10 Bookmarks by archec

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    After Hua Cheng is called in to do a rather simple task at a rather decrepit home, he finds himself replacing more than just the carpet in Xie Lian’s home—for example: the stove, the cabinets, the walls, the roof, and his heart (in Xie Lian’s hands).

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    06 Nov 2023

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    “Hang on—” Kaveh scrambles to his feet as Alhaitham walks down the path. “Where are you going?”

    “Home.” He doesn’t stop, doesn’t wait. Just inclines his head ever so slightly to catch Kaveh’s eye from the corner of his own, sharp and bright. “Coming?”

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    Alhaitham and Kaveh’s actions speak louder than their (many, many) words.

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    14 Oct 2023

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    Years. It has been years, yet it could’ve been yesterday they were sitting side by side, thigh to thigh, eye to eye, filled with a contentment that their future selves have lost. Maybe it would be enough to have that again. Maybe correctness has no place here—has never been the ultimate goal between them—and Alhaitham finds himself asking a very different question than intended.

    “How would you like to come home?”

    Alhaitham loathes interruptions. (All except one).

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    13 Oct 2023

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    Kaveh sighs again, and this time his features knit together and he squeezes his eyes shut. “Can you stop being clinical for two minutes and hear what I’m actually asking you?”

    “I am listening.” It’s true. “And I do understand.”

    “Do you, now?”

    “I do.”

    Kaveh pinches the bridge of his nose. The frustration there isn’t feigned or overblown—it’s real, deep in the lines of his face and the tension drawing his shoulders. “I’d want you to be here,” he says again, but quieter.

    “I will be here,” Alhaitham answers. “And it’ll be with the cure.”

    When an expedition gone wrong leaves Kaveh with three days to live, Alhaitham and Cyno fight to find the cure while Tighnari fights to buy them time.

    Sometimes it does take a village.

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    12 Oct 2023

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    Hua Cheng and Xie Lian catch up on some of the wedding customs they missed.

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    Direct sequel to Red Robes for the Wedding. The context will be clearer if you read that first, but this story can be read independently too.

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    01 Oct 2023

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    Xie Lian startles at the voice so hard that his bag of scraps promptly falls out of his grasp, scattering rubbish across the ground. Usually, Xie Lian is far more adept at repressing such severe reactions, but he whips his head around as if he could find who had spoken despite the fact he knows it had been only for his ears to hear.

    A prayer.

    (Or, Xie Lian receives a prayer for the first time in decades.)

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    30 Sep 2023

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    “Gege...” he says, voice trailing off.

    “What’s wrong, San Lang?” Xie Lian asks, glancing at the bed too. It looks pretty normal, minus the blanket he’d given Hua Cheng. “Do you not like cats? I can shoo Ruoye away...”

    “No, gege, it’s just...You don’t have a bed.”

    Xie Lian blinks and glances back at his bed, “uh? I do?”

    --
    or 'the bedframe one'

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    29 Sep 2023

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    “What did they do?” Hua Cheng demands. Then, to the robbers: “What the fuck did you do to him?!”

    “San Lang, shh, don’t be mad. They tried to rob me, but they didn’t hurt me. Really! My face only looks like this because I fell into a rock!”

    Hua Cheng wilts: this is devastatingly believable.

    A pair of robbers accosts Xie Lian outside of Puqi Village. They were expecting an easy ransom from a rich husband. They were not expecting the wrath of Crimson Rain Sought Flower, or free relationship advice from the husband of the world’s leading expert in codependency. They got both.

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    28 Sep 2023

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    Atop the summit of Mount Taicang, a God and Ghost marry at last, in private. And so begins the rest of their blissful eternity together.

    (A canon-compliant Hualian wedding fic, including their first time!)

    Russian translation available!

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    27 Sep 2023

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    When Hua Cheng loses all his memories of Xie Lian, afflicted by a tricky curse, there’s only one way to get them back: Xie Lian has to get Hua Cheng to kiss him.

    It shouldn’t be too difficult, right?

    Xie Lian has a plan.


    “Greetings, Chengzhu,” Xie Lian said. “Apologies for the intrusion. Actually, I’ve been gifted to you by the heavens as a…”
    His voice caught.
    “I mean, to—”
    Xie Lian’s cheeks suddenly felt hot, and his palms grew damp under the rope binding his arms together. Beneath Hua Cheng’s piercing stare from above, he lost his cool.
    “As your,” he stammered. “Um, as—well—if you want, I’ve been sent to you as—I’m here to be your—”

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    09 Sep 2023

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