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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

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    ‘What is it?’ Tsukishima tries to lean over to see the paper but Narita waves his hands in front of him.

    ‘Hey no judgment here at all, right? Your uh, your husband. He’ll be able to attend the closing right? I know you’re doing it all in your name but legally spouses have to sign too.’

    You could hear a pin drop in the house as Tsukishima tries to process what Narita just said. ‘I’m sorry? I’m not married.’

    or krtsk meets accidental marriage that may not have been so accidental.

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    11 Nov 2024

  7. Rec 25

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    When Komori's siblings and cousin make a snide comments about how he's forever alone, Komori rashly says that he'll be bringing his boyfriend to Sakusa Noa's destination wedding of the generation.

    Only he doesn't have one.

    So his classmate/teammate Suna, will have to do.

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    11 Nov 2024

  8. Public Bookmark 23

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    Kei's relationship with Kuroo never had much definition through the years, but ever since he signed on with the Frogs there was a shift. Kuroo grew distant to the point where Kei felt like he was actively avoiding seeing him in person. Not one to admit when he was hurt, Kei couldn't help but sink into the familiar feeling of being let down again. If Kuroo didn't want to be there, Kei wasn't going to force him. Life would be the same with or without Kuroo. At least that's what Kei told himself.

    Or

    Five times Kuroo didn't show up, and the one time he did.

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    03 Feb 2024

  9. Public Bookmark 48

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    “Well, aren’t you something?"

    His voice was resonant in the darkness, painting a clear picture where vision failed: a deep, commanding note, lilted by a hint of fascination, like he was staring down at a rare find. A bounty ripe to plunder.

    Indeed, Kei was a prize. Something to be stolen and hidden and coveted, until he inevitably outlived his usefulness, and endured another change of hands.


    As the rarest breed in this world, Tsukishima Kei has spent his life exploited and abused by cruel, powerful men. His newest keeper, Captain Kuroo Tetsurou of the Blackfang pirates, infamous warlord of the southern seas, is no exception.

    Only - he is exceptional, in a crucial regard.

    Kuroo Tetsurou has lost something precious. Something that would permit Kei to feel his emotions and thoughts. Something that would restore his humanity.

    His soul. It's out there, somewhere in the vast ocean. And now Kei has no choice but to help him get it back.

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    03 Feb 2024

  10. Public Bookmark 83

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    During a drinking game, Akaashi is asked to point out whom, out of the players, he'd least want to have sex with. Surprisingly but well-founded, he chooses Tsukki, which deeply offends the latter. This leads to a particularly interesting dare and now Tsukki has no choice but to spend the night at Kuroo Tetsurou's flat because we all know that the thing Tsukki hates most in this world, is losing.

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    02 Feb 2024

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    After training camp, Tsukishima starts getting packages from Nekoma's Kuroo, and somehow it turns into a thing that Tsukishima doesn't think is strange at all.

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    15 Sep 2022

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    “Why are you looking at me like that?” He whispered.

    “I’m not looking at you like anything,” Kuroo replied, because Tsukishima was only fifteen, and he was already the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen in his entire life. But he was only fifteen, and there was still so much he didn’t know about love and lust and life, and Kuroo wouldn’t spoil this for him.

     

    Or, the five times Kuroo let Tsukishima walk away (and the one time he didn’t).

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    15 Sep 2022

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    Tsukishima is a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas.

    A rich businessman keeps stopping by his table — cat eyes so dark, swirls of interest dragging where ever they look.

    "I need something pretty to take with me to the match." He purrs, "And you certainly are pretty."

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    15 Sep 2022

  14. Public Bookmark 46

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    Kei Tsukishima works as a retriever, a cybercriminal who specialises in finding lost information and documents. Most jobs are easy and low risk and therefore not well paid. But he is good at it, so good that his efficiency and hiding skills earned him a reputation. Impressive for a broke 19-year-old with close to obsolete equipment at his disposal.

    But reputations earn you adversaries who want you out of the game and if you're unlucky and accept the wrong job, one of them will have the money to hire someone to take you out.

    Kuroo Tetsuro, 29, however, rarely accepts a job that he cannot turn into a game. And if his target has a pretty face, the better.

    Two worlds clash when the last shreds of ethics these two still possess force them to work together and they realize what's a fun hunt for one is about life and death for the other. After all, there's a reason why Kei sticks to low-risk missions that barely pay his bills despite his brilliant mind. And once feelings are added to the mix, things get really complicated.

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    20 Jun 2022

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    20 Jun 2022

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    “Why are you here?” The human puts a hand on his hip and cocks his head curiously. “Are you planning to eat me, little fish?”

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    merfolk kageyama falls in love with human oikawa. then things get bloody.

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    20 May 2022

  17. Public Bookmark 41

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    Koutarou calls it ‘lonely-proofing’ the apartment. Tetsurou calls it a waste of time.

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    20 May 2022

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    It takes Yahaba thirteen years to realize he's different from the other kids, one to figure out how to hide it, and two more to learn to be happy just the way he is. Yahaba's journey ft. an extremely annoyed Kyoutani, best friend in the world Watari, and loads and loads of good senpai Oikawa.

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    25 Apr 2022

  19. Public Bookmark 81

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    "You want it?" Tooru asks, smile sharp.
    Blue eyes seem to darken as Tobio rasps a "Yes."
    "Say please."

    When Oikawa dreamed about beating Kageyama in the Olympics, he never thought he'd find victory too in an overly bright bathroom, with his rival on his knees, staring at the stiffening bulge in his shorts like it's everything he's been starving for.

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    25 Apr 2022

  20. Public Bookmark 72

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    Kageyama Tobio has been dreaming about Oikawa Tooru since a long time. Then he finally gets the opportunity to make it come true.

    And then things get complicated.

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    30 Mar 2022

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