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    Xie Lian is popular with the common people. Whenever anything is brought to him for luck—whether it's a statue, a set of beads, or even a new baby—he gives it his blessing and seals it in with a little kiss.

    Hua Cheng is displeased. Where's his blessing? Where's his little kiss?

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    Artist collab! Look inside for two included illustrations by @baneberry16

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    “Let me ask you, then,” Alhaitham said, wiping his hands on a handkerchief. “Why do the old Sumerian literary classics concern you, who is neither a scholar of linguistics nor involved in any business revolving around literature? I can’t help but wonder why you would choose to pick a fight with me about a topic I have spent many hours studying when you have not.”

    Kaveh huffed out a breath of air. “It’s really quite simple. An aptitude for linguistics doesn’t translate seamlessly to an adequate understanding of literature, as much as you make it seem like it does. Literature is not just words on a page to be analyzed in a sterile environment. Literature is art. Unlike you, I have an eye for the details, a sense for romance, and there is quite a bit of that buried in the old scrolls that you Haravatat types like to overlook.”

    Alhaitham felt his lips pull into a smile. “Go on then. Give me one example.”

    During Alhaitham and Kaveh’s shared lunchbreak, an academic debate goes a little overboard.

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    Perhaps the world is not all cruel machinations, he thinks as he falls. Perhaps corners of it carry warmth, carry kindness without tethers. Perhaps Kaeya does not deserve any of those things, but he can welcome them here, from a stranger, just for now.

    Kaeya seeks shelter from a storm only to find that the last room at this inn has been taken for the night by a handsome stranger. Oddly enough, the stranger - he introduces himself as Zhongli - offers to share accommodations for the night, and despite his concerns, Kaeya agrees.

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    “Twenty thousand men, huh,” he muses as he sits back in the chair, glances absently at the walls around him - his future home, he supposes with a detached sort of amusement. “Well, at least now I know my value…”

    A deal for political gain: Kaeya's hand in marriage to Mondstadt's crown prince Diluc in exchange for twenty thousand soldiers to aid in Khaenri'ah's fight against the Abyss Order. A thing that Kaeya can hardly lament, though it does mean he'll be forced to play the infatuated lovebird with a man he hardly knows - and only recalls to be quite boring, from when they met as children.

    At least he's nice to look at, and a good enough actor that most would believe him truly head over heels for Kaeya.

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    The story begins like this:

     

    There is a legend in Fontaine,

     

    That every time the sky does rain,

     

    It comes, not from wind, or cloud, or sky,

     

    But from the great Hydro Dragon, feeling sad enough to cry.

     

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    In which Freminet, somehow, keeps running into none other than the Chief Justice himself.

    Things all sort of begin to unravel from there.

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