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Anything Goes (Scenes from a Story) by PhoenixRisesOnceMore
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
21 Aug 2022
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1929, Los Angeles.
Lan Wangji once had dreams of a life spent in the service of justice, dreams nurtured through his friendship with the brilliant “paper son” of one of the newest prominent families in San Francisco’s Chinatown: a boy with a brilliant smile.
Ten years ago that boy died and those dreams were shattered. Now talkies are in, jazz is on every radio, and disappointment and loss have led Lan Wangji instead to a tidy job as an agent of the Federal Bureau of Prohibition. Hemmed in by corruption, apathy, and the specter of his family’s disappointment, he struggles to peel away the layers of organized crime fueled by bathtub gin and dark money, forces that have tainted the very agency he works for.
That is until he is offered a case that will require him to work alongside a dangerous informant, a man who mysteriously can’t be photographed, one of the most notorious criminals in The City of Angels and owner of The Rabble, a speakeasy with an otherworldly reputation: Wei Wuxian.
In just four months the market will crash, the world will change, and Lan Wangji will learn that right and wrong, truth and lies—and even life and death—are far less defined than he had ever imagined.
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“Indulge me, Lan Zhan,” he says. He rises, crosses the room, and drapes himself closer, balanced on elbow and hip, back to the guqin on its low table, and punctuates with a single spin of Chenqing.
Lan Wangji’s hands do not miss a note. “For Wei Ying, always.”
Wei Wuxian purses his lips and worries Chenqing’s tassel, twisting it around his finger. He had not intended to stay for long, but a question had been tickling the back of his throat. “Shizhui told me something interesting the day after I got here.” He pauses and lets the silence sit between them for a moment. “He said that when he was younger he used to hear you playing Inquiry late at night, and that that’s why he asked you to teach him: because it was ‘the saddest and most beautiful thing he had ever heard.’” He spins Chenqing again, suddenly introspective. “I don’t think of Inquiry as beautiful, but then… I suppose that would depend on who’s doing the asking, what is being asked… who it is being asked to…”
He does not need to look: he can feel the sudden and subtle electric tension. “Lan Zhan, were you—by chance—playing for me?”
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Bailuobo by PhoenixRisesOnceMore
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
22 Nov 2020
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There is a thing that lurks at the corner of his mind, disturbing the flow of his thought; it is something that he is certain he used to be able to avoid, leaving him forgetful and free. When life came to find him again he thought death might have freed him of it for good. But that wasn’t true. And today, for whatever reason, it has punched its way into the world and taken the form of a white rabbit with a black splotch on its face.
In the Cloud Recesses after the events of canon, Wei Wuxian finds himself confronting life, death, grief, and regret at an impromptu rabbit funeral.
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