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    “His majesty hardly spared me a glance on our wedding night, so it cannot be that I am ugly," Wei Ying shakily says. “He does not even know how I look like. Or is my build not graceful or slender enough? What exactly is so wrong with me?”

    The First Prince, Lan Xichen, sighs. “You will soon find that in this palace, we do not ask questions.”

    “No, we are sent away instead, to die a lonely death,” Wei Ying laughs sorely. But with that very thought, he rips off his red wedding veil, the last thing tethering him to the emperor, and vows angrily under his breath, “But know this: I will live more than well.”

    Or, Wei Ying is wed to emperor Lan Wangji in order to save the Gusu Lan empire. But instead of the blissful marriage he was promised, he is spurned and sent to the cold palace—until a chance encounter changes his fate.

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    "Pop some bread in the toaster for me?” Wei Ying asks. Lan Zhan has one, a chrome thing with dials and buttons.

    A pause. “This isn’t a relationship,” Lan Zhan says.

    Wei Ying blinks. It’s such an incongruous thing to say. At first his brain says, that must be code. It’s almost like listening to two spies talk in a drama. The handler would say something like ‘the duck swims at midnight,’ and the spy would say, ‘purple is the loveliest colour’ and they’d both nod to each other and know that the prime minister was about to be assassinated, or something. That’s all he can think of, at first. Because of course this isn’t a relationship? This was a fun night. So Lan Zhan must be saying this for a reason. There’s some response he’s supposed to make now, but he’s lost the script if he ever had it.

    “Okay…” he says. Then it clicks. Lan Zhan means: you should leave.

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    Maybe Wei Ying shouldn't have hooked up with his hot neighbour two days into his exchange semester, but everyone makes choices in life.

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    13 Feb 2022

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    I want trees instead of gravestones
    And nothing to confess
    I got a soft spot for your ancient books
    Of horror stories
    I got a music in my ear
    From long, long ago and far, far away
    And I still hum its tune, but how could I ever
    Believe every word it says to me?

    Wei Wuxian has always loved haunted houses. Not the seasonal tourist traps, mind you – he prefers the ones that are actually haunted.

    It’s different, he considers, now that he’s the one doing the haunting.

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    Lan Zhan has his daily rituals, before the medium shows up.

    Lan Zhan leads a quiet, solitary life on the coast when a vengeful spirit disturbs his routine. The arrival of a charming medium into his daily routine quickly turns his relatively peaceful existence upside down.

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