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It infuriates him how Joel makes him question all these things, because in the first place they weren’t even that important to each other. Grian could call Joel over, protect him from anybody who wants to harm him, say the most heartfelt declarations to him even though it holds absolutely no weight, but…they were just that.
And he knows deep down that people who aren’t important to each other most certainly do not act the way they do, but Grian would rather not ponder about it too much. Because he doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about Joel. He hates him. Hates how he laughs and grins without a care in the world like there’s nothing wrong. Hates how his stupid smiles and knowing glances makes Grian’s heart twist with longing.
Or; Grian and Joel and their complicated feelings towards each other.
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- Part 5 of crystal’s gribeans corner
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this hollowness takes up my entire heart by crystalscove
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
17 Jul 2025
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And now he’s here again. Playing. Surviving. Trying.
If only it was that easy.
His footsteps lead him around the map. He distracts himself by building. At least then the sound of the blocks being placed will drown out the heavy numbness he feels. He smiles and laughs and jokes around but he feels hollow. Like an empty shell. Sometimes he’d see Grian from across the map, all smiles and grins and realizes that perhaps both of them are doing the same thing. Pretending.
[ Grian and Joel in the first session of Past Life. ]
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- Part 26 of memory keeper au
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Joel hums in agreement. Seeing each other like this—where both of them are wearing simple clothes and no titles to hold—is a lot different than passing by each other on courtyards and dining tables and corridors alike. There, they have to pretend like their relationship is strictly prince and knight, with simple, curt nods and a few words of exchange. But here, in the quiet of the night with no one to disturb them, all of that falls away. There was no His Highness Joel here, no Sir Knight Grian. Just Joel and Grian. Just two people, basking in a quiet, secret love.
[ Or; Prince Joel and Knight Grian and their secret meet-ups in the palace - and a strange, haunting painting Joel finds oddly familiar. ]
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- Part 4 of crystal’s gribeans corner
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Always so close, but never close enough.
Always just a fraction too late, never just a little early.
[ Or; Grian tries to save Joel, but maybe he already knows that he can't. ]
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- Part 3 of crystal’s gribeans corner
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Like destruction meeting destruction. Fire mingling with fire. The sun and the black hole, the Watchers liked to call them. Because that’s what they were, aren’t they? Two blood-stained hands, reaching for each other’s throats. Two pairs of matches, ready to burn everything within their path and, in turn, burn together amidst those flames.
Joel had said it so casually when Grian brought up the idea of staying under this world together: We’d get bored and kill each other.
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- Part 2 of to meet you again
- Part 2 of crystal’s gribeans corner
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crystal’s gribeans corner by crystalscove
Fandom 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
28 Jul 2025
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all of my romantic gribeans fics!
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memory keeper au by crystalscove
Fandom 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
17 Jul 2025
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Life Series AU where Grian and Joel are the only ones who remembers the previous games.
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to meet you again by crystalscove
Fandom 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
29 Jun 2025
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wild life finale ft. grian and joel angst
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Cheng Xiaoshi has seen enough pornos to know seducing the devastatingly hot pizza delivery guy should be easy.
His plan is simple:
Step 1. Order pizza
Step 2. Seduce the delivery guy using porn logic
Step 3. Lose virginityEverything falls apart somewhere around Step 2.
Which makes sense, because Cheng Xiaoshi is a disaster bisexual virgin who treats vulnerability like a mortal threat. And Lu Guang—quiet, sharp-eyed, unfairly gorgeous—is utterly unflappable. Still, what starts as a very stupid plan somehow turns into a romance neither of them has any business falling into: against common sense, against probability, and definitely against the Daddy Joe’s employee handbook.
Porn did not prepare Cheng Xiaoshi for this one.
Bookmarked by crystalscove
02 Jan 2026
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nameless flower for the nameless god by melondenden
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Webcomic)
14 Mar 2024
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“Is Your Highness open to that? Having sex, I mean.”
“I would love to give it a try. Uhm…, I might need you to teach me though,”
Wuming reaches over to take Xie Lian’s hand in his, and brings it to his lips to place a light kiss on the back of his beloved’s knuckles.
“It would be my greatest honor, Your Highness.”
We follow a nameless ex-heavenly official with his nameless ghost partner in their nameless little world. A place that’s just for them. A home.
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- Part 1 of melondenden’s wulian
- Part 3 of melon's dom/sub hualian
Bookmarked by crystalscove
12 May 2025
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this is such an immaculate portrayal of wulian 🙏 love this so much omg
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Moon Flowers by GhostTour, Saenda for Saenda
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Sep 2024
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Xie Lian hasn't heard from his ex in three years—not since Jun Wu dumped him and kicked him out of their home. Now, Xie Lian runs his own little flower shop and is engaged to his true love, Hua Cheng. Life is good. Happy.
When Jun Wu suddenly makes an appearance, Xie Lian is surprised by the bad memories that rise to the surface. He can't sleep or eat, and Hua Cheng is in the capital preparing for an art show. Slowly, the grief consumes him.
Or: Xie Lian doesn't take care of himself and gets really sick. Hua Cheng is there to take care of him.
Bookmarked by crystalscove
10 May 2025
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i think i just found my fav hualian fic ever. i Love this So much omg
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When a mischievous snake demon bites Xie Lian, he falls ill with a fever. In a delirious haze, Xie Lian lets those little dice fall out of his sleeve, and who else turns up to care for him but Hua Cheng himself?
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death or paradise by theunalloyed
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
27 Jul 2022
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Xie Lian sighs. “San Lang, you’re not thinking about him, are you?” He levels Hua Cheng with a look. “You know he doesn’t matter. He doesn’t.”
Hua Cheng shakes his head absently, mind already slipping into a trance of icy wrath. He just buries his head in the crook of Xie Lian’s neck, because honestly? Xie Lian’s touch is the sole factor that’s preventing a lethal snap moment. Whatever Xie Lian says Hua Cheng usually agrees with, but this? Xie Lian is wrong. He matters.
Everyone who has ever mocked, hurt, been cruel to him matters. Those people don’t realize how good they have it. What if Xie Lian wasn’t kind? What if Xie Lian wasn’t thoughtful, gentle, compassionate? They’d all be fucking dead because Hua Cheng would’ve personally hunted them down one by one.
Bookmarked by crystalscove
27 Apr 2025
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xie lian in hua cheng's pov is everything to me actually. so so good and the writing is amazing!!