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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    Mu Qing barely had time to sleep and eat anymore, but it was worth it, for the extra money to bring to his mother on his day off, for the chance to become something more. That he also had a list longer than himself of things to do every day was a price he was willing to pay.

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    (Half) a day in the life of Mu Qing, personal attendant to the taizi dianxia of Xianle

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    09 Oct 2025

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    "And what sort of story is Shizun's favorite?" Luo Binghe asks, not really caring about the answer. Luo Binghe's shizun is an air-headed man who hides his inanity behind his fan; surely, whatever it is that Shen Qingqiu deems to read in his free time, it must be something equally ridiculous and superficial. Probably romance, Luo Binghe thinks. Perhaps cultivation adventure stories where the hero always gets the girl and slays evil.

    Shen Qingqiu flips his fan open to hide his face. "Revenge stories," he replies.

    AU where Luo Binghe is raised by Tianlang-Jun. When Yue Qingyuan kills his father, Luo Binghe resolves to settle the score.

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    04 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    A door crashes open in the Palace of Xuan Zhen, and the vase on the table next to it catches on Fen Xin's robes and smashes to the ground. He's viciously glad of it as he backs Mu Qing over the threshold. It always seems to make this easier—the noise and the aggressiveness and the spitefulness of it.

    He thinks make it makes it easier for Mu Qing, too. He tells himself he doesn't care. He doesn't care. Mu Qing doesn't deserve for this to be easier.

    Then again, deep down in his heart, Feng Xin knows that he doesn't, either.

    Or, Feng Xin and Mu Qing and the ghost of Xie Lian.

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    01 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    When a teenage Xie Lian wakes up in an unfamiliar place, with memories clearly missing and his cultivation broken, he does what he’s always done: he finds his friends.

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    31 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    “Your majesty,” says Xuan Zhen, looking at the bottle like a mortal might at a hanging sword. “I— that is to say, this one’s cultivation—”

    Jun Wu smiles, first beneficent and then sharper like a private indulgence. “So long as one isn’t too moved, wasn’t it?”

    Xuan Zhen looks at the wine; he looks at Jun Wu. You can see him thinking through whether he could afford to push. You can almost hear him deciding: no, he can’t.

    Late nights in the Heavenly Court.

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    31 Aug 2025