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  1. Public Bookmark 43

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    Hua Cheng (Wuming) works the night shift as a “Walk Me Home” hotline operator. When Xie Lian moves to the isolated Puqi Village, the dark feels closer than it should, and a voice on the line becomes his guide home.

    Five calls Xie Lian made to Wuming.
    And one time Wuming beat him to it.

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    07 Jan 2026

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    “Why is gege sitting like that?” San Lang asked softly.

    Xie Lian blinked his eyes open. He'd been falling asleep, his body still so tired from everything it had been through in the depths of the cave.

    “Hm?” How was he sitting? Xie Lian thought about it for a moment, and then he realised. Oh.

    He was sitting with his back against the maple tree, his head tilted slightly backwards and to the side to expose his neck, the insides of his wrists turned upwards, resting on his thighs.

    Xie Lian had trained himself to sit like that in the presence of vampires, so there was less chance of them pulling on and twisting his numb arms or hurting his neck.

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    After an accident, banished fairy Xie Lian becomes the unwilling guest of a sect of vampires. When another powerful vampire destroys the sect and takes Xie Lian home to help him recover, Xie Lian is faced with the challenge of convincing his saviour that he really really wouldn't mind if he were to drink some of his blood.

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    04 Mar 2025

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    Wei Ying and Lan Zhan were best friends in high school, until they weren’t.

    When they meet again, over a decade later, Wei Ying knows exactly what’s going to happen. Until he doesn’t.

    They’re normal people, navigating a normal friendship, except they’re not. Turns out, they never were.

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    12 Sep 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 43

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    Xie Lian likes to forget a lot about what happened in college. Bad luck, bad break-ups, bad falling out with friends. But there was one thing that he will always be proud of, and that is his time as the radio host for The Scrap Collector. And he will never forget the last call he ever answered. Well, there is one other person who will never forget that call, and when Xie Lian meets ‘San Lang,’ he finally gets to find out what sort of difference he made with that single phone call.

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    06 Aug 2024

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    It's 1986 and for Xie Lian, a deaf college student, the world keeps getting bigger. For the first time in his life, he’s putting himself out there and experiencing things his overprotective parents would never imagine, including four consecutive dates with Hua Cheng, a 21 year old Harley enthusiast whose laid back personality and fluent sign language make him irresistible.

    As overwhelming as his newfound independence is, Xie Lian is happier than he's ever been.

    All of this changed on November 12th, 1986 — the day he disappears without a trace.

    Xie Lian is kept bound in his captor’s basement — a man he cannot identify due to the mask he wears. When he manages to escape, he discovers he has been missing for nearly four years, and nothing in his life is the same. Worst of all, his captor remains a free man unless Xie Lian can find a way to identify him.

    Though his entire world has turned upside down, one thing remains the same: Hua Cheng’s affection for him. Together, they work through the events of the past four years to help Xie Lian come to terms with his trauma and find a way to catch his captor. It becomes clear before long that until the man is caught, Xie Lian is far from safe…

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    10 Jul 2024

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    Long fingers swiftly pull the cigarette out of his hands, and in the reddish light of the bar’s neon sign Xie Lian notices that stranger’s knuckles are all bloody.

     

    “Are you okay?” He asks, before he can really think about it. The man chuckles quietly and Xie Lian flushes, suddenly wishing to be back in a stuffy bar.

     

    “I’m quite alright. You should see the other guy, though.”

     

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    5 times Hua Cheng is hurt and Xie Lian has to help him, and 1 time it’s Xie Lian who’s hurt instead.

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    17 May 2024

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    In a last act of spite before the battle ends, Jun Wu casts one final curse on Xie Lian, one that is beyond even the powers of another Ghost King to break.

    - - - - -

    In modern day Xianle, Xie Lian struggles with memories of lives he cannot remember living.

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    13 May 2024

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    It happens on Sunday, of all days. Xie Lian hates Sundays – never knows what to do with himself, unable to relax and reluctant to be productive.

    Or: Xie Lian meets the most beautiful stranger he’s ever seen in his entire life and he barely feels a thing.
    (at least at first)

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    13 May 2024

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    Xie Lian accidentally kidnaps Mafia Boss Hua Cheng after visiting his friend in the city. What do you do when your unintended kidnapping victim doesn't want to leave?

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    13 May 2024

  10. Public Bookmark 60

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    The life of a florist is pretty peaceful. Xie Lian likes working with the flowers, and alongside his two best friends, but sometimes fulfilling customer requests can get a little boring. When a mysterious new customer comes into the flower shop, asking for custom bouquets, it changes his day-to-day for good.

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    Chapters:
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    13 Feb 2024

  11. Public Bookmark 93

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    Ever since their fateful wedding day, Feng Xin and Mu Qing have been happy to steer clear of their friend's crazy husband. They still like their necks intact, thank you very much.

    But when Xie Lian goes missing and they all fear the worst, the three of them are forced to work together to find him and bring him back home.

    Can the three of them save Xie Lian before Hua Cheng destroys the city? Feng Xin isn't too sure.

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    Chapters:
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    Comments:
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    12 Feb 2024

  12. Public Bookmark 18

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    “Do we have enough karma to be reborn together?”

    After the fall of Heaven, Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are reborn as elite space soldiers sent to investigate a poor and half-frozen exo-colony. Once there, Xie Lian and Hua Cheng begin to uncover numerous mysterious: what happened on this colony? Why is it such a festering bed of resentment? What new horrors await? And--most importantly--why are they so important to one another?

    See first chapter (prologue) for content warnings.

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    12 Feb 2024

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    The light still doesn't make sense against his eyes, but he thinks he remembers something like color. There is a lot of color around him, and he is able to discern white and black and a great deal of something else. It's a breathtaking splash of vivacity on a new canvas, where there had been no canvas at all for so many eternities. It is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.

    Red, Xie Lian finally names it.

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    In a disorienting turn of luck, Xie Lian is rescued from State Preceptor Fangxin's coffin. He recovers his other senses in good time, but his sight is taking longer to return—decades with no exposure to light have weakened his capacity for it.

    His benefactor and worshiper, a wealthy and eccentric ghost named Hua Cheng, hasn't left his side for months.

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    03 Oct 2023

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    Fuck, he had totally walked into a set, hadn’t he? The beautiful, ethereal looking actor in his period piece outfit was pissed and waiting to tear him a new one, if the expression was any clue.

    One moment the man was up, and then, the next second, he had gracefully jumped from the wall in front of Wei Ying, who, only by the strength of his will, did not scream in alarm.

    He did yelp a little. But very manfully.

    “No entry after sunset,” said the man, and his voice was deeper than Wei Ying could’ve guessed. “How did you get past the wards?” 
     

    or, modern!wwx takes a wrong turn and ends up in the cultivation world

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    16 May 2023

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    “If the body can’t warm up, then things get uh, b-bad?”

     

    Mobei-jun cuts him a look that’s made for slaughter. “What does that mean?”

     

    “A-ah, it’s called hypothermia, my king.”

     

    “And you die once it happens.”

     

    Again, not a question. “You can.” When Mobei-jun makes an absolutely terrifying face, Shang Qinghua hastens to add, “But not instantly! Y-you can actually recover from it, if the hypothermia doesn’t progress too far.”

     

    “How far?” Mobei-jun growls.

     

    “There are f-f-f-five stages,” Shang Qinghua shivers out, lips numb. “The fifth stage is death.”

     

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    Shang Qinghua and Mobei-jun have their spiritual powers sealed before getting dumped in a white-out snowstorm. Mobei-jun quickly learns that humans are far more susceptible to the cold than he thought.

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    23 Mar 2023

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    After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.

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    12 Jan 2023

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    09 Oct 2022

  18. Public Bookmark 28

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    When their gym teacher needed to be replaced mid-year, the last thing middle school art teacher Hua Cheng expected was for the replacement to be the one person he's been crushing on since he was in middle school.

    Because I don't think there are enough teacher aus, so I decided to write my own.

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    Chapters:
    6/?
    Comments:
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    22 Mar 2022

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    In which Xie Lian is a top junior figure skater whose main coach is a very critical Jun Wu. After falling from the coaches graces, and suffering from an injury, Xie Lian quits ice skating to pursue... well he's not sure yet. Ten years after he leaves, he meets someone who encourages him to do what he loves, even if it's not perfect.

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    Take note of the tags. This is not a light fanfic.

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    Chapters:
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    19 Jan 2022

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    reposts from my old account, twitter fics, and some random one-shots

    individual tags/warnings/ratings will be in the summary for each part.

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    part 1: de-aged sqh // 5.5k
    part 2: sqh officially leaves an ding peak // 10k
    part 3: childhood friends to lovers // 10.6k
    part 4: de-aged sqh and mbj // 7.4k
    part 5: college au // mbj crushing on sqh // 6.8k
    part 6: masseuse mbj // nsfw // 4.5k
    part 7: jock au // 13.5k
    part 8: sqh gets dehydrated // 6.3k
    part 9: touch-starved moshang // 10.2k
    part 10: winter's gale // sad mbj // 16k
    part 11: hannibal au // 5.3k
    part 12: darkness unknown to thee // nightmare fic // graphic depictions of violence // 17k
    part 13: fem moshang // nsfw // 4.5k
    part 14: we carried it all so well // modern/college // 33k
    part 15: nsfw, explicit // light subspace, hand+finger kink // 3k
    part 16: repost; in a field of moons // soulmark au // 7.5k
    part 17: cheerhua drabbles // nsfw
    part 18: canonverse near-death // 14.8k

    Language:
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    180,080
    Chapters:
    18/18
    Comments:
    421
    Kudos:
    3,641
    Bookmarks:
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    71,415

    30 Dec 2021

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