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    Wei Wuxian notices something strange about the rose petal. A discolouration, almost. It’s so easy to miss, so easy to overlook. He rubs it between his fingers and they come back red.

    His heart sinks. “Oh…Lan Zhan…”

    “It’s dirty,” Lan Wangji repeats. His own hands are clasped in his lap, fingers tightly knitted. Now that Wei Wuxian knows what to look for, he spots that same shade of red everywhere. On Lan Wangji’s clothes, on those graceful pale hands…

    “Lan Zhan, this is serious,” Wei Wuxian says. “You’re—” he glances back down at the red—at the blood—on the petal. “How long has this been going on?”

    Lan Wangji hesitates. “A long time.”

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    Or: Lan Wangji is dying from hanahaki and refuses to reveal who he is in love with. Wei Wuxian strives to find this person before it's too late.

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    20 Sep 2024

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    “You know, I’ve been thinking. Does Qin Jiu ever actually call you by your name?”

    You Huo scoffs. What a stupid question. Of course he does. You Huo has a name for a reason, to be used. He opens his mouth, ready to shoot Chu Yue some irritated words but he pauses.

    No, actually. He doesn’t. Qin Jiu rarely says his name.

    “I’m right, aren’t I?”

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    The four times in which Qin Jiu uses a pet name for You Huo and the one time You Huo actually uses one back.

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    03 Jun 2024

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    Shen Yuan had a huge, well-kept secret. He had, for two years, managed to not breathe a word of it. None of his coworkers or friends or students had any idea at all, and it was something he kept close to his heart. Lips sealed, that was Shen Yuan!

    His secret was that he had an amazing roommate.

     

    (Binghe cooks amazing food! Shen Yuan makes a secret Instagram about it! Will they survive academia long enough to realize they are in love? Could I fit more tropes in this thing?)

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    02 Nov 2023

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    Mu Qing works at Hua Co. (Hua Chengs company) and frequents at a coffee shop, but one day he has a terrible night and it finally hits him and he snaps

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    Feng Xin is the barista at a coffee shop and always screws up My Qing's name on purpose. (Gone wrong with a happy ending)

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    06 Sep 2023

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    When he is feeling particularly sadomasochistic, he pays Shi Qingxuan’s grave a visit. These, he remembers most distinctly.

    He and the grave commune in silence: He Xuan glares, the grave is unmoved. In the third century, he glares, but he sweeps the plot of dirt too, especially when the heavens are wrapped up in one thing or another and no one else has stopped by in a while. In the fourth, he brings flowers. He doesn’t know anything about flowers. He resides over death, not the princesses of life. So he picks colorful, sprightly bouquets, ones he thinks Shi Qingxuan might’ve liked. In the fifth, he is struck by revelation: he glares with renewed intensity at the wooden marker erected over Shi Qingxuan’s grave, and he says, “Hello.”

    He Xuan learns the interminable length of a lifetime.

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    19 May 2023