#aurora077

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46814080

I just want older Jin Ling who has come into his own as a Sect Leader etc. and has totally gotten over the phase of teenaged embarrassment/ need to look cool and like a 'big boy' in front of jiujiu, being totally clingy and sticky with Jiang Cheng in private because he wants to be pampered by jiujiu now.

He isn't worried anymore about looking childish in front of jiujiu because he's established now and he knows he isn't after a decade of dealing with his sect (and the elders ugh) so he's just comfortable going to Jiang Cheng to whine and to get affection.

Because now he doesn't let Jiang Cheng's grumpy self force him away.. when he was young and going through it when Wei Wuxian came back etc he wished jiujiu would fuss over him too the way the others were but Jiang Cheng was just too oblivious to know his wants, now Jin Ling takes what he wants.

He will hug jiujiu and stick to him even if Jiang Cheng protests that is is unbecoming and that Jin Ling is a grown up now he shouldn't be behaving like this... 

Jiang Cheng doesn't have anyone in his life to be close to him anyway only Jin Ling can do these things and Jin Ling himself as a Sect Leader now too doesn't have anyone he can truly be himself with so when he's sick of the elders and everyone else he will hop on his sword and go to Yunmeng Jiang and make Jiang Cheng take a break and cater to him.

When he was young he always wanted to impress Jiang Cheng and wanted to seem like he was mature and didn't want to show weakness etc even if he knew Jiang Cheng would protect him but now he knows that he is mature and even though he still wants Jiang Cheng to be proud of him and to think he's doing well, he doesn't fear Jiang Cheng thinking of him as childish anymore because if he couldn't be childish in front of jiujiu then who even was he? That should be his right! 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46814080

So I had this idea and wasn't sure which pairings etc would work well with it but ex-chengxian and zhancheng seems to be good maybe so like au where the law is that if you divorce your spouse you cannot remarry them until they've married another... if they become divorced/widowed from this new spouse, *then* if you want to rekindle a relationship with them you can get married to them again because divorce is allowed but a past emperor thought that some people were marrying and divorcing too frivolously and not taking marriage seriously so they put this rule into place so that people would think before making hasty decisions.

Now of course the new marriage has to be real.. a real relationship.. if the court finds out that you're marrying and divorcing just as a way to get the second marriage out of the way to get back with your first spouse you will be arrested. Of course there were still some shady dealings but the law generally made it difficult for people to actually go through with these kinds of plans. Only one half of the couple needed to remarry not both, just to show that they tried to move on.

Of course you could still get back together after a divorce, you simply would not be able to marry and would just have to be without that status, which was very frowned upon by the society. Some people did just live together but it wasn't an easy thing socially speaking as it was a sign that you were a frivolous person who divorced your spouse for petty reasons and it just made u seem like u had bad character so people would look down on you. And for the most part it worked. People who considered marriage did it seriously, and divorce as well.

Of course every society has people who do things in haste and anger so there were definitely those who didn't think things through and later regretted it. So I'm thinking maybe chengxian are together and they're childhood sweethearts but Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng have been arguing lately and couldn't agree on certain decisions... Wei Wuxian in the heat of the moment said something really really stupid-- that maybe they should just divorce and do things their own way.

Jiang Cheng, hurt, agreed.

Wei Wuxian of course regrets it. He regrets it so much.

But Jiang Cheng refused to be married to someone who didn't want him. He promised himself he wouldn't become his mother. So he goes through with the divorce because just the fact that Wei Wuxian brought it up really hurt him and caused him to lose trust and faith in their relationship.

Wei Wuxian was confident that he could win Jiang Cheng back... but he wouldn't get the chance to he knew because Jiang Cheng would *never* put himself in a cohabiting situation after the divorce to have people look down on him and treat him poorly, and Wei Wuxian wouldn't want that for him either.

Enter Lan Wangji Now I can't decide how I want this to go. We could have a few dif scenarios here. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are good friends and Wei Wuxian begs Lan Wangji to help him. He could court Jiang Cheng and marry him and because Wei Wuxian didn't want Jiang Cheng's heart to be too badly hurt, Lan Wangji could divorce him later with the excuse of being Wei Wuxian's friend and feeling so guilty that he 'stole' him from Wei Wuxian when he knew how much Wei Wuxian still loved Jiang Cheng. This was so Jiang Cheng wouldn't feel like he was the problem. Wei Wuxian definitely learned the hard way and he really didn't want to hurt Jiang Cheng, he loved him.

So when they got divorced Wei Wuxian could beg Jiang Cheng for another chance. (And of course Lan Wangji would talk up how much Wei Wuxian regretted what he did and how much he cared for Jiang Cheng) OR Lan Wangji who is in love with Wei Wuxian and wants to marry *him* but he knows Wei Wuxian is still in love with Jiang Cheng. Lan Wangji isn't a bad guy and he just wants Wei Wuxian to be happy, even if it's not with him. He and Wei Wuxian are friends and Wei Wuxian of course cried to him all about his regrets etc So he volunteers to woo & marry Jiang Cheng and divorce him after a bit so that Wei Wuxian could remarry him.

The problem? He falls in love with Jiang Cheng.

In either scenario Lan Wangji falls for Jiang Cheng and... well.. he doesn't *want* to divorce him. This has the potential for drama because both Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng feel betrayed by Lan Wangji once this comes out. Wei Wuxian will confront Lan Wangji because when are you going to divorce him?! Lan Wangji keeps stalling somehow Jiang Cheng finds out.. maybe he overhears their conversation or maybe Wei Wuxian in a fit of anger at Lan Wangji for having Jiang Cheng's love now, tells Jiang Cheng everything

Jiang Cheng of course is doubly heartbroken and betrayed because he can't believe that Wei Wuxian would actually have someone else make him fall in love with them and marry them only to divorce him just to let him be with Wei Wuxian (yes Wei Wuxian loves him but it's selfish of him not to consider that Jiang Cheng would be heartbroken at a second divorce no matter how amicable because for Jiang Cheng to get married in the first place to another person meant he would have had to love them dearly and of course he'd have moved on from Wei Wuxian by then to this new person so no guarantee he'd go back to Wei Wuxian at all).

And of course he's more hurt by Lan Wangji who he was now in love with because it meant that Lan Wangji approached him with ulterior motives and if the relationship started on a lie then how could Jiang Cheng believe any of Lan Wangji's feelings were real? From the beginning Lan Wangji had no intention of being with Jiang Cheng He was just stringing Jiang Cheng along and faking everything to get Jiang Cheng to agree to marry him. Jiang Cheng is crushed. But Lan Wangji refuses to divorce him. He would not make the same mistake as Wei Wuxian and let Jiang Cheng go. Jiang Cheng was rightfully upset with him but Lan Wangji was willing to grovel as long as it took.

Even if Wei Wuxian was angry with Lan Wangji, Lan Wangji couldn't help himself. He knew Wei Wuxian loved Jiang Cheng but... well he did now too. If it's the first scenario where they're just friends, maybe Lan Wangji decides Jiang Cheng is more important than Wei Wuxian but Lan Wangji is still his friend so he tries to convince Wei Wuxian that he and Jiang Cheng divorced for a reason and that Wei Wuxian was just accustomed to Jiang Cheng being around his entire life and needed to put himself out there and find someone to love that wasn't just partially because of familiarity. Wei Wuxian of course is pissed at Lan Wangji anyway and still heartbroken

He really and truly lost Jiang Cheng. Not only was Jiang Cheng now married to Lan Wangji who was refusing to divorce him so there was no chance of remarrying him, but Jiang Cheng was also really hurt that Wei Wuxian would go behind his back and scheme. He felt Wei Wuxian had been selfish... if Wei Wuxian had been honest and tried to win Jiang Cheng back, then if Wei Wuxian's efforts had been sincere and Jiang Cheng gave him another chance, the marriage issue could have been resolved by both of them agreeing to Lan Wangji's help. But Wei Wuxian hadn't done that, he and Lan Wangji had played Jiang Cheng for a fool in Jiang Cheng's eyes.

And so Wei Wuxian had lost Jiang Cheng and he'd also lost a friendship with Lan Wangji because Lan Wangji had agreed to help him but instead had stolen Jiang Cheng from him. Even if Jiang Cheng was mad at Lan Wangji, Jiang Cheng was more hurt and Wei Wuxian knew it was because Jiang Cheng really loved him, so if Lan Wangji grovelled enough he was sure Jiang Cheng would accept him Maybe Wei Wuxian goes out to drown his sorrows and ends up crying alone in a corner... he wakes up the next morning in a bed that he didn't recognise and high key panicked because he did not remember going home with anyone!

"Calm down, nothing happened," said a very amused voice.

The man had watched him flail around in confusion and panic and thought it adorable and hilarious but put him out of his misery anyway because it wasn't nice to scare him like that. Wei Wuxian looked over to see a huge, muscled dude with a grin on his face. 'Whoa' he thought, 'Hot'.

"Uh.. what am I doing here? And no offense but, who are you?"

"Nie Mingjue," came the response alongside another grin, and oh my were those dimples? "And as to why you're here.. you had a little too much and were crying all alone. I wanted to make sure you were okay and you basically spilled your life story. You passed out after a while and well I didn't know what else to do but to take you home and let you rest. Your phone was locked so I couldn't call anyone to come get you. I apologise but I didn't really have a choice at the moment."

"Oh." Wei Wuxian felt embarrassed that this man saw his sorry state. "You must think I'm pathetic." He hid his face in his hands sorrowfully.

"No. Maybe you made some mistakes but we all do, especially when emotions are involved. It's not pathetic."

Wei Wuxian strangely felt a bit better. Nie Mingjue was just really good at big brothering someone-- though he could tell from the looks he was getting as he made breakfast that this one definitely didn't see him as a brother. Well, that was ok. He might have red puffy eyes but when he smiled Wei Wuxian was breathtaking. Nie Mingjue would like very much to make him smile. Though not just yet of course, he was still getting over his ex.

But Nie Mingjue was a patient man. He could wait.

Of course Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji would eventually work things out because never let it be said that Lan Wangji wasn't good at simping. Eventually his efforts got through to Jiang Cheng and they had a proper conversation and Jiang Cheng expressed how hurt he was while Lan Wangji talked about how he fell for Jiang Cheng very quickly and he knew that he'd have a hard time doing what Wei Wuxian had asked, and by the time their wedding came around he knew he wasn't going to go through with it at all. He apologised too for not considering Jiang Cheng's feelings when he and Wei Wuxian planned things and acknowledged it was foolish.

It may have started out as a way to help Wei Wuxian but for Lan Wangji it very soon became real and he didn't fake things with Jiang Cheng, even in the beginning he hadn't exactly lied to Jiang Cheng he had just tried to talk to him about things they had in common and to get to know him.

Once he convinced Jiang Cheng that it wasn't fake and his feelings were real, they were able to 'start over' on more honest ground and Lan Wangji took the opportunity to woo him again. They also managed to have a conversation with Wei Wuxian and to clear the air. Lan Wangji apologised to him as well because well, he really did betray Wei Wuxian in a way. And Wei Wuxian acknowledged it was immature and selfish of him to try and control Jiang Cheng's relationship status so that he'd get back with Wei Wuxian. The biggest surprise was when Wei Wuxian introduced them to his new boyfriend but it was a happy surprise, they were glad for him.

Of course if it's the second scenario where Lan Wangji was in love with Wei Wuxian and volunteered himself to marry Jiang Cheng so Wei Wuxian could have him back because he wanted to see Wei Wuxian happy.. aka he was doing it all for Wei Wuxian without regard for Jiang Cheng up until he went and fell for Jiang Cheng himself... it'd be a little more complicated. ie. Jiang Cheng would be even more hurt i think in this scenario because if Lan Wangji was in love with Wei Wuxian then how could he love Jiang Cheng?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46814080

Modern au Wei Wuxian dropping into xianxialand and seeing Jiang Cheng wielding Zidian and Sandu and drooling because mm this dream he's having of ChengCheng is so nice~

When Jiang Cheng turns and sees him he looks confused by Wei Wuxian's attire but Wei Wuxian just runs to him and jumps on him happily because he was going to enjoy this dream~ Maybe he could convince ChengCheng to dress like this when he woke up.

"Wei Wuxian!" Jiang Cheng says warningly and Wei Wuxian's heart speeds up because mmm 🤤 his brain is on a roll tonight that voice is hot.

"Best dream ever!" Wei Wuxian mutters and looks at Jiang Cheng flirtatiously. Jiang Cheng is gobsmacked at Wei Wuxian's audacity.

Before he could push Wei Wuxian off though Wei Wuxian leans in and kisses him and Jiang Cheng freezes.

Wei Wuxian notices and pulls back and pouts and whines, "Hubby kiss XianXian back!"

"What the hell are you doing Wei Wuxian?" he pushes Wei Wuxian away this time.

"ChengCheng I know you don't like public displays of affection but it's just us in this forest! How could I resist when you appear in my dream looking so delicious? Come on don't be shy~ give your XianXian a kiss!" Wei Wuxian says playfully, trying to kiss Jiang Cheng again.

"Wei Wuxian this isn't a dream, have you been cursed? Did you forget you're married to Lan Wangji?" Jiang Cheng said.. Wei Wuxian clearly wasn't in his right mind... though given that he was calling Jiang Cheng by name did this mean he dreamt of... of.. *this* kind of thing with him often?! 

"Don't be silly Jiang Cheng why would I be married to Lan Zhan? Do you want Huaisang to kill me? Besides if this isn't a dream explain how you're using that fancy lightning whip? Obviously I'm dreaming of my precious hubby~ Don't try to dissuade me dream ChengCheng, i know you're mad at me for forgetting to change the cat litter but it was one time okay? I'll remember the next time! Don't deny me in my dreams too" Wei Wuxian pouts and tries to snuggle up to Jiang Cheng again.

"What does Huaisang have to do with this?" Jiang Cheng said, confused and trying to hold Wei Wuxian back without hurting him as his cultivation was poor now.

Wait.. why did Wei Wuxian not have any cultivation? And.. this wasn't Mo Xuanyu's face it was Wei Wuxian's! It took Jiang Cheng too long to realise this.

Was *he* the cursed one?! 

"Dream ChengCheng have you forgotten oyou're life together?" Wei Wuxian said dramatically, "Of course Nie Huaisang will be mad if i tried to marry his husband! And I have you why would I do that anyway?"

Jiang Cheng tied up this Wei Wuxian with Zidian.

"Nie Huaisang isn't married to Lan Wangji, you are! And you'd know that if you were the real Wei Wuxian. What kind of yao are you?" he said fiercely.

"Ow.. that hurts... ChengCheng how could you be so cruel to your hubby 😭... also I'm amenable to playing with the whip but I didn't think you'd want to do that out in the forest! How about we go home first~!" 

Jiang Cheng couldn't bring himself to kill the yao, or maybe it was just that he was cursed and seeing things... going back to Lotus Pier was probably the best course of action.. so he grabbed the tied up imposter Wei Wuxian and flew back to Lotus Pier.

"Oohhh this dream is so cool!"

The imposter was confused clearly.

He landed in Lotus Pier, while the imposter oohed and aahed, taking him straight to the infirmary to get himself checked for a curse before determining if this was a yao or what. "Sect leader, there's nothing wrong with you," said Healer Zhang,"You're perfectly fine, if a bit overworked." She looked at him disapprovingly. Then she turned to examine the imposter. "As for him... he's just a mortal. I don't know why he thinks he's Wei Wuxian, there's nothing wrong with him either."

"Uh ChengCheng this dream is getting a little uncomfortable," Wei Wuxian said, as he had been tied up a while with Zidian, "I didn't know you could feel pain in dreams... could we skip this and get to the good part?" 

"Why do you think this is a dream?" he asked the imposter.

Healer Zhang had never met Wei Wuxian when he was in his original body and as such didn't know that Wei Wuxian did look like this in the past. This wasn't a random confused mortal, he was actually a copy of the og Wei Wuxian. 

"Well obviously this is a dream, I already told you look at this whip! Besides maybe I watched too much Regret of Chunshan and am now dreaming of xianxia romance, but obviously none of this exists in reality."  Wei Wuxian found it weird he had to explain to his dream Jiang Cheng that this was dream. He thought he was having a nice dream but this one was just confusing. Jiang Cheng was sexy and hot and Wei Wuxian wanted to dream of spring not confusion.. was this because he made Jiang Cheng mad so dream Jiang Cheng was not humoring him? This was his punishment to have Jiang Cheng and not be able to touch?! T-T 

"Why can't the whip exist?"

"Jiang Cheng xianxia is not real, there are no such things as spiritual whips or cultivation.. but it doesn't matter! You're real and you're so hot and I'm real and also sexy so why don't we skip the filler scenes and get to the good part already!" 

Jiang Cheng was utterly discombobulated because this Wei Wuxian made no sense. But if Healer Zhang was right and this was a mortal... not a yao, not him being cursed.. then.. was this Wei Wuxian actually real like he claimed? He thought this was all a dream after all.. so how did he get here because Jiang Cheng knew it was not a dream. But because this world was 'impossible' and claimed to be fake by Wei Wuxian he thought he was dreaming. But this Wei Wuxian kept referring to him as hubby and even said Lan Wangji and Nie Huaisang were married! Was it possible this Wei Wuxian was not even from their world?!

The demonic cultivator he had been tracking had died trying to power some array that looked like it was trying to call back the Yiling Laozu. Despite Wei Wuxian being alive, some sycophants didn't believe it was truly him because the Yiling Laozu and Hanguang-Jun were known enemies after all, he wouldn't marry that do gooder!

Maybe the array worked but because Wei Wuxian was alive in this time already (ie the Yiling Laozu was not dead so could not be summoned) the array must have pulled a Wei Wuxian from another time. He questioned this Wei Wuxian some more and got some more confusing answers but it seemed to confirm his suspicions He had to find a way to return this Wei Wuxian to his time. 

Now if only Wei Wuxian would stop whining and pouting and pleading for his hubby to forgive him and batting his eyes flirtatiously, trying to seduce him that would be great! Wei Wuxian was convinced Jiang Cheng was his husband and that he was dreaming...

Jiang Cheng.. couldn't believe that another version of Wei Wuxian was married to him and not Lan Wangji..

(Wei Wuxian wormed his way into Jiang Cheng's heart and bed before Jiang Cheng managed to reverse the array and send him back to his own time)

It figures, he thought sadly, of course this Wei Wuxian didn't belong to him either so he couldn't keep him anyway.

As he went to walk away though, the array glowed again, and spit out another figure.

The figure stood up shakily and dusted himself off. He raised his head and locked eyes with Jiang Cheng.

"Oh," he smirked, "ChengCheng~ I've finally found you~!"

"W..wei wuxian?!" 

This Wei Wuxian sauntered up to him and before he could speak, pulled him into him and kissed him deeply.

"I've been looking all over for you"

Jiang Cheng tried to struggle but this Wei Wuxian was slightly stronger than him.

"Oh no you don't, you're not leaving my sight, no dying for you this time!" And Wei Wuxian caressed his face softly looking longingly at him.

"I missed you."

And Jiang Cheng... well.. didn't Jiang Cheng miss his Wei Wuxian too? 

"I missed you too," he said hoarsely.

Modern Wei Wuxian had made him acknowledge many things he never even knew he felt or desired (they had been married!)

When this Wei Wuxian wanted to marry Jiang Cheng he accepted, and it was a gobsmacked cultivation world that saw Sect Leader Jiang marry a random veiled cultivator one lovely day. They had no idea Sect Leader Jiang was in a relationship! And with a man!

The Yiling Laozu and Hanguang-Jun found him suspiciously familiar, but nobody could place who this talented individual was.

Jin Ling would look on with an enigmatic smile and refuse to answer any questions. 

Bonus:

"Isn't it your birthday? Why are you giving me a gift?"

"Oh it's a gift for you that's for me," Wei Wuxian said, smiling brightly and waiting with bated breath for Jiang Cheng to open the package.

Jiang Cheng looked at him suspiciously but opened it up.

"Wei Wuxian!" 

"Ahh don't hit me ChengCheng, unless you're using that Zidian replica!"

"What is the meaning of this?" Jiang Cheng said, red faced and looking at that shameless husband of his.

"Welllll you remember that dream I told you about? I commissioned this outfit for you~"

Jiang Cheng's face was like a tomato. Wei Wuxian had had some spicy dream about him in some xianxia setting (he really was watching too many of those dramas) and he'd worn some fancy purple robes and had a lightning whip and Wei Wuxian was very into it. 

"And what if I don't wear it?"

"But it's my birthday 🥺"

Jiang Cheng sighed, "Fine!"

Ugh he was going to need help getting into these robes.

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·15 Nov 2022

Jiang Fengmian gets amnesia from sex pollen near Nie Mingjue, Su She forces them to drink, eyes, Mature

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Heh I love this prompt bot, so Jiang Fengmian gets hit with the pollen near Nie Mingjue who also gets hit but is like oh hell no, not today Satan and he knocks Jiang Fengmian out which unfortunately leads to the teensy weensy minor side effect of him losing his memories..

They were chasing a yao both from their own territories but it had been eluding both of them and they were now closer to the Cloud Recesses so Nie Mingjue takes him there... the Lan disciple sent to deliver medicine to them was Su She who forces them to drink the disgusting concoction by telling them it was either that or eating the eye of a red tailed colostomy fish which tastes like sewage because that was the only other cure for the pollen they were both hit with... or of course they could always dual cultivate with each other, which to Nie Mingjue was a hard pass, so the yucky meds it was... 

Jiang Fengmian goes back to Lotus Pier with not many memories which works out well for everyone because he's immediately struck by Yu Ziyuan's good looks and becomes a simp instead.. his family is much happier and thank Nie Mingjue for his service because they like him better this way