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angstymdzsthoughts · 2 years

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From my Discord, credit to nirejseki on Ao3 for the original idea and one of my Discord buddies for the song idea.

Building off my old fem!NHS idea, with fem!NHS married to LXC (and like, three kids in) after NMJ's death.

LXC, by sheer fucking luck, finds NMJ's head. Maybe he was visiting JGY, borrowed his room (and mirror) to fix his outfit after flying, and stumbled into his trophy room, idk. And being a fucking human rabbit, races to tell his wife, who after all has a right to know what happened to her brother's body.

Sits her down with tea and everything, arranges with LWJ to take the kids for the rest of the day, and gently breaks it to her, only for NHS to just respond with "I know."

"Did you know?" she asks, and he shakes his head frantically. No, no, he didn't. He wouldn't have desecrated da-ge's body like-

"I'm asking if you knew about the murder."

"What?! He died of a qi deviation-"

"-induced by a sabotaged Song of Clarity, spliced with the Song of Turmoil. We both know you have access to both texts. We both know you are more than capable of doing the splicing and da-ge would never have suspected you. The question is: did you?"

The problem is, LXC did, in fact, benefit enormously from marriage to NHS. In one marriage he became arguably the most powerful man in the cultivation world, by sheer territory and numbers of cultivators. And while NMJ probably would've been delighted if LXC married NHS, there wasn't really a fire under NHS's ass to marry until NMJ died. Many have done worse for less. We got means, motive, and method.

It takes a while, but eventually NHS is convinced that her husband had nothing to do with the murder. Huaisang quietly asking what he'll do about it and he reaches out to touch her cheek, smiling sweetly, that last bit of being truly hinged breaking at this betrayal. "I'm going to play him a song."

"Keep the children with you. We don't want them near."

People tend to forget that LXC served in the Sunshot Campaign. People tend to forget that he was an effective warrior who killed a lot of people, face-to-face, saw the light fade out of their eyes as he pulled Shuoyue from them and turned to cut down another. LXC is able to join JGY for a private meal, setting up his guqin - an instrument he was trained on, as a proper gentleman, but never really specialised in the way LWJ did - to play.

LXC playing the song of clarity at first and then the song of turmoil, precisely as JGY's composition did. JGY realises, very quickly, what is going on.

"You killed da-ge. You desecrated his body."

Fun fact, this kind of desecration was said to fuck up your reincarnation - it was vitally important that you be buried with all your pieces, or you'd be reborn disabled, and you can imagine how much fun that would be in Ye Olde Days China. This was to the extent that the eunuch-makers preserved and labelled the - bits - carefully. If the eunuch made it rich, time to ransom their own bits back so they can be buried with them.

Now LXC is dead-eyed, cold as his brother is supposed to be, his hands steady and unerring on the guqin. "We are all sworn brothers, but I am also his brother-in-law. It is my duty to avenge him."

It's a bit late by then, for JGY to do anything. LXC is a much, much more skilled musical cultivator. He's been weaving in those bits from the start, and once it's all revealed - he has a lot more power to make an end of it.

Ohhhh I really like this one! I always like LXC being cold and deadly!

#MDZS #nie huaisang #lan xichen #jin guangyao #Gender Switch #character death #nie mingjue

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