#protective jiang yanli

[wangxianficrecs]

The Most Beautiful Man Alive (and his gremlin son) by meyari

The Most Beautiful Man Alive (and his gremlin son)

by meyari

T, 4k, Wangxian

Summary: There was never a time when Wei Wuxian wasn’t aware of it. The way people looked at him, even as a child, made it obvious. But there was a time when he didn’t realize just how much power the face he’d inherited from his father gave him. Once he knew, though, oh. Oh, things changed after that. Mojo's comments: Ahaha, this is precisely as delightful as you'd expect from the tin. (Even if it IS a bit dangerous to be so beautiful everyone wants to devour you.) The end cracked me up.

canon divergence, everybody lives/nobody dies, protective jiang yanli, protective jiang cheng, good parent jiang fengmian, protective yu ziyuan, crack treated seriously, beautiful wei wuxian, child wei wuxian, different first meeting

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#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #Wangxian #MDZS #Mojo's Rec #October 2023 #Had to use the donghua because a) no good WCZ pictures from CQL and b) I still remember how hot and bothered we were when we first saw him #Also! A rec from Mojo! #The Most Beautiful Man Alive (and his gremlin son) #meyari #Teen #short fic <15k #canon divergence #everybody lives/nobody dies #protective jiang yanli #protective jiang cheng #good parent jiang fengmian #protective yu ziyuan #crack treated seriously #beautiful wei wuxian #child wei wuxian #different first meeting

[bamboo-gdn]

Jiang Yanli's love for Wei Wuxian

It wasn’t Jiang Yanli’s job nor duty to protect Wei Wuxian from her mother, but her father's. Jiang Fengmian should be the one being held accountable on not doing enough for Wei Wuxian. Jiang Fengmian was a grown-up trained man, a cultivator, he was a sect leader and had power. Jiang Fengmian also was the one who brought Wei Wuxian in, he was the one who should’ve stood up for Wei Wuxian whenever his wife tried to abuse him physically or emotionally. He was the one who didn’t do enough, and the one whose duty was to protect his supposedly ward.

Jiang Yanli, on the other hand, was a physically weak girl who was always being berated and downplayed by her own mother, and she was only around three years older than Wei Wuxian. She was a kid too. It was definitely not her duty to protect him or stand up for him.

But she did.

She did try to protect him as much as she could till the end. She tried her best even when she didn’t have to because she wanted to, and she loved him as a little brother. She was the one who made him feel loved in his childhood, that’s why he loves her so much.

Also, I really think she protected him successfully. I don’t know why people expect her to be some kind of heroine or superwoman or want her to be one, but she doesn’t need to be that. Just loving him and demonstrating this love is enough. She just needs to be herself to make him happy, and making someone happy is a way on itself of protecting someone. She's more than enough.

Jiang Yanli didn’t fail, she gave Wei Wuxian all she could, and even died for him. It was her blood brother who failed. It was the mob who failed.

She loved him and made him happy, shouldn't that be enough?

#jiang yanli #wei wuxian #jiang yanli and wei wuxian #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #yes that making someone happy is a way of protecting someone on itself is borrowed from fruits basket #fruits basket just changed me in many ways #jyl #wwx #wy #wei ying #jiang yanli love #jiang yanli doesnt deserve hate #jiang yanli did more than enough #jiang yanli is wei wuxian's big sister #wei wuxian is jiang yanli's little brother #jyl & wwx #jiang fengmian #jfm #jiang yanli did nothing wrong #jiang yanli didn't fail #jyl and wwx the real yunmeng siblings

[bonesblubs]

The way you draw jyl….she looks so huggable, i love her

She is but you might find it hard to get close enough!!!

#ask box #art tag #mdzs #jiang yanli #I really want to know more about herrrr #soon… #clingy bros/protection squad #posting from my iPad hopefully the image quality is ok

[sherylhooper]

There's a reason that even tho my country and my people push very hard to have us included in Europe, and discard everything that make us similar to Asia, I don't count myself as just European but more Asian, because our country is moatly located in Asia and also because the Silk Road and other Asian coutries' culture is very similar to us. That's the conversation for another time tho but when someone reads this, I want them to know that foreigners may call us white because of our skin color (even tho my ethnicity is very diverse 😒) but they still always count us as Asians because we aren't white and European enough for them.

What I want to say with that is that as much as I like that damnei, and especially MXTX books became popular, western people with their idiotic ideas make my skin crawl.

Unpopular opinion here but Wen remnants weren't innocent just because they haven't done what Wen Ruohan did. If someone doesn't something horrible, doesn't make them innocent and good. This is why I can't stand western people. Someone made a tiktok about how horrible Jiang Cheng was for leading the siege against Wei Wuxian and how horrible he was and how heroic WWX is and I wanted to make something very very clear.

MXTX herself very clearly wrote during Sunshot campaign that "no Wen took Sunshot Campaign seriously". Here it doesn't say that every Wen, besides Wen Qing and Wen Ning and Wen Qing's branch, took Sunshot Campaign seriously. No, she very clearly wrote what she wrote. People assume way too much that Wen Qing couldn't leave Wen Ruohan's side. I'm sorry but yes, yes, she could, She could've taken Wen Ning with her, gone to Lan Xichen or Nie Mingjiu and given up as a prisoner, but she didn't.

The fact very much remains: neither she, nor Wen Ning or others gave up on Wen Rouhan. They clearly expected him to win (and he was very much winning before WWX turned up with undead army and turned the tides.).

Now I want to address another thing and it's called POW, i.e. what Wen Remnants were.

The phrase, Prisoner of War for the first time, has been used in 1610 but the idea of losing side of war being "either slaughtered of enslaved" has been there since ancient times: Romans, Greeks, Turk Sejuks, Turk Ottomans, Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Chinese, Japanese, etc. They all have taken people from losing side of war as prisoners.

Now I want to adress what these POW were used as - "Typically, victors made little distinction between enemy combatants and enemy civilians, although they were more likely to spare women and children. Sometimes the purpose of a battle, if not a war, was to capture women, a practixe known as raptio."

My people were part of raptio many times, as our enemies captured women from my country because they were beautiful and they wanted to "verbessern" (improve) their blood and bred them for that purpose as disgusting as it sounds, this is a very reason why many foreign leaders in history, especially in Asia, had my people as grandmas or mothers, most of the time unwillingly and my people also took their own life before that kind of fate would befall on them too.

That was what happened to women prisoners after war most of the time, as for men, they were used to work manually almost every time for their captors.

Now, as much as Jin Guangshan and Jin Zixun make me very very angry, (not because how they acted against Wens but because they were simply disgusting people) they weren't wrong to take Wen Remnants in and make them work manually till they died (what could be argued that Jin Zixun was wrong in following that bat and capturing and impriaoning WN and his group during nighthunt). If everything WWX acting the way he acted was abnormal. He literally stole and freed them and went to the enemy's side.

Here is where I want people reading this to forget their western opinions and Geneva Convention (which was created in 1949 AFTER two world wars.). I know that most of them and their countries have never been to war in near history (USA involvement in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in iran, in many other countries doesn't count and neither does WW1 and WW2), have never had their people expeciance genoc!de so I want them to shut their mouth and listen to us, who have had wars at the hands oppressors and colonizators for more than 2000 years, yes two thousand years, who have experienced genoc!de multiple times. Even nowdays 20% of my country is occupied by our oppressors and we had 2 wars in last 32 years also at the hands of them. In 1992-1993 and in 1998 my people experienced ethnic cleansing alongside with our allies at the hands of Russians. And last war we had was in 2008, which I remember very well and it was hardly a war and more likely bombing the civilians!

Keep that in mind that I actually was in Jiang Cheng's shoes and understand that I also have a sibling. If, God above forbid, my sibling after what happened to us, got up, defected and went to Russians side, I'd kill that traitor with my own two fucking hands!!

Does people even understand what kind of bullshit they are speaking when they say that WWX was actually not wrong to take "innocent" Wens' side? There was no such thing as innocent people there!! They were elders, sure, but you can't make me believe that if they were younger they wouldn't fight in that war or that WRH wouldn't force them to fight. Did anyone from Wen Remnants say "oh, Wen Ruohan was such a bad person, we weren't actually on his side even tho we never defected during the war but just because we have done nothing against others, we are innocent". That doesn't work like that. They couldn't have been innocent when they stayed by WRH's side in the war!! At best, they simply were indifferent in it! They alao profited from war. Funding, medicine, etc have to come from somewhere, right?

Now I want to adress Wen Ning and Wen Qing and why I don't particulary care about them. Wen Qing was a healer, we have to understand that today's medical ethics that was created by Thomas Percival, is different from what physicians thought was correct in antient times, especially in ancient China.

"The traditional Chinese medical ethics emphasized heavily on physician's morality and set high standarts for medical practice. To summarie the ideas in these historical works, the phyaicians nuat rescue every like without any preconditions."

At that time there was no such thing as patient's automony. For that reason we can't fault WQ when she performed the golden core transplatation. She just did what WWX asked her.

There'a one thing that I'm gonna argue tho. When WQ and WN saved Jiang Cheng from other Wens, WQ told WWX that their debt from now on was null and void.

So when people say that Jiang Cheng should've always be in debt with her, is actually not correct. I also want to argue that she trully only cared for her brother. When she fell on her knees in front of WWX, she only wanted him to save Wen Ning. Nowhere did she say "oh, Jin clan is treating my branch so horrible, we all want to save ourselves. Help me save them."

Now about Wen Ning. He is a guy who has no other personality than just being m nice. He helped JC and WWX after Jiang Sect annihilation and that was also because he was nice. He is just a nice guy, nothing more, nothing less. He just exists to be "just nice guy".

I can't seem to force myself to care about him.

Someone on above mentioned tiktok commented and I quote:

"there is nothing jc went through that was significantly worse than what others went through yet people baby him so much 🙄 sry i don’t like mr genocide everyone"

The tiktok author replied:

"NO FR like “he lost his family” hate to break it to u bud but so did like. Everyone else … it was kind of a war,,,"

Did I read it correctly or did they simply compared Jiang Sect Genocide to people losing one or two relatives in the war??

The author in their bio had "free Palestine". Unfortunatelly that comment here clearly speaks that they don't actually care about anyone's genocide and they probably only do it for the trend.

Apparently these people also think that Jiang Cheng hunted down that tortured "pure innocent Demonic Cultivators for fun".

Are they dumb or do they trully think that these Demonic Cultivators all were like WWX and not blood-hungry like Xue Yang?? The only remotelly normal Demonic Cultivator was WWX!! Nowhere did MXTX say, even in interviews that JC hunted Demonic Cultivators for fun! Some people have never read a book in their life and it shows!

Especially when they act as if WWX was second coming of Jesus and has never done anything wrong.

First of all, WWX did, in fact, have an army in Burial Mounds, the army of undead, fierce corpses and ghosts. That army may not have Wen Remnants, but it was still an army! Also wasn't WWX the one who wrote death threats with his own blood and sent them different sects? He, obviously, wasn't in right mind at that time but he really was the threat to the Jianghu. He was arrogant and, what we know is that Jiang Cheng led the siege (please, remember that we also hear that from other people - who love rumors and speculation and etc. We don't know for sure if JC led the siege or not.).

WWX did betray him. He left him alone when he took Wen Remnants. They were brothers!! What kind of older brother abandons their little sibling? Wei Ying also indirectly caused Jiang YanLi's death. Mind you, Wei Ying didn't die on the same day as JYL, but three months later.

That alone left Jiang Cheng trully alone with a newborn nephew!!

It's a wonder he didn't go out of his mind.

Just because WWX suffered doesn't mean other people, especially Jiang Cheng didn't lose everything in the world. He had to revive a dead sect with his two very hands in his early twenties.

Some people also don't understand what kind of power vacuum Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan's deaths created! Take cultivation out of the novel and you are left with 5 big sect with Sect Leaders who are like the kings in their own land! People pay taxes here canonically. Do some people trully believe that Yumeng Jiang would remain untouched when there was no Jiang Sect left to rule it? Jin Guangshan and other sects, big or small, would start fighting over the land. Jiang Cheng had more problems at his hands than caring about leftover Wens and the problems that Wei Wuxian created because at that time, when he stole Wens from Jin Sect, he was still a part of AND the Head Disciple of Jiang Sect 🤌🏻

Wen Ruohan wiped out one of the 5 big sects and he may have done the same if Wei Wuxian didn't insult Wen Chao, but he indirectly gave Wen Chao the reason to hate Jiang Sect even more than his father's brainwashing and people think it's not that important.

People also genuinely hate Lan Xichen because he never cared about Wen Remnants enough to take them in or save them 🤦‍♀️

Wei Wuxian should also have cared enough for his sect to at least help JC revive it or something as his Head Disciple. Him giving JC his golden core meant nothing at that time, I said what I said! Especially because he didn't know! 🤷‍♀️ I blame Jiang Fengmian for raising him all highty and mighty and lone wolf or smt, but that's the discussion of another time.

I trully believe that some people read the novel with their eyes closed! This here is exactly why I hate westerns so much when they seriously think that JC is the worst character and hate him more than Wen Ruohan, Jin Guangyao/Meng Yao and Jin Guangshan 🤌🏻

MDZS fandom is clearly very toxic and I'm very glad I'm not a part of it. I'll stay in my SVSSS bubble for eternity.

P.S. just so I can make something very clear. The Siege didn't happen because of Wen Remnants as Jin Zixun allowed WWX to take them away, but because WWX killed Jin Zixuan, who was a sect heir and also husband of his Shijie. Wen Ning killed him indirectly, WWX had no control over his abilities, he was powerfull but with no control and his mind was deteriorating at that time. He was a danger to the cultivation world. Siege happened because of him, against him, and Wen Remnants died as a colletal demage. Morally right or wrong, what he created was a political disaster and it ended with every Wen, excluding WN and Wen Yuan, and with himself dead!

UPDATE. someone from China reblogged this post and called me quite horrible things, but that's okay. They also questioned if my people have even gove thro genocide at all. Okay, denial of my people's genocide is not new either. What they said next was that Siege of Burrial Mounds was a genocide of Wen Remnants. No, actually it wasn't. They died as an collateral demage because Wei Wuxian was there, that's the tragedy. I'm gonna repeat once again, Siege happened because of WWX, not because of Wens.

Another thing what they said is that people have empathy that I lack and I'm a horrible person for that, and I should be ashamed for even thinking that or that I'm Chinese literature to spread my hate, etc, etc.

My empathy died when things such these happened to my people.

Mind you, this is only one, one single city and it's not even the whole list of crimes they have done. I'm gonna find and update this post once again, cuz it's clear that I need to spread awereness, I won't let their names be forgotten...

Today the remains of 12 people, who were considered as "lost during war", were found and transferred to my country for burial and it was very emotional as many remains still haven't been found after 30+ years yet and people still hope that there could be even a single bone found and returned so they can bury it.

So, yeah, I bury whatever empathy I have left with the remains of people everytime something like this happens. Every time people deny the genocide of my people, every time these people call US colonizers and many degrading things, saying that we oppressed them when in reality it was other way around, when we couldn't speak our language, when they called it the "dog's language" and and laughed at it, couldn't get any service if we spoke it and they mockingly told us to speak "human language", which to them was Russian, WE were oppressed in our own country and land and they took everything from us and made the world believe that we were oppressors and colonizers, they even stole the name of our region for themselves....

And no one in the world did anything about this because they didn't care. So no, everytime I'll always imagine myself in JC's shoes that I'm asked to care about ethnic Russians and Apsuas, I simply can't care, don't care and won't even care unless justice is served, unless all the land they have stolen is returned, unless they all apologize for what they have done and stop spreading lies about us....

So, good for you, if you have empathy and are a better person, unfortunately, I am not...

#mo dao zu shi #modao zushi #mzds #mxtx #the untamed #cql #jiang cheng #wwx #wei wuxian #wei ying #wen remnants #wen ruohan #wen ning #wen qing #sunshot campaign #the siege against wwx #jiang cheng is allowed to feel sad #jiang cheng deserves more than toxic mdzs fandom gives him #yunmeng bros #yunmeng siblings #yunmeng jiang #yunmeng jian sect #jiang fengmian #he was a dumbass who did nothing to protect his clan when Wen Ruohan dared to attack Gusu Lan and burned it #how was this man a sect leader i will never understand #jiang yanli #jian yanli was also very stupid when she left baby Jin Ling and went to “save” WWX #like girl there was literal fight going one #like what do you think you could do there 🤦‍♀️ #also fuck imperial russia ussr and russians in general

[evakant]

i know wei wuxian is first pick as god/personification of death etc. etc. (duh, perfect choice, so sexy) but i would like to propose jiang cheng for the part. in the same way elizabeth swann is death from that one post about her kisses damning the men she loves

in the way everything he touches and everything he loves seems to be doomed (sect, parents, sister, brother)

wei wuxian as life!!! as god of life!!! coming back, unkillable. life giving (core transfer, wen ning, etc.)*

jin ling doesn't die because at the end of the story, at the guanyin temple, wei wuxian is there too. to protect him the same way he protected jiang cheng

and this is why he (wei wuxian) has to go back to being yunmeng jiang's head disciple, in this essay i will—

*i'm not saying he lives well, but he lives! he fucking claws and crawls and fights his way out of the burial mounds, he just doesn't fucking quit** you know what i mean

**until he does, but that's a choice he makes.

#now i know the problem here is that wei wuxian loves and wants to protect the same things that jiang cheng does #and so why aren't /they/ safe? and i'm here to say: idk #this is not a complete theory. this is nothing at all actually #maybe because he's young and scared and sad and traumatized #or maybe it's because he thinks he doesn't deserve the love of these people idk #take jiang yanli's death for example. idk idk like i said i'm.. i'm just shooting shit out of my mouth #even that aside it doesn't work ALSO because jiang cheng saves and raises his dead sect back from its ashes. he Very Much(tm) does that. #edit: adding this in bc i had this in my drafts for literally two weeks now i wrote it in a rush after going to bed #i was half asleep already when the thought came to me so i just typed this out in a rush before going back to sleep and like idk what #to add to it. idk how to polish it. it's nothing!! but i can't delete it. i tried i just can't it's like an itch i can't scratch #i have to set it out into the world. don't @ me i know i've made better posts #untamed.txt #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #yunmeng shuangjie #fra.txt

[veliseraptor]

potential (and very self indulgent) au: jiang yanli and jiang cheng join wei wuxian in becoming demonic cultivators

oooh, fun. I have kind of a hard time making this one work in my head (especially for jiang cheng, actually), but let's see here, I've been Challenged so I'm going to make it work

first off, Jiang Cheng - I think the initial requirement here is that the Jiang Sect is never reconstructed. whether that's because it's just too wrecked to rebuild or for whatever reason Jiang Cheng can't hold it (the sect) together (unfair to Jiang Cheng imo, but handwave), but if Jiang Cheng has a sect to protect that he will never see decimated like it was before again, I don't think he would ever turn to demonic cultivation and the risks it entails (politically, socially, etc.). even though in the immediate aftermath of Sunshot Wei Wuxian's skills aren't considered with quite the same hostility they are later, they still are pretty quickly increasingly suspect by society at large.

the other possibility here would be the core transplant not working out, somehow - either temporarily succeeding and then there's some kind of rejection, or it just never succeeds and both Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian end up coreless. Jiang Cheng seizes on the one means he now has to get revenge for the death of his family, and maybe believing that he couldn't lead a sect without his cultivation (I don't think it would necessarily be impossible, but he didn't ask me) he doesn't try to rebuild Jiang Sect at all.

the hard one here I think is Jiang Yanli, who doesn't seem to have significant cultivation ambitions in general, and certainly her brothers would both heavily push back against her practicing something as dangerous as demonic cultivation, particularly considering she seems to have a delicate constitution.

(I'm personally partial when it comes to demonic cultivator Jiang Yanli to it happening after Wei Wuxian's death, with also a dead Jiang Cheng and Jin Zixuan, driven by a need to protect and fear for Jin Ling, but that doesn't suit this particular AU. in this maybe she's just driven/motivated by the need to protect her brothers, who are both walking a dangerous path now.

this would have the side effect of probably nixing her marriage to Jin Zixuan entirely, since she's not going to be looking terribly eligible under the circumstances - and wouldn't be bringing a sect alliance with her. Jin Guangshan isn't going to go for that one, love match or not.

all three of them in this scenario no longer have the protection of a sect behind them, though, which puts them in an even more precarious position - pressure to join one, certainly, but also putting them on the fringes of things, which is not a good place to be in the cultivation world.

the trouble here is going to still come with the Wen remnants, though - Wei Wuxian still feels obligated to protect them, and Jiang Cheng perhaps even more emphatically in this AU (particularly if he's coreless) does not. without the need to protect the sect Jiang Cheng might land in a different place than he does in canon, but it definitely would put a strain on their relationship, and the last thing that they need at that point would be to be divided as society gets increasingly hostile.

I have a hard time envisioning this AU going anywhere good, tbh; I feel like it ends in a blaze of glory with all three siblings dead in a siege on the Burial Mounds. but maybe that's my pessimism talking. maybe their powers combined could hold off the force of the cultivation world's hostility pressing down on them. but it doesn't look great for our heroes.

#conversating #sandushengshou #i WANT it to work out for them but i have a hard time seeing it #if jc has jiang sect to look after i don't think he turns to demonic cultivation #if he turns to demonic cultivation then he and jyl don't have the protection of sect belonging #augh. this one was hard! #five headcanons meme #the sad queer cultivators show #jiang cheng #jiang yanli #wei wuxian

[clementinecoastline]

i truly can’t with cql siblings... the love the pain the dedication the loathing

nie huaisang’s vengeful ‘i can’t have my brother back but i’ll make sure to bury your corpse in his same grave as a final offering’

the yunmeng trio’s self-sacrificing ‘i gave everything up for you and it doomed us all’ (over and over again from each one of them)

#there is more but this was really just meant to be nhs i just couldnt leave out the yunmeng siblings #sorry this is like half a post #maybe ill write something longer but like #what am i going to say that hasnt already been said LMAOO #nie huaisang #(about jgy) #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #jiang yanli #jiang cheng gives himself up to protect wei wuxian and ends up losing his core #wei wuxian gives his own core to jiang cheng and has to turn to the demonic cultivation that makes him a villain in the world's eye #jiang yanli gives up her live for wei wuxian and seals everyone's fate #life* #and they would do it all over again . #for each other . #cql #the untamed #mdzs #wow i sure hope nobody gets really angry over this one #clem's corner

[sthexian]

The last time Young Lady Jin see Jiang Gongzi, she accused him of lying and even made him cry. Today, he still greets her with a smile, but his little sisters will make sure the young lady doesn't hurt him anymore 👀

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs fanart #mo dao zu shi fanart #yiling laozu #yiling patriarch #wei wuxian #jiang yanli #jiang cheng #genderbend #cql #the untamed #protective sisters #Angelic and cute brother

[i-will-cry-you-a-river]

I don't really read het fics, yet I do with NMJ. I love him with WQ and JYL. I think it is because he drank his respect women juice from a young age, and he is the only person in this universe who can handle either of these strong and wonderful women with the care and respect and support they need. He would support them with their passions, he would meet their need to protect their loved ones, and he would understand their feelings as the protective big sibling of a wonderful but problematic younger brother.

I just think NMJ/WQ and NMJ/JYL are neat. I wonder how wonderful it would be the three of them together in an equal relationship. I think they would rule the whole cultivation world, tbh. They would obviously save their and their spouses' little brothers' lives, find solution for the qi deviation and have a big and flourishing clan full of strong Nies, knowledgeable Wens and fierce Jiangs.

#nie mingjue #wen qing #jiang yanli #mdzs #okay maybe we can throw a lxc into the mix #as a fiercely protective older brother #the jins are not in the unite the big cultivator clans through a happy polyam family since the lack of prorective older brothers #sorry not sorry #jzx it is not your fault but you are not the protective older brother of your siblings #tough luck #this plot bunny ran away and now I'm overwhelmed by its offsprings #send help

[stiltonbasket]

in the flowers in the palace au, when did lwj realize that she was in love with wwx? It seems like she knows by the first part of the series, since lqr is trying to encourage lwj to marry and she's refusing, so did lwj fall in love when wwx was studying at the cr (if that happened in this verse)?

Lan Wangji's love realization happens when Wei Wuxian breaks into the Cloud Recesses to comfort her in "for myself, in my frenzied heart." This doesn't have much to do with Lan Wangji's refusal to marry; she was simply raised differently from most other girls in the FITP universe, because Lan Qiren and Qingheng-jun knew they could rely on Nie Mingjue to protect her after their deaths through NMJ's marriage to Lan Xichen.

During Lan Wangji's childhood, Nie Mingjue's father was a high-ranking general who controlled the most important military garrison in the empire, and LQR/QHJ were confident that Lan Wangji would be free to live the life she wanted (and stay safe from power plays within the Lan clan) as long as LXC had the Nie family behind her. Thus, LWJ was allowed to choose the subjects she studied after she came of age; and when she decided to pursue higher studies in music and weapons training instead of learning how to manage a household, QHJ didn't object.

By 21, Lan Wangji would have found it extremely difficult to fulfill any of the responsibilities of a gentry wife, so QHJ/LQR never considered marrying her off until Qin Su joined NMJ's harem as a concubine (signaling a loss of favor/power on Lan Xichen's part).

#asks #flowers in the palace #lan wangji #reference #part of the problem (re: lwj living the life she wants as an unmarried woman) #is that there are male heirs around who would refuse to respect lwj's leadership of the clan in future #and unlike say jiang yanli #lxc and lwj do not have a maternal family to back them up #because their mother was a wen princess who eloped with qingheng-jun and then went into seclusion for the next 16 years #so wrh wouldn't find out #and after lqr and qhj passed away lwj would have no one to protect her within the cr #luckily by the time madam lan died lxc was 14 and already pretty much spoken for re: marriage #so she had the assurance of future protection through her sister after losing her mother #and qhj rly didn't want to think about a backup plan for lwj bc he'd only need one if lxc or nmj died before their marriage could happen #and at the time nmj was the heir to a dukedom and part of a strictly monogamous family #so qhj figured that lxc would have all the power she needed as a) nmj's wife or b) his widow if he was killed in war #he was not counting on nmj overthrowing wrh and crowning himself emperor

[iamwestiec]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jiāng Yànlí & Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán & Jīn Zǐxuān, Jiāng Yànlí/Jīn Zǐxuān Characters: Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán, Jīn Zǐxuān, Jiāng Yànlí, Módào Zǔshī Ensemble Additional Tags: Trans Female Jīn Zǐxuān, Trans Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, alternate universe - United States, originally posted on twitter, Family Fluff, Coming Out, more than once, Support Trans Kids Series: Part 7 of Ephemera Recorded Summary:

When Jin Zixuan transitions, Jin Ling announces she's a girl too. Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli are supportive parents.

#jin ling #jin zixuan #jiang yanli #xuanli #trans jin zixuan #trans jin ling #supportive parenting #protect trans kids #mdzs modern au #westie writes

[wangxianficrecs]

Atlas by Folderol

Atlas

by Folderol

T, 2k, jiang yanli

Summary: “A-Ying, look at this!” she says brightly, and draws her fingertip down one of the long soup bones she’s set aside. They bleach white under her touch. His eyes widen and he scrambles off the stool, decorum forgotten. “Wow,” he breathes, his eyes wide. “Where did the blood go?” Jiang Yanli smiles helplessly and shakes her head. “I don’t know, I never thought about it,” she replies, a little ashamed. And what would be the point? You don’t win wars or found sects with what she can do. Sparkles for children and soup at the ready: all she does is the small, invisible magic of ease. A life in small magics.

Mojo's comments: Oh, this was lovely, I could read so much more! Jiang Yanli's small kitchen magics are beautiful, and hidden away out of shame.

Kay's comments: A lovely, short story! The author gave Jiang Yanli a birth name here and then also an explanation, why it was never used and I really loved that. My heart definitely hurts for Jiang Yanli in this.

pov jiang yanli, child neglect, cultivation disability, protective jiang yanli, kitchen magic, small magics, self-worth issues, one shot, canon compliant, the untamed canon

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#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #MDZS #Mojo's Rec #Kay's Rec #pov jiang yanli #child neglect #cultivation disability #protective jiang yanli #kitchen magic #small magics #self-worth issues #one shot #canon compliant #Atlas #Folderol #short fic <15k #Teen

[mispronouncing-michaelangelo]

idk something about wei wuxian giving his golden core to jiang cheng and then losing the ability to use his sword,,,, and then leaning into demonic cultivation and gaining wen ning as his blade but then letting him leave with lan sizhui,,,, idk just like, he loves so deeply

#ALSO SOMETHING TO BE SAID ABOUT HIM NEVER GIVING THESE THINGS TO YANLI #DISPITE HER BEING HIS MOST BELOVED FAMILY OF ALL #BECAUSE SHES HIS SHIJIE AND HE LOOKS TO HER FOR PROTECTION AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND #SHE FEEDS HIM AMD NESTS HIM AND HE FIGHTS FOR HER BUT HE DOESNT FEEL SHE NEEDS HIM TO HOLD HER AFLOAT #LIKE HE DOES FOR JIANG CHENG AND SIZHUI #AM I MAKING SENSE?????? #LIKE WHEN JIN ZIXUAN IS MAKING HIM SO SO MAD IN THE FOREST AND YANLI AND LAN ZHAN CALM HIM DOWN #BECAUSE THEY LOOK AFTER HIM #i just #i have thoughts and feelings about how the tools he uses to protect himself he passes on to others #and things like the flute he cant pass on because nobody can use it #and the jade pendant his sister gives him was a gift just for him #he learnt his love and care from his sister who gives it all wholeheartedly to those she can #shell feed her brothers before herself ya know??? #ya know????? #anyway #mdzs

[yourcrumblingsaikiisnotmyproblem]

here's a few reminders for the mxtx fandom

1. Wei Wuxian had 2 older sister figures in his life and they both died trying to save him and in the end failed since he died anyway. (RIP Wen Qing and Jiang Yanli)

2. Mu Qing only ever had his mom other than XL and FX and she died a mortal death. We don't know anything about FX's mortal family.

3. Wen Ning was experimented on for 13 years in captivity after seeing his sister's ashes and blames himself still for wwx's downfall

4. He Xuan cannot leave the world even after his revenge to Shi Wudu and is purposeless for all of his immortal life.

5. Jin Ling will never taste her mom's handmade favourite soup.

6. Canon Feng Xin and Mu Qing do not know what happened at the temple to Xie Lian.

7. Jiang Cheng will probably never be good enough in his own eyes (until he has like grand-nephews or something)

8. Shi Qingxuan will (probably) die a mortal death.

9. Some of Nie Huaisang's last words to Nie Mingjue were that he never wanted to be a clan leader.

10. XL and WWX both tried to protect a certain demographic that got wiped out anyway and made them public enemies and reason for their eventual downfall making it essentially ineffective.

11. All the calamities are actually gods who could or did ascend heaven.

12. Xiao Xingchen killed himself after finding out he wiped out villages full of innocent people and his own best friend who he gave up his eyes for. And realising his pursuit of helping the world was worthless.

#im sorry guys #i just couldnt get it out of my head #please dont come at me #mxtx #mxtx tgcf #mxtx mdzs #mdzs #tgcf #hualian #wangxian #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #jiang yanli #wen qing #wen ning #lan zhan #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #hua cheng #xie lian #mu qing #feng xin #shi qingxuan #he xuan #xiao xingchen #mo dao zu shi #tian guan ci fu #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #heaven official's blessing #founder of diabolism

[imafraidoftomorrow]

There's so many moments in MDZS that make my heart utterly clench and make me want to just burst into tears, either from deep sadness and despair, or from a profound sense of love...

- Wei Wuxian getting to see his beloved shijie in her wedding dress

- The beautiful gift he made for his sister's baby boy, only for it to then be so tragically destroyed

- How all he wanted was to go meet that little nephew of his; how he never even got to...

- Jiang-shushu's last goodbye to his sons

- Wen Qing's solemn "I'm sorry, and thank you."

- Everything that happened to Wen Ning. Just, everything.

- Lan Xichen's unconditional love and acceptance of every facet of his younger brother; the liquor, the rabbits, the lotus seed pods

- "What do you think about this one?" "Mine."

- Jiang Yanli's sacrifice for her dear A-Xian, loving and protecting him always, even till the end

- The silent desperation behind Lan Wangji's "Come back to Gusu with me" plea

- Xiao Xingchen's, Song Lan, and A-Qing's horrible deaths

- Granny Wen's corpse recognizing and reaching out for her grandson

- Wei Wuxian being demonized and scorned for taking the only cultivation path he could, while never saying a word to exonerate himself

- How he did literally everything in his life for others.

This story is heart-rendingly tragic and beautiful.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mxtx #mxtx mdzs #wei wuxian #mdzs wei wuxian #mdzs wei ying #yiling patriarch #mdzs wwx #lan wangji #wen ning #lan xichen #xiao xingchen #mdzs lan wangji #mdzs lan zhan #mdzs lwj #wangxian

[bi-turtle-enthusiast]

jiang yanli defended wei wuxian to anyone who dared to talk shit about him.

wei wuxian would rather say he died of natural causes than let wen ning think jiang cheng killed him.

jiang cheng was ready to make every excuse to the cultivation world for remaining associated with wei wuxian but wei wuxian wasn't going to let him be disgraced on his behalf.

jiang yanli traveled to the burial mounds herself just to give wei wuxian soup and show him her wedding dress.

jiang cheng kept chenqing in perfect condition.

jiang cheng hunted down every cultivator that could possibly be wei wuxian reincarnated but when wei wuxian got reincarnated he just let him go.

jiang yanli loved and protected both jiang cheng and wei wuxian in their broken family, making sure they stood up for each other instead of standing against each other.

jiang cheng would rather sacrifice his dogs and his golden than have to live without wei wuxian.

wei wuxian feels like he owes jiang cheng and jiang yanli his life, but they never wanted his life, they just wanted him.

#they love each other SO MUCH im sobbing #yunmeng siblings #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #jiang yanli #mdzs #the untamed