Nie Huaisang’s Revenge Plan( More towards “The Untamed” universe)
Warning: This is very long. It includes spoilers and some sensitive topics.
Source: https://hishoukoku.tumblr.com/post/661223468299419648/nie-huaisangs-master-plan-ive-seen-a-few#:~:text=Nie%20Huaisang%20seeks%20out%20the,Wuxian%20back%20from%20the%20dead.
After Nie Mingjue died, Nie Huaisang was incredibly heartbroken. In his grief, he would hear Nie Mingjue’s voice. However, Nie Huaisang noticed a book flipping and turned his attention to it. Within the contents of the book, he found out that Jin Guangyao had altered the Cleansing Music. He realized that Jin Guangyao had used him to sabotage the mission and in doing so, killed most of the Nie disciples and his cousin Nie Zhonghui. Nie Huaisang began suspecting that his older brother’s death is in fact a murder and that Jin Guangyao is behind it. Soon enough, Jin Guangyao came in and told Nie Huaisang to restrain his grief. Nie Huaisang did not trust Jin Guangyao but still bowed to him. (Symbolism that connects this bow to Jin Guangyao’s bow for Jin Guangshan.) When Nie Huaisang found out his brother’s corpse went missing, he began to search for them.
When Jin Guangyao and Qin Su got married, he eavesdrops on Madam Qin telling Bi Cao about the fact that Qin Su is Jin Guangyao’s half-sister. Nie Huaisang was shocked at this revelation and decided he should investigate Jin Guangyao’s personal life, especially his crimes. He visited Carp Tower more often and was perplexed when Jin Guangshan made Mo Xuanyu a Jin disciple. He also found out that Jin Guangyao is acquainted with Xue yang. Nie Huaisang’s time in Carp Tower made him realize that Mo Xuanyu is very disliked among the Jin disciples. Of course, he went the extra mile and learned that Mo Xuanyu’s life is full of abuse and hate.
After Xue Yang witnessed Xiao Xingchen’s suicide, decided to work with Jin Guangyao, the Nie Huaisang. Nie Huaisang read the book Wei Wuxian had written about demonic cultivation and figured out a sacrificial summoning ritual. In Lanling, Nie Huaisang began to hear the rumors going around the Jin sect that Mo Xuanyu had forced himself on Jin Guangyao. Due to that, Mo Xuanyu is kicked from the Jin sect. Nie Huaisang knew how mentally ill Mo Xuanyu is and decided that this is his chance to use the sacrificial summoning ritual. Nie Huaisang then coerced the mentally ill Mo Xuanyu to do the sacrificial summoning to bring back his old friend, the Yiling Patriarch, Wei Wuxian. Then he convinced an old man to tell the story of Wei Wuxian, by promising him some gold.
But even after all these years of searching for his brother’s corpse, he only managed to find an arm. Nie Huaisang decided to let the fierce arm loose on the Mo village where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are. This only prompted Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian to investigate. However, when Nie Huaisang is running away, Lan Wangji manages to cut a piece of his robe off. Lan Wangji’s sac then led them to the Man-Eating castle. After Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji freed Jin Ling from the walls of the Man-Eating castle, they confronted Nie Huaisang about what had happened. Nie Huaisang claimed that it is just an ancestral tomb for the blade spirits. He explained that the whole idea of the cave eating men alive is just a false rumor that he made up to prevent people from entering the tomb and dying to the angry spirits. Nie Huaisang was lying to an extent throughout the entire confrontation though as the walls of the tomb are indeed made from humans.
Nie Huaisang then lures the junior disciples into Yi City. He nailed a dead black cat to the door of Jin Ling’s room and make a pool of blood outside as Jin Ling woke up. This happens night after night despite Jin Ling switching inns. Which eventually prompts him to investigate. Meanwhile, Lan Sizhui, Lan Jingyi, Ouyang Zizhen, and a few other juniors doing a night hunt in Langya. They first find the head of a cat in their soup, and then the corpse of a cat in their beds. This prompts them as well to investigate, ultimately meeting up with Jin Ling. When they all met, Nie Huaisang disguises himself as a hunter from a nearby village and point them directly toward Yi City. Nie Huaisang managed to get into the dungeons of the Jin sect and found a former prostitute Sisi. Hiding his identity, he asked her what she did to land herself here, but Sisi is hesitant to say anything. Nie Huaisang prompts her that he means no harm and that he’s trying to help her as he is trying to uncover Jin Guangyao’s crime to the world. Hearing this, Sisi reluctantly told him how Jin Guangyao had killed his father by hiring a bunch of prostitutes to force themselves on him. Nie Huaisang then frees Sisi. He then convinced Bicao to send Qin Su a letter about Jin Guangyao’s misdeeds.
All the while, Lan Wanji and Wei Wuxian found all of Nie Mingjue’s body parts, but they are still missing the head. Nie Huaisang because of this managed to get all of his brother’s body parts back, besides the head of course, and is now beginning to sew them together.
Wei Wuxian of course managed to sneak into the Fragrant Palace and found Nie Mingjue’s severed head. Wei Wuxian is then able to tap into Nie Mingjue’s past and saw how Nie Mingjue truly died. He also saw Qin Su being distraught and upset. She confronted Jin Guangyao about the information, but Jin Guangyao denies it. Of course, this was because she had received the letter Bicao had written to her. Afterward, Wei Wuxian told Lan Wangji about this, all the while, Nie Huaisang is listening to their conversation. He then went to Fragrant Palace to retrieve the head of his brother.
Wei Wuxian then convinces Jin Guangyao to let him enter Fragrant Palace and then attempts to rat Jin Guangyao out. Nie Huaisang deliberately fainted in the middle of the confrontation to make himself look weak. Wei Wuxian’s identity is then revealed, but Nie Huaisang had to pretend to be surprised so as to not draw suspicion. While Wei Wuxian left with Lan Wangji due to Wei Wuxian being stabbed by Jin Ling, Nie Huaisang decided he needs to execute the next part of his plan. Nie Huaisang went to the Guanyin Temple to replace Meng Shi’s body (via digging from outside of the wall) with his dead brother’s corpse all sewn up. He then placed a poisonous trap in it. Nie Huiasang afterward sends Jin Guangyao a letter warning him that he will expose all his secrets in seven days.
This caused the Second Siege of the Burial Mounds. Su She under Jin Guangyao’s guidance uses the Stygian Tiger seal to control the corpses and seals the cultivators’ spiritual power. Nie Huaisang beforehand had led the disciples of various sects to a cave and probably hired someone to tie them up. Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, and Wen Ning managed to find them and set them free which ended up with the sects (including his) meeting up with Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, and Wen Ning. The corpses caught up to them eventually and they all ended up in a cave. Wei Wuxian began to talk about his theories and analysis which resulted in Su She revealing that he is Jin Guangyao’s accomplice.
After escaping the corpses, all the sects go to Yunmeng, at Lotus Pier. Bicao and Sisi (as instructed by Nie Huaisang) arrive to tell their stories. Sisi talks about how Jin Guangyao murdered Jin Guangshan and Bicao talks about the fact that Jin Guangyao’s wife Qin Su was his own half-sister. Hearing this, all the sects are now against Jin Guangyao and are plotting to storm Karp Tower.
Nie Huaisang then went to Yunping City and was most likely willingly captured by Su She to see his plans coming to fruition. He woke up when the “monks” screamed after activating the trap. When the coffin got opened, he again pretended to be shocked at the matter. Later on, he deliberately allowed Su She to cut his leg. Nie Mingjue’s spirit, sensing that his brother is hurt, stabbed Su She killing him. After everything is settled, Lan Xichen asked Nie Huaisang for the medicine. Nie Huaisang then exclaimed that Jin Gungyao was about to do something and that resulted in Lan Xinchen stabbing Jin Guangyao. The blood from the stab wound got on the Stygian Amulet and the coffin causing Nie Mingjue’s spirit to be re-released. Jin Guangyao stayed behind in the collapsing building after pushing Lan Xichen away, which ultimately caused his death.
In the end, Wei Wuxian pieces it all together and suspected that Nie Huaisang was behind everything, but he has no evidence to support it.
