History Fanfic / AndIWillBurnForYou

* ChainsOfCommanding: A lot of Jiang Cheng's difficulties come from his choice to prioritize his duty to Yunmeng over his family, especially Wei Wuxian. He also keeps reminding Jin Ling to remember his own duty as sect leader, no matter how much Jin Ling wants to be there for him while he’s struggling, and sends him away from Lotus Pier twice.
** CharacterDevelopment: Jin Ling voluntarily brings up returning to Lanling in the last chapter, something he hasn’t done the whole time. This shows that he's growing into his role as Sect Leader Jin.

* ConversationWithTheUnconscious: A few times, Jin Ling or Wei Wuxian speak to a sleeping Jiang Cheng.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The "blessing" by the river spirit is a pretty thinly veiled metaphor for sexual assault, between the experience itself and the resulting pregnancy. Which would make it the ''third'' one JC experiences. Poor thing.

''And I Will Burn For You'' is a [[SeriesFic Series of Fics]] by Not_Rude_Ginger based on ''Series/TheUntamed''. They center Jiang Cheng, his leadership of the Jiang Sect, and the sacrifices he has had to make through the years to lead it. It can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2928576 here]].

ScreamingBirth: not as intense as some others, and less of constant screaming, but JC does cry out a few times. Justified, as he’s disoriented, being cut open and then hemorrhages.
ScrewDestiny: The water spirit seems to foretell JC’s death by childbirth. It doesn’t come to pass, largely because of his own determination not to die.
ShipTease: By “The Shadow Lingers” LXC has apparently written JC 20 times in six months, mostly personal letters. JC doesn’t seem to want to talk about it with JSH or WWX, who both tease him gently over it.
SongFic: A few chapters feature song lyrics.
StrongFamilyResemblance: JL is said to very strongly resemble his uncle now that he’s grown up a bit more. Though he’s a bit taller! Kedou, as a baby, also looks a lot like his father.
SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Jiang Cheng and his child survive “For What”. JC is left with PTSD, though.
SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Gao Changying, Jiang Cheng’s spymaster, obfuscates her true, calculating identity with a harmless persona interested only in trifles and is often noted to be carrying a fan. Sound familiar?
Bai Renci, a sharp-tongued female doctor with a preference for needles and a closeness with JC, is also a major character. Author’s notes from a scene where JC is nearly unconscious suggests that, at least subconsciously, she reminds him of WQ.
TraumaCongaLine: JC’s been put through an even worse one than canon thanks to two horrific rapes when he was young, WWX’s giving his golden core treated as a similar violation, and then a river spirit’s “gift” as yet another violation of his autonomy.
UnbrokenVigil: JL and WWX hold these over JC a few times during the fic, including after his fight to restrain the cloud and after he nearly bleeds out.
WackyCravings: JC’s search for strange food late at night in the kitchen gets granny Meihua suspicious. It apparently runs in the family, with YZY also seeking out strange foods during her pregnancies. Over the course of the fic we see him eat a strange noodle dish and develop a taste for durians.
WellDoneSonGuy: JC’s last thought when bleeding out after having delivered his son is wondering if his father is finally proud of him.
WhamLine: It’s not a monster.

HonorBeforeReason: Bai Renci respects her patient’s unwillingness to have his condition discussed with other doctors even if that would save him. JC himself refuses to ask WN for WQ’s notes.
HypocriticalHumor: JC yells at the juniors for fighting without cores…despite fighting while pregnant.
I’mCold: One of the things JC says when bleeding out is that “I’m Cold”. For obvious reasons, this /terrifies/ WWX and JL.
InfantImmortality: Well, fetus immortality. JC channels a shitton of spiritual energy through himself to dispel the cloud, something he expects could hurt or kill the baby he’s carrying. Said baby is no worse for wear, and when he’s born has no ill effects
InnocentlyInsensitive: Jiang Li, a very young girl, lets JC know that he’ll do better next time after seeing how little Kedou is and how hard it was on both him and JC. Given the awful, traumatic circumstances of carrying his child (and the fact that, unless they find another river spirit, he’s not biologically going to be able to!), it bothers him.
InsistentTerminology: soon after they discover that JC is carrying a baby and not possessed by some sort of parasite/spirit, JC mostly refers to it as “the heir”. WWX calls him on it at one point. By Chapter 21, though, he does think of it as a baby a couple of times, and by chapter 22 it’s consistently “the baby” in his head instead. He thinks of it as the baby or even as his son for the rest of the pregnancy.
In “The Shadow Lingers”, Jiang Cheng is trying to get his son to call him “Jiujiu” instead of diedie.
IntimateHairBrushing: JC gets his hair combed by JL to calm him down at one point.
ItHasBeenAnHonor: Before JC takes on all the spiritual power he needs to destroy the Shengyuan cloud, a process which in-story is treated as a probable death sentence, he speaks to several people around him like this, especially LSZ
LapPillow: While breaking down in the bell grove, WWX ends up curled up with his head in JC’s lap as the latter sings to him to settle him down. JL also sits with his head in his lap at one point after having an emotional conversation about not wanting to be alone.
LikeASonToMe: JL to JC. Especially prominent in “The Shadow Lingers”, where JL isn’t even present but JC is clearly having a flashback.
LoopholeAbuse: JC signed a contract to never marry or sire children. It never said anything about ‘’bearing’’ a child on his own. Not that he’d normally be capable of doing so.
ManlyTears: It’s a fic about WWX and JC. Of course there’s going to be a lot of this. WWX in particular absolutely ‘’bawls’’ while finding out all the horrible things his brother’s gone through while doing empathy.
MeaningfulName: JC’s been apparently thinking of “Kedou”, or “tadpole”, for the baby. He names him because his first movements felt like wiggles of a tadpole, but JC also loves frogs. Awwww.
MrSeahorse: JC was “blessed” by a river spirit so that he could have an heir. In a horrifying deconstruction of this trope, it’s initially mistaken for a demonic possession of some sort due to the baby’s kicking causing internal bleeding on a regular basis (due to JC not having a womb), the angry feelings around what’s going on and fear that his core is out of his control cause qi-deviations, and the river spirit not appearing to give him any sort of way to birth it naturally means he and everyone else treat it as a death sentence.
MysticalPregnancy: The one at the center of the fic is one of these, caused by a river spirit. The baby is carried within JC’s golden core rather than a womb (seeing as he doesn’t really have one).
NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted in that some of the female disciples discuss cycles and how bad Gusu Lan are at dealing with it. It was apparently bad enough that one of LWJ’s distant cousins defected to Yunmeng!
NumberTwo: Jiang Shouhai, JC’s cousin.
ObfuscatingStupidity: Gao Changying.
OffscreenMoment: LXC cleanses the River spirit.
ParentalSubstitute: JC is for JL. A conversation in “The Shadow lingers” implies that JL called him “diedie” as a baby.
PregnantBadass: Downplayed and zig-zagged. Early into the pregnancy, JC beats his nephew in a footrace, continues to train and fight, and goes on a daring night ride. Later on as the heir takes a toll and he’s left in a weakened physical and mental state, he basically stays hidden for several months. ‘’Then’’, when Yunmeng is threatened, he manages to unleash an array which requires significant spiritual power, catches a pair of demonic cultivators with Zidian, beats Xue Yang in a swordfight, and acts as a conduit for basically the whole sect’s spiritual power to disperse a cloud of resentful energy. The last part is deconstructed, however, as it’s /extremely/ dangerous both to JC and the baby and not something he wants to do. Said last bit also leaves him weak for the remainder of the pregnancy.
RapeAsDrama: Twice to JC, once by WC and once by XY. The first was under his parents corpses “so they could watch”.
RousingSpeech: before they’re attacked by the demonic cultivators
SadisticChoice: JGC forced one on JC young: sign a contract to never marry or sire children or not have access to his beloved nephew. He makes the choice without hesitation and signs.
An even worse one comes when JC is the only one left with a golden core in the aftermath of the Shengyuan Cult’s unleashing of an attack. Since he’s carrying his child mostly in his golden core, this means risking the child he’s given up so much for. If he doesn’t, though, the entire cultivation world will be killed immediately, so he chooses to do so.

** Chapter 21 ends with Jiang Cheng alone with

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AND Chapter 24. Chapter 28 ends on one HELL of one.
ConversationWithTheUnconscious: A few times, JL and WWX speak to a sleeping JC.
CooldownHug: JC is the recipient of a few when he has panic attacks, mostly from WWX. He also gives JL one in “Those that Stay Behind”.
CoolOldLady: Granny Meihui, one of the few people who survived the burning of Lotus Pier and who cares for the Jiang family.
CuddleBug: JC really likes physical contact with his family. As he and WWX reconcile, their tendency towards physical contact increases. He and JL also share a lot of touches.
WWX spends a lot of time cuddling with his didi as well.
DeadPersonConversation: JC in “Those” talks to XY’s body.
Sizhui speaks with the murdered Xi Kang as well.
DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The “blessing” by the river spirit is a pretty thinly veiled metaphor for sexual assault, between the experience itself and the resulting pregnancy. Which would make it the ‘’third’’ one JC experiences. Poor thing.
“I do not ask permission”.
Doorstopper: “For What” is over 300k, with another 7k installment in the series. According to Authors’ notes, there will eventually be more
DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Averted *hard*. While JC seems to have some hangups on whether or not he’s been “unmanned” as a result and it wouldn’t generally be socially accepted, WWX and everyone else are absolutely horrified that it happened to him and treat them both as the violations they are.
FamilyOfChoice: Yunmeng Jiang, as there are so few members of the sect by blood left, has become this.
AFatherToHisMen: JC, who is very tuned into his sect members’ needs.
FeelingTheBaby: A dark version, as WWX doesn’t know it’s a baby yet and just thinks it’s a monster, so it brings revulsion rather than excitement.
FreudianSlip: In “The Shadow Lingers”, JC at one point thinks that he wishes he could keep JL at Lotus Pier forever…while looking at Jiang Xi, his son. It becomes clear that he’s experiencing a flashback to when JL was a baby.
GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. While it’s not clear that it’s a human baby at the time, Bai renci offers to do this to get rid of whatever’s in there despite great risk to JC. It fails and badly weakens JC in the process.
HappilyMarried: WWX and LWJ. A few YMJ disciples too.
HeelRealization: WWX realizes after watching JC’s memories of being “gifted” something (which turns out to be an heir) by the river spirit that his choice to gift JC with his golden core without consulting him was a similar violation.
HeirClubForMen: Much drama comes from this. JC’s lack of an heir at the beginning of the fic is one of the things he feels like he’s failed to do, leading pretty much directly to the unwanted conception of said heir.
HeroicRROD: Hosting the discussion conference while pregnant and recovering from channeling energy proves to be too much for JC. They actually have to move the surgery to remove the baby up a bit due to his deteriorating condition.
HeroicSelfDeprecation: Poor JC, who really has a hard time seeing how anyone would care about him. At one point, he starts thinking JL probably prefers WWX to him. At another, he wonders if his unborn child is already upset at him.