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    What if Zhongli is magically transported to a modern world where Genshin Impact is nothing but a game? What if the first place Zhongli lands in is the cramped one-bedroom apartment of Ajax, impoverished college student and number 1 Zhongli simp extraordinaire?

    A slice-of-life story featuring Zhongli trying to navigate his new normal with Ajax acting as his guide (while trying to desperately hide all of his Zhongli merch, including his questionable Zhongli dakimakura).

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    A sort of spin-off from "Entirely Out of Spite" where Zhongli from Genshin Impact 1.0 is transported to Ajax's home (if Ajax had not died). Posted as a big Thank You for the 20k kudoses for Entirely Out of Spite. <333

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    09 Apr 2026

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    "Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”

    Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.

    Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?

    Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.

    And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.

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    16 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 67

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    Zhongli growls—growls—and that is not something he is in the habit of doing. No, no, he enjoys keeping a cool head and a refined presence. He is above these fools, these Harbingers of the Snezhnaya court.

    (Except for, apparently, red-headed rapscallions, determined to wear him down to the bone.)

    There is no patience when it comes to Childe. All those years of experience, of practiced politicking, goes right out the window the moment they are within sight of each other. The others are not like this. The others also ignore him for the most part, minus Il Capitano, but Childe seeks him out with admirable persistence.

    Zhongli is a retired Archon with a contract to train The Tsaritsa's Harbingers. Childe is a menace (that he kinda-maybe is falling in love with).

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    15 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    Il Dottore needs a test subject to gauge his newfound power against. Childe has never been one to back down from a challenge.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    Two months after the Osial incident, Childe is back in Liyue Harbour, and diplomatic immunity is the only reason he isn't behind bars. Apparently, Keqing is the only one who sees this for the absolutely terrible idea it is, so she takes it into her own hands to... encourage Childe's good behaviour. By blackmailing him. With his feelings for Zhongli.

    No, she's not proud of it either. The Yuheng isn't the only one adept at blackmail, though, and when Childe pressures her with photographs of the Rex Lapis shrine in her closet, the two find themselves in the pettiest of stalemates.

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    22 Feb 2026