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I don't care if this isn't how venn diagrams work I'm right
wwx goes on blinds date on NHS’s behalf. NHS is going on blind dates on NMJ’s behalf. It’s trickle down economics of rich heirs not wanting to go on blind dates
They have this whole system where WWX goes pretending to be NHS, and is so off putting in various ways that the other rich families stop trying to set up their sons and daughters with the Nie.
NHS and NMJ are very grateful (NMJ for not having to alienate the other families by bluntly turning down their sons and daughters, NHS for not having to do anything at all)
WWX enjoys the scheme. It’s fun to act outrageous and get paid for it, and he gets a free meal at a nice restaurant + new designer clothes as a perk. Win/Win! (plus, he was raised as a rich young master even if he only gets to use those etiquette stills in knowing exactly how to break them to greatest effect)
LWJ is newly returned from working at the New York branch; his return is heralded by LQR finally stepping down as deputy CEO and handing the position to LWJ. His first order of business is firing their chief financial officer in his inaugural speech for misappropriation of company funds. There’s a slideshow of how egregious the fraud is. It’s marvelous.
WWX has worked for Lan Industries for 5 yrs and has never seen anything as glorious or petty in his life.
The Lan Industries board of directors is less pleased. This is the kind of situation that should have been handled quietly, but since this was the third time it was supposed to be handled LWJ doesn’t give a shit what they want
Except he’s made life hard for his brother; LQR is told to find LXC a life partner. LWJ agrees to go instead, only to realize within moments that LXC played him into being social. Well, the joke would be on LXC because LWJ would just marry whoever his brother had been set up with and be done with it.
It goes like this: LQR reaches out to NMJ, NHS filters the request to himself, accepts it and sends WWX. WWX says yes, he has his next restaurant and outfit request already picked out. LXC also accepts with the intent of doing it on behalf of LWJ.
LXC and NMJ end up being end-game as the secondary couple so this is huge irony.
At no point is WWX told his date is a Lan. Author personally likes to think NHS does it on purpose. NHS would vehemently deny involvement.
This is leading up to: WWX is sitting in the restaurant sipping on a lovely glass of wine, wearing a delightfully slutty outfit and nothing on his mind but what he'll order and that since he has no info on who his date will be he'll have to improvise. He hopes they're the type of person to be insulted by his outfit and not enjoy it. He does have some very boring outfits in his closet designed for people who would find a slutty outfit compelling.
That's all to say that when LWJ walks into the restaurant and is led to his table, WWX recognizes him as his very attractive and very petty boss.
Fuck.
Bonus:
WWX is still in his heterosexual era, which makes it a very big issue that LWJ tries to arrange marriage immediately. It makes it a bigger issue that he'd tried to get rid of LWJ by aggressively getting in his personal space and now they're escalating quickly past third base.
(LWJ is a secret third option as someone who looks and behaves as though the slutty outfit would be off putting but is deeply into it. WWX wouldn't have seen that coming even if he knew who his date was)
WWX is still LWJ's employee, and he thinks if LWJ gets a good look at work!wwx's face he'll know immediately. It's too bad WWX is excellent at his job and LWJ wishes to discuss his ideas. work!WWX starts wearing glasses, a known effective disguise.
WWX doesn't know LWJ has seen work!wwx's face, has figured out the ploy, and keeps arranging office meetings for the rapidly escalating disguises (amusing) and excuses wwx makes (petty) and also because he enjoys being near him both romantically and intellectually
(basically things start moving very fast, wwx doesn't know what's going on but he's not having a good time)
(he's having a very good time)
Bonus bonus:
LXC and NMJ meet to discuss their younger siblings getting married. NMJ knows it's not actually NHS. LXC knows NMJ was who LQR originally tries to set him up with. The most awkward part of the evening is when LXC leaves the next the morning and meets the real NHS, and then has to decide how to tell LWJ.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS 魔道祖師) novel 6th anniversary
Wei Wuxian happy birthday
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I love fanfic, I love all the tropes, I love the history behind them, I love the repetitiveness and I love seeing the same story over and over again. But I think we have to admit that all of this works in fanfic because behind it lies the full weight of its origin material. Fanfic is a continuation of the source material, or a retelling, or a reworking, or a destruction and rebuilding, a bending or a complete defiance of the laws of physics and an alteration down to an atomic level. You don't have to know the source material to read the fanfic, but hidden behind the words is still that original structure and universe.
This is why I don't like where modern publishing is going with books. My preferred genre growing up was fantasy. Now when I try to find fantasy books all I see is the same book in a slightly different universe over and over again. And I'm not saying people can't tell the same story in different ways, but to me what people are doing now is telling a different story in the same way, over and over and over. Now instead of repeat plots it's repeat tropes. It feels like a lot of these authors have just plucked what they wanted from fanfic and applied it to these spicy fae/dragon/vampire dark romance fantasy and something about it just feels wrong. I can't really explain it better than that, I'm not feeling very eloquent tonight, I just went looking for new books and this was how I felt about all the options which were presented to me. It feels like all the things I love about fanfiction have been ripped out of that context and shoved into a body they were never supposed to occupy.
My dear , my everything
Was honesty meant to pair with this post: no1rubbish
But got caught up in the (silver) details, so I didn’t really put too much thought into it :) but the intention is there!
Having a really long-term hyperfixation that has since faded is terrifying yes but it's also so embarrassing. Hi I used to think about Scrimblo Splungus 25/7. Yeah, for 2 years straight. Nah, I don't think about them anymore except for with a vague sense of melancholy as I recall how they used to make me feel. Anyways this new one, Blimpkins McGee? I'm gonna think about them forever and the cycle will NOT repeat in 2 years. Trust me guys.
you guys ever think about how ruoye used to accidentally tie itself into a death knot/noose as a newborn evil spirit
lost in those eyes! ❤️👁️
you can always tell when hua cheng sees his precious beloved.. i love drawing his gaze at xie lian so much i do it all the time lmao
