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If We Keep Holding On, Just a Bit Longer by Kestral
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), Changeling: The Lost
16 Jan 2026
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There is more than one world. There is the world we know: the Real, the Mortal Realm. Beyond it is Arcadia: the world of the True Fae, a world of dreams and nightmares.
In the Real there are those who survived Arcadia and escaped. They live in hiding. They work together and struggle to trust one another. This is a story of their survival.
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This a story of your survival. -
A Mirror Shows the Truth in Reverse by Kestral
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
12 Jan 2026
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Wei Wuxian is in the middle of having his first kiss stolen when he and the "shy maiden" are attacked! They prevail against the monster of course, but the fight leaves them in each other's bodies. And it turns out that both Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji have secrets that they weren't prepared for the other to know.
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Wei Wuxian shook him gently, feeling like an actor reading from a script. “Jiang Cheng, you need to wake up so you can eat.”
“Fuck off.”
“If you don’t get up and eat, you won’t be strong enough for a new core.”
Jiang Cheng went stiff beneath his hand.
“That’s right,” he said, feeling dread pool in his stomach. “I said ‘new core.’”
He laboriously pushed himself upright. The look of hope on his face was painful. “There’s a way?”
“Yes, but I won’t say any more about it until after you’ve eaten.”
When he had twice emptied his bowl, he turned his focus onto Wei Wuxian. His eyes were fierce, expectant, piercing.
It would be easier, to keep to the script. For a moment Wei Wuxian wavered in his resolve, but of all the names he deserved, coward was not among them.
He took a deep breath. “I want to give you my core.”Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji go back in time undo all the hurt. They fail.
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The Demon and the Dumpling Seller by Kestral
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
31 Mar 2024
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Someone comes to Yilling in the red twilight.
He shuffles, too much like a walking corpse. The setting sun, red from war-fires, paints the death pale of his face fever-flushed. But he breathes. He smiles. He approaches.
Cao Guanyu sells steamed dumplings out of a small stand in the marketplace. He has for the past five years, and business was good for a while. Still is good, for now. The Wens control Yilling and it’s unlikely that the Sunshot Campaign will go for the territory, but anything’s possible. For someone like Cao Guanyu, war means no longer making plans for the future. Any moment someone powerful with a sword could throw his life into chaos.
The stranger approaching his stand does not carry a sword, but that is the same moment where Cao Guanyu adjusts his worldview. Swords don’t matter; it’s just power.Wei Wuxian's first meal outside of Burial Mounds.
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If Lan Qiren knew how humbling it was to start a village from nothing, Wei Wuxian would never have memorized any of the Lan clan strictures. Three months alone in Burial Mounds had taught him was it was to have nothing; three days with the Wen clan refugees was teaching him what it was to have nothing while people with even less looked to him for everything.
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see right through me by indigotigress7
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Jan 2026
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Lan Wangji has been invisible as long as he can remember. All of Cloud Recesses treats him like a ghost, getting distracted and forgetting his existence whenever he moves or speaks. No one has met his eyes in years.
A visiting disciple named Wei Wuxian is the first person whose gaze sticks.
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22 Jan 2026
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this river runs to you by sundiscus
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Jun 2020
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Framed by the soft morning light, sleek hair swept back and pale blue robes not even slightly rumpled, he looks almost inhuman.
He looks like the last person who should be knocking on Wei Wuxian’s door.
In which Wei Wuxian is a curse worker secretly searching for a lost dragon, Lan Wangji is his new assistant, and the two things may not be entirely unrelated.
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- Part 1 of this river runs to you
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11 Jan 2026
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a cicada, singing, weighs on my heart by anatheme
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
30 Jun 2025
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Lan Xichen squeezes his arm once and lets go. Lan Wangji tries not to miss the warmth as the man continues, “Do not worry, Wangji. We have invited Young Master Wei and I am sure that he can help us break the curse. If there is anyone in the world whom I trust to do it, it is him.”
All of a sudden, recognition sparks at the surname. It catches him off guard, after everything that happened in the short span of time, the familiarity in the name grips him with hope. Lan Xichen stood and Lan Wangji raises his head and speaks, almost without thinking, “Wait.”
The smile on Lan Xichen’s face falters. “What is the matter?”
“Young Master Wei,” Lan Wangji repeats even though the words do not fit his mouth right. It feels wrong even though he does not know why. He needs to know why. “What is his name?”
A night hunt leads to Lan Wangji forgetting everything except for his cultivation and his inexplicable connection to a person he cannot even remember - Wei Ying.
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19 Oct 2025
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Crooked by naqaashi
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
27 Oct 2024
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Alerted by Wen Zhuliu to the mess his son has made of the indoctrination camp, Wen Ruohan realises that war may come to his doorstep sooner than he's ready. By reacting quickly, the cultivators escaping from the Xuanwu's cave are recaptured to be used as hostages in earnest.
Trapped inside the cave, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji can only listen to the devastation, knowing no rescue is coming.
To fight against tyranny, unlikely forces emerge. From the ashes of the present, a new future is forged.
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24 Sep 2025
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So You Accidentally Kidnapped A Qilin by Mikkeneko
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Dec 2021
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For untold years Heaven's plan has kept order on earth: they send a qilin, a divine messenger, to choose a worthy king and stand by their side to guide that king in their rule. But ever since the infant qilin of Wu Kingdom was kidnapped, the land has descended into ruin and strife as the five great cultivation sects contend among themselves.
Fifteen years later, the lost qilin is unexpectedly identified in the person of Wei Wuxian, the orphaned ward of the Jiang Sect. Wei Wuxian must struggle with the truth of his nature and what it means for him, his family, and his kingdom -- while also grappling with new and overwhelming feelings for the Lan Sect's cold and haughty Second Young Master! Meanwhile, not all the Sects are resigned to allowing Heaven to order their affairs for them, and if Wei Wuxian doesn't resolve the question of the kingship soon, they may take matters into their own hands...
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20 Aug 2025