#hurt wei wuxian
❤️flame and rust
by cl410
M, 35k, wangxian
Summary: What was so special about Wei Ying that Jiang Cheng’s parents expected him to become a guardian of Lotus Pier?
Or: Baoshan Sanren’s lineage has a special talent, one that Wei Wuxian inherits. No one is quite sure what to do with a dragon, least of all Lan Wangji.
My comments: Ah, this story just grabbed me by my heart and didn’t let go. Wwx is kept by the jaings SOLELY for the use he can be to them as a defense-dragon, and he’s never allowed to forget it, which is horribly abusive. Jyl and jc adore him, though, and don’t like how he’s treated.
He gets a taste of a different life during the cloud recesses stint, when people just like him… including lqr, who figures him out right away and becomes a mentor. And lan zhan… lan zhan makes him warm and fuzzy and dumb, and lights a nascent little bond within him.
But then shit utterly hits the fan as canon progresses, and some terrible things happen, and choices are made by various people that have horrific and unintended consequences, and wwx ends up coreless in the burial mounds, struggling to survive.
There’s a lot of focus on the close bond between wwx and his siblings in spite of how the jiang parents treat him. Throughout the story, he struggles to understand that he can be accepted for other reasons than his ability to fight and die, and there can be family for him - and a home - just because he is wei wuxian, and for no other reason.
I am warning you now: you will HAVE FEELINGS.
Excerpt: “We’re going to be late!” Jiang Cheng said impatiently. He put his hands on his hips and glowered threateningly up at the lanky dragon halfway up the tree. “Do you want to keep jiejie waiting? Maybe I’ll tell her you didn’t want to come!”
Wei Wuxian made a protesting noise, tipping sideways in his haste to slink to the ground. He caught himself in time, somehow, and briefly dangled upside down from the branch, frozen cautiously in place and not quite sure how he’d managed it.
There was an ominous crack. He peered at the branch, realizing too late what was about to happen, and then squawked when it broke and sent him hurtling to the ground.
He landed with a boom that shook the earth, the broken branch held safely between his front paws as he blinked dazedly at the sky. Jiang Cheng loomed over him with a deeply judgmental expression.
“That was embarrassing to watch,” he said.
shapeshifting, dragon wei wuxian, growing up, jiang siblings, child abuse (via madam yu), fluff and humor, students at cloud recesses, dragon instincts, crushes, awkward crush, lan qiren is good, lan qiren & wei wuxian, protective lan qiren, protective lan xichen, protective jiang siblings, madam yu is bad, jiang fengmian is bad, hurt wei wuxian, sick wei wuxian, angst, jiang sibling feels, protective jiang yanli, so much angst and trauma, burial mounds, BAMF wei wuxian, partial shift, loss of golden core, dragon eyes and ears, golden core reveal, baoshan sanren, burial mounds whumpage so sad, sunshot campaign with a dragon, found family, home, wei wuxian is loved, happy ending, favorite, @i-like-plan-m
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Bullets for a Wedding
byElDiablito_SF (E, 31k, wangxian)
Summary:Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are disgustingly in love and happily cohabitating six months after the events of “Pearls for a Funeral”. But a vindictive power will not let them rest. Trouble is brewing at work for Detective Jiang Cheng, and just in time to create all kinds of problems for his sister’s wedding (not to mention the invitation list!). A mysterious letter starts off a non-stop, wild, noir ride which takes our heroes from the foggy climes of San Francisco to the verdant hills of Napa Valley. Can Wangxian once again prevail over the powers of darkness and save their love as well as each other? I don’t know, I don’t know, I really don’t know.
Part2ofNoir AU (2 works, series in progress)
My comment: Ah, a very satisfying sequel to Pearls For a Funeral (here’s mypost). In which the bad guys from the first story just won’t stop making trouble, prison and looming execution notwithstanding. POV alternates, and it’s a ride through a visceral 1940s landscape with loads of angst and kidnapping and perilous situations (both physical and emotional). Fun time!
Excerpt:One would have thought once you’ve lived through one abduction, the second one would be a walk in the park, and yet, Lan Wangji was discovering, one would have been entirely incorrect. What was even more beneath his dignity was being held hostage by the man who used to wash his car. Oh no, if Uncle found out, he would be absolutely livid. This assassin, this Xue Yang personage, who had dared beat Wei Ying into a bloody pulp and trespass against his clavicles (a sin for which Lan Wangji had already damned the man to the ninth circle of hell), was barely worthy of so much as being in Lan Wangji’s presence. Unfortunately, he was hovering extremely uncomfortably close to his presence, and leering in such a way that made Lan Wangji pull at his restraints despite his valiant attempts at keeping his considerable cool.
noir au, case fic, 1940s san francisco, established relationship, mystery, intrigue, private detective wei wuxian, rich socialite lan wangji, background nielan, shameless lan wangji, gumshoe wei wuxian,kidnapping, light torture, BAMF lan wangji, hurt wei wuxian, hurt lan wangji, misunderstandings, angst, POV alternating, lack of communication, feels, hostage situations, grief/mourning, happy ending, @jadedbirch
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❤️the thing with feathers
G, 43k, wangxian, Part 1ofHope
Summary:A night hunt gone wrong leaves Wei Wuxian facing life without a husband and son. He refuses. Using an experimental array, he attempts temporal transmigration, but it goes wrong. He sends himself back to the age of ten, and the strain on his young body and mind requires another desperate use of resentful energy… which also goes wrong. A different sort of time travel fic.
My comments: Oh, wow, I loved this so much! I’m really looking forward to more in the series, because I could happily drown myself in 50k more words of it.
Wwx sends himself back in time, but this story is different, in that once he enters his 10-year-old self (which is pretty traumatic) he ends up with amnesia, so really IS just a child. The chain of events this sets off is fabulous. While he’s in a coma and things are touch-and-go, Madam Yu has an opportunity to examine her poor treatment of this boy in the past and set about making some changes. Because he’s crying out for “Lan Zhan”, the Lans are invited to try to clear away the resentful energy (they think it was cast at him as a curse in an attack), and Lan Qiren brings both his nephews.
The story covers about a season, and POV jumps around, which is wonderful, because everyone is GROWING. They are changing, their worlds are different, and they’re being exposed to different people and different ideas. Madam Yu and Lan Qiren go through perhaps the biggest development arcs, but seriously, EVERYONE is affected. (And none of this is done with a heavy hand, either: the focus is on the story, and the growth is all organic.)
Little Lan Wangji opens up like he never has before, Jiang Yanli starts to learn to be a healer and LQR teachers her musical cultivation… the ripple effect of change is simply fascinating. The Lans become less rigid, and the Jiangs more loving. And young wwx is the nexus and the catalyst. Especially when he ‘remembers’ a few things that make them believe he’s become precognitive.
time travel, fix it, child wei wuxian, madam yu is good, POV multiple, child lan wangji, hurt wei wuxian, sick wei wuxian, angst, amnesia, jiang family feels, caretaking, illness recovery, character growth, (all of them - they are growing and becoming better people), social change, adoption, lan qiren is good, sharing a bed, nightmares, emotional hurt/comfort, hurt/comfort, doting lan wangji, street orphans, gege jiang cheng, didi wei wuxian, jiang wuxian, betrothal, arranged marriage, grief, sect politics, protective madam yu, protective lan wangji, protective everyone, favorite, @rosethornewrites
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❤️in the arms of the angel
E, 38k, wangxian
Summary:So there was this jar, and it had so much peanut butter still in it, and when his fox nose scented it and didn’t catch any poison or spoilage, what was he supposed to do? Not avail himself of this gift? No. He shoved his delicate little snout right in there and got to licking, but, you know… Elegantly. Definitely not snarfing and making horrible little fox sounds and rolling around on the ground while he went ham on the jar. Sure, he had to work a little bit to get at the last of it, but anything good is worth working for, right? So finally, triumphant, no longer starving, and maybe a little thirsty now from eating half a cup of peanut butter in about two minutes, he’d tried to remove his head from the jar.
Operative word tried.
Or: Wei Ying gets stuck. Lan Zhan helps.
My comments: Well, now, this was a hoot and a ride, due to being inside wwx’s head for the whole story (along with his colony of over-caffeinated squirrels and the eighteen trains of thought he has going in and out of his brain depot). He’s a feral cuddle-monster as a fox and an insecure and anxious human if he thinks too much, and there’s zero filter at all, so he often uses mouth words when no mouth words should have been used, and it’s hilarious.
Luckily, Lan Zhan is really *really* into that.
Excerpt 1: He thinks, briefly, about shifting into his human form. Would he just sort of… explode out of the jar? Or would he end up with his human-sized head stuck inside this fox-sized peanut butter jar? That is genuinely the most horrifying thought he’s ever had in his life. No fucking way. Shifting is right out! Not today Satan, not today!
Excerpt 2: He reaches one gloved hand in and murmurs, “Don’t worry, Xiao-gua, I’ll take you somewhere safe.”
Wei Ying dies a little inside and doesn’t think he can be blamed for it. Anyone would feel the same way after hearing that voice coming out of that face calling an angry possum “Little Melon” in Chinese. The possum apparently agrees, because it stops hissing and goes docile, settling into a corner of the box and blinking up at Hot Animal Hero with sleepy eyes. “Good job,” Hot Animal Hero tells the possum. “You’re doing very well.”
Wei Ying is going to fucking marry this man. Tall, hot, smells good, good with animals? He’s gone. He’s done. The crush he develops is instant and all-consuming.
fox wei wuxian, modern au, modern with magic, poverty, humor, chaotic wei wuxian, adhd wei wuxian, wildlife animal rescuer lan wangji, human/fox disaster wei wuxian, shananigans & hijinks, flirting, crushes, hurt wei wuxian, in that his head is stuck in a jar for a long time, caretaking, huli jing, shapeshifting, POV wei wuxian, THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY, insecure wei wuxian, protective lan wangji, thirsty lan wangji, empath lan wangji, touch telepathy, getting to know each other, getting together, meet cute, cuddling, first kiss, first time, scenting, scent kink, enthusiastic consent, hurt/comfort, communication, favorite
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