#3zuncheng

[cruelfrenzyalchemist]

[queernightly]

An AU where, by the time Jin Ling is an adult, the Yunmeng Jiang Sect grew past the heights it achieved before the war.

The Jiang Sect is larger than it used to be and while they aren't near the numbers of the former Wen Sect, what they lack in size they make up for with ruthlessness and efficiency.

This causes much despair among the smaller Sects. The young Jiang-zongzhu that used to be at the mercy of them and the other Great Sects is gone, replaced by a formidable and experienced leader, unmoving in his stances, especially after the Jin heir reached adulthood and the Jin no longer have anything over Yunmeng Jiang.

It even starts to worry the leaders of the remaining Great Sects, the Venerated Triad. The Jiang aren't known to be lenient or merciful, it is unsure what kind of ambitions and intentions they hold.

It wouldn't do to have another Qishan Wen Sect situation. They need to do something. Something to cripple the Jiang before it's far too late.

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I was thinking along the lines of the typical Jiang-Cheng-is-unappreciated angst (at 2 am, again, because it seems to be a pattern now) where 3zun (established) have to enter into a court ship with him in order to keep him in check and he agrees in order to keep out of public/political scrutiny but they don't care about him and he can't say no without consequences.

But then that led to the question of how powerful he would be to be needed to be kept in check, and if he could just say no.

In the end I'd think it would be very interesting if the power dynamics of the Triad and Yunmeng Jiang were completely flipped and he's sort of like the Wen in this situation except he's not as much of a power hungry maniac as the former Wen-zongzhu (but they're still very very cautious)

Whether or not a courtship would even happen I'm not sure. Romance would be fun but it could also be thrown away in this AU.

The Jin no longer have power over Jiang Cheng because while Jin Ling is the Jin heir, his loyalty towards the Jiang is pretty much set in stone and is staunchly against bribery and underhanded methods. He has way too much of Jin Zixuan and Jiang Cheng in him than Jin Guangyao finds acceptable (is Jin Ling a liability yet? A question Jin Guangyao asks himself everyday..)

[catastrophicallie]

Polyship Week Day 4: meet the family/ aroacespec/ beach

I don't know what it is about Jiang Cheng that makes me ship him with almost everyone but 3zunCheng appears every year.

They are meeting up with the rest of the fam for a beach day but Meng Yao is worried that the others won't approve of him 😥 while his partners try to reassure him.

(While there's nothing specific here to suggest aro/aceness I do always hc Jiang Cheng as acespec in some way)

[truly-morgan]

[3ZUN wants JC but forgot an important detail]

3ZunCheng | Mo Dao Zu Shi Modern AU 09-01-2022

couple #3zun wants Jiang Cheng, but they somehow mess up along the way before getting there, making poor a-cheng feel like "of course, he is taken 😔 he wouldn't like me".

Lan Xichen is the first one to take an interest in Jiang Cheng after seeing him tag along when wwx comes to hang out (or by lqr words: bother) lwj.

He just easily falls for the smart young man. There is just something about him that he really loves.

So of course he tries approaching the young man. And it goes pretty good too! Sure Jiang Cheng was a bit unsure at first why someone like Lan Xichen would ever be interested in HIM, but he slowly warms up.

Soon they even hang out just for themselves, not just because he tags along with wwx and happens to be here. Jiang Cheng is just so happy that someone seems to like him back (because of course he had a crush on him, have you seen him!?).

He also gets to meet with Jin Guangyao and Nie Mingjue.

They both wondered what Lan Xichen kept talking about when he mentioned that cute boy he met. Nie Mingjue knew he was friends with his didi, but that was it. Maybe a story here and there coming from nhs.

but it doesn't take long to understand what lxc means, jc is pretty cute, especially when you praise him and he ends up all flustered because he enjoys the praise.

The two friends were also slowly also falling for jc's charms, wanting him to themselves too.

They would have been happy with lxc getting a new boyfriend for himself, but now they actually also wanted a piece of the little cute jc. if the young man would like it, they are happy to also love him.

And like this, everything was going so well in Jiang Cheng's opinion.

He made new friends who take good care of him, He is becoming a bit more confident now that he has people who don't always pin him against wwx and his crush seems to also be interested in him!

He even thought that he should try and tell lxc about his feeling!

But then his hopes of that got crushed.

They were going to watch a movie and had decided to first grab lunch in a cafe next to the cinema. He was early but assumed he could just get them a table. But he wasn't even in when he saw through the window lxc and jgy kissing at a table, looking as though they had been there for a little while already and having a date.

He wasn't sure what to do, not feeling comfortable at the idea of interrupting whatever moment they were having right now.

He was about to back out, only to bump into someone as he was turning around. He jumped a bit, apologising, only to hear a familiar voice calling out to him. Of course, he had bumped into nmj when he tried to flee.

"Are you alright?" he asked, frowning a bit worried because of jc's reaction. "Yeah, yes, I was just unsure this was the right place" jc lied with a slightly forced smile. There went his chance to run away.

He followed nmj inside, happy to see lxc and jgy were not all over each other again, sitting down with them. The afternoon ended up being a bit awkward for him, trying to still have fun. It was not their fault that he was the one who misunderstood lxc intentions.

at the movie he took a seat next to nmj on the side, making sure to leave lxc and jgy on the other side of nmj.

he couldn't stay with them afterwards though, feeling like he needed to just be alone to tend to his broken heart.

and from there little jc felt more distant from lxc, finding reasons not to be able to hang out if everyone was here, needing some time to just throw aside his feelings ("I get it, jgy is pretty and smart, I wonder bother him with my feelings").

"I don't get it! It feels like a-cheng has been avoiding me lately?! but I don't think I did anything wrong, everything was going smoothly, I was even going to confess to him!" lxc said, laying on nmj's bed.

"Maybe something happened, when did it all start?"

"Three weeks ago? When we went to the movie I think".

jgy hummed, trying to think of what could it be.

"Well, he did look a bit troubled before going to eat" nmj mentioned when he thought about it, "He looked about to leave when I got there.

it was as if he had seen something bad, but he said he was just unsure about the place".

jgy frowned a bit, before remembering what lxc and he had been doing. They had decided to have a little date to themselves just before going, being more openly touchy than usual.

"He saw us kissing," jgy said, turning to nmj, "Why did you never tell us jc had acted weird before joining us?! We thought he had come with you, not gotten there early".

nmj looked unsure, he hadn't thought something like this had happened, he hadn't known those two had decided to go full-on PDA when they knew jc was supposed to join them.

"Don't look at me like this, why hasn't either of you told him about us then? Would have cleared any possible misunderstanding"

With this, they decided it was probably better to tell Jiang Cheng about it. Maybe he wouldn't want to join them, or even just give them a chance to lxc, but it was better to try than see him sad because of a misunderstanding.

But little a-cheng is so hard to contact these days!! He kept being busy or awkwardly finding reason when they see each other. He still couldn't really face Lxc with his feelings knowing he is together with jgy 😔 He wants to be happy for them when they hang out, not feel like crying. He wants to be a good friend!

So 3zun needs to resort to trickery to get him to talk to them! And who's better to do so than Nie Huaisang who of course would *never* trick him, right?

And so he went for dinner with nhs to this new place he wanted to try, only to be abandoned by nhs the moment they got the private room where 3zun already was.

He wanted to go, but nhs made sure he couldn't get out ("I better get a good reward for this dage!").

He had no choice but to accept to sit down, looking nervous and awkward. Not to help none of the older men were saying anything either.

"Look, I think we need to make something clear" jgy finally started as he saw no one was talking. This had jc immediately shrink in his seat, feeling like he knew where it was going.

"There's no need to worry, I get it, I got my feelings all up, but I won't push it on anyone and I am really happy to know you have someone great with you" jc started, not feeling like having that kind of conversation.

"I-I just need a little bit of time to forget it all, it was my mistake, I won't-"

"You got it all wrong!" lxc quickly said, not wanting to see him blame himself again for something he didn't do.

"But... I saw you two kissing" jc said, looking puzzled, how could he get it wrong?

"It's true that I am dating xichen-ge" jgy said, only for jc to sink in his seat again, looking confused as to what they were saying, "But I also do date ming-ge" he added.

This only had jc looking even more confused and surprised, looking at the man sitting next to him.

He had nothing against this, if they were happy that was fine!! But how was it that he got it all wrong? That he was missing nmj in his equation? now this only meant lxc had two great boyfriends he couldn't even compare with.

"lxc is head over heels for you" nmj mentioned as lxc nodded, "He also wants to date you" he then added, making it clear that lxc was still very much interested in him /right now/.

"Is this true?" jc asked when he turned back to lxc, the man giving him a smile.

"Of course, I wouldn't lie to you about this, I really wanted to date you," he said.

"At first we were happy that xichen-ge found someone new to love," jgy said, "But then me and ming-ge also ended up falling for your cute little face and your charms and wanted to start dating you"

"But we understand if you only want to date lxc" nmj mentioned, "you clearly were flirting with him, not us".

This was quite a lot for jc to take in. Not only was the guy he loved also in love with him, but he also had two other great dudes (who were also boyfriends with his crush) loving him?!? how had he attracted the attention of so many successful young men?!?

He thought about it for a moment and got a bit flustered at the idea of being loved by these three people. Could he really?

"You don't need to give us an answer right now," lxc said with a smile, "You can think about it more if you need to".

"It's also okay if you decided to only choice lxc, or no one if this doesn't suit you either" jgy added. they didn't want to make it seems like he would be forced to date them if he didn't want to.

They had dinner all together, jc being curious about how all of this was working for them. it was pretty interesting to listen to, also gave him an idea of how it worked.

By the end of the night, he had already thought about it, grabbing lxc hands as they were getting out of the restaurant. He felt like if he didn't say it right now he wouldn't later and would only doubt himself and his choice.

"I-I would like to try it out with you three... if you do want me around," he said, looking nervous.

He was taken aback when he felt strong arms hug him, looking up at a smiling lxc. "Of course, we would love to," he said.

jc couldn't help but look towards jgy and nmj once lxc let go of him, seeing jgy come for a hug too, much more gentle than lxc had been. "We already said it, we also fell for how cute you are," jgy said, before also being surprised when another pair of strong arms came to hug them both at the same time. "We will make sure to love you so much you won't want to go away anymore and you won't have any more doubt about us" nmj assured him.

jc couldn't help but feel warm at the attention and how confident they sounded in this.

Maybe he was also good enough to have such great and wonderful boyfriends too.

Original

[goldencorecrunches]

ideal 3zuncheng is them at one of those supersoaker carnival fair games. jiang cheng, the one who insisted they try it, loses spectacularly and sulks. a-yao points out all the ways it’s rigged in a polite ongoing commentary. da-ge is helping the 5 year old kid next to him. xichen tries to buy them all prizes with Real Actual Money and has to be wrestled to the ground

[truly-morgan]

[JC has a protection squad]

3ZunCheng | Mo Dao Zu Shi Modern AU 01-06-2021

[#3zuncheng modern protection squad]

where jc /somehow/ managed to attract the well-known trio. Some flirting going around from each of them and jc isn't sure what to do about it. Does he need to choose one of them?! wouldn't it break the friendship?! while jc is internally struggling with his newfound crushes, 3zun is forming a protection squad for jc.

The younger man somehow manages to bring bad luck upon himself and bullies and delinquents seem to like to pick on him. Not that jc cannot deal with it, he is not that shy, but he's not fond of fighting and once he gets back home he knows he will be scolded for hours about it. He also knows well that yzy would make too much out of knowing her son is being tormented by others.

but 3zun all wants jc (and don't mind sharing if jc wants to, they already have an interesting dynamic between them) and they want to protect him and make his life easier (which does not exactly goes noticed by jc).

NMJ is the most obvious one. someone wants to pick a fight with jc? he'll bring his muscle and fight for him instead. He's not a diplomatic person and found that brute force also works most of the time. Bonus he can have jc lightly scold him as he patches him up if he gets injured.

JGY methods are much more discreet, as he would never have the strength to use brute force anyway. he might not have the physical strength, but he has the /contacts/. he will learn everything about those who bother jc and finds a way to suppress them with whatever dirt he can find. he has the contact and the money to do whatever he wants without dirtying his own hands. Some of these people who have been in direct contact with him learn not to trust his smiling face.

LXC seems to be doing nothing but diplomatic work (although jgy and nmj know better than that). Depending on the situation, he can talk people out of whatever problem they had with jc, sometimes he manages to coax them out of their anger and settles things down with money.

(they might not have the jin fortune, but the lan are still very rich). yet, the seemingly calm man is also somewhat scarier in a way (dark!lxc maybe?). He can easily remember names and faces and strangely, anyone who hadn't accepted to deal with him properly (or wasn't already handled by nmj or jgy) somewhat all end up with very bad luck, many leading to grave injuries. But how could anyone suspect the calm, polite and soft-looking lxc? He's the most pacifist of the three!

Little do they know that lxc has little mercy for those who hurt the people he cherishes and loves and doesn't mind dirtying his hands a bit for them (although at times he does have his own contact with us when he cannot do it himself).

Some should feel lucky when nmj comes or jgy does find something on them to use. lxc trusts them to do good work and comes in when someone simply cannot be dealt with diplomacy or his friends' method did not work.

So with 3zun sudden interest in him, jc also sees his everyday life become more calm and easy, as people quickly pick on the fact that crossing jc was bringing a very bad ending to those who did so.

(I just realised that nmj method seems much more legal than the two others despite it being physical assault lknafsjb, hopefully, no one ever pushes so far that they end up vanishing from the map because a certain someone did something)

I don't know why, I just liked the idea of 3zun protecting their little love jc, but how they also have very different ways of doing so, with one of them nearly looking like he couldn't even hurt a fly (people forget easily how strong lan are)

Original

[catastrophicallie]

Polyship Week 2023 Day 4: Soulmates

I love the idea of soulmates leaving their name on you the first time you touch so MingXiChengYao modern soulmates AU. I was trying something new with colour palettes so each character is the colours associated with their sects.

MingYao and XiYao are pretty similar to canon (NMJ helping JGY after he’s been bullied, LXC accepting a gift from JGY). ChengYao is from JC letting JGY hold the baby (let JGY hold the baby!). XiCheng is from LXC stopping JC from running away (after JC freaks out about the soulmate mark he just got from elbowing NMJ in the gut). NieLan is from when they were itty bitty kids who bumped into each other at school.

[catastrophicallie]

Polyship Week Day 8: Free Day

I have been sitting on this concept for about a year now and I’m finally happy with it. 3zunCheng Mafia AU feat. mafia boss JGY and his three seconds-in-command/ boyfriends/ bodyguards.