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    Every Lord Guardian of Haixing of their generation must, by law and in accordance with the ancient treaty, be married to His Royal Highness the Black Cloak Envoy of Dixing. This purely ceremonial rite between the two nations has never gone awry.

    Until now.

    "If the Envoy fails to ever show up again, the treaty will be nullified and, who knows, a new dark age of war and mutually-assured-destruction will descend on them all because Zhao Yunlan wasn’t pretty enough or some bullshit like that. He could be the harbinger for the end of civilization and no one will ever know why.

    He really hates the Black Cloaked Bastard."

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    03 Oct 2021

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    The Lans were monks. Everyone knew this. Handsome, yes, but severe, uptight, boring monks. The King had not yet taken even one consort and yet the crown prince was here! Calmly shopping for flesh in the tacky home of horrible slavers.

    “Have you seen how they treat guests, Hanguang-Jun?” Wei Wuxian continued. “Why are you here? Not for redecorating tips, I hope. A prince, such as yourself, should not be in such low company looking at barely dressed boys. Shameful! The King would—”

    “Him.” The prince nodded in Wei Wuxian’s direction.

    The blood froze in his veins.

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    14 Aug 2021

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    Hua Cheng builds a home and lures Xie Lian into it.

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    26 Jul 2021

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    “Gege,” Hua Cheng says, “in the Spring, there are bees, and in the summer there are the monsoons, and in autumn, San Lang falls ill, and in the winter, the stove breaks.”

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    “Jin-xiong, Jin-xiong! Did you know that your uncle doesn’t have any friends?!”

     

    It had been sixteen long years since Jiang Cheng's world went up in flames, and he was too tired to stay angry. One day, he looked up and realized that he'd been forcibly befriended while he wasn't paying attention.

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    21 Jul 2021

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    “Only ‘pretty cool’?” Jin Ling demanded, sitting upright. “You shut up, my jiujiu is the coolest.”

    Lan Jingyi flopped over to eye Jin Ling skeptically. “Isn’t your other uncle the Yiling Patriarch?”

    Jin Ling scowled. “I said what I said!”

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    Once. He only wanted to be someone’s first choice once. Perhaps he should be his own first choice before he was anyone else’s.

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    23 May 2021

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    The reboot completes, and Wei Ying’s brain smashes this information together into two mind-shattering thoughts. Number one, he knew very well already, and is now further seared by defined muscles and a mouth-watering tattoo into his every waking moment: Lan Zhan is the hottest fucking person on the planet.

    Number two: that guy wasn’t visiting Lan Zhan’s neighbour, he was visiting Lan Zhan, which means:

    Lan Zhan fucks.
    Lan Zhan fucks.
    Lan Zhan fucks.

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    Lan Zhan has been Wei Ying's best friend for years. Literally, years. How did he not already know? How has he missed this most important of facts? And more importantly, how is he ever going to get over it?

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    16 May 2021

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    There exists a man who is, presumably, in some way connected to Wei Ying.

    He's an asshole. Lan Huan knows he was in the wrong, but he has accepted that, he has apologised, he did not need to be yelled at by someone whose name he doesn't even know.

    He is also the hottest person Lan Huan has ever seen, in real life, in movies, on television or in his dreams.

    Lan Huan may have a problem.

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    08 May 2021

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    He found the cat in Qinghe.

    “What are you doing here?” Meng Yao said, crouching down to try to scoop out the little handful of white fluff underneath his cabinet only for it to bare its infantile fangs and him and hiss, moving its butt around as if it thought his fingers ought to be running in fear from its fearsome pounce. “How did you even get in here?”

    The cat – a kitten, really, small and scrawny, dirty and covered in ashes as if it had just run out of a forge, but no less passionate for it – squirmed in his hand as he picked it up.

    “Who owns you?” Meng Yao asked, and the cat hissed viciously as if to shout no one owns me!

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    17 Apr 2021

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    To say that he runs to his car would be incorrect, as he is a Lan, and running is both undignified and unnecessary unless in immediate danger. Nor does he slam his key into the ignition, or aggressively swerve around the cars on the freeway, or have a mild panic attack at the fact he is picking A-Yuan up late from school for the first time ever.

    He comes close, though.

    By the time he arrives, it’s 4:35PM, and he has imagined about fifty different worse-case scenarios. The door is partly open when he gets to it, a messy label of 104B—Art Room scrawled with chalk on a placard next to the faded wood. As he opens it fully, he expects to see a wailing, terrified child, or perhaps a scene of utter misery and betrayal.

    What he finds is his son, hands covered in paint, being sung to by a beautiful, dark-haired stranger.

    “Ducks live in the pond, yellow ducks, happy ducks!”

    Lan Wangji stops in his tracks.
     

    (Or: Falling in love with your son’s art teacher, in five parts)

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    15 Apr 2021

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    Jiang Cheng collapsed onto his couch at 3:00 in the morning, arm slung over his eyes, ignoring the sword still digging into his hip underneath him. Honestly, it was a miracle he’d bothered to kick his shoes off at the door to his apartment when he’d finally staggered through the door just a few moments ago, exhausted as he was. He’d slept with Sandu sticking into more painful places, and he just couldn’t bring himself to care.

    But before he could fall asleep despite the discomfort of his sword in his side, he heard a new sound. An unusual sound, despite it being a relatively normal one.

    The sound of a neighbor. When he’d left the apartment that morning (yesterday morning? whatever), he hadn’t had a neighbor.

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    OR, Jiang Cheng has more in common with his new neighbor Lan Huan than he thought.

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    10 Apr 2021

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    Lan Huan knows Lans love only once; that for a Lan, the soulmate bond is of vital importance. His soulmate is yet a child, but Lan Huan already wants to know them; wants to skip ahead into the future where they are both of age, where they can press their palms against each other's Marks and-

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    25 Mar 2021

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    If asked, Jiang Cheng would compare falling in love with Lan Xichen to a moth inevitably drawn to a flame.

    It burned.

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    In which Jiang Cheng discovers that even death can't help him escape from his trauma, so he embarks on a quest to save the people he loves, fix what he can, make the love of his life fall for him, and maybe, somewhere along the way, do a little bit of healing.

    Spanish translation here.

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    19 Mar 2021

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    Maybe in this lifetime, Lan Xichen will finally, finally love him back.

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    Jiang Cheng had known, but it's one thing recognising the spiritual signature of your own weapon, and another thing entirely to see-

    It's him – it's Jiang Cheng.

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    08 Mar 2021

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    Keith is a verified size queen, and Shiro proves his big dick energy isn’t just a metaphor.

    Keith doesn’t want to hear the tragicomedy of some alpha getting dragged for his respectable enough dick size.

    Tiredly, he starts in on his leg stretches. It’s wonderfully mindless to focus on the burn in his thighs as he leans into his splits. When his forehead touches the mat, he wonders if he could sleep here. Nice as the nap would be, he knows it’s not worth it. Everyone would scold him. ‘See!’ they’d say, eyes big and lovingly judgmental. ‘You need to rest! This will be your first heat in years and you don’t even have a heat partner! Look at this informative omegan health pamphlet!’

    But Keith doesn’t need informative omegan health pamphlets, he needs a nap. And a dick.

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    03 Mar 2021

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    Jiang Cheng grits his teeth and pushes harder. He feels like torn silk, the embroidery needle sinking in again and again and again; patiently, desperately, endlessly trying to make something beautiful out of something broken.

    Jiang Cheng builds his sect, learns embroidery, and raises his nephew.

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    03 Mar 2021

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    Bo Ya looked to the side, jaw tensing. “What a vexing man. Bothering me? I chose to become his spirit guardian, full well thinking I was going to die that day. If anything, I would assume it would stand to reason he would bother me more. He hasn’t reached out once since he left, and the first time I get to see him again, he’s bleeding out on some damn forest floor because he didn’t want to bother me.”

     

    Alternatively: Qing Ming is an idiot and Bo Ya is perhaps far too in love with a man who doesn't know his own self-worth.

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    01 Mar 2021

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    The Guanyin Temple incident changed the cultivation world in more ways than they realised at first. Within a last touch, a curse hidden as a final gesture of good will is set upon Lan Xichen, the Leader of Gusu Lan. It begins to consume him, body and mind, leaving him adrift in a fog of memories that confuse and contradict his past. As the curse threatens his life, the Lans seek help from Lotus Pier, asking Jiang Wanyin, the Leader of Yunmeng Jiang to help them bring Lan Xichen back to them.

    This fic is set two years after the end of the drama canon. Lan Xichen, betrayed and uncertain, entered seclusion to help find his path again. Jiang Cheng, continued as he had for the last decade to lead his people while providing quiet and unseen support to those who need it. Lan Wangji, now Chief Cultivator found his way to a mountaintop and reunited with his soul mate. Now married to Wei Wuxian, they work together to try and bring justice where they can.

    Content Warning:There are some mentions of violence, trauma, manipulation and misunderstandings. Character deaths that happened in canon stick in this universe as well. Jin Guangyao - unrepentantly evil in this one.

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    15 Feb 2021

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    “I am sorry Uncle.” Lan Xichen bows low, but his voice is as cold as mountain snow. “I am sorry to disappoint you. I am sorry for not discussing this with you first. I am sorry for not seeing this advantage it would bring. I am sorry for undermining anyone’s standing. It is however impossible. I did not, would not and will not ever consider Jiang Wanyin to be my sworn brother. I have two sworn brothers and that is enough, I have no need of a third.”

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    11 Feb 2021

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    "All men must strive to master the three deadliest poisons of the heart. What are those three poisons?"

    Jiang Cheng had taken a slow, deep breath to center himself before he calmly spoke, as if issuing a mantra.

    "Greed. Ignorance. Hatred."

    "Once you master all three poisons, you will be able to accomplish anything—no matter who stands in your way."

    "Yes, A-Niáng."

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    08 Feb 2021

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    Jiang Cheng still dreamed about it sometimes: the way Lotus Pier was burning, a still too vivid image in his memory.
    Even across the dream field, Jiang Cheng could still recall everything with startling clarity; the way the fire slowly spread like orange vines, the black smoke rising in the air, the walls painted in red. Tonight, he dreamed about it again. Ten years was not enough time to dull the sharpness of the memory from killing him inside out. But Jiang Cheng thought, at the edge of where his dream and his reality were blurred together, he didn’t want to ever forget this.
    So he let himself dream, let himself being cut apart and torn to pieces again and again, because dead man did not feel pain and Jiang Cheng had been dead for a long time.

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    08 Feb 2021

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