jiya, shunu & xiao-die 💞

Art from the novels taken from this twitter thread and edited by me.

drew a few more jwqs characters as i imagine them (qijing ver)

jwqs dump from twt!

JWQS chapters memorable/ major scenes

(Presenting my speculative Timeline + key chapters in JWQS)

Ch 23 (Marriage) (Jingjia 8th Year) Ch 31 (Qi Yan first targets Chuntao, the soup incident) Ch 47 (Qi Yan's eyes have brightness for the first time since her kingdom was invaded 10 years ago) Ch 70 (Jingnu 15) first kiss (scary) Ch 96 -97 (Jingnu 15) proper memorable kiss after Jingnu's birthday (Jingjia 9th year 10th Month)

(Jingnu's birthday is in the month of October)

Ch 108 (Jingnu 16)(Experiences her 1st period) Ch 111 (Qi Yan is scary) (Jingjia 10th Year 10th Month) Ch 121 (Jingnu 17) (first break point) Ch 132 (Jingnu sends Qi Yan away while making her the Viceroy of Jin Province) Jingjia 11th year Ch 133 (3 years have passed) Ch 136 (Jingnu 20)(Meeting after 3 years separation) (Jingjia 14th year) Ch 139 (Qi Yan became the Minister of Personal) Ch 140 (family time) Ch 141 (Qi Yan age 24) Ch 144 -145 (trying to repair the first break point) Ch 147 (Qi Yan gets a mental shock) ("My sister is having a night of passion with the daughter of the enemy?!")(Jingjia 14th year 11th Month )(Qi Yan burns her own estate) Ch 151-152 (Jingjia 15th year 3rd Month) (Qi Yan recovers from the Fuma estate Fire incident) (The Capital exam begins with Qi Yan as the main examiner) Ch 157 (Nangong Rang asks Qi Yan about her opinion of a Female emperor) Ch 158 ( Act as you see fit) Ch 159 (Qi Yan feelings are growing) Ch 170 (Qi Yan age 25) (Liu An matters solved) Ch 171 (OMG Qi Yan fell in an incurable love with the daughter of her enemy) Ch 174 (Palace exam begins.. Nangong Rang hosted it ) (Jingjia 15th year 5th Month) Ch 176 (Qi Yan sets off to the north of Luo) Ch 181 (Wolves scene) Ch 183 (Qi Yan meets Bayin after many years) (Jingjia 15th year) Apparently Jinwushu was brought to the grass plains at the age of 4, after that Bayin started acting as his guardian Ch 186 (The pride of Qiyan Agula returns) Ch 193 (Qi Yan and Jingnu reunion after a good amount of separation) Ch 212 (Intimate scenes (last for Qi Yan as male)) (Just be reckless this once) Ch 218 (Nangong Rang dies )(Jingjia 16th year 2nd Month) ( Qi Yan is 27) Ch 228 (Jingnu ascends the throne at the age of 23) Ch 229 (Jingjia 16th year 5th Month , Reign changes to Chengji) Ch 242 (Truth gets revealed) Ch 243 (Qi Yan confesses her identity) Ch 244 (Jingnu faints from the shocking new lmao) Ch 247 (Jingnu 's first gradual acceptance..of Qi Yan being a women) Ch 258 (Divorce comes…"Qi Yan…don't cry…") Ch 259 (Prison arc torture. Qi Yan - Age-28) Ch 263 (Jingnu finds the wooden sculpt pigs) Ch 268 (Qi Yan leaves …Oh dear…) Ch 270 (No fear when Da-Jie is here!) Ch 271 (Their first time) (Jingnu -23) (Qi Yan age 27) (7th month) Ch 277 (Grand enthronement ) Ch 279 (Bathing intimate scene) (Jingnu -25) Ch 286 (Rebellion of North Luo) Ch 288 (Qi Yan's mind deterioration first proper symptoms. …oh boy..) Ch 290 (Qi Yan meets Baishi again) Ch 293 (Bayin learns the truth….No longer Andas) (Also Qian Tong, all hail our saviour) (Jingnu -26) Ch 296 (REUNION with a lingering kiss) Ch 297 (Say..which of us is the wife?)(The fluff is just AHHHHH) Ch 301 (Qi Yan (age -30) learns of her parent's death…) Ch 302 (Ding You returns..) Ch 303 (Qi Yan fake dies) Ch 305 (darkest chapter of Qi Yan's life )

Jingjia 8th Year 3rd Month Capital Exam begins Qi Yan obtained the first position 5th Month Qi Yan becomes the Flower Seeker 6th Month Nangong Rang arranges the two marriages She gets sick again… Meets Ding You ,the Imperial doctor 12th Month Marriage of Qi Yan and Jingnu

Jingjia 9th Year 2nd Month Jingnu wishes for Qi Yan to live to a ripe old age 4th Month Initiates a scheme of the great Fire of Imperial Mausoluem and the Weiyang palace

Jingjia 10th Year 10th Month Qi Yan kills the saviour of her younger sister(along side many other innocent folks)

Jingjia 11th Year Qi Yan is under house arrest The witchcraft incident occurs Nangong Shunu meets Qiyan Nomin for the first time

Jingjia 14th Year Qi Yan becomes the minister of Personal 11th Month Learns of her sister 's relationship. . .. Qi Yan burns the Fuma estate

Jingjia 15th Year In the first two months , Qi Yan was still recovering from the damage from the Great Fire of the Fuma Estate 3rd Month Qi Yan becomes the main examiner of Capital exam (She receives the secret decree of "Act as you see fit) (Liu An incident occurs) Qi Yan entrusts her sister in Nangong Shunu's hands 5th Month Palace exams begins Meanwhile Qi Yan departs to the North of Luo as the Imperial Ambassador

(Jingjia 16th year = Chengji 1st year) Jingjia 16th Year 1st Month Qi Yan returns to the capital Spends an approx of 22 days in prison Schemes a plan to assassinate the sixth prince 2nd Month Qi Yan reveals her identity killing Nangong Rang in the process 5th Month Jingnu officially acsends the throne Chengji 1st Year 7th Month(3rd month since Jingnu's enthronement) Qi Yan aids Jingnu with the Sifang bank revenue 9th Month Qi Yan tells Xiao Die to confess about her identity 10th Month Qi Yan goes against the masked person's orders Her identity gets exposed

Chengji 2nd year 2nd Month Qi Yan's malicious crimes get exposed Jingnu divorces her 4th Month Qi Yan returns to the palace Gets thrown into jail for treason 5th Month Qi Yan officially becomes Qiyan Agula She is sent back to the north of Luo 7th Month Agula becomes "missing" Qi Yan returns to the palace They have their first time

Chengji 3rd year 3rd month Jingnu 's grand enthronement 9th month Masked person schemes activated

(Qi Yan lived in the restricted part of the palace for over a year)

Chengji 4th Year 4th Month Qi Yan resumes the position of Imperial Husband 5th Month Qi Yan learns of her parents' death 10th Month Qi Yan's memories start to relapse

The reason why (I think) Qi Yan starts to be amnesiac 1) Her mental health was already degrading which had am impact on her critical thought process 2) The red pill which Ding You gives her to remove the poison (the water disease + her womanly features) but it had a side effect which gave her a state of amnesia

Chengji 5th year 2nd Month They meet each other for last time before Qi Yan's death She paints a portrait of Jingnu (age -27) 3rd Month Qi Yan takes the death faking drugs

Chengji 6th year Jingnu crowns Shangyuan Fu as the Crown Prince Ding You successfully treats water disease

Qi Yan however has no past memories of past..

Chengji 7th year Jingnu takes care of Qi Yan's business Goes and digs Qi Yan 's grave too To find its empty

Chengji 8th year Jingnu started to travel in disguise(in search for Qi Yan in this vast world) Meanwhile Ding You suggests Qi Yan to go teach in a private school

Chengji 10th year Jingnu (Age -32) retires from the throne

1 year later of retirement They meet again with Qi Yan meeting her for the "first" time after Jingnu's 4 years of searching There is some hope as Qi Yan hugged Jingnu back Qi Yan (37) Jingnu (33)

My speculation (added with author's info) Within the next year Jingnu moved here, bought the school where Qi Yan was teaching Qi Yan moves in Jingnu 's estate

and they get married again! and this time its a love marriage! They drink the ceremonial wine which they didn't 20 years ago

Happily Ever After

shuya based on the audio drama designgs!!

Kissy (rq for a dear friend)

Shuya art I did for Across the Luo river zine (@ jwqszine on twt)

no cause Xiao-Die must look like some kind of seductress to Jingnu. In her eyes, not only did her 'husband' have an affair (and apparently a child) with her, but her SISTER fell in love with her too!

Jingnu needs a break

Official art taken from the Official JWWJ twitter.

zhuohua princess

Collective works for Across The Lou River, a JWQS zine.

1 - The Death of Qiyan Agula and Flowing Fire

2 - Nangong Shunu lives, in this webbed villainy. A collab with @sunsoothed

3 - Children of the Khagan (Lil Xiao-Die and Qiyan Agula playing <3)

(Jwqs spoilers)

Ranting about Nangong Shunu, Xiao-Die, Nagsi Jiya, and Shuya and Shudie.

Xiao-Die as a person is very sheltered and closed off due to her trauma while Nagsi Jiya is the opposite, she's larger than life, sharp, and commands a room just by walking into it.

Xiao-Die is more of a compliant to Nangong Shunu because they can both understand and relate to one another due to their shared experiences with sexual abuse and how much of an undying love Nangong Shunu has for Xiao-Die's daughter, Yuxiao.

Despite their cultural heritage, they love one another and no matter how much she tries Xiao-Die cannot bring herself to ever renounce or hate Nangong Shunu.

Nangong Shunu found herself falling in love with Xiao-Die because she sees her as so pure and someone with a kind heart and she finds that side of her infectious.

That is their dynamic, mutual understanding, and unrelenting love.

It's a very genuine and pure love, which is why they were meant for one another.

Then there's Nagsi Jiya...

Nagsi Jiya...

SHE'S NAGSI JIYA!!!

What can I say about this woman that hasn't already been said?

She's smart, powerful and uses her beauty as a weapon to manipulate everything in her favor and earn power. Nagsi Jiya has no room in her heart for anyone but herself. Her heart is almost stone.

She uses people for sex, and while she cares about Nangong Shunu she never is unable to be faithful to her. She's a very polyamorous person, she cannot be tied down to a single relationship. She loves power and she loves lust far too much. She's too ambitious so her heart just doesn't have space for one person.

Nagsi Jiya broke Nangong Shunu's heart by her unfaithfulness and Nangong Shunu was never able to forgive her for that. She felt used.

And in reality, while Nagsi Jiya did want to help empower and protect Nangong Shunu from Lu Zhongxing, she did use Nangong Shunu. Nagsi Jiya originally wanted to sleep with Nangong Jingnu but realised that was impossible because Nangong Jingnu would always be faithful to Qi Yan and so Nagsi Jiya decided to settle for the other royal daughter.

Nangong Shunu's feelings of being used and cast aside weren't inaccurate which makes her heartbreak so much more bitter.

Nagsi Jiya had done so much to protect and empower her and in the end, she could never love anyone more than herself. Her heart was well and truly closed.

That is until she has her son and that is when Nagsi Jiya learns to be more selfless but at this point what had been between Nangong Shunu and Nagsi Jiya was well and truly dead and Nangong Shunu has already fallen deeply in love with Xiao-Die and moved on.

Nagsi Jiya is the one who got away.

jiya literally went "holy shit girl queen pussy boss, your husband's fucking ugly, do you wanna be my girlfriend instead?" to nangong shunu and did not wait for an answer.

shuya shuya shuya