❤️Fallen
M, 151k, series with 6 parts, complete
Summary: A cultivation accident in the future destroys Mo XuanYu’s frail body and sends Wei WuXian’s soul back into the past, in his six-year-old body. This time, armed with the knowledge of his future self and his love for his beloved Lan WangJi, he decides to rewrite his destiny and protect those he loves. Will the YiLing Patriarch have a happier life this time?
My comments: Okay. I sat down and read this over 2 days (I had to finally go to sleep at 2am) basically without a break. It’s a fast read, and can I just say how impressed I am with how deftly Author handled so many characters all in the same scenes? (That’s not an easy trick to carry off.)
Essentially, Wei WuXian gets an opportunity to start over, his consciousness transferred to his 6-year-old body… in the middle of the dog attack, of course. And this time around, Wei WuXian is going to change EVERYTHING HE CAN to ensure that everyone is happy and healthy. Also, he wants to see his Lan Zhan as soon as possible, so fakes a soulmark (he’s heard people telling stories about that) which somehow becomes real, because of course it does. So we follow these little kids for the next 14 years (they stay very young for the whole first story, and in the middle one they’re tweens). Madame Yu watches with interest as their little stray slowly but surely pulls members of all the Big Four clans around him, weaving them into each other’s lives with his bright smiles and fierce loyalty.
Both kids have the power of their adult selves, so work some pretty amazing feats, and the adults of the Four Clans gather round to staunchly defend and train them.
Basically, it’s a time-travel, everyone-lives-no-one-dies fix-it, and it was simply a pleasure to read. (There’s still plenty of angst, and drama, and hurt/comfort and danger… so don’t think it’s all fluff and domesticity.) In addition to picking up everyone they did last time, or SHOULD have last time, they also acquire some babies. Well, eggs, which hatch into their beloved children. A dragon, tortoise+snake, phoenix and tiger. By the time the second story is finished, I think they’ve got 7 kids and are still no older than 15, heh. Wei WuXian is an over-the-top drama-mama (they all call him Mama), but if anyone he loves is hurt or threatened, he turns into a frighteningly powerful and dark force to be reckoned with.
The arc with Wen RuoHan is interesting: he begins as a frightening, creepy/inappropriate, soulless dark character and slowly grows and learns a few things and his obsession with Wei Wuxian over the years seems to teach him a few things.
The bulk of the story is the first three installments: the others are short timestamps. Don’t worry about MCD tags (it’s like reincarnation). Underage is adult minds in ten year old bodies chastely kissing, basically (if you’re the type to pass on a story for that reason).
time travel, time travel fix-it, fix-it, powerful wei wuxian, powerful lan wangji, powerful everyone, kid fic, kid wei wuxian, kid lan wangji, accidental baby acquisition, the babies are animals and gods, idiots in love, miscommunication, pining, soulmates, soulmate identifying marks, precognition, alternate first meeting, everybody lives nobody dies
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