:

Cutting Out a Different Path, by Sunflower1778 (locked)

Wei Wuxian wakes up with an old back pain and a lack of a familiar warmth by his side. He groans, moving his arm around the bed to feel for Lan Wangji. Except what he feels is not a bed. Startled, he gets up quickly to find himself on a familiar slab of rock in a very familiar cave. Rubbing his eyes in disbelief, he takes a look around. His half-finished talismans are lying around on the floor and he can hear voices from outside

#the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #chen qing ling #untamed fanfiction

[ace-writing-about-love]

Prompt #45 “Omega Lan, V2″

Gusu Lan, convinced of his fairness towards his students and equality, brings misery and lack of understanding to most of them. Gusu Lan never educated his students according to their second gender, they divided their students into male and female, thus separating their residence quarters, and this was the only division they used. Omegas, Alphas and Beta have always been treated the same way. For this reason, Lan Wanji's thoughts are bombarded with too many conflicting signals when students come to Gusu to attend Lan Qiren's lectures.

Lan Wanji doesn't understand why NH, the Omega of the No clan, doesn't carry his sword, he considers it weak, leaving his safety in the hands of others. He doesn't understand why Wei WuXian asks the young master Nie several times if he's tired, if he'd like to eat or rest during the short walk that separates them from Gusu's entrance gate to their student quarters. He also doesn't understand why WWX insisted on giving the room to NH so he could live alone, so he (WWX), JCH and JZX were forced to live together.

LWJ understood none of this. He was even more unhappy when it turned out that the books of Gusu's library are not able to give him answers to the questions that bothered him, he always found answers to the issues that bothered him. There were no answers to these questions...

For him, Wei Ying was the greatest unknown and incomprehensible being in the whole world. His behavior seemed to change 180 degrees depending on who he was with. In the company of JCH, he seemed to accost him with his every action, incite him, irritate him and encourage him to fight and play. However, when the NHS appeared in their company, WY immediately became more responsible, calmer and definitely more alert to every being around them. The strangest thing, however, was WY's desire to be in his company. On one occasion he dared to ask about his relationship with the NHS, but his answer did not explain anything. "The NMJ has handed him over to my care for the duration of these lectures." What's that supposed to mean? Why would NMJ hand over his brother WWX to custody? After all, they were the same age... None of this made sense to him.

WWX argued with his uncle and was punished by rewriting the rules. The LWJ was assigned to watch him carry out the sentence. As he left the lecture hall, he was followed by many strange, incomprehensible looks. The list of things LWJ didn't understand grew every day and he dreaded the moment when he would understand all the missing points... 

***

WWX accompanied LWJ for over a month, day in and day out in the library, getting up before the other students in the morning without fail, accompanying his other NHS friends to the dining hall, and then walking him to the lecture hall. He said goodbye to his friends and then went to the library where LWJ was already waiting for him. He greeted him. It was not uncommon for him to talk and leave something small (usually to eat) on his desk and go about his work. However, he did not write more than an hour or two a day. Later, he would conduct a one-sided conversation with LWJ, draw, invent new talismans, read books aloud... At the end of the hours spent together, he would give LWJ drawings drawn by him, something sweet, say goodbye and run to the lecture hall where he joined the other students in on the way to dinner. LWJ was unable to understand so many things about his behavior and actions that he began writing questions in his notebook.

LWJ wasn't sure why but started collecting gifts from WWX in a box which he later hid under a loose board under his bed in his bedroom. He didn't know why he wanted to hide it, but when he thought that someone might discover all this, he decided that he would probably die of embarrassment... 

***

- Lan Zhaaan. Laaan Zhaaan. LanZhan. Please don't ignore me... at least not today, Lan Zhaan.

WWX was sitting next to him on the floor, almost lying on the table where he was working.

- Wei Ying?

He asked surprised at the sudden change in the boy's demeanor.

- Lan Zhan! Do you want to walk with me? The walk sounds perfect. I can't sit still in this room today... Everything here smells of you, and I definitely can't help myself.

- Wei Ying?

he asked again. What was meant by saying that everything smelled of it, and why would WWX hold back? before what?

- Lan Zhaaan. If I say it's my time of year, will you understand what I mean, or does your Lan upbringing prohibit you from talking about that as well?

- Time of the year?

He asked, ignoring the rest of the statement. WWX fell to the table top with a groan.

- Evil Lan... 

he sighed, then pushed off the counter.

- Okay, Lan Zhan. This will probably be as embarrassing a conversation as the one about bees and flowers, but I'll do it for you.

- Bees and flowers? Have you been drinking WWX?

- Laaan Zhaaan. I didn't drink anything. he said, almost offended. "Though I could use a jar of the Emperor's Smile right now."

- Okay then *he took a blank sheet of paper and began to draw three circles on it) as you surely know, because this knowledge even from your dry books they could not remove, all people work on Alphas, Beta and Omega (he said by signing each of the circles) apart from that, of course, we are divided into women and men (he divided all three circles with an even line in the middle). Each sex is characterized by certain sexual characteristics, e.g. women of each other sex once per moon if they are not with a child, they bleed. We can call it their time of the month. Alphas have their "time of the year" when they have too much energy... hmm... they want to find their partner and spend time with him, just the two of them, so they can get rid of that excess energy. Do you understand Lan Zhan? I am the Alpha, now I have my time of the year... You on the other hand as Omega surely noticed that you have "your time" once a quarter.

- My time?

"You know, that feeling that the clothes are too uncomfortable, the air is too warm, this emptiness inside?" In Yunmeng, they call it heat.

- My time... how do you know so much about Omegas, WWX?

- Well... Yunmeng requires everyone to attend a terrible course where we learn everything about the physiognomy of our bodies and... erm... how to say, the technical side of intercourse and caring for a partner.

- Shameless!

- Well, it was definitely embarrassing, but thanks to this, we have a basic knowledge of our bodies as soon as we introduce ourselves. 

[drama--universe]

Shipped

Requested by anonymous: Can I request Lan Xichen x fem!reader where the two have a huge crush on each other but are completely oblivious to it. And the rest of the gang just ships the two and sets them up. Thanks. Love your stories ☺️

Pairing: Lan Xichen x reader

Word Count: 1874 words

Warnings: don't think so

A/N Once again, sorry for the long wait, hope you like it :)

You stood in the doorway of the class as you stared as you noticed that Xichen and Qiren were talking, not sure if it was okay to enter.

"Why are you waiting?" Huaisang asked and you shushed him softly, making him peek in.

"Oh... I'm sure it's fine, jie/ge." He spoke and you looked back, seeing that the Jiang siblings had joined as well, including Wuxian who was smirking ominously.

"Eldest first, jie/ge." He said before softly pushing you inside. You being you though, tripped on the carpet and crashed to ground with an extremely loud thud. The 2 males stopped talking, turning to look at you. Lan Qiren gave a disapproving look while Xichen just stared at you with a small smile, something only your friends behind you noticed while you were completely oblivious as you tried to get up and ignore the embarrassment that took over your mind.

"I'm so sorry." You apologized, bowing at them only for Xichen to pull you up gently.

"Don't worry about it, (y/n)." He said, giving you a smile once more before walking out. You watched as he left, a bit heart-eyed almost before snapping out when your friends called your name.

"Oh, someone's in love~" Wuxian teased and you looked at him, pouting slightly.

"I'm not in love with him..." "Lying isn't allowed." Lan Zhan walked by and your eyes followed him in shock, your mouth slightly open of shock. The one time that Lan Zhan decided to talk to you properly, yet he decided to diss you. Wuxian let out a loud laugh before running to catch up to Lan Zhan, sitting beside him (much to the distaste of Lan Zhan and Lan Qiren). The rets of you entered and the lesson started.

Xichen watched as you exited the lesson, smiling as he saw you. Meng Yao, who was talking to Xichen, had noticed that Xichen had stopped listening and followed his gaze to see you. Meng Yao had long know that Xichen had a soft-spot for you, but now realized that his best friend had fallen for you.

Xichen then turned back to Meng Yao, talking once more about the previous subject, but Meng Yao was quick to notice that you too were glancing at Xichen every once in awhile.

And then there was yet another person that knew while you two stayed completely oblivious.

You were confused by the empty field in front of you. Wuxian had begged you to come tonight as he and the rest were going to sneak out to the village, yet here you stood. All alone.

"I'm going to kill him..." You growled, crouching down and sighing lightly.

"Please don't do so on the sacred ground." Someone commented and you looked up, seeing Xichen. You immediatley got up, straightening your back and giving an awkward smile.

"I don't suppose that you've seen A-Yao?" He asked and you shook your head. Silence took over, but Xichen broke it pretty soon after.

"So, who are you waiting for?" "Wuxian and the rest, but I have a feeling that they didn't plan to show up to begin with." You mumbled, sniffing as you wrapped your arms around you because of the cold.

"You should go back to your room." He spoke and you nodded before looking around, noticing that it had become even darker than before.

"Come on, I'll walk you back." He said and you nodded, following him as you walked back. As he walked, he took pretty big steps, which was the reason why you were now walking behind him at almost an arm length away. So you started walking faster.

And then you tripped...

To say you were embarrassed, was a very big understatement. Your face was flushed as you got back up, especially when Xichen took your arm and pulled you up slightly.

"Are you alright?" He asked and you gave a nod, brushing off your clothes with a smile hiss as you noticed the scrapes on your hands. You quickly hid your hands from his view before following him once more, although he seemed to be walking slower this time.

Once you reached your room, you turned around to face him and smiled as you bowed your head.

"Thank you for walking me." You said before walking in, flinching when you saw your friends all sitting on your bed, staring at you like meerkats. The door behind you closed, slamming shut as they continued to stare.

"You guys... have still not noticed each others feelings?" Wuxian finally spoke up and you frowned, grabbing a pillow from next to you and throwing it at his face, but he dogged it professionally before pouting.

"How oblivious can you be?!" He whined, throwing himself back on the bed overdramatically.

"What feelings?" You asked as you sat down next to Yanli, who just gave you a small smile.

"You're stupid." Jiang Cheng spoke and you glared at him, hand grabbing the pillow next to you.

"Don't you dare throw that." He stated, staring at you and you pouted, putting the pillow back down.

After a few minutes, they left (except for Yanli of course) and you laid down. You could help but remember what the boys had said earlier and hence you couldn't sleep.

Once more, you sighed as your friends (aka Wuxian) kept teasing you when Xichen looked towards you. You didn't know why, but every now and then Xichen would look towards you and smile for a few seconds before looking away again. The lesson was still going, although you were barely paying attention at all and rather trying in all your might to not hit Wuxian as he teased you.

"Oh, look! Your crush has arrived~" Wuxian teased and you turned your head slightly, watching as Xichen walked in. You once again felt your face heat up, looking at your desk. You were slightly embarrassed, hating the fact that Wuxian was absolutely right about your awkward crush behavior. You felt Wuxian poke you as well as Huaisang's giggling, making you let out a small groan before laying your head on the small table in front of you. You once again didn't notice the eyes on you, nor the small smile that settled on Xichen's face. When you looked up again, Xichen had long looked away from you and you stared at him for a few seconds before flinching when your eyes suddenly connected. You looked at your lap for awhile before looking up again, only to see that he was still looking at you. Your face heated up even more as Xichen finally looked away after a few seconds of eye contact, but this time you did notice the small smirk that he wore.

"See? He likes you~" Wuxian sang and you grabbed your book and smashed it against his head, creating a loud thud. Wuxian gave you a small glare, mumbling a 'I'll get you back' before pouting slightly.

You entered the library, a few books in your hands that you were going to return. You put some books back before noticing someone on the other side of the room. You looked past the bookshelves and saw Xichen, most likely reading or writing something important. Like magic, Xichen looked up from the papers and noticed you peeping from behind the bookshelves. Your eyes widened as you quickly hid behind the shelve again with a small squeak. Then another squeak when suddenly the door behind you slammed shut. You turned, seeing a silhouette of Wuxian dash away and you groaned, immediatley knowing that you were locked in. But just to be sure, you got closer to the door and tried to pull it open.

Nope, it was definitely stuck. How, you didn't know. Then again, Wuxian was able to get miracles done so this was probably nothing.

"Something wrong?" Xichen was suddenly standing behind you, making you jump in surprise.

"The door is stuck..." You mumbled, looking down at the ground as you talked. Xichen gave a small frown, trying to open the door as well and sighing when it did indeed not open.

"This hasn't happened before." "Well, you didn't have Wuxian before so..." You mumbled, earning a small chuckle from Xichen.

"I guess your right. I suppose that he has a purpose for this?" He asked and you shrugged.

"I guess... Your guess is as good as mine." You mumbled before walking past him to continue putting your books away. Xichen mad his way back to his previous seat.

Once you were finished, you sat in a seat near Xichen and awkwardly sat there in silence. Watching Xichen, you just continued to sit. But Xichen once again, magically, looked up and looked back at you before closing his book.

"Do you need anything?" "No, don't worry. I just spaced out a little." You lied, looking away from him.

"You seem to do that a lot around me." He stated, making you gulp and turning to look at him again.

"I-" You stopped talking immediatley as you saw the small smile on his face. You felt your face heat up again, watching as he got up and sat next to you instead. He opened the book once again, reading and you looked at him in confusion. He didn't say anything and you thought about it for a few seconds before scooting closer and reading with him. Cultivating methods... Not really your thing, but you decided it was better than nothing.

Xichen stopped reading once he felt a sudden weight dropping on his shoulder. He looked up from the book and turned his head softly to look at you. He smiled, closing the book again and then your eyes opened. You looked at him sleepily before snuggling into his chest. He couldn't help but smile even more, softly putting his arms around you and pulling closer. You opened your eyes again, looking at him before suddenly waking up and getting out of his grip while leaning back a bit.

"Sorry..." You apologized, bowing your head in apology as you awkwardly shuffled a bit away. Xichen didn't move, but only pulled you closer to him again.

"Sleep if you're tired, I don't mind." He said and you looked up at him, hearing his heart beating in his chest with your own beating at the same beat.

"I don't think this is appropriate for friends..." You mumbled, but Xichen didn't move his arm from around you. He looked at you, smiling slightly before softly removing a stray hair out of your face. Once again, you heated up as he stared at you.

"Kiss!!!!!" Someone suddenly yelled, making you jump up and turn your head to face the door. Wuxian's head was peeking through the crack of the door, staring intensely at the two of you. You took a random book and chucked it towards him, which he dodged easily (he did it twice every lesson at least, so this wasn't unexpected).

Once he was gone, the room grew silent once more. Then you could hear Xichen shuffling to stand up and he stood beside you.

"Wei-shixiong is very adamant, I must say." He said and you nodded. He placed his hand on your shoulder and you looked at him only to slightly lean back when you felt his lips pressed against your forehead.

"I'll talk to you later." And with that, he left the room while you continued to stand in the middle of the room in absolute shock.

#the untamed #untamed #mdzs #mdzs x reader #untamed x reader #mdzs xichen x reader #mdzs lan xichen #mdzs lan xichen x reader #untamed lan Xichen #untamed xichen #untamed xichen x reader #untamed lan xichen x reader #Lan Xichen #Lan xichen x reader #x reader #reader insert #request

[wangxianficrecs]

The Laoshi and The Yiling Laozu by chiyukimei

The Laoshi and The Yiling Laozu

by chiyukimei (@chiyukimei)

M, 7k, Wangxian

Summary: Burial Mounds era Lan Qiren and Wei Wuxian had time travelled. - Lan Qiren narrowed his eyes. “You’ve heard of the Patriarch of Yiling before, boy?” Wei Wuxian watched his former teacher with suspicion, “Laoshi, you’ve been there when the sun was shot?” Lan Qiren nodded. Kay's comments: It's rare to find a Lan Qiren time-travels story that still feels close to his character like here. Though he's still a much nicer uncle than he is in canon, he actually needs some time warming up to Wei Wuxian after accidently time-travelling together with him. It's also extremely cute to see how much Wei Wuxian enjoys running around younger Lan Wangji and playing with him. Excerpt: A few days later, Lan Qiren caught sight of Wei Wuxian running alongside Lan Wangji, trying to make him smile and shouting non-stop: Lan Zhan this, Lan Zhan that. He tried hard to not roll his eyes at that childish behavior. God forbid, this man was twenty years old, and still, had no trouble blending in with the fifteen-year-olds. After Wangji left, he stopped Wei Wuxian. “What are you doing?” Wei Wuxian asked with a surprised face, “What am I doing?” Lan Qiren, “Why are you pestering Wangji?” Wei Wuxian bit his lower lip, “I’m not pestering him. I just want to be friends with him.” Lan Qiren, “Why?” Wei Wuxian happily exclaimed, “Isn’t it obvious? He is an upstanding, righteous, and beautiful person. Who wouldn’t want to make friends with him? If he smiled a bit all the sisters would be running after him.” “…Hmm, maybe that’s a good thing he doesn’t smile. You don’t have to deal with all those ladies Laoshi!” Lan Qiren grumbled, “Shameless!” Wei Wuxian, “Hah! That’s what Lan Zhan says, all the time! I really forgot how strict he was even when he was a teenager.”

pov lan qiren, canon divergence, humor, crack treated seriously, time travel, time travel fix-it, burial mounds settlement days, burial mounds ensemble as family, cloud recesses study arc, wei wuxian is so whipped, sect leader wen qing, developing relationship

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#April 2024 #Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #Wangxian #MDZS #Kay's Rec #short fic <15k #Mature #The Laoshi and The Yiling Laozu #chiyukimei #pov lan qiren #canon divergence #humor #crack treated seriously #time travel #time travel fix-it #burial mounds settlement days #burial mounds ensemble as family #cloud recesses study arc #wei wuxian is so whipped #sect leader wen qing #developing relationship

[vrishchikawrites]

Hello :) Here's another prompt if you're still taking them? WWX & LWJ met as children and declared that they would marry upon their first meeting. Their guardians just thought that it was cute, and that they will forget about it over time. (They don't)

(SOFT. SO SOFT. AU without SSC and GC transfer)

They first meet when Cansge Sanren and Wei Changze are still alive. The wandering cultivators find themselves in Caiyi town and Lan Qiren is reluctantly dragged from his duties to have lunch with a cheerful Cangse Sanren.

He brings little a-Zhan along.

His nephew has just recovered from a fever and is feeling a little clingy. Lan Qiren will never admit it, but something is in his chest softens when his little nephew clings to him with a pout, refusing to let go.

Cangse Sanren's son is exactly when Lan Qiren expected him to be; excitable, curious, restless, and frustratingly intelligent. Bright silver eyes track everything, fascinated and eager to know more.

Lan Qiren reluctantly nudges a-Zhan forward at Cangse Sanren's pointed stare. She's a protective mother and if he so much as implies her son is unworthy of making acquaintance with his nephew, she will cheerfully gut him.

a-Zhan is reluctant at first. He has never been the most social child, rarely interacting with anyone but his immediate family.

But Wei Ying, also a bit shy and reluctant, peeks from behind his father's robes and smiles.

Lan Qiren has to admit it is a pretty sight. The child is plump and healthy with bright eyes and a wide, sincere smile.

a-Zhan is enamored at first sight.

Lan Qiren is astonished when a-Zhan steps forward and grabs Wei Ying's hand, pulling him from behind Wei Changze and towards Lan Qiren.

Wei Ying comes willingly, curious and entertained by the unusual situation. Lan Qiren doesn't doubt he has had even fewer interactions with children his age than a-Zhan, being the son of traveling cultivators.

"Shufu," He pulls Wei Ying's arm up as though presenting him to Lan Qiren, "a-Ying."

"Indeed," He says, secretly amused but refusing to show it, "I am Lan Qiren, Wei Ying."

Apparently, the child doesn't lack manners because he attempts to bow even with his hand still firmly held in a-Zhan's grasp.

Lan Qiren is somewhat charmed.

He is less charmed when their lunch comes to an end and a-Zhan reaches for a-Ying's hand once again, refusing to let go.

"a-Zhan, it's time to go home. Don't you want to see a-Huan?"

"Show a-Ying to a-Huan." a-Zhan insists, "a-Huan sees too!"

"a-Huan can meet a-Ying later." Lan Qiren says patiently but he feels his eyebrow twitch at a-Zhan's stubborn pout, "a-Ying is staying in Caiyi for a few weeks, a-Zhan, I'm sure we can bring a-Huan next time."

"a-Huan see pretty now."

Lan Qiren winces when Cangse Sanren muffles a laugh in her husband's shoulder and the man looks at the sky, amused but too dignified to react.

a-Ying tugs at his hand, trying to free it only to pout when he can't escape.

The scene is too adorable for Lan Qiren's poor heart. He sighs.

"Alright, let's show a-Huan the 'pretty'."

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The little wandering cultivator family stays in Caiyi for three weeks to rest, replenish their supplies, and give their child some time to play with others.

a-Huan, of course, is just as enamored by a-Ying as his little brother. Lan Qiren is getting accustomed to the sight of a little white-clad Wei child lead around Cloud Recesses by one nephew in the morning and another in the evening.

a-Huan is at least gracious enough to let Wei Ying walk on his own. a-Zhan is stubborn. If he's in a-Ying's company, he's holding the child's hand.

Wei Ying is a free spirit and being dragged around annoys the child at first. He tugs and pouts but eventually starts reaching for a-Zhan's hand on his own accord.

There's not a single person in Cloud Recesses that doesn't adore the sight.

---

"a-Zhan," Lan Qiren sighs, "a-Ying must leave with his parents. He belongs to them."

a-Zhan is red-faced and angry, his eyes wet with frustrated tears, "a-Ying stay. a-Ying stay, stay, stay!"

Oh goodness, a tantrum.

It is, unfortunately, a drama with three actors.

a-Huan is weeping with a tragic appearance of a love-scorned maiden; eyes wide and imploring, lips trembling, and face wet with silent tears.

a-Ying is burying sobs into his father's shoulder, his little body trembling with acute distress. "a-Ying not leave," He wails, "a-Ying wants stay with a-Zhan!"

"a-Ying," Wei Changze is compassionate instead of amused, his expression soft with sympathy. He rubs his son's back in gentle motions, rocking the child soothingly, "Baba promises we'll return. We'll be back before you even have a chance to miss your friends."

"Aiya! What a mess," Cangse Sanren says, amused, "a-Ying, do you want to leave us and stay with a-Zhan? We must go so you need to choose."

"Xingan," Wei Changze chides as Wei Ying looks up with wide eyes and shakes his head, looking heartbreakingly distressed, "Be gentle with our child."

Lan Qiren huffs in disapproval, glaring at her as she smiles sheepishly and presses a kiss to Wei Ying's head, "Aiya, baobao, you'll break your mother's heart. It's alright, little treasure," She plucks him from Wei Changze's arms, her face incandescent with love, "We'll bring you to your a-Zhan every two months, I promise! We would never keep you from your friends!"

Perhaps she knows something about raising children, after all. The definite timeline goes a long way to soothe all three children.

There are still many tears at their parting. a-Zhan and a-Huan sulk for days. Sometimes Lan Qiren catches a-Zhan looking at his hand with a forlorn expression.

"a-Zhan," He sighs one day, when his nephew spends an entire evening pouting and staring at his hand, "He'll be back soon."

a-Zhan doesn't say anything, just nodding gently and tucking his hand away.

The expression on his face melts Lan Qiren's heart, "I'll convince Cangse Sanren to stay a bit longer." He thinks about asking her to just let the child attend Cloud Recesses for his education. He's very bright, possessing a native intelligence that must be nurtured.

"Mn."

"Missing a friend is natural," He says softly, "But you must understand that everyone has their own life and obligations. a-Ying belongs to his parents. He must live with them."

"Mn. Will marry a-Ying so he belongs to me."

Lan Qiren chokes on his tea, "What...?"

"a-Ying promised he'll be my wife," a-Zhan nods solemnly, like he isn't nudging his uncle towards qi deviation, "a-Huan saw."

Lan Qiren turns to his older nephew, who nods with a cheerful smile, "They bowed to me and each other. I told them bowing to ancestors can wait until they're older!"

... what?

---

Tragedy strikes and Lan Qiren sees his nephew's heart break. Once. Twice. Three times.

Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren are killed. a-Ying is nowhere to be found.

Madam Lan perishes, and his little nephew deals with the weight of grief again, silent and solemn at her doorstep.

His brother retreats entirely and his nephews are left without a father.

They don't see Wei Ying again for well over a decade.

---

Wei Wuxian arrives at Cloud Recesses like an unstoppable storm.

Lan Qiren takes one look at him, sees the jaded edge in his eyes, watches his appeasing smile, and feels nothing but wrath.

This isn't the boy he remembers, raised under the boundless love of his parents. This one has faced injustice and doesn't trust the world.

The first time the boy challenges him in class, silver eyes sharp and assessing, he throws a book at him and assigns punishment with Wangji.

Let his nephew handle his cherished friend. He needs to look at the situation at the Lotus Pier.

He keeps assigning him lines, even for offenses that warrant the cane. Wei Ying doesn't remember much of his childhood but it is clear that the connection is still there.

The three children fall into their old friendship quickly. Xichen being amused and indulgent. Wei Ying being annoying and lively. Wangji never letting go.

Lan Qiren investigates.

What he finds doesn't please him.

He pens a scathing letter.

'She entrusted you with her treasure. You've made a hash of it. What do you mean by sending that child here in such a state? Did you think I would ignore it? Will you tell me the scars on his back are warranted?

Your audacity appalls me. You swore on your honor that you would raise him as your own son. I offered to take him in when you found him but you swore he was happy with you and his martial siblings.

My nephews love him. Your son only berates him.

You have deceived me.

I swear on my honor that I will find a way to wrest him from your sect, Fengmian.

You do not deserve him.'

---

Wei Ying is a naturally good-humored child. It takes just a month of being in Wangji and Xichen's company to soften all of his edges. His mischief no longer has a jaded edge to it.

He's still far too unruly for Lan Qiren's liking but he supposes that is a symptom of his youth.

"Jiang Yanli is betrothed," Xichen says as he serves them tea. He has a solemn expression but his eyes are sharp. He's almost as fond of Wei Ying as Wangji, after all, "I see no reason why Wangji and a-Xian can't be too."

Lan Qiren stills, staring at his nephew, "Betrothal." He repeats flatly.

Xichen dares to shrug, discarding his habitual poise in his anger, "Wangji has never loved another. It's unlikely he ever will." He looks up to meet Lan Qiren's gaze, "We wouldn't be able to separate them now, Shufu, not after Wangji saw-" He grimaces.

Lan Qiren looks away with a scowl, combing his beard furiously. His youngest nephew had discovered Wei Ying's scars, after all.

"We have letters from Wei Changze," Lan Qiren says, "Discussing a-Ying and a-Zhan's formal marriage arrangements." It had all been in jest, of course. When they found out the children had 'wed' with Xichen as a witness, their amusement had known no bounds.

Lan Qiren had quite enjoyed carrying out mock betrothal negotiations.

He clears his throat, "Very well."

---

Wangji and Wei Ying are officially betrothed before the lectures at Cloud Recesses come to an end.

Yu-furen's wrath knows no bounds. Soon enough, Jiang Fengmian sends Wei Ying back to Cloud Recesses with a letter full of excuses.

Wangji takes one look at his beloved's ashen expression and turns to Lan Qiren, "No more."

Lan Qiren nods.

It is difficult to negotiate but they pull it off. It helps that Wei Changze's letters speak of the marriage as an inevitable fact rather than a joke between parents.

The Jiangs lose their Head Disciple by the time the boy is seventeen. Lan Qiren arranges their marriage by the time they're twenty.

Wei Ying never leaves Wangji's side again.

#short prompts #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan xichen #lan qiren #wei changze #cangse sanren #anti jiang sect

[robininthelabyrinth]

Relentless - chapter 15 - ao3

Lan Qiren returned to the Lan sect with his nephews in tow.

This was not as easy as it had initially seemed when it was being discussed in Wen Ruohan’s study, despite the lack of any serious obstacles in their path. Perhaps most relevantly, Wen Xu, Wen Chao, and even Wen Ning were utterly inconsolable about Lan Qiren’s impending departure, each one of them frantic and anxious even though Lan Qiren assured them repeatedly that he had obtained Wen Ruohan’s solemn promise to get them proper teachers, prevent any interference by third parties such as their mothers, and even to supervise their education personally whenever possible – he’d thought the last would be sufficient, given how much they idolized their father and guardian, but apparently not.

Even his nephews seemed put out about the idea of leaving their newfound friends behind.

Lan Qiren was not entirely sure, afterwards, if they had ever figured out that the circumstances surrounding their presence the Nightless City had not been wholly above-board, and if, assuming they had figured that out, whether they thought he had handled things correctly. Lan Wangji kept his own thoughts private, as he so often did, while Lan Xichen seemed more invested in the fact that Lan Qiren liked Wen Ruohan – or, well, he’d been very supportive of it once he’d figured out that Lan Qiren was quite serious about not leaving him and Wangji, which significantly reduced his anxiety on the subject. Unfortunately, their return back to the Cloud Recesses apparently served to make him realize that Lan Qiren staying with them for good meant that he and Wen Ruohan weren’t going to continue their courting with the aim of marriage, causing him significant emotional distress no matter how many times Lan Qiren had assured him that they would still be visiting each other. He’d taken to reading novels, writing sad poetry, and sighing at odd intervals, which…Lan Qiren had no idea what to do with, in all honesty.

He’d asked Lan Yueheng for assistance, as the person he trusted most about matters of romance on account of the latter’s successful marriage, and Lan Yueheng had just nodded wisely. He’d then swept Lan Xichen away for an evening of drinking fruit juice and solemn moon-watching which was, apparently, just the thing to relieve his nephew’s melancholy.

Lan Qiren would never understand it. Not in a million years.

Of course, Lan Yueheng also used the opportunity to leave his wife behind with Lan Qiren to express at great length and volume how they had felt about Lan Qiren’s mysterious disappearance, interrupted only by the arrival of extremely vague and unhelpful notes that appeared without any return address whatsoever. Given Zhang Xin’s lung capacity and hardy constitution, not diminished in the slightest and even apparently improved by having borne several children, Lan Qiren was pretty sure he got the worse end of that deal.

Oh, the things he did for his nephews…

At any rate, it was good to see Lan Yueheng and Zhang Xin again, despite the yelling and, in Lan Yueheng’s case, teary-eyed sentimentality and profound relief that he was back unharmed. Even beyond them, Lan Qiren found that there were quite a number of Lan sect disciples that had, entirely without him noticing, made their way into what one might (if one were Wen Ruohan and prone to high drama) dub his inner circle, and what Lan Qiren would probably more appropriately term colleagues. In other words, people with whom Lan Qiren was actually friendly and had even subconsciously missed seeing them on a regular basis; they, in turn, seemed to have missed him for more than just his contributions to the sect. It was a very pleasant surprise to find himself among those who seemed genuinely pleased to see him, and that he himself was genuinely pleased to see.

Sadly, the same could not be said for a considerable portion of the elders of the previous generation.

This was not all of them, luckily enough. There were plenty of men and women in the Lan sect who were as they ought to be, upright and upstanding, careful and thoughtful in following the rules and in applying them to others; people that sought righteousness in all things and listened to the rules that exhorted them to Shoulder the weight of morality and Take the straight path.

Not everyone, though.

The rot had originated from only a few, but once there was rot, it spread.

Refreshed from his time without work, Lan Qiren set himself to fixing it at once.

Some of the offenders were only doing what they had seen others do before them, generally those of Lan Qiren’s generation or those that had come of age after him. Those were generally easy to correct – after some education, they were by and large horrified at the notion that they had erred so badly and closed their eyes to justice within their own home, or at least they had the good sense to pretend to be; their punishments could be relatively light and focused primarily on contemplation and reacquaintance with the rules. Their sin had been to trust the actions of their elders without applying critical thought, and while that did not relieve them of the weight what they had done, especially those actions that had harmed others in the process, it was still a lesser degree, less grave than those who had set them off on their crooked road in the first place.

As for those instigators…

Lan Qiren had known it would be hard to deal with them. He had known it would be hard, and it was, dreadfully hard, even when he utilized everything he knew and threw the full weight of his authority at them in force, denouncing their actions with all the fervor he possessed. He even had support, being backed in full by the exhausted-looking cousin of his that had been shoved forward to take Lan Qiren’s place during the ‘illness’ that had purportedly kept him from returning home.

Poor Lan Tianqi might once, in some past nightmare, have longed for the position of sect leader; he was a relatively close cousin from a recent secondary line and older than Lan Qiren to boot – his great-uncle’s eldest grandson. Apparently, he had done a complete about-face on the subject after he’d had to endure the trials and travails involved with the actual work of being sect leader, especially when the sect, accustomed to Lan Qiren’s diligence, had tried to demand that he meet the same standard.

He’d apparently been drowning.

Drowning, and doing badly, too, faring far worse than Lan Qiren, who had the unusual ability to stay completely focused on a single project for half a day or more without issue, often forgetting even to stop to eat or drink. In the end, he’d gone to Lan Yueheng to beg for advice, thinking perhaps that Lan Qiren was close to him for a reason or maybe had confided some secrets on how to survive to him. Lan Yueheng naturally had no secrets, as anyone who had met him for more than a moment would know, but he was always obliging and willing to help those who asked – as Lan Qiren had foolishly not done, due to his own feelings of guilt and inferiority, his need to prove himself worthy of the sect that had been left to him by tragic accident through his own self-sacrifice.

After wracking his brain for some time, Lan Yueheng had come up with the idea of putting Lan Tianqi in touch with his first cousin, Lan Ganhui, who despite being best known for his garrulous charm, easy-going nature, and general popularity, was in fact a skilled and able secretary in his own right when he put his mind to it; it turned out that he was the one that usually stepped up and helped manage things in the event of an emergency whenever one arose during the rare occasions when Lan Qiren was gone out on sect business and could not be urgently summoned back, such as during the discussion conferences. Lan Ganhui, in turn, had enlisted his husband Li Zhenquan and his sister-in-law Li Zhouxi, who had come to the Cloud Recesses with her brother, a solid determination never to marry, and an exceptional hand at calligraphy, and between the four of them and some sleepless nights they had just about managed to cover Lan Qiren’s job.

Lan Qiren had immediately recruited them all as his own secretaries upon his return. Some were easier to convince than others – Lan Tianqi had been pleased at the idea of having influence on sect affairs without having to bear the entire weight of the sect on his shoulders, while Li Zhenquan was delighted to finally find a place where he could be of service to the family he’d married into. Lan Ganhui had initially declared that he would rather perish than do a job like this every day, being as he was a dramatic sort of person, but Lan Qiren had convinced him that a part-time position would not make too much of a dent in his active social life and would furthermore give him a chance to steal precious private time during the day with his husband. Lan Ganhui, in turn, had managed to convince the hitherto most resistant (and yet by far the most precious of the whole set) Li Zhouxi to agree to the job as well.

(Lan Qiren had made the mistake of inquiring as to how he had done so, followed almost immediately by considerable regret as he was cheerfully informed that a desire not to marry said nothing about not having desire at all, and also that having a position of power made a person more attractive towards the certain type of person that happened to be just Li Zhouxi’s type. Apparently the lady had ambitions of a harem of her own, filled with attractive and empty-headed young men – Lan Ganhui had used the word ‘stable’, which was another concept that he also decided, despite absolutely no interest on Lan Qiren’s part, to explain to him at length without stopping. Lan Qiren could understand that his cousin was good-naturedly getting his own back at him for some of the more boring lectures Lan Qiren had subjected him to in their youth, which he didn’t mind, but he did find himself wondering throughout the entire discussion why people who enjoyed sex were like that. How did it not make things incredibly awkward all the time?)

Still, even with all of them sharing the weight of the sect between them and there being enough time for Lan Qiren to attack the problem of corruption and selfishness within his sect head-on, it wasn’t easy. He was still bound to respect his elders, and many of them had set down strong roots, with plenty of people inclined to take their side in an argument or to minimize what had happened even when the evidence was irrefutable. Lan Qiren resigned himself to a long slog, knowing that change would undoubtedly be incremental and slow – but at least he would be setting the right example for the next generation, showing them what it really meant to be a Lan.

He would strangle those rotten roots where they lay and turn them into fodder for better growth, even if it took him years to accomplish. It was what his sect deserved – his sect, his rules, and his nephews.

Unlike before, however, Lan Qiren was far more alert to the possibility that he was overworking himself. He had thought, with the arrogance of youth, that he had been doing fine in the days before; if he had been tired, that was only the lack of sleep he consistently failed to get, and if he had never stopped working, well, that was only what the position and his sect required of him, penance for some sin in his past life that he now had to repent of.

Now, though, he knew that the rules were right in prioritizing care for the self. He was not doing his best for the sect when he was too tired to think properly, and rest and relaxation was necessary rejuvenation for his mind to be at the peak he needed it to be. He made sure to take the time for his music, his training, his teaching, and even reading purely for pleasure rather than for work – he’d always enjoyed esoteric texts, especially those imported from foreign locales, and he thought he could quite proudly say that his Lan sect, however smaller than the Wen sect and less wealthy than the Jin, could still teach its peers a thing or two about collecting interesting books. His schedule wasn’t as free as it had been in the Nightless City, but that was a trade he gladly made in exchange for being once more at home.

As for Wen Ruohan…

Surprisingly, Lan Qiren hadn’t heard much from him. This was not especially unexpected, at least at first, since they had both known that Lan Qiren would be busy dealing with his sect and Wen Ruohan dealing with quashing any criticism once the kidnapping had become public knowledge – they had both agreed that it made sense not to do anything too overt in terms of their relationship for the first few months. Well, Lan Qiren had insisted, and Wen Ruohan had reluctantly agreed after some considerably pressure was applied, which amounted to the same thing.

He’d sulked rather dramatically about it, which had led Lan Qiren to, perhaps unwisely, permit himself to be talked into allowing certain liberties on the night before he’d left the Nightless City. He was perfectly aware that he was setting a poor precedent for the future, but Lan hearts were not exactly susceptible to reason. It had been an interesting experience, he supposed – he still did not intrinsically see the appeal, and suspected he never would, but it was hardly the first time Lan Qiren had willingly suffered some minor discomfort for the purpose of pleasing someone else. It didn’t even involve any particular aches and pains, and Wen Ruohan had been so very pleased by it; the entire experience was enjoyable purely for his enthusiasm and for the fact that it had rather effectively shut him up, which was worth it in and of itself. For all of Lan Qiren’s concerns, it turned out that Lan sect discipline was far harsher by comparison, with less immediate rewards, and Lan Qiren went away with the conviction that anything further they did would be no more difficult to bear – excluding perhaps Wen Ruohan’s avid interest in eventually being involved in matters of discipline, anyway.

It…was a little disturbing to be met with silence after something like that, if truth be told.

Wen Ruohan had only agreed to cease all talk of courtship for a few months, and yet that time had long since passed that point, with no mention of the subject, or indeed any word at all. Lan Qiren had braced himself, expecting that Wen Ruohan would bring up the subject as soon as the deadline passed, trying once more to invent some means by which a bird and a fish could live together despite Lan Qiren’s insistence that he would not leave the Cloud Recesses for anything, even love.

Instead, there was silence.

The silence was unusual, and unnerving, but Lan Qiren was quite certain that Wen Ruohan’s affections were not so shallow as to be satisfied by mere physical trifles – he was no Jin Guangshan – and so he had to assume that the cause was something else.

Presumably the matter of the mastermind.

They did eventually end up exchanging a few letters, but they were stilted things, rigid and formal, and said nothing of substance. They’d already observed that the mastermind had sufficient influence to interfere with the post with the Nightless City, and neither was inclined to let whoever it was see their personal correspondence. Wen Ruohan layered his letters with implications and allusions, complex enough that Lan Qiren had shamefully had no choice but to ask for assistance in deciphering the ones he didn’t understand, only to have them turn out to be sexual inneundo – Zhang Xin had nearly burst a gut laughing at him. In return, Lan Qiren’s responses were painfully straightforward, as dry as when he was writing to any other sect leader in the normal course of events; he simply didn’t know any other way. It was a good thing, he thought, that Wen Ruohan would not expect him to engage in any sort of erotic correspondence – that was far more Lao Nie’s style than his own.

And that was another thing Lan Qiren needed to consider.

He hadn’t had time to think it over while in the Nightless City, and by now he’d had almost too much time to think it over: his beloved was another person’s lover, and even after a great deal of consideration he had no idea how he felt about that. Family tradition dictated that Lan Qiren ought to be possessive of his lover, jealous of their time and attention well beyond the point of reason – and yet, perhaps it was having suffered so much from his brother’s similar madness, but the mere thought made Lan Qiren recoil, left cold and repulsed by the idea of demanding that anyone isolate themselves like that simply because of his feelings.

Or perhaps, instead, it was simply the knowledge that he had that Lao Nie was no true rival of his. The thought of Wen Ruohan ever being besotted by another was enough to make Lan Qiren’s temper flare up, but Lao Nie himself had confirmed that he would not give his heart away in this life, nor willingly claim anyone else’s for his own, and the idea that Lan Qiren might have Wen Ruohan’s heart all to himself satisfied all the possessive instincts he might have had. He had even spent some time wondering whether, when Lao Nie’s prohibition had been lifted by his sect, they might reach some form of…he really didn’t want to call it an agreement, but he couldn’t think of a better way to put it. It did make him feel a little as if he and Lao Nie were Wen Ruohan’s wives scheduling matters of the harem to equitably divide the days between them, and that was without even accounting for Wen Ruohan’s actual wives…

It was, in sum total, a bit of a mess.

Especially since Wen Ruohan himself, who was rather critical to figuring this out, was currently making himself scarce.

Irritating, irritating man.

Which made it, of course, doubly irritating when Lan Qiren found a letter from him mixed in with the other applications for students for his lectures during the summer – Wen Xu had been put forward as a candidate, and Wen Ruohan had added a casual postscript noting that “on account of the friendship that had been formed between my younger son and your younger nephew,” he would be sending Wen Chao as well to be enrolled in the junior classes alongside Lan Wangji, even though those were primarily taught by another teacher. None of this, of course, had been mentioned in any of the personal letters Lan Qiren had received, a subject he noted with some irritation in his own personal letter sent back the next day.

Wen Ruohan, in what Lan Qiren was starting to suspect was deliberate provocation, did not respond.

At all.

There were no letters that arrived from the Nightless City from him, none at all. Not even one that ignored the issue!

Lan Qiren ground his teeth together and thought to himself two things: first, that he understood how Wen Ruohan had managed to get so worked up when he’d thought Lao Nie was deliberately ignoring him and, second, that Wen Ruohan seemed to have developed a penchant for making him angry.

Irritating, irritating man!

Lan Qiren comforted himself with the fact that Wen Ruohan was almost certain to accompany his sons to the Cloud Recesses to drop them off for classes – even though most parents generally sent their children with only an escort, especially from larger sects, it seemed implausible to him that Wen Ruohan would willingly give up an opportunity to meet in person, even if his absence would in fact succeed in his (apparent) secondary goal of inciting Lan Qiren into a fury.

So reassured, he settled down to focus on his work.

(Irritating, irritating, irritating man!)

#mdzs #lan qiren #wen ruohan #my fic #my fics #relentless

[silverflame2724]

Accidental Martial God WWX

That was exacty what I meant actually but I do have a few more povs if you want.

LQRs reaction to a demonic cultivator ascending, JGS and JGY reaction to the Yin Tiger Tally moving completely out of reach, WQ pondering the true requirements for ascension given WWX doesn't have a golden core yet ascended, WWX musing on Godhood and on his new followers both the good and the more disturbing worshipers.

Maybe LWJ protects the Wen Remnants because WWX asked him to in a dream and after he succeeds (13 years later) he ascends and is finally reunited with WWX.

Lan Qiren did not know what to think. Wei Wuxian, his most troublesome student, a demonic cultivator, had ascended. He’d ascended. How was that even possible? Were the Heavens blind? Why would they allow someone like Wei Wuxian to ascend?

From what Lan Qiren had thought, only those who are righteous and followed the correct path in life like the Lan clan’s founder, Lan An, would be worthy of ascending.

Either the qualifications for ascension were lower than he thought or Lan Qiren had been horribly mistaken about Wei Wuxian’s personality and motivations for using demonic cultivation. That last thought made Lan Qiren feel very uncomfortable.

He’d always been harsh on the boy and disregarded him, even - he ashamedly admitted - punishing him harsher and more frequently than others.

He’d thought he was in the right because of how Wei Wuxian was but…..

But if he was wrong then Lan Qiren owed him an apology.

………………….

Jin Guangshan wanted to scream out in frustration seeing Wei Wuxian ascend. That brat had the Stygian Tiger Seal on him - according to his spies - and now that he ascended, the Seal went with him.

He had had so many plans on bribing Wei Wuxian to his side or killing him when he refused - as well as stealing the Seal - and then taking over the cultivation world, lording over it as he was always meant to be.

Now those plans are ruined. He sighed. Hopefully that bastard son of his can finally prove his usefulness and give him countermeasures or he might retract his favor from him.

……………………

Jin Guangyao’s first thought upon seeing Wei Wuxian ascend was: Oh shit. I have to go make up new plans to help Father.

He knew his father wanted Wei Wuxian and the Seal and didn’t really care how he obtained both or either, just as long as no one traced it back to him. He sighed. This was going to be a big headache. But at least the plans on putting his father as Chief Cultivator were going smoothly. He could only imagine what his father would do to him if even this failed.

..............................

Wen Qing had still been in Yiling, making plans to relocate her family, when the news that Wei Wuxian had ascended had reached her.

Her first reaction was, That’s impossible.

Because it was, right? Wen Qing should know. She cut out his core, after all. But to think he was still able to ascend while he was a demonic cultivator made her wonder what the requirements were for ascending. Perhaps it’s an honest heart? Self-sacrificing tendencies? Or is it a sacrifice of some sorts? She paused. What if.....it was a trial? To test a person’s will? What Wei Wuxian had suffered was.....horrible. Could it have all been just a test from the Heavens?

If that was so, the Heavens really are cru--- 

“A’ Jie, we have to go! Some Jin were spotted nearby!”

Wen Qing gritted her teeth. Members of the branch families of Qishan, regardless of whether they were innocent or not, were captured and subsequently tortured to death by the Jin and sometimes the Nie. Because her family was all in Yiling, they were safe.......but only for now. They had to hurry and escape.

Wen Qing sent a quick prayer to Wei Wuxian, hoping for her family’s safety, and tucked the rest of her belongings in her qiankun pouch, remembering to wrap her arms in bandages to hide the needles she might need to paralyze any Jin that came close.

....................................

Wei Wuxian’s first thought when he landed in the Heavens was, What the fuck.

Then he looked around and looked taken aback and wary at the unfamiliar faces around him. Where the fuck am I?

“Hello.” A rather stoic-faced man greeted.

“Hello.” Wei Wuxian parroted back. The person in front of him didn’t seem to be a threat so he felt a little tension loosen from his shoulders. “Um, Xiansheng? I’m afraid I don’t know where I am?”

“You have just ascended.” The man replied, throwing Wei Wuxian aback.

“Are you pulling my leg?” Wei Wuxian asked. “How is that even possible! I don’t even have---” He swallowed. I don’t even have a core.

“I do not lie. Come, we are wasting time. We must get you washed up and dressed for the induction ceremony.” Seeing Wei Wuxian still frozen, the man sighed, signalled for some people to pick Wei Wuxian up and dragged the struggling man to some quarters.

After absentmindedly washing, drying and changing himself, Wei Wuxian noticed some differences in his body. He wasn’t....cold or hurting anymore. And - he touched his back - he could feel his back! After having his muscles and nerves shredded by Zidian, he didn’t think he’d ever be able to sense touch on his back or even move without pain! But now he can!

He heard the urging of some people and grumbled.

“You will become a god of demonic cultivation.” Was the first thing he heard when he stepped out of the room.

Wei Wuxian choked. “Excuse me?!”

“I said what I said. Now then, if you would please concentrate, you should be able to hear the prayers of the people below.”

Wei Wuxian felt like everything was moving a little too fast for him, but nevertheless complied. Immediately after, a flood of prayers hit him at full force.

“Wei Wuxian!” That was Jiang Cheng! “….Have some fun up there.”

“A’ Xian, do be well. Shijie isn’t there to take care of you so do be well.” Wei Wuxian refused to cry.

“Wei-Xiong! I hope there’s someone up there to supply you with you know what *winks*”

How does someone even wink in their prayers? Wei Wuxian thought amusedly.

“Wei Ying.” That was Lan Zhan. “Wei Ying, I will—be well.”

Ah, Lan Zhan. Always concise even in your thoughts.

Wei Wuxian was a little teary. As much as he was glad to not be a part of the cultivation world considering all the rumors, he did regret leaving behind those that cared for him.

That thought was much more cemented upon hearing…….

“Ah, Lord Wei, the pinnacle of evil, the role model of all demonic cultivators!” Wei Wuxian’s eye twitched. “Please hear my plea for more power! I need it, I need it to destroy everyone who harmed me!”

“Wei Wuxian, I wish to gain power over resentful energy so that I may tear my enemies limb by limb!

“Give me money! You’re a god, aren’t you? Be useful for once and give me some gold!”

“Tch. If I’m going to pray for anything, then it’ll have to be the Seal. You’re a god, now, right? So you have no need for the Seal. Just give it up.”

No matter the good or bad, Wei Wuxian heard the wishes and prayers of the people down below and while some were innocent enough, there were those that wished for death, destruction, tools for torture, power, money, women…….you name it.

It made Wei Wuxian feel a little disgusted with humanity. He cut off his focus from the bad and focused on the prayer he received from his friends and family.

“Wei Wuxian, I heard you became a god.” It was Wen Qing. He hadn’t heard her voice in a long time. “I know this might seem shameless of me after all I did to you, but please. Please guarantee the safety of my family. We’re being hunted down and—”

Her prayer was abruptly cut off, before coming back in full force with notes of desperation. Her family had been captured and taken to Qiongqi Path! Wei Wuxian panicked. He didn’t know how to escape from this place and try to go help her.

The…..person who was watching over him evidently knew what he was thinking about and merely stated that gods cannot interfere with the mortal realm. So he was stuck.

But that didn’t mean he was out of options.

It took a few days, but he managed to wheedle out how to help: via dreams. He merely needed to get into the mind of one of his followers and tell them to help. Much like those prophetic dreams Wei Wuxian had read about as a kid.

So he buckled down, thinking of the best candidate to help him.

……………………………

Lan Wangji looked at the landscape around him and concluded that he was dreaming. Though, it was a little odd that he was aware that he was dreaming. Not that he hasn’t realized he was dreaming before - especially in those many fantasies he had of Wei Ying - but to be aware that this is a dream and to see nothing but a flat landscape was pretty out of the ordinary. 

Anyway, he digressed. What was going on?

“Uhh, Lan Zhan? Can you hear me?”

“W-Wei Ying?!” Lan Wangji couldn’t be blamed for stuttering. He wasn’t expecting this!

“Phew. Oh good, you can hear me. Anyway, Lan Zhan, I gotta be quick about this because I’m kinda sorta bending the rules here, but do you think you can go to Qiongqi Path and rescue Wen Qing and her family?”

“Okay.”

“Huh? Just like that? Not even going to ask me for a reason, er-gege?”

Lan Wangji’s ears flushed red at the address. “If Wei Ying wants to save them, you must have a good reason. That’s enough for me.”

“Ah, Hanguang-Jun.” The title was spoken fondly. “Always so good. I’ll tell you anyway. Wen Qing and her family sheltered Jiang Cheng and I after Lotus Pier fell and even brought back Jiang-shushu and Yu-furen’s bodies! That’s a debt I cannot repay.”

“I understand. I will help.”

He couldn’t see Wei Ying, but could practically feel the amusement from him.

“Wei Ying.”

“Yes?”

“Are......Are you well?”

“Of course I am. I’m actually feeling so much better than before.” Wei Ying grumbled, “I’m not even in pain anymore.”

“You were in pain?” Lan Wangji asked worriedly. “Wei Ying, why didn’t you say anything.”

“Lan Zhan, there was nothing you or anyone else could do to alleviate my pain. It doesn’t matter now. I’m okay.”

Lan Wangji was still worried and wanted to speak to him more, but---

“Ah! Looks like my time’s up!” Wei Ying exclaimed cheerfully as the dreamscape wavered. “See you, Lan Zhan!”

Lan Wangji nodded. “See you, Wei Ying.” I’ll catch up to you soon.

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And 13 years later, Lan Wangji kept his promise.

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I didn’t edit this so I’m hoping there’s not too many grammatical errors lol. 

#mdzs #wei ying #wei wuxian #lan qiren #jin guangshan #jin guangyao #lan zhan #lan wangji #wen remnants #wen remnants survive #JGS and JGY can no longer scheme against WWX :) #LQR is kinda an asshole #but at least he sorta admits it? #hurt wei wuxian #implied chronic pain

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Lan Sizhui

it is a very homely, cozy dinner

in the quiet ambiance of the Jingshi, Wei Wuxian’s laughter, Lan Wangji’s quiet smile and Sizhui’s gentle hand holding yours under the table

all fit together

you feel grateful that you were so easily accepted into his family

and honestly, you had only dreamed that being friends with Sizhui would be enough for you

but it wasn’t 

luckily both you and SIzhui came to know that it would never be enough to be just friends

and you feel so happy, so blessed, that his parents had helped you two to come together despite all the odds 

orphaned and growing up sect-less, you were not the ideal candidate for Sizhui, son of Hanguang-Jun & Yiling Patriarch

but if there was anything that his family showed you, it was that love mattered first before pride, before everything 

“Wei-qianbei, Hanguang-Jun,” Sizhui’s voice snaps you out of your daydream, makes you realize that dinner has finished,

Sizhui’s eyes turn to meet yours and you smile at him as his dad coos

“y/n,” he says your name like a funny question

and you hum at him, tilting your head

“i love you, a lot, y/n” 

you blink, a blush rising to your face as your eyes flicker over to his parents and then back at him, 

you nod to him as well, squeezing his hand with yours, 

“with my parents as witness, i’d like to give you something,” Sizhui tells you

and you blink rapidly, eyes welling up with tears at the thought, the idea

Sizhui lets go of you hand, moves it up to begin untying his forehead ribbon 

you watch as he uncurls your hand,

slowly brings the forehead ribbon down from his head and placing it into your palm

“Sizhui,” you breathe out, because you can hardly believe it 

but his parents watchful eyes on the sideline, have never seen a better couple

Lan Jingyi

when you were summoned to the Hanshi you truly wondered if Jingyi had gotten in trouble again

 you walk into the the hall, catching sigh of Jingyi kneeled, head bowed in front of Zewu-Jun and Lan Qiren, 

and you believe you must be right 

you make deep bow when you approach, taking the same kneeled position as you companion on the floor

because really, no matter what it was that Jingyi did, you always knew that he had a sense of justice and righteousness within him

you don’t doubt him, even with his faults

you stand by him

but you are going to give him a smack later on for always wrapping himself up in some kind of trouble-

“Zewu-Jun, Lan Qiren, please let me marry y/n,”

you snap you head up to the side immediately at his words,

but Jingyi doesn’t even look at you,

his eyes are staring at the two present adults, a different kind of defiance in them

you were the sole heir of a small but growing sect, a highly admired cultivator

he was a senior disciple, his only family the teachers and mentors that raised him

your statuses were different, so different

but from the way that Jingyi’s eyes stared, unflinching from Lan Qiren’s cold stare and Zewu-Jun’s surprised eye

you know that

Jingyi won’t be taking no for an answer 

“is that not, y/n-guniang’s decision?” Zewu-Jun speaks 

you’re a bit surprised when all the eyes are directed upon you, 

you meet JIngyi’s eyes, face just as surprised with that answer

“my parents...”

“what do you want, y/n-guniang?” Zewu-Jun asks you, and you realize you have to be honest about what you love, who you love

because you can’t imagine a life without Jingyi,

“i can’t live without, y/n” Jingyi tells you, kneeled before you 

and you smile at him, teary eyed

you hope that the adults in the room understand,

how much you are meant for one another

Jin Ling

this was the most formal family dinner that you had ever been to

granted it was the first time Jin Ling’s family and yours were meeting 

but still 

the air was so tense you could literally feel it on your back 

all the eyes that were staring at you,

judging you,

couldn’t everyone just chill a little bit

you hear Jin Ling cough into a closed fist across from you, watch him quietly get up from his seat and go into the middle of the banquet hall at Lotus Pier

his Uncle was kind enough to host 

but that just made you all the more worried when Jin Ling stepped up to the highest chair,

whispered into his Uncle’s ear

you stare a little wide eyed when his Uncle’s eyes flicker over to you 

and then watch as the whole hall quiets down at his Uncle’s hand

“I have an announcement to make,” Jin Ling speaks up into the quiet of the room,

everyone stares at him, watches his eyes as he scans the room and then meeting yours

“i will be marrying y/n in the coming spring,” 

there’s an uproar of noise from the room, hoots, hollers, shouts of surprises, gasps

in between all the talking and everything going on 

you only see two things

firstly, a strong hand resting on Jin Ling’s shoulder, one that you realize is from his Uncle

secondly, lastly 

you see Jin Ling’s eyes, shining but brave at the same time

he stares straight at you,

marry me, Jin Ling mouthes to you across the din

a tear falls out of your eyes, 

you nod

Ouyang Zizhen

you’re happy that Zizhen has come to know your family quite well

because your relationship with him had never been hidden,

never been stopped

always supported 

and you fall in love with Zizhen as much as he adores your family 

he had felt much the same way 

which is why when he is eating with your family on a normal meal

sitting around the table with your siblings screaming and your parents piling food on his plate

a few words here and there get around,

namely,

“jie-jie, when is Zizhen-ge going to live with us?” you little brother asks and Zizhen beside you nearly chokes on his rice

“well, Zizhen has to marry jie-jie first before that happens,” your teenage brother smart mouths before you can begin explaining anything 

he’s only 12, you have no idea how he already knows that

“Zizhen-ge, you should get married to jie-jie soon so you can stay here with us and not have to ride your horse back home all the time!” your baby brother persuades Zizhen 

and your boyfriend can only laugh, patting the young child on the head as the family breaks into happy but awkward laughs

on one hand you are happy that he doesn’t bring it up again, not in this setting at least

but at the same time, why didn’t he bring it up again, didn’t he want to marry you?

the ebbing thought that perhaps, Zizhen didn’t want to marry you (wasn’t in it for the long run) bothers you the rest of dinner

and it ends up being really late into the night, when you finally get some time alone with one another

that being, when you’re about to see him off

“i’ll come visit you, soon,” Zizhen promises, and you nod, distractedly fixing his robes for the night wind on his ride home,

Zizhen watches you for a moment before he overlaps his hands with yours, stealing all of your attention,

“you little brothers may have heard my conversation with your father a few days ago,” Zizhen says 

and you look up at him, 

“Zizhen?” “i’ve always wanted to marry you, y/n. it’s been on my mind the moment i met you,” Zizhen confesses to you then

you smile up at him, feeling warmed from his words and the hand that wraps tightly around yours,

“will you be mine forever?”

“of course-”

“JIE! SAY YES!” 

and you both whip around to see your brothers (and a few embarrassed, but happy servants) hiding by the awning of the main entrance

“I DID!” you shout back, happily turning back to Zizhen

his smile looks beautiful in the moonlight

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