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  1. Public Bookmark 76

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    [The scream he lets out is inhuman. It’s a sound that reaches the heavens, shakes the ground there. A sound so horribly stricken, so laden with grief that every animal for miles around- silenced initially by the powerful ghostly aura that trod through the fields- now howls along. There will be myths surrounding that sound, about the animals’ cries, about how every human who heard it burst into tears that were not their own, but for now all that exists is a mourning ghost and the breathing corpse of a god.]

    Or: another Xie Lian prays to Wu Ming in the coffin fic.

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    21 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 27

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    /Two weeks, gege. That’s all I need from you. Two weeks, and an open mind./

    Xie Lian has survived to mid-life by being many things: a jack of all trades, a decorated workaholic, a creature of habit. He wouldn’t put “vacationer” high up on his resume. That doesn’t stop his doting boyfriend, Hua Cheng, from whisking him away to a world of luxury and splendor, where he’s hopeful— nigh convinced— that Xie Lian can be reformed with a little TLC.

    He’s right, of course— just not in the way that either of them think.

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    19 Jun 2026

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    “Good morning, Dianxia,” Hua Cheng murmured, a hint of a smile returned to him by his own image in the mirror. He put down the brush next to the ornate pyxis of cinnabar clay and thoroughly checked his reflexion.

    The flex of his fingers on the mahogany handle of the brush, the drag of the bristles on his skin, the scrape of the lid encrusted with mother of pearl against the edges of the box as he closed it and the smear of rouge the movement always left on his fingertips were moments repeated slowly morning by morning, each a step in the ancient ritual of making himself worthy of his God’s gaze. The water that flowed through the fibers on the head of the brush ran tainted red as a blood sacrifice and the incense on Xie Lian’s altar burned.

    or: Hua Cheng prays to Xie Lian every day, sharing ordinary moments and heartfelt confessions with the beloved that cannot hear him.
    Coming out of the coffin in Yong'An Xie Lian starts to hear the loving and harrowing prayers of a devoted ghost.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Hua Cheng sighed happily, “Gege gege, so many faces of yours to love during your heat. You spoil me. What did I do in my past life to deserve such happiness? Truly, how could your master say I was not blessed? For such a very greedy, selfish man, aren’t I so lucky? So many ways to love my love.”

    Xie Lian threw a chair at his head.

     

    Ever since the flower Yao attack, Xie Lian's heat cycle is abnormal. Hua Cheng is desperate to prove he can be relied on and Xie Lian is terrified of destroying paradise manor and anyone in his way. Will Hua Cheng be able to withstand Xie Lian's violent heat? Will he be able to restrain Xie Lian without allowing him to come to harm?

    TLDR: If Xie Lian was a tempermental cat and Hua Cheng had to occasionally shove pills down his throat, but make it sexy?

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    27 May 2026

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    Xie Lian's life fell apart in a few simple steps. But when he gets a chance to turn it around as a marriage offer comes from Wuyong estate, despite his hidden disdain for the other, he accepts.

    Who would have known, it would have costed him everything and everyone he had left?

    His memories disjointed, stuck in a mansion in a life that feels too good to be true, perhaps Xie Lian can finally find home in the mysterious owner of the manor: Hua Cheng.

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    22 May 2026

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    A reluctant bride, an angered goddess of love and a nefarious creature promised as groom.

    Of course Xie Lian gets caught in the middle, and somehow finds himself married to the infamous Ghost King.

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    21 May 2026

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    “I wouldn’t blame you if you had one particular favorite– one that makes your head spin, and your hair raise…” Hua Cheng couldn’t help his wolfish grin as he nuzzled into the soft pillow of Xie Lian’s thigh. “Which one is it, I wonder…?”

    Like many things between Hua Cheng and Xie Lian, it starts as nothing more than an innocent tease: which of Hua Cheng’s forms is Xie Lian weakest to, and why? Xie Lian staunchly refuses to play favorites, and Hua Cheng /loves/ a challenge.

    After all, he’s seduced his gege plenty of times before. Surely doing it again couldn’t be that hard… right?

    (aka: Hua Cheng thinks he might be losing his ‘professional gege seducer’ groove.)

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    03 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 40

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    After the loss of his job, reputation, and parents, Xie Lian finds himself moving into his childhood home. Trying to figure out how to grieve and recover from the trauma, he begins to get deliveries from a very pretty delivery man. Then come the anonymous letters and gifts. Is Jun Wu back to cause more pain, or is there someone much sweeter behind the kind messages?

    AKA: The Soup Fic.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    27 Apr 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 22

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    The sounds Hua Cheng made reminded Xie Lian of other nights. Nights when they would tear the clothes from each other's bodies. Nights when Hua Cheng would hold him down and groan into Xie Lian's neck as they connected. It wasn't the direction Xie Lian expected—or even wanted—his mind to go. This was about taking care of his husband. There was no intention to take advantage of his plight or to objectify him in his time of need.

    Moving to Hua Cheng's shoulder blades, Xie Lian's nails bit at his pale skin, and the moan he received was by far one of the most depraved and impassioned he'd ever heard.

    "Right there! Oh my god, gege," Hua Cheng whined, "So good…"

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    25 Apr 2026

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    Disillusioned by royal life, Prince Xie Lian has long realised that being the next king of Xianle is not the life he wants. His dreams of adventure and a world beyond the kingdom have always been too far from reach. But when desperation forces his hand and he flees from the life he's always known, Xie Lian gets a taste of all the things he's ever wanted. Learning the cruelty of the world and the joys of life at sea, the legend of Xie Lian the Pirate Prince soon spreads throughout the land.

    Xie Lian decides to take his crew on their biggest adventure to date, one so perilous that no pirate has ever succeeded. The path ahead is dangerous and with so little to go on, they race headlong into the unknown in search of the adventures Xie Lian has always craved. But the path they've chosen is not what it seems and the treasure Xie Lian finds is worth far more than gold or jewels. Finding new allies and learning to face the demons of his past, Xie Lian is propelled into a series of events that will force him to face his fears and learn the true meaning of freedom.

    And perhaps to believe in love again.

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    24 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 35

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    07 Apr 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 19

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    When Hua Cheng comes home in a bad mood, Xie Lian decides to do his best to make him feel better. Excited to see how effective his tender care is, Xie Lian doubles his efforts — quite literally.

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    06 Apr 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 79

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    “It’s all about trust,” Hua Cheng continued. “That’s all you have to focus on right now, jiejie– I’ll do the rest.” She grinned, effortlessly gliding backward on her own skates and giving Xie Lian’s hands an experimental little tug. “Will you trust me?”

    🛼

    Xie Lian isn’t one for leaps of faith these days. After two life-changing injuries clinched her abrupt and tragic exit from her former life as a promising gymnast, she considers her own body more of a liability than much else. Not like her girlfriend, Hua Cheng, a bold and tough-as-nails roller derby skater who believes in Xie Lian more than enough for the both of them.

    Which is why they're here: at the local rink's couples' night, lacing up Xie Lian's first pair of skates-- to indulge Hua Cheng's desire to share her hobby, and to get Xie Lian back in the habit of trusting herself.

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    06 Apr 2026

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    One second, one of his stupidly expensive shoes had sloshed into a brimming pothole as he arrived at the figure’s back. The next, the car directly behind them both had flashed on their brights in protest. And the next– the figure turned, caught in the dancing flickers of each individual droplet and the glare of the headlights on all sides, their shape in the rain lit up like a torch– like an angel.

    An angel Hua Cheng knew.

    Xie Lian.

    🐾

    Hua Cheng has fought tooth and nail for twenty years to forget the weak, angry boy he once was. Now a powerful CEO as renowned as he is feared, there is very little in his hard-won life that reminds him of his troubled youth-- save the treasured memory of Xie Lian: the only person who ever believed in him, and the love of Hua Cheng's young life.

    That is, until Xie Lian abruptly reenters his world one stormy night with a stray kitten in tow, and in their reunion, Hua Cheng gets some long-awaited, much-needed perspective.

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    05 Apr 2026

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    Xie Lian had been many things in his long, long life– a beloved prince, a revered god, an ill omen. He’d been as grand and marvelous as the statues his people once constructed of him, shining like a jewel in the crown of the heavens, and he’d been so vehemently hated and trodden under so many muddy feet that he might as well not exist whatsoever.

    However, for all his varied experience, Xie Lian had never been… /little/ before. At least, not /this/ little.

    After pissing off a demon, Xie Lian gets hit with a curse that shrinks him to a fraction of his size. Despite this, Xie Lian quite enjoys navigating the world from this curious new point of view— until his bad luck gets him trapped in a delivery en route to its wealthy benefactor: a fearsome and mysterious figure only described as the Lord of Ghost City.

    Xie Lian is certain this lord won’t take kindly to a stowaway. Hua Cheng can’t believe his luck.

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    05 Apr 2026

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    Yet, despite its overwhelming dissonance, despite all the molar-grinding concessions disguised as compromise, the appearance of the wedding itself wasn’t what now had Xie Lian choking on his own pesky expectations as they came surging sourly up his throat– but rather, the one and only empty place to be found in the entire venue.

    The altar.

    Xie Lian’s first thought was a mortifying head-on collision: one, that he couldn’t believe it, and two, that he should have fucking known.

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    After his decade-long, soul-sucking relationship with Jun Wu ends with being left at the altar, Xie Lian decides to take his life back into his own hands once and for all— starting with his would-be luxury honeymoon, now turned solo trip.

    Out of practice with relaxation, Xie Lian doesn't expect much more than a week of privacy in which to lick his wounds and try to start over. He certainly doesn't expect San Lang, the bold and spirited young man he encounters on the way, who seems determined to raise Xie Lian’s standards /for/ him, who somehow has all the gossip on the island resort they’re both going to— as well as its notorious owner, Hua Cheng.

    Maybe 'unexpected' is exactly what Xie Lian needs.

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    02 Apr 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 81

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    Here, now, love was flowing in abundance. It was all around, brightening the stars on this clear night, thrumming in the eager voices of the audience, ready to lift the soul from despair. It was surrounding the Crown Prince himself, illuminated by golden light onstage, gilding him– enclosing him–

    Xie Lian, who was sitting at the grand piano, its black surface polished to a nightmarish shine, with hands frozen over the keys and a deadweight in his gut– Xie Lian, who was realizing–

    He couldn’t do this.
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    Nearly a decade has passed since the disastrous night that marked the end of Xie Lian's career as a classical pianist before it had even begun. Now, having withdrawn from society almost completely, Xie Lian works as a piano instructor out of his studio apartment, nurturing a private love for music that has endured several lonely years.

    When a new student enters his world in the form of the striking and mischievous San Lang, Xie Lian is happy enough at the prospect of a friend- yet, as their relationship blooms alongside the ongoing spring, he will come to face the complexity of more bonds than one: that of his mysterious new companion, and of the creative passion he thought lost forever.

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    01 Apr 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 19

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    In the winter of 1854, Hua Cheng enters the service of Xie Lian, a wealthy Chinese entrepreneur known among Americans as the Chinese Lord in White.
    Xie Lian is generous, educated, and unsettlingly kind. He teaches Hua Cheng to read and calculate, brings him to operas and social gatherings, and treats him less like a servant and more like a friend.
    As anti-Chinese violence spreads through Gold Rush America, Hua Cheng is also targeted...

    A vampire AU.

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    24 Mar 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 35

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    Xie Lian had been exchanging texts with an incredibly handsome stranger online.

    One day he gets a message that possibly saved his life.

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    23 Mar 2026

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