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    “You don’t think you’re overreacting just a little?” Gram asks.

    “Absolutely fucking not,” Black grumbles.

     

    Or: Sean starts working at Gumpa's garage and quickly falls for the cute boy who works at the bookstore across the street, only to be baffled when said cute boy seems to switch randomly between liking him back and hating his guts. Meanwhile, White is crushing hard on the handsome new mechanic in the area and Black is quietly plotting Sean's murder. Gram is just along for the ride.

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    24 Jan 2024

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    Three months. He’ll stay three months. Just long enough for that shrimpy Zhang Chengling to wean into this new world, and then he’ll leave. Just three months he’ll allow himself that brassy, beautiful line cook, who barked the most flirtatious insult at Zhou Zishu as he charged down the cracked asphalt with a towering pallet jack of wholesale soy sauce boxes; his voice magnetic like an army general’s, clear above the rumbling gallop of his condiment fleet.

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    chaperoning a new orphan across the Pacific runs into complications.

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    23 Jun 2021

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    In which Zhou Zishu, a dying man, discovered he had acquired a ward, a talent for video games, a boyfriend, and a newfound will to live, not necessarily in that order.

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    “Yun Xu,” Ghost Valley Master said, his baritone caressing the vowels carefully. It was a tone of voice that Zhou Zishu recognised but had not heard in a long while—in a year and a half, to be exact. Even with that excuse, nothing could have prepared Zhou Zishu for Ghost Valley Master’s next words. “To have such a handsome voice, you must be a great beauty.”

    Zhou Zishu blinked once, twice, and clicked the mute teammates button.

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    22 Jun 2021

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    Smiling, Wen Kexing turns from a shelf stocked with cooking utensils. “My domain.”

    The weak heat of the sun sinks into Zhou Zishu’s scalp. “Is that not the bedroom?”

    “I have range.” Wen Kexing leans back against a bench, wrists and elbows loose. What a terrible fate for a kitchen, Zhou Zishu thinks, to not have Wen Kexing effortlessly flowing across it at all times. “In either case, you’ve a mouth to be filled. It is my humble duty to provide.”

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    08 Jun 2021

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    Zishu's mind has been trained to this sort of work: to take in every meaningless detail and produce from that the truth. To assess danger and opportunity alike. Of course, this is a misuse of his talents. Kexing shouldn't concern him. He should be nothing to Zishu: just another foolish boy to mold into a useful weapon, or else to discard. But then, Zishu has seen what's really inside him, the pitiless tiger who lives in his guts. And he might be the only one who has. Kexing let the other boys off with bruises, didn't he?

    He is Zishu's, somehow. As much as anything has ever been.

     

    [AU timeline in which teenage runaway Wen Kexing meets career assassin Zhou Zishu and upends both their lives.]

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    27 May 2021