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catmaid-san · 1 year
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I really want to laugh looking at authors who wrote Post Marriage WangXian fanfic, and wrote a scenario where Wei Wuxian feel guilty and responsible after YinHufu was recreated by others to create incident again.
Really, dude?? Look at Wei Wuxian in canon!! Does he ever take the blame for the victims caused by Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang's recreation of YinHufu? Does he ever take the blame for those things He didn't do??
Go back and read the novel!!
Wei Wuxian has said it clearly: He has paid the mistakes He did in the past life by his death. He remembered every things He did but He refuses to take the blame of things he didn't do!!
He said it so clearly in the second siege of Burial Mound!
Wei Wuxian would never feel guilty or take the blame for others who maliciously use or recreate his past invention or technique!
Wei Wuxian would never feel it was his fault that someone else use demonic cultivation for crime!
The fact that Wei Wuxian introduced the new cultivation path or create artifacts does not mean he should be responsible for others who misappropriated his Path!
....Or do you think that the founder of Spiritual Cultivation should take the blame for the Wen Clan and LanlingJin clan who used their identity as cultivators to do evil??
... Or do you think that Gusulan ancestor who saved the evil song from Dongyin was responsible because Jin Guangyao used the song to kill Nie Mingjue afterward??
Don't make me laugh.
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wangxian-on-repeat · 2 years
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Lan Wangji: you look unwell, are you alright
Wei Wuxian: sorry the demon in my head is giving me ominous warnings again
Stygian Tiger Seal: enjoy this while it lasts buddy boy
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poorlittleyaoyao · 7 months
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DONGHUA LXC REPLACES HIS SWORN BROTHERHOOD IMMEDIATELY WITH JIN LING (13) AND NIE HUAISANG (USED HIM TO MURDER BY PROXY)???? DONGHUA LXC, WHAT??
Okay, so 1.) the donghua is not my jam so I've only watched a couple of episodes, so I am a poor source of information, and 2.) TECHNICALLY that is not what happens, but it's also not NOT what happens.
Basically, we get an ending montage about how everyone who isn't Wangxian is having the worst time (but that's fine because Wangxian are the only ones who matter!), and we see Jin Ling, Nie Huaisang, and Lan Xichen recreating 3zun's brotherhood oath tableau at the coffin-sealing ceremony.
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Which I don't hate on its own, honestly! Immediately after this, the trio separates as a Voiceover Of Busybody Public Opinion speculates on the precarious position of Jin Ling/the Jin Clan itself (as Jin Ling himself bursts into tears upon being given Jiang Cheng's clarity bell)*, tells us LXC "needs some time to recover" (as LXC looks sad and sighs), and remarks how what a great job NHS did overseeing the ceremony (as NHS stands before the monument looking grimly satisfied).
So I think it's meant as "wow look at this fucked-up successor to the Venerated Triad" rather than something positive for anyone involved, but like. The fact that LXC is there at ALL, placidly following the lead of the guy who tricked him into murder, is... a pretty intense fumbling of the character? Even if he has zero regrets about killing JGY (a weird choice but, given that JGY tries to do an MCU villain skybeam at the temple IIRC, not fully incompatible with this canon), he's still going to feel fucked up about failing NMJ, grieve the MY that he once knew, and have zero faith in his own judgment. He's not going to be out here doing sect leader shit just a few days (days! the subs say so!) after all the temple shit goes down. It's weird! I don't like it!
*The choice to place the core reveal after the temple and have JC go into seclusion because of it is, IMO, a worse adaptation choice than literally anything in CQL on so many levels, and it has the unintended side-effect of making Donghua WWX the biggest douchebag of all time. With QS and JGY both dead and JC in seclusion, WWX is the only family Jin Ling has left in donghua canon. And yet! Donghua WWX abandons his 13-year-old nephew (who must now unpack his brand-new trauma and navigate political chaos with NO SUPPORT NETWORK WHATSOEVER BESIDES HIS THERAPY DOG) and skips merrily off into the sunset with LWJ without a second thought. Uncle of all time, truly~
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mikkeneko · 11 months
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just remembering a while back (can no longer recall the context) when someone was complaining about translating yinhufu as the Stygian Tiger Seal because 'stygian' is an archaic Greek word not used in english. and I was like wdym. I use stygian all the time
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ann-mauriii · 1 year
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My take on Yiling Laozu. I mixed his looks from donghua and cql. The pattern on his robe are from Stygian Tiger Seal
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tinyshoopuf · 8 months
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i was trying to figure out how to caption this but all I can think about is how the way I drew the Stygian Tiger Seal looks like 2 halves of a donut
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wutheringskies · 8 months
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everyone is like: if wei wuxian told everyone he gave his core to Jiang Cheng, all of this wouldn't have happened!
me: if he told jiang cheng, it would be WORSE.
consider these points:
Jiang Cheng was a newly appointed sect leader, hell-bent on revenge, finally surpassing others. He would emotionally break if he finds out it's all because of Wei Wuxian's core. He wouldn't want to lose it; but Wei Wuxian holding that over his head will make it terrible for him; rage, tantrums; in that war-time would have literally robbed him of his senses.
This is a war. If some people find out Wei Wuxian doesn't have a core, what's stopping the enemy from finding out? Even so, there would be people who wish to kill the ever-powerful son of a servant. The hundreds-hole curse could only succeed because Jin Zixun had low cultivation. Think of how many enemies (Wens, and the others) Wei Wuxian had. They don't dare curse him because 1) they believe he has superior cultivation and 2) if he comes for revenge with his stygian tiger seal and chenqing, it simply wouldn't be worth it. So, high risk and low reward. but in actuality, if someone did curse him, without a core to cleanse him, it would be fatal!
As the "son of a servant" and "wielder of immense power," his place in the cultivation world was already unstable. If they find out he doesn't even have a core, he cannot stay in the cultivation world! If he leaves, then there's no protection guaranteed for him from those who wish to claim his power anyway!
Literally, the only ones who would genuinely care would be Lan Wangji and Jiang Yanli. And what could they do? Lan Xichen would be sympathetic, but when has sympathy saved lives when there's no follow-up action? Nie Mingjue would commend his sacrifice, but will he save the Wens? Nope. Nobody would magically go like, "oh, let us help wei wuxian who doesn't have a core tragically."
Among the general public, would anyone look at it as anything other than a grand sacrifice for his superior? "Wei Wuxian is really loyal," and when he saves the Wens, it would go down the path of, "Can't believe he betrayed the Jiang Clan."
The only one who wished to know the why's and the how's and the reasoning behind it all was Lan Wangji. Lan Wangji, who would try his utter best; but Wei Wuxian himself was so powerful. Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan were powerful. Wen Qing and Wen Ning were also powerful. All the righteous people had tragic ends - if Lan Wangji was allowed to know, he would push harder at Wei Ying. But will Wei Ying accept it? Will he feel a certain disregard of respect? A lack of trust from Lan Wangji because they dont have the fundamentals down?How can it magically make things alright, when their issues go deeper than Wei Wuxian being on an "unorthodox path"? So, who's to say, even if Lan Wangji realized it all, somehow forced himself into Wei Wuxian's space when Wei Wuxian did not want it with some OOC syndrome, but even then what can he do? In the end, rather than just one, both would die. The odds are bad when it's 1 vs 3000, but is it much better if it's 2 vs 3000?
Wei Wuxian's arrogance protected the secret that would've signed him out of the war, out of the cultivation world. The fear people had for him protected him. Even after his death, they only noticed the annihilation of minor clans because "oh no yllz is here to take revenge!" If he acted weak and approachable and sad, just how few would hold true empathy compared to all the many that would see an opportunity to strike? Whoever wields power, speaks out, and is from an unproveleged background yet sitting among the gentry is already an outcast.
The only way he wouldn't have died were if he were someone who bowed to servitude, if he kept quiet, if he counted his losses and gains like Jin Guangyao. Will this harm me? Yes. So I cannot do it.
That's not Wei Wuxian.
"Let gains and losses remain uncommented upon." If the whole world wishes to kill innocents to satiate their own hatred then the whole world is wrong, and he won't stand up for it - whether or not, he has a romantic relationship with Lan Wangji early, or if he's actual siblings with the Jiangs (like actually adopted.)
Whether he wields a sword or his flute or nothing at all; whether he's loved or hated, he is bound to be resented by those who are hypocrites. The loss of his golden core won't shake them with empathy, but mockery not just towards him, but towards Jiang Wanyin as well.
"Congratulations, Jiang Cheng, for killing the man who killed your entire family (false, but you know) and was unrighteous!"
"But isn't the Jiang Clan only alive because of Wei Wuxian's core?"
"Jiang Wanyin is such a loser; he took his servant's core."
That would be a fucking literal nightmare. That is why, Wei Wuxian doesn't say a word or whine or cry. He probably thought he could wait until Jiang clan is in a better spot and tell only Jiang Cheng, but by then, he'd already been caught up in the Wen's situation.
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qquasars · 11 months
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honestly from a guy naming his sword “Whatever” i kind of expected him to carry on naming his stuff things like “idk” “absmskssk.jpg” where is this “stygian tiger seal” coming from
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fengshenjunlang · 1 year
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I have seen that post about how WangXian owe their happiness to Nie Huaisang.
Okay, I don't know how people even come into such conclusion, but it is very clear that between WangXian and Nie Huaisang, it is a win-win situation. If anything, it is even more beneficial to Nie Huaisang.
1. NHS knew where did NMJ's body parts got thrown into. But he needs someone, to uncover the case.
Someone with considerable status and weight in their action and words. That someone is Hanguang-Jun. NHS must be betting that between JGY and LWJ, Lan Xichen would listen to his blood related brother more. Or even in the worst case where LXC was caught too deep in the lies woven by JGY, there are still Lan Qiren and other Gusulan member who would definitely chose to support their own kin Lan Wangji over the outsider, JGY (when things got worse).
2. However, just to uncover the case is not enough. He needs to completely overthrow JGY. And to achieve that smoothly, Nie Huaisang needs cover. Desperately needs someone who can cover the sky and the ground, and make him completely invisible.
That person can only be Wei Wuxian. WWX is like a bright light bulb, whenever WWX appears moths gathers. Whenever WWX appears he would always be the center of attention. It has always been the case. The reason why NHS chose to revive WWX was not only to add more manpower to fight against LanlingJin who has Xue Yang and Stygian Tiger Seal, or help to quell NMJ's transformed ghoul, but also to make WWX attract all the firepower and attention.
To put it simply, WWX is there to attract aggro from the monsters in a game! LOL
So when WWX is there, NHS can leisurely hide in the shades, leisurely pull the string, until the end of the orchestra. And that is really how it went on, in MDZS.
Why did NHS need cover? Naturally to hide from JGY and from the rest of cultivation sects, so that they won't meddle and ruin all his plan. WangXian knew from the early investigation that there are 2 parties who wanted to hide and wanted to uncover. So, how could JGY not notice such thing when he heard Hanguang-Jun is investigating NMJ body parts?
However, when there is WWX who attract all attention, JGY will have no time to think about the mastermind and focus on how to quickly reclaimed NMJ body parts, Xue Yang, Wen Ning, Yi City, and Stygian Tiger Seal. And that is how it did in MDZS. JGY was suddenly poured so much trouble in just 1-2 months of WWX's revival that he has no time to properly sort out the real enemy. He will focus more on how to lie toward LXC about the body parts, how to throw the blame into WWX, how to arrange things etc. But will have no time to investigate the mastermind behind.
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Just like how WWX understands that NHS is not the pustule waste everyone mocks him as, but someone whose intelligence was put on something else, based on his observation during the 3 months of their acquaintance,
NHS also understands that WWX is someone who is destined to be the center of the room whenever he appears, based on WWX's personality and ability. This person will definitely gain his own place, and attract all attention wherever and whenever.
During their youth it is has been so. During the Qishan Education and Xuanwu cave it was also like that. During the war it was especially so. And even during his retreat as Yiling Laozu it was still like that. And finally even dying he has always been the center of attention. Lol.
NHS knew that perfectly. WWX is destined to gather all eyes on him and leave no space for others to be noticed😂 and that is why NHS chose him as the best cover.
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thatswhatsushesaid · 11 months
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Why didn't Su She just grab JGY and teleport out of the temple? Was his cultivation level really low? Did he need a recharge??
it's funny you should send me this ask, anon, since it does form the basic premise of a fic I am working on (kind of).
sms's cultivation level and martial arts skills are quite good! before uncovering his identity as the mystery swordsman responsible for absconding with xue yang's body and, presumably, the stygian tiger tally, wwx is impressed by his techniques and capabilities. during the second siege of the burial mounds, sms is the one who leads his moling su disciples in performing the altered song of vanquishing to seal the spiritual energies of everyone else present at the siege--and, once he is found out, he makes use of a teleportation talisman to escape (abandoning his own disciples in the process after tricking them--not a good look, minshan). he's using these talents towards a terrible purpose in this moment, of course, but this speaks to someone who does have a strong cultivation base; his own guqin isn't named in the text, but it is described as a first class spiritual tool comparable to lan wangji's. just because he isn't lan wangji, lan xichen or nie mingjue doesn't mean he isn't a strong cultivator! he's just not a cultivation prodigy.
(though, as an aside, it takes a different kind of gumption and courage to go from being exiled from your sect and branded a coward, to establishing your own sect in mdzs's jianghu.)
so, bearing in mind that he did just exert a considerable amount of that energy during the second burial mounds siege, I do think he was 'running low,' as it were, and didn't have much left in the tank. that said, I do think it's possible that minshan could have made use of a teleportation talisman for both himself and jgy, just because of how much spiritual power he pours into nanping [edit: not nanping!! i forgot that lwj already shattered nanping earlier in the confrontation. so this is a different sword, but i think my point still stands] in his final attack on nmj moments before his death. I am glad that this moment was included in the donghua and very sad it was changed in cql:
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(highlighting that short paragraph up top just to indicate the short-sightedness of huaisang's revenge vision quest here. nmj's fierce corpse is a danger to everyone in this confrontation, not just jgy; moments earlier, he'd not only lunged towards both jin ling and jiang cheng, but even towards lan xichen and huaisang himself.)
I love this paragraph; I love that in this moment, minshan's martial prowess and his strong cultivation base get to shine, because he is a character who has gone through the entire novel belittled and mocked and denigrated by everyone around him because of his cowardice, his inconsistent control over his spiritual abilities, and his decades-long grudge against the gusu lan (and lan wangji specifically). all of that remains true, and in this moment, he is incandescent and capable and putting every scrap of remaining power that he has into this attempt to strike down nmj and protect jgy. it's beautifully and vividly written and demonstrates just how unwavering his devotion is to the only person in the text to consistently treat him with respect and dignity.
that said--
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the moment of his death unfortunately encapsulates his achilles' heel, both as a character and as a cultivator, imo. minshan's problem isn't that he has a weak spiritual core and weak martial arts: it's that he is impulsive and prone to extremely poor judgment in the heat of the moment (case in point: he curses jin zixun for the unforgivable crime of... wounding his pride. I mean, I too think jzn is a cunt, but like, come on minshan). he pours so much dazzling spiritual power into his sword that it shatters, rendering him defenceless in the face of nmj's attack.
imo this is a pivotal moment in the final confrontation in the guanyin temple where both sms and jgy could have escaped exactly as you suggest, anon. if sms has enough spiritual power remaining to accidentally shatter his sword, he probably has enough spiritual power to activate a teleportation talisman (either while nmj is still staring at the empty coffin or after forcing him back with that initial sword thrust) and escape through it with jgy in tow. but he didn't, because that isn't the judgment call he made in the moment.
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fianne-0123 · 3 months
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Lan Xichen giving advice : Do not pursue homoerotic friendships; He deceived everyone around him, killed my best friend, manipulated me, stole sect secrets, stole the stygian tiger seal, exploited it & basically unleashed chaos to the world.
The Lan disciples : zewu .. jun?
Lan Xichen, calm as ever, sips tea : Yes?
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ntnttalksnothing · 1 year
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I know it was for important sealing reasons, but I thought it was funny when my mom (who was watching Cql for the first time) went “bUT WAIT THE TIGER THING IS NOT HIS ARE WE JUST GOING TO STICK IT INTO THE COFFIN WITH HIM????” when Wwx threw the Stygian Tiger Amulet in along with Baxia. 
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mxtxfanatic · 11 months
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If you don't mind answering, if you have the knowledge. Can you clarify something for me. I saw someone say that Wei Wuxian came back not quite human and that is why low level walking corpses are scared of him. I also saw someone post that he holds resentment energy in his body, which I think is incorrect but I am unsure.
Could you weigh in with your knowledge. Please and thank you 😊🙏!
I don’t mind at all! Those things you mentioned are popular fanon (which can be interesting if you want injected angst), but canon directly disproves these. Wei Wuxian came back a whole person with nothing denoting that there’s anything “not quite human” about him. Low-level corpses fear him because they do not have enough resentment to have the capability or desire to act as the weapons he needs, and this is something he knew about his cultivation from his first life. We are explicitly told this during the Mo Manor Arc:
He usually didn’t need complex incantations to control these corpse puppets—a straightforward command would do as well. The walking corpses in front of him moved a few quivering steps. But, as they approached Wei WuXian, their legs grew weak and they collapsed onto the ground, as if they were real humans.
Wei WuXian found it both funny and annoying. He clapped his hands again, this time lighter. However, these walking corpses were probably born in Mo Village and died here as well, not having experienced life fully. They instinctively followed the summoner’s commands, but were also horrified at the summoner, lying on the ground and afraid to get up.
The crueler the being was, the better Wei WuXian could control it. These walking corpses hadn’t been trained by him and couldn’t withstand direct manipulations from him. He didn’t have any materials on him, which meant that he couldn’t immediately make tools to ease the walking corpses. He couldn’t even muddle and assemble bits and pieces.
—Chapt. 5: Aggression, exr
…but this isn’t the only place in the story this is mentioned.
As for the other point: no Wei Wuxian does not hold resentful energy in his body; that is literally the antithesis to the core of his character—“letting go of resentments.” If he was capable of holding onto resentment and harnessing it as energy for his cultivation, he would have had no use for the Stygian tiger seal or the blood pool to imbue resentful energy into non-fierce-level corpses. In fact, if he could hold resentful energy in his own body, low-level corpses wouldn’t even have the chance to run from him if he truly needed their services. He could just turn them violent enough to become mindless killing machines.
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mdzs-fics · 4 months
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Just as the Snow Melts by draechaeli
Canon Divergence 4 chapters 66k words
There was a sudden shout of, “Rich-die!” and then a weight slammed into Lan WangJi’s leg.
There was a laugh—not Wei WuXian’s laugh—from the door, Lan WangJi turned and saw that there were a couple elderly people standing in the door as children filed into the room. Lan WangJi bowed to the elderly people in the door and then one little old lady said, “Is that why you call Xian-gege, Xian-die? Because you have two fathers?”
Lan WangJi’s ears turned red and the elderly people laughed. At the end of the line of children Wei WuXian entered the building. “Lan Zhan what are you doing here?”
“So we finally know little A-Yuan’s honourable surname, Lan Yuan is a good name,” said one of the Grannies.
It took Wei WuXian a moment to realise that it was A-Yuan’s grandmother; she smiled and winked at Wei WuXian. But no one else seemed to realise which of the grannies had spoken so they all tittered about how handsome Xian-gege’s husband was. Wei WuXian looked worried at A-Yuan, wondering how he would react, but the boy seemed to only have eyes for his Rich-gege.
Before he could say anything A-Yuan yelled, “To see us Xian-die! Right Rich-die?”
“Yes,” said Lan WangJi and he scooped the boy up in his arms and then added, “I have a message for your Xian-die as well. Perhaps we could go for a meal?”
Just as the Snow Melts begins on a warm almost spring day when Wen Qing orders a depressed Wei Wuxian to Yiling to spend time with A-Yuan by the river. It turns into so much more, as the Wen and Wei WuXian slowly merge into life in Yiling, leaving the Burial Mounds to the dead.
This is a sweet story of Xian-gege, teacher of children by the river, and the people who know and love him.
An accidental free school is founded in Yiling. Because of his new responsibilities with the dispersed Wen and the many young children he teaches, Xian-gege decides he cannot attend the 30 day celebration of his nephew, Jin Ling. The events beginning with the ambush at Qiongqi Pass do not occur, at least not in the well worn paths of canon.
The story unfolds differently, and includes the destruction of the Stygian Tiger Seal and its aftermath - the sun over Yiling is blotted out by hundreds of cultivators dressed in gold, the Yiling Laozu is declared dead, defeated by the Jin.
Life goes on, with Lan Wangji and Wen Yuan (now Lan Yuan) and a host of other canon characters making appearances now and then.
The story continues through the years leading past a sacrificial array meant to bring back the Yiling Laozu and into a final Discussion Conference in Yungmeng.
To my mind, this is an entirely satisfying canon divergence, complete with relative happiness throughout the story, not just at the end.
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trans-xianxian · 5 months
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thinking about how uuhm at nevernight wei wuxian had waited until everyone was distracted by the stygian tiger seal to step off the cliff how he wanted to die with no audience to judge his performance how he tried to go quietly with nobody watching
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wangxianficrecs · 5 months
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Follower Recs
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A story where Jin Zixuan is arranged to marry WWX because Jin Guangshan want the stygian tiger seal. WWX and LWJ vagually knows they want each other but choose duties over love. I already cursing Jin Guangshan in the novel, reading this make me more colorfull when cursing him
💙 watch what we'll become
by glitteringmoonlight (@glitteringmoonlight)
Mojo's Rec
T, 59k, Wangxian
Summary: To get his hands on the Yin Tiger Seal, Jin Guangshan decides to make Wei Wuxian part of the Lanling Jin sect through marriage to his son and heir. Exactly nobody is happy about this.
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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)
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