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Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything non-romance-focused that doesn't fit into one of the other categories.
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Post-Canon
a kind of emptiness
by Anonymous
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis:
“I eat!” Wei Wuxian protests. “You watch me eat, Lan Zhan!” Why is he protesting? He knows exactly what he’s been fucking up, and Lan Zhan almost certainly has the shape of it if not the details. The words stick in his throat, fishbones to choke on, and he drinks more soup in a sullen attempt at washing them away.
“Wei Ying,” Lan Zhan says, setting a hand on his too-wiry thigh. There’s a whole sentence in the name now, layers of meaning, and he says some of it out loud with, “What’s wrong?”
The fight goes out of Wei Wuxian. It’s finally easy to surrender: Lan Zhan knows. It’s humiliating, but he knows. “Ah, Lan Zhan,” he says quietly. “It’s… complicated.”
Lan Zhan nods, his hand petting over Wei Wuxian’s leg in comforting arcs. “Then we can work together to fix it,” he says earnestly. “Tell me?”
Or: Recovery is complicated.
Add Reviewa reconstruction by JaggedCliffs
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jin Ling realizes that every story he's heard about his parents has been creatively edited to remove certain elements. He asks his newest uncle what really happened in those stories no one will tell him.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian is thirteen, and in the newfound wisdom of his years, he finds there’s a growing number of unfortunate facts about adults, especially parents, he’d rather go back to not knowing. Although he does, as a matter of fact, agree with them he takes to people easily. Until he comes home one late afternoon, and finds his father with a grey-eyed stranger in long black and red robes.
an accidental aquisition by silversshadow
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Pairing: Canon Wei Wuxian/Lan wangji
- Synopsis: On a night hunt, Wei Ying comes across a child left on the streets. This, he decides, is absolutely not allowed.
As You Like It by cosmicmilktea
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: it takes time to realise Lan Wangji doesn't have preferances. He doesn't know how.
Bestseller by pupeez4eva
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: When Wei Wuxian writes the Xianxia cut-sleeve equivalent of Fifty Shades of Grey, based entirely on his experiences with Lan Wangji, he doesn’t expect it to become the next big hit.
Better, Greater, or otherwise Different by ChlooBYoung
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Three guest lecture students explore, and are befriended by a strange man who lives on the mountain without being part of Lan.
Blended Family Dynamics and Social Behaviour Outcomes of the Child: A Case Study by winepresswrath
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jin Ling is maybe a little bit too familiar with murder, treason, and complicated family dynamics.
breathe me in by Anonymous
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A late night conversation about cannibalism. As you do.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After everything is over and done, Lan Wangji's nightmares surface. A story about grief, and healing, and love. Forms a duology with Succour, by the same author.
everyone else is spring bound by Lise
- Recommended by: heartss, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jiang Cheng takes a few deep breaths and tries to put his life back together. This is easier said than done.
Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams by LavineNinuiel
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: When Sizhui is injured on a night-hunt, the best choice is to go to Lotus Pier, even if Wei Wuxian dreads that decision. But to defeat the being they have encountered, they will need help.
familiaris by Misila
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Fairy doesn't understand why Wei Wuxian doesn't like her. She is good and obedient and she never bites humans, but every time she tries to play with him he just screams and hides behind other people.
Five Dogs, One Cat by ryfkah
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: If you’ve ever believed me in anything, believe I want what’s best for Jin Ling, the first line of the letter reads. Jiang Cheng has to stop and take a moment before he continues on to the next line: You must come to Carp Tower as soon as you can and lavish praise on the ugliest dog I’ve ever seen.
Glow by Quiet_crash
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "Hey, does anyone know why is it even called a golden core?" Lan Jingyi asked absentmindedly, trying to focus his energy like Hanguang-Jun showed them. "Sure, because it is golden," Senior Wei answered casually. All eyes turned to him, shining with curiosity. "Senior Wei, you've seen it?!"
Gratitude by Suspicious_Popsicle
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Wangji held his silence as he walked. After only a few minutes, they came to a towering, ancient tree, with gnarled roots digging into the ground. Nestled in the earth between two of the roots were two rounded, smooth stones, one white and the other dark gray. Lan Wangji set him gently down before the stones. “The rabbits you gave me,” he said quietly.
here's to upright men by isozyme
- Recommended by: regicidaloptimism, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: It had been shaping up to be a really lovely party, and honestly, quite a nice cultivation conference in general. Instead, his last surviving brother was exchanging polite bows with Jin Rulan, and Nie Huaisang was going to spend four days on edge.
I Think the Knife Helps by zylaa
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After Guanyin Temple, Wen Ning tells Lan Xichen it's not his fault. After Wen Ning returns from his journey with Lan Sizhui, Lan Xichen asks him what he meant.
I've been chasing the life I'm dreaming by Trueredhearts
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Where Wèi Wúxiàn acquires a baby, is disgusted with Gūsū Lán Elders, so are Lán Jǐngyí and Lán Sīzhuī, Lán Wàngjī is a smug bastard, but Wèi Wúxiàn fucking adores him for it.
In Love with a ghost by Bookish_penguin
- Recommended by:
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Five times Wei Wuxian makes people doubt his place in the realm of the living. One time it's clear he's here to stay.
It Kneads Me! by AristoMuse
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Everyone knows that Wei Wuxian, the feared Yiling Patriarch, capable of commanding a thousand undead puppets, is deathly afraid of dogs. But, what about cats? (Where Wei Wuxian accidentally becomes a cat mom, but since he's Wei Wuxian, it of course wouldn't be a normal cat.)
Joy In the Midst of These Things by Glitterbombshell
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2021-07-23)
- Synopsis: In which Wei Wuxian is a good teacher, baby Lans are the cutest, and Lan Qiren gets some perspective.
just our hands clasped so tight by electrum
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Lan Wangji buys a farm. And potatoes.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A visit to a village with a little corpse problem leads to a little more than Wei Wuxian or Lan Wangji bargained for.
- Commentary: This one gets kind of spicy due to the established couple in it, but it isn't about their love life, so I thought it probably belonged here, under General. There's exactly one explicit scene. If it should be filed elsewhere, feel free to move it.
Loose Ends by GrapefruitSketches
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian return to Mo Manor, tying up one last loose end.
moonlight caught in mutton fat by Raitelzen''
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: after everything is over the Twin Jades of Lan get turned to jade. Wei Wuxian and Lan Qiren work to solve it.
murky waters by newamsterdam
- Recommended by: yin_13147, Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Convinced Jiang Cheng and Wei WuXian will never reconcile of their own accord, Jin Ling takes matters into his own hands by trapping both of his uncles alone, together, without their cultivation.
- Notes: Has a sequel, many envies.
my ghost, where'd you go? by callunavulgari
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian's spirit lingers.
no new age series by everythingispoetry
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: What if the past was not something you truly recover from?
Once Upon A Time in Qinghe by paranoid_fridge
- Recommended by: yin_13147, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Nie MingJue wakes up. And that doesn't make sense, because he knows he died. Aka: After everything is said and done, Nie MingJue gets brought back Wei WuXian-style and tries to figure out just what on earth happened in the meantime. In the process he also reunites with his brother, drags Lan XiChen out of seclusion, becomes drinking buddies with Wei WuXian, learns about Jin GuangYao's downfall, meets the next generation, and features (not always intentionally) in a number of reconciliations.
- Recommended by: Agamai
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian meets his grandmother. No, not the immortal one. His father's mother.
spectres in your heart by deadbeatrefrain
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Soon after what should have been a simple exercise in dealing with the latest amateur demonic cultivator to wreak minor havoc in the Yiling Laozu's name goes horribly sideways and very nearly ends in devastation, Wei Wuxian pays Wen Ning a visit.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The juniors all have conflicting stories about how they ended up dangling from a giant spiderweb. Wei Wuxian tries to sort through it all.
The Absolutely True Story of the Yiling Patriarch: A Manifesto in Many Parts by aubreyli
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In which the junior disciples (namely, Lan Jingyi, Ouyang Zizhen, and a reluctant Lan Sizhui) turn to RPF in an attempt to rehabilitate Wei Wuxian's reputation so that he and Hanguang-jun can get together and get married and live happily ever after. It's... surprisingly effective.
- Notes: Has a sequel, For Great Justice.
the field meets the wood by astronicht
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: “He has been a vicious thing longer than Lan Wangji likes to acknowledge.” In which Lan Wangji is stolen for salt, and Wei Wuxian unravels the world, a little.
the stone-filled sea by yukla
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: He forgets how quickly Wei-qianbei changes faces, sometimes. Like pulling a theater mask over a bruise—color over color, a diversion with the swipe of his hand. Lan Sizhui navigates a world that hates his father, one endless wave at a time.
they're all dead hearts to you by merthulin
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: It is weird to realise that you have lived longer than you've planned for. Nie Huaisang learns to deal with the aftermath.
water's sweet but blood is thicker by fensandmarshes
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: “You’re not supposed to call Sizhui your cousin,” he whispers. “For propriety’s sake — it could lead to unfortunate misconceptions.” “What misconceptions? That you and jiujiu actually care about each other?” Jin Ling says petulantly. (Or: The juniors are an allegory for breaking cycles; this means they are far smarter than the Yunmeng bros when it comes to emotions, and there is more of Jiang Yanli left in her son than previously expected.)
your name, safe in my mouth by astrolesbian
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Sizhui has a lot of things to work through, after canon. An injury on a night hunt bridges the gap.
在此恭迎夷陵老祖; to yiling laozu, the great and venerable by yiqie
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: after everything is over, Wei Wuxian opens the cultivation world's first advice column.
as remnants of spring slip by by geargrena
- Recommended by: cute_heart
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Reports of missing people bring Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian to Chongyang with their two disciples, Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi. It all seems simple until more truths surface, leaving them with more questions than answers.
It all seems simple until Lan Wangji loses his memory.
During Canon
A Dangerous Path by WolffyLuna
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Xiao Xingchen is surprisingly fine with demonic cultivation, provided he doesn't know who's doing it.
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Ying doesn't answer inquiries no matter who plays it. But others do. Others, in this case, being dead Wens.
a star called sun by thelastdboy
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Madame Yu took his hand. Jiang Cheng strangled him and left him for dead. All his debts are over. With a hand of metal and bone, he goes forth.
Advisable Lan rules and other shenanigans by apathyinreverie
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Someone spikes the Lans’ tea during that Nighthunt at Phoenix Mountain. Some truths come out.
no dawn, no day, i'm always in this twilight by butterflylungs
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Wangji is haunted by something that follows him out of the Burial Mounds. A story about living with grief.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: letters written to a dead man, while the one left behind raises his son.
as i stumble homewards by the_pretzel
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss, Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Six years after the siege at the Burial Mounds, the Jiang Sect looks to Yiling once more as rumors of a young demonic cultivator and the restless spirit which trails behind him reach their ears. Luckily for the two in question, Hanguang-jun has heard the same rumors, and comes trailing behind.
Bystander by Rainewritesfanfics
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Even a morally ambiguous mastermind can miss a friend. “They might as well be his family and you want to burn them? What kind of reckoning will the Great Clans bring?”
coming of age, coming alive by narie
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: The summer they meet Senior Mo, Sizhui breaks the rules against gossiping more than once. A story about the moments between the lines.
Gentians in bloom by teawater
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Lan Wanji was never told the details of his parents' story. Now that he has discovered his own desires, his life's goal is to keep Wei Wuxian from finding out. But life is cruel and truths get revealed at the worst possible times. Set in the live drama.
help is on the way by Vamillepudding
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: The Yiling Patriarch wins against the sects who came to kill him. Lan Wangji is left behind on the fields of the dead and appoints himself a task.
hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold by stiltonbasket''
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Though the whole jianghu must long for the world the Qishan Wen took away from them, Quan Yuyan of the Lanling Jin sect misses it more than most. Misses her friend, Yu Ziyuan. Misses a promise for her son.
if it would help you sleep by adspexi
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In his time of grief, Nie Huaisang has nobody at Qinghe left to comfort him. Jin Guangyao is here to help.
in wild plums and river willow by SnowshadowAO3
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A study in thirteen years of love, grief, and hope. And also the ghosts that haunt, and the fine line between ghost and hallucination.
Important Distinctions by nagi_schwarz
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000, gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Father arched an eyebrow and lifted his chin. Jingyi said, “Hanguang-jun would like to respectfully state that he thinks you are a punk-ass bitch.” “Lan Jingyi!” another Lan disciple hissed, horrified. “He said it with his eyes,” Jingyi protested. “It’s Expression 321.” Sizhui fished the book out of his qiankun pouch and flipped through it. One of the Ouyang junior disciples sidled over to him and peered over his shoulder. “There really is a book.”
memories bring uncertainty by SincerelyBel
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Sizhui recovers his memories at the second siege.
my eyes got used to darkness by curiositykilled
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: He doesn't fit among humans anymore. Pain means little after that fall. Death is no threat to him, not anymore. Wei Wuxian contemplates the battlefields of the Sunshot Campaign, and the affairs of the living. He himself is excluded; of course.
Outside Another Yellow Moon by Vamillepudding
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: In the words of the author 'a little mermaid au, with no mermaids anywhere.' this is so much more. Trapped in a cave with the rotting carcass of a legendary monster, Lan Wangji bargains his voice for Wei Wuxian's life.
starlight shining brighter by Sienne
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: It was no secret that to Lan Jingyi there was no one better than Hanguang-jun (and Wei-qianbei). A glimpse into his life shows how Lan Wangji shaped his life, morals, and interpretation of Lan Sect's rules... and just how high Wangxian set Jingyi's relationship standards (very, very high).
The Cost of Vengeance by Lady_Nyx_Nightshade
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: In the Burial Mounds, Wei Wuxian died. Three months after his heart stopped, he walked out, wondering only of Wen Chao's blood will taste as greasy as he is, or if it will be as sweet as the tang that still lingers on his tongue.
- Tags: Body Horror. Graphic Violence. Vampire.
the dark does not frighten me, it is mine by ravenditefairylights''
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wen Yuan is saved from the Burial Mounds. Instead of losing his memory, he gains the ability to see ghosts. One ghost in particular.
The Intervening Years by roserocksrapidly
- Recommended by: gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wen Yuan grows up into Lan Sizhui and Xian-gege is there for every step of the way.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Jiang Cheng never wanted a brother. A character study, in which Jiang Cheng’s greatest tragedy is, perhaps, the fact that Wei Wuxian always loved him like a brother.
There's a Baby Loose in the Burial Mounds! by ScarlettStorm
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: People think Wei Wuxian somehow cleansed the resentment of the Burial Mounds for the Wen survivors, but actually, the ghosts did it as babyproofing.
thoughts cleansed of care by coslyons
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Who disciplines the master of discipline? The sect leader. Who takes the Lan sect discipline whip to your brother’s back? You do. (Lan Xichen, doing his duty)
to creep in those empty spaces by Anonymous
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2022-03-08)
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian loses more than his golden core in the days after the fall of Lotus Pier. He emerges three months later with a frightening power at his beck and call and dearly held secrets that threaten to tear him apart from the inside out.
- NSFW, Horror.
to the act of making noise by words-writ-in-starlight
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Sizhui hears his father play the same song every night for his whole life, and never, ever get an answer.
- Notes: Part of the set your old heart free series.
with hungry hands by crocodile
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Lan Zhan inhales four, exhales eight. The air scrapes down his throat and burns in his lungs. And he thinks: Wei Ying is alive, prismatic in it, beautiful and sharp-edged and full of song. What is Lan Zhan’s hunger in the shadow of something holy? What is his clawing desire in the face of a miracle? Who is he to ask for more, when Wei Ying has been handed back to him at the price of a house full of blood?
Without you I cannot breathe by staringatstars
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: complete.
- Synopsis: Lan Wangji's death has followed him all his life.
yearning by wolframvonbielefeld
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Thirteen years I have spent without you, Wei Ying, but my yearning has been fruitful. Your - **our** son has grown up well.
荷塘月色, or: Let the day grow on you upward by Huxyi
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian's original body musing on death as he slowly rots away. Thirteen years and after.
''a summer day spent in yunmeng catching mice by bosbie
- Recommended by: cute_heart
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Wei Wu Xian is tasked by Madam Yu to deal with a recent infestation of mice in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Lan Wang Ji happens to pass by Lotus Pier.
They help each other.
Pre-Canon
a symbol to remind you that there's more to see by paperminds
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: For as long as Jin Ling can remember, he has been immune to the majority of supernatural hauntings that plague the cultivation world. Or: what if Jin Ling had received his first-month birthday gift.
ask until your heart gets it right by Stratispheyre
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: An account wherein, while trying to do something nice for his wife, Jin Zixuan (completely accidentally) fixes everyone's problems.
climbing up that coastal shelf by Sour_Idealist
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jin Ling had begun to suspect years ago that there were parts of his family history that had been crossed out; long streaks of black where Wei Wuxian had been. The truth is more like whole books being brought up from their hiding places again. Or: Jin Ling tries to figure out what family means, now.
- Recommended by: caveat, Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Yuan didn’t mean to start a collection of undead rabbits.
Four-Thousand Rules (Which Ones Do You Follow?) by OnceABlueMoon
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000, Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A-Yuan is eight when Wei Wuxian dies and never forgets. Taken back to the Lan sect by his father, all he wants is his mother back.
in your skin by darkredloveknot
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: A ghost takes root in Wei Wuxian's body.
- Body Horror
it took and left no name by Itabane
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wen Yuan doesn't forget that easily, but in the grand scheme of things, that doesn't make much of a difference. Lan Sizhui remembers where he came from. This changes only him and nothing else.
long is the way by queen_gee
- Recommended by: Agammi
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The strings cry out his name.
Red and White by julumaiboloumai, red_rahl
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In a world where cultivators are shape-changes, Lan Wangji meets a little black bunny with a red ribbon in the snowy streets of Yiling.
sing to that lonely child by ravenditefairylights
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Sizhui grows up missing someone. It’s in the music of a dizi, in a paper butterfly, in the way he rubs his nose unconsciously when he’s upset, in the red ribbon he keeps tucked away, in a million little things he knows even though no one has told him.
The One-Body Problem by metisket
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The good news is that Lan Jingyi has found a mentor, friend, and constant companion through the difficulties in life. The bad news is that that’s because he’s been accidentally possessed by the Yiling Patriarch.
the price of a home by JemTheKingOfSass
- Recommended by: yin_13147, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "You said you understood when we took you in. You're old enough now to start earning your keep." Madam Yu reaches down and tugs loose the sash holding Wei Wuxian's robes together. A few rough pulls of fabric and he is unceremoniously stripped to the waist. Zidian sparks in her hand.
- Notes: Part of the worth of a whipping boy series.
to be touched by dust by riantida
- Recommended by: gammacavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: A-Huan will be the best big brother ever, he decides, as A-Zhan looks up at him. A character study focusing on Lan Xichen's mind until the Guanyin Temple Reveal.
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Xichen has opinions about Lan Yuan's new courtesy name.
Your Love Keeps Me Alive by locketofyourhair
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Five times Lan Sizhui used resentful energy by accident or to save his life.
Canon Divergence
A Moment's Delay by DarkScales
by DarkScales- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In Mo Village, Lan Jingyi sets off the signal flare a moment too late. Consequently, Lan Wangji does not arrive in time to defeat the possessed Madam Mo, and the juniors face down their deaths. Wei Wuxian interferes.
A Series of Hasty Excuses by NevillesGran
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Five times Nie Huaisang was emotionally, circumstantially, or blackmail-ly forced to acquire a Wen, and one time he declared "fuck it" and stole (rescued) them all.
A Skilled Tactician is the Jewel of a Kingdom by Hypatia3
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dead (last updated 2020-08-01)
- Synopsis: During the Sunshot Campaign, Nie Huaisang wants to help despite his terrible sword skills. But there are other things he's good at, and nobody can say his mind is weak. But nobody has to know. After all, he wants to go back to his life of general uselessness after the war is over, and Nie Mingjue would never allow it if he saw a single sign of competence from him. But this has consequences that he didn't expect.
- Notes: Part of the Tacticiam Nie Huaisang series
A Way Out by pinkquilts
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: AU that takes place after Jin Zixuan's death. The whole cultivation world either assumes Wei Wuxian to be dead or plans to make it that way. A secret plan put into place by Wen Qing and Lan Wanji after the death of Jin Zixuan is the only way to keep Wei Wuxian from the slaughter of the remaining sects. Lan Wangji hides an unwilling Wei Wuxian with him in Cloud Recesses to save his life. No escape, just Wei Wuxian confined to Lan Wangji's living quarters. TLDR: Lan Wangji does, in a way, get Wei Wuxian to come back to Gusu with him. The only problem is Wei Wuxian didn't know about it until he was locked in.
After Truth Lies the Honest Path by Vrishchika
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2021-11-23)
- Synopsis: He laughs incredulously before he turns a flat stare at Jin Zixun. "You tried to dose a Lan with a truth serum." He observes dryly, "You tried to dose Lan Wangji of all people with a truth serum."
Bitter Recompense by mondengel
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian is never summoned back to life, but Lan Wangji and Nie Huaisang find resolution anyway.
Cartwheels In Cloud Recess series by ShanaStoryteller
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2021-08-16)
- Synopsis: Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren don’t die. Some things change. Some things don’t. A few years earlier, Cangse Sanren befriend Lan Qiren.
Chosen Otherwise by nirejseki
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In which Meng Yao, who'd never met a single moral in his life, decides nevertheless to be a good person.
Collaboration Of Dangerous Minds by JustAWanderingBabbit
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Sent to spy on the Yiling Patriarch in the Burial Mounds, Jin Guangyao is forced to make a dangerous decision and reveal his presence. The results change everything.
Come From My Inkstone by magicgenetek
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Dormant(last updated 2022-01-15)
- Synopsis: “So your plan,” Nie Mingjue said dubiously, “is to move into the Burial Mounds to write and illustrate erotica about you and Lan Wangji seducing the Yiling Patriarch to earn his trust and sell the public on the idea that he's not a threat, then convince him to give up the Yin Tiger Seal?" “The way I said it sounded better,” Nie Huaisang said. “And you forgot the part about me seducing the Ghost General, that is crucial.” “I hate this, and as your brother, I am begging you not to actually stick it in a fierce corpse. How much money do you need?”
Cradle by Dragonesque
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dead (last updated 2020-06-30
- Synopsis: After barely surviving the assassination attempt at Qiongqi Path, Wei Wuxian and the Wen Sect remnants are left to figure out how to protect themselves and their new lives. Meanwhile, the Jiang siblings and an unharmed Jin Zixuan try to figure out who's bright idea was that stupid ambush. In Gusu, Lan Wangji panics at the idea of Wei Wuxian's near death and tries to figure out whether to insist to stay by the Yiling Patriarch's side or hang back in the Cloud Recesses. And Wei Wuxian struggles with the idea of whether becoming a teacher, teaching demonic cultivation and setting up his own sect might not be a bad idea after all...
Daemonic Cultivation by Captain Jojo
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In every world there is pain, sorrow and joy. In every existence there are mistakes and triumphs. There are misunderstandings and differences. Having a daemon gives voice to the truth, for better or worse. If they so choose, anyone can hear the cries of a soul. That does not mean everyone listens. But it's harder to ignore one screaming in your face. The one where the cultivation world is rocked by daemons who speak their minds better than their people ever could and it changes everything.
détente by cafecliche
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: An unexpected stay in Lotus Pier leads to a not-quite reconciliation.
- Notes: Part of the yunmeng accords series.
fuel the pyre of your enemies by LiterallyThePresident
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Huaisang kept his thoughts off his face, maintaining the air of the harmless dandy he’d so carefully cultivated, the hidden ribbon coated in poison wrapped carefully around his wrist, not dangerous unless ingested and easily passed off as an accessory if spotted. It was an hour in when Huaisang’s target finally showed up with his delegation, confident and grinning in his spotless Jin robes, and Huaisang took a deep breath as he and Mingjue rose to greet him. Showtime.
Home by R95irth
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: This was supposed to be an easy night hunt. They left Wei Ying at an Inn, and wanted to be back before sunrise. Instead they find themselves at the door of Lotus Pier, in the middle of the night, wounded, and their son, their beautiful son, injured. Things did not go as planned. Maybe, because, it is time to change their plan. Maybe it is time to stop wandering, to stop running away from the man they hurt, maybe it's time to heal. Maybe it is time to build a home.
In Reflection, Truth by Shadaras
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian wakes up. That would be strange enough on its own, seeing as he's been dead for years, but stranger still is that the person who so rudely summoned him into an earthly form was a woman—and now, that woman's body is his, too.
journey of no envies by rinfiora
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian is expelled from the Yunmeng Jiang Sect. Jiang Yanli rushes to the Burial Mounds. Wen Qing will not let her family starve. Nie Huaisang worries about his brother. Lan Wangji learns to use his words. Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing encountered a series of strange curses in Yiling. Nie Huaisang worked with an old friend to solve the mystery of his sect’s hereditary Qi deviation. The diverging of paths may lead them all to discover something primordial. Something as ancient as resentment itself.
kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight by AlfAlfAlfAlfAlf & tardigradeschool
- Recommended by: eeveelutionover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The Parent Trap (1998) AU. Wei Wuxian, presumed dead by the cultivation world, raises one Wen twin. Lan Wangji, presumed dead by Wei Wuxian, raises the other.
Liars, Corpses, & Runaways by ailuridae
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Dead (last updated 2020-03-25)
- Synopsis: Jin Ling runs away from home to night hunt. Wei Yuan indulges in a fit of teenage rebellion and leaves Yiling. A friendship is born.
Minding by WithBroomBefore
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis:
- Betweentimes: He had firmly reconciled himself to things never returning to the way they were. On the surface, perhaps they haven’t; Wei Wuxian’s laughter is all but gone, as is the way he used to draw others into the brightness around him. The walls are still there, for all that Lan Wangji has now been invited inside them. Lan Wangji doesn’t care, because what has returned is the way they stay in step without having to think about it.
- Swordless: “Young Master Wei,” comes the pleasant voice behind him. He stops, because even now he cannot be ruder to this man than he has to be. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees Lan Xichen approach and stop close by, hands behind his back. Wei Wuxian looks straight ahead and forces his expression into stillness. “I apologize,” Lan Xichen says. Wei Wuxian thinks for an instant that he must have misheard. He turns in spite of himself, opening his mouth, but Lan Xichen continues before he can find any words. “I overstepped. It is not my place to criticize your technique, especially when it has saved so many of us.”
- Shield: In which the rescue of the Wens and following events go rather differently.
My Leaves Reach Ever for the Sun by nonplussed
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: What if Wei Wuxian remained a little suspicious of the Jin Sect's invitation to Jin Ling's first-month celebration? Based mostly on book canon, in which Lan Wangji did not write that invitation, and Wei Wuxian takes some extra, incredibly genius precautions, thus avoiding his fate at Qiongqi path...but at what cost? AKA the fic where WWX crossdresses his way into winning his life, love, and liberty
Nie Huaisang's unexpected stand by maya_brainstormed (mayachain)
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The whole cultivation world is marching on Nightless City. No one can quite understand why Nie Huaisang is coming.
Puppetry by Misila
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian died when his name was only starting to be feared among his enemies, in the middle of a Sunshot Campaign that never achieved its purpose. The Qishan Wen Sect suppressed the rebellion, made sure nobody dared to rise up again. Still, thirteen years later, a forbidden ritual brought Wei Wuxian back to the world of the living to end Wen Ruohan's reign of terror once and for all.
Remember by Amona
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Dead (last updated 2021-03-19)
- Synopsis: Jiang Cheng was 6 years old when his father got him three puppies for his birthday. His first instinct was to look around cautiously, ready to gather the pups into his arms in case they decided to go towards— His mind drew blank here.
Sleeping in Paradise by daiki
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The cultivation world thought the Yiling Patriarch died from qi deviation years ago. Deep inside Lotus Pier, there is a forbidden area personally created by Yungmeng Jiang's sect leader, Jiang Wanyin and carefully tended by the lady of Lanling Jin, Jiang Yanli. A closely kept secret houses the slumbering form of their adoptive brother. Then little Jin Ling decided to sneak in to the forbidden paradise. (prompt: AU where Demonic Cultivation shattered Wei Wuxian's soul before Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli's deaths and he went into a death-like state. Since nobody's ever done demonic arts before, nobody's sure if Wei Wuxian is alive or dead so they preserve his body and watch over him.)
tame by rikke
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After the Xuanwu Cave incident, Wei Wuxian wakes up back in Lotus Pier with one hand clutching Lan Wangji and the other hand clutching...an egg? in which wwx and lwj accidentally hatch a baby xuanwu
the autumn leaf (falls not far from the tree) by sushicorps
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dead (last updated 2020-08-17)
- Synopsis: As he takes the hand of the young Lan disciple, something quietly slots into place deep in the corner of his heart. Their bond, Wei Wuxian realises with a slowly growing clarity. The bond between a parent and their child. But he doesn't have a child. He does not even have a mate.
The Desperation of Liars by CielleSeiya & dragonofeternal
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Dead (last updated 2019-12-22)
- Synopsis: Xue Yang has been alone since Xiao Xingchen died, but that solitude is shattered when Nie Huaisang strikes Xue Yang a deal— help him get revenge on Jin Guangyao, and he'll help Xue Yang repair the shattered fragments of Xiao Xingchen's soul so that he can be revived.
The Games We Play by Mayarene Rose
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Three times no one questions Nie Huaisang's friendship with Sect Leader Yao and one time someone does. Or, the one where Nie Huaisang becomes the headshaker much earlier just for the fun of it, and for absolutely no reason that can be considered serious or important, what are you even talking about?
- Notes: Has a companion fic, The Promises We Make.
The Light That Fails to Dim by glowingreverie
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In which Jiang Fengmian is unaware of what happened to Wei Wuxian's parents, and Nie Mingjue takes him in.
The Lost Cause by KouriArashi
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In which Nie Huaisang and Jin Guangyao work together to take down Jin Guangshan from the beginning.
The Murder of Crows by cerbykerby
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Dead (last updated 2020-11-03)
- Synopsis: After thirteen years in the Burial Mounds, the Yiling Patriarch finally makes a public reappearance. Civilians are scared. Cultivators are outraged. Sect Leaders are concerned. Wei Wuxian has been too quiet, they say, and nobody knows what dark horrors the Burial Mounds may now contain. Wei Wuxian wouldn't quite call them dark horrors, but the description wasn't too far off. (Or: Wei Wuxian lives, raises a whole gaggle of demonic cultivator children, and the cultivation world panics.)
the thread may stretch or tangle but it will never break by RoseThorne
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Following the return of Wen Ning's spiritual cognition, Wei Wuxian doesn't pull away quickly enough to avoid Lan Wangji discovering his secret. Set in the Live-action continuity.
Three Gates by nirejseki
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: There was another boy there at the base of the balcony outside of Meng Shi's window, where Meng Yao liked to sit: a boy few years older than him, taller, in finely made clothing that would normally make Meng Yao itch all over in futile envy, but the other boy’s eyes were white around the edges in a way that was immediately, painfully familiar. “Someone’s chasing you?” Meng Yao asked, and the boy’s eyes widened even further, surprised, but he nodded in confirmation. “There’s a trellis around the left side – can you climb up? I'll hide you.” "Thanks," the boy said, later, once the man he called Wen Ruohan had left. "My name is Nie Mingjue. What's yours?"
Twin Treasures by crossdressingdeath
- Recommended by: yin_13147, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2021-08-15)
- Synopsis: When Madame Jin happens to come across Cangse Sanren's orphaned son on a trip to Yiling, she can't bring herself to leave him there. Wei Wuxian finds a somewhat different family. Jin Zixuan finds a little brother. The course of history changes accordingly. (Some things are written in fate, but even fate itself changes.)
Veils and Mushrooms by Enigmatree
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian is married off to Wen Qing for political advantages. It's all good and well for most everyone involved until the day of the marriage comes— only for Wei Wuxian to have the most eventful wedding night in world history, learn that he shares a considerable connection to his new wife in their love of science and research, and accidentally discover an interesting new application of the spiritual lingzhi mushroom. (Or; grandmaster-of-demonic-cultivation Wei Wuxian and let's-transfer-golden-cores Wen Qing get married politically and completely platonically, which goes about as well as could have been expected, in hindsight.)
walk the path alone by Misila
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In which Jiang Yanli isn't fast enough to push Wei Wuxian away during the Nightless Day, and Jiang Cheng brings their brother back home— or tries to.
Wandering Eyes (That Nie Mingjue will gouge out if he notices, Father, STOP) by AstaraelWeeps
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jin Guangyao would do absolutely ANYTHING for his father, but when Jin Guangshan's eyes start lingering on Huaisang, he finds a line he wouldn't cross. (Because if his father makes a move on Huaisang, Nie Mingjue would tear off Jin Guangyao's limbs or his head on his way to stab Sect Leader Jin, and Jin Guangyao would like to live, thank you. It's safer for everyone for Jin Guangshan to just. stop. looking.)
- Notes: Has a companion fic, So many second chances.
We Are the Afterlife by NevillesGran
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2021-10-14)
- Synopsis: In which Jiang Yanli wakes up as a fierce corpse.
Wei Wuxian, Who's That? by bumbledees
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In which Wei Wuxian gets himself out of being Jin Sect enemy number one by becoming Lan Qiren's niece-in-law, and falls in love with Lan Wangji somewhere along the way.
Your Light by StellaMozzarella
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "How did you get that sword?" Mo Xuanyu asks. It's a simple question, one that Lan Sizhui has been asked often. A sword like his isn't often held by a young disciple, after all. But when the man in front of him voices the question, he can feel a strange weight to it. "It belonged to my father," Lan Sizhui says quietly, fingers absentmindedly finding Bichen's hilt. "It was left to me after he passed away." OR: Lan Wangji succumbs to his wounds.
Peggy Sue
And Time Is But a Paper Moon by sami
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Peggy Sue. Wei Wuxian starts again from the beginning.
- Notes: Part of The Same Moon Shines series.
Empathy by clockwork_spider
- Recommended by: yin_13147, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Stuck in the same coffin, Nie MingJue and Jin GuangYao's souls were pulled together in an extended Empathy. Having experienced Jin GuangYao's entire life from his perspective, Nie MingJue finds himself back in his younger body. Before the Sunshot Campaign. Before Meng Yao was kicked down from the Koi Tower.
For Both Of Us (And Time Is But A Paper Moon) by sami
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Peggy Sue. Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji start again from the beginning.
- Notes: Part of The Same Wind Blows series.
if you can't beat them, recruit them by moeblobmegane
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Attempt the impossible was still the maxim by which he lived. And really, what was more impossible than traveling back in time? (Or: Wei Wuxian uses a powerful array to go back in time and builds a secret squad to prevent the misfortunes of the future.)
Lynchpin by ShanaStoryteller
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Peggy Sue. He can’t get Jin Guangyao’s words out of his head. If he’d only believed in Wei Wuxian, if he’d only been willing to stand up for him, could it all have been avoided?
nevermore, nevermore by agloeian
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Sizhui finds himself sixteen years in the past - before the ambush at Qiongqi Path, before the Bloodbath of Nightless City, before Lan Wangji's seclusion, and before Wei Wuxian's death. He has the opportunity to save his family - all of it. Sizhui isn't going to let that slip through his fingers.
Snapping brushes by Kayo_San
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Sometimes you kill your own heroes. Nie Huaisang isn't going to wait for his brother to snap his brushes this time round. He'll do it himself: Learn how to cultivate, change the sect and save his brother.
Teen Project to Change the World by animeloverhomura
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover20000, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Lan Sizhui, Lan Jingyi, Jin Ling, and Ouyang Zizhen listened attentively as Wei Wuxian explained his newest invention: a way to send memories to the past. Satisfied that he dealt with all possible paradoxes and running on -2 hours of sleep, he didn't make note of his sons' frankly concerning expressions. "We could change everything!" they shouted simultaneously. For better or worse, only time will tell.
Unlikely Trio by Yumi_chan_Hamano
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji found themselves in the past, more specifically during their school days at Cloud Recesses. The last thing they remembered was finding Nie Huaisang in his room with an array drawn on the floor. With the knowledge of the future and a strong desire to change it, the three of them must work together to change their fates. But the future is a finicky thing. Somethings must happen, in one form or another. They learn to accept their new reality as long as their loved ones were by their side.
OC-centric
A Game for the Fool by LadyCroft_Undead19
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2021-08-12)
- Synopsis: Self-Insert Fic. How do you want to be remembered? Obviously one will always want to be remembered as a good person, someone great whose virtues outweigh the flaws, of course they'd want to be remembered as someone who did something in life, who accomplished something with the time they were given, someone others could be proud of, or remember fondly of, years down the road. Everyone always wants to be remembered when they were at their best and not at their lowest. I like to believe I was a good person, funny and smart and kind, someone who proved to be a good role model for future generations. I died content. I wonder why, then, did I find myself in such a peculiar situation? SI Gamer-AU.
by foot it's a slow climb by Vroomian
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Self-Insert Fic. The life and times of Yan Ruizhi, hapless reincarnation, as his plans to avoid canon spectacularly fail because he's a dumbass.
- Notes: Alternate link here.
Dream Before Daybreak by vermillion_crown
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Self-Insert Fic. Given that I've had practice being a whole adult human being - theoretically, I should be able to handle crises with mental fortitude and resilience, make friends with relative ease, and feed myself regularly. In practice, there's a lot more nonsense that gets in the way; things like restrictive gender norms, swords, and political instability. Barring swords, I guess not much has changed.
The Path Less Travelled by ApolloGeek27
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dead (last updated 2018-12-25)
- Synopsis: She went into an eternal sleep by her own hands. The weight of the angry glares, sparse words, and disappointed eyes shrouding her heart. She didn't want to wake up but life never listened. The next time she opened her eyes, she greeted the new world as another person. She would have accepted this arrangement and just endure as she had always done in the past but . . . why was she Wei Wuxian!? Why the hell was she reincarnated as this guy?! Now, the newly reincarnated Wei Ying must go through life avoiding all the pitfalls his manhua-self went through as well as protect his precious chrysanthemum from the prodigious Young Master Lan Wangji. Ah, isn't death supposed to be more peaceful than this!?
The Teenage Girl's Self-Saving System by mercyandmagic
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Self-Insert Fic. When she prayed to Xie Lian not to let her die one fateful night, she certainly didn’t imagining her prayers would be answered...by transmigrating not just into the world of MDZS, but into the body of Wang LingJiao. Now she is guided by a Self-Saving System that requires she save one of the most the most odious characters in the entire MXTX universe.
Unsorted
a life without sun by thankgodforpandas
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A great calamity fell upon Qishan Wen. It's said that some of the Wens still live, surviving on turnips and raw hope, but Jiang Cheng has not thought of Qishan Wen in years. He has enough on his mind with securing a lecture for Yunmeng Jiang, and somehow, dealing with Wei Wuxian's nauseating affection for Lan Wangji.
A Matter of Technicality by impossibletruths
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: In his defense—not that he needs one, of course, because he’s done nothing wrong, technically, for the most part, but if he did he’d have this one ready, just in case—Jingyi started it. Jin Ling comes up with a foolproof plan to repair his uncles' relationship. Unfortunately, his uncles can be very, very stupid.
Among Us by archimedesprinciple
- Recommended by: Agamni
- Status: Dead (last updated 2021-03-06)
- Synopsis: A bad day leads to a shopping trip. A shopping trip leads to a particular text unable to decide if it is erotic work or a dry treatise on cultivation. But one of the dry quotes in the middle of a particularly titillating section sends Huaisang on a hunt for a foundational book of theory. There's something about the sabers. The sabers and his father.
Attempting the Impossible by Ariaste
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jiang Cheng gathers up his determination in both hands and goes to the Cloud Recesses to embark on one of the most difficult endeavors he can imagine: Repairing his relationship with his brother. To his surprise, he discovers he's become an uncle again... several times over. Wei Wuxian, what the fuck?!
Bring Your Silence series by Terri Botta
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dormant (last updated 2021-08-22)
- Synopsis: After Wei WuXian rescues the Wen remnants from Qiongqi Path, Lan Zhan plots and plans to join Wei WuXian in the Burial Mounds. There is Life among the Dead.
could you find a way to let me down slowly, if you're leaving baby let me down slowly by ravenditefairylights
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian, after a series of misunderstandings that deteriorate his relationship with Lan Wangji seemingly for good, decides to reveal the truth about the restoration of Jiang Cheng's core on his own volition. He's entirely prepared to be kicked out of the sect, but not as prepared as he should be for the depth of his family's love and loyalty. The revelation itself changes nothing, but his siblings' stubbornness and their faith in him might just change everything for the better.
despite it all by novalotypo
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Dead (last updated 2019-07-27
- Synopsis: A year after the great evil known as the Yiling Patriarch is banished from the world, inexplicably, inexorably, a god of luck is born.
Exposure Therapy by Lise
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian is terrified of dogs. Jin Ling would like to fix that.
From the Future for the Past by friedchickenlord
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Silent flaps of butterfly wings. Given the chance, he will gladly change the past—or making new branch on the road, Lan Wangji isn’t picky. But looking at his awkward fifteen-year-old self trying to come to terms with his feeling is kind of fun. He… might understand a little why his husband is so fond of teasing him.
Grandmaster of Cultivation: Walkthrough and Guide by athylia
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wherein the GoC community tries and fails to marry bachelor Lan Wangji, who turned out to be not a bachelor after all.
Ground Zero by Lise
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Seven-year-old vs. wagon wheel.
If you only knew then (the things I only know now) by Nillegible
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Dead (last updated 2020-01-24)
- Synopsis: Yu Ziyuan receives a warning, a letter in Jiang Cheng’s handwriting, familiar, though it seems to have evened out over long years of practice. This was from her child, but not. This Jiang Cheng, grown up in ways that it hurt to contemplate, had endured the death of his family, his Sect, and his soul. He begs her to change things, to not let the same tragedies befall him again. (Yu Ziyuan would always do anything for her son. This time, she fixes the world.) Nie Huaisang receives a blank scroll, and a handpainted fan in Qinghe Nie green, taunting him. Lan Xichen gets a Xiao score that all but shatters his heart. (They may have failed once. They will not fail again.)
Just as the Snow Melts by draechaeli
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Like a snowy mountain top in spring the residents of the Burial Mounds trickled down the mountain and joined the flow of society. “I went to the Burial Mounds,” Lan WangJi said. “Ah, yeah… I’m sorry Lan Zhan,” replied Wei WuXian, “I hadn’t thought anyone would come to visit. I am still not sure how it happened; I brought A-Yuan to Yiling to play by the river and then ended up somehow teaching a bunch of children swimming and writing along with him.”
Lan Jingyi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Cursed Information by fensandmarshes
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Modern AU Fic. Jingyi has two Official Corkboard-Warranting Mysteries, and he is going to solve them if it kills him. Mystery One: What is Professor Wei, mysterious enigma and the local campus cryptid, hiding from all his coworkers? Mystery Two, which is obviously totally unrelated to Mystery One: Does Professor Lan, a stone-cold terror who will glare at you if you so much as think about asking about his personal life, secretly have a husband? These obviously completely separate mysteries are going to rob Jingyi of any chance he had at a sleep schedule, and he's not even mad about it.
Mirror Mirror by Nika_Raven_Celeste
- Recommended by: Gammacavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: When Jin Ling asked for a mirrored necklace for his birthday, it wasn't for vanity, okay! So what if he can't tell anyone the real reason? They're cultivators! They'd drive the ghost out of they knew. And Jin Ling refuses to lose his father like that. How'd he say it anyway? "because of all the commotion when my mother died, someone neglected a burial rite for less than a day, and now my father's ghost is raising me." Who'd listen to him?
Misunderstood by Silver_Flame_2724
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: There is something called a memory ball, or Jiyi Qiu, that shows the memories of a chosen person. In order to further incriminate the already dead Yiling Patriarch, the cultivation world decides to use this memory ball at the next Discussion Conference to show how evil the demonic cultivator can truly be. What appears, though, truly shocks them all.
no one lights a candle to remember by asravine
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jiang Cheng and his memories of his older brother, before and after the fall.
Oh, My Bleeding Heart by Starlight1395
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian wakes up in a world that despises him, in a body that is too small and too scarred. He doesn't want to face his mistakes, but they seem to follow him everywhere he goes. When he is faced with... something in the woods of a small town, he had no idea what he was going to have to do. Maybe if he did, he would have turned on his heel and left, but he could never have left Lan Zhan or the Juniors behind. Even if they ended up hating him as much as he hated himself.
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary by Vamillepudding
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: On the joyous occasion of the second Lan heir's birth celebration, a terrible shadow falls when the Yiling Patriarch arrives, much displeased that he wasn't invited. 20 years later, Lan Wangji learns the terrible price he extracted, and knows that he has only three weeks of freedom left until he meets the man again. Very loosely based on Sleeping Beauty.
purple spiders and hyacinths by h_a_l
- Recommended by: yin_13147, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "There's nothing left to say." Jin Ling doesn't believe that.
raise a glass to revenge and love by Love_Psycho
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Nie Huaisang thinks as the plan he's spent years on comes to fruition.
Relentless by covalentbonds
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Wangji is fucking ripped, the oneshot.
Sweet Incense by JaQueen
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Qiren uses an ancient heirloom to reveal the truth of the past so the Sect Leaders can see the evidence of what happened with the blade spirit and he can prove to himself if he was right in his judgement of Wei Wuxian. None of this goes as planned when instead of proving or disproving the crimes of the Jin Guangyao the assembly is forced to witness the Tragedy of the Yiling Patriarch when the artifact decides more information is needed.
The Birds and The Bees (and The Bunnies) by Beltenebra
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Three times someone tried to give Jin Ling The Talk and one time they succeeded.
The Characters of MDZS Watching the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by emma_screams
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: What happens when a suspicious letter was sent to all the clans, inviting them to an appointed location to learn about the truth of thirteen years ago and now? Will the Yiling Patriarch finally get the justice he seeks? Will Hanguang-Jun lose some of his regret? Will Jiang Cheng find the peace he desperately needs? And will the other Sect Leaders finally realize what a piece of shit they are get the faceslapping they deserve? But most importantly, will Wei Wuxian allow a drunk Lan Zhan to be viewed by the public? Find out in the epic series of the characters watching the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!
The Concubine Mo Chronicles series by Enigmatree
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: An AU where the Lan Xichen is the Emperor; Lan Wangji is the Crown Prince; 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.
The Execution Of All Things by raisedbyhyenas
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Jiang Cheng mourns his family and cleans up his brother's mistakes.
The storm comes and goes (and I keep walking) by Naamah_Beherit
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Yiling Laozu was dead, and the cultivation world rejoiced. Now it was time to rest and finally heal the wounds left by the Sunshot Campaign. In their absence, the countryside grew more dangerous with each passing day. Rogue cultivators stepped in soon enough. Rumour had it that amongst them, there was one who went where no one else dared to go, all but for a place to sleep and a meal for his children. Rumour had it a crow rode on his shoulder. Rumour had it he disappeared into the shadows whenever someone so much as mentioned the four great Sects. Rumour had it he was a ghost. (Or: A story of a single father, his two kids, a daydreaming disciple, and a pet crow as seen through the eyes of strangers.)
The Yiling Patriarch's Harem Drama by nirejseki
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Once upon a time in Yiling, a rumor started about the Yiling Patriarch having started to collect a harem of beautiful young men from a variety of sects. (It was Nie Huaisang's fault.) (To be fair, the porn didn't help.)
this comes as no surprise by retts
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: As the chaos began to settle, Jiang Cheng noticed Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi sneaking out of the temple.
tintinnabulum by respira
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A small bell chimes, the sound soft and pleasant like the water crashing against a pier, like low whistles in an empty cave, like a guqin playing a lullaby. (Jiang Cheng learns how to be a better uncle and brother.)
Unsealed Truth by DarkScales
- Recommended by: yin_13147, Dame-Amaryllis, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: After the Siege of the Burial Mounds, Jiang Cheng claims both Chenqing and Suibian. An unwanted revelation is subsequently had.
- Notes: Part of the Break, Heal series.
Unstoppable by netrixie
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Oh, Wei Ying thought faintly, I do love him. He tested the thought, the way it sank into his bones and settled deep inside him like it had always been there, and maybe it had. Wei Ying had taken one look at Lan Zhan all those months ago when he had still been ‘Lan Wangji’ and had never looked back. - Or, when Wei Ying was told he was going to the lecture at Cloud Recesses, he never expected for his life to change this drastically. - In which Wei Ying is a wolf, Lan Xichen knew first, and Cloud Recesses becomes home.
- Notes: Part of The Beast of Gusu series
until we meet again by recursion
- Recommended by: yin_13147
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "I have a request," Jiang Cheng says. He looks uncomfortable. Lan Wangji imagines that he is not used to asking for help from others. "I have heard that there exists a song, passed down in the Gusu Lan clan, that allows one to speak to the dead."
We'll Build this House on Stone (Altars) by FluffyHippogryph
- Recommended by: Gammacavy, eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Maybe, just maybe, Wei Wuxian shouldn't have looked for an abandoned temple in the dead of night. Or woken up the resident god, the lord of light. And maybe, just maybe, he shouldn't have kept coming back to socialize. But he's learning so much, and the annoyingly Lan like god seems to need the company. But with war on the horizon, Hanguang-Jun alone will not be able to save him. The other two gods he's crossed paths with have their own business to attend to. The Lan have a secret related to his friend, but he can't ask them. And perhaps he's in over his head with this theory about resentful energy, with the ghosts becoming visible to him, with his peers thinking he has some secret network of spies instead of some gossipy dead.
Wei Wuxian’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good First Meeting With His Future by Enigmatree
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian is expecting to have a nice day learning from Lan Qiren and bugging Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng in the Cloud Recesses. He's not expecting to see a portal open and drop out a fake Lan Wangji carrying a madman demonic cultivator that the fake Lan Wangji calls Wei Ying. Too bad that's what he gets. ........ An entirely self-indulgent mini story I wrote because I love young characters coming across their older, eviler, and very incomprehensible selves. There's absolutely no plot.
What I've failed I will not unknow / What has failed me is not yet unknown by theleakypen
- Recommended by: heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Lan Xichen has been in seclusion for half a year, healing, he thinks, from the way his world was upended that night in a temple in Yunping City. Then, Jiang Wanyin comes to visit—breaking the fragile peace he has been building, but offering, perhaps, a better healing.
- Recommended by: Gamma Cavy
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A fairytale-esque story about a farmer, his exiled friends, and a pond of lotuses that bloom only in the winter.
With Absolute Splendor by Lise
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis, heartss
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: “If you’re going to get married,” Jiang Cheng ground out, “then you’re going to damn well get married at Lotus Pier.” Wei Wuxian blinked once. Again. Then: “what?” Or: the one with sibling reconciliation, brother-in-laws from hell, and Jiang Cheng trying to sort through his feelings while acknowledging them as little as possible.
Yearning for Miles by Murahi
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Wei Wuxian claims he didn’t steal it. He found it. Jiang Cheng learns to trust his brother more than ever. Nie Huaisang is smarter than he looks (no surprise there) and Lan Wangji will still pine even if Wei Wuxian knows they’re supposed to fall in love. Perhaps we can hope for a happier ending this time. Or Wei Wuxian finds a strange artefact while he’s studying in Gusu. Apparently it shows the future. Watch how their lives unroll when they have the knowledge of things to come.
Your slightest look easily will unclose me by RedWritingHood
- Recommended by: eeveelutionlover2000, Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The curse is meant to physically manifest the emotions of its victim. Jiang Cheng submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.
Second Wind: An Idol Survival Show by moeblobmegane
- Recommended by: Dame-Amaryllis
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Second Wind premieres live tonight at 7 pm! Stay tuned for the announcement of the trainees hoping to get another chance at stardom!
