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    A mother and father place their child's hands upon the sword, and lunge straight for Xie Lian's abdomen. Despite knowing it won't prevent the inevitable, Feng Xin can't help but place himself in their line of attack. If this was reality, it would've pierced right through him instead.

     

    But this is an illusion.

     

    No, in his heart Feng Xin knows...

     

    This is a memory.
     
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    Feng Xin and Mu Qing discover the traumas Xie Lian has kept hidden from them, and the trio have a talk that's eight centuries overdue.

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    05 Feb 2023

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    “I’m in the middle of training,” Liu Qingge says in a clipped tone.

    “That’s all right,” Shen Qingqiu says, flicking his fan in the air. “Go train, I’ll wait.”

    Liu Qingge stares at him. “Wait?”

    “Until you’re done, of course,” Shen Qingqiu says, as if it’s the most obvious thing. “I’ll find us some tea.”

    Liu Qingge could have told Shen Qingqiu that his training would last all day. He could have informed him, brusquely, without care, that he dislikes having his rituals interrupted, that Shen Qingqiu would be waiting for the sun to cease its rise and fall, the mountains around them to crumble and fade.

    Instead, he lets out a rush of air through his nose. “Fine. I will join you when I’m done.”

    Shen Qingqiu’s face lights up, soft and pleased.


    In which Liu Qingge's rituals are interrupted by Shen Qingqiu, and he learns that he doesn't mind that one bit.

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    Liu Qingge survives his qi deviation… in the form of a ghost. Having nothing better to do and no desire to be exorcised, he follows after Shen Qingqiu and decides to haunt him for the hell of it.

    It doesn't take him long to realize that not only is this not the Shen Qingqiu he knew, but there is more going on. And apparently Shang Qinghua is involved too? Ah! He understands now — they're immortal fairies given the mission to thwart a dark prophecy of the sect's collapse. Well. He can help with that. And how better than to protect the bookish fairy that's taken his old foe's place?

    There are no ulterior motives. Why think such foolish things???

    TL;DR: What happens if SY transmigrates just a little too late?


    Story marked "Chooses Not To Warn" purely because LQG becomes a ghost in the first scene and I didn't want to agonize over whether that required a MCD warning or not. If it does to you, this is your heads up! No other archive warnings are necessary.

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    29 Jan 2023

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    Something is wrong. Something in the bottom of Liu Qingge's heart (and the entirety of his gut) lurched at the sight of the high and lofty Shen Qingqiu laying unmoving on the floor, breathing shallow. His shixiong barely responds to the sounds of the banquet hall just a wall and doorway away, the very sounds he always complains about. He realizes, probably too late, that that feeling in his abdomen is fear. That clench in his heart is unbidden fear.

    [Shen Qingqiu is drugged (basically roofied) and taken back to his bamboo house and cared for by Liu Qingge. Don't read if the idea of noncon drugging squicks you out a lot, nothing else noncon happens besides the drugging.]

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    28 Jan 2023

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    “Master Shen must not have heard me earlier. I said I knew of his reputation,” the man said, collecting himself. “That also means I know how hated Master Shen really is among his so-called martial siblings.”

    Shen Qingqiu couldn’t help but bristle at that, despite how generic and bland the villain's monologue was.

    "You and I both know no one is coming to save you, Shen Qingqiu."

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    Shen Qingqiu is kidnapped by a man with some outdated information. Said kidnapper has a big storm coming.

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