10 Works in A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
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remains of yellowed history (we'll not be remembered this time) by sol_7aleksander
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
07 Sep 2025
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as the yue soldiers surround the kingdom, their spears glinting, xishi takes a choice that changes everything.
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'you look at me, and i, at you & nothing is seen."
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i don’t want to be in love with another even in another life by cheschi
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
01 Sep 2025
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She tries to remember everything from when she was alive, tries to hold the images for as long as she can. It keeps the wait from feeling fruitless, she thinks. Some echo as clear as a crystal, burning as bright in her mind as the day they happened, while some she can barely muster into a proper memory. In the end they all never last too long.
Her mind wanders in the Yellow Springs.
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In autumn all is ripe, yet they do not pay the king's taxes by Yaraqsii
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
25 Aug 2025
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What if Xishi was never drowned and Fuchai was still alive? What if Zhengdan was saved by Xishi in time? And what if Fanli never fell for Xishi and had Luyi accompany him everywhere he went? What if Goujian got everything he deserved? Canon divergence Post-canon fic where Xishi is a farmer, Fuchai lives with her, Zhengdan becomes a guard, Fanli and Luyi work together in the palace and Goujian gets what he deserved as said.
Or:Xichai and Fanluyi happens and everbody gets the ending they deserve.
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are you real, have i dreamt you up? by sol_7aleksander
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
13 Mar 2025
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a continuation of part 1 and letters from fanli to xishi and parallel letters from luyi to fanli.
might be the last fic i write. i don't think anyone ships fanluyi other than me atp.
—★I want you to remember me, I want to pull you out of it. There's so many things I want but who am I to ask for more when the corpses are buried and washed ashore? I remember days where my hands were in yours, I want the memories to hold in my skin until I am nothing but the remnant of you.
Mostly, I want you. Mostly, I want you to keep me.
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i undid your hair and your sigh undid me by sol_7aleksander
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
11 Mar 2025
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a short snippet of a fuchai/xishi moment from Fuchai's perspective. :)
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‘she can use me again and again and i would love to bleed out so long as she was the knife in the wound, fuchai had thought, but didn't say’- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 700
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 50
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An alternative ending of Ann Liang's "a song to drown rivers."
Xishi gets the ending she deserves....As I took one last trembling breath, I prepared myself for my vision to go black and nearly passed out from the sheer terror of drowning. No, that wasn't it. It was the fact that I never got to see Fanli again.
The thought echoed through me, tears prickling behind my eyes as my breath finally gave way to the endless river current. Small bubbles pushed past my lips as I uttered my last sigh.I could be drowned, burned, or buried, and I wouldn't mind, so long as I got to feel his smooth face against my palm one last time...
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i have dreams of you asking me better questions by sol_7aleksander
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
04 Mar 2025
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just luyi dreaming a bit of fanli back when xishi wasn't there and the espionage didn't happen <3 (it's pure angst.)
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‘you fell in love
with a waxed candle always meant to burn out and i didn't know how to stop you. consequence of desire; now you're hollow and you hollow me out or i do it myself so we can look alike a little,’
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you're so loud and yet you do not know how to scream by sol_7aleksander
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
26 Feb 2025
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Pre-Canon before Xishi and the main events of the book. Luyi and Fanli are still searching for the most beautiful girl in the lands; they come across a Wu soldier. Luyi goes down. The morning after from Fanli's perspective.
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'You look so pretty, like a knife,' -
sweeten my bones a little more as they rot by sol_7aleksander
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
03 Jan 2025
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A short minute of Liyu and Fanli's life in the aftermath of Xishi's death and Fanli's resignation. Post-canon.
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Luyi's eyes were fierce, almost challenging. “Then the subject halts here. I'm not going anywhere. I don't mind wasting away if it means I'm wasting away with you. Maybe I'll take your suggestion and work in a teahouse. Relaxing. Fresh. No wars, no blood just teas and occasional gossip. Wouldn't it be nice?”Fanli's hand went to his forehead, smoothing out the crease between his brows as if Luyi was giving him a headache. He gave a mirthless smile as he grit out. “It would be nice,” he snapped, “if you were a dumb fool.”
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Got plans to be in a warmer town, come summertime by evil_queer
Fandoms: A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
03 Nov 2024
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What if Fanli saved Xishi? What if it wasn't too late? What if they both got their happy ending?
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i didn't want xishi to die and i thought i'd write a fic where she lives.