The Bastards of Yunmeng update!
We're up to chapter 33 and *check notes* ghost crow soldiers!
We are up to chapter 33 of this fanfic, “The Legend of Xue Yang,” which includes a fight scene that took me weeks to write, edit, re-write, and edit before I felt it was even close to being ready to post.
The story has broken 60,000 words, almost without trying on my part. I’m stuck right now on chapter 56, and while I know where I want the story to go, I’m trying to figure out how to get it there. Ah, the joys of being a pantser!
What am I talking about???
The Bastards of Yunmeng is a canon-divergence AU set a few years before the canon events of MDZS/CQL start:
She should be strong for them. She should hold them and tell them everything would be all right. All she could do was stand there and cry.
“What happened, child?” Lao Wang asked softly, staring at the tangle of her brothers. His hands were firmly set on his cane, but there was something soothing about his presence in that moment. It helped that he wasn’t actually looking at her when she started to speak.
“Father…Sect Leader Jiang found out that my brother and I are not his children. Our mother was an adulteress.” She took a deep breath, wrapping her arms around herself, starting to shake. “He…he kicked us out.”
I watched the drama five years ago and it changed my life. I invite it to change yours, too — and then, maybe, come back ‘round and read my fanfiction ode to the characters I adore and cry over every day.