Even the best mum and dad in the world might not believe that their daughter has met fairies at the bottom of the garden. A mum who's a cultivator suffering from a curse should probably pay a bit more attention, though.
Little Mianmian (now grown up) is not going to let her parents live that down.
Jiang Cheng searched for Wen Qing throughout the Sunshot Campaign, despite knowing that their obligations had kept them apart before and might always do so.
Wen Qing couldn't allow herself to hope that anyone else would try to save her brother and family. She'd already worked one miracle in her life; why should there be any more?
Under the threat of another open war between the Great Sects of the cultivation world, neither of them knew what to expect.
Xue Yang is apprenticing in demonic cultivation in the Burial Mounds; Wen Qing is trying to keep Wei Wuxian's body and soul together; Wei Wuxian is pretending that everything is all right when it clearly isn't. They all need to blow off a little steam.
Seven drabbles written for MXTXGenWeek2020.
1. Character Study: Outsider POV (Xue Yang and Jin Guangyao)
2. Worldbuilding: Ghosts and Hauntings (Wei Wuxian in the Burial Mounds)
3. Friendship: Oaths and Promises (Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu)
4. Family (Liu Mingyan and Liu Qingge)
5. War (Jiang Yanli and Nie Huaisang)
6. Humour (Xue Yang and Su Minshan)
7. Trope Subversion: Arranged Marriage (Wen Ruohan, Meng Yao and Wen Qing)
Lan Yi had a long time to think, while she was trapped in Cold Pond Cave suppressing the Yin Iron: about her relationship with her clan and her sect, about power, and about her lost lover, Baoshan Sanren.
Xue Yang is sewing. In the indecisive light of a single candle, the seam he's reinforcing wavers back and forth, merging with his fingertips until the stab of the needle separates them suddenly out: the thing that bleeds and hurts, and the thing that lets the sharp point pass through and through it, apathetic.
A character study of Xue Yang and his sewing skills, through the years in Yi City.
Two months after the night hunt at Phoenix Mountain, Lan Wangji visits Yunmeng to try, once again, to convince Wei Wuxian to come back to Gusu with him. Wei Wuxian is getting drunk with resentful energy for company, and would rather mess around with the esteemed Hanguang-jun than confront literally anything in his life.
Neither one of them expected their meeting to go like this.