#JiangCheng chengxian/xiancheng
JC-rebirth AU where JC wakes up as a newborn baby with tired eyes (eyes that have lived an entire lifetime) that scares the nurses and his parents.
Better yet, no one in his family is the same as his past-life.
There is no YZY, no JFM, no JYL and definitely no WWX.
Cue WWX in the original world freaking out over JC's death and friggin PARALLEL SPACE-TIME-TRAVEL to zoom the modern world where JC was reborn into. Most likely on accident. Like his willpower/wish/dream--
--to see JC again was so strong he manifested some kind of wormhole, i suppose.
So cue WWX being clueless af about where he is. EVEN better if he has no idea that JC was reborn into this world, he probably thinks he fucked up somewhere in his experiments of bringing--
--JC back to life or something and now he's stranded in this strange place and HOW TO GET BACK???
Then one day (probably years later, when JC grows up learning how to be happy (as much as he can be) with a childhood without WWX). Like just...JC trying with his new family---
---and it's good, they're good to him, he loves them but he also still misses his family in his past life and lotus pier and gosh how is JL doing right now? is he doing alright? How is Lotus Pier? etc.
and being able to own DOGS because there's no WWX just throws him--
--off but he gets used to it and then--
random guy who looks identical to WWX appears in his life like some trainwreck because what else is WWX other than a whirlwind of chaos and destruction.
WWX freaking out because his shidi?? here??? after so many years he's been stuck--
--he suddenly sees the face he's been missing all this time...
maybe cue some angst. some "you hate me but I love you" from both ends.
(i haven't thought this far...maybe i'll continue it later)
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Summary:
Mad scientist (cultivator) WWX invents a magic talisman that allows for voices to be recorded and experiments with it prior to his first death as the YLLZ.
JC keeps the talisman in his bedroom and listens to it every night.
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It's nothing more than a silly slip of paper.
So fragile, so easily destroyed, but it is one of Jiang Cheng's most valuable treasures. He keeps it next to him at all times, hidden in the inner pockets of his robes, right above his heart.
Call him foolish, clinging onto
the voice of a dead man, but Wei Wuxian was always a special existence to Jiang Cheng, ever since he snowballed his way into his life when they were merely snotty, stupid kids.
Unlike Chen Qing or Suibian, no one knows of this relic left behind by the YLLZ, except Jiang Cheng,
What if after WWX dies, JC chose to kidnap JL and hide him in LP for safety and made YMJ disappear. Like, literally, vanished into thin air. No one knows what happened to YMJ, one day it was there, the next, it wasn't.
The civilians have no answers for the cultivators either. In fact, they don't remember there being a grand sect in their town. Wasn't the docks always empty, apart from a few fishing boats, peddlers, and merchants?
Immortal cultivators? Goodness! Never heard of it.
For 13 years, the cultivation world tried to find hint/sign of what happened to YMJ, but to no avail.
WWX is resurrected into MXY's body and finds out that YMJ vanished and goes feral. Like, body fuck you, WHERE IS LOTUS PIER??!! WHERE'S A-CHENG??
Imagine if Lotus Pier had this giant tree in the middle of the Lotus Lake with pink leaves/flowers blooming all year round. It's a magical, fantasy tree that has been around forever, no one knows where it came from
what type of tree it is, and it has always been there since even before the Yunmeng Jiang Sect established their home at the lake.
It rests a nice 5 min boat ride away from the docks and it's lush flowers/leaves reflects the prosperity and joy in Lotus Pier.
It's a hot spot dating area for the residents of Yunmeng, at least for those affiliated with the YMJ sect as it is within the boundaries of the cultivation sect.
JC and WWX love to venture out towards the tree and have fun climbing up its branches and swinging off it
Thinking about a #chengxian/#xiancheng idea whereby WWX unintentionally became immortal and continued to live as a hermit on CR whilst everyone else ascended / passed away and cultivation died off as the world progressed into modern / futuristic-sci-fi-ish
A few years ago, an archeological site uncovered a sword stuck in the ground (think...Excalibur) that no one could pull out.
Reincarnated JC and his group of friends decided to visit the now "tourist attraction" and being naughty teenagers with no preservation for life
snuck in after hours and tried their hand at pulling out the sword. One by one, nothing happens, until Jiang Cheng's turn and lo-and-behold, Sandu slips out of the ground and lifted easily by him.
✨✨✨‼️‼️‼️ Cue shining light on JC like heaven's will, but no, is actually
WWX passing away peacefully post-canon and regrets that he never reconciled with JC / entered LP again for the rest of his reincarnated life.
WWX waking up to find himself reincarnated into modern AU where he had already been
brought into the Jiang family by JFM. WWX seeing JC, JYL and JFM smiling at him and it hits him right in the gut because he missed them so much and they're alive!
They don't hate him!
JC is SMILING at him! He hasn't seen that in an entire lifetime and god, how
did he survive without it?
WWX trying to adapt to modern times, like wtf are electronic devices. This microwave is out to kill him. Luckily he's still a kid so he gets away with not knowing a lot of things, but some things do get him the weird glances especially from JC--like