JWY wakes up cold in the middle of the night. He panics for a while, thinking his husband has left him in the middle of the night to fly back to CR. But his eyes instantly fall on the silhouette of LXC lying a few breaths away from him.
He breathes in deeply, calming his heart
LXC is furious. This is the fourth time people come up to him, ever since LXC announced that he is courting sect leader Jiang Wanyin, asking him whether the news is true. They simply don't understand why the gentle, handsome and no. 1 bachelor like LXC wants someone -
"Well, this is just great!" Jin Ling groused. His voice echoed loudly in the enclosed space. "We're trapped!"
"Now, now," Lan Xichen said. "Calm down, Jin Ling."
Jin Ling glared. "This is supposed to be a quick lookout! We're supposed to check into the complaints about cave
#xicheng
--
The problem was, Jiang Wanyin never wanted to keep them a secret, but 2 sect leaders being in relationship was rare enough and if they turned out to be *male*, they were certainly bound to cause an uproar.
Lan Xichen didn't care, but Jiang Wanyin didn't want
#xicheng
--
Lan Xichen likes watching Jiang Wanyin.
It started on the first day he saw him, all those years ago, young and bright-eye, with a smile that could melt the iciest snow. There was something in the way Jiang Wanyin carried himself that had Lan Xichen inexplicably
"Maybe you need to change yourself. I mean, Zewu-Jun is so gentle and decent. Of course he will eventually grow tired of you."
To say Jiang Wanyin had never expected this to happen would be a lie. He had tried to not to expect too much from this relationship, but it was-
JC: WWX! What are we doing here?!
WWX: We're surveying our future prospect.
JC: (peering to where WWX is pointing) Why are we spying on the Lans in the cold spring?
WWX: Since we're betrothed to them, aren't you a bit curious?
JC: (confused) we already know how they look.
"I would give up everything if it meant my sister is still alive."
Lan Wangji halted in his steps. Of all the people he thought would talk to him, Lan Wangji had never thought it would be Jiang Wanyin. Their history was filled with bitter pettiness. Slowly, he turned around.
#jinling
#JiangCheng
--
When Jin Ling was sixteen, the world felt bigger. The people were overwhelming and no one could compare to his tragedy.
When he was sixteen, half-a-head shorter than his Yunmeng Jiang Sect Leader uncle, Jiang Wanyin was an insurmountable mountain.
#xicheng
#nfsw
slight dom/sub๐
"Zewu-Jun!" Jiang Wanyin whispered angrily. "What are you doing?"
Despite the protest, Lan Xichen proceeded to pull him gently but insistently, into one of the secluded spots in the banquet hall - the one that was conveniently shaded from public-
#xicheng
--
Lan Wangji had never understood why his brother chose Sandu Shengshou as his cultivation partner. See, Lan Wangji grew up with Lan Xichen - he knew his brother.
He knew Lan Xichen disliked loud voices, harsh languages and even harsher dispositions. He abided the-
#xicheng
a/b/o
--
"Wanyin? Are you alright?"
Jiang Wanyin felt fire burn from within his core. Sweat began rolling from his temples down to his cheeks.
"I- I don't know-" He stammered. "I'm not sure what's happening to me."
Lan Xichen scrambled on his feet and rushed towards
#xicheng
#modernAU
"All these feelings are annoying. What am I supposed to do with these? Tell him?! "
LXC stops short from entering the room when he hears JC's voice talking to the phone. His brain short-circuited as it quickly made its conclusion - JC has feelings for -
Richer-than-god businessman!LXC is courting penniless, exhausted with 3-job student!JC and he is constantly bewildered by JC's extreme frugality.
1.
JC (screech): What are u doing??
LXC: uh- Throwing away the zipper bag?
JC: No!! We wash and dry them. We don't throw them away!
"Wen-shushu, you don't have to accompany me," Lan Sizhui said gently. "I'm just going to visit Jin Ling in Lotus Pier. He has been worried about Sect Leader Jiang that he has stayed with him for a few days now."
Wen Ning pressed his lips together. "Does Sect Leader Jiang know
#xicheng
It is during one of the rare nighthunts where both sect leaders Jiang and Lan partnered. They are accompanied by few of their own disciples.
LXC doesn't how it started. One moment they were enjoying their time together, the next thing he knew their disciples
When his letter was returned back to him, LXC was stunned. He wasn't expecting his proposal to be rejected, so sure that JWY was on the same page with him.
For 3 years after he ended his seclusion, he and JWY had been close - from acquaintance to reliable alliance to friends.
#xicheng
#modernAU
Lan Xichen is not a possessive man, nor is he an insecured one. He's been told all his life that he has everything a man would want in this life - look, wealth, successful career and social life. In fact, all the people that he's gone out with often lamented
#Xicheng
----
Sometimes, Jiang Wanyin really hates Wei Wuxian and his persuasive words. His brother can make the most unhinged idea seem so logical that when Jiang Wanyin is finally trapped, there is nothing he can do about it.
It all started with Wei Wuxian's boastful
#Xicheng
Yunmeng people don't get drunk. Perhaps it's because of their constitution, or perhaps because they've been consuming alcohol since their core was developed, but they don't ever get drunk.
But they apparently do, when somebody spikes their wine with some kind of drug.
#XiCheng
#modernAU
---
Lan Xichen stared at the paper in his hands - speechless. When he told his pre-school students to draw what they wanted to be when they grew up, he was expecting generic ambitions.
-I want to be a doctor!-
-I want to be a teacher!-
He closes his eyes again.
Suddenly he feels strong arms slide in between his thighs and he feels himself being pulled effortlessly within the confine of LXC's arms, pressed close to his husband's chest.
"can't sleep?" LXC murmurs sleepily.
"I can, now." JWY replies, smiling.
#xicheng
For as long as LXC has known JWY, he'd always seen the man in his severe sect purple robe, Zidian humming in his usually clenched hand and his hair tied up in impeccable bun.
Sect leader Jiang was never seen less than that even during Sunshot Campaign, he seemed rigid.
JC's dogs were given away.
His father is a shitty father.
His mother set impossible expectation.
All of JC's family dead and his sect is massacred.
He was tortured in his own home.
YMJ is a pariah due to WWX.
JC can be as grumpy and as violent as he wants. He's got the right.
My fav thing to write is how JC takes allllll Madam Yu's beauty and personality and NOTHING from his father. And how Zidian would only respond to him and HIM only.
After Jin Ling found out what Wen Ning had said to his jiujiu, from Lan Sizhui who had accidentally blabbed about it, the first thing he did was flying back to Lanling Jin.
While he wanted, with all his heart, to go to jiujiu, he didn't thing he could stop himself from bawling
The moment Jiang Wanyin whispered 'take care' to the back of his former shixiong, was the moment he decided to let go of everything related by WWX.
He'd given back Chenqing and if he could, he would have given back the core as well.
The heart was due for mending after 16 years-
#xicheng
Wei Wuxian hasn't really seen Jiang Cheng since that fateful day in Yinping. In fact, he has been flittering in and out of Cloud Recesses so often with Lan Wangji that he can barely count the time he has really stayed there.
Plus, with his husband's post as a Chief-
#xicheng
#nsfw
LRT
When LXC got into one of his possessive moods, there was no word JWY could say to dissuade him. Just like many times before, all he could do was arches his back, legs spread to accommodate the furious thrusts and head buried into the fold of his own arms.
#Xicheng
#modernAU
---
Funny how a change a scenery shifts his mood. In the view of wide expanse of green lush hills and the swarm of pink and white lotuses cradling the charming little cottage that he was staying for the weekend, Lan Xichen feels the tension slip away.
I love how in poster, if one had never watched mdzs, they would think the obvious pairings (based on their poses) are JYL/JZX and LXC/JWY.
๐คญ ๐คญ ๐คญ
Guys,
#xicheng
is flirty, happy and most importantly, they're canon. ๐๐
#xicheng
#nsfw
"I want to see it..." Lan Xichen murmured low as Jiang Wanyin passed him by.
The shorter man stopped short at his lover's brazen words and immediately glared up at him. "What makes you think I'm wearing it now?" Jiang Wanyin challenged, violet eyes raised up to
#xicheng
The problem with first love was how it stayed with you. And if you're Jiang Wanyin, who has fierce sense of loyalty, first love didn't not just linger, it haunted him.
Throughout the decade after losing Wei Wuxian, Jiang Wanyin hunted the barest presence of him in-
jiang cheng waiting for wei wuxian for years but lets him go when he finally comes back
and when wei wuxian, several years into his resurrection at lan wangji's side, finally realizes jiang cheng was the one he wanted all along, he returns to see jiang cheng with lan xichen
#JiangCheng
--
A-Cheng was eight years old.
He was just getting used to having a roommate in his room. He was just getting over to not having his dogs chasing him happily around. He was just realising that A-Die didn't look at him as gentle as he did, as fond as he did before.
#JinLing
#JiangWanyin
--
"You're not alone, A-Ling," Jiang Wanyin said in his rare, quiet and melancholic tone. "You may think that you are, but you're not."
Jin Ling halted in his steps, back facing Jiang Wanyin and hands froze mid-air against the door that he wanted to open.
LXC gazes upon the exquisite sight that he has created.
Lying spread on his bed, JC's arms are tied to the bedpost above his head. Deep flush paints on his creamy body, his eyes daze and glisten with tears, shudder ripples intermittently along the slender frame and his mouth -
#xicheng
"Wanyin...?" LXC said softly as he gently opened the door to his husband's office door.
The head disciple of YMJ had sent him a it's-nothing-but-we-still-think-you-should-come butterfly message. And despite the non-urgent tone, LXC focused on the you-should-come part.
#xicheng
"I don't need saving, Zewu-Jun," Jiang Wanyin scoffed. "I did what I have to do. Without golden core, this is the only path I could take to avenge my family."
Lan Xichen looked at this exquisite man, clad in red and black, abandoning the usual purple. He knew why
#xicheng
"Sect Leader Jiang, may I steal a few moments of your time? I have an urgent matter that requires your assistance."
Jiang Wanyin looks up and see Lan Xichen bends down to his table. Around them, people are milling about, enjoying the banquet hosted by Jinlin Tai.
LXC: Probably a rabbit running, Wangji. A pure and untainted one. No matter, I'll catch it later. (he smiles as he dips further into the water happily)
#xicheng
#icantHelpMyself
"Jing Ling... You rarely come to Cloud Recesses or attend to nighthunting with us anymore," Lan Sizhui said, breathless from running after his friend. "Jingyi and I miss you."
Jin Ling barely stop the eye-rolling and the snort. "I'm quite busy, Sizhui. The sect leader things are
stayed up overnight?
JC (shrugged): still good enough for fried rice.
LXC (wail): the milk expires in two days!
JC: freeze it, then.
LXC looks at JWY in absolute horror.
"Jiang Wanyin. MARRY ME NOW AND TAKE HALF OF MY WEALTH. Just stay alive!!!"
JC:..... What????
"You eavesdropped on us?" Jingyi cried.
Jin Ling growled. "I'm glad I did. That day I realised the value of our friendship. Unlike jiujiu, I know when to let go a poisonous relationship. And between jiujiu and me, you better realise *I'm* the vindictive one."
Then, he left.
--
That night made LXC realise how violated JWY felt about core transfer. Since then, he always asked JWY's permission.
"May I touch your hand?"
"Can I treat you dinner?"
"Can I kiss you?"
But the one 'yes' that meant the most was when he asked,
"Can I spend my life with you?"
Suddenly, Lan Xichen stepped forwards.
"You said *strangers*." Lan Xichen said slowly and softly as if he was approaching a trapped animal.
"Yes?" Jiang Wanyin warily.
"Well, then, Jiang Wanyin," the taller man called firmly; eyes dark.
"I am not a stranger to you."
*****
Sect Leader Jiang had always loved more than he was being loved."
Wen Ning was stunned speechless.
A sad smile appeared on Lan Sizhui's face. "And isn't that the saddest thing you've ever heard?"
---
"What do you mean, you've lost track of them?" LXC demanded as he abruptly stood up. His heart raced anxiously.
LWJ was equally panic, though it was only obvious to his brother. "Brother, we were in pursuit of the ghouls when WY and JWY chased the second one into the cave."
#xicheng
JWY was fed up. Twenty years of avoiding this issue and now, he'd had it with his elders who kept pushing him to settle down- to find a cultivation partner.
Apparently, according to his elders, his blacklist status had been lifted up and deep down, JWY knew it had-
Wei Wuxian gasped as tears fell down his cheeks.
Lan Xichen looked at his younger brother. "Stay away from me. I cannot find within me to forgive your husband anytime soon."
With that Lan Xichen stepped on Shuoyue and flew away.
--
Jin Ling raised his fingers to gently wipe tears from Jiujiu's face. "I could try to find new friends but I could never replace you. Jiujiu, you taught me to cherish my family and you're my only one left."
He growled low, "No one is allowed to speak and treat ill of my family."
#xicheng
#AU
I read a tweet wanting WWX and JC to have a huge age gap (6-8 years) but then, I realise they ship chengxian, so I'm kinda shy to qrt them with xicheng content.
Everyone is the same age, except for JC who's 8 years younger than WWX, making xicheng 10-year apart.
--
-angry because why the hell is he smiling like that?
"A-Cheng..." LXC takes pity on the JC. JC always appreciates honesty above all else. "You drive me crazy too."
JC flicks his eyes up to LXC in utter shock.
LXC smiles softly. "You have been driving me crazy for years."
Jiang Wanyin shivered at the deep voice. He opened his mouth to reply, but before he could, the door behind him suddenly shook lightly. Then, it was followed by 3 loud knocks and a muffled, scandalised voice from inside the room.
โNot until you officially court him first!โ
--
"You could let him be. You don't have to hover over him all the time. He's nineteen, for god's sake!"
Jiang Wanyin glared at Wei Wuxian. This wasn't the first time they were having this one-sided argument, where Wei Wuxian would tell him that Jin Ling had grown up, so could-
I stumbled upon a tweet saying they can't imagine JC in any relationship cause he's too "angry".
Dude.. LXC would THRIVE on JC's rage. He would eat up (often literally) JC's hisses, bites and claws and still call JC his pretty little baby.
#xicheng
When the last echo of his scream fades away, LXC can barely see through the tears. The last sight of his husband falling down the cliff - to his death, because Sandu lays unsheathed on the ground - burns into LXC's memories.
down. He knows LXC would keep his promise of not leaving him without telling him no matter how good his intention is.
JWY sighs in relief. He reaches out for LXC, just to feel the touch of LXC's skin. The warmth seeps through his cold palm and comfort gradually encasing him.
The world could say all they want about jiujiu, but Jin Ling knew the truth.
"Brat," Jin Ling heard jiujiu's clipped words, but all he could hear was the concern underneath it. "What's wrong?"
Jin Ling buried his face deeper. "Nothing, Jiujiu, i just missed you."
---
- other way around. Now they know how well he has chosen his partner and how lucky LXC is to have such person agreeing to receive his advances.
However, when eventually LXC sees how starstruck the other cultivators are at JC, he begins to regret bringing out this hidden side -
#xicheng
"Of all the places you could have chosen for us to hide, you chose here?" Jiang Wanyin snapped.
Lan Xichen smiled sheepishly. He knew the low light from full moon, slithering through the cracks of the tree bark, made it difficult for Jiang Wanyin to see the-
He still loves; without conditions, without reserves and without prejudices."
Lan Xichen wiped the tears away. "If what you said is true, then you don't know the honour of having that kind of person desiring you."
"Close the door when you leave, Hanguang-Jun."
---
#xicheng
Post- Siege of Mount Burial
Six months after the fall of Yiling Laozu, Jiang Wanyin had managed, against all odd, acquired half of the guardianship over baby Jin Ling. It wasn't his temper that got him the guardianship, instead, Jiang Wanyin had to bow his proud-
#xicheng
nsfw
"mhh..." Jiang Wanyin moaned as Lan Xichen plundered his tongue inside his mouth in soul-consuming kiss.
They were stealing a brief moment in between the sect leaders conference breaks, with Lan Xichen pulling Jiang Wanyin into one of the vacant, dark room before-
tassel at his waist.
And no one would ever expected to see a deep red bite mark at Jiang Wanyin's slender neck, instantly making them wonder about Sandu Shengshou in bed.
But one feral glare from Lan Xichen, all cultivators turned their head away and kept their mouth shut.
***
He knew the past was already deeply buried in the past and there was nothing Wei Wuxian could do to change it anymore. He had buried their brotherhood when he walked away that night at Guanyin Temple.
Perhaps all chances of reconciliation were already gone.
--
The End.
- the whole hall takes a collective sharp breath at the way SS's face changes.
The smile on SS's face brightens the whole mein, highlighting the attractive almond eyes and revealing the hidden beauty.
LXC smirks; now they know that how unmatched he is to JC, instead of the -
Jiang Wanyinโs sharp inhaled was audible.
โWanyin, you are my north star.โ
Lan Qiren put down the cup in dazed manner as realisation hit him. What was he thinking? Sworn brothers? Lan Xichen should have taken Jiang Wanyin as his cultivation partner!
---
The cultivators in the hall are deathly silent at ZWJ's rare rebuke, that even Sect Leader Yao's face goes pale. But something else is happening.
JC is laughing.
The cultivators immediately turn to the rare sound and they see even rarer sight. The grouchy SS is laughing and -
#nsfw
#xicheng
cw:dom/sub undertone, modernAU
--
To be fair, he really should have seen this coming. For the whole one month Xichen-ge was away, Jiang Wanyin had been sending the man images of his naked parts and audio of him panting and gasping as if he was playing with himself.
There is something so... PURE about young master Jiang in Gusu Lan sect colour. Ever since that first day when all young masters presented their gifts to Gusu Lan, LXC can't seem to take his eyes off Jiang Wanyin whenever the young man passes by his sight.
#Xicheng
#modernAU
--
Lan Xichen rubbed his face in frustration. His mind was blank and he had been staring at the piano keys for the last thirty minutes. He was this close to bang his head on the sleek, wooden surface until he passed out.
It had been six months since his
air stuck in his throat and his heart was hurting so much that he was surprise to find it devoid of any physical blood.
But the hurt was visceral.
One-sided love was the recurring theme in his life but he was still holding on to it.
He never did learn anything, did he?
---
itself out of the ribcage at the sensual way Jiang Wanyin drew his body closer to him. "-and open your mouth for me, sweetheart."
"Let me show you there's nothing fearful or abhorrent in my touches."
And he swept Jiang Wanyin up in his arm to carry him to the stone slab.
****
#xicheng
They tried to keep their relationship down low. After all, who had ever heard two male, *sect leaders* being cultivation partners. But it was hard to do do. Not because their relationship is new, but because they hardly ever had time to be together.
What he saw that night at the temple would be difficult to forget. What he had long believed would be hard to undo.
But LXC had never lied to him.
Maybe this time, he could learn to trust.
#xicheng
#theGIFmakesmeSAD
#LanXiChen
#JiangCheng
โA-Sang is his godfather. A-Ju is spoiled terribly with a godfather like Nie Huaisang. You need to see the baby crib A-Sang comission for A-Ju. Shufu, too, is too indulging." Lan Xichen teased.
"Well, thank heavens for Jiang Wanyin to scold us all!โ Lan Qiren said.
--
- who is grouchy with perpetually scowl etches on his face.
LXC knows what they're implying. They think JC doesn't match him. If only they see how unearthly breathtaking JC is. So, when he encounters another person insinuating he could do better than JC, LXC has had enough.
He began to walk away before halted.
He looked back. "You said Jin Ling inherits all of my bad traits. Well, you're wrong. If you said Jin Ling won't go with you without me approving, then, he inherits one good thing from me."
"He knew the meaning and the value of loyalty."
#xicheng
LXC is an azure royal dragon. His favourite pastime is lounging on the lowest clouds, on a specific shallow water with rocks, while looking down to the earth.
And if those times coincide with pretty merman with purple tail playing, it's nobody business but his own.
he had only seen grief all his life, that for the first time, Jin Ling was beginning to accept Zewu-Jun.
"To answer your question, A-Ling, Zewu-Jun gives me a life beyond the rage and the vengeance that used to define me. He takes me away from the past and he gives me a future."
Oblivious of Lan Xichenโs hot gaze upon him, Jiang Wanyin continued with his leader voice. โContemplate your erred way in silence for three incense sticks, Hanguang-Jun.โ Then, he twirled around dramatically and walked into the Hanshi.
Oh heavens- Lan Xichen thought dazedly.
--
never thought Lan Wangji was away *with* Wei Wuxian - away *from* him, his own grieving brother.
Oh-
Was that how much he worth in his younger brother's eyes?
Lan Xichen had spent his whole life raising Lan Wangji and Lan Wangji couldn't spare a while for him.
--
the uninvited people. And they just left him crumbling on the floor, hair unbound and peace shattered.
Tears flowed down at his gentle lover's words like flowing stream -silent, insistent and uncontrollable.
After sixteen years of fighting, he was now broken.
He was done.
--
#xicheng
--
"Xiongzhang, you've been spending you free time down on the earth so much nowadays," Lan Wangji noted solemnly. His pearly white scales glimmered, as cold as his expression.
Lan Xichen raised his head with a smile. "Is it unallowed?"
"I was just curious of what you
#xicheng
LXC is an azure royal dragon. His favourite pastime is lounging on the lowest clouds, on a specific shallow water with rocks, while looking down to the earth.
And if those times coincide with pretty merman with purple tail playing, it's nobody business but his own.
- is vastly preferable than listening to your uncouth, ear-shattering voice, Sect Leader Yao. They are not being bullied by YMJ, rather they are choosing SS's supposed 'reputation' than your filthy mouth. Deal with it with actions, not with your whines."