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“It is possible,” Hua Cheng began slowly, for once looking like a real person and not a god who had meticulously chosen a human suit in which to travel this petty and boring mortal world, “I may have lied a little, to my cohort. I may have told them, a few of them, not many, I was married.”
“Okay,” Xie Lian said, assuming he was talking about his special someone.
“To you.”
“WHAT.”
Or: After a meltdown goes viral and ruins his acting career, Xie Lian moves to LA. Unable to find work, he slips into a severe depression, until Shi Qingxuan hooks him up with a new roommate, an art student who has apparently been telling everyone they're married.
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Though Steve had been through the deep dark woods to visit the Scarlet Witch many times, this time he encountered a big bad wolf. A cold wind swept up, and a chill ran down Steve’s back.
Perhaps if our hero were slightly less of an idiot, he would have noted said chill and run away. But that would make our story quite short. There is a reason people smart enough to run away from danger are not the subject of grand stories. (Coincidentally, they do often live longer lives.) Steve, shouldering the burden of narrative conflict, chose not to run away, but instead set his basket of magic apples down and raised his fists.
Or: A fairy tale about a young apple-picker and the mysterious wolf that protects his magic apple tree.
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Wei Ying’s thumb hovered over Lan Zhan’s number. It would be a brief phone conversation. Not even a minute. He would tell Lan Zhan what needed to be done, and Lan Zhan would say “mn” a bunch of times, and Wei Ying would spiral all day about how much Mr. Hot and Perfect All the Time probably hated his guts, and it would be fine. Emotionally, no different than any other Tuesday.
Fine, sue him, he was a coward. He pulled up a new text and typed, My son is sick today. Going to doctor. Can you do smoothie hut call? 500m CRE + 250m LOC
He sent the text. The ellipses rose. He waited.
Or: During a long overdue divorce and messy custody battle, Wei Ying gets demoted to small business finance. There, he's partnered with a new closer who clearly hates him, until he finds out Lan Zhan is far more verbose — and dare he say flirtatious? — in writing than in speaking. Together, they have three months to meet their annual sales goal, or risk getting fired.
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Lan Zhan does not like his new roommate. He is not attracted to his new roommate. And he definitely, absolutely does not have feelings for his new roommate.
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Finnick watched her intently, as if to study her. He was still smiling. Was he always smiling? Didn’t it hurt his face after a while?
Annie squinted up at him and asked, “Do I know you? From home, I mean. School.”
Something flickered across his face — a slight dip of his perfectly plucked eyebrows, a twitch of the corners of his lips. Then it was gone. “I was homeschooled,” he offered, grinning like she was interviewing him for a TV special. “Well, boatschooled.”
Or: At her 18th birthday party, District 4 expatriate and rising-star chef, Annie Cresta, meets the infamous victor-turned-escort, Finnick Odair. Homesick and depressed, she hires him for his most prized service: pretending, just one night a month, to be in love with her.
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The Heart and All its Chambers by etymologyplayground
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 May 2019
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"Really, Xie Lian, you don't even jerk it??" Shi Qingxuan insists. "I mean it's none of my business and you can tell me to fuck off, but holy shit, lady."
Xie Lian laughs, feeling her cheeks color, and shrugs again. "I don't know, something about the mechanics of it just never made sense to me," she admits. "And anyway that's time I should be spending studying."
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It comes out that Xie Lian's never had an orgasm. She goes to Hua Cheng for help.
• theyre lesbians
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15 Jan 2021
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She lies there staring at her dingy, water-stained ceiling. She thinks about how this whole time she's been A Person Who Hasn't Had An Orgasm and how now she's A Person Who's Had An Orgasm, and how strange and inconsequential the distinction is. And yet: the absurd and embarrassing desire to tell everyone she knows. Oh, yes, Shi Qingxuan, you'll never guess what I've been up to tonight. Sitting around feeling sexually frustrated? Ha ha! No, that was the old me. The new me knows how to jack off and like it.
Xie Lian kind of giggles to herself, and then she chokes on a sob that takes her almost by surprise. She puts the vibrator down and turns onto her side to cry into her pillow, although she's not sure what she's crying about until she catches herself thinking, I didn't think I'd get to have this, and then she thinks Ah.
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To Drink Deeply by northofallmusic (tofsla)
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 Dec 2020
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The jar is a small thing, neatly stoppered. The twist of cloth at its mouth is bright red; its body is a more subdued and rusty colour. Wei Wuxian is always the one to remove the stopper; this is the most important rule.
Sometimes Wei Wuxian wants to wake up feeling used.
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25 Dec 2020
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Lan Wangji feels, sometimes, that he is the helpless one in this game. That he will break himself open with how much he can yearn for a man who is right here in his arms.
He closes his eyes. He presses his face into Wei Wuxian’s hair. He prefers his husband awake, prefers him pushing back and laughing and teasing and praising. But there is a gift to this too: that Lan Wangji may act precisely as he will, without the slightest performance.
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Xiao Zhan, a senior at Qing University, spends much of his free time (badly) playing World of Cultivation. As his online marriage with lanwangji devolves into an internet dumpster fire, his irl love life blossoms into a romcom featuring the school's awkward ice prince Wang Yibo.
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17 Dec 2020
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[lanwangji]: ew no i don't like girls
Xiao Zhan blinked and sat up in his chair.
[lanwangji]: i like motorcycles
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the kind that lasts forever by moonsteps
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Nov 2020
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“Hello!” a new voice sing-songs from the opposite side of the room. It’s loud enough for everyone’s attention to be thoroughly moved, and Hua Cheng too glances over to see who it is. The voice continues, “Dinner is ready, everyone!”
Hua Cheng’s eyes land on the figure of the person, and—
Holy fucking shit.
(Or: Hua Cheng meets Xie Lian at a dingy house party and falls in love.)
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02 Dec 2020
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“Finding Nemo,” says Xie Lian. “Have you watched it, San Lang?”
Finding—
Finding Nemo.
“Just keep swimming,” he whispers, because he is so fucking gone. He is so fucking gone.
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hell is the talking type by theroyalsavage
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Jan 2020
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Xie Lian hunts ghosts for the amusement of the internet, has a run-in (or two) with a demon, and falls in love with his best friend. Not necessarily in that order.
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30 Nov 2020
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When he swings the door open, he immediately craves death. Hua Cheng has dressed up, his suit deeply crimson, his black dress shirt unbuttoned at the collar and exposing the graceful line of his throat. He’s holding flowers in one hand and a bag of takeout in the other, his hair carefully styled, a smudge of red eyeliner visible at the corners of his eyes.
“I love you,” Hua Cheng tells him, as soon as the door is fully opened and their eyes have met. “Gege, please, forgive me. I’m in love with you.”
Xie Lian is crying, which is a real shame, because now he’s not only wearing the worst outfit he owns but is also in tears while being confessed to by the love of his life.