#Xicheng / Accidental #AllCheng [A/B/O Transmigration AU]
Jiang Cheng finally reads the trashy romance novel written by his ex-best friend and former fiancé.
By chapter 12, he realizes the male lead is him.
By chapter 37, he's considering murder.
The author is Wei Ying. His former best friend. Former fiancé. Current person Jiang Cheng hasn't willingly spoken to in years. They didn't separate because they stopped loving each other.
That would've been easier.
They separated because Wei Ying fell in love with someone else too. Lan Wangji. Jiang Cheng asked him to choose. Wei Ying couldn't. So Jiang Cheng chose for him.
He left.
Three years later, Wei Ying publishes a wildly successful A/B/O cultivation romance.
Jiang Cheng refuses to read it.
Obviously.
Until Nie Huaisang sends him a copy. 'You should probably read this.'
Jiang Cheng: 'Why?'
'Just trust me.'
Jiang Cheng should've blocked him.
The novel is set in a modern cultivation society.
Smartphones.
Universities.
Luxury cars.
Cultivation clans operating billion-dollar spiritual corporations. Night hunts live streamed online. Ancient bloodline politics somehow surviving into the twenty-first century.
And, because Wei Ying apparently lost his fucking mind while world-building, certain cultivation families can legally register up to three spouses.
Jiang Cheng actually flips back to make sure he read that correctly.
Three.
Legal.
Spouses.
"What kind of wish-fulfillment bullshit-"
Then the male lead appears. Sharp-tongued. Purple eyes. Terrible temper. Complicated relationship with his parents. Three dogs. Heir to a river cultivation clan.
Jiang Cheng slowly lowers the book. "...No."
The character's name is Jiang Wanyin.
"THAT MOTHERFUCKER."
Maybe coincidence. Plenty of people have purple eyes. Probably.
Then Jiang Wanyin says something Jiang Cheng said during an argument with Wei Wuxian when they were nineteen.
Word.
For.
Word.
Jiang Cheng calls him. No answer.
Good.
Because murder is illegal.
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Unfortunately, Jiang Cheng keeps reading. And discovers the plot. Jiang Wanyin is in love with Wei Ying. Wei Ying loves him too.
Sweet. Wonderful. Fantastic.
Then Lan Wangji appears.
"..."
"No."
Wei Ying falls for Lan Wangji. Lan Wangji falls for Wei Ying. Jiang Wanyin gets jealous.
A love triangle begins.
Jiang Cheng: "YOU WROTE OUR BREAKUP INTO AN A/B/O NOVEL?!"
But it gets worse. Of course it gets worse.
Because unlike reality novel Jiang Wanyin eventually decides he loves Wei Ying enough to share. And since this ridiculous world allows registered multi-spouse marriages...
Wei Ying never has to choose.
Wei Ying marries Lan Wangji.
And Jiang Wanyin...
It's apparently supposed to be romantic. Jiang Cheng stares at the page for a very long time.
Then rereads it. Then throws the book across the room.
"He fucking SETTLED."
That's what pisses him off.
Not the A/B/O.
Not being turned into a fictional character.
Not even Wei Ying publishing private conversations thousands of strangers now quote online. Wei Ying took the one thing Jiang Cheng refused to compromise on and wrote a version of him who eventually did.
"You couldn't choose me."
"So you invented a world where I stopped asking you to."
Jiang Cheng should stop reading there.
He doesn't. He hate-reads another hundred chapters.
And discovers Wei Ying has apparently taken liberties with other aspects of his life too. Novel Jiang Wanyin is an omega.
Jiang Cheng stares at the word. Then at the author photo. Then back at the word. "Why."
He calls Wei Ying again. Straight to voicemail.
"WEI YING."
BEEP.
"WHY DID YOU MAKE ME AN OMEGA?"
He hangs up.
Calls again.
"AND WHY DO I HAVE THREE HUSBANDS AVAILABLE?"
Hangs up.
Calls again.
"DO NOT ANSWER THAT."
Unfortunately, Jiang Cheng is still furious when he leaves his apartment. Still reading. Still composing Wei Ying's obituary in his head.
He crosses the street.
A horn blares.
Jiang Cheng looks up.
"FUCK!"
He dodges the car.
Ha.
Not today.
And falls directly into an open maintenance shaft.
His last thought is: 'What a fucking stupid way to die.' His second-to-last thought is: 'Wei Ying better not put this in a sequel.'
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Then Jiang Cheng wakes up.
Silk sheets. Incense. An unfamiliar ceiling. Someone outside calls: "Young Master Jiang?"
Jiang Cheng closes his eyes.
No.
Opens them.
Same ceiling.
"No."
A servant rushes inside. "Young Master Jiang Wanyin!"
"..."
Jiang Cheng would like to return to the maintenance shaft.
Because apparently death looked at him and said: "You hated the book that much?"
Fine. Fix it yourself.
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His first problem: He's twenty-one.
His second problem: He's a senior at Cloud Recesses University.
His third problem: The novel begins during senior year.
His fourth problem--Jiang Cheng freezes.
Slowly looks down.
"..."
No.
Five minutes and one increasingly horrified internet search later: "WEI YING!"
He is, in fact, an omega. Not metaphorically. Not narratively. Biologically.
Jiang Cheng sits on the bathroom floor staring into space. Of all the indignities involved in dying... somehow being transmigrated into his ex-fiancé's A/B/O self-insert fanfiction about their failed relationship is winning.
And according to the calendar, he has arrived three days before the love triangle begins.
Which means somewhere on this campus is Wei Ying.
And somewhere else is Lan Wangji. They haven't fallen in love yet.
Jiang Cheng stares at the ceiling, then smiles.
Oh.
Perfect.
Novel Jiang Wanyin spent his entire senior year competing with Lan Wangji for Wei Ying. Jiang Cheng isn't doing that.
He's going to graduate.
Get a job.
Stay single.
And, as a public service to himself, get Wei Ying and Lan Wangji together as quickly as humanly possible.
New plan:
Avoid Wei Ying whenever possible.
Do NOT fight Lan Wangji.
Encourage Wangxian.
Pass his fucking classes.
Graduate.
Live peacefully.
Simple.
(Course things never go his FUCKING way ever.)
‘mommy your talent is being my mom’ u can really tell how well james was raised by his family from his kind words when he was little im so devastated rn 😭💔
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