There are quite a few JGY redemption fics actually! And even more where his going disastrously bad is avoided. I think people are agreed that he can have a little murdering of the Jin (or Nie) captain as a treat, and torturing people in Wen Ruohan's employment was all part of his keeping up his cover, but that it's only when he gets into the Jin family that he starts doing things that are genuinely hard to overlook.
So there are quite a lot of AU fics where he goes to the Lans instead of the Jins, or someone goes into the past and rescues him and his mum from the brothel before any of it starts. There's a very nice series where he's married out of the Jins to Jiang Yanli and she tames him with the power of actually being nice to him.
I think I found a lot of them by searching for XiYao or 3Zun fic (because of course if he's going to be paired with the righteous LXC or NMJ he usually has to be sorted out first.) But I like him best when he retains the ability to be dangerous outside the lines. I wouldn't want him to be too tame :)
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Date: 2023-01-05 08:51 pm (UTC)From:So there are quite a lot of AU fics where he goes to the Lans instead of the Jins, or someone goes into the past and rescues him and his mum from the brothel before any of it starts. There's a very nice series where he's married out of the Jins to Jiang Yanli and she tames him with the power of actually being nice to him.
I think I found a lot of them by searching for XiYao or 3Zun fic (because of course if he's going to be paired with the righteous LXC or NMJ he usually has to be sorted out first.) But I like him best when he retains the ability to be dangerous outside the lines. I wouldn't want him to be too tame :)