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    Xie Lian finds Yin Yu at the small reflecting pond behind Paradise Manor.
    "Yin Yu," he says gently, sitting next to him.
    "Your Highness."
    "Could you tell me what San Lang was like, before he found me again? How did you two meet?"
    Yin Yu looks down into the pond, watching the ripples distort his face.
    "It's a long story," he says quietly, and begins.

    Or: how Yin Yu met Hua Cheng, how the two of them met Black Water, and what Yin Yu learned about unconditional love and revenge along the way.

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    25 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 73

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    "San Lang, you're here," Xie Lian says, stepping forward. "Have you seen—"

    Halfway through his question, Xie Lian freezes. His words seem to get stuck halfway up his throat, instead being replaced by a soft, nearly inaudible 'ah.'

    Hua Cheng props an arm casually against his broom. "Mm? What is it, gege?"

    As he speaks, Hua Cheng tilts his head slightly. Xie Lian's gaze follows the movement. His attention is ensnared by the crown of Hua Cheng's head—or rather, the area just above it. A space that was normally empty, but now….

    Are those… fox ears?

    For the first time since the fall of Jun Wu, Mount Tonglu experiences a small disturbance. It produces an interesting result, and a series of revelations.

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    16 Apr 2026

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    When Quan Yizhen demands that Yin Yu hit him, Yin Yu decides he's going to drive away Quan Yizhen once and for all. But Yin Yu's heart has other things in store.

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    11 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 48

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    The god, in his infinite silence, sealed in stone, had spoken to him without words. Understanding pierced through his feeble mind like lightning, threatening to break it into a million pieces and, at the same time, holding it together. It spoke of compassion and tenderness, but also of grief and loneliness, vast and aching, much more agonizing than any human could stand. Hua Cheng's mortal heart had lifted and broken all at once as ancient, godlike emotions, far beyond his ability to comprehend, flooded his being.

    A prince, a saint, a god, a martyr.

    His god-

    His god?

    Where had that thought come from? It did not feel like his own, and yet it unfurled from the deepest, most intimate part of his soul, as though it had always been there, waiting.

    His god.

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    Hua Cheng was a mortal who worshipped a god long forgotten by the world. He never asked for anything in return.
    Until one day, all of his prayers were answered.

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    02 Mar 2026

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    Hua Cheng sighed happily, “Gege gege, so many faces of yours to love during your heat. You spoil me. What did I do in my past life to deserve such happiness? Truly, how could your master say I was not blessed? For such a very greedy, selfish man, aren’t I so lucky? So many ways to love my love.”

    Xie Lian threw a chair at his head.

     

    Ever since the flower Yao attack, Xie Lian's heat cycle is abnormal. Hua Cheng is desperate to prove he can be relied on and Xie Lian is terrified of destroying paradise manor and anyone in his way. Will Hua Cheng be able to withstand Xie Lian's violent heat? Will he be able to restrain Xie Lian without allowing him to come to harm?

    TLDR: If Xie Lian was a tempermental cat and Hua Cheng had to occasionally shove pills down his throat, but make it sexy?

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    19 Feb 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 67

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    Xie Lian and Hua Cheng are freshly married when Xie Lian has a little crisis of confidence.

    Well, the only way to make him feel better is to hand him a sword and fight it out right? This surely won't awaken anything in Hua Cheng!

    Xie Lian tried to chase his lips, but Hua Cheng held firm. Something sparked in Xie Lian's chest at being so close, but being denied what he had waited so long for.

    Well… he'd only waited a year, compared to San Lang's eight hundred. But! He'd known — hoped — what he'd get when he returned, and he was not in the mood to wait.

    "If that's what San Lang wants." He said quietly, and Hua Cheng smiled softly before moving closer. Xie Lian put a finger against his lips to halt his approach, and his eye widened. "But next time he'll have to beg."

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    17 Feb 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 47

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    Xie Lian hadn’t meant for it to happen. It was so quick…

    He denied it at first, of course he had!....

    But seeing Hua Cheng’s face like that, he could only face the truth:

    He was dead.

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    03 Jan 2026

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    Well, Xie Lian certainly feels fine. His spiritual energy reserves remain untouched. His physical form, as healthy as ever. And his mind, unfettered and free of worldly disturbances.

    There was only one slight… nuisance.

    He couldn’t seem to stop speaking today.

    Xie Lian gets afflicted with a particularly troublesome truth-telling curse from a malicious spirit. Hua Cheng deals with it.

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    11 Dec 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 52

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    Hua Cheng waved a dismissive hand. "I'm not asking gege for an apology; I know you were trying to protect me. It's just that I always meant to tell you this..." He paused, waiting for Xie Lian to peer at him evasively. "None of your talismans are very effective on ghost kings, including the Trance Talisman."

    Together, Hua Cheng and Xie Lian devise a talisman guaranteed to be effective on even the most powerful ghost.

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    10 Dec 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 52

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    Xie Lian finds his husband experimenting with a form and is inspired to finally use something that's been sitting among his items for a while.

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    10 Dec 2025

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    The worst part about the coffin was not the experience, it was others learning about it.

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    “The coffin.” Hua Cheng whispers. “It was a long time, wasn’t it?”

    Xie Lian opens his mouth, denial on the tip of his tongue.

    He takes in an unsteady breath, ashamed to find his eyes burning with the effort to hold back tears, then blurring with his failure to do so.

    “…It was.”

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    05 Dec 2025

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    Hua Cheng lowers his hand, and both Feng Xin and Mu Qing crash to the floor. Feng Xin winds up with rugburn on his cheekbone and a dislocated shoulder, getting the better end of the deal than Mu Qing, whose nose is gushing blood between his fingers. Payback for earlier, at least—but his satisfaction is short-lived when Xie Lian hiccups a sob on the divan and then breaks into a string of rapid cries so panicked they sound painful. He slaps at the cushions of the divan, terror escalating, eyes wide open.

    “Help, help, help, help,” he gasps between cries. “Help me. Help me. Please. Please!

    When a tongueless spirit appears in the south and curses ghosts, gods, and mortals alike with catatonia, Hua Cheng, Mu Qing, and Feng Xin must work together to solve the mystery behind the curse and save Xie Lian from the horrors ravaging his mind.

    They may never find a cure, however, if the villagers plagued by the spirit don’t stop lying to them at every turn.

    Now with fanart!

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    17 Oct 2025

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  13. Public Bookmark 56

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    Xie Lian had survived his entire life without batting an eye when stabbed or mutilated or trampled. He survived the first part—banished and mortal—and then grew to brush past the gritty details of pain. No one was born like that, but Xie Lian knew that if you lived through something enough times, you would eventually keep it—live like that, always—and one stab wound wasn’t going to kill him. In a rare instance of frustration, Xie Lian really thought Hua Cheng was blowing this out of proportion.

    (or: xie lian hides so many injuries, including some of the worst, and hua cheng steeps in habitual anger as the record builds and builds. it comes to a breaking point, as all things do.)

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    13 Oct 2025

  14. Public Bookmark 80

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    Despite never having been kissed, Xie Lian didn't consider kissing particularly novel. He had seen it plenty of times, after all. Quick kisses stolen in the midst of other tasks. Furtive kisses behind buildings, or when it seemed no one was looking. Rather messy-looking, noisy kisses down alleyways. For centuries, Xie Lian had politely averted his gaze from such things and walked on.

    Pinned to an altar at a critical juncture, Xie Lian finds himself unable to avert his gaze from impropriety.

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    27 May 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 47

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    It’s been eight years. Xie Lian swallows, but the knot in his throat doesn’t ease. He should say something. He should ask why? Why are you here? Why now? But the words don’t come. The past is standing at his doorstep, and Xie Lian doesn’t know whether to invite it in or close the door before it can take anything else from him.

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    Xie Lian now lives with his fiancé Hua Cheng after a couple of rough years. One day, while getting ready for a night out with friends, he opens the door to new neighbours. They already knew each other from long ago.

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    10 Apr 2025

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    Hua Cheng has no interest in gaining an animal companion, but when a mortal drags an old and filthy dog into the Gambler's Den he can't bring himself to leave it to a life of familiar abuse.

    Xie Lian, meanwhile, is having a much more pleasant time as a dog now that a mysterious ghost has brought him home.

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    02 Mar 2025

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    Hua Cheng took a step towards the bed and leaned closer, his inky eyes studying him closely. After a moment he sighed and flopped on the bed next to him, a hand lazily reaching up to Xie Lian's head and scratching it gently.

    "Who am I kidding, we both know I'm going to keep you. I don't even get why...there's just something about you that won't let me throw you out the door."

    Unable to say anything Xie Lian tilted his head slightly and watched as the corner of the ghost's thin lips arched a little. It was such an endearing look.

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    Xie Lian is turned into a ferret by a curse and gets adopted by an unaware Hua Cheng. The ghost turns out to be very doting, exceptionally charming and severely starved for talking about a mysterious lost beloved of his.

    PODFIC AVAILABLE! [link in notes]

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    07 Feb 2025

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    The song must have been about halfway through when he felt a soft touch on his head and turned to see Hua Cheng’s free hand gently caressing his hair.

    With a small sigh, the ghost took a strand between his fingers and played with it, rolling its ends over the red threaded finger. The white band that kept a portion of Xie Lian’s hair tied in the back was brought forward by the delicate movements and it too got entangled in the other’s hand. As Hua Cheng saw the white band snaking through his fingers his eye creased with longing.

    When he spoke it was an almost inaudible whisper. “You really look like…”

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    After his third ascension Xie Lian is sent on a mission in Ghost City, by the end of the night he finds himself on the dancefloor of a masked celebration caught in the embrace of a very lonely-looking Ghost King. In the effort to keep his mission going, things get unexpectedly steamy but when Xie Lian’s identity is brusquely revealed it is met with nothing short of anguish by Crimson Rain Sought Flower.

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    13 Dec 2024

  19. Public Bookmark 22

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    A fill for the prompt "pressure". Xie Lian plays with Hua Cheng’s mouth.

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    11 Dec 2024

  20. Public Bookmark 22

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    In the quiet Puqi Shrine, Xie Lian and Hua Cheng’s peaceful tea is disrupted by the arrival of his old friends, Feng Xin and Mu Qing, who bring unresolved tensions and buried emotions from their past. As painful memories surface, Xie Lian opens up about his hurt over Mu Qing’s past betrayal, revealing the love and loyalty he still holds for his old companions.

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    11 Nov 2024

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