A Date in Caiyi Town
I wanted to draw this as the counterpart date comic to the one I drew for the Modaozushi Vol 5 (B&N edition) Yunmeng comic! Not everyone is able to purchase that exclusive edition, but everyone still deserves a wangxian dating comic! Please enjoy!
Happy New Years!!!
Happy new Wangxian Year!!
So it turns out our “1 Brain Cell Trio” of WWX, JC, and NHS actually kinda talk shit about Lan Qiren behind his back during their time at Gusu summer school. They should be referring to him as Lan-xiānshēng. Xiānshēng (先生) is the name suffix for teacher. It’s the same characters used in Japanese for sensei.
That’s because they’ve all taken to calling him lǎotóu behind his back. Lǎotóu (老头) can be a rather neutral word, basically meaning an older man/fellow. Can also be used to mean father. However, these three are definitely using it to be rude behind his back. It’s mentioned earlier in the book that LQR isn’t actually even all that old! They’re just calling him “Old Man Lan” because they think he’s too strict and conservative. NHS even catches himself and makes himself refer to LQR as xiānshēng when he’s in the middle of calling him “old man.” They know they shouldn’t be talking about him like that.
So, when Chapter 16 opens, WWX is expecting the fallout from the stunt he pulled in the library on LWJ. He sleeps all night hugging his sword because he’s worried “老头” and “小古板“ are gonna drag him away for punishment. 老头, as mentioned above, is WWX calling LQR the “Old Man”. 小古板 is what he starts calling LWJ. 小 is small/little/young. 古 is another word for old/ancient. 板 is a board/plank. 古板 together mean someone that’s old-fashioned/conservative/stick-in-the-mud. WWX is pointedly comparing LWJ to his uncle and basically saying he’s a Mini-LQR despite the fact that he’s so young! So stick-in-the-mud by itself isn’t wrong, per say, but I don’t think it quite captures the “crotchety old man” vibes that WWX thinks LWJ has.
I think a good way to capture that feeling is to translate 小古板 as “Baby Fogey.”
Wei Wuxian storms into the Lanshi where the elders convene, when he receives word from Lan Yuning.
“Wei Wuxian,” an elder calls out, frowning, “you have not been summoned.”
Entry into the Lanshi is forbidden unless summoned by the elders, but Wei Wuxian has broken worse rules on the Wall of Discipline in his youth, and frankly, doesn’t care about what any of the elders think of him. Not today.
“I have not,” Wei Wuxian agrees.
“Why, then, have you come uninvited?” the elder asks.
“You intend to punish Lan Zhan,” Wei Wuxian says.
“You will address him properly, or not at all,” another elder says.
“I will address Lan Zhan the way he wishes for me to,” Wei Wuxian counters, not even turning to face the elder who has spoken to him. He stares at Lan Qiren, who is sitting at the head of the table, instead. “You intend to punish Lan Zhan for bringing me back from Qinghe.”
“Yes,” Lan Qiren says.
if it is not /too/ late to suggest a number for the kiss prompts :D 13 discreety for wangxian
Unedited, apologies for any mistakes! Not exactly discreet, but I can’t imagine Wangxian being entirely discreet. xD Hope you like it, lovely.
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They think they’re being discreet, but Lan Qiren sees it all. The way Wei Wuxian shifts closer to Lan Wangji until they’re shoulder to shoulder at the table, one hand sliding under the table; the way Lan Wangji’s eyes flicker down to meet Wei Wuxian’s, the corners crinkling ever so slightly. The way Wei Wuxian leans up to whisper something in Lan Wangji’s ear, his lips ghosting across the shell of it.
At dinner! Before the entire sect!
It’s shameless, beyond shameless, and Lan Qiren wants to put a stop to the madness. Only, he had declared that Wei Wuxian was invisible to him, which meant no eye contact, no greetings, absolutely no acknowledgment of the devil’s presence. He could yell at Lan Wangji, but Lan Wangji is so lost to Wei Wuxian’s demonic charm that Lan Qiren doesn’t even recognize his own nephew anymore. Teeth clenched, he drops his gaze to the table, focuses on swallowing the food in front of him. Hard, when his appetite has disappeared thanks to those two fools.
He manages several mouthfuls. Then, in a moment of folly, he raises his head again.
Wei Wuxian has left his seat to join the junior disciples at their table—“We shouldn’t talk during mealtime,” Lan Sizhui says in a hushed tone; “What’d you say,” Lan Jingyi practically screams—and Lan Wangji has dutifully followed, one hand on Wei Wuxian’s waist. Lan Qiren watches in horror as the hand shifts, lower, in what looks like a light caress. Rests on Wei Wuxian’s hip, fingers curling into the fabric of Wei Wuxian’s robes, before—Lan Qiren’s heart ceases—Lan Wangji leans in to press his mouth to the back of Wei Wuxian’s neck.
Wei Wuxian’s hitch of breath echoes throughout the quiet dining room.
“Lan Zhan,” Wei Wuxian hisses, without heat. “Not there.”
Lan Wangji lifts a finger and drags it across skin, the loose strands of hair on Wei Wuxian’s neck. Barely hidden behind the thick curtain of Wei Wuxian’s ponytail.
“Here?” he asks, voice gone low.
Wei Wuxian shivers.
Lan Qiren feels as if he’s experiencing a qi deviation.
He should have had dinner with Lan Xichen at his cottage—a simple, peaceful meal, devoid of Wei Wuxian and… and whatever beast Lan Wangji has turned into.
Mentally, Lan Qiren apologizes to his brother; he tried his best with his sons, he truly did.
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People kept looking at Lan Qiren whenever his nephew performed some shameless act with his new husband.
As soon as Wangji had said some outrageous thing, or let casual touches become something more despite an audience or simply let Wei WuXian crawl all over him at all hours of the day irregardless of decency, looks would dart in Lan Qiren’s direction. Anticipation turning to bafflement when he only scowled and carried on with his day with nothing more than a shake of his head.
The truth was, he wasn’t surprised in the least.
Wangji had, since birth, been an aggressive cuddler.
In his cradle he’d cry himself hoarse if he woke to realize someone had dared to put him down. Once he started crawling, Lan Qiren had worried about a keeping an eye on him - remembering with no fondness the time A-Huan had scooted himself off the porch - but A-Zhan’s destination was always someone’s lap. As a small child taking his first, toddling steps, he preferred to grab hold of someone - usually an enthusiastic Xichen - rather than any steady bit of wall or furnature like other children.
During visits to his parents, A-Zhan always seated himself on his mother and father’s laps. His mother had coddled him; curling her arms around him and pressing kisses over his hair every few seconds. Qingheng-Jun had tentatively pressed his palm to his tiny son’s belly and pressed him to lean securely back against his front - every uncertain of this little life he’d helped make, but done little to raise.
Lan Qiren himself had been a frequent throne for his second nephew during mediation.
If he was seated and Wangji were nearby, inevitably determined little steps would bring him to Lan Qiren’s side. Eyes closed, he would listen to the soft taps, the light swishing of cloth as his nephew decided his method of approach for the day, then a warm little weight would settle on him. Sometimes on his left thigh, sometimes to the right, occasionally between his legs and then he’d feel a distracting bump of the top-knot he’d help tie that morning against his sternum.
The only tantrums Wangji had ever thrown as a child were when Lan Qiren decided he’d been indulged too often and grown too old for it anyway and began forbidding such clinging. Especially with Xichen. It would have done the face of Gusu Lan no good for word to get out that it’s second master was in the habit of winding around his elder brother like an octopus whenever opportunity appeared.
Watching Wangji as a grown man, eyes narrowing in pleasure like a cat’s as his husband plopped into his lap and threw his arms around his neck, winding his own arm around Wei WuXian’s narrow waist, no, Lan Qiren was not the slightest bit surprised.
@d-a-mante replied to your post “I’m on episode 12, that part after lotus pier was burned down and wei…”
And then Lan Qiren, of all people, agrees with Wangji here. Donghua Lan Qiren is the best.
I’m starting to think that donghua everything is vastly superior to other versions
It(he) followed me home, can we keep it (him)?
Hey sorry for bothering you but i just want to ask... why was lwj punished in cql? In the novel, lwj was punished after fighting his clan elders after spiriting wwx away from nightless city but cql doesn't have that scene???? Like did he fight them after wwx died?? Or before he went to nightless city? And why fight them?
Uh... it was because... uh...
You know, anon, I’m not sure. Something about hanging around the Burial Mounds and picking a fight with the sects for no apparent reason, maybe? I think it’s one of the points where the CQL writers didn’t realize their changes to the plot made another part of the plot make no fucking sense; in this case the change to WWX’s death means there’s no daring rescue from Nightless City and by extension no reason for LWJ to fight his elders.
300 hundred strikes!!!!!!!!!!!!! for..............
associating with evil?????
befriending the goth necromancer??????????????????????
Don’t forget that 300 strikes was also the punishment for Wangxian’s School Night Drinking Party.
Do the Lans hate drinking so much they tried to scar the boys for life, or is our Second Jade just soft as bean curd?
WAIT..................... REALLY?
I forgot about that.
Say it ain’t so........
I also forgot about that. What exactly are the Lan sect's rules regarding appropriate punishments?
Are you asking wrt the novel or wrt to CQL
because it’s starting to become apparent that it’s gonna be difficult to understand why the CQL production team liked the number 300 that much
300 strikes is a good number. A solid number. Weeds out the weak. Keeps the number of disciples down.
Since when is 100 not good enough? Is 100 cuck? Did no one tell me?
Weaklings might survive 100. 300... Only the best survive 300. If there are to be troublemakers in the Lan sect then by all that's holy they'll be tough troublemakers.
But then, why not go big and go for 400? It’s more goth, since 4 sounds almost like death (just a different tone).
Too goth. Evil vibes. You'd have to punish the punishers, and then those punishers would have to be punished in turn... Better not to get into it. And any higher would probably kill anyone.
I love that we’ve all just decided that, apparently, 300 is the limit between life and death. Like 302 whips? INSTANT DEATH. 289 whips? WIMP, LOUSY, INEFFECTIVE.
Look 33 is about the limit in the novel, either cultivators in CQL verse are made of sterner stuff (doubt) or the punishers hit like babies. Still though, you hit someone long enough and they'll probably die.
Also 400 might be survivable with difficulty, but anything in the 400s has Evil Vibes on account of being Goth.
No no I got it. Basically, the Lans in that universe do not have great arm strength, because after they cast Tall Bean Wang Yibo in the role of LWJ, they have no choice but to conveniently forget that LWJ is supposed to be buff and super strong because he’s a Lan. So now all the Lans have horrible arm strength. Thus 10x the original punishment, more or less.
So are the Lans now universally known for weak arms? How do you get weak arms. What's the exact opposite of a handstand.
IDK, being a REAL NERDS?
Those Lans really tried to make Nerds Buff and CQL was having NONE OF IT.
MXTX really did just go "You know what's peak sexy? Buff Nerds" and she has my full respect for that. CQL has failed yet again to live up to the novel's example.
As a former buff nerd, I can only show my respect to MXTX.
CQL, you could have had it all but y’all had to be cowards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess LXC looks decently buff? But that might just be the chin.
...Hey, do you think novel LQR is equally buff? Because that is a Thought.
I might concede that CQL!LXC looks a little bit buff.
Novel LQR is fucking ripped. LQR would be an UILF if he didn’t have that goatee. Cangse Sanren was just trying to help him get some when she shaved it.
Novel LQR has on at least one occasion picked WWX up by the scruff and yeeted him out of whatever room they're in. WWX has very mixed feelings about this. Partly caused by the knowledge that no one would believe him.
Being YEETED by LQR is the favourite punishment of all the bébé Lans, but they will never say it because otherwise they might be asked to copy the rules instead.
You have to really piss him off to get yeeted though.
...Here's a fun fic idea: Five Times LQR Yeeted WWX Across A Room.
Please, someone, write this fic challenge
Mo Dao Zu Shi Q | Ep 6 | This is so cute.
Part of the Family
If you haven’t noticed before I insert LQR as a cameo in a lot of Wangxian comics I draw LOL But this time he gets to be in the main spot ToT
Mo Dao Zu Shi Q | Ep 6 | Listen carefully, all of you!
I read the kitten post, and it had me thinking about other pets in cql, and I had the idea that in his time at lotus pier wwx had either a duck or a terrible goose that outlived him that jc either refused to give up or tried very hard to secretly set loose in cloud recesses
H o l y s h i t.
It is a lovely morning in Cloud Recesses and you are a horrible goose. You have been given a jade token around your neck as a collar by the loud purple human. It is very pretty and shiny and if anyone tries to take it off, you know you will try your very best to bite their fingers off.
You saunter up through the archway and honk loudly. 2 people in white stare at you in confusion, then hesitantly come toward you. One turns to the other to honk in their human language and you see a flutter of white in their long head feathers.
You want it.
You grab it in your beak, yank, and run, fluttering the long white strip behind you with the little metal bit going ping as it bounces off the stones. There is shouting behind you and you flap-waddle as fast as you can up the path, your orange feet slapping loudly. There are a lot of buildings up ahead. Buildings mean more humans and humans mean food. You want food. (And chaos.) You are a goose. There is little else in this world besides these things.
All of the humans here are wearing white, just like you. Perhaps you belong here. Perhaps you’ve been given a kingdom. This sounds about right.
It is a glorious kingdom. There are plenty of ink plates to put your goose feet in and track all over the tables and papers and floors–they should be grateful. You have made them goose art.
There is so much to do here. You dodge these humans that can fly on their sharp sticks. That is very fun. There is a room just filled with delicious paper and you decide they all look better on the floor like a giant nest. You are pulling them down when the loud humans come in and try to grab you. They are so rude. They do not appreciate your vision.
There are big fish in this pond that is now your pond, and so you must chase them to show them who is now in charge. It is you. This is Goose Kingdom now. There is a human in white slowly splashing after you, their strange body feathers being weighed down by the water. They think they can catch you. Foolish. You whirl around and flap in their face, showering them with water and feathers as you fly up to the roof of a pavilion. You stand at the edge and honk loudly down at them, splashing around in the pond on their back. The fish are hiding. Good.
You poop on the roof to show it who’s boss. It is you. You are the boss.
It is a lovely morning in Goose Recesses and you are a wonderful goose.
It’s night and I’m trying so hard not to laugh out loud where’s lwj in all this? WHERE’S LAN QIREN (via @the-not-tamed)
Lan Qiren, as usual, is trying to avoid his impending qi deviation in the arms of a few disciples, whilst shouting angrily (not-shout, shouting is not allowed in the Cloud Recesses, he is just Talking Sternly And Projecting His Voice For The Outdoors) about how this devil must be possessed by the vile spirit of Wei Wuxian, come back from beyond the grave to torment them with his horrible Noises and Crimes.
Lan Wangji, in the meantime, is peacefully playing his guqin in the porch of the jingshi, observing the chase and providing musical accompaniment to the goose’s honking. “Hanguang-Jun!!!!” the disciples cry out, “Please, these disciples beg your assistance, this weird bird is immune to any of our techniques, please play Cleansing!!!”
“This will be good training for the disciples.” Hanguang-Jun declares with all his calm, poise and composure, “And rememeber, Shouting is not allowed in the Cloud Recesses. Running is not allowed in the Cloud Recesses.”
After a while, one of the disciples comes up with the idea of trying to lure it with food.
“Do Not Consort With Evil.” Hanguang-Jun supplies, still playing his beautiful duet with the goose.
Lan Xichen, in the meantime, almost has a heart attack when he arrives from Qinhe to find the Cloud Recesses covered in a suspicious amount of Fire and Feathers and Screaming Disciples and thinks they’re under attack again, until he spots The Goose honking from atop the pile of treasure he’s amassed in front of the jingshi, crying disciples rolling on the floor around it and Wangji playing his guqin.
THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL ADDITION I also feel like lwj would be able to just walk up to the goose and pick it up just like that after a few protesting honks lwj would like vibe calmness and sterness and say “Loud noises are forbidden in the Cloud Recesses. Behave.” cue the goose becoming his (terrible) pet following him everywhere and honking lovingly while trying to bite off everyone else’s fingers I can see lwj meditating with the goose sleeping in his lap (via @the-not-tamed)
Absolutely, yes, that’s exactly what he does as soon as Xichen gives him a knowingly disappointed “Wangji…” :P
And then later on when anyone complains:
“Pets are forbidden in the Cloud Recesses.”
“He’s not a pet, Wei Goosian is the overseer of Finance and Treasury.”
Gusu Heat Wave 🔥
