#but I can see wwx proving himself to lqr. they can have a little friendship. as a treat

[llycaons]

I love lqr but he's hardly blameless in how he raised his nephews. its more explicit how strict he was in the novel and how difficult that was for lwj and lxc, but in the drama making lwj kneel with the bamboo for like...two days? with his arms out like that just for visiting wwx is so harsh. like presumably most of the lans, and honestly most of the sects, he's punitive minded and he sees it as the only way to protect people he sees as under his guardianship and correct behavior he sees as unacceptable. but he just causes suffering and in the end he didn't keep lwj away from wwx anyway

[t4tieflings]

More thoughts on the Gusu House Arrest Au!

Part one seen here

-Okay so I’m not exactly sure how old Lan Jingyi would be at the time of WWX being put in timeout in Gusu but you know our resident chicken boy would the number one Wangxian shipper behind LXC. When he first gets told the tale of the Lan Sect founder he instantly asks, “So like Senior Wei and Han Guang Jun?” And LQR chokes.

-Lan Jingyi ends up being LXC’s little assistant towards innocently setting up romantic coincidences for our two idiots. If he needs some prop or excuse, LJY is already there and waiting.

-Jin Ling and Lan Sizhui definitely have the “Why does Lan sect let you have two dads?” Argument.

-Jin Ling was a firm non-believer in the original idea that LWJ was in love with his Uncle and Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi set out to prove him wrong. They end up badly trying to shadow WWX and LWJ to gather evidence. “We’ve got to get closer! We can’t hear what they’re saying!” “With your loudmouth if we got any closer they’d definitely hear us.” “You want to fight me princess??” “Who are you calling princess?!” “Shh guys please. Just duck down in the bush and be quiet. They’re playing a duet together”

-Jiang Cheng catches them stalking and his soul physically leaves his body when he figures out the reason why. Jin Ling feels vindicated when his uncle also doesn’t believe they’re together, but when the little Lans start listing out their list of evidence Jiang Cheng starts to doubt.

-“There’s no way....but then....that would explain the Archery competition....and the his insistence on taking WWX to Gusu....and the whole weird flower flirting thing they had going on....” “UNCLE DON’T LET THEM CORRUPT YOU.”

-They settle on the stance that they might be flirting but arguments over if they are already together breaks out. Jiang Cheng questions why he’s spending his time debating with children.

-WWX in the mean time has been adapting to life at Lan Sect as well as to be expected. He’s been debating either climbing up the Lan Sect rule wall to add his own rules or find a way to get rid of it because if someone quotes another rule at him he may just drown himself in Emperor’s Smile

-WWX wonders if he should ask for Lan Sect Robes because honestly he sticks out like a sore thumb in his black and red amongst all this white. LXC obliges him one day and LWJ nearly drops dead upon seeing him, and freezes up. WWX of course mistakenly takes it as LWJ disliking him taking the robes when he’s not an official sect member and goes back to his trade mark look. LXC swears he finds more grey hairs in his comb everyday because of these two.

-Originally the relationship between LWJ and WWX in Gusu starts off pretty rocky. WWX is still coming down from constant paranoia from having everyone against him up till now and slowly losing control of his demonic cultivation. Thus, at first, he views LWJ as some kind of monitor or baby sitter because nobody trusts him. WWX lashes out verbally a few times at LWJ but he always comes back.

-Slowly WWX notices how much effort LWJ is putting into making sure WWX is at least comfortable in Gusu. On top of that in front of WWX LWJ actually defends him against another Lan Sect member. Their relationship starts to heal from then on and they get on rather well. Although, WWX is still a bit miffed that LWJ refuses to let him sneak in alcohol. “It’s not like it’s against my probation or whatever.” “Part 24, section 5.” “Wait, they actually wrote in I can’t have alcohol?! This is discrimination!”

-WWX may not be allowed to have alcohol but his spicy cooking becomes a legend among Lan sect members. One younger member asks to his face if he used it as a torture method during The Sunshot Campaign. WWX has never been more offended.

-WWX starts to have his own suspicions about his relationship with LWJ. Especially because he learns about the meaning of the ribbon way earlier in this au. Since he’s hanging out around Lan members all the time and LSZ is being taught the Lan rules, he’s bound to learn by accident what it actually means. Cue internal crisis and awkwardly trying to get LXC’s advice on how to make it up to LWJ without revealing the reason why.

-Do you guys think this should be far enough back in the story that Wen Qing and Wen Ning also get sent along to Gusu with WWX? Like can you imagine how cute it would be to see LSZ running up to Wen Qing calling her Auntie and Wen Ning being a zombie playground for the kids. Once they get over how scary he is, there is not a moment in the day when at least three kids are hanging off of him. WWX and the Wen siblings becoming even closer of friends as its them against the world in Gusu. Wen Qing joining LXC in getting grey hairs over Wangxian, and bonding over taking care of their socially inept little brothers. LXC BEING NICE TO WEN NING? The friendship between those two soft boys could be so good.