#one thing that’s kinda funny about Jin Ling is that the loves dogs but he has a cat personality ajdhajhdAJDHAJD

[twistedappletree]

Look, I can’t explain it but Jin Ling is a Chihuahua, Lan Sizhui is a Great Dane, Lan Jingyi is a Shiba Inu and Ouyang Zizhen is a Golden Retriever

[phoenixkaptain]

My favourite part of MDZS is how cool Wei Wuxian is.

Like, we don’t talk enough about how cool he is. He performs Empathy three times. His ability to use a flute is so powerful, the song doesn’t even have to sound good for it to work. He brought a dead guy back to life (kinda sorta).

But especially, I love how Wei Wuxian treats ghosts and corpses! Wei Wuxian just hangs out with corpses, for FUN!! He scares away low-level corpses just by existing! He hears the voices of the dead to the point that he can’t enter a place too full of resentment without getting a headache from the constant chatter.

I also really like the Extra where Wei Wuxian is just like “Well, the ghost will go away when he’s done screaming. I’m not worried about it.” And he just leaves a screaming ghost at some guy’s house so the ghost can move on peacefully (as peacefully as is possible when one moves on by screaming).

I love all of this so much because Wei Wuxian is constantly saying that people have too high of expectations of him. Xue Yang telling him to put Xiao Xingchen’s soul back together is just one example of this. Someone will tell Wei Wuxian to do something and he’ll be like “How powerful do you think I am?!” And it’s like… Wei Wuxian, you spent six hours hanging onto a cursed sword in the Xuanwu’s mouth, you survived three months in the Burial Mounds and then returned to make it into a semi-livable place, you killed at least a thousand people that one time, and you came back from the dead, just to name a few.

Wei Wuxian is so strong. He’s so cool. He is terrifying. He is unstoppable and unflappable if only because he gets over his embarrassment in about fifteen seconds! He just rolls with it! He rolls with anything that happens! He remains Shocked and Apalled by Lan Zhan’s behaviour for all of five minutes before basically going “lol okay”! He told Lan Zhan that he wanted to sleep with him in front of Lan Xichen, Jin Ling, a handful of Jin disciples, and the literal bad guy of the novel!!!

(I’ll never get over that scene. It is so funny.

WWX: “I need to say something, it can’t wait.”

JGY: “Then just say it right now as you are.” (Referring to the fact that Wei Wuxian has a wire wrapped around his throat that can kill him in seconds)

WWX: “Good point! Lan Zhan, we should’ve fucked.”

This scene is so fucking funny, I will absolutely never get over it)

I love powerful protagonists and honestly, Wei Wuxian is at the top of the list when it comes to overpowered protagonists. The only thing that phases him is dogs, and even then, he himself admits that he can get used to their presence as long as they aren’t barking.

TLDR: Wei Wuxian is so powerful and I totally get why Lan Zhan fell for him.

[grandmasterofwangxiancultivation]

MDZS ch.99

I am so nervous I can’t even begin to explain guys, people keep telling me these chapters are gonna break me and i am like do i want to go through with this? do i? well, apparently, yes.

But he didn’t know that after Lan WangJi, Wen Ning, and he departed from Lotus Pier, Jin Ling secretly went to find him. Realizing he was gone, he threw a tantrum at his uncle who ran madly around, making people unsheathe their swords. He criticized that Wei WuXian ran away all because of him, and Jiang Cheng slammed him on the ground right after. And so, Jin Ling decided that he might as well do everything, taking Fairy to trace Wei WuXian’s tracks.

nxhwkdydo BABE. T-that’s my boy, I- I am touched omg- HE WENT AFTER WWX. HE WENT A G A I N S T HIS UNCLE. FOR WWX.

Guys I love Jin Ling so much, I need him safe and warm and protected somewhere away from here xkshxkshzkai

EDIT:

Jin GuangYao, “Find it and kill it. The dog’s quite bright. It wouldn’t do us well if it led someone over.”

YOU ATROCIOUS BASTARD, IF FAIRY DIES-

THAT’S IT, YOU’RE HOPELESS IF YOU’RE EVEN GOING AFTER A DOG, I WANNA STRANGLE YOU

EDIT 2:

Jin GuangYao asked instead, “A-Ling, what are you doing here?”

Jin Ling glanced at Wei WuXian, unsure of how to respond. Suddenly, Lan XiChen spoke up, “Sect Leader Jin, Jin Ling is still a child.”

(I'M SO NERVOUS RN

JL not saying he was worried about wwx is so sweet and angsty, I need them to talk it through in a calm and peaceful environment, so KILL JGY AND GO

Lxc won't let anything bad happen to you. I know. He wouldn’t.)

Jin GuangYao broke into a smile, “Brother, what are you thinking? Of course, I know Jin Ling’s not only a child but my nephew as well. What did you think I’d do? Silence him by murder?”

(honestly? Yeah. That's what all of us is thinking, you bitch. So try to fool someone else)

EDIT 3:

Jin GuangYao turned around, “They still haven’t dug it up yet? Tell the people inside to hurry up!”

What the hell is he even doing

EDIT 4: again, why does it always look like when the bad and the good guys are talking, it’s like they met up for tea, i love this easy going/killing intent atmosphere

Lan XiChen, “It was quite a shame. I was fooled by lies and lost my spiritual powers. Even though I carry Shuoyue and Liebing, they will not be of much help.”

Wei WuXian, “No need to feel ashamed. After all, lying is one of LianFang-Zun’s greatest skills.”

There, THERE, lxc didn't betray anyone, of course, and wwx managed to tell him not to feel sorry with a couple of words, I love them.

EDIT 5:

Jin GuangYao ordered the monks, “Lay out an array. When HanGuang-Jun comes later, stop him as long as you can.”

Wei WuXian, “How are you so sure that HanGuang-Jun would come?”

(Wwx. Darling. Even walls know.)

Lan XiChen, “Young Master Wei, if WangJi is around, why is he not with you?”

Wei WuXian, “We’re acting separately.”

Lan XiChen, however, paused in surprise, “I heard you injured yourself when you left Burial Mound. Why would he act separately with you at such a time?”

(I know lxc, I know. That's the kind of obliviousness I dealt with for almost a hundred chapters. Pls be patient with him)

Jin GuangYao found this strange, “You two got two rooms?”

Wei WuXian, “Who told you we’d definitely get one room?”

(okay, this- ptf- this is a bit funny, okay? The thought of lxc chatting with jgy about his brother's affection for wwx... dunno, it's funny how, even if they are enemies, they all look at wwx like "are you serious? different rooms? please")

EDIT 6:

However, there was no joking tone in Lan XiChen’s voice, “Young Master Wei, did something happen between you two?”

LXC ONE-TRACKED MIND SCREAMING "PROTECT BABY BROTHER" and wwx reminding him that this arc's enemy is watching and smiling at them? I'll add this to the reasons why I love this novel

EDIT 7:

Jin GuangYao, “Of course not. I just had to comment. HanGuang-Jun spent so many years in yearning, and even today he hasn’t gotten his happy ending yet. Not only does Sect Leader Lan have a good reason to feel impatient, even an outsider can’t bear watching it.”

SERIOUSLY

SERIOUSLY?!?!

Ekxywkxuwluxoeudos

IS JGY AMONG EVERYONE GOING TO SAY IT?

REALLY?

I'M FREAKING OUT

IS THIS THE WAY WWX WILL FIND OUT-

I REFUSE

THIS IS NOT HAPPENING RN N O T H A P P E N I N G

This is not fair.

I WANNA STEP OF JGY'S FACE SO BAD

EDIT 8: wwx is getting angsty (AND IT’S BREAKING MY HEART TO SEE HIM LIKE THIS, LIKE HE IS HURT AND HOPEFUL AT THE SAME TIME) and lxc and jgy don't understand if he is playing dumb or not. I know guys, i know, but he is really that oblivious, you need to be patient. JUST NOT NOW, OKAY? AND IT'S NOT ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS LET WWX AND LWJ SPEAK ABOUT IT- tho, if no one explains it to wwx, the truth will never find the light.

WHAT SHOULD I HOPE FOR-

EDIT 9:

Lan XiChen was shocked, “Young Master Wei, could it be that even after you spent such a long time together with WangJi, you still do not know of his feelings?”

SHIT IT'S HAPPENING. OMG I need to pause for a sec.

*breathes*

YEAH RIGHT PAUSE, AS IF

EDIT 10: OMG OMG OMG WWX BABE

EDIT 11:

Wei WuXian, “Whip scars?!” He grabbed Lan XiChen again, “Sect Leader Lan, I really don’t know. Please tell me, just how did he get those injuries? How could they possibly be related to me?!?”

Anger could be seen on Lan XiChen’s face, “If it were not related to you, could he have done those to himself without a reason?!”

i knew it. I'm sobbing so hard. it was so obvious. omg this is too painful, i can't bear it.

EDIT 12:

But after he scrutinized Wei WuXian’s expression, he suppressed some of his anger, trying, “Your… memory is damaged?”

DAMAGED what wait no i'm not ready for this, too. i am not ready to find out about the rest of wwx's story pls-

EDIT 13:

Wei WuXian murmured, “The time at Nightless City? I-I’ve always thought I somehow walked back on my own. Could it be…”

I don't understand, what is lxc trying to say, i'm scared of reading the rest. I don't want to. Help help help i don't want to read but I wanna know-

I'm thinking something very atrocious right now and I don't want it to be confirmed. a part of me hypothesised that maybe lwj hadn't been there when wwx died, which sounded kinda impossible, but if it's like this...

EDIT 14: this is so, so sad and yet so lwj. he limped after him in the battlefield, followed him, gave him his spiritual energy. how in love lwj is, one can never truly marvel at the strength of his feelings for wwx, or imagine how hard it must have been for him to do the right thing and fight against his love while trying to protect him. I'm crying so hard I just... *takes a deep breath and keeps reading*

EDIT 15: omg

EDIT 16: No no no no no

EDIT 17: this is not true. Omg pls stop talking, lxc.

EDIT 18: NO NO NO NO NO OMG I can feel my heart breaking and it's killing me. God, he wasn't there when wwx died. Pls

EDIT 19: OMG OMG OMG I'M DYING ISLXJELCW I JUST IMAHSLAnxjsmzjslsjxow

EDIT 20: 

... In his whole life he had been honest and righteous and immaculate—you were the only mistake he made! ...

this is... i think this is the climax of it all, this is, in a way, so painful and so beautiful, i need to think about this for a while and i am loving lxc more than i could ever imagine

EDIT 21: okay no no no no no no no wait- I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL TO WRITE GUYS PLS HOW WHY IT'S NOT WWX'S FAULT, HE DIDN'T TRICK LWJ HE JUST DIDN'T KNOW AND YES HE WAS AN ASS BUT-

EDIT 22: lwj iS WHERE SORRY HE IS HERE???? DJSHZJUWHD HE HEARD?? OMG stop this. Stop this right now. This angst is too much TOO MUCH BUT OF COURSE, SINCE MXTX GAVE US SMUT NOW SHE'S TRYING TO KILL US

EDIT 23:

But with nervousness, Wei WuXian felt all of the things he wanted to say crumple up inside of his stomach. His abdomen cramped. He could only murmur, “… Lan Zhan.”

Please- *holds her breath*

EDIT 24:

Lan WangJi’s gaze landed on Wei WuXian’s neck. His face paled slightly.

An almost unnoticeable guqin string, light and golden, was tied around Wei WuXian’s neck.

I'm gonna throw up from anxiety. I'm dying. THIS CAN'T HAPPEN NOW, AFTER ALL THAT'S BEEN SAID. someone takes that thing away from wwx and freaking CRASH JGY. CRASH HIM. THAT BASTARD HAD IT ALL PLANNED OUT, DISTRACTING EVERYONE WITH THAT. CRASH HIM NOW.

[mihanada]

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Liveblog(back to masterpost)

Yesss! Now we’re getting to the good parts.

Chapter 7: Arrogance (Part 2)

Aw, how cute Wei Wuxian is. The eviler, the better! It’s still funny how he, the protag, gets all excited over animating corpses.

Ok, Jin Ling! He was so obnoxious on my first read-through, but I grew fond of him he second time around. In a very, very obvious way, he is just a kid trying to grow up as fast as he can and it’s actually quite...sad, how he feels this desperate need to excel as fast as humanly possible and prove himself.

Now is a good time to state that I love the different sects and how distinct they all are from each other in cultivation styles, fashion styles, philosophy, etc. It’s really impossible to mistaken one for the other.

Although, the fact that the LanlingJin Sect’s outfit is gold and actually manages to glisten at night is hilarious. So, the LanlingJin’s colors are gold and white (for the peony), the GusuLan’s seems to be white for the most part, and the YunmengJiang’s is purple (though...I think this isn’t mentioned until a while later). If they ever mentioned what the QingheNie’s was, I missed it lol.

Man, is Jin Ling a brat, though. Almost have to pity Jiang Cheng for babysitting him the entire beginning of the novel. Actually, I do pity him. xD First he had Wei Wuxian for a brother, and now he has Jin Ling as a nephew. The people in his life are destined to cause him massive headaches for one reason or another.

Oh, but the donkey of course was the mvp of this scene (lol no not Lan Wangji). I love how this thing just has a mind of its own and is implied to understand human speech, because it freaking charges right for Jin Ling because he’s being mean to the girl who gave them the apple. xD

lol so. Jin Ling’s reactions to and disgust towards Mo Xuanyu are interesting in hindsight, since the reader is just as in the dark about what happened as Wei Wuxian. And what is even more interesting is that Jin Ling starts to almost warm up to him after a few encounters (Jin Ling is totally a tsundere ok). A lot of things trigger him to flip back and forth between hate, disgust, and grudging respect/acknowledgement but it’s interesting.

Also, Jin Guangshan is a dick. Let’s just throw that out there now.

also lol Wei Wuxian thinking that he should at least defend Mo Xuanyu even if they guy’s technically long gone. But then he throws out that jibe at Jin Ling. I do have to say, on the third go-around, Jin Ling is a tough kid even if he is a total brat. I do admit, I laughed when Wei Wuxian stuck a ghost on his back though. xD I mean, he had it coming eventually with that attitude.

JIANG CHENG.

Ok. I didn’t have any reason to like him at first, but after the first set of flashbacks to when him and Wei Wuxian studied at the Cloud Recesses, I came to like him. And pity younger him.

The whole situation with him and Wei Wuxian is complicated as hell and I probably still don’t know all of it despite looking up spoilers, but his constant shouting at people (or just Jin Ling and Wei Wuxian) just. Fun. Very fun. I seem to have a liking for the dramatic characters who overreact at everything and overreact like, 10x the amount a normal person would.

Like, damn. KILL and FEED TO THE DOGS anyone who cultivates the wrong path. ok...you can make an argument for that though it’s still a bit extreme (you...don’t have to feed them to the dogs gosh). And later, when he hits Wei Wuxian with the whip but STILL wants to drag the ‘innocent’ Mo Xuanyu back to Lotus Pier to interrogate. like, you definitely need to calm down, Jiang Cheng. He literally drags back every person who MIGHT be Wei Wuxian returned from the dead despite the fact that his whip is perfect for picking out possessed people. and it’s implied that he doesn’t exactly let them go. ever.

Aanyways. That hasn’t happened yet.

You know what has happened?

Lan Wangji is heeere!

Ok, so. I read this part 3 times after getting to the part when Wei Wuxian was trying to guess how Lan Wangji recognized him and could not figure it out for the life of me. I’ll mention my guesses at the end of this arc. I did actually find out through reading spoilers, but I won’t talk about it publicly on the blog until that time comes in the novel.

Though. It’s pretty funny that their first real interaction after 13 years of one party being dead is Wei Wuxian crashing into his feet.

can. can I make a ‘head over heels’ joke here. can I.

So. Was there a reason Wei Wuxian had to brush shoulders with him. And glance at him inconspicuously. I am side-eyeing you, Wei Wuxian. Especially because you then go on to describe in loving detail a guy you have known for years. You. Already. Know what he looks like. Maybe a musing of whether he changed after 13 years or not would be normal but.

and this is only the beginning! :D 

It’s so much fun rereading this novel and picking out the moments like these- watching Wei Wuxian slowly, slowly (very slowly haha) realize how he really feels towards Lan Wangji. and seeing through Lan Wangji’s every action with the knowledge that he’s liked Wei Wuxian for years and years.

At first, I just thought he was waxing poetic because it was the writer’s prerogative to spend more time describing the main love interest/secondary main character, but. And similarly, I didn’t realize the weight of everything Wei Wuxian observes of Lan Wangji’s actions until the second read-through.

Then there are lines like this wonderful one: 

“...nothing could help the bitter facial expression that made him look as though his wife had passed away.”

xD yeah I didn’t realize the importance of that until later.

I mean. yeah.

Wei Wuxian apparently considers Jiang Cheng “exceptionally handsome” but haha sorry Lan Wangji still wins in his eyes.

On another note, I have trouble seeing Jiang Cheng as a handsome pretty-boy type. xD maybe it’s his personality clashing with his looks?

lol but Lan Wangji just going around and destroying all the nets before this confrontation is somehow. Interesting. Funny? Just how long did that take even with his magic-y sword?

Jiang Cheng is being extra...extra again though. xD like, really, you actually set the equivalent of 400 expensive mouse-traps and intimidated everyone else just so Jin Ling could prove himself as a cultivator. that’s kinda extreme.

but, well, he really does love his nephew. it’s nice in a very...obnoxious sort of way haha.

phew, end of the chapter!

(quotes from ExR’s translations)

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