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  1. Valediction by for kakikaeru

    Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù  

    11 Oct 2020

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    Song Lan's tongue grows back, but it's Xiao Xingchen's. A study in grief, balance, and in love.

    Xingchen is right, Song Lan thinks. They are people, all too human. Their dream was virtuous, but gossamer thin, rice paper stretched over a screen. A beautiful picture, inked deftly for years, braced by the inconstancy of a shared hope; and torn at the slightest touch.

    All things come and all things go. It’s different, said out of a mouth without a tongue. Its inevitability.

    Xingchen was always right.

    People dream to live.

    People die, for nothing.

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