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featherfur · 3 years

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Whenever I read a fic that involves Chief Cultivator Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian warning Jiang Cheng that “you can’t treat the chief cultivator like that” because JC says something sarcastic or pissy or whatever

I’m always very very curious as to what the writer thinks Lan Wangji can do.

Because yes Hanguang-Jun has a stellar reputation but the backing that he had from Xichen is now gone. He can’t not trade with Yunmeng Jiang because there’s no way Lan Qiren or the other elders will allow it (not to mention that now damages relations with Jin which are HUGE), all of society is now looking at Lan Xichen and through him the entire Lan sect with suspicion and mistrust, Jiang Cheng has a reputation that’s even scarier than Wangji’s because yeah LWJ is upright and everything but JC will murder you if you annoy him according to his rep so like… they’re not going to listen to the chief cultivator.

Also does Wangji even know how to get back at him? Does he know how to work the merchants and trade agreements? Because he can’t even figure out how not to piss off every leader within ten seconds of entering a room and if he wasn’t Lan Xichen’s little brother he would have gotten into a lot more fist fights. Like Lan Wangji really just does his own thing, he can’t play nice with a sect leader who technically is above him, I don’t see how he’s going to play nice with a merchant trying to scam him.

Back to the original point, is there literally anyone who’s going to back Lan Wangji attempted an attack Yunmeng Jiang? Like even Wei Wuxian would be like “Babe no :(“ everyone else is either aware of the fact that Jiang Cheng is incredibly powerful, realizes that no being sarcastic to your brother in law is not illegal, or just doesn’t want to piss off the guy in charge of the rivers which probably controls a fuckton of commerce.

Basically all Lan Wangji could do is just… not give him the time of day or ignore him at meetings and considering how Lan Wangji is, he’s probably already doing it because he’s a petty king <3

#mdzs #the untamed #Jiang Cheng #fic questions #ITS NEVER ANYTHING BAD EITHER! it’s never like JC is attacking WWX or LWJ #It’s always that he’s just being pissy and I’m sitting here like bruh no #LWJ got nothing here and also his default setting is audio off whenever JC enters the room #I love LWJ very very much #but I think ppl both overestimate his power and underestimate how much of #LWJ’s personality is only accepted because LXC would break anyone who hurt his bb brother #which is also the reason I can’t see LWJ ever being chief cultivator #for that alone #not even mentioning the fact that LWJ wants NOTHING to do with leading his sect whatsoever #he can’t even be bothered to stay home more than a few minutes to teach the kids or change out ducklings for the next mission #he doesn’t want the life his brother has as sect leader #he wants to fuck around and kill some monsters (and by fuck around I mean fuck his husband)#he doesn’t want to be sect leader!! he would despise being chief cultivator #chief cultivator means being able to listen to all sides and bring forth agreements #Lan wangji would black out within ten minutes of Yao talking and not tune back in until the meeting was over having said nothing the entire #time except one comment telling them he’s listening #i love him very much lmao he just isn’t here for this political bull shut

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