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A fire at the edge of the ocean by eix
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
27 Apr 2025
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Now years later, they were here again, on the same rooftop, looking out over the same thicket of trees. Their friendship had survived Lan Zhan’s move off-campus, and had blossomed from something that felt tentative and circumstantial into an intentional and unequivocal thing.
But things are different now, his previously carefree life was shattered by Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan’s deaths. Now, he and Lan Zhan are married, and tomorrow, A-Yuan will come to live with them.
When Xiao Xingchen dies, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji enter a fake marriage so that they can adopt baby A-Yuan. The usual fake marriage tropes ensue. Set in modern day Hangzhou, an exploration of urban topologies.
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As graduation nears, college sweethearts Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan find their paths taking very different turns. Despite best efforts, their relationship ends. Five years later their paths cross again. Past choices are reckoned with, new choices are made.
In Chongqing, there is a saying that in every adult’s memory, there is a huangge tree. For Xiao Zhan there are two. The giant one in the courtyard of the compound apartment he lived in as a child. Hot summer days were spent under its shade drawing chalk figures on the grey slate floor while his yeye sat with the other neighbourhood grandpas drinking tea and playing mah-jong.
And there was another one, tucked away on the side of a rugged mountain road, grown gnarly from the side of a stone wall, aerial roots hanging greedily from its branches, grasping at life. Under this huangge tree, Xiao Zhan had felt the first stirrings of spring in his heart, sensed its bud and felt it bloom, and had, with a small pocket knife, painstakingly carved the numbers 1823 into its trunk.