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It's time to shitpost on Mo Dao Zu Shi.
It's drawings I did while I was reading along the novels, so this is what I was thinking at the time I was reading some of the passages.
(Especially when I read Jiang Chen recognizing Wei Wuxian just by he's fear of dogs)
With Surgical Precision by metisket
Time-travel 1 chapter (complete) 20k words
Wen Qing’s last memory was of death by smoke inhalation.
It was objectively interesting—death by fire. Painful, of course—hideously, mind-rendingly painful. But surprisingly quick. Asphyxiation within minutes, before the burns were even fourth degree over most of the body. A learning experience. Or it would have been, if it hadn’t ended in, well. Death.
That was her last, lightheaded thought—a weak joke at her own expense. Wei Wuxian would have been proud.
That was her last thought. But then she woke up.
She opens her eyes to a black table covered with a red cloth, and a body full of needles. Acupuncture, of course, she thinks giddily. The afterlife of a doctor involves acupuncture. Why not?
Upon closer inspection, she appears to be working on Wen Ruohan, which also makes a certain, cracked sort of sense. He’s dead too, after all. And maybe this is a punishment, or a test. Because last time, Wen Qing had let Wen Ruohan live—out of fear, out of misplaced attachment, out of principle.
Swiftly, efficiently, she shoves a needle at the base of his skull significantly deeper, channels qi though it, yanks it from side to side, and severs his spinal cord, paralyzing him and putting him completely at her mercy. A severed spinal cord that high up means he’ll die soon in any case, but she decides to take no chances that he’ll somehow manage to heal himself—she grabs the knife she habitually carries and is apparently still carrying in the afterlife and stabs him in the side of the neck, twisting and jerking until the delicate structures within are mutilated beyond repair. Wen Ruohan is dead before he has a chance to call out. Or whatever the afterlife equivalent to death is.
Time-travel has some strange effects, depending on who travels and from when. In With Surgical Precision, Wen Qing dies as in canon and then opens her eyes just in time to eliminate the problem of Wen Ruohan in what she considers a nightmare of the afterlife. Who knew?
As further events unfold, it becomes clear that this may not be the afterlife. Wen Ning, while shocked, understands all too well. In for a dime, in for dollar.
This is a not entirely serious romp through the Gusu Lectures and a bit beyond, told from Wen Qing's point of view. There is a Tortoise and an Abyss, a quest for Yin Iron, meeting the Dafan Wen and a most satisfying ending this second time around. The light tone, with well blended mix of the serious and the humorous, ensures the story moves along smoothly.
rewatching A Love So Beautiful and i forgot the male leads name was Jiang Chen, so every time someone calls out to him i hear Jiang Cheng and giggle
BESTIES. Stop because all I can think about how Jin Ling hates being called by his courtesy name because Wei Wuxian was the one who chose it. Imagine, after Wei Wuxian's revival and everything has gone down, the first time Jin Ling goes by Jin Rulan. LIKE, he's the head of the Jin clan, and someone new is greeting him with Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian in the room together (not having killed each other for the special event 🎉🎉). Jin Ling doesn't like this person, and as they start talking, referring to him as Jin Ling, he stares at them before glaring and being like, "So rude, it's Jin Rulan to you." Or some shit like that. Wei Wuxian is vibrating in utter excitement in the background, and Jiang Cheng is sort of in a state of shock. Like, he's not unhappy?? But??? Since when did he use his courtesy name??
Break Me (Like a Dream)
Summary:
Fate seems determined to keep throwing them together. Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng have a chance to talk. This fixes some things. Sequel to Listen to the Ocean (Hear it Break)
Ship: ChengQing
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence | Post-Golden Core Reveal | Hurt/Comfort
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63570229
Excerpt:
Wen Qing says nothing as Jiang Cheng opens her cell door. The slow grind of metal on stone is far too loud in the present silence as if only hours ago she had not heard the screams of her people and the sounds of battle.
“Lady Wen,” he greets, surveying the confines of this cell and stares long and hard at the manacles around her wrist and the array drawn on them.
Qi sealing arrays. She’d designed them herself for risky surgeries where one’s qi could lash out and hurt the physician or patient. The irony of it all feels like a slap in the face. And was most likely Wen Chao’s intention.
As does his presence here.
“Sect Leader Jiang,” she echoes like it is enough, like it can encompass everything that lies between them.
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A LOVE SO BEAUTIFUL 致我们单纯的小美好 China, 2017, dir. Yang Long.
Although you didn't receive my love letter, why do I think that you know?