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Jiang Cheng is the picture of “I knew from the moment I met you that I’d spend a lifetime forgiving you.”

Like—start with the dogs. The only gift his father ever gave him, and Jiang Cheng gave them away. Why? Because Wei Wuxian was scared of them. That’s it. No resistance. No conflict. Just: oh, you’re afraid? They’re gone.

That is the blueprint. That is the foundational dynamic. That is the relationship.

His father resents him, prefers his shixiong. His mother tears him down for not being his shixiong. His sister, bless her, loves both of them—but it’s Wei Wuxian who gets the hand on the shoulder, the soft words, the shared wine. And yet. Jiang Cheng never once chooses bitterness over devotion.

He loves him. That’s the tragedy. That’s the rot. Because he never stops.

Wei Wuxian gets dragged into the Burial Mounds and comes back fundamentally altered, and Jiang Cheng still believes in him. Still gives him room to return. Still duels him instead of executing him outright, still spares him even when the sect is watching. Still tells Jin Ling to be kind to him. Still keeps Chenqing in perfect condition, like a grave he refuses to let crumble. Even when Wei Wuxian’s choices leave him hollowed out. Even when all he has left is silence. He still carries him.

And the thing is—Jiang Cheng’s sacrifices are quiet. He never says them. But we know. We know that when he was captured by the Wens, he let himself be caught. On purpose. Because if he didn’t distract them, Wei Wuxian would’ve died.

We know that when Wei Wuxian said, “I can fix this,” Jiang Cheng believed him with his whole heart. And when Wei Wuxian smiled that soft, golden smile, and said “Don’t worry,” Jiang Cheng didn’t. Because when your entire world is falling apart, and your brilliant, impossible shixiong tells you he has a plan—you believe him. That’s what love is.

And when he disappeared? When he died?

Jiang Cheng never believed it.

He said there was no proof. But it always read like something else to me. Like: “I’d know if he was gone. I’d feel it. He’s part of me. I would know.”

This man spent years believing he murdered the person he loved most in the world. And he still couldn’t bring himself to throw the flute away.

Tell me that’s not love. Tell me that’s not the worst kind. The kind that doesn’t die even when it should.

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Jiang Cheng would have exactly one major crash out at an inter sect meeting during the time skip and all the youths of Yunmeng would make tiktok crash out edits to Ride Of The Valkyries with the caption "Sect Leader Jiang Core 💜" and interweave clips of him zoning out in the background of other sect leader's speeches and that one time he fell off a pier by accident.

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LiuCheng Mafia AU

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feeling absolutely unwell over the fact that the reason why wei wuxian’s lie—his frankly flimsy, hastily stitched-together, childishly transparent lie—surrounding the golden core transfer is never once questioned, never pressed, never examined under even the mildest scrutiny by jiang cheng… is because jiang cheng believes in him. truly. completely. unflinchingly.

because when it comes to wei wuxian, jiang cheng has always believed.

not in some vague, conceptual way. not in a way that allows for loopholes or exceptions. he believes in him like a fact of the universe. like sunrise and rain. like grief. like gravity. like if wei wuxian said it, then it’s true—because it has to be.

and so the lie never cracks, because jiang cheng never tries to pry it open.

wei wuxian says, “Baoshan Sanren lives on this peak,” and jiang cheng says, okay.

he doesn’t question it. doesn’t poke holes in it. doesn’t wonder why someone who’s never been seen in a hundred years suddenly accepted an apprentice.

because this is wei wuxian. his shixiong. the boy who could do anything—who could coax laughter from the ashes of a burning house, who made the impossible seem inevitable, who made jiang cheng feel like maybe he could be someone worthwhile too. of course he’d find her. of course he’d fix it.

and when wei wuxian ties a blindfold over his eyes and says, “don’t take it off,” jiang cheng obeys.

when wei wuxian gives him a name to say, a story to repeat, a hope to carry like something sacred in his mouth—he repeats it. he doesn’t look back. he doesn’t dare.

and the whole time, somewhere inside him, there’s the childish, foolish faith: he came back for me. he wouldn’t lie to me. not him. not for this.

so when wei wuxian hugs him, smiles at him, tells him he’s lucky, tells him he’s fixed—jiang cheng believes it. because what else is there to do? when you’ve already lost your home, your parents, your pride, your safety. when all you have left is the person who handed you a lifeline and said, walk.

and jiang cheng did. blindly. willingly. without hesitation. like a man praying. like a man already kneeling.

and that’s the tragedy of it. not that he was lied to.

but that he never even thought to doubt it.

that he couldn’t.

because it’s wei wuxian.

because if there was one person in the cultivation world capable of doing the impossible, it was him.

and if there was one person jiang cheng trusted more than he trusted himself—it was also him.

and wei wuxian knew that.

he knew jiang cheng would never ask. he knew jiang cheng would believe. and he used that. twisted it like a knife. and jiang cheng let him, because he thought it was kindness.

he thought it was love.

and maybe it was. and maybe it wasn’t. and maybe it doesn’t matter anymore.

because he took the lie like medicine. swallowed it whole. let it stitch itself into the seams of who he was, into what he owed and what he lost. and it never even occurred to him that the truth might have been something different.

because the truth didn’t matter.

only wei wuxian did.

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idk how he's gonna do it but i am 100% sure lan xichen WILL find a way to put a baby inside jiang cheng after seeing him pick up a little toddler from lotus pier and coddle him/her

xicheng uncle poll

imagine the following postcanon scenario:

xicheng happens

xicheng produce a child somehow*

*idk how. maybe mpreg works in this universe. maybe the kid is adopted. dw about it

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jc, as he once was

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hello! apparently, this information has been edited out of the wiki; you can still find it if you go to the 'history' and then check it out. it was removed because there was no 'credible source'? but i believe this part was taken from the cql book with the extra scenes and details and stuff!

sharing this information with everyone thank you have a wonderful day ahead

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drops this here and leaves quitely

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another small presentation, thank you for your time (crossposted from twitter, again..)

little extra:

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Hello, sorry to bother you, I just had a question. Did you delete your Twitter account?

i did deactivate for a little bit, but its back up now!

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birthday wish for jiujiu

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happy birthday, sect leader!

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