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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    She didn't even know if he was awake, so why was she here now? She shook her head and knocked. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take after all. To her surprise, the door opened, revealing a slightly groggy Dan Heng on the other side.

    “Stelle?” He questions, “What are you doing awake?”

    “Oh, you know…” she mutters.

    “Yes..?”

    “Just, can’t sleep. You know, just one of those nights.”

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    14 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    In other words, for Dan Heng, the first “proof” that Stelle is okay—that is, without major physical or mental injuries—is the comforting warmth that radiates through her skin.

    Comforting in the sense that, even if he doesn't ask her or has time to do so, feeling her warmth reminds him that she is still there, safe and sound.

     

    A warmth that is always there.

     

    A warmth that should always be there.

     

    [Or also, the time between when Stelle finished the Oronyx's Trial and woke up in their room in front of Dan Heng.]

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    14 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    Stelle keeps falling asleep in the wrong places.

    Dan Heng keeps finding her.

    Eventually, he figures he should do something. He can't keep letting a fellow passenger sleep on the floor.

    Yeah, that's it. That's why he did it.

    Definitely didn't do it for any other reason.

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    14 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 54

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    “Just, gimme a sec…”

    Dan Heng caresses her cheek. “As long as you need.”

    Stelle snickers weakly. “What… what if I made you wait an hour for fun?”

    “Then I’d wait an hour,” Dan Heng answers with zero hesitation, petting her face.

    Her eyes widen. “You really do love me, huh?” she says, in awe.

    Dan Heng wants to reply with something like ‘duh’, but he can’t really bring himself to tease her now. “More than anything,” is what he settles on.

    Dan Heng and Stelle’s emotional first time in excruciating detail.

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    13 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    Multiple nights of insomnia have left Stelle tired and with no energy to do anything. She wakes up at noon and spends the evening scrolling through her phone, leaving inflammatory comments and wishing she could sleep until the Heat Death of the universe.

    When Dan Heng comes to check on her before lights out, neither had sex in mind. But, you know how it is, one thing leads to another... And now they're pulling each other's clothes off.

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    13 Feb 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 69

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    "Open your eyes!" she screamed, her voice rising in tone, mixing with the roar of the Vortex. "Look at me! You have to come back! You have to…!"

    And there he laid, her Dan Heng, her dragon's gaze extinguished forever in his glassy eyes, his torso torn open by a brutal wound that pierced him through.

     

     

    Stuck in the Eternal Recurrence, with no memories, haunted by the ghost of a loss she cannot name, Stelle finds refuge in the glorious holy city of Okhema, a sanctuary for those with golden blood like her own. Here, she is given a new purpose: strength, camaraderie, and a place to belong in the fight for her own survival.
    However, why does she feel she has a bond with one of the Imperator’s generals, the one with golden horns and a jade tail?

     

    JANUS --- [Chapters 3-9]
    GEORIOS --- [Chapters 10-23]
    MNESTIA --- [Chapters 24 - ?]

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    13 Feb 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 17

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    During a mission on the Xianzhou, Stelle appears to have fallen ill. Shortly after the group finishes what they needed to do, she goes unconscious. And who needs a doctor, or anyone with any medical knowledge, to take care of you when you have Dan Heng?

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    13 Feb 2026

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    Dan Heng does not dream.

    The moment his egg had cracked, he had seen the clear reflection of the light that the artificial sun produced hitting the water he was surrounded by. His eyes glanced up at it, as if in a daze, no matter how much it stung.

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    Dan Heng, since his hatching rebirth, always had a special place to retreat to. One where two figures who called themselves Long and Yaoshi, as well as what looked like an older version of himself, rested, looking after him in their own, very distinct, way.

    Despite their weird existence, even after learning what they were named after, he did his best and tried to weave his own fate without letting them lend a hand.

    However, when a Stellaron burst occurs in the Luofu and the Astral Express comes to help, weird things seem to start happening around Dan Heng, making him uncover more and more mysteries regarding the entities living in his head, each weirder than the last.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    That wall was solid. She knew she could never breach it but there was no harm in fantasizing. From here she could at least admire his pretty face.

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    10 Feb 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 91

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    But then, Stelle presses her forehead against his, a soft smile curving around her rose petal lips and whispers her reply:

    “I think I might love you too."

    Hiding in the trees to observe the creature had been a valid idea. Letting Stelle join him was something he hadn’t minded. What he hadn’t expected, however, was the downpour that came and soaked them both and what happened afterward.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    Being in a relationship didn’t suddenly make him an open book, but it did make him more receptive to her attempts to read him.

    [ a direct sequel to for what it's worth ]

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    10 Feb 2026

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    While his Vidyadhara features were always striking and not often seen, she had come to recognize them after all this time. What she had assuredly never seen before was the long, teal colored tail that coiled out from behind him.

    “You’ve had a tail this whole time?” she blurted out the moment she met his eyes.

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    10 Feb 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 10

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    He combs his fingers through her hair and looks at her. “How about we go back to sleep?”

    “No.” Stelle says firmly. It catches Dan Heng a little off guard.

    “Stelle, please...” he pleads, but she wasn’t having it.

    “I said no. I don’t need to sleep, I’ll be fine.”

    “Stelle, you’re going to make yourself sick.”

    “I play in trash, Dan Heng. A little sleep deprivation isn’t going to hurt me.”
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    In which Stelle wakes up from a nightmare and promptly refuses to sleep again despite her exhaustion

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    10 Feb 2026

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    ****Alt ending to 2.4, no 2.5 spoilers****

    Three sounds pierced his focus in quick, terrible succession. First came a choked gasp that sounded distinctly non-borisin followed by a sharp, high-pitched sound of pain, and most damning of all, the unmistakable clatter of a metal bat against the stone floor. Unable to resist the terrible sinking feeling in his stomach, Dan Heng whipped around to find Stelle suspended in the air by a blade piercing through her stomach. Before he could even make a sound something slammed into his back and sent him straight to the ground, his spear ripped out of his hand. Something heavy put pressure on his back, keeping him on the floor. It didn’t matter.

    Desperately he reached out towards the gray-haired girl, seeing her blood splatter to the floor several feet below. “Stelle! Stelle-”

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    10 Feb 2026

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    Dan Heng wouldn't call himself a researcher. However, when it comes to things that interest him, he tends to study them like one. This time, it was the newest member of the Astral Crew — Stelle. But what started off as as a simple secret case study on her somehow complicates over time. As curiosity and an odd stir of his heart tempts, Dan Heng finds himself drawn to her.

    —a collection of DanStelle that may or may not be connected to each other, written in semi-canon. Sprinkles of romantic implications. Slow-burn romance.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    Looking up from where she knelt, she spotted Dan Heng farther ahead of her, standing with his back to her and surrounded by a large group of yellow and orange flowers. He was writing something down yet again, but Stelle thought he looked ethereal amidst the backdrop, even as he was just doing something so mundane.

    Stelle always thought he looked ethereal. The way he carried himself and the air he radiated was one of elegance, somehow further accentuated once she saw him in his true form. It was hard not to pay attention to a man such as him.

    Slipping her phone out of her pocket once more, she angled it up towards Dan Heng and zoomed in slightly, taking a couple photos of him in the flower field. Maybe she’ll send him those images later.

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    10 Feb 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 52

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    She blinks again, once, twice. A flash of red hair, a familiar cane, a sheepish expression half-hidden by wings. Her legs — stiff and weak from lack of use — give way as she steps forward, but before she can fall, a familiar hand is grabbing her elbow and dragging her into his arms.

    "Stelle," Dan Heng mutters against her hair.

    "Dan Heng," she whispers. A lump rises in her throat, as she clutches tightly to him. He smells of home.

    That's where she is — home.

    The Astral Express family reunite again, and slowly begin to recover after the events of Amphoreus.

    A.K.A. The obligatory post 3.7 fic :)

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    10 Feb 2026

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    “Oh, Yinyue-jun,” she croons, her face pressed against his neck as he carries her to his personal quarters. No one to disturb them now. “What would you have an Offering like me do now?”
    Dan Heng nips her ear at her mischief. “Stop that, Stelle.”
    “I fear I have not been told explicitly enough,” she continues to sing-song, “what exactly ‘tempering the High Elder’s draconic instincts’ truly means…”

    or: when Xianzhou tradition insists Vidyadhara High Elders require sexual favors to stay diplomatic, Stelle takes up the role of "Offering" a little too well...

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    10 Feb 2026

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    Dan Heng had many secrets and one — well, two actually, of them pertains to Stelle.

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    10 Feb 2026

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