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The more I think about this [this post], the more a Yiling Wei Sect AU comes to mind.
Everything plays out mostly the same, but the rumors are true! Wei Wuxian really did start his own sect!
Perhaps the timeline diverges after Qiongqi Path.
Wei Wuxian successfully convinces Wen Ning and Wen Qing not to turn themselves in. They have a sect to run together now! They'll deal with the consequences together.
The siege still happens but it's more evenly matched. Since it was just rumors that wwx started a sect, they were more prepared to fight wwx and wn. Two against many. They didn't expect wwx to have actually skilled disciples! (In my heart of hearts, wwx's disciples would be a bunch of lost, outcasted queer kids he found (think mxy!!) that found a home in his sect)
The siege concludes with casualties on both ends. Both jc, who's leading the siege still, and wwx have newly formed sects. They can't afford to loose much more. It's a draw. Terms and conditions of the draw are to be established.
Meanwhile, the siege is still locked down as the greatest battle in history. Lan disciples come back tired and ragged. Lan Wangji has received his punishment of 33 lashes and is in seclusion.
He is never the wiser if his brother comes in and says wwx lost the siege and is now gone.
In the dead of night Iwj breaks several more rules sneaking out of the Cloud Recesses and heading towards the burial mounds. He has to see wwx's dead body for himself.
He doesn't expect to see a recovering, but mostly okay sect. With just a roughed up, fully alive wwx attending to his disciples.
And when wwx sees Iwj and the state he is in, he comes to the correct conclusion about what happened to him.
This is when I play my uno reverse card.
Instead of Iwj wanting wwx to "come back to Gusu with me” to protect him from the world. We have a wwx wanting lwj to "stay in the burial mounds with me" to protect him from the Lan clan.
Yiling Wei sect AU but it's accidental
People keep coming to Wei Ying asking for help or for shelter for a while and he says yes because these people have nobody to turn to and it's not like he's living in the lap of luxury but he still has some kind of roof over his head so why not
They start helping with agriculture and buildings and all that stuff because they want to pay back the kindness they were given; some are even craftsmen or scholars and they teach others various skills to provide for the community
Some want to learn cultivation but they never could because they didn't have access to it and Wei Ying decided to teach them a bit because it's better to be able to defend oneself in the Burial Mounds, after all
Suddenly Wei Ying has like 50 disciples and a whole actually livable settlement, steady income and requests from villages around to help with things that other cultivation clans couldn't have been bothered to help with
And one day someone calls him "Wei-zonghzhu" and he has a Realization
Wei Ying and his Little Lan Bunny
Shenanigans at Yiling Wei