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    “Hey,” says Xiao. ”I’m going to ask you a question. You can’t ask me any questions back.”

    “This seems like a fair and equal trade,” says Venti. “Sure!”

    “If you’re in love with your therapist,” says Xiao, “you’re supposed to switch to a different one, right?”

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    08 Jun 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    “Miss Yelan," Ningguang says coolly. “What can I do for you?”

    “Many, many things.” Yelan’s eyes glitter with amusement. “Although the first would be to properly introduce me to your staff. It is quite humiliating to have to remind them of my name each time.”

    An exchange of intelligence between the Tianquan and her topmost spy.

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    19 Mar 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    The news came on the cusp of the Luofu’s artificial winter. The Abacus on Fu Xuan’s desk lit up of its own volition, and Fu Xuan looked up from a divination report just in time to catch the message that flitted across the holographic display.

    Jing Yuan:「Shuangye Garden.」

    Fu Xuan leapt to her feet, eyes wide. Was he—? Certainly he could not have—?

    After three hundred years at war, Jing Yuan abruptly returns to the Luofu. What's strange about it, though, is that he near-sneaks back onto the ship—and when Fu Xuan hurries to meet him, the only answer he has for her is to smile, and hand her a golden maple wreath.

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    19 Mar 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    Laotong come from the time when marriage was the familial duty to connect lineages, not the emotionally intimate affair we know today. Two girls whom the stars proclaim to be compatible sign a contract, vowing to know each other better than their own future husbands, providing each other with the love and support they need to survive.

    Yanfei’s laotong partnership provides her with the deep-heart companionship she craves, but as times goes on, there seems to be another dimension to her feelings for Hu Tao that threaten to swallow her up if she doesn’t figure out what they mean and make her want.

    (Is this perhaps why they describe having a laotong as being ‘emotionally married’…?)

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    14 Dec 2023

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    “I am not a ‘kid’,” the boy spits, drawing himself up to his full height of whatever feet and nothing inches. “The name given to me is Xiao, though some mortals know me better as the Conqueror of Demons—” he throws his head back defiantly, which is adorable, “—I am a yaksha in the eternal service of the people of Liyue, favoured by Rex Lapis, not some glorified troubadour.”

    Verr blinks.

    “Wow you’re... you’re an insane person, aren’t you?” She says.

    Verr Goldet has run the Wangshu Inn alongside her husband for almost a decade. Their oldest patron insists he was there first.

    Or, the building of a sanctuary. Told in olive branches refused, taken, and freely given.

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    28 Oct 2023