Infinite thanks to @trickybonmot for waiting so patiently for this illustration from the 2023 @fandomtrumpshate auction.
It's for @littledust's fanfic The Needle and the Nail, which I completely adore:
Do you want to save them? say the voices on the wind, and Wen Qing's hand falls to her pocket. The cord is still unknotted, but her intentions have begun to permeate it. And there is one person here whose meridians she knows as well as her own.
#perhaps someone’s got an itty bitty little crush.
So I’ve been reading a considerable number of Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing fanfics so I decided to make a rec post with some of my personal favorites in no particular order :
Threads of Fate Series by chiharutanaka
The first fic of this series is as collection of really well written oneshots, the second and the third follow to differents paths, one canon compliant (obviously super sad), the other one not canon compliant.
If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep On Going by GeneralSam_3 ( @tater-tots-last-of-the-romanovs )
Really cute modern au fic in which Jiang Cheng and Wen Qing are neighbors
there’s a fire inside my head by nighimpossible
Interesting reincarnation AU with some well written smut.
Modern Au Group Chat Fic - Funny and cute featuring Wen Qing being a very overprotective girlfriend.
Jade and Cold by Unforth
Smut with gentle femdom and pegging. Quite hot.
Now That’s Commitment! by onlytheworst
Funny smut. Jiang Cheng does something really stupid and end up getting laid as a result.
WW2 AU - Very cute and romantic.
Untitled college au by @wildehacked
One of my personal favorites with some really well written unresolved sexual tension (I’m really hoping for a sequel for this one)
Fake Amnesia AU Part 1 Part 2 by @wildehacked
Wen Qing survives AU - Jiang Cheng finds Wen Qing alive and she fakes amnesia, quite interesting so far.
Jiang Cheng asks Jin Zixuan for romantic advice. Funny and cute.
Wen Qing survives au - Wen Qing helps Jiang Cheng to take care of baby Jin Ling.
Star Trek Chengqing AU by erlenwein
A series of oneshots set in the Star Trek universe in which Wen Qing is a Starfleet Doctor and Jiang Cheng her captain.
Bound Alike by Sour_Idealist
Modern AU - Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng’s first date is interrupted by a family crisis
Into a Place Where Love Can Bloom by JemTheKingOfSass
Wen Qing survives au - Post-canon in which Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng reconnect after years apart. Absolutely lovely.
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I’m not gonna rec my own fanfics because I think that would be a bit tacky, but if anybody wants to read what I wrote for this pairing you can find it here
whenever i remember the inclusion of jiang cheng’s interest in wen qing at the beginning its so funny…. it serves no narrative purpose beyond the show saying ladies, a man being interested in you doesn’t mean DICK . he WILL let you die in a prisoner of war camp. just so you know.
