Hiddenfiresindeed

I know there are a few fics out there of Nie Mingjue after the Sunshot victory but I can never get enough of it. I’d love a mirror/copy fic - maybe Nie Huaisang being comforted and cared for by Mingjue after an injury or illness, then flipping it around and giving Dage the same care after he was rescued from the Fire Palace (he learned from the best!) Because the CQL scene where Dage’s slumped in Lan Xichen’s arms and then shows up at the celebratory banquet…there was definitely some recovery time in between there!

Please no niecest or nieyao, just tender family feels.

Hi!

So, life happened and it took me even longer than usual to finish this fic. It's a lovely request and one I loved to fulfil despite how much time has passed since you sent this. I hope you're still around to read it, but either way i'll gift it to you on AO3!

I was writing a fic where Huaisang is the one being taken care of after a night hunt accident when you sent this, but I ended up only being able to finish this one where their roles are reversed, but I hope you can still enjoy it!

Here it is:

Fic: Safe - AO3

Post-Sunshot hurt\comfort with our favorite boys. Purely platonic Nie brothers, as requested!

Summary:

Nie Mingjue x Nie Huaisang

(thirteen years.) do you think about how easy and yet nauseating it must've felt for nie huaisang to use his own childhood self as a mask? to maintain the appearance of a vapid child quick to run to others and whine instead of setting aside hobbies and trying to figure out how to work through responsibility?

(thirteen years.) what was he thinking? surely he didn't formulate everything to a tee in one sitting. how long had he taken until he was fully sinking into the balancing act of pretending he hadn't changed one bit in front of all the other clans, in front of his elder brother's close sworn brothers, while running the qinghe nie sect well enough behind the scenes to still maintain their unequivocal loyalty and respect?

(thirteen years.) do you think he hated himself now and then for becoming so quietly manipulative and focused on the ends over the means? looked at himself in the mirror at times and had to turn away because he saw a flicker of the one man he was trying to permanently unravel in revenge, the man his brother despised for always stooping to trickery?

(thirteen years.) how often did he get nightmares of qi deviations and being attacked, of that near-miss opportunity to save his older brother? the war and aftermath changed his school friends permanently and nie huaisang, in spite of his ability to worm his way out of things he didn't want to confront, was not an exception. how long until he got used to shoving his own squeamishness aside, accepting losses and violence and collateral damage and pain to other people for his own goals?

(thirteen years.) it drives me crazy. it drives me so damn crazy that mdzs is a story told from the perspective of wei wuxian. crazy that a few choice words and meaningful reactions at guanyin temple are the only reason we know even a fraction of what nie huaisang did over those years and why.

(thirteen years.) lan wangji and jiang wanyin were not the only ones who had to bear with the weight of time on their grief.

LWJ says both the capture and the rescue occurred in the same year and the final battle was months later… but same year doesn’t mean he couldn’t have been captured for months!

Based on chapter 1 of Curse-breaker by Nirejseki in AO3, @robininthelabyrinth here in tumblr.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33656905/chapters/83640799

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