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    Are you sure? Hollander’s message says, and Ilya sets his phone down. It’s an unnecessary question. He’s already sent over the details. He’ll arrive at the cottage tomorrow. He’ll work out first thing in the morning and then drive over. It won’t be a long drive. He’s plotted out the route. The weather will be nice. Summer is fast approaching.

    He still hasn’t canceled his ticket back to Moscow, despite what he’s told Svetlana.

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    Ilya arrives at the cottage. He wants, but wanting doesn’t come easily. 

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    But Meng Yao’s rules had grown so constraining that killing wasn’t even fun anymore, and what was actually fun was the leadup and the aftermath—the chase. It was the danger not of being caught, but of being caught by Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen.

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    Xue Yang realizes he has a problem on his hands. But is it really a problem?

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    He tells Xiao Xingchen about it—how they split the bounty. They’re making dinner: tofu, gai lan, white rice.

    By the sink, Xiao Xingchen goes still. Then, he smiles. He works a damp hand through the air. It lands on Song Lan’s chest.

    Song Lan does not come that night.

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    For the past year, a monster has taken an interest in Song Lan. It isn’t like any of the yaoguai Song Lan has encountered before. It hasn’t drowned children in damp back-alleys nor stolen the breaths of virile men at night. Nor has it swept through the streets early in the morning, mimicking an infant’s cry and playing tricks on samaritans.

    This yaoguai is different.

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    Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen encounter something unexpected.

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    If they were in a show, one of those BLs, they’d have won by now. At least somewhat: the lead antihero and his doe-eyed, Stockholm-syndromed-to-hell boytoy, living lavishly in a prison they’ve chosen.

    Maybe they’d be bickering about who tops whom. Maybe Vegas would be cooking for him, pulling up something on Youtube. Or maybe they’d be fucking, with Vegas giving his all, drawing a long line of red down Pete’s chest. A letter opener, probably. Pete has always liked letter openers. They’re functional.

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    Vegas and Pete try and run away.

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    Isn’t that what he’s always wanted anyways? To tame someone—to own someone. To break someone so thoroughly that they’ll look at him—really look—and still want him.

    Slowly, Vegas raises the gun. He doesn’t pull the trigger, though the safety is disengaged. He brings the muzzle to two lips, already blood-flecked and peeling.

    “Open, puppy.”

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    Vegas needs to snap out of the timeloop in his head. Pete is here to help.

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    Vegas looks down at his hands. Hurt him, his fingers say. Do it while Macau isn’t here. You’ve already exchanged the poetry, the pretty words. So do it now. You can make him cry so prettily. Isn’t that how you’ve always shown love best? Isn’t that the only thing you’re good for? Do it—

    The head on his lap shifts. The breath along his hip skitters, then disappears as Pete turns and looks up. His eyes are black—blacker than black—and he smiles.

    “Good morning, Vegas.”

    Vegas swallows.

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    Pete helps Vegas recover. Vegas confronts what he wants. Pete eggs him on.

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    “What do you want?”

    “I don’t know, Lan Zhan,” Wei Ying says slowly. The nausea in her gut has steadily turned into a rattling hunger, and she closes her eyes and starts listing things off. “I want a hamburger, I want a giant glass of soy milk, I want some shitty plum wine—the stuff that’s really fucking sweet, the kind that’ll definitely give me a headache. I want—fuck—” She opens one eye, testing the waters. “I wanna lie back and get eaten out like a fucking princess before being railed within an inch of my life.”

    The flush that crawls along Lan Zhan’s ears is well worth the frown she aims at Wei Ying. “Your life,” she says, setting down her phone and glaring, “must be so hard.”

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    Lan Zhan and Wei Ying go on the run, have sex, blow stuff up, and have more sex.

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    Imagine: a keloid wrapped around a muscle wrapped around bone. That’s what they are: Song Lan and Xue Yang here. Xiao Xingchen a voice in their heads, telling them to get out soon, I know what you’re doing but get out soon, and it’s so cool, so crisp, that Xue Yang arches up. Arches up-up-up.
    “You,” Song Lan must mouth. The word rings clear in his head. No, he must be imagining.

    There's something wrong with Song Lan. Xue Yang and Xiao Xingchen get to the bottom of it.

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    “Have dinner with me,” Lan Zhan says. One of them has to ask it. They’ve been dancing around it, and Lan Zhan has the sense that if he doesn’t ask now, he won’t have the chance. Wei Ying feels like a ghost – some sort of apparition dreamt up by him and his phone. Lan Zhan tries to imagine sitting across the table from a set of pale-pale wrists and idol eyes. Can’t.

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    Taco nights, messy academia peeps who love drama, and thousand-mile distances. Everything happens so much.

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    “What if I’m just a man? Are you disappointed in this body? Do you find it meager?” Ye Baiyi gestures at the broad expanse of his chest, his smile crooking as if this should be a joke. Insouciant man. “My body isn’t too old for many things,” he says, “or at least, none of the necessary ones that make life worth living.” 

    The laugh that escapes Xie’er’s mouth doesn’t even sound like it’s his. Who is he to laugh at another man’s mortality? Who has he become? Maybe the sleep really has addled his brains. 

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    Ye Baiyi rescues Xie'er from underneath a mountain of snow.

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    Is this what friends do? This doesn’t feel like what friends do. Friends don’t carry each other gingerly towards the couch. They don’t dip their heads down-down-down till they’re nearly kissing. They don’t proceed to tug off a shirt, then plant their hands across a landscape of skin that isn’t theirs, even if it’s to break a curse.

    Or maybe that’s what friends do. Maybe that’s what Lan Zhan does for friends. Wei Ying finds that he’s too confused, too panicked and tired and exhausted, to figure it out.
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    Wei Ying gets hits by a curse. Lan Zhan finds himself in a very specific position.

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    He’d followed Yifu’s directions. Driven up to the empty lot at the base of the mountain. Chucked the phone. Taken the last trail, then walked up. Then walked up. Then up walked up some more. Hollowed out his belly and his eyes and his core. Would he be able to cry even if he wanted to right now? He doesn’t know. He doesn’t fucking know.
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    It's a job gone wrong, or is it?

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    Wei Wuxian bites his lip and looks down at him. Already, his breath comes out faster — small, quick puffs that hit Xue Yang through his bangs. He can feel their rhythm in the way his eyebrows dry cold; Wei Wuxian’s breath smells like raspberries — sickly sweet — and a sudden deep, chemical want begins to pool between Xue Yang's legs.

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    Xue Yang had one job. Wei Wuxian complicates it.

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    They had this little car, Wei Ying had been saying, this tiny car, and it was frightening, Lan Zhan! You know, the roads out there are all hairpin turns, and the Italians all drive like they’ve just commited murder.

    He’d laughed, and Wei Ying had leaned in across the table then, reaching out one hand towards Lan Zhan’s wrist. And that was it. That was how Lan Zhan had fucked up: He’d flinched — a full-body sort of movement — and Wei Ying had immediately let go.

    ⌌⊱⇱⊶⊷⊶⊷⊶⊷⊶⊷⊰⌍

    Three times Wei Ying touches Lan Zhan, two times Lan Zhan touches back, and one time —

    — you already know where this is going, don’t you?

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    How many years has it been since that first night with A-Qing in the woods? Half a dozen years? Probably. Xiao Xingchen doesn’t like to keep time and Song Lan likes to humor him. All these years, it’d been up to Xue Yang to keep track of the years passing them by. Xue Yang, who’d been in charge of each week’s groceries. Xue Yang, who’d carved a notch into the dead tree by the marketplace. One notch for each winter they survived. Xue Yang, who’d spent afternoons eavesdropping on weekly lessons between a rich boy and his private tutor before memorizing (and then stealing) the sort of texts that Xiao Xingchen might like to read to A-Qing.

    Xue Yang, who’d consulted with the fortune teller at a temple several towns over to select the date for A-Qing’s wedding.
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    Xue Yang reminisces about time spent babysitting Jin Ling and taking care of A-Qing. Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen watch and help.

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    This is why Xiao Xingchen loves Sundays. Sundays mean Xue Yang stretched out before him, naked and arching off one of their high-top breakfast bar chairs. They’re in the kitchen, and the tiled floor gleams back at Xue Yang as his body glistens in the damp air. He’s gasping, making noises so short that they comma-splice the air into silences that convey more than the words themselves: Xiao -- Xingchen -- ah -- ah -- fuck ----- ah -- ah -- fuck --- ah --- ah --

    Xiao Xingchen has an idea, Xue Yang gets wrecked, and Song Lan is all too willing to help.

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    Meng Yao is polite; he does all the things that Jiang Cheng would expect him to: he cranes his head at the guts of the Zidian’s propulsion system, hums at the anti-gravity schematics, and makes an approving noise once they reach the command center. He’s so composed that it makes Jiang Cheng’s teeth hurt.
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    Jiang Cheng is careening through space. Meng Yao becomes an unexpected guest. What could possibly go wrong?

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    Living with Wei Ying feels as if Lan Zhan is always standing in a desert: raw, face freckling with heat, the words slipping through his fingers like sand.

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    Five times Lan Zhan could have kissed Wei Ying, and one time he does.

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    The walk is nice, but walking beside Lan Zhan is nicer. They had started taking walks along the river once it had started getting warmer, around the time when the headaches and nightmares had begun. It had been Lan Zhan’s idea, because of course Lan Zhan would come up with the kind of idea that leaves Wei Ying breathless.

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    Or: Wei Ying has a bad brain day. Lan Zhan knows how to make it better.

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