Thread by @lansalmoni

#NieYao post canon

Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao are together, even after death, so what if they are sworn enemies?

Nie Mingjue asks some difficult questions, but this time Jin Guangyao has to answer.

Nie Mingjue had killed him. He had choked him to death. And even in death, he wouldn't leave him be.

"Tell me, tell me, if I hadn't sent you away to Lanling, would you still go that far to earn your father's approval?"

Nie Mingjue, you still don't understand?
"I was happy. With you. I was happy in Qinghe. With Huaisang. Then you sent me away. You left me to die in Lanling. My commander stole my credit, my hard work was mocked. I was angry, Nie Mingjue. I was angry. At you. At my scum of a

father. At everyone who had wronged me. Tell me, you, tell me, you were never kicked down Jin Lin Tai, were you? Your father never used you as a pawn. Your father loved you, Nie Mingjue. And my father, my father had no concern for me. Do you think, if you had let me stay, I would

go back to him?"

"You married a woman, and you killed her. Why?'

"It hurt, it hurt so much, my wife was my half sister. I went so far to earn her love, be a man worthy of her love, someone her father would approve. LianFang Zun. When I knew....when I knew, it was too late, her father had approved, she was happy, I was happy, the despicable

LianFang Zun was happy. And then... then he ruined it. I killed my child, if anyone knew that A-song was a product of incest, he would never become sect leader, never get any respect. Trust me, Nie Mingjue I know what it's like to receive not an ounce of respect. I killed my son

and lost my wife, my sister as punishment."

"Why did you kill me?"

"Nie Mingjue, you made me your second in hand, I wore your didi's old clothes, I wore the Nie braids in my hair. The beloved "Meng Yao." Then, you sent me away to rot in Lanling, humiliated me, kicked me down the steps of Jin Lin Tai. You became my father's image in my head. And

tell me Nie Mingjue, didn't I kill him too?"

"Oh A-Yao."

There's no mock, no underlying sense of his inferiority and for once, in death, Meng Yao let's Nie Mingjue's embrace him.

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