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Zhongli looked up from the scroll on his desk, and for a moment reality threatened at the edges of Childe’s consciousness; the dissociative fog wavered. Then Zhongli smiled, the same slight and soft and ancient expression he always wore.
“Childe. Come in.”
For a few more moments, then, Childe thought, and as if it were any other day shut the door with a quiet click. He won’t butcher this, not yet. He’ll let it ease away like dying breath, instead.the immediate aftermath of Chapter 1: Liyue
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17 Feb 2026
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”It’s a hazy afternoon on the tail end of summer when Zhongli looks at Childe and realises he never wants to look at anything else for the rest of his life.
The revelation comes with no fanfare. Nothing changes, nothing breaks. It’s simply a fact. The sky is blue. The sun is bright. Violetgrass wilts in the heat, and Zhongli is terribly, irreversibly in love.”
Or: in which Zhongli falls in love, falls out of the sky, falls from grace, and falls into bed with Liyue’s Public Enemy Number Eleven. In exactly that order.
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17 Feb 2026
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when sunset ends, my longings grow by ricemancer
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Oct 2025
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“This really isn’t the type of place I’d see you frequenting,” he says, helping Zhongli onto the deck, catching him by the waist as the boat rocks to the rhythm of the waves.
“Truly?” Zhongli asks, smoothing out his lapels, the coat draped along his shoulders, jostled by the climb up. “Are there no such similar establishments in Snezhnaya?”
With such scant distance between them, Zhongli can see clearly how he bites back a smile. Gravely, he says — “Zhongli-xiansheng. I would never be unfaithful to you with another scholar.”
“Beloved,” Zhongli says, equally grim, “let not your fidelity to me deprive you of knowledge. It would pain my heart far more.”
(or: Zhongli and Childe spend a night out on the Pearl Galley.)
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16 Feb 2026
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Zhongli, meanwhile, sits back in his chair, flabbergasted. “You mean to tell me in your twenty-odd years of life—” Childe corrects his age, clearly proud of his relative youth. “—you have never taken a lover?” He uses this turn of phrase deliberately, and it has the desired effect.
Childe’s face flames. “That’s—that’s not—” He clears his throat and lowers his voice. “We were talking about dating.”
“So you have done neither,” Zhongli says slowly.
Childe has always been too dedicated to the Tsaritsa to find time for intimacy. Zhongli changes that.
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16 Feb 2026
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A river of russet and black spills onto his lap—it’s soft, exquisitely so. Despite being a cursed gift from Winter, the pelt is warm beneath his hands, and in a moment of weakness, Zhongli holds the thing to his cheek, delighting in the feel of it.
Common sense is cold, and he lowers the fox’s pelt. This…is not a companion. Not even close! Still, to spurn a gift from an Archon is to be a fool, so when he goes to sleep that night, as a human would, he tucks the pelt into its golden box and places it into his closet.
In a Liyue where Zhongli retires alone, he is lonely and adrift. Even the strange gift the Cryo Archon sends him is not quite enough to alleviate his boredom, until a knock at his front door changes everything.
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10 Feb 2026