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• The Winding Road by idvsmartiae

  Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen, M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  10 May 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
  • Lan Huan | Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue
  • Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin & Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
  • Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Xingchen
  • Song Lan | Song Zichen & Xiao Xingchen & Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji
  • other relationship tags to be added as the story progresses
  • Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
  • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji
  • Lan Huan | Lan Xichen
  • Nie Mingjue
  • Nie Huaisang
  • Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin
  • Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao
  • Xiao Xingchen
  • Song Lan | Song Zichen
  • mostly canon compliant through Wei Wuxian's death
  • then I start playing fast and loose with canon
  • any relationships won't really be happening for a bit
  • Exposition Heavy
  • alternative cultivation styles are explored
  • Rogue Cultivator Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji
  • barely holding it together lan xichen
  • nie mingjue knows more than he lets on
  • Protective Nie Mingjue
  • genius nie huaisang
  • Rogue Cultivator Nie Huaisang
  • (kind of. it'll make sense as we go)
  • Gusu Lan Forehead Ribbon (Modao Zushi)
  • the ribbon plays a shockingly central role
  • Flashbacks
  • time jumps in the narrative
  • I'll be using canon from both the novel and the series however I see fit
  • POV Multiple
  • we're getting in the psyches of every character that even interests me a little bit
  • we're going to meet a very different lan zhan
  • but if I do this right he won't feel like an ooc lan zhan
  • (so let's hope that I do this right!)
  • the qinghe nie brothers have a secret
  • and you might scream at me for it
  • Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies

  Summary

  The Second Jade of Gusu Lan has been missing ever since the Siege of the Burial Mounds. -- No, missing isn't quite the word the First Jade would use to describe the absence of his younger brother from the Cloud Recesses.
  When Lan Zhan had been dragged back to his sect and pulled to his knees in front of his uncle and elders, his brother being physically restrained to the side, he had been informed that he would receive one strike for every cultivator he had struck with Bichen before he would be stripped of his spiritual weapons and would enter seclusion until such a time as his injuries healed. He had broken so many of the rules of his sect, and the defiant look on his typically-inscrutible face suggested that he intended to break even more.
  "Even as the threat of the Yiling Laozu has finally been stymied, you risk finding yourself on the crooked path," Lan Qiren warned his nephew.
  Lan Zhan met his uncle's gaze dispassionately, wondering to himself what differences he would find between a crooked path and a winding road, should he dare to look.

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