Hm what if Jiang fengmian was a little more clear in his directions and adopted Wei Ying to be bodyguard for his kids.
Instead of foster son. U know I think he's still nice to him but his position in the sect is clearer? Yanli still is kind to him and jc is his friend but it's way more clear that he's there to serve
Which curbs his arrogance a little bit, I think. He knows he is afforded training and proximity to the Jiang heirs because they are his responsibility, his martial family. His friends.he still loves them, I think
But what's a more restrained wwx like? He wouldn't start fights and punch jzx, I don't think. He'd grit his teeth but say something scathing but polite and usher shijie away
I think he'd be allowed to attend classes, seated behind Jiang Cheng. Absorbing everything he can because the more he knows the better he can protect the the jiangs. When he asks lqr about resentful energy it's not with flippancy but cold, academic interest.
He fights lwj on the rooftop, still. This time getting alcohol for the young masters. He grins, and flirts, and says "sorry, er-gongzi. But I don't have to listen to you. I only report to Jiang gongzi and Jiang guniang." Sketches a bow, and dissappears into the night
He Doesn't get kicked out of cloud recesses, which means lwj has even more time to stew over his unfortunate crush. It was never wwx's arrogance and exuberance that captured his heart. After all, wwx is kind in all universes.
As a servant he is.. more aware. Kind to the staff of cloud recesses. Lwj notices how he discreetly distracts a handsy Jin disciple with grace, so much so that the serving girl slips away unnoticed
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Just thinking of assassin for hire!wwx being hired to infiltrate and eventually kill lwj after befriending him.... and the both of them hiding the fact that they're Well Aware Of the others task but still they can't stop being drawn to each other
No plot just thinking of the final moment where lwj wakes up to wwx leaning over him, the needle point of his dagger trembling over lwj's Adam's apple -
And wwx looks up and meets lwj's calm gaze and he's caught, the ruse is up- there's no way to explain this betrayal away
And lwj reaching up slowly, to grasp both of wwx's wrist, to steady those hands over his throat. His body is relaxed, their game is finally over- they don't have to pretend anymore. Now they are just Wei Ying and Lan zhan, and all that's between them is one sharp knife.
Man wangxian who grew up in the Chinese community always seeing each other at weddings and events- whose parents always tried to make them get along because free childcare if children play together while the adults play mahjong
Who HATE each other because on wwx's part lwj is the guy- u know, the lingling who plays piano grade 8 and scores perfectly on his tests and never talks back to his parents
And lwj doesn't like how wwx always upends the rules when they play together- he's always asking "why, though?" And it really really frustrates lwj. Also a-ying had a really fucking obnoxious teenage phase, okay, really argumentative and contrary cuz he read philosophy books 😅
Man lwj prolly only so tall because economic position allowed for early childhood nutrition.. the interest in tall men was an interest in rich men!! Which means wwx... probably a little short...
Au where wwx was never on the streets and got adequate nutrition and grew up to be big and broad and squishy and lwj goes 👀😳🥺
I don't make the rules if lwj is big strong on tofu and seitan there's no way Wei "I'm super good at hunting" wuxian isn't thick as hell
Ok ok ok but like...au where jc doesn't manage to distract the wen soldiers and they BOTH get captured- both of them get their cores crushed and tossed into the burial mounds
Theyre both crushed and broken and clinging to each other- two brothers alone amongst the dead.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," jc is saying, over and over again.
Wwx only screams himself hoarse, and is silent after that.
I'm. Post-war era lwj as a clerk with his typewriter and glasses and tweed suit.... wwx as his mysterious and probably scandalous neighbour who keeps night hours
Lwj sees him in passing, because he gets up early to start his commute, and wwx is just getting home, rumpled and lips smeared with lipstick.
(Look I don't want Reality in this au I just want VIBES)