AfterTheSnowMelts



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    Xie Lian decides to bring his husband to the heavens' Lunar New Year celebration. The only foreseeable problem is that no one knows he's married to a ghost king. Or that he's married at all, for that matter. What could possibly go wrong?

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    Really, sometimes Xie Lian thinks that where he once held a heart, only ash remains in its place. Indifferent and aimless, scattering in whichever way. Do what you can, give what you can, but nothing really matters in the end.

    But… but when Hua Cheng looks at him and smiles in his lazy way, Xie Lian can suddenly remember what the ground feels like under his feet. He can perfectly feel his heart soaring in his chest. He feels– he feels alive.

    Or: When Puqi Shrine is badly damaged in a storm, Hua Cheng lets Xie Lian stay at Paradise Manor where the two learn just how much they mean to each other.

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    09 Dec 2025

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    Lang Qianqiu did not seal his teacher in a coffin, his rage was too great to merely seal away the source of his grief.

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    Xie Lian needs a little help to put himself back together, in a very literal way. Hua Cheng would give anything to be able to.

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    21 Nov 2025

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    Hua Cheng is smitten with Xie Lian from almost the first moment she sees her, when the woman turns up at her flower shop and asks for help in picking out a plant for her apartment.

    But then Xie Lian keeps returning, seemingly cursed with the inability to keep any plant alive for longer than two weeks.

    Hua Cheng doesn't mind though, not if it means she gets to spend time with her jiejie.

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    “Jiejie,” she breathes, disbelieving, “what did you do to it?”

    Hua Cheng doesn’t want to sound incredulous, she truly doesn’t, but she’s never seen anyone manage to kill an aloe plant before.

    This one is rotten.

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    05 Nov 2025

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    “My A-die is not a liar.” The fists clenched into tight balls, the beet red face turned down to the floor. “But maybe you are, and you lied to him.”

    Hua Cheng was about to scoff but then the child said the words that made him lose his shit for the rest of his life.

    “Maybe you are the liar, father.”

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    Hua Cheng is having a regular day at Ghost City when a young boy walks into the Den and asks for help to save his kidnapped father who is no other than the one Hua Cheng has been trying to find for centuries: Xie Lian. The catch? Hua Cheng is the other father and he has no memory of even meeting his beloved thirteen years ago to conceive the said child. Not only that, but Xie Lian is kidnapped and together they have to set on a journey to rescue him.

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    08 Oct 2025