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huakongqueJin Zixuan was the only legitimate son of Jin Guangshan and Madam Jin and, as such, would have been the heir to the Jin Clan and taken over leadership of the Lanling Jin Sect upon Jin Guangshan’s death. From a young age, he was engaged to Jiang Yanli of the Yunmeng Jiang Clan, something their respective mothers (who were best friends) had agreed upon before they even had children. Jin Zixuan hadn’t exactly been a fan of the idea, considering he had no choice in the matter, but when you’re the heir apparent, that’s just how it goes.
In canon, we don’t meet Jin Zixuan until he’s about fifteen years old and studying at the Cloud Recesses in Gusu, the Lan Sect’s land. During a history lesson about the Lan Clan’s founder, a monk named Lan An, and how he married the love of his life, some of the other boys started talking amongst themselves and asked what girls were attractive among the various cultivation families. Eventually the conversation got around to Jin Zixuan and his fiancé and how surely he’d consider her to be the ideal partner, but instead he asked how he could be satisfied with someone as average as Jiang Yanli? Wei Wuxian, who had been adopted into the Jiang family and who was incredibly protective of her, was understandably upset by this, eventually starting a fistfight with Jin Zixuan. This fight led to two outcomes: first, Wei Wuxian was kicked out of the Cloud Recesses and secondly, the engagement between Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli was called off.
Then we don’t hear about the boy until about a year has passed. The Qishan Wen Sect hosted a cultivation conference, which pops up whenever the sect leaders feel it important to discuss something. They’re also usually accompanied by some sort of competition or hunt and in this case, the Wen Sect put on an archery conference. Jin Zixuan attended and ended up taking third place, behind Wei Wuxian and Lan Xichen, and ahead of Lan Wangji (though it’s stated that Lan Wangji would have done better had he not left halfway through, but, you know, when you’re the protagonist’s eventual love interest, there’s gotta be drama involved). Notably, no one from the Wen Sect placed, which was all fine and good, except that was also really embarrassing to get trounced so solidly on your home turf. Needless to say Wen Ruohan, the sect leader, didn’t like this so much, so the following year he had his eldest son go to the Cloud Recesses to burn it down to teach those dang Lans a lesson. He also sent out a mandatory summons to all the major sects that twenty of their disciples, including one from the clan family, must go to Qishan for indoctrination and be taught correctly, because clearly everyone else was raising their disciples to be audacious and unruly and if they kept that up then who was to say that someone wouldn’t try to overthrow theFire Nation Wen Sect?
Really, how awful.
lol j/k wens just be mad
Jin Zixuan, of course, was forced to go. While in the Wen’s “care” he and the others had their swords confiscated, which naturally meant they couldn’t protect themselves, nor could they just fly away (since if a cultivator is skilled enough, they can fly on their swords…it’s cooler than it sounds, I promise). They also had to memorize a booklet called The Quintessence of the Wen Sect, which consisted of various stories and quotes of past leaders. They also were fed bland food and it was just awful all around.
The Jin Sect was rich as heck, though, and Jin Zixuan had grown up used to living in comfort, so suddenly being tossed into this situation where he was treated the same as others, but below the Wen Sect, was terrible for him and in typical drama boy fashion, he even considered killing Wen Ruohan’s youngest son, Wen Chao, and himself, but Wen Chao’s bodyguard was too strong and so dissuaded him of this idea. However, all the other disciples were used by Wen Chao to try and find a mythical beast that supposedly lived in a cave on the Wen’s land. They found the entrance and descended, but when they made it to the cave lake, they couldn’t find the beast, so Wen Chao suggested hanging up one of the disciples and letting them bleed out to lure the creature out. Wen Chao’s mistress, Wang Lingjiao, suggested they use a girl known as MianMian, since she had seen Wen Chao flirting with her earlier and grew jealous. MianMian tried to run so as not to die, but everyone she tried to hide behind would step away, afraid to upset Wen Chao and the others. But she finally hid behind two people who didn’t move, Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan. No matter how much Wen Chao ordered them to give MianMian up, they refused and eventually a fight broke out between the defenseless disciples and the Wen Sect members because of Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan’s disobedience.
During the fight, when Wei Wuxian held Wen Chao hostage on a rock in the lake, the beast finally woke up. That “rock” was the shell of the Xuanwu of Slaughter, a giant and ancient turtle with the head of a snake. Seeing they were outmatched, Wen Chao ordered his Wen cultivators to retreat and trapped the other disciples in the cave. And they all would have died down there, too, but some of them figured out that the lake had a passage that led up above ground, so if they could just wait until the Xuanwu fell asleep and swim past it, they’d be free. Which is exactly what happened, except the Xuanwu woke up before Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian could escape. Jin Zixuan and everyone else, however, took their chance and returned to their separate homes, though Jiang Cheng did eventually get help to come back and rescue the two left behind.
Once again the Wen Sect wasn’t too happy about this and decided to start building supervisory offices throughout the land so they could oversee everyone since their cool teenager boot came didn’t work out. They started by invading Lotus Pier in the Jiang Sect and that ended with it also being burned down and Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian were forced to go on the run. Back in Lanling, though, the Jin Sect heard all this news and acknowledged it was terrible, but it took them a long time to actually get involved in what would be later known as the Sunshot Campaign, or the war against the Wen Sect. The Jin Sect liked to be rich and stay out of conflicts, you see, and so picking sides so early, even if one side was clearly more righteous than the other, could affect their livelihood if they ended up choosing the losing side. But Jin Guangshan was eventually persuaded to join up with every other cultivation sects against the Wen Sect and Jin Zixuan spent the fight on the frontlines. The swords the Wen Sect had confiscated, including Jin Zixuan's Suihua, were eventually returned to their rightful owners.
During the Campaign, there was an incident in Langya at camp where Jiang Yanli would make soup for Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian, but she also continued to make soup for Jin Zixuan, secretly leaving it in his room while he was out. This lasted for a time and a servant girl saw this and let Jin Zixuan believe she had been the one delivering him soup all this time, though she never admitted to it. He treated this servant girl well afterward, but when he ran into Jiang Yanli delivering his soup again, he got the wrong idea, thinking she was trying to get into his good graces and thus berated her for it. Remember, he had no interest for her and could easily do this. When Jiang Yanli ran off crying and Wei Wuxian heard about it, he grew understandably upset (yet again) and got into another fight with Jin Zixuan. Throughout this, the truth finally came out, but Jin Zixuan didn’t quite know how to react. Jiang Yanli stopped delivering him soup after that and wouldn’t even look at him.
After the Campaign ended and the Wen Sect was wiped out, however, Jin Zixuan started to ask more about her and it’s in this span of time that he more than likely finally started to develop actual interest in her. During another conference, this time in Lanling, there was a hunt on Phoenix Mountain and Jiang Yanli was invited to attend, even though she wouldn’t actually take part in the hunt. Instead, Jin Zixuan accompanied her in the forest, spending time with her alone until he asked if she had no interest in the hunt or him. She couldn’t answer directly and Jin Zixuan grew embarrassed and lost his composure, saying that it was fine, it was his mother who invited her out here anyway, and Jiang Yanli despondently started to walk away. It was then that Wei Wuxian (who had been hiding with Lan Wangji after they ran into each other under completely innocent circumstances, I swear, there’s nothing fishy going on here, ahahaha) jumped out and confronted Jin Zixuan. No fistfight this time, but their commotion did cause a scene and suddenly the majority of cultivators showed up to figure out what was going on and after Jin Zixun, Jin Zixuan’s cousin (yes, I know, I hate the name similarities, too) dragged Wei Wuxian through the mud for capturing the majority of the prey for the Jiang Sect, Jiang Yanli stood up for him, proving that while she may not have been strong in cultivation, she knew when to be brave and stay true to her heart. Wei Wuxian may have broken some unspoken rules of the hunt, but even though he was an adopted brother, he was still her brother and deserved an apology from Jin Zixun. This earnestness affected Jin Zixuan and he lost his composure again, yelling that it wasn’t actually his mother who invited her to the hunt, but him because he genuinely wanted her there.
And then he literally ran away embarrassed. Being tsundere is hard, y’all.
Some time after that, Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli were engaged again, this time out of actual feelings for each other, and were finally married. Not long after that, Jiang Yanli gave birth to their son, Jin Ling. When he reached a month old, they were going to hold a one-month celebration and while Jin Zixuan still very much didn’t like Wei Wuxian, he knew he was important to Jiang Yanli, so he issued an invitation for him to join. Between the hunt on Phoenix Mountain and now, Wei Wuxian had ostracized himself from the rest of the cultivation world when he took in Wen Sect remnants consisting of mostly of the elderly and a child, people who wouldn’t be a threat, and because he started walking down the path of demonic cultivation. Jin Zixun, the cousin, had also been cursed recently with the Hundred Holes curse, which is a trypophobe’s worst nightmare in which the skin is riddled with hundreds of holes that grow and grow, and the victim’s organs eventually are perforated, as well. The victim will die from this unless the one who cast the curse lifts it or is killed. Wei Wuxian was a Bad Guy in the eyes of many at that point and Jin Zixun didn’t need much convincing that he was the obvious culprit. So he stopped Wei Wuxian before he could come to Lanling for Jin Ling’s celebration and attacked with countless cultivators, while Wei Wuxian only had Wen Ning, his friendly zombie bodyguard, to fend them off. Jin Zixuan heard that Jin Zixun had gone to fight Wei Wuxian and rushed out to stop all these idiots. However, when he tried to convince Wei Wuxian to stand down and stop fighting, Wei Wuxian lost control of Wen Ning, who then impaled Jin Zixuan with his arm, killing him.
In canon, we don’t meet Jin Zixuan until he’s about fifteen years old and studying at the Cloud Recesses in Gusu, the Lan Sect’s land. During a history lesson about the Lan Clan’s founder, a monk named Lan An, and how he married the love of his life, some of the other boys started talking amongst themselves and asked what girls were attractive among the various cultivation families. Eventually the conversation got around to Jin Zixuan and his fiancé and how surely he’d consider her to be the ideal partner, but instead he asked how he could be satisfied with someone as average as Jiang Yanli? Wei Wuxian, who had been adopted into the Jiang family and who was incredibly protective of her, was understandably upset by this, eventually starting a fistfight with Jin Zixuan. This fight led to two outcomes: first, Wei Wuxian was kicked out of the Cloud Recesses and secondly, the engagement between Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli was called off.
Then we don’t hear about the boy until about a year has passed. The Qishan Wen Sect hosted a cultivation conference, which pops up whenever the sect leaders feel it important to discuss something. They’re also usually accompanied by some sort of competition or hunt and in this case, the Wen Sect put on an archery conference. Jin Zixuan attended and ended up taking third place, behind Wei Wuxian and Lan Xichen, and ahead of Lan Wangji (though it’s stated that Lan Wangji would have done better had he not left halfway through, but, you know, when you’re the protagonist’s eventual love interest, there’s gotta be drama involved). Notably, no one from the Wen Sect placed, which was all fine and good, except that was also really embarrassing to get trounced so solidly on your home turf. Needless to say Wen Ruohan, the sect leader, didn’t like this so much, so the following year he had his eldest son go to the Cloud Recesses to burn it down to teach those dang Lans a lesson. He also sent out a mandatory summons to all the major sects that twenty of their disciples, including one from the clan family, must go to Qishan for indoctrination and be taught correctly, because clearly everyone else was raising their disciples to be audacious and unruly and if they kept that up then who was to say that someone wouldn’t try to overthrow the
Really, how awful.
lol j/k wens just be mad
Jin Zixuan, of course, was forced to go. While in the Wen’s “care” he and the others had their swords confiscated, which naturally meant they couldn’t protect themselves, nor could they just fly away (since if a cultivator is skilled enough, they can fly on their swords…it’s cooler than it sounds, I promise). They also had to memorize a booklet called The Quintessence of the Wen Sect, which consisted of various stories and quotes of past leaders. They also were fed bland food and it was just awful all around.
The Jin Sect was rich as heck, though, and Jin Zixuan had grown up used to living in comfort, so suddenly being tossed into this situation where he was treated the same as others, but below the Wen Sect, was terrible for him and in typical drama boy fashion, he even considered killing Wen Ruohan’s youngest son, Wen Chao, and himself, but Wen Chao’s bodyguard was too strong and so dissuaded him of this idea. However, all the other disciples were used by Wen Chao to try and find a mythical beast that supposedly lived in a cave on the Wen’s land. They found the entrance and descended, but when they made it to the cave lake, they couldn’t find the beast, so Wen Chao suggested hanging up one of the disciples and letting them bleed out to lure the creature out. Wen Chao’s mistress, Wang Lingjiao, suggested they use a girl known as MianMian, since she had seen Wen Chao flirting with her earlier and grew jealous. MianMian tried to run so as not to die, but everyone she tried to hide behind would step away, afraid to upset Wen Chao and the others. But she finally hid behind two people who didn’t move, Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan. No matter how much Wen Chao ordered them to give MianMian up, they refused and eventually a fight broke out between the defenseless disciples and the Wen Sect members because of Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan’s disobedience.
During the fight, when Wei Wuxian held Wen Chao hostage on a rock in the lake, the beast finally woke up. That “rock” was the shell of the Xuanwu of Slaughter, a giant and ancient turtle with the head of a snake. Seeing they were outmatched, Wen Chao ordered his Wen cultivators to retreat and trapped the other disciples in the cave. And they all would have died down there, too, but some of them figured out that the lake had a passage that led up above ground, so if they could just wait until the Xuanwu fell asleep and swim past it, they’d be free. Which is exactly what happened, except the Xuanwu woke up before Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian could escape. Jin Zixuan and everyone else, however, took their chance and returned to their separate homes, though Jiang Cheng did eventually get help to come back and rescue the two left behind.
Once again the Wen Sect wasn’t too happy about this and decided to start building supervisory offices throughout the land so they could oversee everyone since their cool teenager boot came didn’t work out. They started by invading Lotus Pier in the Jiang Sect and that ended with it also being burned down and Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian were forced to go on the run. Back in Lanling, though, the Jin Sect heard all this news and acknowledged it was terrible, but it took them a long time to actually get involved in what would be later known as the Sunshot Campaign, or the war against the Wen Sect. The Jin Sect liked to be rich and stay out of conflicts, you see, and so picking sides so early, even if one side was clearly more righteous than the other, could affect their livelihood if they ended up choosing the losing side. But Jin Guangshan was eventually persuaded to join up with every other cultivation sects against the Wen Sect and Jin Zixuan spent the fight on the frontlines. The swords the Wen Sect had confiscated, including Jin Zixuan's Suihua, were eventually returned to their rightful owners.
During the Campaign, there was an incident in Langya at camp where Jiang Yanli would make soup for Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian, but she also continued to make soup for Jin Zixuan, secretly leaving it in his room while he was out. This lasted for a time and a servant girl saw this and let Jin Zixuan believe she had been the one delivering him soup all this time, though she never admitted to it. He treated this servant girl well afterward, but when he ran into Jiang Yanli delivering his soup again, he got the wrong idea, thinking she was trying to get into his good graces and thus berated her for it. Remember, he had no interest for her and could easily do this. When Jiang Yanli ran off crying and Wei Wuxian heard about it, he grew understandably upset (yet again) and got into another fight with Jin Zixuan. Throughout this, the truth finally came out, but Jin Zixuan didn’t quite know how to react. Jiang Yanli stopped delivering him soup after that and wouldn’t even look at him.
After the Campaign ended and the Wen Sect was wiped out, however, Jin Zixuan started to ask more about her and it’s in this span of time that he more than likely finally started to develop actual interest in her. During another conference, this time in Lanling, there was a hunt on Phoenix Mountain and Jiang Yanli was invited to attend, even though she wouldn’t actually take part in the hunt. Instead, Jin Zixuan accompanied her in the forest, spending time with her alone until he asked if she had no interest in the hunt or him. She couldn’t answer directly and Jin Zixuan grew embarrassed and lost his composure, saying that it was fine, it was his mother who invited her out here anyway, and Jiang Yanli despondently started to walk away. It was then that Wei Wuxian (who had been hiding with Lan Wangji after they ran into each other under completely innocent circumstances, I swear, there’s nothing fishy going on here, ahahaha) jumped out and confronted Jin Zixuan. No fistfight this time, but their commotion did cause a scene and suddenly the majority of cultivators showed up to figure out what was going on and after Jin Zixun, Jin Zixuan’s cousin (yes, I know, I hate the name similarities, too) dragged Wei Wuxian through the mud for capturing the majority of the prey for the Jiang Sect, Jiang Yanli stood up for him, proving that while she may not have been strong in cultivation, she knew when to be brave and stay true to her heart. Wei Wuxian may have broken some unspoken rules of the hunt, but even though he was an adopted brother, he was still her brother and deserved an apology from Jin Zixun. This earnestness affected Jin Zixuan and he lost his composure again, yelling that it wasn’t actually his mother who invited her to the hunt, but him because he genuinely wanted her there.
And then he literally ran away embarrassed. Being tsundere is hard, y’all.
Some time after that, Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli were engaged again, this time out of actual feelings for each other, and were finally married. Not long after that, Jiang Yanli gave birth to their son, Jin Ling. When he reached a month old, they were going to hold a one-month celebration and while Jin Zixuan still very much didn’t like Wei Wuxian, he knew he was important to Jiang Yanli, so he issued an invitation for him to join. Between the hunt on Phoenix Mountain and now, Wei Wuxian had ostracized himself from the rest of the cultivation world when he took in Wen Sect remnants consisting of mostly of the elderly and a child, people who wouldn’t be a threat, and because he started walking down the path of demonic cultivation. Jin Zixun, the cousin, had also been cursed recently with the Hundred Holes curse, which is a trypophobe’s worst nightmare in which the skin is riddled with hundreds of holes that grow and grow, and the victim’s organs eventually are perforated, as well. The victim will die from this unless the one who cast the curse lifts it or is killed. Wei Wuxian was a Bad Guy in the eyes of many at that point and Jin Zixun didn’t need much convincing that he was the obvious culprit. So he stopped Wei Wuxian before he could come to Lanling for Jin Ling’s celebration and attacked with countless cultivators, while Wei Wuxian only had Wen Ning, his friendly zombie bodyguard, to fend them off. Jin Zixuan heard that Jin Zixun had gone to fight Wei Wuxian and rushed out to stop all these idiots. However, when he tried to convince Wei Wuxian to stand down and stop fighting, Wei Wuxian lost control of Wen Ning, who then impaled Jin Zixuan with his arm, killing him.
