Jiang Cheng swore he would teach Lan Wangji a lesson for stealing Wei Wuxian away. With sharp sarcasm and a dangerous smile, he bared the beauty he had hidden all his life-curves, amethyst eyes, and the body his mother told him never to reveal. His plan was simple: seduce Zewu-jun, Lan Wangji's perfect brother, and make him fall. But in the stillness of seclusion, Lan Xichen's mourning heart cracked open, and something darker began to stir. Each weekend Jiang Cheng flaunted his intersex beauty-smiles, touches, stolen moments-and unknowingly fed the shadow that lurked beneath Zewu-jun's gentle jade exterior. What began as revenge twisted into obsession. Lan Wangji wasn't the only one Jiang Cheng underestimated. In trying to trap one brother, he had awakened the other's dark side... and now it was Jiang Cheng caught in the web. ----- xicheng ff

After years of seclusion and heartbreak, Lan Xichen releases his sacred forehead ribbon into the wind - a silent farewell to his past and a lover who betrayed him. But fate has other plans. When Jiang Cheng, visiting Gusu with his sharp tongue, broken ribbon, and hidden beauty, unknowingly ties Lan Xichen's forehead ribbon into his hair, he sets off a storm of scandal and surprise. In Lan culture, only lovers or fiancés may touch that ribbon - and now, Jiang Cheng is bound by an unspoken promise he never meant to make. Lan Qiren is horrified. Wei Wuxian is too late to stop it. Lan disciples are stunned. And Lan Xichen? For the first time in years, he finds himself watching again - this time not a memory, but a man who glows even as he glares. Can one ribbon truly choose its owner? Or has fate tied together two hearts that never expected to meet? A chaotic, beautiful, and slow-burning romance where misunderstanding meets destiny, and a ribbon changes everything. --- xicheng ff

After being wrongly accused of hurting Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng is publicly humiliated and banned from Gusu by Lan Wangji. Tired of being the bitter sect leader no one trusts-or loves-he does the unthinkable: disguises himself as a mysterious maiden to escape the burdens of his identity. Dressed in flowing silk, veiled and serene, he sneaks into Caiyi Town for a peaceful afternoon... only to catch the attention of none other than Lan Xichen, the famously composed First Jade of Lan. Lan Xichen falls-hard-for the mysterious beauty who seems so strangely familiar. Jiang Cheng just wanted a break. Now he's stuck in a double life, dodging Lan juniors, avoiding recognition, and fuming in silk while trying not to fall for the most annoying (and oddly persistent) man in the cultivation world. A story of mistaken identities, unresolved trauma, flirty chaos, and Jiang Cheng learning he's never been second-not where it counts. xicheng ff

When fifteen-year-old Jiang Cheng arrives at Cloud Recesses to study, he immediately notices something suspicious: the iceberg Lan Wangji staring at his brother Wei Wuxian like a starving wolf. Determined to protect his naïve, clueless brother from hungry gazes and romantic disaster, Jiang Cheng takes it upon himself to become a full-time watchdog. But while Jiang Cheng is busy glaring at Lan Wangji, he accidentally crashes into someone even more dangerous-Lan Wangji's older brother, the perfect and gentle Lan Xichen. One small accident is all it takes for the sect's untouchable jade to develop an obsession of his own... with a sharp-tongued, brutally honest kitten who has no idea what kind of trouble he just invited. Wei Wuxian is falling into Lan Wangji's arms, Jiang Cheng is somehow falling into Lan Xichen's, and chaos, comedy, and romance are about to break every single rule in the Cloud Recesses. --- xicheng ff

Sect leader Lan has recently returned from his year-long seclusion. You'd expect a man who was betrayed by one of his closest friends to be closed off and unable to trust. At least that's what Jiang Cheng expected. But Zewu-jun returned kinder and more helpful than ever and Jiang Cheng is not the only one to take a notice of this fact. With each passing day it becomes more and more obvious that the people approaching him is only taking advantage of his new inability of saying no. Jiang Cheng can allow this to go on no further. But the mission of getting sect leader Lan to say no turns out to be tougher than he had first anticipated. As each Jiang Cheng's requests, each more outrageous than the last, gets granted his anger grows as his departure for Yunmeng approaches. Will Jiang Cheng succeed in his mission or is the Lan sect doomed to fall?

What happens to Jiang Cheng and Lan XiChen after everything has ended? What about their love story? A story about Jiang Cheng and Lan XiChen. Completed: 15 January 2020

"I love you, and I will stand by you no matter what happens." -Lan Xichen "I have loved and I have lost, now that I'm loving again I am afraid to lose." -Jiang Wanyin (Events take place after the Guanyin temple incident and after Lan Xichen finishes his seclusion.)