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    Hua Cheng held out his left hand. Trembling, Xie Lian took it, and studied the scar there. He pressed it up to his lips in a kiss, then opened his mouth. He fit his teeth against the shape of the scar, and it was a perfect match.

    Xie Lian let go of Hua Cheng's hand. His eyes travelled up Hua Cheng's arm and to the nape of his neck, where a matching mark was branded on his skin. Gently, Xie Lian traced the crescent of the tattoo with two fingers. When he pulled away, he realized his eyes were wet.

    “You tattooed my bite on your claiming spot,” Xie Lian said, his voice thick with emotion.

    As the crown prince and royal heir to the Kingdom of Xianle, Xie Lian is medically induced into presenting as an alpha at a young age. The thing is... his personality isn't very alpha-like.

    A few years later, in the midst of defending his crown prince from a yao attack, a nameless soldier presents as an omega. And yet the man he becomes, Crimson Rain Sought Flower, slayer of 33 gods and scourge of the heavens, is the last person anyone would assume to be one.

    Perhaps they were just meant to be.

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    04 Oct 2026

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    Xie Lian's expression softens, and he lays Hua Cheng's hand above his heart. "You've been through so much, San Lang, taken on so much for others. For me," he says meaningfully. "Won't you let me take care of you?"

    The idea that Hua Cheng deserves recompense for his devotion is unthinkable. His Highness is His Highness; of course Hua Cheng would take on anything for him. But Xie Lian asks the question so gently, so imploringly. How can Hua Cheng deny him when he can feel the steady thump of his god's heart beneath his palm?

    Or: Hualian try out the memory-eating monster on Hua Cheng, but his younger self is less accustomed to affection than expected.

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    19 Sep 2026

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    When Hua Cheng drinks the True Shape Serum, it has an unintended effect. In a rare moment of bad luck, his spiritual power reacts to it strangely, causing him to revert into his earliest ghostly form and lose his memories.
    Much to Nan Feng and Fu Yao’s horror, the Scrap Immortal recognizes him.

    In his eight hundred years haunting the three realms, Hua Cheng has shrugged off and crushed far stronger enchantments and curses.
    By all rights, the True Shape Serum shouldn’t work on him. It's a paltry trick, no more than an annoyance considering the vastness of his spiritual power and the breadth of his experience with spellwork. So it's hard to say why Hua Cheng’s spiritual energy reacts to it the way it does.
    Possibly, the enchantment recognizes that there's nothing he wants less in the world than to lie to His Highness now that he’s finally found him again, and seizes on this weakness.
    Perhaps it was foolish from the start, to think that he could deceive his God when his very being sang to tell him everything he knew.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    Xie Lian lets out a short noise, eyes widening when he sees the goods. On the shelves are neatly arranged body parts – first an ear, then fingers, then hands, one, two, three, four. An arm severed by the shoulder. He pulls down the other sheets and finds more of the same: mostly minor extremities, toes and fingers, but full feet and a few tongues too. They are all neatly severed, looking almost cured where they've been cut from the body. All of them look identical, and when he picks one of the hands up – Hua Cheng lets out a strangled noise behind him – it flips and twists easily in his grip, free of the paralysis of death.

    "They're all from the same person," Xie Lian muses, studying the hand he's holding. "And they're preserved, or perhaps preserving themselves…? They don't have much spiritual energy, but–"

    "Gege," Hua Cheng chokes out, "they're you."

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    25 Nov 2025

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    When a heavenly official provokes Hua Cheng to violence in one of his less conventionally attractive forms, Xie Lian’s reaction is hardly what he expected.

    Or: Xie Lian is determined to prove that there isn’t a single form Hua Cheng can take that’s too hideous to be kissed. He's mostly right.

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    22 Oct 2025