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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Male version with the Emperor -- Lan Xichen is painfully aware of being a PuppetKing and unable to truly protect his brother.

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* {{Asexual}}: Lan Xichen did not actually want any concubines but Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji begged him to rid them of their unwanted fiancees that he had no choice but to take the two women as his imperial concubines and three others after.
* TheBadGuyWins: The tragic backstory started due to Wen Ruohan's rebellion to seize the imperial throne. While he was defeated and killed Lan Sizhui, aka Wen Yuan lives by passing as Lan Wangji's biological son and heir. Given that Lan Xichen is {{Asexual}} and Lan Wangji has a male spouse, that leaves Lan Sizhui as the only heir to the Imperial Throne.

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* {{Asexual}}: Lan Xichen did not actually want any concubines but Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji begged him to rid them of their unwanted fiancees that he had no choice but to take the two women as his imperial concubines and three others after.
* TheBadGuyWins: The tragic backstory started due to Wen Ruohan's rebellion to seize the imperial throne. While he was defeated and killed Lan Sizhui, aka Wen Yuan lives by passing as Lan Wangji's biological son and heir. Given that Lan Xichen is {{Asexual}} asexual and Lan Wangji has a male spouse, that leaves Lan Sizhui as the only heir to the Imperial Throne.



** Qin Su and Zhao Lingling were supposed to marry Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji respectively prior to being claimed as the Emperor's Concubines. See UnwantedSpouse. Wei Wuxian is under the impression that Lan Xichen is a lecherous fiancee stealing menace when the emperor is actually {{Asexual}} and only took the concubines to spare his friend and his brother the pain of UnwantedSpouse.

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** Qin Su and Zhao Lingling were supposed to marry Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji respectively prior to being claimed as the Emperor's Concubines. See UnwantedSpouse. Wei Wuxian is under the impression that Lan Xichen is a lecherous fiancee stealing menace when the emperor is actually {{Asexual}} asexual and only took the concubines to spare his friend and his brother the pain of UnwantedSpouse.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Deconstructed by Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen, both of them thinking Lan Wangji found Mo Xuanyu reminiscient of Wei Wuxian for his overall physical structure and his practise of demonic cultivation, and is currently molding him into a perfected substitute. Both acknowledge it's entirely unhealthy and Lan Xichen admits it's unfair to Mo Xuanyu to be forced into acting someone else's life.

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* ReplacementGoldfish: Deconstructed by Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen, both of them thinking Lan Wangji found Mo Xuanyu reminiscient of Wei Wuxian for his overall physical structure and his practise of demonic cultivation, and is currently molding him into a perfected substitute. Both acknowledge it's entirely unhealthy and Lan Xichen admits it's unfair to Mo Xuanyu to be forced into acting someone else's life. Considering the consequences if anyone found out 'Mo Xuanyu's' true identity, Lan Wangji doesn't correct them.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1965790 The Concubine Mo Chronicles]]'' is a ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' fanfiction series written by Enigmatree on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn.

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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1965790 The Concubine Mo Chronicles]]'' is a ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' fanfiction series written by Enigmatree on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn.
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* TheBadGuyWins: The tragic backstory started due to Wen Ruohan's rebellion to seize the imperial throne. While he was defeated and killed Lan Sizhui, aka Wen Yuan lives by passing as Lan Wangji's biological son and heir. Given that Lan Xichen is {{Asexual}} and Lan Wangji has a male spouse, that leaves Lan Sizhui as the only heir to the Imperial Throne.
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** Also for Lan Xichen, his unfair, so called 'neutrality' during the incident causes Wei Wuxian to lose all trust in the emperor.


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* ExactWords: The newly resurected Wei Wuxian jokingly says that Lan Wangji can hide him among his concubines. Lan Wangji decides to consider that a marriage proposal and makes Wei Wuxian his one and only concubine.


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** Given how unrepentably corrupt and self serving nobles and officals are, she might have just had a point.


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** Qin Su appears to have it toward Mo Xuanyu, since is very possible that we was involved in the FrameUp attempt.


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* LoveConfession: Wei Wuxian tells Lan Wangji that he would prefer to be Lan Wangji's slave than Lan Xichen's empress. Lan Wangji is understandably flustered.
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* NotAMorningPerson: Actually a minor plot point -- since Wei Wuxian doesn't wake up for breakfast with Lan Wangji, he's unable to twig on the fact that someone is poisoning the Imperial Brother through his morning meal until it's almost too late.
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* TheAce: Wei Wuxian effortlessly answers any question and test the eunuchs throw at him in the hopes to discredit a male lunatic about to become an Imperial concubine.


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* OddFriendship: Nie Huaisang apparently decided it would be an excellent idea for him to become closer with Lan Wangji.


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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Male version with the Emperor -- Lan Xichen is painfully aware of being a PuppetKing and unable to truly protect his brother.

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* LadyInWaiting: Wei Wuxian has several maids to dress him and bring him food. The most prominent one is named a-Xu.



* OutsideContextProblem: The servants from the Imperial Palace are rather floored about how they need to act and tend to a ''male'' concubine. An eunuch outright expresses his doubts about Wei Wuxian's ability to rule the household because of his junk.



* SecretSecretKeeper: Is hinted that Nie Huaisang actually has figured it out that Mo Xuanyu is Wei Wuxian.

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* SecretSecretKeeper: Is It's hinted that Nie Huaisang actually has figured it out that Mo Xuanyu is Wei Wuxian.Wuxian.
* StayInTheKitchen: Jiang Yanli confessed to her adoptive brother a wife isn't supposed to have an opinion about politics, and Wei Wuxian's maids gently remind him that his new status forbids him to do more than stand around and look pretty. It's emphasized by his Imperial wardrobe's cut: the new garments are so restrictive and flimsy Wei Wuxian is unable to run, jump or do ''anything'' if he wants to avoid destroying them.


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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Wei Wuxian's Imperial concubine apparel is described as softening his appearance into something more sexually ambiguous.

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* AmbiguousInnocence: Mo Xuanyu is told that Qin Su and Zhou Lingling are close allies. When Zhou Lingling's scheme to frame the Prince-Concubine as a violent madman is thwarted and exposed, Qin Su, who had been advocating to punish Wei Wuxian, quickly starts to apologize a little too effussively. Therefore is uncertain if she was in the scheme.


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* AmbiguousInnocence: Mo Xuanyu is told that Qin Su and Zhou Lingling are close allies. When Zhou Lingling's scheme to frame the Prince-Concubine as a violent madman is thwarted and exposed, Qin Su, who had been advocating to punish Wei Wuxian, quickly starts to apologize a little too effusively. Therefore it's uncertain if she was in the scheme.


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* BigBrotherInstinct: The Emperor is very defensive of his younger brother's happiness. He harshly punishes an eunuch for badmouthing Lan Wangji choosing a male lover and covers any trace of Concubine Mo practicing demonic cultivation to not have to execute him.


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** The viewpoint of a-Xu, one of Wei Wuxian's maids, reveals the servants are under the impression that the Imperial Brother and his brand-new concubine are going at it like rabbits.
** Because no one is supposed to know about Lan Sizhui being adopted in the Imperial family, Wei Wuxian wonders if Lan Wangji has been briefly married while he was dead. Obviously he didn't do the math and realized Sizhui was far too old for having been conceived in the timeskip.


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The resurrected Wei Wuxian jokes that Lan Wangji could hide him in his harem, which Lan Wangji treats as a ''proposal''. Cue the Imperial Brother bringing "Mo Xuanyu" to the Silent Wing as his concubine.


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* ThisIsUnforgivable: After learning that one of the demonic corpse's parts was buried within his late mother's courtyard, Lan Wangji goes full TranquilFury and announces the Emperor is going to be just as pissed off.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: It is very possible that Qin Su is genuinely in cahoots with Jin Guangyao and that she was part of the FrameUp that Zhao Lingling attempted.


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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The FrameUp of Wei Wuxian attempted by Zhao Lingling and possibly Qin Su was rather poorly though out and relied on the mistaken assumption that Lan Wangji did not care that much about 'Concubine Mo'.


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lan Wangji cast the silencing spell on Zhao Lingling when she was insulting Wei Wuxian. While kudos to him from protecting his beloved from verbal abuse, he might also have accidentally prevented her from revealing that Qin Su was also involved in the scheme.


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* WomanScorned: It is very possible that Lan Xichen's concubines are all unwanted fiancees tossed at him by his friends and family. At least two of them are unhappy about this and envious that Lan Wangji's concubine is actually wanted.

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* EvilChancellor: Wen Ruohan tried to crown himself Emperor after burning Lan Xichen and Lan Wangji's father alive, Jin Guangshan was focused on spreading corruption and raping any pretty face he met, and now Jin Guangyao is holding the title.
* FrameUp: Zhao Lingling rips Wei Wuxian's clothes with a sharpened hairpin and pours boiling tea on her own legs to make everyone believe "Mo Xuanyu" is far too violent and unstable to stay a concubine to the Imperial Brother.



* GreeEyedMonster: Zhao Lingling was supposed to be Lan Wangji's fiancee, but he tossed her at his brother to get rid of her. She is quite furious when 'Mo Xuanyu' becomes the Prince-Concubine.

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* GreeEyedMonster: GreenEyedMonster: Zhao Lingling was supposed to be Lan Wangji's fiancee, but he tossed her at his brother to get rid of her. She is quite furious when 'Mo Xuanyu' becomes the Prince-Concubine.


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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Lan Xichen openly badmouths Wei Wuxian as his brother's only mistake in front of Lan Wangji's brand-new concubine, and Wei Wuxian refuses to trust the Emperor for his refusal to intervene into the FrameUp against him.


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* RoyalHarem: Move along if you're looking for fanservice -- as befits a Chinese Palace Drama, the imperial harem is a hotbed of intrigues with potentially lethal consequences. One concubine maims herself to provoke another's disgrace out of jealousy and is implied to be executed when it fails.


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** Lan Xichen's viewpoint shows him as surprisingly conflicted regarding his role as the Emperor and how it clashes with being Wangji's older brother.
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* WrongNameOutburst: Invoked when a feverish Lan Wangji accidentally calls Wei Wuxian by his true name in front of Lan Xichen, forcing his concubine to pretend it's a case of the Crown Prince being too sick to distinguish between his past and current lovers.

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* WrongNameOutburst: Invoked when a feverish Lan Wangji accidentally calls Wei Wuxian by his true name in front of Lan Xichen, forcing his concubine to pretend it's a case of the Crown Prince being too sick to distinguish between his past and current lovers.lovers.
* {{Yandere}}: The rejected fiancee of Lan Wangji poured boiling water on her own legs to frame Lan Wangji's beloved as a violent madman.
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* AmbigiousInnocence: Mo Xuanyu is told that Qin Su and Zhou Lingling are close allies. When Zhou Lingling's scheme to frame the Prince-Concubine as a violent madman is thwarted and exposed, Qin Su, who had been advocating to punish Wei Wuxian quickly starts to apologise a little too effussively. Therefore is uncertain if she was in the scheme.

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* AmbigiousInnocence: AmbiguousInnocence: Mo Xuanyu is told that Qin Su and Zhou Lingling are close allies. When Zhou Lingling's scheme to frame the Prince-Concubine as a violent madman is thwarted and exposed, Qin Su, who had been advocating to punish Wei Wuxian Wuxian, quickly starts to apologise apologize a little too effussively. Therefore is uncertain if she was in the scheme.

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* AmbigiousInnocence: Mo Xuanyu is told that Qin Su and Zhou Lingling are close allies. When Zhou Lingling's scheme to frame the Prince-Concubine as a violent madman is thwarted and exposed, Qin Su, who had been advocating to punish Wei Wuxian quickly starts to apologise a little too effussively. Therefore is uncertain if she was in the scheme.



* {{Asexual}}: Lan Xichen did not actually want any concubines but Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji begged him to rid them of their unwanted fiancees that he had no choice but to take the two women as his imperial concubines and three others after.



** Qin Su and Zhao Lingling were supposed to marry Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji respectively prior to being claimed as the Emperor's Concubines. See UnwantedSpouse. Wei Wuxian is under the impression that Lan Xichen is a fiancee stealing menace.

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** Qin Su and Zhao Lingling were supposed to marry Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji respectively prior to being claimed as the Emperor's Concubines. See UnwantedSpouse. Wei Wuxian is under the impression that Lan Xichen is a lecherous fiancee stealing menace.menace when the emperor is actually {{Asexual}} and only took the concubines to spare his friend and his brother the pain of UnwantedSpouse.


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* SecretSecretKeeper: Is hinted that Nie Huaisang actually has figured it out that Mo Xuanyu is Wei Wuxian.
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** Qin Su and Zhao Lingling were supposed to marry Jin Guangyao and Lan Wangji respectively prior to being claimed as the Emperor's Concubines. See UnwantedSpouse. Wei Wuxian is under the impression that Lan Xichen is a fiancee stealing menace.


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* GreeEyedMonster: Zhao Lingling was supposed to be Lan Wangji's fiancee, but he tossed her at his brother to get rid of her. She is quite furious when 'Mo Xuanyu' becomes the Prince-Concubine.


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* UnwantedSpouse: Qin Su for Jin Guangyao, he begged Lan Xichen to demand her for an Imperial Concubine so Jin Guangyao wouldn't have to marry her.
** The Imperial Elders tried to betroth Lan Wangji to Zhao Lingling, he also got rid of her by tossing her at the Emperor.
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* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Hearing that Lan Wangji finally took a concubine (when he's supposed to be so hopelessly pining after Wei Wuxian's memory that he mourned the guy for more than a decade), Nie Huaisang goes to congratulate his friend for growing a sense of humour and pranking everyone only to walk on the Imperial Brother with said concubine. He almost faints from shock.


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* HiddenDepths: Lan Wangji is left floored by Wei Wuxian flawlessly slipping into the role of a well-raised, demure and well-educated concubine. Guy ''did'' know his manners, he just doesn't give the slightest care about following them most of the time.


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* HisHeartWillGoOn: Lan Wangji taking Mo Xuanyu as his concubine is interpretated as him finally letting go of Wei Wuxian. Of course, it's immediately downplayed by Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen noting alarming similarities between the concubine and the Yiling Patriarch, and outright subverted since Mo Xuanyu ''is'' Wei Wuxian with another identity.


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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood The Yiling Patriarch]] used to wear black and red, and demonic cultivators (often very straightforwards cases of BadPowersBadPeople) dress the same in his memory. Lan Xichen feels rather displeased as a consequence to see his brother's concubine has garments in these shades, outright considering to forbid him the colours.
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* ReplacementGoldfish

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* ReplacementGoldfishReplacementGoldfish: Deconstructed by Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen, both of them thinking Lan Wangji found Mo Xuanyu reminiscient of Wei Wuxian for his overall physical structure and his practise of demonic cultivation, and is currently molding him into a perfected substitute. Both acknowledge it's entirely unhealthy and Lan Xichen admits it's unfair to Mo Xuanyu to be forced into acting someone else's life.



* StepfordSmiler
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend
* WrongNameOutburst

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* StepfordSmiler
StepfordSmiler: Wei Wuxian, ooh boy. He's pretending to be a vapid concubine while hiding some genuine trauma and a startling bloodlust.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend
ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Wei Wuxian takes offense with people thinking they can poison Lan Wangji and ''not'' be gruesomely murdered for their crime.
* WrongNameOutburstWrongNameOutburst: Invoked when a feverish Lan Wangji accidentally calls Wei Wuxian by his true name in front of Lan Xichen, forcing his concubine to pretend it's a case of the Crown Prince being too sick to distinguish between his past and current lovers.

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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Wei Wuxian's expectations regarding the new Grand Chancellor is for the dude to be more decent than his two immediate predecessors. As they were Wen Ruohan and Jin Guangshan, this bar is so low it pratically lies on the floor.



* GodSavesUsFromTheQueen
* HeCleansUpNicely
* HiddenDisdainReveal
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
* ObfuscatingStupidity
* OhCrap
* PuppetKing

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* GodSavesUsFromTheQueen
GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Lan Yi ascended to the throne right after her brother's untimely death and cleaned the house with such dedication her whole court was changed ''five times'', she just wouldn't stop murdering corrupt nobles and elders with her guqin. The Empire was so traumatized by her rule they opted to make any later ruler into a PuppetKing.
* HeCleansUpNicely
HeCleansUpNicely: Lan Wangji drops his teacup on the floor when he first sees Wei Wuxian in full Imperial concubine apparel.
* HiddenDisdainReveal
HiddenDisdainReveal: Lan Xichen utterly ''loathes'' Wei Wuxian for breaking his brother's heart and couldn't be more happy about Lan Wangji seemingly forgetting him to fall in love with someone else.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter
HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Lan Xichen. Not only does he entirely trust Jin Guangyao, he fully buys that Mo Xuanyu is nothing but a harmless and passive concubine.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Lan Xichen is entirely okay with his baby brother apparently marrying a supposed lunatic who might practise demonic cultivation on a whim, as long as Wangji is moving on from his thirteen-year-long depression.
* ObfuscatingStupidity
ObfuscatingStupidity: Wei Wuxian plays the obedient, lovesick and polite concubine to the hilt in order to fly under the radar of anyone who might possibly peg him as a threat.
* OhCrap
OhCrap: Wei Wuxian slightly panics when he meets the new Grand Chancellor and understands that Jin Guangyao likely is his new body's half-brother.
* PuppetKingPuppetKing: After Lan Yi's iron-fisted, bloodsoaked rule, the Emperors have been reduced to this. Lan Xichen expresses some frustration over his inability to not be weak.



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* RoyalWeRoyalWe: Used by Lan Xichen when he's acting as the Emperor.



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* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriendViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend
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* AdaptationalRelationshipChange
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* ColdBloodedTorture
* CombatHaircomb
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* EntertaininglyWrong

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* AdaptationalRelationshipChange
AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Here, Qin Su is Lan Xichen's concubine rather than Jin Guangyao's wife. Lan Sizhui also passes as Lan Wangji's biological child instead of merely being a Lan Sect member.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
BewareTheNiceOnes: Concubine Mo is a sweet, quiet and demure young man, surely he's far too delicate to live in the inner court -- wait, did he just stab this servant through the hand? ''Is that dried blood on his face?!''
* ColdBloodedTorture
ColdBloodedTorture: Wei Wuxian is quite upset to find a servant delivering poisoned porridge to Lan Wangji and decides to shake him up for his boss' name. It starts with a sharpened hairstick through the dude's hand and continues with a GoryDiscretionShot of twenty minutes.
* CombatHaircomb
CombatHaircomb: To honour the late Empress Dowager, a favoured Imperial concubine will receive a sharp-steel hairstick to wear. It gets used against Wei Wuxian when another concubine tries to frame him as a wild manic to see him expelled from the palace, and he later uses it against a servant paid to poison Lan Wangji.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
DeadlyDecadentCourt: As befits an Imperial Palace drama, there's political intrigues galore, a concubine trying to ruin another, and a poisoning attempt on the Imperial brother.
* EntertaininglyWrongEntertaininglyWrong:
** At least two people -- Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen -- worry about Lan Wangji taking Mo Xuanyu as his concubine in order to mold him into a substitute for Wei Wuxian.
** As Prince-Concubine Mo is officially introduced to the Palace, people quickly decide he's far too fragile, obedient and airheaded to be a serious threat. His servants start to lose said impression as Wei Wuxian reveals more of his true character.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1965790 The Concubine Mo Chronicles]]'' is a ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' fanfiction series written by Enigmatree on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn.

An AU in which the Lan are the Imperial family, the Jin, Jiang, and Nie are Dukedoms, and even 13 years dead, Wei Wuxian is still the most feared man in all of China. Newly resurrected, Wei Wuxian would love nothing more than to cultivate a core and go become a rogue cultivator.

Except, there's something very suspicious going on in the Imperial Palace, and while Wei Wuxian might not be able to help Lan Wangji in solving it, the unassuming and soft-spoken "Prince-Concubine Mo" sure can.

!Contains the following tropes

* AdaptationalRelationshipChange
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* ColdBloodedTorture
* CombatHaircomb
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* EntertaininglyWrong
* GodSavesUsFromTheQueen
* HeCleansUpNicely
* HiddenDisdainReveal
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
* ObfuscatingStupidity
* OhCrap
* PuppetKing
* ReplacementGoldfish
* RoyalWe
* StepfordSmiler
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend

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