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What Can't Be Repaid by ardenrabbit
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
04 Sep 2025
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"A family passed through here," the Patriarch stated. His sword appeared in his hand and he sheathed it at his hip. "It should be three dozen Wens. Where are they?"
Lan Wangji felt his lips flatten, offended by the very notion of answering. Considering what he had just seen the Patriarch do to the Wens around them, Lan Wangji could only assume the worst of his intentions.
Something flickered across the Yiling Patriarch's face. Then, oddly enough, he smiled. It was grim and understated, like a calm hand resting on a knife.
"You won't tell me?" he asked. Lan Wangji didn't answer. "You didn't tell those nice Jins."
Above an apprehensive curiosity as to what had happened to the Jins, Lan Wangji said, "Nor will I you."
Those eyes flickered again, this time with surprise.
"Oh dear," the Patriarch laughed softly, as if to himself. "What's your name?"
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In the midst of fighting a losing war, Lan Wangji catches the special attention of the reclusive Yiling Patriarch. It's hard to say who is more indebted to whom.
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A Home Has a Family by ardenrabbit
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
17 Mar 2025
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"His Highness may call me anything he wishes."
Xie Lian doesn't have the imaginative energy to conjure up anything meaningful for this stranger, so he says, "In that case, you might as well be Wu Ming."
The ghost bows his head further. His shoulders sink slightly, less slumping and more settling into himself. It's like he likes the dehumanizing name.
He says, "'Wu Ming' is perfect."
Xie Lian's frown deepens. He tells him, "Pick a different one soon."
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After Xie Lian is tortured in his own temple, he wakes up in the care of a freshly-formed wrath ghost. "Wu Ming" follows him home and, with his carpentry experience, medical knowledge, street smarts, and fighting skills, makes himself indispensable to Xie Lian's family.
To protect Xie Lian from Bai Wuxiang, Wu Ming swears that he'll do whatever he must to get stronger, all the while becoming one more person that Xie Lian couldn't bear to lose.
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Xie Lian's last believer is so fervently devoted to him that he seems to think mostly in the form of prayer. That is a terrifying prospect. Xie Lian has never heard of such a case before, not even in hypotheticals, and he finds himself hoping, for his believer's sake, that there is some other explanation for this phenomenon.
Whatever the reason, a low stream of his believer's thoughts hum in the back of Xie Lian's consciousness.
His believer does not seem to be aware of it.
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When Xie Lian ascends for the third time, he is welcomed back to godhood with prayers that he hadn't expected: an ongoing stream of thought from his sole remaining believer. He gathers quickly that this believer is very old, very powerful, and very, very much in love with him.
For his believer's sake, Xie Lian can cast a spell to shut the prayers out—but only if he has access to spiritual energy.
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A Long and Slow Recovery by ardenrabbit
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Dec 2024
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The light still doesn't make sense against his eyes, but he thinks he remembers something like color. There is a lot of color around him, and he is able to discern white and black and a great deal of something else. It's a breathtaking splash of vivacity on a new canvas, where there had been no canvas at all for so many eternities. It is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.
Red, Xie Lian finally names it.
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In a disorienting turn of luck, Xie Lian is rescued from State Preceptor Fangxin's coffin. He recovers his other senses in good time, but his sight is taking longer to return—decades with no exposure to light have weakened his capacity for it.
His benefactor and worshiper, a wealthy and eccentric ghost named Hua Cheng, hasn't left his side for months.
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Those Worthy of Following by ardenrabbit
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 Oct 2024
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Hua Cheng is accustomed to being merciless in these interviews, and a pretty smile won't change that.
"Fangxin sounds like a fake name," Hua Cheng states.
"Just a moniker, Your Highness," Fangxin replies. "If you wish, please call this servant A-Lian."
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Prince Hua Cheng of the troubled kingdom of Qiandeng has avoided the burden of a personal guard for years. Despite his father's insistence, Hua Cheng has been able to turn would-be guards away by right of dueling them before they can secure the position.
The latest to try is an unassuming cultivator.
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Lovescars AU by ardenrabbit
Fandom 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
13 Aug 2022
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wing bones touching by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 May 2026
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Mo Xuanyu is the hastily legitimized daughter of Jin Guangshan.
Wei Wuxian wakes up in her body the day before her wedding.
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Bookmarked by ardenrabbit
07 May 2026
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With Lang Ying dead and the rebellion staunched, Xian Le should be entering an era of peace. However, the local lords are corrupt and gaining power, the fields have been razed to cinders, and the remnants of plague still linger. On top of that, Xie Lian's excuses for turning down marriage proposals are dwindling.
When the assassins come, he suspects that the Gods might hate him.
Hua Cheng just wants to rip apart the person sending them. Hard to do, when he might as well be chasing a ghost.
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23 Feb 2026
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Hua Cheng is Not a Bad Person: an essay by NeithOfTheVeil
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Mar 2026
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An essay with quotes pulled from the Seven Seas translation of tgcf and fan translations of the unrevised version of tgcf, supporting the argument that Hua Cheng is a kinder person than fans often give him credit for.
This essay covers his good deeds, his self-esteem issues, his similarities with Xie Lian, how respectful he is of Xie Lian's autonomy, and how Xie Lian does not just "make excuses" for him all the time.
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15 Mar 2026
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Honeymooners by peppaspray for Danmei_Podfics_With_Gem
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
15 Jul 2025
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Yet, despite its overwhelming dissonance, despite all the molar-grinding concessions disguised as compromise, the appearance of the wedding itself wasn’t what now had Xie Lian choking on his own pesky expectations as they came surging sourly up his throat– but rather, the one and only empty place to be found in the entire venue.
The altar.
Xie Lian’s first thought was a mortifying head-on collision: one, that he couldn’t believe it, and two, that he should have fucking known.
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After his decade-long, soul-sucking relationship with Jun Wu ends with being left at the altar, Xie Lian decides to take his life back into his own hands once and for all— starting with his would-be luxury honeymoon, now turned solo trip.
Out of practice with relaxation, Xie Lian doesn't expect much more than a week of privacy in which to lick his wounds and try to start over. He certainly doesn't expect San Lang, the bold and spirited young man he encounters on the way, who seems determined to raise Xie Lian’s standards /for/ him, who somehow has all the gossip on the island resort they’re both going to— as well as its notorious owner, Hua Cheng.
Maybe 'unexpected' is exactly what Xie Lian needs.
Bookmarked by ardenrabbit
23 Feb 2026
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The Magic You Granted Me by AkiSui
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu | Heaven Official's Blessing - Moxiang Tongxiu
15 Apr 2026
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Xie Lian, Taiwan’s former number one figure skating prodigy, struggles with his declining mental health after losing everything: his family, friends, home, and career. Eight years later, he gathers the strength to take on an office job—and suddenly finds himself able to read other people’s minds when he touches them. Thanks to this strange supernatural power, Xie Lian discovers how hopelessly in love a mysterious young man seems to be with him. As he gets closer to him, Xie Lian gradually learns what it means to be alive again.
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A Cherry Magic AU where Hua Cheng thinks he’s simping in secret, but Xie Lian hears all of it.
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21 Feb 2026