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    “You’d do anything to save him, wouldn’t you.”

    Shen Qingqiu forces his eyes to meet Luo Binghe’s. “Anything.”

    “I already have your life,” Luo Binghe says idly. “You don’t have much more to give, do you?”

    Shen Qingqiu blinks placidly. “I’m sure you can think of something.”

    Luo Binghe smiles slowly, looking almost vulpine. “Of course, I can. In fact, I know what I want from you, Shen Qingqiu.”

    He doesn’t want to imagine what depravity lurks in Luo Binghe’s mind. He inclines his head, skin itching at the contact with Luo Binghe, and waits.

    When Shen Qingqiu's life is in his hands, Luo Binghe asks for something Shen Qingqiu thought he'd given away long ago-- his loyalty.

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    13 Jan 2026

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    What Shen Qingqiu had learned of Luo Yuan's mother over the years was a considerable amount of only approximate knowledge.

    He knew that she had birthed Luo Yuan alone and had attempted to suffocate the infant when discovered. That she had suffered a critical deviation which took her memory including the knowledge that the crown prince was her own, and that whilst she remained nearly entirely anonymous, she still resided somewhere in the palace.

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    Shen Qingqiu is forced to raise Luo Binghe's child, unaware that the prince is his own son.

    Written for Mamajiu Week 2022, Day 1, Noble Birth, Unplanned Pregnancy, Sleepless Nights

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    12 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 47

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    “Mm. Here’s an idea—Why don’t you make it up to me right now?”

    As he spoke, Yan Wushi’s teeth grazed the skin below Shen Qiao’s ear, while his fingertips began to flirt with the sash that kept Shen Qiao’s waist neatly bound. With both his hands and his words, he coaxed as if he were luring prey, sweetly murmuring, “A-Qiao… Come to bed with me. I won’t even make you work for it tonight. You can just lie there, if you like. On your back or on your belly, it doesn’t matter. Let this husband take care of you.”

    A shiver rippled along Shen Qiao’s spine, though he didn’t know whether to blame it on Yan Wushi’s honeyed words or his looming illness. “I’ll have to disappoint you again, I’m afraid,” he said softly. “I’m not feeling well.”

    Shen Qiao falls ill, but fortunately for him Yan Wushi has a rather creative way of helping him get through it.

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    13 Nov 2025

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    Shen Yuan doesn't know exactly what he should agree to now. It's already decided, isn't it? It's not like Shen Yuan can just say he doesn't agree, and his family will suddenly decide not to marry him off to the Emperor as part of a good business deal that will make the Emperor able to freely dispose of the Storm Fawns.
    He will marry Emperor Luo Binghe.

    ... Shen Yuan knows what happens to the flowers in the Emperor's harem. They are beautiful, worthy of his attention until their petals wither and the novelty wears off. He knows the same goes for husbands; Luo Binghe has collected a few, and now Shen Yuan is just one more, isn't he? Just a young man who was taken as a business marriage with mutual benefits.
    The eleven other men Luo Binghe has taken as husbands in the past don't agree with that. In the end, Shen Yuan is now part of them; the small harem of men, and, being all of them expert masters in their field, what else can the Emperor's eleven withered flowers do but teach Shen Yuan how to become the ruthless bitch who can take the Empress's place (and the Emperor's heart)?

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    06 Oct 2025

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    Could it be? Could it be that Shen Qingqiu was alive somewhere else, living in a body that looked similar to how he did before, but different enough to make him appear to be another person? The more Luo Binghe thinks about it, the more likely it seems, and the more he realizes that he might not need that corpse back. If Shizun has already found his own body, one even more powerful than before, then who is Binghe to try to change him?

    All he knows for now is that if it is Shizun, he can force him to come back. Shen Qingqiu has always been weak to his disciples, and Luo Binghe is confident that he can make Shizun want to return to him. He just needs a bit of time to prepare. He has to be ready.

    He will make sure that Shen Qingqiu finds his way back to him.

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    08 Sep 2025