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1. Keep My Shadow Alive by namelessdeer

   Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • Gen, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian & Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei
   • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
   • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji & Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei
   • Wen Ning | Wen Qionglin & Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei
   • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji & Luo "Mian Mian" Qingyang
   • Mo Xuanyu & Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei
   • Xue Yang | Xue Chengmei
   • Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
   • Wen Qing (Modao Zushi)
   • Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui
   • Wen Remnants (Modao Zushi)
   • Wen Ning | Wen Qionglin
   • Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji
   • Luo "Mian Mian" Qingyang
   • Xiao Xingchen
   • Song Lan | Song Zichen
   • Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao
   • Mo Xuanyu
   • Novel canon with CQL sprinkles
   • Found Family
   • Fix-It of Sorts
   • Burial Mounds Settlement Days (Modao Zushi)
   • Burial Mounds Ensemble as Family (Modao Zushi)
   • Xue Yang-centric
   • POV Multiple
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Dubious Morality
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Humor
   • adhd wei wuxian
   • autistic lan wangji
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Chronic Pain
   • Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies
   • Angst
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Slow To Update
   • rated for violence and heavy themes
   • Grief/Mourning
   • have entered the inevitable wreck-it era of any fix-it i try to write
   • will start fixing things again eventually

   Summary

   Xue Yang, age 12, makes his way to the Burial Mounds and demands to be taken on as the Yiling Laozu's disciple. Some things change. Some things don't.

   Features dysfunctional found family, Xue Yang Shenanigans of varying severity, and somewhat less tragedy.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   144,457

   Chapters:

   18/?

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