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  1. Public Bookmark 67

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    Xie Lian, humiliated and in tears, trembles before the watching court as his already-degraded body is put on display.
    Jun Wu speaks to him in a gentle, coaxing tone, promising that his tears will soon reshape themselves into obedience.
    Then, without warning, he forces two fingers into the young god’s body, the sudden pain tearing through him as blood rises to prove his innocence

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    06 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    His long hair is just barely lighter than Hua Cheng's own. His build is slim but muscular. His face is round and gentle. Nose is sharp. Cheeks pink. Lips thin. Eyes large and the color of the finest cinnamon.

    "I'd recognize Dianxia anywhere."

    It's him.

    ***OR***

    A rewrite of Heaven Official's Blessing where Hua Cheng forges E'Ming during the Xianle civil war but is unable to stop Xie Lian from consuming the resentful spirits of Xianle's army. After learning his cursed shackles keep him tethered to the mortal realm, Xie Lian seeks out the Kiln and becomes a calamity.

    Meanwhile, Hua Cheng spends centuries searching for his beloved until fate brings him to Yu Jun Mountain.

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    03 Feb 2026

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    Wei Wuxian feels her blood run cold.

    Yu-ayi’s right. He really is going to choose me, she thinks. Oh, no. Oh, good Heavens, no!

    She nearly bursts into tears on the spot; but just as her eyelids begin to sting, she remembers what her aunt said only two minutes earlier and breathes a sigh of relief.

    The moment Huangshang lays eyes on you, he will know what choice to make.

    In that moment, Wei Wuxian realizes that she can only be certain of evading the Empress’s throne if she ensures that the emperor never lays eyes on her at all.

    Or: in the second year of his reign, Emperor Lan Wangji yields to the wishes of his ministers and holds a bride selection to find his future empress.

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    07 Jan 2026

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    “This is what you heard?”

    Qin Su has never seen Lan Xichen lose his composure before. The corners of his eyes are scarlet, and his face is whiter than the snowy collar of his gown; and if the two of them were not seated, Qin Su suspects that he would have collapsed on the spot.

    She takes another sip of tea. “That is what he said.”

    Lan Xichen looks at her in desperation. “But—”

    “Do you think I would mistake the voice of my intended?” she asks quietly. “I heard him speaking with one of your former disciples—Su Minshan, I think. My child will be allowed only two or three years; though A-Yao said that he would reconsider if it learns to talk before its first birthday, as he did.”

    At the other end of the table, Zewu-jun makes another sound of anguish.

    (In which Lan Xichen hosts a hundred-day feast and a wedding, and Qin Su and Jin Rusong are spared by a timely stroke of luck.)

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    07 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    How does a slave from the stables end up being shipped off to a neighboring country as a gift to warm the bed of the crown prince? Well, Hua Cheng wasn't actually in the room at the time but, judging by everything he's put together and what Yin Yu has told him, it goes something like this.

    1 The King of Yong’an wants to conquer Xianle.

    2 The King doesn't want Xianle to know that yet so that he can take them by surprise.

    3 To bring this about the King wants a spy deep enough in Xianle’s royal court that they can learn the royal family’s most intimate and military secrets, and who could be better positioned to do that than a concubine?

    So 4 the King of Yong’an tells his inner counsel that the first step in his invasion plan is to give the crown prince a concubine.

     

    Or Hua Cheng is given to the crown prince of Xianle as a concubine with the job of seducing him in order to spy on him for the neighboring kingdom of Yong'an, but when real feelings get involved things get ...complicated

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    31 Dec 2025