Rotten Work by ShanaStoryteller

Author's End Notes:THE END! we did it. thank you so much for all your encourage comments and your patience when the chapter count kept on climbing this story wouldn't be what it is without you.to everyone who figured out that li mianmian was going to be the jin heir - congratulations! gold sticker for youlxc comes out of seclusion. wwx and nhs and jc become real friends again. lwj and wwx get married and live in koi tower.jingyi and jin ling do start dating and then eventually marry. sizhui spends probably too much time with the jin, but his dads and cousin and best friend are there, so, what else is he supposed to do? come on. li mianmian eventually takes over her mother's place as first disciple.jin ling, much to his horror and after dodging it for several years, becomes chief cultivator. the punchline is he's great at it.the lans finally get a proper spy networkand everyone lived happily ever afteri hope you liked it!!you can follow / harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.comi'm also on twitter now (https://twitter.com/shanastorytella) and i'm doing a weekly newsletter again with a newsletter exclusive mulan story (https://tinyletter.com/shanastoryteller), if you're interested in that sort of thing :)

Author's Notes:*takes a shot for every time i've said "one more chapter" like a fucking liar*Author's End Notes:they love each other so much it makes them stupidalso rip jingyi and pour one out for sizhui breaking the lan rules against drinking alcohol to prevent his bff from making a fool of himself and drunkenly proposing marriage a la his hero hanguang juni hope you liked it!!you can follow / harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.comi'm also on twitter now (https://twitter.com/shanastorytella) and i'm doing a weekly newsletter again with a newsletter exclusive mulan story (https://tinyletter.com/shanastoryteller), if you're interested in that sort of thing :)

Author's Notes:the chapter count is problematic and has been cancelledAuthor's End Notes:jin ling still hasn't picked up on any hints but it's not because jingyi isn't dropping them. or launching them at him with a slingshot.jl and sizhui working together are too powerful. rip the cultivation worldnext time: some more drunk juniors shenanigans, wwx finally talking to his brother and his soulmate, and jin ling being pretty good at this sect leader thing (i can fit that all into one chapter, right? RIGHT????)i hope you liked it!!you can follow / harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.comi'm also on twitter now (https://twitter.com/shanastorytella) and i'm doing a weekly newsletter again (https://tinyletter.com/shanastoryteller), if you're interested in that sort of thing :)

Author's Notes:*warily pokes the chapter count* i think just one more chapteredit: i was wrong. don't look at meAuthor's End Notes:can't believe i went a whole chapter without wwx smhjl: i sure hope i take after my mom in the romance departmentalso jl: *rolls a 1 on perception*sizhui when he hears that jin ling spoke to lan xichen and his uncle even left his seclusion to speak to him is just the upside down smile emojii hope you liked it!!you can follow / harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.comi'm also on twitter now (https://twitter.com/shanastorytella) and i'm doing a weekly newsletter again (https://tinyletter.com/shanastoryteller), if you're interested in that sort of thing :)

Author's End Notes:featuring my ocs from my other fics because i like them and i missed themjin ling WILL tell lwj and jc about fishing wwx out of the trash. but not yet.jin ling and sizhui are going to have a real conversation. i believe in them. they can do iti'm hoping i can wrap this up in one more chapter but i'm sensing that it might be not work out like that :(i hope you liked it! feel free to follow / harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.com

Author's End Notes:jiang spies: oh shit it's senior brother wei! should we tell sect leader jiang?jiang spies: .... nahjin ling: *somehow, inexplicably, the sharpest political mind of his generation*also jin ling: if people DON'T SAY WHAT THEY FEEL how are people supposed to KNOW HOW THEY FEEL??? bitch! y'all need to use your words! i can't mind read! uncle ying DEFINITELY can't mind read!anyway i could have put "jin ling yells at people who don't love wei wuxian correctly" as the summary and it would have been correcti hope you liked it!feel free to follow / harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.com

Author's End Notes:jl: how can the adults be this stupid about each other?jl and lsz: *constantly misinterprets each other at every available opportunity*jl: how bizarreanyway next time lwj comes to koi tower and has an honest conversation about his feelings for wwx. not with wwx, of course, but you know. baby steps.i hope you liked it!feel free to follow / harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.com

Author's End Notes:jin ling, fishing wei wuxian out of the garbage: finders keepersi'd meant to have mianmian and sizhui show up in this chapter but it got away from me. i'm VERY excited for their arcs in this story!chapter count is tentative and subject to change.i hope you liked it! feel free to follow/harass me at: shanastoryteller.tumblr.com