#pianran

Fox Pian Ran scetch.

Just two gal-pals. On a road trip to Hell. Drinking together. As friends. Sensually touching each other. Totally platonic.

The Bo’re life goes pretty much the same except Ye Xiwu is far more effected by the fact that Tantai Jin almost turned evil purely out of grief for her. It never occurred to her he could feel that much love. But it’s okay, she prevented it, and it surely won’t happen again because he’s Tantai Jin, the stone cold devil fetus

“Don’t worry Tantai Jin, once I figure out how to remove the devil core, I’ll be back.” She goes to the demon place, pretty much goes the same, with one key difference

Ye Xiwu hears she needs Tantai Jin to grow love threads and those warning bells go off again. “But if Tantai Jin grows too in love, he could turn evil like in Bo’re life.”

And then it clicks. Oh. That’s why I needed the dream: not to warn me against Tantai Jin falling in love, but just that I cannot have Tantai Jin fall in love with me.

The entire universe is like “no wait- that’s not what-“ but it’s too late. Ye Xiwu has decided. Just like when she decided she needed to seduce Tantai Jin, no one can change her mind now. She needs to set Tantai Jin up with someone. Encourage his attachment to people in general. And make sure he doesn’t mess up his relationship with this person.

Only slight canon divergence here, in my mind the arc ends the same: the poison debacle, Ye Xiwu is forced to kill, marriage trauma, etc.

It’s just Tantai Jin and Ye Xiwu fall in love and confess their feelings a bit different. Personally this AU stems from me not really liking the trope of ‘woman has to act head over heels for the man to seduce him’ and I wanted a more dynamic ‘to lovers’ part of the ‘enemies to lovers.’

Plus just the hilarity of Ye Xiwu trying to set Tantai Jin up with people. Mother henning him to be closer with Ye Qingyu and Nian Baiyu. Pianran laughing quietly in the corner.

Ye Xiwu being like “this is how you hug people” and then hugging Tantai Jin, and then feels a love thread growing and immediately pushes him away.

Ye Xiwu: What the fuck what the fuck what the why are you-

Tantai Jin is just standing there staring at her panic like: is she being shy? Did I make her embarrassed!??🥰🥰

Ye Xiwu: You need to have more connections!! You need friends!!!! You deserve love and I will force you!!!!!!

Tantai Jin *being dragged around a festival and forced into socialising*: Is this… affection??

Ye Xiwu tries to set him up with Pianran first. Pianran shuts that down really quickly but asks Ye Xiwu why she’s trying to set her husband up with other women

Ye Xiwu: Technically he’s not my husband anymore. Also we hate eachother so why would I care.

Pianran: Uh huh. So why are you trying to set him up?

Ye Xiwu: He uh- he deserves love. Yeah. He needs to be loved, made more human, you know.

Pianran: Yeah yeah that makes sense *oh my god this oblivious child*

Of course Pianran helps her set him up with women because 1) it’s funny and 2) it’s going to annoy the fuck out of Tantai Jin

Also of course Pianran chooses the literal worse women for him. And our trusting Ye Xiwu has no idea what his type is so…

Tantai Jin, despite being dense, realises what Ye Xiwu is doing, purely because she has literally no tact

Tantai Jin, after terrifying the second girl today: Why are you doing this Ye Xiwu?

Ye Xiwu, unable to understand why everyone is scared of Tantai Jin: Doing what?

Instead of being Tantai Jin’s prisoner, she announces herself to Pianran first (because she was trying to set them up). She becomes Pianran’s maid, because Pianran wants to piss off Tantai Jin. And he is irritated, because he’s been demanding she be found and Pianran has just claimed her as an assistant.

Pianran: You said find her alive or dead. I found her and made her my assistant. What’s the problem?

Ye Xiwu: Hi!

Ye Quingyu, sweating bullets as he watches Tantai Jin’s blood pressure increase exponentially: Pianran technically didn’t break the rules my lord

Tantai Jin believing, after the hug incident, and the fact that Ye Xiwu keeps running off whenever they could have an intimate moment, that she’s in love with him and very shy about it. So deciding to irritate her back by forcing them into intimate situations.

Tantai Jin: we should go to the festival together

Ye Xiwu: Oh I don’t think I-

Tantai Jin, smirking: Such a shame, I could meet someone there. But I’m really scared to go alone, so I guess..

Ye Xiwu: I’ll go with you!

Tantai Jin: Fantastic I’ll see you at 7 *walks off*

Ye Xiwu: Fuck did I just agree to that

Ye Bingchang appears and falls at Tantai Jin’s feet. Ye Xiwu doesn’t know why she’s so angry (her and Tantai Jin still have a falling out and are not speaking). She should want him to fall for Ye Bingchang. Why is she so upset??