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TL;DR: Lan Wangji and most other Lans regularly sneak around disguised as rogue cultivators so they can break Lan rules in secret — then the other sects find out...

Throwback to that idea I had way-back-when of a Canon Divergence AU where it turns out that the Lan Sect actually can't follow all 3,500 rules all of the time, and so in desperation they were forced to come up with the idea (excuse) of establishing a spy network where they would then be required to go undercover without the fancy headbands or the vibrant white clothes or, most importantly, the excessive rigid rules...

(Well, it's a secret to outsiders — all of the Nie disciples of course already know.)

They each play to their own strengths (because they have very different strengths) and then collaborate when it comes to the more difficult or more important matters...

In this version, Wen Yan, courtesy name Kexing, is the oldest sibling of Wens Qing and Ning.

When he's very young, Wen Yan tags along on a routine trip with his parents (him being the only sibling old enough to be allowed to come along) only to never return...

His parents wind up getting murdered on the trip — courtesy of Wen Ruohan — and this is where things start to really diverge...

In one version, it's the Ghosts that kill his parents and so he winds up being raised in the Ghost Valley (much like in canon) only to eventually return many years later to get his revenge on Wen Ruohan...

In the other version, it's Wen Ruohan himself who takes Wen Yan in and raises him (much like he canonically does with Wens Qing and Ning) until he, once again, eventually gets his revenge on Wen Ruohan.

(Perhaps Wen Ruohan takes in Wen Qing and Wen Ning as well in this version, but distracted as he is by Wen Kexing he doesn't pay them much mind and so they mostly get left alone...)

Either way, Wen Kexing spends the majority of his life pretty unknown to most of the cultivation world, right up until he is finally strong enough to get his revenge on (i.e. kill) parent-murderer Wen Ruohan.

(NMJ: "I'll never trust a Wen! Wen Ruohan killed my father!" // WKX: "Oh, same hat." // NMJ: "What.")

It is at this point that Wen Kexing —

— who has since also killed Wen Xu, Wen Chao, and possibly also Wen Zhuliu (maybe Wen Zhuliu was the one who killed their parents on Wen Ruohan's orders?) —

— is then made the new leader of the Wen sect.

I also think it would just be really funny if this all happened during the indoctrination.

Think about it! Suddenly everything gets really suspiciously quiet for a few days and they're all mostly left alone, right up until one morning when they're all summoned and they're waiting for a while and Wen Chao isn't showing —

— and then finally some dude with a fan struts down the steps and introduces himself as the new Wen sect leader, tells them that Wen Ruohan and his sons are all dead and also, by the way, you're all free to go home now, so sorry about the whole indoctrination thing... 😬 Does anyone need medical care? We'd hate for you to succumb to your injuries on the way home... 🥺

Like. Can you imagine?

jiang cheng, absolutely convinced that wei wuxian would make a far better sect leader than he ever could, comes to the conclusion that it would be far better for everyone involved if he were to just disappear...

What if Jiang Cheng went blind sometime during the 13/16 years, but he was able to hide it from the other sect leaders because Zidian was capable of working similarly to Xiao Xingchen's sword by sensing resentful energy so he could still fight.

And so with the help of his loyal disciples — who covered for him and backed him up whenever he encountered something he couldn't get out of, cover up, or explain away — he was able to keep the other sect leaders none the wiser — for a whopping 13/16 years.

afterall, in the wake of the massacre of lotus pier they'll need all the help they can get to get back on their feet and win this war, even with their vastly diminished numbers.

and while wei wuxian might have suffered severely from using demonic cultivation — that was without a golden core.

perhaps, with the support of a strong golden core combined with the iconic jiang clarity bells, as well as regular check-ins and cleansing sessions to purge their excess demonic energy — not to mention the guidance of wei wuxian, the grandmaster of demonic cultivation himself, the jiang sect would be the leading experts in demonic cultivation throughout the entire cultivation world.

other sects and rogue cultivators might try to attempt it, but compared to the jiang sect their attempts would be pathetic and amateur at best and more than likely end up with the cultivator in question either dead or mad.

this would also have the bonus effect of the jiang sect not having to rely solely on wei wuxian — if the entire jiang sect were capable of demonic cultivation, not just wei wuxian, then they would undoubtedly be considered a significantly formidable sect despite their recent near annihilation — far different than their social/political position in canon.

and, with this higher standing, they (jiang cheng) would be far better equipped to protect wei wuxian against the other sects.

I was thinking about how if an entire sect was secretly plagued with vampirism, it would be easier to hide the weirder symptoms because they would be dismissed as a sect-wide tradition or as part of that sect's culture, and as such wouldn't be questioned.

Made fun of, maybe — but questioned? No, that would be incredibly rude.

Originally, I wasn't thinking about any sect in particular, but when I tried to think of which sect I could best see being secretly forced to follow the Rules of Vampirism, the answer became obvious — rules.

What sect already follows a ton of seemingly pointless rules? What sect do others often complain about how completely rigid they are in their insistence on always following said rules, without any exceptions?

What sect would people not even blink at twice if they insisted on never entering a person's home until they've been invited in? What sect could easily get away with refusing to ever eat garlic? Or outlawing mirrors?

-> Gusu Lan.

— because as much as Bones detests the hobgoblin he's not going to just stand there and watch as people attempt to (unknowingly) molest the idiot...

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This idea was intended to be Gen but if you're interested in romance I can see two ways this can play out — one with Bones/Spock (Spones) and one with Kirk/Spock (Spirk).

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I love when a fic author takes a side character and turns them into a Secret Badass.

Like they'll do it in such a way that it's still somehow at least mostly canon-compliant by having said character acting behind the scenes and hiding their skills for whatever reason.

And the best parts are the reveal scenes where the other characters finally realize how much they underestimated them...