We'll be more than a memory - verse
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I'd do anything by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 余污 - 肉包不吃肉 | Remnants of Filth - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
28 Apr 2025
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When Mo Xi agreed to teach a random business class because his former professor was short on people, he expected everything, but not for his high school ex-boyfriend to have signed up for this exact class. Gu Mang is suddenly in front of him, even though he left town in a hurry back when they were eighteen, never to be seen again.
Yet, with both of them having yearned for each other for the past seven years, and Mo Xi finally receiving the explanation he needed, they're willing to try and make it all work once again.
Turns out it's hard to go on dates and get to know the love of your life all over again when he has a fucked up family to tend to, though.[standalone fic even if it's in a series; just the same AU as the other one]
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- Part 1 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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Upon attending his first lecture at university, Jack meets her again. She's there in all her glory, strolling into his lecture, asking for and then insulting his name once again.
The gears of life begin to turn once more for Jack - except even now, he can't find himself.
As Jack struggles to come to terms with Lacie trying earnestly to help him once more, Gilbert's cat gets lost, Leo prepares for his impending top surgery, Reim tries to come to terms with the fact that in this life, he might not be able to marry the one he loves, and Vincent keeps getting quite the annoying visitor at his job.
It seems that everyone is finding their place except for Jack.
Forever lost, unknown to himself - but not to others.[standalone fic even if it's in a series; just the same AU as the other ones]
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- Part 2 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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Polaroids all over the floor by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 Jan 2026
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As children, Shi Qingxuan, Xie Lian, and Hong were friends, but then they split up when two of them move away.
Xie Lian, in his new town, makes friends with Mu Qing and Feng Xin. Together, they deal not only with Mu Qing angsting out about his mother dating their maths teacher, but also with Feng Xin becoming a father at age fourteen.
Hua Cheng makes friends with an emo theater kid, and finds that maybe, the guy is even worthy of knowing about Xie Lian.
Shi Qingxuan fights tooth and nail for her brother to come to accept her as his little sister, and, strangely enough, finds her biggest support in Pei Ming. She hates that.
And, one day, the three of them are certain to meet again.[Prequel to "We'll be more than a memory"]
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- Part 3 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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We'll be more than a memory by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Aug 2024
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Since something went wrong with their room distribution, Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan - some guy she's never seen before - enrolling at university, are forced to live in one small appartment. The fact that Shi Qingxuan starts developing feelings for him surely doesn't help sleeping in one bed with him (and his three ikea sharks).
At least she's in it together with her brother, who might hate He Xuan, but surely as hell still appreciates sitting in one room with him when he's thumbing through Shi Qingxuan's favourite author's 'Guide to flirt with every girl evah'. Except the girl in question is his childhood best friend, Pei Ming.
(Which she feels just speaks of his bad taste, really.)
And hey, maybe being in love with your roommate who's also your best friend isn't so bad when university is fucking you over too much to think about that anyways!Series
- Part 4 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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A million pictures of you by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Jan 2025
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Sometimes, all you need to do is write really bad romance novels and bring people together with them by giving them something to talk about. Sometimes, not even that is needed, and they get together all by themselves, or because a secret, third force (Student Housing Services) is at work.
Either way, at least everyone makes progress, sooner or later! And so does the Prince Harming trilogy. And all those other books with the horrible titles that only someone who's way too invested in poorly-written smut would come up with.[extras for "We'll be more than a memory", which you can find in this series. Cannot be read as a stand-alone. More accurate tags to be found in each chapter!]
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- Part 5 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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'Cause I know you're the one by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu | Heaven Official's Blessing - Moxiang Tongxiu
12 Feb 2026
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Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan are happy. They're doing their Masters, and they know what to do with their lives, at least somewhat. Shi Qingxuan is already a freelance artist, and no way in hell will He Xuan of all people not get a PhD placement. Xie Lian and Hua Cheng are married and so are Jun Wu and Mei Nianqing; Feng Xin and Mu Qing are building an even bigger family, and even Shi Qingxuan's brother is still happy with Pei Ming (even if she doesn't understand that).
They should be happy.
Except then, Shi Qingxuan remembers.
Everything.
(And in what world could she still be allowed to be with the person whose life she has destroyed?)[In a series; can theoretically be read as a standalone.]
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- Part 6 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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'Til the Morning Light by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
23 Nov 2024
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Mo Ran has one goal at university and one goal only - fucking his professor. Okay, well, it's a little more complicated than that. Him and Chu Wanning have backstory, okay? So of course he would choose the university where Chu Wanning, the man who used to work at the orphanage Mo Ran lived in as a child, works these days.
He doesn't think that Chu Wanning remembers, and he might be a bit mad about that, but also just looking at him is kind of enough for him.
That's until he suddenly gets told that he's getting a new roommate some weeks into the semester, and when the door opens the next day, Chu Wanning is the one standing in it, having gotten kicked out of his flat for reasons he refuses to disclose (accidental bioterrorism).[standalone fic even if it's in a series; just the same AU as the other one]
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- Part 7 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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I'll be perfectly fine by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
24 Nov 2025
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After moving into a new flat (not riddled with food moths this time, and not theoretically for students only, either), Chu Wanning tries his best to settle into his new life with not just a boyfriend, but also the plan to adopt a girl from the orphanage he works at. Yet, with Mo Ran suddenly learning about just who his father is, they quickly get thrown off their newly found balance again. No matter what, though, at least both of them know that they have each other, whether or not their family additions are wanted.
At the end of it all, Chu Wanning thinks, they'll come out okay.[Sequel to "'Til the Morning Light"]
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- Part 8 of We'll be more than a memory - verse
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For the rest of my life by the_empty_pen
Fandoms: 二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
15 Feb 2026
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Chu Wanning hasn't been doing well lately, for some reason. Ever since that time him and Mo Ran had post-argument shower sex, to be exact. Not that the correlation would click in his mind, given that he's on birth control.
Yet, when his health declines more and more, both him and Mo Ran are forced to face the inevitable: the breeding kink isn't just a kink anymore. Chu Wanning is pregnant.
(Well, at least he's not dying, which they had previously thought might be the case!)
Chaos ensues.[This fic is part of a series. Please read the Author's Notes in Chapter 1! It is theoretically fine to read as a stand-alone.]
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- Part 9 of We'll be more than a memory - verse