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    “I thought you were just a reader!” Shen Qingqiu yells, gesturing with his teacup and spilling some drops on his sleeve. “You’re the hack author himself? Master of plotholes? King of red herrings? Is this a stallion novel or a cultivation novel? It’s impossible to say, either way you’ve taken a dump on every genre convention! And the ending, I didn’t even get a chance to comment on it—”

    Shang Qinghua pushes himself back from the table, eyes wide. “Shen Yuan?”

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    31 Oct 2025

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    Linguang-Jun ruins everything. He always does; it is his habit. When Mobei Li was eight he found some way, bribes, threats, or blackmail, to convince his tutor to attempt to put a knife through his back; he stopped attending lessons. When he was ten, he poisoned his favorite food, leading him to be terribly ill and nearly lose his life; he stopped eating it. When he was sixteen, he poisoned his horse in the presumed hope that it would buck him off and trample him during its death throes; he stopped riding horses.

    The need for caution and survival dictates that he must cover every weakpoint, close off any avenue for another underhanded attempt at his life. Shaving his life smaller and smaller, making himself silent and unreadable, never betraying a preference or inclination that might be noted and exploited. The only way to avoid having the things he likes most used against him and thus ruined is to avoid showing that he likes them at all. 

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    Mobei-Jun overhears a conversation between his uncle and his servant.

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    31 Oct 2025

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    Shen Qingqiu wakes up. His heart immediately tries to catapult itself out of his chest, because two inches in front of his face is the flawless face of the darkened protagonist, staring at him unblinkingly. Moving on autopilot, he tries to make a summoning sign for his sword, but instead his hand spasms uselessly - not painful, but odd, signals not going to the correct nerves.

    “Shizun,” Luo Binghe croons at him, with all the fondness of a sadistic serial killer to their favorite victim. “Shizun, don’t be scared. This one has made some changes.”

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    Luo Binghe fixes the problem.

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    When he chose to become Death he wasn't sure exactly what it would mean. He didn't realise he'd end up leaving humanity behind completely, forgetting all the ways he used to be human.

    Forgetting, that was, until in the middle of a war, his power spreading itself like wings over the battlefields, he discovered one particular human it was impossible to stay away from. Brave, fascinating, irresistible: again and again, he kept coming back to Bucky. Bucky, who was never afraid of him, who seemed content to walk in Death's shadow.

    If he'd known where it would lead him, where it would lead both of them, he would have tried harder to resist.

    (A First Avenger/ Winter Soldier AU where Steve is Death.)

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    Mobei-Jun does not speak human. He does not speak human even a little bit, as Shang Qinghua has tested by saying absolutely unholy filthy things to him that should have gotten him instantly murdered, but instead only earns him a blank, annoyed stare. 

    “My king, please, it’s only water. It’s unpoisoned, see? See, I’ll drink some. Ahh, tasty, safe water! Please, drink it? You’re sweating so much, you’re, like, melting.” He helps Mobei-Jun drink the water. “... God I really want to lick the sweat off your neck.” 

    Mobei-Jun does not react. Ahaha, this is kind of fun. Except for all the ways that it’s so fucking inconvenient. 

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    Shang Qinghua wrote PIDW to have many different languages; he does not remember this.

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