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1. to love a melody so bitter (hiatus) by moonpie_1

   Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   05 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Venti/Xiao | Alatus (Genshin Impact)
   • Other Relationship Tags to Be Added
   • Liyue Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Mondstadt Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Inazuma Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Sumeru Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Nod-Krai Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Fontaine Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Natlan Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Snezhnaya Characters (Genshin Impact)
   • Background Relationships
   • Violence
   • Explicit Language
   • Blood and Gore
   • Xiao is a little street rat taken in by the Adepti gang
   • Mafia-Casino Au
   • zhongli is not the main leader in this au
   • Thats ningguang
   • shes the GOAT
   • ganyu is a double agent
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   After the death of his father, King Valkyrie, and his mother, Queen Istaroth, Venti runs into hiding at 14. He’s 21 now—and part of a Mondstadtian mafia that involves the Knights of Favonious.

   Xiao is a street rat who was taken in by the gang “Adepti” when he was 8. Zhongli took him in—raising him even after the death of his best friend Guizhong and the disappearences of Xianyun and Ping.

   Venti is now being sought after by the Mondstadtian Councils, and is being searched for with a hit on his head from the Liyuean gangs.

   And Xiao, he is just doing his duty. What he’s sworn to do.

   Language:

   English

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