Arenareo
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Thousand Days From July by Arenareo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
20 Jan 2026
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The window is an anchor, and I'm a ship docking at shore. I might say sorry two or three times, because I catch myself muttering. I think he says something back, but I don't hear it.
I don't know how long I stare out the window, but I'm reminded of his steady presence nearby. Voice calm now, I say, “You can't touch my skin, Feng Xin, or you might die. That's why I'm here.”
Xie Lian has a lethal touch. He's been locked up, and that should be a good thing. When a roommate breaks his thousand day spell of isolation, things could turn for the better, or his days might be numbered by the regimes that want him as a weapon of war.
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If we can't touch, is it still okay to want you?
AU where ghosts can never be fully corporeal. They can touch objects, wield weapons, open doors, but when their hand touches a human body, it passes right through.
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All In, No Regrets: I Entrust This Gamble With My Dying Breath by Arenareo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Dec 2025
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托付孤注之赌至死无悔。
Glancing away to the passing forest, I say, “There is a custom in the Ghost Realm. If a ghost has a beloved, they’ll entrust their ashes to that person.”
Interest piqued, His Highness says, “I didn’t know the Ghost Realm had such a romantic practice.”
“Mn. But few have the guts to do it.”
His Highness lets out a wistful sigh, and I look back to him. “It must be truly heartbreaking, if a ghost gives it all for love and loses everything.”
I breathe out a laugh. It has surely happened to some of the idiot ghosts in my city. I casually say, “What’s there to fear? If it were me, once I give my ashes, I’d have no regrets. It doesn’t matter what they do with the ashes, if they want to trample or scatter them for fun!”
TGCF imagined from Hua Cheng's POV, with a small twist: the second shackle that disperses Xie Lian's luck also binds the weather to his emotions. As they say, weather can feel ruled by luck, like an ironic twist of fate.
Or: How Hua Cheng falls in love with him, not just as a god, but as a person and friend too.
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I Stop My Carriage for the Love of Maple Woods by Arenareo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Sep 2025
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Xie Lian loses a decade of his memory. He thinks he’s in an illusion so he must try to resist longing for his alluring housemate.
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The Trees Might Have Been Burgundy by Arenareo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 May 2025
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Xie Lian meets a man beneath the burgundy leaves of a century tree, whose voice sounds like fresh honey and whose smiles echo with charming riddles...
𓈒⊹ ཐིཋྀ 𓈒✴︎⋆𓍼.ೃ࿔
Or: An AU where Xie Lian uses a cane during his banishment. During his travels he encounters someone who offers more than just directions.
Recent bookmarks
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my sorrow grows, but mountains remain green by behopeful
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu | Heaven Official's Blessing - Moxiang Tongxiu
08 Mar 2026
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Hua Cheng has no memories and no purpose. The mysterious cultivator he stumbles upon could be his undoing – or the cry for connection he’s been searching for centuries without ever knowing it.
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Is Dawn Not Red? by IlluminatingSceadugenga
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Jun 2024
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Another failed lead leaves Hua Cheng in a slump of disappointment, with only longing and haunting memories beside him. But perhaps this is what he needs to find his way home...
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Hua Cheng takes a walk after yet another dead-end, only to come across the most beautiful sight of all his years.
Series
- Part 6 of Tumblr Prompt Fills/Ficlets
- Part 1 of Dawn of Love
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i found you by the sea by Natterina
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Webcomic)
30 Oct 2022
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After witnessing a terrible accident outside his workplace, Xie Lian moves into his friend's beach house, knowing that he needs a break from the city and space to heal.
What he finds is an instant connection to the previous owner, and a love that grows steadily with every day.
There's only one problem: San Lang is living two years in the past.
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Xie Lian heads towards the mailbox, ready to remove the silly little halloween card that he’d left behind. He feels brittle, and he’ll do anything to chase the feeling away, even if it’s just to laugh at his own actions.
When he opens the mailbox, however, it’s to find no halloween card, and a single pink sticky note.
How did you know about the paw prints?
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18 Dec 2025
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good and the paradoxes are interesting to think abt
to anyone coming across my note-to-self by chance, this contains MAJOR SPOILERS and mind boggling meta
current timeline hua cheng will still be dead.. and i guess this hua cheng is the past hua cheng who can be alive in the current timeline after xie lian writes that letter because the letter saves him, but only the past hua cheng.. so unlike the paradox that assumes that the past can't rewrite itself because if that were the case the present would be different (and hua cheng wouldn't have died), instead it assumes that the person from the past is a different past, functioning similar to the mailbox itself, and that time is a volatile thing, capable of warping past and present in a controlled way. which is even more interesting because at the wedding, hua cheng knows about the letters, so there's actually a universe where they still exchange letters, but he doesn't get saved. one could argue that the present does rewrite itself because the ending is left open to interpretation, however the counter-argument for that is that in that case, hua cheng from the past would've existed and lived in the house at the same time as present xie lian. so the way for this to work is that hua cheng from the past gets the happy ending, but even the mailbox can't save them in all universes.. perhaps this works when one considers physics and electronics. this exists at a metastable point where it could be a 1 or 0, with that metastable point being if hua cheng sees xie lian's latest letter in time, contributed by multiple micro factors such as xie lian seeing the painting, hua cheng lingering at the house, etc etc. kinda bittersweet, but I'll consider it happy.. damn that's rlly interesting
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GUOSHI IS THIS CLOSE TO FIGURING IT OUT!!!!!!! by VampireFaun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Nov 2021
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Mei Nianqing is still proud of his former pupil—and why SHOULDN’T he be? Despite 800 years and, ahem, a little rebellious phase, Xie Lian still had all the qualities of the perfect student: diligent, intelligent, celibate—yes, CELIBATE! Surely he was still celibate, even after running off with that no-good ghost king, right? After all, he's Xie Lian! He wouldn’t break his principles, especially not over someone like that.
But, over the course of a prolonged stay at paradise manor, the evidence starts building up...and to his horror, Guoshi is beginning to suspect that...his star pupil, his pure snow-white lotus...His Highness the Crown Prince...
...IS SECRETLY TEACHING HUA CHENG CALLIGRAPHY!!!
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With enough dedication you too can fuck god! by fullmetalpotterhead
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Dec 2021
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So you have your eye on a god and want him to “live happily and thrive”? Understandable! But did you know that one “devoted follower” actually managed to marry and fuck his god? 100% true, no lie! That could be you! You could fuck god! Well, depending on which god you want to fuck that could be easier with some than others but don’t worry, don’t worry, we’ll get you through this with helpful seduction tips from the number one experienced god-seducer himself, the granddaddy of Ghost City, Crimson Rain Sought Flower!
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Ghost City gets a trashy advice column. Hua Cheng agrees to interview for it.