#chengyi

[least-carpet]

jiang cheng ships by whether they're about wei wuxian or not

our boy wwx's protagonist halo is more like a gravitational field in his effect on jc's emotional development. he probably didn't, like, invent jiang cheng's abandonment issues, but he certainly made them worse! so here are jiang cheng ships grouped by whether or not they're actually about wei wuxian. the ones in the middle could go either way.

definitely about wei wuxian:

chengxian: obvious. wei wuxian is literally there.

zhancheng: obvious. they're both obsessed with wei wuxian.

ningcheng: obvious. they're both wei wuxian's horrible/beloved science experiments/little brothers and neither of them are normal about it. to be fair, wei wuxian is also not normal about it, thus the science experiments.

definitely not about wei wuxian:

mingcheng: I think this is more about theoretical temperamental compatibility and letting jiang cheng date a hot male authority figure who at least kind of approves of him.

sangcheng: I think this is in some ways often about giving jiang cheng a human who is *not* obsessed with wei wuxian. like, give jiang cheng his own bf who can be into him on his own merits.

chengyao: they're coworkers! they're inadvertent coparents! they're both wildly competent and also incredibly bitchy if the situation calls for it! if anything this is about jin ling instead.

chengyi: I don't know what this is about other than getting jiang cheng a boytoy. I don't rightly know that he would want one of those but why not! get down with your bad selves!

could go either way, Schrödinger's wei wuxian:

chengqing: this one I wasn't sure about because actually a lot of writers are pretty careful to make chengqing actually about them but wei wuxian got up in there with great determination and made that threesome happen (wen qing's hands, wei wuxian and jiang cheng's holes... surgical holes... I regret this already). hard to totally extract him from the dynamic after that. the wei wuxian must be contended with. depends on when in the timeline it happens and what canon you're working from, since cql made it canon pre-surgery.

xicheng: this is less likely to explicitly be about wei wuxian and more likely to be structurally about wei wuxian. not only does it make them match (twin prides dating the twin jades) but the brothers-dating-brothers situation ties them tightly to wangxian from multiple directions. in other words, if it's about wei wuxian it's because it sort of re-joins them as family through a different method. if he's not your "real" brother, becoming an in-law is fine?

disclaimer: I acknowledge it is possible to, for example, write a zhancheng fic which is not about wei wuxian, I'm not saying you can't! through the power of AU all things are possible, etc. but you have to actively remove him from the dynamic, because canon embeds him there very deeply, vs. something like chengyao, where they have a totally separate relationship (via jin ling- and their working relationship).

[sairusboom]

JL had a difficult childhood. But youth was even worse.

and art with Lan Sizhui for my collection All!Lan/Jiang Cheng

[night-rider-lily]

Obsessed with Cheng Yi as Li Lianhua? YES.

[lovesickfolly]

I sincerely hope it's written into Chengyi's contract now that every show must include a scene of him in a wedding dress, because...he looks really pretty in them.

[whumperer-86]

Mysterious lotus casebook ep30

This drama is filled with Bromance whump

[ayrinn]

A character tribute for Li Xiangyi/Li Lianhua from my new favorite drama Mysterious Lotus Casebook. Visit my youtube channel for more fan edits.

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[haru-with-mdzs]

Hello everyone... This is part two of the mdzs ship poll... I hv added all the other ships I could think of....

[mdzsxchange]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Lan Jingyi, Jin Ling | Jin Rulan & Lan Jingyi & Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui & Ouyang Zizhen Characters: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin, Lan Jingyi, Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui, Jin Ling | Jin Rulan, Ouyang Zizhen, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Sect Leader Ouyang (Modao Zushi) Additional Tags: Hiding In The Same Place, Locked in a Temple Over Night, Trapped by a Cavi In, Luck keeps shoving pairing together, Night Hunts (Módào Zǔshī), Case Fic if You Squint, Quartet friendship, Getting Together, mdzsxchange's Close Quarters Exchange 2024 (Modao Zushi) Summary:

When he finally gets the chance to go on another night hunt with his now very important friends, Lan Jingyi wants to ensure all goes smoothly. It’s just a little luck array – what could possibly go wrong?

[veetvoojagigthemagnificent]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Lan Jingyi Characters: Lan Jingyi, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin, Nie Huaisang, Mo Xuanyu, Wen Ning, Yu Ziyuan Additional Tags: Bad Parent Yú Zǐyuān, Bad Parent Jiāng Fēngmián, He's not in the story but his damage was done, Rated M for Jingyi's horny horny brain, Pining, having the hots for your boss, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Hair Salon Summary:

Some time ago, there was a young man named Jiang Cheng. He was diligent, hardworking, and loyal, and yet his parents deemed him a disappointment, firing him from his position in the family business and cutting him off without a word.

All right, decided this young man. It was time to find his own direction.

Soon, gossip spread like lightning through the world of beauty, whispers of a talented young man with an eye for style, who could frame any face perfectly, a wizard with scissors and a comb.

A name on everyone's lips.

  Wanyin.

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In which Lan Jingyi works for (and carnally desires) the most talented stylist in the world. And in which said stylist gets his revenge. And is incredibly sexy while doing so.

[least-carpet]

Your jc ships post is making the rounds again so I just wanted to say imo chengyi is also chengxian actually. It's less about the boytoy aspect and more about the mouthy un-Lan but still somehow Lan aspect.

...anyway I love how my jc stan brain has been infected by the inherent chengxian of the novel perfectly normal day over here

I made that post as a joke and it's now my second most popular post! So it goes on this webbed site.

I actually originally grouped chengyi under "Schrödinger's Wei Wuxian" based on vibes and then took it out again, but actual chengyi enjoyers seem to think it should be in there! I don't think it's about Wei Wuxian to quite the same degree as zhancheng or ningcheng though, for two reasons:

the sheer amount of emotional space that Wei Wuxian occupies for both Lan Wangji and Wen Ning

the way that this leads both Lan Wangji and Wen Ning to only evaluate Jiang Cheng in relation to Wei Wuxian.

Like a lot of the ideas they have about him are about how he interacts with Wei Wuxian, what Wei Wuxian has done for him, what Wei Wuxian thinks about him, and so on. The (unflattering) image they seem to have of him is all created in the context of Wei Wuxian, whether it's competing for Wei Wuxian's attention, being jealous of their teenage closeness, or while missing/grieving Wei Wuxian. It's a very lopsided picture because it's always mediated through another person.

So while I think all of Jiang Cheng's major emotional experiences are coloured by his childhood with then abandonment by Wei Wuxian, I think chengxian/zhancheng/ningcheng have like... an extra helping of Wei Wuxian, so to speak.

But yeah, everything does boil down to the inherent chengxian of it all, this is obvious to all of us and we are all extremely normal about it!

Also to everyone who has reblogged that post and wrote something like "sorry I wrote a novel in the tags," I posted that specifically to spread the allcheng brainrot and I'm very pleased it's working.

[night-rider-lily]

IS THIS A SIGN TO REWATCH MYSTERIOUS LOTUS CASEBOOK?

YES!

I miss the time and feelings i had when it was still airing, waiting patiently for the next episodes but i gotta admit, getting to see all the episodes right away is pretty sweet～

[litlestpinkmoon]

Jingyi: wearing silk pants How does this look?

Huaisang: Like its slips on and off really easily.

Jingyi:

Huaisang: No, I didn't mean it like that-

Jiang Cheng: We know what you meant.

[whumperer-86]

Mysterious Lotus casebook

13-18-27-30-35-38-40 Whump episodes

[humanlighthouse]

I may have written something? :)