Stories are life

My name is Kshithi. It means the Earth in Sanskrit language. 

I identify myself as a female. 

I love stories. At any point of time there are at least 10 new stories in my head. One day I want to send these stories out to the world.

I know how to speak, write, and read three languages. English is not my native language.  Please expect some grammatical errors.

My AO3 id: muggle_diary

My AO3 works : https://archiveofourown.org/users/Muggle_Diary 

My current favorite story is Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. 

This is an anti-jiang cheng and anti-madam yu blog.

Chapters: 2/18 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, There are surprise pairings Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Lán Qǐrén, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Jiāng Yànlí, Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī), Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín, Yú Zǐyuān, Jiāng Fēngmián, all the mo dao zu shi characters Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Yúnmèng Jiāng Sect Bashing (Módào Zǔshī), Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Bashing, Lan sect critical, Cultivation World Critical, Jin sect bashing, Nei sect critical, Wei Ying starts green revolution, Yú Zǐyuān Bashing, Jiāng Fēngmián Bashing, Jiāng Fēngmián and Yú Zǐyuān Bashing, Wei Ying yeets out of cultivation world, Sunshot Campaign (Módào Zǔshī), Inventor Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Rogue Cultivator Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Fēngmián Doesn't Adopt Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Immortal Husbands, Yílíng Lǎozǔ Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, I am naming Jiang Wanyin as Jiang Whiny Summary:

Yet another time travel story. Wei Ying just says no to the Jiangs, Sunshot campaign, and cultivation sects in general. But very much in love with his husband though.

Chapters: 1/18 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, There are surprise pairings Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Lán Qǐrén, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Jiāng Yànlí, Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī), Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín, Yú Zǐyuān, Jiāng Fēngmián, all the mo dao zu shi characters Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Yúnmèng Jiāng Sect Bashing (Módào Zǔshī), Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Bashing, Lan sect critical, Cultivation World Critical, Jin sect bashing, Nei sect critical, Wei Ying starts green revolution, Yú Zǐyuān Bashing, Jiāng Fēngmián Bashing, Jiāng Fēngmián and Yú Zǐyuān Bashing, Wei Ying yeets out of cultivation world, Sunshot Campaign (Módào Zǔshī), Inventor Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Rogue Cultivator Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Fēngmián Doesn't Adopt Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Immortal Husbands, Yílíng Lǎozǔ Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Summary:

Yet another time travel story. Wei Ying just says no to the Jiangs, Sunshot campaign, and cultivation sects in general. But very much in love with his husband though.

I am really shocked and very tired of seeing so many fics in ao3 with tags related to Wei Ying’s self worth issues! Where on earth people got this idea? Wei Ying has always been confident about himself and skills (and no, that is not arrogance).  

Wei Ying was very pragmatic. He knew how the society worked with all its flawed logic and stupid social hierarchies. He was realist enough to know how he would be treated just because of his birth origin. But he never once felt ashamed of his status as “son of a servant” as many would mock him. He felt no shame in being a servant’s son because he has confidence in himself and he knew himself well enough. Expecting and knowing how the society would perceive him and how they would treat him just because of his origin does not relate to him having self worth issues.   

If he had any self-doubts, he would not call himself as Lan Zhan’s equal, a sect heir of a great clan, while being  a “mere son of servant”. 

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Mythology - Freeform, Mythology References, cultivation, Cultivation levels, Indian mythology - Freeform, Chinese Mythology - Freeform, continuing the story of Mo dao zu shi, Wangxian discovers new worlds, more cultivation shenanigans, more sects, no jiang sect, no lan sect, no nie sect, No Wen Sect, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Bashing, Yúnmèng Jiāng Sect Bashing (Módào Zǔshī), Yú Zǐyuān Bashing, Jiang bashing in some chapters, cultivation world critical to some extent, lan sect critical to some extent, Immortality, road to eternity, Immortal Wei Ying, Immortal Lan Zhan Series: Part 2 of Trials of Tribulation Summary:

After successfully completing the first tribulation, Wei Ying and Lan Zhan removed themselves from the cultivation world and lived their life in a farm, full of happiness and love.

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Mythology - Freeform, Mythology References, cultivation, Cultivation levels, Indian mythology - Freeform, Chinese Mythology - Freeform, continuing the story of Mo dao zu shi, Wangxian discovers new worlds, more cultivation shenanigans, more sects, no jiang sect, no lan sect, no nie sect, No Wen Sect Series: Part 2 of Trials of Tribulation Summary:

After successfully completing the first tribulation, Wei Ying and Lan Zhan removed themselves from the cultivation world and lived their life in a farm, full of happiness and love.

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Mythology - Freeform, Mythology References, cultivation, Cultivation levels, Indian mythology - Freeform, Chinese Mythology - Freeform, continuing the story of Mo dao zu shi, Wangxian discovers new worlds, more cultivation shenanigans, more sects Series: Part 2 of Trials of Tribulation Summary:

After successfully completing the first tribulation, Wei Ying and Lan Zhan removed themselves from the cultivation world and lived their life in a farm, full of happiness and love.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Characters: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Mythology - Freeform, Mythology References, cultivation, Cultivation levels, Indian mythology - Freeform, Chinese Mythology - Freeform Series: Part 2 of Trials of Tribulation Summary:

A new adventure for our Wangxian.

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The very first time Jiang Cheng enters the novel you are shown his disregard to lives and his casual cruelty. He whips Mo Xuanyu and when it does not give the expected result, he wants to capture him and take him away, probably to torture and kill him like he did in the past 13 years. And he is baffled and angry that a person as esteemed as Hanguang-Jun would protect a “nobody”. Forget the fact that it was Wei Ying. I do not think Lan Wangji would let an innocent man to be captured in front of him.  Jiang Cheng does not understand kindness at all.  He treats people who are supposed to be beneath him in social hierarchy with disdain. For him, such people do not have any value and hence not worthy to be protected. He perceives any instance of kindness as “showing off” or “being a hero”.   

Every time Lan Zhan says “I am here” to Wei Ying, it warms my heart! There is a certain gravitas to his being when he says that. 

As though even the smallest of Wei Ying’s needs is worthy of his consideration. 

Even the simplest of Wei Ying’s wishes is worthy of his devotion. 

“I alone could not change the world….but the world could not change me either…” 

                  - Bad Buddy

Why am I quoting Bad Buddy for MDZS? Because this quote fits our Wei Ying and Lan Zhan perfectly. Yes, they could not change the cultivation world and its hypocrisy and classism and everything that is wrong.  But they did not let the cultivation change who they are either. They always lived their lives with their principles and morals. But their journey started at two extreme ends of the spectrum that is society. 

Wei Ying is a realist and very pragmatic. Wei Ying grew up in the streets. He probably saw all the depravity and the darkness the world had to offer. Later, he came to understand how people perceived him based on his servant class rather than who he was as a person. And yet, he retained his heart. He retained his kindness. He did not let circumstances change his soul. He overcame the shackles that society put on him and rose above everyone else. And this was probably why he was not very keen on these so called rules of the gentry sects. Because he had seen through the masks. He was ready to live without a golden core. But he was not ready to lead a life without his principles. A life without his morals would be a true death to Wei Ying. 

[A perfect parallel here would be Meng Yao. He let his experiences change him into the very thing he probably hated once upon a time. In order to overcome his circumstances, he became “them”.]

Lan Zhan is an idealist. Lan Zhan grew up in the mountains, above the clouds. Rules were what structured his morality once. Or rather, he could not differentiate between those two. He probably did not understand the superficial righteousness of the cultivation world. That is why he could not understand that Wei Ying, a person who does not follow the rules, who is seemingly frivolous, and irreverent could be righteous. It took one war and one Wei Ying to understand that there is no utopia. And yet, he did not let this betrayal of his beliefs change him. He did not go into “seclusion”. He did not run away from reality. He rose above everything and everyone. He found conviction and belief in his own morality rather than depend on a set of rules to tell him what morality is. He is, in spirit, the truest of the Lans. 

[A perfect parallel here would be Lan Xichen. Unlike Lan Zhan, he let the rules guide his morality. He would rather hide than face reality. He would rather go into “seclusion” than help change the world. He could not change the past. But he could change the future for the better. A complete opposite of Lan Zhan. Hanguang Jun could not change the past. But he did try to change the future. He showed the world what a true cultivator is. He nurtured young minds like Lan Yuan and Lan Jingyi.]  

Goodbye my sweet love.... I will be eagerly waiting for the next year......