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    At fifteen, during summer camp in Cloud Recesses, Wei Wuxian invents a bunch of talismans when bored or prompted by Nie Husaisang. Thinking it awfully funny, he creates a throwaway account at a professional cultivation research/purchase network and uploads them for sale for a modest fee. Then, he forgets about the whole thing.
    Years later, the mysterious Yiling Patriarch is known in all Jianghu as an elusive genius cultivator who revolutionised his field.
    Those two statements might or might not be related.

    In other words: three different ways in which Wei Wuxian finds out he is filthy rich and academically acclaimed. That’s it. That’s the story.

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    17 Sep 2023

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    “Wei Ying, it wouldn't be any trouble for you to drop Wangji off at the airport, would it?" asked Yanli, smiling so sweetly no one but Wei Ying would hear the betrayal in her words. Wei Ying stared at her sister in disbelief. She had worked so hard to avoid talking to Lan Zhan the whole weekend and could hardly imagine spending two hours stuck together in the car. Not now. Not after ten years of silence. Not after…everything.

    But Lan Xichen was looking at her, waiting, pleasant smile tinged with question. Beside him, Lan Zhan stared silently at the floor.

    Wei Ying had no good reason to say no, and she couldn't possibly deny Yanli anything on a regular day, let alone the weekend of her wedding. Finally, she cleared her throat and nodded.

    "Great! It's all settled then.” Yanli smiled wider, and Wei Ying thought maybe it was worth it. Two hours of awkward carpooling and a probable heart attack were worth seeing her sister smile like that. Right?

    And Lan Zhan's ears were pink again. Wei Ying felt terrible Lan Zhan was stuck in this situation. But her pink ears were awfully cute.

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    17 Sep 2023

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    Byleth kissed the top of his head and pulled him closer to his chest as he leaned next to his ear, whispering, “Everything's better with you.” Yet if the man heard it he wasn't sure as he was already fast asleep. Byleth smiled happily and laid his head on top of his, allowing himself to enjoy the warmth of his love’s body close to his and the soothing sound of his breathing as he rested peacefully.

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    25 Aug 2023

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    Byleth awoke. Head throbbing. Mind fractured, splintered, Rhea's blood staining his skin, Dimitri's head rolling in Gronder Field, Claude shot out of the sky, Edelgard broken and cold. He yelled for Sothis, for a goddess whose name he shouldn't know yet, not one day in Garreg Mach and already his thoughts were spiraling.

    What was happening to him, why does he remember?

    Someone gasped outside, voices thundered in the classrooms, they were calling him, his students needed him, his students who he slaughtered, who he made into killers, into rulers.

    He would not fail them again.

    He would not sleep when they needed him, he would not abandon them for years---even with dragonbreath incinerating his skin, he would get through the war with all of them whole or he would rip himself apart, bleed every ounce of power he held, just for the chance to try again.

    To try again and again, seeking a path where they could live with the pain they inflicted. He was always a slow learner. Too cautious to trust freely, too late with his mistakes. But this time, his students, all of his students, stood with him against the future.

    He only hoped it would be enough.

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    14 Aug 2023

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    The expression that passes over Byleth’s face then is unlike any that Linhardt has observed before now, warm and open and alarmingly, intoxicatingly vulnerable. He wonders if this is the look Dorothea was referring to, and somehow he’s managed to completely miss it until now.

    In any case, it’s rooted him to the spot, and he wants nothing more than to bask in it for as long as he possibly can.

    Tea time turns into something a little more eventful.

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    03 Jun 2023