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    “He didn’t ask you on a date,” Ling Jiushi reasons, “he asked to solve door challenges with you.”

    “Lingling,” Ruan Lanzhu sighs, “I’m fairly sure that for Li Dongyuan there’s no difference between those two things.”

    He knows this for a fact, actually, because against his better judgement he has been answering Li Dongyuan's texts to Ruan Baijie’s phone number, including multiple clumsy attempts to ask her out.

    I don’t date, Ruan Lanzhu demurred.

    I don’t either, Li Dongyuan replied, nonsensical and hypocritical. I work too much. But I bet it would feel like less of a chore if you were there with me. Give me a chance! Three doors? You can keep two of the clues.

    … I get to keep all of the clues.

    It had seemed like a good way, in the moment, to avoid the horrors of a real date, so Ruan Lanzhu had accepted. but now that he’s getting dressed he’s forced to confront how date-like the situation feels.

    The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

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    11 Sep 2025

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    Years from now, after everything is over, Ling Jiushi will sit on the edge of Ruan Lanzhu’s bed, watching his transformation into Ruan Baijie with fascination. The scrutiny will leave Ruan Lanzhu feeling shivery and exposed, as it always does. Under his gaze each carefully applied pencil line and sweep of color feels like a caress, much more than paint and shimmer. Ling Jiushi’s undivided attention is a heady drug, even after all this time.

    Their eyes will meet in the mirror, each of them watching the other watching him.

    “What’s wrong? Do I have something on my face?” Ruan Lanzhu will tease, mostly to distract himself from the fluttering feeling in his stomach.

    Ling Jiushi will chuckle indulgently, as he’s meant to, and smile as he shifts forward, resting his forearms on his knees. “Why do you love this so much?” he will ask, nodding at the vanity, at the bottles and jars and palettes that facilitate Ruan Lanzhu’s metamorphosis. His eyes will glitter like they’re telling secrets.

    Ruan Lanzhu won’t be prepared for this question; Ling Jiushi has never asked it before. He will set down his contour brush and consider his response, running the flat of his palm absentmindedly over the soft clouds of the makeup brushes where they’re clustered in their storage case, bristles fanning up and out.

    “I think,” he will begin, unsteady from the raw honesty of it, “it’s because I… I chose her.”

    Ling Jiushi will raise a quizzical eyebrow and Ruan Lanzhu will smile.

    “Most of my personality, my capabilities, my aptitudes, were chosen from a list of attributes by my creator. I don’t mind knowing that. No one gets to decide their own character stats in real life why should I be special? But.. Baijie… I created her. She didn’t exist anywhere in Gao Dawei’s code. She’s just mine.”

    He will look away, then, feeling a little frivolous to be so possessive over this flashy, flamboyant mess of a persona he sometimes inhabits, his own little game within a game. He will muse that he is not unlike one the matryoshka dolls from the Waverly Sanatorium.

    There will be movement behind him, and then Ling Jiushi’s arms will slide around his waist, warm and solid and real. A soft warm breath will sigh against his ear. “I’m happy we have her.”

    After everything, he will have this. But Ruan Lanzhu doesn’t know that, yet.

    SCREAMING. JUST SAT HERE SCREAMING.

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    06 Sep 2025

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    HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING

  3. Rec 14

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    Ruan Nanzhu felt a bit like a dog who had finally caught the car.

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    29 Jun 2025

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    every time i reread this i get 18 new emotions about it, like shrimp colors:

    "I'm going to ruin you," Ruan Nanzhu said. "I'm going to fuck you until you break. You're mine. You've always been mine. No one else gets you. No one else even gets to look at you anymore. Tell me you understand."

    "Oh man," Lin Qiushi said, head falling back on the bed. His cock was a cartoonishly obvious bulge in his pants. "I knew you'd get psychotic about this."

    It occurred to Ruan Nanzhu that a sexually confident Lin Qiushi might be incredibly dangerous, but that seemed like a problem for another time.

    "You're so handsome it's ridiculous," Lin Qiushi said into his mouth. "It's like, comical. It's almost embarrassing to have a crush on you because it's such a basic thing to do. Of course I did. Who wouldn't? I think for a while it blocked me from realizing I actually liked you."

    this does what only a finely calibrated danmei pwp can truly do—be funny, plangent, conversational, deploy literary phrase-making, reveal just how down bad the gong is, and STILL be hot while yet also breaking your heart because the characterization is so goddamn on-point. ruan nanzhu has only STARTED to break lin qiushi's heart. and he knows he will. and he does it anyway.

  4. Rec 4

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    当路海洲提出要把沈翊借来协助调查一桩凶残的谋杀案,杜城没法拒绝。但杜城可不是靠着少管闲事当上队长的——所以他也加入了调查,这个案子错综复杂,尽管也不比他和沈翊之间纠缠的关系更让人糊涂。幸运的是,他们总是很擅长一起破案。

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    17 May 2025

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    :')))))

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    In the spring of 1944, the 104th Medical Battalion of the United States Army is disbanded, and its men reassigned to various infantry companies in preparation for their invasion of occupied France. For First Lieutenant Novak, this is less than helpful, as he has so far met his platoon’s designated medic a grand total of twice, and has both times found Sergeant Winchester to be the optimum combination of reckless, arrogant, and downright insufferable so as to make cohesive platoon function near impossible. When the time comes to move out, however, Castiel has to reconcile himself to the fact that men are going to go down and trust that Dean Winchester may well be the only person who can put them back together again. WW2 ETO infantry AU.

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    12 Nov 2014

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    "Oh dear. This is unfortunate." Lt. Novak, staring at an unpinned grenade.

    I LOVE THIS FIC LIKE AIR WATER EYESIGHT SPACE AND LIBERTY