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    After enduring years of torture at the vengeful hands of his former disciple, Shen Qingqiu, the once-proud lord of Cang Qiong Shan’s second peak, has been reduced to nothing more than a lifeless husk. When at last he succumbs to his injuries, he readily welcomes his death, hoping that, finally, everything would at least be over.
    But that wouldn’t be the case. Somehow, moments after his consciousness fades for the last time, he wakes up again.
    Now, Shen Qingqiu finds himself over ten years in the past, when Cang Qiong Shan was still the top sect of the cultivation world, Yue Qingyuan was alive and well, and the Demon Emperor Luo Binghe was no more than a fourteen-year-old disciple of Qing Jing Peak.
    Shen Qingqiu has one goal— keep the past from repeating itself and make sure Yue Qingyuan doesn't meet the same fate.
    But he runs into a few problems with his plan: Luo Binghe is somehow impossible to kill, and no matter how he tries to push him away, Yue Qingyuan still refuses to leave Shen Qingqiu alone.

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    534,177
    Chapters:
    130/?
    Collections:
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    Amid the ashes of a ruined world, a dark sword offers a path forward, and a lost soul heeds its call...

    One ordinary day, a few years after the Qing generation's ascension to lead Cang Qiong Mountain sect, a tired and worn Yue Qingyuan shows up on the doorstep of Shen Qingqiu's bamboo house uninvited with a surprising and unexpected confession that shatters Shen Qingqiu's worldview. This, however, is just the beginning of Shen Qingqiu's troubles, as he soon finds out that there is more to this Yue Qingyuan than meets the eye.

    Language:
    English
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    14,010
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    99
    Bookmarks:
    12
    Hits:
    702
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    When he finds the cub of a Frost-Spitting Flying Leopard left behind after its mother was killed in a hunt, Yue Qingyuan decides to take the little beast in to raise as his own. Shen Qingqiu is absolutely not okay with any of this... but he finds it hard to pin down exactly why.

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    3,889
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    11
    Kudos:
    152
    Bookmarks:
    19
    Hits:
    716
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    The head of the Oak Family on Penacony has a weakness-- and there are those who won't hesitate to exploit it. When Robin is kidnapped and held for ransom, it quickly becomes clear that Sunday will do just about anything to ensure her safety. But in the end... will it ever be enough? Sunday and Robin are put through a series of diabolical tests to find the answer to that question.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Day Thirteen: Ransom, Tranquilizer, "I trusted you!"
    2. Day Fourteen: Self-surgery, Unconsciousness, "Look who's awake."
    3. Day Twenty-Four: Denial, Working through the pain, “What have you done to yourself?”
    4. Alternate Prompts: Memory trigger, "This isn't how I wanted you to find out."
    5. Day Twenty-Seven: Sensory overload, Catatonic, "Don't pretend to understand."
    6. Day Thirty-One: Body horror, Enucleation, "I am the monster you made me!"
    7. Alternate Prompts: No-Win Scenario, Mercy
    Series
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    27,038
    Chapters:
    7/7
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    7
    Kudos:
    50
    Bookmarks:
    5
    Hits:
    1,007
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    While the Astral Express crew are on vacation, a Stellaron appears on the planet they're visiting. Though they are able to act in time to prevent the disaster from sweeping across the planet, additional assistance arrives from the nearby Montour System's Family. The crew tries to send Sunday back to the Express to avoid them, but he had been separated from the group during the crisis... and would come face to face with an old acquaintance of his-- a senior Family Head that has long harbored a twisted obsession with him.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Day Twenty-One: Stranded, Search and rescue, "You really think they're gonna look for you?"
    2. Day Twenty-Three: Restraints, Obsession, “Aren’t you feisty?”
    3. Day Twenty-Nine: Childhood trauma, Guilt, "I didn't mean to."
    4. & 5. Day Thirty: Cleaning injuries, Labored breathing, “Don’t ever scare me like that again.”
    Series
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    English
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    20,524
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    25
    Kudos:
    133
    Bookmarks:
    11
    Hits:
    2,450
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    After the Stellaron Crisis on Penacony and the failed resurgence of the Order, the IPC makes a deal with the Family that involves transferring the former head of the Oak Family to IPC custody. Unfortunately for Sunday, there are plenty of low-level grunts among the IPC's incarceration personnel who like to use their minimal power to make sure that they're not the most miserable people in the facility. Fortunately, though, a certain IPC executive steps in before it's too late.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Day One: Collapsed lung, Contusion, "Well, that shouldn't have happened."
    2. Day Ten: Blood poisoning, Hypoxia, "What were you thinking?"
    3. Day Twenty-Eight: Hospital/Doctor’s visit, Medical power of attorney, "Why can't I remember?"
    Series
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    English
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    Chapters:
    3/3
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    128
    Bookmarks:
    19
    Hits:
    1,333
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    One day, Zhongli disappears from Liyue Harbor. The next day, a note is left on his desk for Hu Tao, requesting a temporary, indefinite period of leave. Then, after three months without a single sight or sound from him, he finally returns-- pale, haunted, and still wounded after spending those months as a prisoner, tortured relentlessly and forced into a contract that was used to control him. Even for someone like Zhongli, it can still be difficult to come back from the brink.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Day Six: Self-inflicted injury, Rocky recovery, "If I tell you what they made me do, you won't be able to look at me the same."
    2. Day Twenty-Five: Magical bind, Pinned down, "And what do we have here?"
    3. Day Twenty-Six: Defanging/Declawing, pulled feathers, “This should teach you to behave next time.”
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    English
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    9,914
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    49
    Bookmarks:
    7
    Hits:
    784
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    A strange virus sweeps across Liyue, one which targets the Adepti and slowly reduces them to their original, unenlightened forms. Even Zhongli himself, despite having set aside his divinity in name, is not spared. Their consciousness suppressed, he and his former companions become the subjects of a Fatui Harbinger's heretical experiments. Though Zhongli himself is ultimately able to suppress the virus, leading to the possibility of a cure, there is no guarantee that the Doctor would have any desire to cure them in the first place-- after all, even if he doesn't continue the experiment, he happens to have an associate who would be rather pleased to receive an exotic beast as a gift.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Alternate Prompts: Nonhuman/Pet Whumpee, Mutation
    2. Day Eighteen: Captivity, Loss of powers, "Do you even know how to use that?"
    3. Day Twenty: Irredeemable, Before it starts/After it's over, "I didn't react the way I should have, I'm sorry."
    4. Day Twenty-Two: Estranged, Changed dynamic, “Who did this to you?!”
    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    14,014
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    51
    Bookmarks:
    7
    Hits:
    757
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    En route to Amphoreus, the Astral Express' transmitters pick up a distress call from a crew of spacers stranded on a small, uninhabited planet, and they make a quick stop to pick them up. Hoping to ease Sunday into Trailblazing with a small mission like this, Welt and Himeko suggest that he go to the surface and assist Caelus, March 7th, and Dan Heng with the rescue-- but when their transport car is caught in a gravity storm and crashes into the planet's surface, they learn that the planet is not nearly so uninhabited as it was centuries ago-- and they might have signed up for a far more extensive operation than they thought.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Day Eleven: Sleep deprivation, Whiplash, “Be careful, they’re watching us.”
    2. Day Twelve: Dislocation, Dizziness, “Don’t pass out on me.”
    3. Day Seventeen: Drug side effects, Desperation, "It's fine, I can walk it off."
    4. Alternate Prompts: Knife/Gun to the throat, “Get yourself out of here! I’ll be fine.”
    5. Day Nineteen: Broken bone, blood loss, "When I finish patching you up I swear to god I'm gonna kick your ass for making me worry about you."
    Series
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    20,515
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    43
    Kudos:
    222
    Bookmarks:
    44
    Hits:
    2,739
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    When General Feixiao was invited to visit a planet that the Yaoqing's forces had once liberated, it seemed like it was going to be a good experience and a nice change of pace for her and her companions-- a rare chance to actually experience the fruits of their never-ending labor. But it would not be long before their relaxing vacation was turned into yet another crisis. When Jiaoqiu is kidnapped and subjected to cruel experimentation, the deeply-rooted discontent among the planet's inhabitants is brought to light as the three visitors are thrust into the center of the conflict.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Day Seven: Starvation, Foodborne illness, "They put something in my system, I can't think straight."
    2. Day Sixteen: Leashed, Painful shapeshifting, "Hold them down."
    Series
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    English
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    7,059
    Chapters:
    2/?
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    5
    Kudos:
    22
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    383
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    Yingxing never expected to be the one left behind to mourn. Dan Feng should have lived on for hundreds of years after him-- but somewhere along the way, something went wrong, and now he is kneeling in a pool of blood on the battlefield, the high elder's lifeless body cradled in his arms.
    Yinyue-jun was dead. Yingxing saw it. He felt the bracer on his wrist go cold. So, when Dan Feng seemingly returned to life, how could he not be overjoyed?

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Day Fifteen: Came back wrong, Cannibalism, "You weren't supposed to die first."
    Series
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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
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    50
    Bookmarks:
    5
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    405
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    Raiden Kunimitsu, the Caged Bird of Tenshukaku, spends his endless days waiting for some new beginning. When he is befriended by a visitor from Snezhnaya, he is unknowingly pulled back onto the path that he had long ago been sealed away from, as his centuries of festering loneliness finally bubble up to the surface.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Day Nine: Emotional manipulation, Cassandra truth, “You asked for this.”
    Series
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    English
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    3,716
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    28
    Bookmarks:
    2
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    290
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    After being freed from the Shackling Prison, Dan Heng tried his best to live a new life of his own. But while working on an IPC cargo vessel, he suddenly finds himself under attack by a brutal, merciless stranger, one who seeks to punish him for the sins of the past life he wishes he could just leave behind.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Day Eight: Hit and run, Adrenaline, “I can’t stop!”
    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,468
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    34
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    297
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    The great work is already in motion, and plans laid Amber Eras ago cannot be jeopardized for any reason. When Sunday's focus slips from the Charmony Festival's preparations in the wake of his sister's death, the Dreammaster takes it upon himself to "correct" his pupil's rebellious deviation.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Day Five: Torture, Withholding aid, "How do you want me to punish you?"
    Series
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    English
    Words:
    3,328
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    8
    Kudos:
    54
    Bookmarks:
    9
    Hits:
    521
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    After the devastation wrought by the Sedition of Yinyue-jun, in hopes of salvaging at least something from the situation, the Vidyadhara Preceptors of the Xianzhou Luofu intend on forging the rogue high elder to their will by any means necessary. Unfortunately for them, even imprisoned and chained and broken by torment and grief alike, Dan Feng remains, as ever, defiant.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Day Four: Frostbite, Heat, "I can make it all better."
    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,538
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Kudos:
    27
    Bookmarks:
    5
    Hits:
    200
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    After the crisis on the Xianzhou Luofu, General Feixiao and her retainers return to the Yaoqing to recover and prepare for the inevitable war to come. Jiaoqiu realizes, over time, that it's much less easy to come back from the dead than he expected or wished to believe.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Alternate Prompts: Chronic Condition, Blinded
    Series
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    English
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    3,569
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    5
    Kudos:
    78
    Bookmarks:
    12
    Hits:
    644
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    From the moment Dan Heng's hatching rebirth was complete, he had only known the punishment for his past life's sins, the preceptors' endless questioning, and the agonies inflicted within the depths of the lightless Shackling Prison. Then, one day after another brutal interrogation leaves him in a particularly bad state, he finally gets his first glimpse of something beyond that.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Day Three: Secondary drowning, Compartment syndrome, "Please don't leave me!”
    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,137
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    5
    Kudos:
    106
    Bookmarks:
    14
    Hits:
    947
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    The healer and strategist of the Yaoqing's Arbiter-General can be reckless at times when it comes to his own safety. When their war camp is attacked in the middle of the night, Jiaoqiu goes back to the general's tent to retrieve the medicines he'd made for Feixiao-- but on the way back, he is hit by a sniper's shot, receiving a wound that could easily prove fatal if not dealt with quickly.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    • Day Two: Amputation, Gunshot, "It's not worth your life!"
    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,353
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    33
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    325
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    While trailing one of Wu Yanzi's targets, Shen Jiu encounters a fortune teller in the market who tells him that the red thread tied to his soul is frayed, but not yet broken. Moments later, he runs into Yue Qingyuan, who had come to the city searching for Wu Yanzi. Their eyes meet, and a few small ripples change fate's course entirely.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,474
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    29
    Kudos:
    211
    Bookmarks:
    27
    Hits:
    1,233
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    One day, an envoy from the imperial palace paid a visit to Qiu Manor. Shen Jiu was suddenly swept away to the palace with no idea how or why he'd ended up being noticed by the newly-enthroned Xuansu Emperor-- but when he learned the new emperor's true identity, everything suddenly fell into place in the most baffling way possible.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    7,237
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    39
    Kudos:
    278
    Bookmarks:
    41
    Hits:
    1,439

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