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    I'm nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there's a pair of us- don't tell!
    They'd banish us, you know.
    -Emily Dickinson

    A series exploring one potential outcome of Xie Lian discovering Wuming as a fractured ghost flame after he was banished for the second time.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    When Xie Lian gets out of the coffin, he has a dream. He dreams of a boy, strangely familiar and lovely, and just for a moment, he's happy. But dreams don't last, and when he wakes up and realises that he is alone, Xie Lian breaks just a little bit. Unable to face reality on his own, he imagines San Lang beside him, accompanying him on his travels. Gradually, he forgets that San Lang isn't real.

    Then, Xie Lian ascends for the third time, and San Lang starts acting a little strange.

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    23 Jul 2025

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    Mei Nianqing is still proud of his former pupil—and why SHOULDN’T he be? Despite 800 years and, ahem, a little rebellious phase, Xie Lian still had all the qualities of the perfect student: diligent, intelligent, celibate—yes, CELIBATE! Surely he was still celibate, even after running off with that no-good ghost king, right? After all, he's Xie Lian! He wouldn’t break his principles, especially not over someone like that.

    But, over the course of a prolonged stay at paradise manor, the evidence starts building up...and to his horror, Guoshi is beginning to suspect that...his star pupil, his pure snow-white lotus...His Highness the Crown Prince...

    ...IS SECRETLY TEACHING HUA CHENG CALLIGRAPHY!!!

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    02 Jun 2025

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    Hua Cheng has no interest in gaining an animal companion, but when a mortal drags an old and filthy dog into the Gambler's Den he can't bring himself to leave it to a life of familiar abuse.

    Xie Lian, meanwhile, is having a much more pleasant time as a dog now that a mysterious ghost has brought him home.

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    24 May 2025

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    [Spoilers for All 5 Books]

    “Don’t leave me,” Xie Lian begs, “San Lang, stay. Please.”


    After the final battle, Hua Cheng stays with Xie Lian. It should be good. Xie Lian should be grateful. He should be happy.

    Instead, he's terrified. Maybe it would have been easier for Xie Lian to believe in something he couldn't see than to trust in the strength of a silent, flickering ghost fire.

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    22 May 2025

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    Mu Qing still isn't sure exactly where he and Xie Lian stand, friends or not. When Xie Lian has a strange reaction to Ruoye during a playful spar, pieces of the past come to light, and illuminate the truth of the present.

    A short moment of post-canon friendship, written for the TGCF Gotcha for Congo

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    09 Apr 2025

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    On Xie Lian’s hundredth birthday, a silver butterfly finds him: it is followed, shortly, by a fanged and feral ghost.

    Xie Lian is leery, at first, and draws his sword to keep the ghost at bay as it circles him. It’s really only logical! The ghost is a beast of a thing—tall and whipcord thin, with matted hair and blood-caked boots and tattered robes. This close to Mount Tonglu, Xie Lian can only expect that it’s in the middle of the centennial ghost slaughter; as such, it will naturally be more aggressive.

    Only, the ghost doesn’t attack him.

    Xie Lian and Hua Cheng meet several centuries early, and Xie Lian must learn to live with the wild ghost who's taken a keen interest in him.

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    30 Mar 2025

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    Xie Lian has never been as delicate as he appears, with his fragile glass body, but he is still breakable. After 800 years, he is stained, scuffed, and shattered, but sometimes moss grows inside him. He pretends that makes it worthwhile.

    As he ascends once more, he must contend with former vassals, the changes in himself, and a young man who claims to be made of wood, and certainly not tarnished silver like the ghost groom Xie Lian met on the mountain.

    In a world where people's bodies are lanterns, whether stone, cloth, or paper, being transparent with each other changes everything for HuaLian.


    Originally published in Amaranthine: A Hualian AU Zine!

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    17 Feb 2025

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    Hua Cheng’s flight gets off to a bad start when the airline arbitrarily gives half of his first class couple’s pod to a stranger. To add insult to injury, he arrives back to his seat only to find that the intruder has mistaken Hua Cheng’s jumper with the plane’s pyjamas! Before he can kick up a fuss, though, something in this man’s face strikes him as familiar…

    Wait a second, isn’t this the super cute guy from the last video that Hua Cheng watched while at the lounge before the flight?

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    04 Feb 2025

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    Xie Lian finds Yin Yu at the small reflecting pond behind Paradise Manor.
    "Yin Yu," he says gently, sitting next to him.
    "Your Highness."
    "Could you tell me what San Lang was like, before he found me again? How did you two meet?"
    Yin Yu looks down into the pond, watching the ripples distort his face.
    "It's a long story," he says quietly, and begins.

    Or: how Yin Yu met Hua Cheng, how the two of them met Black Water, and what Yin Yu learned about unconditional love and revenge along the way.

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    03 Feb 2025

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    After Hua Cheng disappears in a flurry of silver butterflies, Xie Lian waits for his return. Rumours whisper across the land. Crimson Rain Sought Flower has returned and is ruling over Ghost City. And he doesn't remember Xie Lian at all.

    “Did daozhang think he could come here, flash his enchanted eyes, and pull one over on the Ghost King?” Hua Cheng coos.

    Xie Lian’s teeth begin to chatter. “My enchanted…my…aha—”

    “I have never seen a performance quite like it in all my long years. Daozhang must be very experienced in getting his way just by fluttering his long lashes. But is he truly foolish enough to believe this act will work on me? Does he think I will fall for his tricks?”

     

    *:・゚✧*:・゚

    Or: Hua Cheng is cursed and has no memory of his beloved. Xie Lian takes a job in Ghost City to try to get Hua Cheng to fall in love with him again before he dissipates.

     

    Russian translation now available, by the incredible Kora_L

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    Chapters:
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    21 Jan 2025

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    Xie Lian's last believer is so fervently devoted to him that he seems to think mostly in the form of prayer. That is a terrifying prospect. Xie Lian has never heard of such a case before, not even in hypotheticals, and he finds himself hoping, for his believer's sake, that there is some other explanation for this phenomenon.

    Whatever the reason, a low stream of his believer's thoughts hum in the back of Xie Lian's consciousness.

    His believer does not seem to be aware of it.

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    When Xie Lian ascends for the third time, he is welcomed back to godhood with prayers that he hadn't expected: an ongoing stream of thought from his sole remaining believer. He gathers quickly that this believer is very old, very powerful, and very, very much in love with him.

    For his believer's sake, Xie Lian can cast a spell to shut the prayers out—but only if he has access to spiritual energy.

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    26 Dec 2024

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    It starts one night when Hua Cheng is bored and runs into a wayward flower spirit in his territory. And then it happens again. And again. Hua Cheng has never worked so hard to collect a debt owed him, but he doesn't seem to mind. All the while, up in the Heavens, there's a prince missing and trouble brewing. Those things can't possibly be connected in any way.

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    27 Nov 2024

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    When Hua Cheng lost his omega characteristics upon death, he couldn't have been happier. Indeed, he gleefully kicked them aside like a child trashing a hated calligraphy set. Why mourn something that would only have gotten in the way of helping His Highness?

    Then, one day in Ghost City—Hua Cheng wakes up with cramps.

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    15 Nov 2024

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    "His Highness may call me anything he wishes."

    Xie Lian doesn't have the imaginative energy to conjure up anything meaningful for this stranger, so he says, "In that case, you might as well be Wu Ming."

    The ghost bows his head further. His shoulders sink slightly, less slumping and more settling into himself. It's like he likes the dehumanizing name.

    He says, "'Wu Ming' is perfect."

    Xie Lian's frown deepens. He tells him, "Pick a different one soon."

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    After Xie Lian is tortured in his own temple, he wakes up in the care of a freshly-formed wrath ghost. "Wu Ming" follows him home and, with his carpentry experience, medical knowledge, street smarts, and fighting skills, makes himself indispensable to Xie Lian's family.

    To protect Xie Lian from Bai Wuxiang, Wu Ming swears that he'll do whatever he must to get stronger, all the while becoming one more person that Xie Lian couldn't bear to lose.

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    Chapters:
    4/?
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    12 Nov 2024

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    [Spoilers through Book 5, Chapter 198 Canon Divergence!]

    Deep within in Mt. Tonglu, a young ghost dressed in black carries a man in funeral robes through hell itself, desperate for the strength to protect him. That man could once have been called beautiful, one of the shining wonders of a dead kingdom, but now...

    Now human face disease rages through an immortal body, while a worthless servant stands in the wake of his failure once more.

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    28 Oct 2024

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    Proud Immortal Dragon Way was a book that started as a xianxia with a western-styled dragon rider twist and ended as a trashy harem novel, where the only thing being ridden was the protagonist’s heavenly *beep*. Every. Damn. Chapter. It was such a waste!

    When Shen Yuan died cursing the plot, the inexperienced system assigned to his case failed to connect him to his intended role of the scum villain. Instead, he was shunted into -- what was this tight cramped darkness?? What do you mean mission: ‘Hatch Safely’!?

    After breaking the shell, who wouldn’t recognize an iconic hatching scene from the book, where disciples would impress hatchlings. The kind Binghe, in the middle of his whump arc, was never allowed to partake in.

    Well too bad, it was Binghe or bust! Where was the Qing Jing woodshed? Shen Yuan would drag his pathetic little newborn body as far as he needed to!

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    Chapters:
    10/?
    Comments:
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    23 Oct 2024

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    All Wuming's life, comfort had been in precious little supply. He could count on one hand the number of times he'd experienced true solace, and with his leftover fingers count the reasons why- strong arms around him, a soothing rumble in his ear, and a beautiful, sweet scent in his lungs.

    So if this was a fever dream shepherding Wuming into oblivion, it was a wise one indeed. It knew exactly what to offer.

    Xie Lian had always been his home.

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    21 Oct 2024

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    Transmigrating into the stallion novel he hates most is bad enough, but why did it have to be into the body of one of the protagonist's wives? Shen Yuan spends exactly two months dealing with harem intrigues, sullen maids and his husband utterly ignoring him before he decides to go on an extended holiday. Very extended. Surely no one will care if he just forgets about being married and becomes a cultivator, right?

    (In which Luo Binghe goes on a quest to bring his errant husband home and Shen Yuan takes him on an adventure instead.)

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    Fully illustrated by @_sunshine_dies_

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    286,003

    19 Oct 2024

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    Hua Cheng is accustomed to being merciless in these interviews, and a pretty smile won't change that.

    "Fangxin sounds like a fake name," Hua Cheng states.

    "Just a moniker, Your Highness," Fangxin replies. "If you wish, please call this servant A-Lian."

    -

    Prince Hua Cheng of the troubled kingdom of Qiandeng has avoided the burden of a personal guard for years. Despite his father's insistence, Hua Cheng has been able to turn would-be guards away by right of dueling them before they can secure the position.

    The latest to try is an unassuming cultivator.

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    Comments:
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    17,891

    17 Oct 2024

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