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    Some moments in which Xie Lian is a night guard at a museum, and there's a new exhibit that features something familiar. Xie Lian, as he did in another lifetime, waits to be found.

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    14 Jan 2024

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    Xie Lian nodded. “Yes. You’ll have to come back to get your book.”

    Hua Cheng nodded, too. “I hope I don’t forget it again. Then I’d have to come back a fourth time.”

    “Maybe a fifth, if you forget again,” Xie Lian whispered.

    Hua Cheng stepped even closer. “Or a sixth,” he said, hand turning to brush his fingers along Xie Lian’s. His fingers slotted gently between them, dipping in and out, tracing over his palm. “Or a seventh, or eighth.”

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    or; Xie Lian works at a bookstore. Hua Cheng puts a book on hold. Xie Lian thinks they're soulmates.

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    14 Jan 2024

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    Feng Xin doesn’t remember when he first thought of kissing Mu Qing. He wonders if somehow, somewhere, he’s always thought of Mu Qing like this. Lately, every time Mu Qing laughs, even when it’s at his expense, something in Feng Xin cracks open, like his heart needs to take up more space in his chest, shoving his ribs and other organs out of the way. Like this, with Mu Qing staring at him, open-mouthed and confused, surprised, Feng Xin thinks maybe they were never meant to be something as simple as “friends.”

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    13 Jan 2024

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    Feng Xin sighed. ‘It’s my best friend’s wedding. I’m one of the groomsmen. The guy he’s marrying already thinks I’m pathetic. Everyone I’ve ever met in my life will be there, including my son and my ex-wife. I can’t turn up on my own, and they already think I’m bringing someone-’ He bit his lip to halt the tsunami of words and clawed his free hand into his hair.

    The nameless man on the other end of the line was quiet for a moment. When he spoke again, he sounded fractionally less cold—or perhaps Feng Xin’s desperate mind was yearning so hard for comfort that he was just imagining it. '…Do you have a preference for gender?'

    Feng Xin assured his best friend, Xie Lian, that he wouldn't be single for his wedding. Now the wedding date is fast approaching, and Feng Xin is categorically without a date himself. So he opts for the only logical solution: he calls an escort agency.

    What could possibly go wrong?

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    31 Dec 2023

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    After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.

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