#wwx wishes it would be xiancheng

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another mdzs plot bunny..... accidental chengxian post Sunshot

ok, last thing before I go to sleep :D

As the title says, it's after sunshot campaign and we are focusing on Yunmeng where Jiangs & wwx focus on rebuiling.

Or jiangs are focusing and wwx is getting more and more drunk while fighting mental demons (depression, jc's hot, not wanting to disappoint jc and jyl, not dealing with not having a core, etc. you choose).

How chengxian starts doesn't matter here really. Maybe it was one of the many times jc was dragging wwx's from another inn, maybe he was fighting with him over wwx doing nothing to help (while being worried for him). Maybe it was another time where he wwx let him scream at him, because what could he do? When he was feeling guilty, but couldn't do as much as before and especially what was asked of him now? And how could he make jc feel better?

So it was another fight as usual, but as it happens in fiction where there's a lot of alcohol, emotions and denied romantic/sexual intentions mixed in the air... they end up fucking.

Or more officially, sect leader jiang straightened his second in command wei wuxian. Officially.

But that's just beginning.

During the next few days, jc observed very important thing: wwx looked kinda better. He probably wouldn't look as healthy and happy as he was before the war and it would take time before there would be significant progress - but it was still progress.

And it looked like more progress than one dicking and sharing about their love to each other could achive.

But jc started thinking - what was that happened wwx the most? Was this sex in general? Sex with him in particular or (gods forbid) them talking about their feelings? Clearly it needed more observing.

At some point jc figured that there was something wrong with wwx's core - they weren't focusing on dual cultivating (what for?), just having sex, yet it often felt/looked like wwx's broken core was siphoning his energy without wwx realizing?

Well, wwx wasn't saying anything (was he even aware?), but when jc wanted to talk about his core, wwx always changed the subject. At least he looked better after sex, so if jc focused on the best way to give him energy then maybe it would somehow end good in the end.

After all, war was over, his siblings were aiive, he was rebuilding Lotus Pier and it seemed like they had a way to heal (oh yeah, and wwx and he finally admitted their feelings, that) :>

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On the other hand wwx still can't believe that jc wants him. Don't get him wrong his very happy with the arrangment and maybe the following days in overall doesn't seem to worsen.

Now, if only jc wouldn't be so insistent about how they are fucking and let him top once a while, he would be golden.

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or I'm thinking again about wwx and jc sharing a core and other core fuckery.

#chengxian #wwx wishes it would be xiancheng #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #ok going to sleep now :< #why I have to wake up at 5am

[birbfeedersart]

until now i've never even considered xiancheng as a ship?? like, i feel as though wwx's love for jc is an integral part of his character, and i do wish they'd had a better resolution in both mdzs & cql (unless something happened in the extras?? never got a chance to read them 😅) and tbh i am quite fond of both of their characters, but it never occurred to me to ship them. even with the golden core transfer. bc i would absolutely dig out my solidified soulstuff and give it to my little sister if she needed it. it's not even a question, i wouldn't give it a second thought. as an act of brotherly love the golden core transfer makes perfect sense to me. my sister, like jc, has the sort of personality where if she's got no ''''natural talent'''' she thinks she's not good enough, so she gives up. i've......never really been like that?? not being good at things has never actually STOPPED me from doing things. maybe i wouldn't perform for strangers, but i wouldn't stop. so i wouldn't feel the loss of it as much--or if i did, at least i could handle it better. i'd still be all right. i'd find a way. i always do.

however. the inherent romanticism of it. as a romance trope it is. yes yes very good. i like it. i like that. a lot. and ofc the old trope of shixiong/shidi (woh/shl my beloved!!) is also very welcome to me. perhaps if xiancheng had been endgame, maybe i would have liked mdzs/cql better?? idk, i'm not even sure why i don't like it as much as i'd hoped i would... 😩

#it's not bc i don't like lwj!! he's a good character himself #and seems like a nice fellow besides!! #it's just... i really don't like the lan sect tbh #the cloud recesses is just....awful. #all those rules....it's kind of nauseating to me #it's just so restrictive #and when i think of a free spirit like wwx spending all his time there #being stifled #i just...! ugh. no. do not want. i know he's not really imprisoned there or anything #but even if he IS allowed to be himself.....nobody else is. THEY still have to follow all the rules. THEY are still stifled. and being urse #urself around someone who can't is just so awkward #i used to know someone like that as a kid #i used to feel so guilty #that i could just be and she couldn't. bc she was chained by her strict parents #even when they weren't around. idk maybe my parents let me run too wild?? i might be the problem!! i have a real distaste for authority! i #i am a hooligan!! a ne'er do well!! #none of the cloud recesses stuff is actually lwj's fault anyway #i think i just resent the fact that it seems like he LIKES it. and that just??? does not compute??? #i have a harder time identifying with him than with some of the other characters #i really don't dislike him!! or lxc for that matter!! #i just think the cloud recesses is fecking lame #lotus pier is so much cooler #birb says #fandom meta #xiancheng #mdzs/cql i WANT TO LOVE U #but i just.....can't?? ;A; #i'm sorry ;A; #ok ok i REALLLLYYY need to get back to drawing #i'm colouring it now it's nearly done

[burntheupholstery]

(1 of 2) I like how the author chalked up Jiang Cheng. In midst of God like characters of Lan Wanji and his lover, the selfless Yiling Patriach, you kinda always look out for the more humane personas. JC is that guy. He is jealous of his friend but he also cares about him. He would rather his friend not bug him but be pissed when he goes over to bug the pretty dude more.

2 of 2 It might not be said overly obvious, but there is something JC has for WWX that is more complicated than familiar love and less graphic than whatever LWJ and WWX have going on( or is less sticky? Sorry WangXian is so hot, I could not help it). JC is truly a hero of his own story too. I have my own headcanon where WWX and JC make up and JC and LWJ have this on going jealous competition for bb Wei. The ultimate incest bro vs Perverted Husband🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh, definitely.

My lit-addled brain goes immediately to the idea of ‘godhood vs the human condition’ — y’know, the whole idea of presenting a god-like, perfect figure/character in literature only to deconstruct the myth and show their innate flaws aka their humanity, thereby humanizing them and breaking the myth and in that process showing we’re all the same, the human condition is universal, etc. etc. — but I don’t think that’s the right way to approach a piece of modern chinese literature, since that reading is, I suspect, a rather English-Lit-101 way of looking at things.

These immortals aren’t gods, either, not in the Western sense. So I’m misguided, I’m sure.

That said.

I think MXTX set out with the intention to make LWJ a literal god among gods, the man who is perfect and flawless even off the pedestal everyone puts him on, maybe save some kinky inclinations in the bedroom. And a surprisingly teenage-like tenacity in chasing after his senpai.

As for WWX… I got the impression post-reading that MXTX was trying to go for the flawed-god with him. She succeeded, I suppose?

Anyhow. Among these gaggle of god-people, Jiang Cheng does indeed stand out, not just because of how the narrative portrayed him. His temper is a big, glaring flaw. This relates him to us; and here is where I go into mild bashing-the-novel mode: Jiang Cheng single-handedly rebuilt the Jiang Sect, for 13 years.

By himself. Alone. With a child to care for (Jin Ling), no disciples to help him, no parents to guide him, and a smoldering Pier as his base. 

And he still, still, scrounged up the supplies to lead that siege. That’s why my running theory is that JC didn’t want to kill Lao-Zu!WWX, he wanted to catch him and bring him back and beat some sense into him

Fuck yeah he’s the hero of his own story.

And he’s, oh god, such a classic tsundere in his teenage years it makes me laugh so hard he’s so goddamn adorable.

Yes to the low-key jealousy. So much yes.

It also feeds into my xiancheng hcs, so. Actually in my head Jiang Cheng doesn’t know if he wants to punch Wei Ying or kiss him and isn’t that the best kind of love ok I’ll shut up now

Anon, the relationship between WWX and JC is so complicated. It’s so tangled. You have no— you’ll get the idea soon. There’s literally no way to sort it out. No way.

I love your headcanon, and man I wish I was optimistic enough to think that.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #ramble shamble #anonymous #i suck at tagging honestly why do i try #also this is lowkey xiancheng #i love this pairing so much you guys #so #so much