Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian | Episode 28

This piece was originally drawn for the JP audio drama's 2023 illustration contest of which I was one of the third prize winners. MDZS's French publisher asked to include it with volume 3 of the French edition, so I made a few edits for them and that is the version you see here.

(You can see my other guest contributions to the French edition of MDZS by browsing this tag.)

it’s so funny that lan qiren and everyone else imagine lan zhan as that pure, virgin, virtuous man who never had one perverted thought in his life.

in reality, boy kissed the object of his affections against a tree like there’s no tomorrow, fucked him in the middle of a forest, fucked him in dreams, fucked him in a bathtub, fucked him upside down, thoroughly makes sure that ‘everyday is everyday’, probably never had one ‘virtuous’ thought ever since meeting wei wuxian instead.

Introducing the MXTX tops-

1) pathetic crybayby puppy yandere who will feed you his blood

2)preverted beast who must be restrained with 5000 rules and also a forehead ribbon leash

3) S I M P

loner teen Lan Zhan stealing the perfume bag from his passed out crush to use as his money pouch for years + acclaimed young warrior Hanguang-jun snagging his crush’s peony and turning it into a bookmark and taking such good care of it that it still has a pleasant scent 13 years later = me wanting to grab him by his exquisitely toned and pale and slender shoulders and shake him so vigorously that his hopeless romantic brain turns into scrambled eggs

but i guess i can’t do that because he already walked himself down to Gusu to be lashed 33 times for each clan elder he injured to defend his evil overlord necromancer unrequited lover and it was all in vain anyway

i like that Wei Wuxian never has some big epiphany moment about being in love with Lan Wangji. even though he’s in complete denial pre-death, that’s also partly because he always feels like Lan Wangji doesn’t actually like him a whole lot and because there are more pressing matters to worry about. but post-resurrection, his feelings develop slowly and he just kinda quietly accepts them at face value. (except for occasionally wondering if being ritually summoned into a gay man’s body is what made him gay, which is hilarious.)

but at the same time, he starts getting increasingly concerned about getting Lan Wangji dirty, in the literal sense of getting blood and dirt on his clothing, which is clearly a projection of his worry that being associated with him in any intimate sense will taint Lan Wangji’s reputation and somehow hurt him spiritually/mentally/emotionally as well. he projects so much disgust and shame onto Lan Wangji, it’s kinda painful. and at the same time and for the same reasons, he keeps almost willfully misinterpreting every intentional or unintentional display of affection that Lan Wangji demonstrates bc we accept the love we think we deserve etc.

so he goes from like “i am totally straight tralala! and i’m gonna try my hardest to embarrass Lan Wangji in any conceivable way.” to “of course i’m gay for Lan Zhan, but he’s a god amongst men so how dare i even consider the possibility that he might feel the same way.” but that transition feels totally natural.

and then he prays to his ancestors like “yo, can you please help me snag this man? i wanna smash it so bad!” what a fucking mess.

wei wuxian:

also wei wuxian:

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Imagine a vampire sucked your blood and they didn't even pop a boner. not even half hard. fully flaccid the entire time they sucked your blood. I'd be so humiliated.

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