the nie huaisang time travel fic i will never write
actual writing has not been happening, so have blurbling instead, because a forewarned nie huaisang is a terrifying nie huaisang.
okay so huaisang goes back in time. don’t ask me how, i’m not actually writing it and thus i don’t have to come up with the logistics
anyway so he goes back in time just around when xue yang is being dragged into the unclean realm which doesn’t give him a lot of time to collect his bearings, but he is also nie fucking huaisang so he adapts. xue yang still escapes and meng yao still gets thrown the fuck out, but
but then huaisang disappears the next night.
there are signs of a struggle.
and nie mingjue is absofuckinglutely FURIOUS, because he let that little snake live and that little snake dared to KIDNAP HIS FUCKING BROTHER, but there’s also a war going on and cloud recesses burned and his boyfriend is missing (fuck yeah nielan, fight me) and he is a Responsible Sect Leader but he is also a big brother and he sends zonghui (fuck yeah zonghui) to find huaisang and bring him back safe and sound and he maybe breaks a lot of shit at the thought of his baby brother being dragged around the countryside by the guy who killed someone else with a smile
(there is dragging around the countryside, but it is the exact opposite of what nie mingjue thinks, because huaisang is smart and huaisang understands the value of a scapegoat, and huaisang is also still fucking pissed that meng yao killed his brother)
eventually zonghui finds meng yao’s body, and there’s signs of a fight, a sign that huaisang escaped, but he can’t actually find him but he keeps looking because while there is a war going on his sect leader gets a little bit closer to qi deviation every day his baby brother isn’t returned to him
(and somewhere out in the wilderness lan xichen is being hidden and helped by a boy he’d once thought naive, and they might both be a little shit at washing their own clothes but they manage to get by)
eventually xichen makes it back to his boo for the war, and he brings with him maps from a source within nightless city and nie mingue knows those brush strokes, would know his little brother’s art anywhere, and he breaks down in tears because huaisang is safe but huaisang is also in so much danger and also because nie mingjue cries at the drop of a hat and that is why we love him. lan xichen says they can trust the source and nie mingjue believes him absolutely
(because huaisang is not stupid, and he knows that meng yao was instrumental in the war effort, but there is only so many years of rage you can take and he has been stewing for over a decade, and while meng yao once might have been useful, he refuses to let the bastard live. and because he is not stupid and he knows that the war needs to be won, he takes his place as the traitor, and it is so so easy to convince wen ruohan that he, the useless little brother of chifeng-zun, desires to have power more than he cares about his family
and because nie huaisang is not stupid, when he sees the threads of possibility that could lead to wei wuxian not losing his core, he does not follow them, because he knows what power is still needed to end the war)
nie mingjue never goes on his assassination attempt because huaisang reports that there is no way to do so (look you can tell me that it was just a coincidence that his route happened to have more soldiers than expected when reported by meng yao, but i will not believe you), so he and lan xichen are both there on the field when wei wuxian goes shadow-happy and they are there when huaisang slips a dagger between wen ruohan’s ribs
(he is mortified. he does not want to be known as the one who killed wen ruohan. he wants to continue being the useless little brother, but he was the only one who could do it. he is praised by the cultivation world and he has Regrets)
nie mingjue hugs him so hard his bones creak and yells at him to never do something so dangerous again and also cries a lot. he also never believes huaisang’s masks of uselessness again, which is definitely a strike in the ‘cons’ column of his plans, but he deals with it like a champ, and the nie sect starts running like goddamn clockwork.
he learns the song of clarity, and he learns it right, this time.
then he sets his people to hunt xue yang down.
he coaxes his brother to offer support to the jiang sect and wei wuxian (he shamelessly leans on the fact that wei wuxian is precious to lan wangji, who is precious to lan xichen, who nie mingjue would rather die than see hurt), and gets better deals for the wen remnants (this is also helped by lan xichen; huaisang can and will use all chess pieces available to him). he makes friends with jiang yanli (THEY WOULD BE UNSTOPPABLE) and meddles in the politics at koi tower. meddles with jin guangshan’s image and rule because that guy’s just a dick, anyway.
meddles in the love lives of lan wangji and wei wuxian too, but literally everyone thanks him for that one.
he doesn’t get to become the headshaker and is very sad that people take him seriously now, but his brother is alive and his enemies are dead, and that’s all he’s ever needed, anyway.
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