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He Xuan starts coughing so loudly and so violently that for a second Xie Lian loses track of reality, and thinks it was He Xuan who got buried under what feels like half a mountain, and not Xie Lian. It’s only as he tries to get up, alarmed, that the pain shoots through his body and reminds him why that would be a terrible idea. A grunt of pain must escape him, because He Xuan pushes him down again. This time, he leaves his hand on his shoulder, a constant reminder to “stay the fuck down, dianxia, fucking idiot.”
“You sounded like you were in pain. Are you sure you weren’t hurt in the collapse?”
“It really is very galling to be fretted upon by a man who is bleeding half of his intestines unto the floor.”
(or: Xie Lian and He Xuan end up trapped in a cave together, and Xie Lian won't stop saying upsetting things. It's probably the concussion.)
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25 Aug 2026
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A Home Has a Family by wrennybunny
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
17 Mar 2025
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"His Highness may call me anything he wishes."
Xie Lian doesn't have the imaginative energy to conjure up anything meaningful for this stranger, so he says, "In that case, you might as well be Wu Ming."
The ghost bows his head further. His shoulders sink slightly, less slumping and more settling into himself. It's like he likes the dehumanizing name.
He says, "'Wu Ming' is perfect."
Xie Lian's frown deepens. He tells him, "Pick a different one soon."
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After Xie Lian is tortured in his own temple, he wakes up in the care of a freshly-formed wrath ghost. "Wu Ming" follows him home and, with his carpentry experience, medical knowledge, street smarts, and fighting skills, makes himself indispensable to Xie Lian's family.
To protect Xie Lian from Bai Wuxiang, Wu Ming swears that he'll do whatever he must to get stronger, all the while becoming one more person that Xie Lian couldn't bear to lose.
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01 Aug 2026
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Life Gets Hard, But We Go On by Laura Kaye (laurakaye), zappedbysnow
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
30 Sep 2022
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Kim Kitsuragi went to solve a murder in a long-abandoned corner of town. He found much more than he expected: a disaster, and a miracle. A new partner, and a fresh start.
He has, by most sensible measures, objectively terrible taste in men.
Harry Du Bois woke up with no memories, helped solve a murder, got shot a little bit, had a sexual epiphany, and fell head-over-heels in love. He thinks he might have been a bad person, before. He's trying to be a good person now.
He's also exactly Kim's type.
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31 Mar 2026
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have you heard the news that you're dead? by wizardlover
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
09 Sep 2022
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“Kim,” you say, and he blinks at you in the middle of putting out his hand. “There’s something fucked up going on.”
“You must be from the 41st. I’m Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi—though you seem to know that already.” He seems tense, for some reason—and his hand is still out. “I’m afraid I wasn’t told who you are.”
“It’s me, Harry! Kim, don’t you remember me? Fuck, there’s something really wrong happening.”
“If you’re referring to the dead body that has been hanging from a tree for seven days—then yes, I agree. It is pretty wrong.” Kim is looking at you with his mouth slightly pursed. There’s no recognition in his eyes—he looks at you like you’re a stranger.
“This can’t be happening." Kim clears his throat.
“You are clearly going through… something. But I would appreciate it if we could focus on the case for the moment.”
“Oh my god,” you say. “We did it already, Kim, but for some reason I’m the only one who remembers! This is some—some cosmic joke from the universe, I’ll tell you that.”
“Okay,” Kim says, slowly. “I’m going to give you a moment while I talk to the manager. You’re going to sit down and sort out whatever it is you’re doing. And then we’re going to take down that corpse.”
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30 Mar 2026
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suck the rot right out of my bloodstream by FlowerCitti
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Aug 2023
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Astarion moves his legs just slightly to press against Casmir’s broad shoulder, a teasing point of contact. The tiefling doesn’t shift away.
But his hands still haven’t moved to tend to Astarion’s wound. “Can I touch you?”
Astarion stares at them for a few moments, meeting that burning gaze, fanned by thick lashes. People don’t often ask him that—they just do. It didn’t matter whether he wanted them to or not, only that he was a pretty thing they wanted to get their hands on.
He shakes his head before he can fade away into bad memories, blinking several times. He smirks instead, slipping into flirtation easily, eyes lidded and something like revulsion at himself bubbling in his gut, “As much as you’d like, my dear.”
(Or, Astarion has had his consent revoked for over two centuries. Then he meets Casmir.)
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- Part 5 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
- Part 1 of Ebony and Silver
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17 Feb 2026
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A poem about being aroace
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12 Jan 2026
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Xie Lian's last believer is so fervently devoted to him that he seems to think mostly in the form of prayer. That is a terrifying prospect. Xie Lian has never heard of such a case before, not even in hypotheticals, and he finds himself hoping, for his believer's sake, that there is some other explanation for this phenomenon.
Whatever the reason, a low stream of his believer's thoughts hum in the back of Xie Lian's consciousness.
His believer does not seem to be aware of it.
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When Xie Lian ascends for the third time, he is welcomed back to godhood with prayers that he hadn't expected: an ongoing stream of thought from his sole remaining believer. He gathers quickly that this believer is very old, very powerful, and very, very much in love with him.
For his believer's sake, Xie Lian can cast a spell to shut the prayers out—but only if he has access to spiritual energy.
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07 Dec 2025
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A Useless Partner by elliannafaux
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
14 Oct 2025
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After spending a century nailed inside a coffin buried deep underground, Xie Lian is happy to have gotten out and even happier to have made a new friend, Yin Yu. Though when Yin Yu invites him to join a search he's been ordered to conduct by his boss, Xie Lian isn't sure what to say.
Because the person they'd be searching for, is him.
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10 Nov 2025
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A Promise Never Broken by DraconicStella88888
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
09 Jun 2026
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“In here?” Aglaea asked softly as she pointed to it. Castorice nodded. She felt something in her chest swell, Castorice's presence— or perhaps it was the way she looked at Aglaea, emboldened her to crouch down and move through it.
“So the president does have a rebellious side,” Castorice mumbled as she followed behind.
“Whatever gave you the idea that I was a goodie two shoes?” Aglaea asked, unable to hold back the laughter escaping her.
“You’re the president, you do official business things and make things happen. I didn’t think you’d have the space to follow the rules and break them,” Castorice argued, guarded exterior melting away with each word spoken.
“I’ll have you know, many of the motions I’ve passed were done so due to my... manoeuvring, not my rules following.”
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Or, CasGlaea University AU where awkward extrovert Aglaea tries to befriend Castorice, ends up with a lot more than she bargained for.
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22 May 2025
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“Kaveh cannot know about this.” Alhaitham felt the words leap out of his throat like bullets from the barrel of a gun, “There is too much risk to tell him something so severe outright. The chance it would jeopardize what remains of our friendship is too substantial of a gamble."
Cyno hummed as if to himself, ordering another drink from the same waitress that'd swung by a little while ago and sipping at the final dregs of amber pooling at the bottom of his near barren glass. He stared Alhaitham dead across the table, and it wouldn’t have taken even the slightest shred of intelligence from any of the three admittable geniuses present to pick out the bright twinkle of glee at his teeth and the silvery snark of his tone that came with it.
"Well, if it's abruptness you're worried about, you could always try courting him."
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alhaitham is ridiculously in love with kaveh. now, he just needs to make him believe it
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25 May 2024
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pomp and circumstance by luminvies for moonsteps
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
26 Dec 2023
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“Coming!” Al-Haitham calls, navigating the maze of packing peanuts and crates. He undoes the latch on the door and lets it swing open, fully expecting to see the bearded face of his landlord only to be met with the vermillion-eyed face of somebody he had given up hope on seeing for the rest of his life.
There’s a long moment of silence. The aching swell of Vivaldi in the background and the rushing in his ears like the ocean waves.
“...Kaveh?”
Kaveh, globally-renowned musician, disappears off the face of Teyvat. Five years later, he shows up outside of Al-Haitham's door with no explanation but to ask for a bed to sleep in.
It's fine. They only have thirteen years of history, after all.
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23 May 2024
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after all we stand for shatters by smthingclever
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Mar 2024
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“I like the kind of person who doesn’t flinch when I look them in the eye, who doesn’t back down.” Childe’s grip on his tie tightens, eye to eye, blue to gold. “Someone strong enough to match me and ambitious enough to enjoy the...challenge.”
Zhongli’s rationality is swallowed by that soft ocean scent, his lungs clogged by the shimmering heat that drenches the air.
“Is that what you are?” he murmurs. “A challenge?”
“I think you’ll find, Mr. Zhongli, that I am the greatest challenge you will ever face.” Childe’s lips are a sin, hovering over his, apple-sweet temptation. “Will you back down now?”
And Zhongli, cursing himself, does not back down.
Childe is a dangerous crime boss threatening the peace of Liyue. Zhongli is the retired intelligence agent sent to infiltrate his organization and bring him to justice.
But beneath Childe’s many masks, Zhongli finds a lost soul who yearns for redemption, and beyond Zhongli’s steadfast duty, Childe finds a tired soldier who yearns for a home.
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12 May 2024
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one lifetime too short by luminvies, moonsteps
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
20 Mar 2024
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People enter Al-Haitham’s life, and then they leave. That is just the way it is: first it was his parents, and then it was his grandmother, and soon enough, it will be Kaveh. He's already set to have a future that other people could only dream of brushing with their fingers.
There are much greater things than Al-Haitham in Kaveh's destiny.
Sometimes all it takes is ten years.
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22 Apr 2024
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The Resocialization of Xie Lian by fullmetalpotterhead for Minryll
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
04 Apr 2023
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Hua Cheng finally finds his god after six centuries of searching, but something is wrong. He’s not sure what, but he’ll be there every step of the way while he recovers.
Xie Lian escaped the coffin, but his mind feels slow to react or recall. Words and social manners feel harder to reach than usual. He’ll get there eventually though, he always does. Especially since for some reason a patient ghost seems especially attached to helping him.
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03 Apr 2024
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The Wind Is Gentler Than My Lips by kianspo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
19 Mar 2024
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“Oh,” he exhales. “You’re not in love with me anymore.”
Hua Cheng seems to come to perfect stillness, somehow, improbably more so than he was before.
“I never was.”
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A year after Jun Wu is defeated, Xie Lian sees the light of three thousand lanterns in the sky, and his heart rejoices. Hua Cheng is back! Only instead of running into Xie Lian's arms, he breaks up with him. Xie Lian is devastated, but that is only the beginning...- Language:
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30 Mar 2024
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Lost in the Tide by kianspo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
28 Jan 2024
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Once-upon-a-time an aspiring surgeon and now a down-on-his-luck vet Xie Lian is struggling to keep his little clinic open. He's not doing very well until one night a handsome stranger bursts in, begging him to save his dog.
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30 Mar 2024
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Midnight Doesn't Last Forever by ghostystarr
Fandoms: The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
14 Jan 2015
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"So come and watch the sunset with me?" Solangelo.
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- Part 1 of Midnight-verse
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23 Mar 2024
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The Thing That Was Not His Highness by VampireFaun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
06 Feb 2022
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Xie Lian hasn’t been acting like himself for the past few days, but Hua Cheng doesn’t care, because he loves him. He loves him, he loves him, he loves him.
It occurs to him too late that the thing in front of him might not be Xie Lian at all.
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23 Jan 2024
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Your Sweet Breath On My Dice by Siamesa
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 Nov 2023
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Hua Cheng wakes up in a long-robbed tomb older than Xianle, cursed shackles on his neck and ankle and hope hammering in his stolen heart.
Xie Lian awakens in a bed.
This is somehow more disconcerting.
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In which a body-swapping curse brings two people together.
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31 Dec 2023
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Beast With Two Backs by VampireFaun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
31 Dec 2021
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Xie Lian isn’t particularly worried about the progress of his relationship with Hua Cheng. After all, Hua Cheng seems to be fine with just kissing and hugging for now; wouldn't it be weird to ask for something else? Maybe one day they’d do more, when Xie Lian is ready. He wants to be ready.
Then, Xie Lian has a nightmare.
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28 Dec 2023