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
diving into the lake when they were kids.
One day, they built a swing off one of the larger branch and they just sit there side by side, squished up against each other so that they'd fit, swinging over the lake and watching the sunset above the roofs of their home.
The day Lotus Pier burnt, the tree lost all of its flowers/leaves, like a tree withering away in the cold, harsh winter.
When JC rebuilt Lotus Pier, the tree slowly bloomed along with the rebuilding, one step at a time and joy was spread across the people of Yunmeng again
When WWX died, JC often rowed out on his own towards the tree. The swing that they had built as children had been burnt down together with Lotus Pier.
JC watches his new disciples, most of them still children, playing around the tree, like how WWX and himself did
With the urging of his disciples, JC installs a new swing on the tree and when it is quiet, in the night under the moonlight, JC would sit and swing alone in the silence, reminiscing about the old days.
There would never be two boys sitting side by side eating lotus seeds
swinging off the tree trunk above the Lotus Lake again.
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Found this off google, watermark and all, but I'd imagine the tree to look something like this. But more..bright and cheerful LOL
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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??
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