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    Hermione, now in her mid-20s, is back at Hogwarts to pursue higher education. Trying to forget the trauma carved into her by the war, she spends one lust-filled night with a certain pureblood. But that night will have consequences.
    While her personal life unravels, a string of mysterious murders forces her to work together with Draco Malfoy, who himself seems to carry many secrets.

    "He scared her. Not because he wielded killing curses like they were nothing, but because he seemed to understand her in a way that even she didn’t. The more she let him in, the more power he had to destroy her."

    Come for the smut, stay for the plot.

    Read if you like:
    - Murder mystery
    - Dark Arts
    - Hurt/ Comfort
    - Hermione and Draco both deal with PTSD
    - Angst, so much angst

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    30 May 2025

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    It's been three days since Wei Wuxian last ate.

    "Hungry," A-Yuan whines, pulling at his hand. Wei Wuxian tries to focus on the vegetable display in front of him. He's got 10 credits left on the last safe account he's got access to. Half a kilo of wilted vegetables, the cheapest thing in the store, costs 15.

    The potatoes are sprouted. Half of Wei Wuxian's sluggish mind wonders if that means he can bargain down the prize, while the other half is screaming that something is very wrong. They have been planet-side for around 36 hours and so far nothing adds up.
    Blinking slowly, Wei Wuxian stares at the potatoes. The green sprouts seem to taunt him.
    Suddenly he remembers that Shanxu, the planet they are supposed to be on, has a current ban on potatoes, due to some aggressive and rapidly mutating form of crop blight.

    "Fuck," Wei Wuxian hisses.

    Where the are they? What planet is this!?
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    Lan Wangji looks back at him for an endless moment, face unreadable.

    Wei Wuxian swallows and exhales shakily. Lan Wangji is acting very collected for someone who just spotted a ghost. Shit. If Wei Wuxian survives this, he is going to have to fake his own death again.

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    17 May 2025

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    After Xie Lian’s disastrous 2nd ascension, ruinous bastard Jun Wu locks him in the Palace of Divine Might. Rumours spread about what Jun Wu does to the Flower Crowned Martial God—rumours spread that Jun Wu is actually Bai Wuxiang.

    Banished once more, with six cursed shackles, Xie Lian abruptly changes his cultivation path so nothing more can be taken from him. He hides. He evades. He becomes a shadow. Jun Wu spends 800 years searching, searching, searching, but Xie Lian has vanished without a trace.

    Now, a group of Heavenly Officials turns to the Crimson Rain Sought Flower for aid in destroying the prince's cursed shackles. But how can Xie Lian concentrate on defeating Jun Wu with the gaze of the beautiful Ghost King carefully pinning him down?

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    Or: Xie Lian has six cursed shackles, and a small team of heavenly officials enlist Hua Cheng to save him from obsessed Jun Wu, as one-by-one Xie Lian's deepest traumas are unearthed.

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    13 Jun 2024

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    [Book 5 Spoilers Within]

    Once, the emperor of heaven saw that his troublesome successor had what he had always desired so dearly. To teach him a priceless lesson, he took it for himself.

    Hua Cheng faithfully serves the god who saved him as a child— the one he has worshiped for 800 years— the one to whom he gifted his ashes: The Heavenly Emperor, Jun Wu.

    Xie Lian just wants his beloved back, no matter what it costs him.

     

    [Russian Translation Available Here | Перевод на русский]

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    10 Jun 2024

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    After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.

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    10 Jun 2024

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    A passionate one-night stand between Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen turns into something more.
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    Slowly, in stunned horror, he turned his head to look at his companion. Long dark hair hid their face from his view but Jiang Cheng knew exactly who this person was. Memories of a decadent, filthy night of passion with elder of the Twin Jades filled his head...

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    04 Apr 2024

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    The 1700s, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Captain Steve Rogers has all he wants: a ship, a loyal crew, Bucky at his side, and the horizon offering a new adventure everyday.
    But an impulsive kiss gone wrong leads to a marriage between Steve and Tony Stark, and now Steve doesn't know what to do about ANYTHING.
    Steve loves Bucky, but something about Tony draws him in. Tony is too innocent for this life, but he picks up a sword anyway. Bucky is Steve's, but when he offers his hand to Tony and now the three of them are something new.
    When the truth about Steve's mission to ruin the Stark name comes out, Tony runs away, leaving Steve and Bucky behind in search of answers to the secrets hidden from him his whole life-- about his company, about Uncle Obie, about his parents death.

    Steve and Bucky cant abandon their mission against Stane and Tony cant deal with the answers he finds in New York.
    Is this the end? Is Tony gone forever? Or will he leave his old life and return to the sea and the Pirates that hold his heart?

     

    ** BONUS CHAPTER ADDED 10/20/2021**

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    19 Jan 2024

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    "You and Lan Wangji taste different,” Jiang Cheng mumbled as he pulled himself away from Wei Wuxian's mouth.
    Wei Wuxian’s eyes grew wide as saucers in the moonlight. “You’ve kissed Lan Zhan?”

    Or: Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng fall into each others' bedrolls while searching for Wei Wuxian. Complications ensue.

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    19 Jul 2023

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    Finding out he's pregnant changes Jiang Cheng's whole world but with the knowledge that his Alphas do not wish for children, he does the one thing he can. He protects the ones he loves, leaving them without a single word regarding his pregnancy in an attempt to raise his child on his own, even if it tears him apart.

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    16 Jul 2023

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    “Who needed you?” Stiles asked, uncapping his water.

    “Hm?” Cole had been looking out at something in the field, and he focussed back on Stiles then. “What?”

    “You said it comes about when someone needs us. Who needed you?”

    He probably shouldn’t have asked, because Cole looked sad all of a sudden. Like he hadn’t thought about becoming a Sorcerer in a long time. Stiles could see that being what he was had cost him greatly, and he couldn’t help but wonder if he was going to run into the same problem.

    “A friend,” Cole said quietly. “Someone who was very dear to me. But I didn’t get there fast enough.”

    Stiles paused in recapping his water, pressing his lips together. “What happened?”

    “I waited too long to help them.”

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    14 Jun 2023

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    “You know what?” Wei Ying said. “I think we should be friends.”

    “Vulcans do not have friends,” said Lan Zhan. He was staring very determinedly at the screen in front of him.

    Wei Ying frowned at him. “That can’t be right.”

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    30 May 2023

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     Letting himself get cursed may not have been the smartest thing Wei Wuxian has ever done, but he'd argue that it’s completely in character. So he should earn some points for consistency, at the very least. Besides, when the spirit had been explaining it, the curse hadn't sounded too bad. Maybe a little bothersome if he underestimated how many people felt strongly about him, but surely, surely, it wouldn't be enough to hamper him in the long run.

    Let it be known that Wei Wuxian is an idiot.

    Because, when he emerges from the dilapidated husk of the temple, he can't see anyone

    Or: Wei Wuxian gets cursed so he can’t see or feel anyone who feels strongly about him and assume this means that the people he cares about actually hate him.

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    12 Aug 2022

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    Omega! Peter Parker is researching mutants and war time secrets, and his search leads him to the time-jumping mutant Cable, where a freak accident sends Peter 150 years in the past.

    Alpha!Wade hadn’t expected to find an Omega on his land and he certainly didn’t expect the Omega to be from the future. Wade is gruff and scarred but Peter is sassy and sweet, and despite belonging to different worlds, the pair is drawn together.

    There are deadly animals and winter storms, a hidden mutant town that changes everything Peter thought he knew and as the nights get cold, Alpha and Omega huddle in the tiny cabin and learn to trust the bond sparking between their souls.

    But Peter belongs in a different time line and their days together are limited, so when Peter gets sick and can't seem to get better, Wade wonders if he's made a mistake keeping his Omega so long.

    They aren't ready to say goodbye and when Cable comes to take Peter back home, the mated pair faces their hardest moments yet.

    Their love is more than words, a bond more than promises, and soulmates more than forever-- but is it enough to last a separation of time, distance, and realities that were never meant to cross?

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    04 Aug 2022

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    Wei Ying pouted. “How about this, if you end up getting taller than me, I’ll call you gege instead."

    “Mark your words,” Lan Wangji answered.
    (Or: Lan Wangji fell in love with a rogue cultivator who trespassed and drank on the wall of Cloud Recesses but in a desperate bid to win the Sunshot Campaign, the war council agreed to have him betrothed to the Second Prince of the Upper Realm.)

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    23 Mar 2022

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    Lan Zhan and his family have been alive for a very long time. Perhaps, once, immortality would not have seemed like a curse. But that changed a long time ago.

    When a new group of immortals are born, Lan Zhan finds himself oddly drawn to new immortal Wen Yuan, who somehow reminds him of his lost love. But Wen Yuan has no intention of being immortal. All he wants is to get back to his very concerned Father. A father that against all odds and reason, Lan Zhan finds himself recognising.

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    20 Mar 2022

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    Ten years ago Wei Ying was forced to disappear from his own life, changing his name and hiding from everyone he loved. Then on his birthday he runs into Nie Huaisang, who invites himself to Wei Ying's birthday party.

    The clash of old and new lives freaks Wei Ying out, and he ends up drunkenly agreeing to call Lan Zhan to tell him that he was the love of his life.

    But now that Lan Zhan has contact details for Wei Ying, he won't let it go.

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    31 Dec 2021

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    They are all called to enter the room that has been delegated to this event, they move in the most orderly manner Wei Wuxian has ever seen them move. That is how much they respect the Lan sect— or how much they fear them.
     
    When he is escorted to the middle of the room, the cultivators part in front of him, going to their own seats, leaving him there, with two Lan disciples at his sides. Wei Wuxian bows to show his respect to Hanguang-jun, who is seated on the elevated seat that he makes look like a throne.

    “Approach,” Hanguang-jun says. His voice is firm and authoritative, the voice of a leader, a commander.

    Wei Wuxian obeys.

     

    In which Wei Wuxian figures out quickly that he isn't meant to be a hostage, but he doesn't quite know how to deal with the fact that he is being treated like an esteemed guest. He isn't complaining though.

    (Completed except for epilogue)

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    25 Dec 2021

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    Maybe that was why they slipped. Maybe they shouldn’t have been chatting on the comms so much. Maybe they should have swept the compound before congregating in one room. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe there was nothing they could have done. Maybe it didn’t matter.
     

    The team is taken hostage and Steve is forced to face his fears and secrets to save them.

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    26 Nov 2021

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    Steve swallows hard, or tries to; his throat’s too damned tight.

    “You,” and Steve’s hands are brands, are vises against the wound where it’s spilling, where Bucky ran and leapt where Steve hadn’t even thought to look, where it’s Bucky’s body that’s failing, Bucky’s artery that’s leaking too fast to rightly heal, and it should’ve been Steve.

    It should have been Steve.

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    25 Nov 2021

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    What used to be a wide open cave mouth, propped up with stalactites and mites, has collapsed, leaving a wall of uneven rock. Caving is always a danger, but they’d thought this cave was pretty safe for their study of bat behaviours. The colony living in it is stable, had been here for at least fifty years, and of course the cave has been here for millennia. Nothing going wrong for so long and then a bunch of rocks falling? It’s just his luck, really.

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    15 Nov 2021

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