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“Wei Ying, when I almost lost you, I realized I would do anything to be with you.” — Lan Zhan

🌙 Longfic based on The Untamed (TV series) 198k+ words and still growing — set in a world of enchanted forests, emotional quiet, and the slow rebuilding of love and trust.

Lan Wangji refuses to let Wei Ying fall. And Wei Ying… learns to stay.

🌿 Hurt/comfort. Healing. Slow burn. 🌈 Queer subtext? I make it text.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66022528/chapters/170121079

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“Wei Ying, when I almost lost you, I realized I would do anything to be with you.” — Lan Zhan

🌙 Longfic based on The Untamed (TV series) 198k+ words and still growing — set in a world of enchanted forests, emotional quiet, and the slow rebuilding of love and trust.

Lan Wangji refuses to let Wei Ying fall. And Wei Ying… learns to stay.

🌿 Hurt/comfort. Healing. Slow burn. 🌈 Queer subtext? I make it text.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66022528/chapters/170121079

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“Wei Ying, when I almost lost you, I realized I would do anything to be with you.” — Lan Zhan

🌙 Longfic based on The Untamed (TV series) 198k+ words and still growing — set in a world of enchanted forests, emotional quiet, and the slow rebuilding of love and trust.

Lan Wangji refuses to let Wei Ying fall. And Wei Ying… learns to stay.

🌿 Hurt/comfort. Healing. Slow burn. 🌈 Queer subtext? I make it text.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66022528/chapters/170121079

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Wei Wuxian’s fall should have been the end—

but in the mist below Mount Muxi, magic stirs hope anew.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66022528/chapters/170121079

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“Wei Ying, when I almost lost you, I realized I would do anything to be with you.” — Lan Zhan

🌙 Longfic based on The Untamed (TV series) 198k+ words and still growing — set in a world of enchanted forests, emotional quiet, and the slow rebuilding of love and trust.

Lan Wangji refuses to let Wei Ying fall. And Wei Ying… learns to stay.

🌿 Hurt/comfort. Healing. Slow burn. 🌈 Queer subtext? I make it text.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66022528/chapters/170121079

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🌿 New MDZS Longfic – Now Posting! 🌙

“Wei Ying should have died at Nevernight. But Lan Zhan wouldn’t let him go.”

Lan Zhan spirits a broken Wei Ying to the sunlit glades beneath Mount Muxi, where danger lurks, beasts roam, and love begins to grow in silence.

Found family. Rogue cultivators. Co-parenting. Magical forests. Fierce devotion.

🔥 Slow-burn WangXian
💔 Hurt/Comfort | 🐉 Magical Beasts | 🏡 Cabin Fic | 💫 Fix-It
📖 198k+ words | Posting as it's edited

➡️ https://archiveofourown.org/works/66022528/chapters/170121079

Reblogs appreciated 💖

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Turtles are too hilarious. 😅

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tag of the week:

@yusahana6323 :

#wwx: complaining- lwj: whaddya gonna do about it? kiss me? huh????? ✳

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have you really felt pain if you haven’t watched the qiongqidao scene with xiao zhan and wang yibo’s real voices?

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CQL/The Untamed's Original script (Compilation of Deleted Scenes)

Note: This is an updated version of an old post from my sideblog. Leaks from the original script are still coming out occasionally so this post might have to be updated again sometime in the future.

Episode 13

Wei Wuxian saves Wen Qing from being hit by Wang Lingjiao's iron brand.

🔗 Video

Wang Lingjiao attempts to burn Mianmian with the iron brand. Wen Qing pushes Mianmian away and she almost gets hit by the iron brand. Wei Wuxian swoops in and saves Wen Qing.

Wei Wuxian fell backwards, also knocking Wen Qing down, the two of them rolling across the ground together [...] Wei Wuxian looked down at his chest, his clothes were scorched black and smoke was rising from his burnt flesh.

Wen Qing: (whispering) "Wei Wuxian!"

Wei Wuxian smiled at her as if he wasn't hurt.

Wei Wuxian: "Wen Qing, take care of yourself,"

Then he got up and returned to the ongoing battle. Wen Qing reached out, wanting to hold on to him, but his robes slipped from her fingers.

(‼️ In the novel, Wei Wuxian rescued Mianmian.)

Episode 19

When Wei Wuxian gets caught by Wen Chao and Wang Lingjiao after the golden core transfer, they bring Wen Qing in and threaten to kill her in front of him.

Wang Lingjiao: "That day in Xuanwu Cave, the hero rescued this beautiful maiden. Does Miss Wen keep you inside her heart? Shall I rip her heart out so you can see it for yourself?"

Episode 36

When Wei Wuxian unseals Wen Ning's consciousness there are some deleted lines of Wei Wuxian inquiring after Wen Qing's whereabouts.

🔗 Full video with audio

Wei Wuxian: "So that is to say...you have no idea where to find Wen Qing, either?"

Episode ???

Not sure which episode this is from but it should be post-reincarnation and before episode 39.

Wei Wuxian dreamed that after he fell off the cliff he woke up in a stone cave with his body covered in bandages. Wen Qing is in the cave with him, crushing herbs and brewing medicine.

31-6

[...] He couldn't see the figures clearly, couldn't recognize who they were. They seemed to be calling his name but he couldn't hear them clearly. The sound of the wind whistling in his ears reminded him that he was falling. Wei Wuxian wore a smile on his face, unbothered by the prospect of imminent death. The edge of the cliff is getting farther and farther away from him....farther and farther away...

Boom!

A loud noise, and then the world around him was plunged into darkness.

31-7 [Dreamscape]

Time: Night

Location: Inside a room

Characters: Wei Wuxian, Wen Qing (with her face concealed)

Wei Wuxian wakes up in a stone cave outfitted with basic facilities. Medicine was being boiled in a small pot, and sitting on a bamboo table near him was a woman who was crushing medicinal herbs. His vision is blurry but he thinks this woman is Wen Qing.

He tried to call out to her but realized that he couldn't make a sound. He stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the woman and tell her that he was awake, but he couldn't move his body. After several attempts he could only lift his hand, and it was then that he saw that his arm was covered in bandages. The woman finally realized he was awake and she quickly rushed to his side, overjoyed.

She rushed to Wei Wuxian, bent down to look at him, and called out his name. He still couldn't see her face properly. Wei Wuxian was very anxious. He struggled, wanted desperately to talk to her, wanted to wave his hands. He wanted to see if the woman in front of him really was Wen Qing, but the more he struggled, the more his vision blurred. The image before him slowly started to fade, leaving only her hazy voice calling his name over and over again.

Wen Qing voiceover: (voice getting louder and louder) "Wei Wuxian! Wei Wuxian! Wei Wuxian!

Then the world was plunged into darkness once again.

31-8

Time: Day

Location: Guest Room

Character: Wei Wuxian

Wei Wuxian suddenly opened his eyes. His entire body was covered in cold sweat and he was panting lightly. For a moment, he was unable to tell whether the scene he saw was merely a dream, or if it was actually a memory.

Outside the window, dawn was just beginning to break, but Wei Wuxian could no longer fall asleep.

(‼️ These scenes seem to imply that after he fell off the cliff, Wen Qing took him away, brought him somewhere else, and then tried to save him. In the novel, he was ripped to shreds by fierce ghosts and didn't leave an intact corpse, but the way he died in CQL should have left a corpse. This is a 'plothole' that people have been bringing up often since the show first aired. These deleted scenes with Wen Qing could explain why nobody found Wei Wuxian's body, and also why Jiang Cheng managed to retrieve the flute from the bottom of the cliff, but not his corpse.)

Episode 39

Wei Wuxian walks around Tanzhou city market and mistakes a random woman in red for Wen Qing.

33-33

Time: Night

Location: Tanzhou City Gate

Characters: Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Wen Qing (illusion), Random woman in red

A woman in dressed in red stood under a lantern. She turned her head and smiled at Wei Wuxian. It was Wen Qing. Wei Wuxian stared at her in a daze. He slowly reached out a hand, wanting to call out to her, but hesitated.

Wei Wuxian: (in a soft voice) "...Wen Qing?"

But then reality struck him as the woman turned around. Although she had a lovely face, she was not Wen Qing.

Wei Wuxian: (Had a blank look on his face, then he laughed casually) "Sorry about that! I mistook you for somebody else,"

The woman covered her mouth, and walked away with a smile. Wei Wuxian sighed softly, then turned around and saw Lan Wangji standing under a dim lantern.

Episode 43

Wei Wuxian asks Lan Xichen about the scars on Lan Wangji's back. Lan Xichen tells him that back when Wen Qing surrendered herself for punishment to the Jin clan, Lan Wangji broke into Jinlintai to rescue her, and fought with cultivators from the LanlingJin and GusuLan in order to protect her.

🔗 Full video

36-17 [Memories]

In the dungeons of Jinlintai, where Wen Qing is being held as prisoner, the Jin cultivators standing guard suddenly fall unconscious to the floor.

36-18 [Memories]

Lan Wangji enters the dungeon where Wen Qing is held captive. He asks her to leave with him and she refuses. Lan Wangji tells her that by sacrificing herself, she's only hurting Wei Wuxian. She asks him if she has any other choice.

Wen Qing: "Then tell me, Hanguang-jun, is there any other path I can take?"

Lan Wangji fell silent. Wen Qing turned away from him.

Lan Wangji: "Wei Ying also asked me this question,"

Tears finally started falling from Wen Qing's eyes.

Lan Wangji: "I now have an answer, I'll help you,"

Wen Qing turned to look at Lan Wangji. Her face was streaked with her tears and her expression was uncertain.

Lan Xichen voiceover: "Wangji fought and injured thirty cultivators from the LanlingJin and the GusuLan in order to rescue Miss Wen. This matter was kept secret, and the Jin clan did not wish to make it public. It could have been swept under the rug, but I didn't expect that later on..."

36-19 [Memories]

Lan Wangji stands in front of the Burial Mounds, surrounded by other cultivators and Su She (I think this is the scene where Lan Wangji says: "You are not qualified to talk to me" but the rest of the script is not visible in the photo)

(‼️In the novel, the one that Lan Wangji rescued was Wei Wuxian. Lan Wangji fought and injured 33 Lan elders in order to protect him, and because of that he was punished severely using a discipline whip, which left him with deep scars on his back. This is one of the most important WangXian scenes and is a major turning point in their relationship)

Episode 46

In Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's argument leading up to the golden core reveal, Jiang Cheng says that he thinks Wen Qing is alive. He then accuses Wei Wuxian of hiding her from him. Wei Wuxian insists that he doesn't know where Wen Qing is either.

(Can you tell whose script this is? It's Xiao Zhan's 😂)

Episode 50

After the conversation with Nie Huaisang in Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji part ways. Lan Wangji leaves to become Chief Cultivator while Wei Wuxian goes on a journey to find Wen Qing. The story ends after Wen Qing and Wei Wuxian reunite.

42-51

After their confrontation with Nie Huaisang in Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji part ways.

They are finally going in different directions. They stood facing each other, the breeze rustling their robes.

Lan Wangji: "Have you decided where to go?"

Wei Wuxian looked up at the white clouds floating in the sky and shook his head.

Wei Wuxian: "I haven't. I think I'll go look for Wen Qing. Perhaps she's still alive,"

Wei Wuxian then turned and led Little Apple down the mountain path. With his back turned to him, Wei Wuxian raised his hand and waved.

Wei Wuxian: "Lan Zhan, goodbye,"

Wei Wuxian walked into the distant mountains, amongst the emerald-colored greenery. Lan Wangji watched Wei Wuxian's retreating figure before slowly turning around and walking in a different direction.

42-52

Lan Wangji suddenly stopped walking. He could hear the sound of the flute Chenqing from a distance, playing a very familiar Gusu tune.

Wei Wuxian voiceover: "Lan Zhan, the next time we meet each other, you better have a name for this song,"

Lan Wangji did not look back, but there was a smile on his face.

Lan Wangji: "Way ahead of you,"

Lan Wangji shook the hems of his robes, and continued walking forward.

42-53

Wei Wuxian played a tune on his flute as he rode on top of his donkey. Suddenly, a familiar voice called out to him from behind.

Wen Qing voiceover: "Wei Wuxian!"

Wei Wuxian was stunned. He slowly put Chenqing down and turned his head to look behind him.

[END]

Character Biography

It's stated in both of their CQL character descriptions that Wen Qing is alive, and that Wei Wuxian looks for her at the end.

WEN QING

'Wen Ruohan's niece, descended from the branch side of the Wen family, who is a highly respected medical practitioner. She is known as a peerless beauty of the realm and has a generous and proud personality, but she is very shy when it comes to her feelings. Afraid that other people will say that she likes Wei Wuxian, she took great pains to hide the admiration that she felt for him in her heart. After the fall of the Wen clan, she was rescued by Wei Wuxian and the two of them become a quarrelsome yet loving couple who relied on each other for support. Later on, Wen Qing rescued a heavily injured Wei Wuxian, then she disappeared without a trace.'

WEI WUXIAN

[...] After his return, he worked together with Lan Wangji to solve the mysteries of his past, and in the end, he went to find Wen Qing.

(‼️ There are more deleted scenes that were leaked but they were very minor, inconsequential scenes: Wen Qing fainting in Wei Wuxian's arms, the two of them holding hands in Qiongqi pass, the two of them sitting together in the floor of Xuanwu cave, etc, etc, and since tumblr limits the amount of photos per post, I only chose the most plot-relevant leaks. Most of them can still be found on weibo)

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Lan Wangji: the Model Student Edition

AKA Lan Wangji’s costumes in the Untamed, part 1/9 

I got it in my head to write about Lan Wangji’s costumes in the Untamed for a couple of reasons. One, they’re extremely beautiful and worth paying attention to (as are all the costumes in the series!) and two, they do an excellent job of reflecting his mental state and where he is on his journey as a character. Hence, I’ll always look at them from two points of view, what’s actually happening in the costume, and how the choices made tie to what’s going on while he wears it. Note that I’m not going to even attempt to touch on how they connect to actual historical clothing (you’ll need an expert for that, which I’m definitely not).

I decided to make separate posts for each outfit rather than try to cram all of them in one post (or a few posts). I suspect this’ll be long enough anyway, since I’ll cover some common elements in his outfits in this one, and the images also add to the length. I tried not to go too crazy with the number of the images, although I suspect there’ll be more in the latter posts that cover some of his more elaborate costumes. I had a bit of fun with my image choices as you’ll see (also several times I forgot I was meant to capture stuff and just kept watching, as one does 😂).

Without further ado, let’s start with the outfit Lan Wangji had on when he walked into Wei Wuxian’s life. This outfit was worn mainly in episodes 3-7, briefly in episode 8, and also in WWX’s memories in episode 1.

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The Untamed costumes masterpost

Here are the posts I've made on the various outfits worn by some of the characters. I'll try to proceed in some kind of loose "order of appearance", and will update this as I go along.

This will by no means be comprehensive; and as I know nothing of the proper terminology, descriptions will be sparse and extremely vague 😁. So yeah, pictures mostly, to put some of the piled up screenshots in good use.

If you want to quickly access all the costume posts, you can use the in-blog tag #character costumes. And for all the posts related to a specific character, the tag #character costumes: character name.

Extra

Jiang Cheng's and Wen Chao's diamond-patterned fabric

The mysterious Lan hair ornaments

Wei Wuxian's iconic red underwear

Wangxian in each other's underwear

Wei Wuxian and Wen Zhuliu's Sunday robes

About Lan Wangji's blue-stoned jewellery (and his blue robes)

Waist ornaments NEW

The Gusu Guest Disciples

Lan summer seminar robes (episodes 3-8) (#4)

Jiang Cheng

Compilation of all outfits

The aqua blue robe set (episodes 2-3 and 8-14) (#6)

The slinky "on the run" robes (episodes 14-17) (#27)

The colden core transplant robes (episodes 18-19, 46) (#28)

Jiang Fengmian

The dark blue (semi-)formal robe set (episodes 7 and 8) (#26)

Jiang Yanli

The lavender robe set (episodes 2-3, 8, 11, 14-17) (#7)

Jin Zixuan

The wide-shouldered cream and pale gold robes (episodes 3 and 11-13) (#23)

Lan Qiren

The white and blue Gusu robe set (episodes 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 27, 43) (#25)

Lan Wangji

Compilation of all outfits NEW

The white Gusu Lan robes (episodes 3-8) (#3)

The baby blue travel robes (episodes 8-11) (#8)

The lacy white indoctrination robes (episodes 11-14) (#16)

Lan Xichen

The light blue robe (episodes 3-11) (#5)

Meng Yao

The Gusu outfit (episode 4) (#9)

The zigzag-patterned Qinghe robe (episodes 10 and 11) (#13)

Nie Huaisang

The simple but classy cream robe (episodes 8-12) (#12)

Nie Mingjue

The wide-shouldered Qinghe robes (episodes 10 and 11) (#22)

Song Lan

The grey and black robes (episode 10) (#20)

Wei Wuxian

Compilation of all outfits

The resurrection outfit (episode 1) (#1)

The dark blue, patterned robe (episodes 2-3 and 8-9) (#2)

The wave-patterned robe and wide-shouldered vest outfit (episodes 9-11) (#11)

The first Qishan outfit (episodes 11-12) (#14)

The second Qishan outfit (episodes 12-14) (#21)

The slinky "on the run" robes (episodes 14-18) (#27)

Wen Chao

The red diamond-patterned robe (episodes 4, 7, 8, 10-13) (#18)

Wen Ning

The 1st dark red flame-embroidered robe (episodes 3-5, 7) (#24)

Wen Qing

The dark red flame-embroidered robe (episodes 3-7 and 17-18) (#10)

The gauzy red robe set (episodes 8 and 9) (#15)

Xiao Xingchen

The white robe with black accents (episode 10) (#19)

Xue Yang

The black robes with antique gold accents (episodes 3, 7 and 10) (#17)

My comments on other costume-related posts

On Nie Huaisang's too-large robes

A little note on LXC/JGY colour coordination (not a costume post as such but...)

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