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BAD BUDDY // EP3 [2021 - 2022]

My second prompt for Wangxian Against Ice completed! This time the request was angel!lwj and fallen angel!wwx (with a bonus request for yllz!wwx)

Close ups posted below cuz tumblr eats details and yall WILL be appreciating the effort i put into on the damn wings

Let me expound. So the timeline we get is that 1) Jiang Fengmian was spending a lot of time with Cangse Sanren 2) gossip married them off 3) she married Wei Changze instead 4) his parents pressured him into an (implied very hasty) marriage.

This is why the sole heir to a Great Sect is married to the widely disliked third daughter of a minor one. He had embarrassed his parents. They were like, you're damaged goods on the marriage market now, no good match will have you. Take this instead. Don't argue, you've shamed us enough already.

And she damn well knows it. She knows she wasn't selected on her merits! She knows she's a punishment!

How could she not be weird about Cangse Sanren and public opinion, in that context.

now, this is entirely a headcanon i've brewed from these small context clues, but if i were to guess, the yu clan might be a minor clan in terms of cultivation world, but they are certainly rich and influential enough to be acknowledged as such by other characters, so myyyy bet would be on them actually being a major clan in imperial politics of the MDZS world (which we know exist, but are entirely separate from the cultivation world), possibly even having a yu daughter in the imperial harem (<- delusional)

ok but what would even be the definition of marrying up or down in these circumstances?? idk. madam yu might have been the first major cultivator of her mostly secular family, which is why she might have wished to marry into a major cultivation clan, even if yunmeng jiang itsels is less powerful than mishan yu (seriously, how is the clan a major one and still SO SMALL???? how did they gather so much power when the family doesn't even have heirs outside the main branch??????? how did they acquire so much land if its founder was a traveling cultivator???????? I NEED ANSWERS)

(i think all her embarrassing meltdowns were taken out for cql, which revised her coolness index up significantly.)

that's a personality that counts against her, which is a recurring theme of the book, and affects a lot of characters in various ways--'what society permits' is a very fluid set of definitions that responds not only to your demographic and rank and power but to whether people like you.

the very first sentence describing Yu Ziyuan states that she's an unlikable person. Wei Wuxian's fall can't be entirely attributed to how he stopped trying to be seen as a likeable person, but that's a huge part of why his power and notoriety worked against him. the fact that people's problems always come down to confluence of factors that always include their external circumstances and the particulars of their character is one of the great things about mxtx's writing imo.

Yu Ziyuan would get away with her bullshit much cleaner if she were a man, partly because men are just cut more slack and allowed to act out more in general, and partly because as a man she'd have more social power. meaning both that people would have more motive to ignore male!yzy's flaws to his face, and that he'd probably be less unhinged in the first place, due to experiencing less disrespect.

but people would still think less of him for being arrogant and rude and prone to fits of temper.

the original shen qingqiu in mxtx's scum villain has a very similar personality to madam yu, including the intermittent rage meltdowns and vein of insecurity running through his towering pride, and predictably enough almost everyone he knows dislikes him for being an asshole, and is eager to believe the worst of him and find excuses to hold him in contempt.

a fairly similar set of reactions, for that matter, is exploited by jgy when killing his father--he makes a prostitute orgy the centerpiece of the death scene. which means that nearly everyone who hears about it associates the death with satisfaction that their personal contempt for jin guangshan has been fully vindicated, and no one wants to investigate.

Wei Wuxian licking Lan WanJis head as a show of dominance/to tease him

Little does he know...

yes, especially in their teen years xD they both definitely think that--

Wei Wuxian: reports of my return are also greatly exaggerated.

Wei Wuxian: