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    The day Wei Wuxian rode the Xuanwu of Slaughter into the Nightless City was celebrated. The day he killed Wen Ruohan with the snapping jaws of a god was lauded. He was a hero, on that day, and every ear heard his name.

    The day he lost control was the day he was marked as demon and reviled. The Turtle Master died in waters of regret, never to be seen again.

    Thirteen years later, a man crawled bare and healed from the lake of death. On his shoulder was a turtle and in his mind was resolve.

    On that day, Wei Wuxian was alive again.

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    10 Dec 2025

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    There is a man lying on the bench.

    He is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful men that Xie Lian has ever seen.

    Xie Lian is almost certain that he's one of the fae.

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    “Do you often lounge about the forest, waiting for the next soul to come your way?”

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    16 Sep 2025

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    Not long after escaping the hell that was the coffin, Xie Lian finds himself stuck in the army adorning the name 'Hua Xie'. Still struggling with side affects from being buried alive, he meets a rather interesting soldier in red.
    Slowly but surely, Hua Xie discovers more and more about the young man who claims to have met him at an early age.
    while Hua Xie is trying to use time to heal, twists and turns keep ruining his progress. Turns out, healing needs way less time and more actual rehabilitation (plus a lovely stranger in red) to be effective.

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    OR, Xie Lian is having a horrible time trying not to lose his shit from intense psychological trauma (cough cough coffin), and some random in red is desperately trying to figure out what's wrong.
    (GENERAL HUA ERA)

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    19 Aug 2025

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    Xie Lian had been hurting for most of his life. Eight hundred years of hurting was a long time, wasn’t it? He tried not to mind, mostly, fading in and out as often as the damages occurred, but Hua Cheng wasn’t eager for him to use such a strategy. He stopped, every now and then, but bending to the will of his husband didn’t mean he was unburdened—and it certainly didn’t mean he shared every guilty thought that lived in his mind, polluting his lungs. Eight hundred years of pain didn’t vanish overnight, and while they both understood this, it still stung.

    (or: moments of hurt and moments of tomorrow when nothing hurts at all.)

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    17 Aug 2025

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    Xie Lian was not upset about what he lost. He swore, up and down, he didn’t mind being immortal, ashes wrapped around his neck. Not a god anymore. Not really. So, Xie Lian made a home on a mountain, plagued with white flowers, sprouting from his blood and his footsteps, twisting along every pathway. Another ghost came to live with him, between the flowers and the trees and winding river Xie Lian kept thinking of drowning in. He said his name was San Lang. It wasn’t. It was actually Hua Cheng, but Xie Lian didn’t know how to bring that up. It wasn’t as important as everything else—gardens, flowers, silver butterflies, and sorting out his dreams from his perilous reality. Hua Cheng made space, and Xie Lian let him.

    Dead god, very dead follower. It was almost funny.

    He wasn’t sure what to do, seeing as he did not plan to ascend again, did not plan to ever hold power over a kingdom. Xie Lian wasn’t staying forever. The mountain would open up, and he would leave to become something catastrophic. Or he would finally die. Who was he to say?

    (or: xie lian dies, becomes a calamity, ascends to the heavens against his wishes, and finally makes his life flourish between his thumbs and a ghost’s smile.)

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    07 Aug 2025