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    Wei Ying can’t find his words. “What would I do in Gusu?”
    The man’s mouth quirks in what Wei Ying cannot interpret as anything but a tiny, smug smirk. “Learn.”

    Wei Ying has made a fine life for himself. He’s got his jiejies and his talismans; he doesn’t need anyone’s charity. But spending a whole year in Gusu? That’s hard to turn down.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    “Wow,” says Wei Ying, and his mouth tastes funny and the air tastes funny but that isn’t really relevant right now. “You are incredibly beautiful. I mean. Just – so stunning. Impossibly gorgeous. Has anyone told you that? Where are you from? Wanna get a drink? With you, I’d spring for Saurian brandy.”

    “Talk less,” says the gorgeous beauty above him, and shoves a hypospray into his arm.

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    25 Dec 2025

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    BREAKING NEWS: Manhattan Real Estate babe prefers CARPET over hardwood???

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    Wei Ying, breakout star of Netflix's Selling Manhattan, is slated to helm a Bachelorette-style dating show next year to find her one true love.

    Lan Zhan, multi-instrumentalist for the award-winning band Gusu Junzi, is in New York for a one-year residency at the Manhattan School of Music.

    These two events are unrelated. Or are they?

    (Written for WLW Wangxian Week 2025, Day 1: Idolverse/Modern AU)

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    04 Dec 2025

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    A prominent physicist and professor, Wei Ying has built a life for himself in Chicago. He's safe, he's happy, and he has plans for his future. Unfortunately, those plans are derailed the moment he finds out his brother is in trouble. To save the family business, it will have to be Wei Ying's life on the line. He has to marry his old high school crush, Lan Zhan.

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    28 Nov 2025

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    “I’m not here to help you with your work,” said Lan Zhan, injecting frost into his voice to deter any further attempts at charm. “I’ll be focusing on my research.”

     

    Wei Ying cocked his head. “Research?” he said.

     

    “Mm. I’m a cultivation researcher, not a department employee. I’m reconstructing the ancient musical cultivation techniques of the Lan clan.”

     

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    Lan Zhan’s new liaison at the Caiyi Municipal Cultivation Department is an enigma – ridiculously talented, yet somehow content with mopping up spiritual pests for barely above minimum wage. Wei Ying is slapdash and irresponsible, and Lan Zhan doesn’t like him at all… but then he meets A-Yuan, who loves music and longs for a piano his father can’t afford.

    Forced into cautious friendship by a four-year-old's music lessons, Lan Zhan soon realises Wei Ying is more than he seems. The single father is a man of many secrets – including, perhaps, the key to Lan Zhan's life's work. And in the meantime, the background resentment in Caiyi Town is rising to dangerous levels…

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    08 Nov 2025