Re: Jiang Cheng transmigration side tangent thingie - a "Gift of the Magi" unholy mess when JC sacrifices himself for WWX and WWX is all "no oooo" and time travels/whatever to save JC and they just ping pong back and forth refusing to accept the others sacrifice until Yanli has to step in "if you two don't stop this right now, I'mma sacrifice both of you WITH MY CLEAVER" (shed never ever say that but I thought it was funny) Yanli uses her jie-jie powers to sort it out or something?

it took me a second to remember the "gift of the magi" story (wife sells her hair to get a pocket watch chain, husband sells pocket watch for a comb. yikes) and oh nooo it fits them too perfectly. tf when you render someone elses sacrifice near useless by sacrificing yourself <- canon mdzs

honestly i was just talking abt the jiang cheng sacrifice after the yunmeng massacre when jiang cheng runs out into the street so wwx doesnt get caught 😔 and then jc loses his golden core, and then wei wuxian gives his to jiang cheng and then -- the cycle of being utter annoyances fr. but if it goes like scum villain where sqq gets into an unimaginable amount of danger and dying several times. oh my god.... and wei wuxian returning that in kind?

yanli-jiejie really would want to take out her meat cleaver to threaten the boys . i could see her imagining herself doing that hahahah. but talking it out would probably be the most in character thing to do and hopefully lead to a happier ending lmao. even if it never happened onscreen (rip yanli) maybe in this au, chengxian wont be driven to tragedy haha (in tears)

theres a couple ideas i like with transmigration, but i love jiang cheng and i hate to kill his character. so. only option id consider is the transmigrator actually being an au version/modern version of jiang cheng. hes a little more adjusted than canon jc, but his parents are still Like That, and yanli is still yanli (♡) so hes not really that different ? idk. do you have any thoughts abt jc transmigration :3c