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    Black hockey skates with white laces appear in front of him, and when Mu Qing looks up, he finds a gloved hand reaching towards him, offering to help him up.

    Mu Qing takes the offered hand, struggling to sit up on bruised knees before he gingerly picks himself up and balances on the blades of his comparatively delicate figure skates.

    “What,” he hisses as he reaches down to dust off the front of his leggings, “is your fucking problem? Did someone hit you in the head? Are you stupid?”

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    Mu Qing is training for a figure skating competition. Feng Xin is on the local hockey team, and keeps getting in his way.

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    11 May 2026

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    Really, Mu Qing has no word for the feeling in his chest. Not tight like panic, but not loose like happiness; an inbetween, a fear of everything that has been and everything that could be that warps around the secondhand furniture of their apartment and lingers in the one corner of the living room where Feng Xin shoved his workout equipment. Shining in the glint of his eye, unfurling petals in Mu Qing’s chest when it’s past midnight and they’re shouting at each other over the love triangle in a romcom they only watched because Xie Lian recommended it.

    Six months, and the two of them are the same. Always talking, always fighting, always seeking. This long, and Mu Qing doesn’t know if it’s supposed to be easy. If he should be struggling with lowering his defenses, should hate sitting on the counter while Feng Xin chops carrots and forces a sliver past his grimacing lips.

    Six months, and Mu Qing doesn’t know how to say if this is love.

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    Mu Qing and Feng Xin have been dating for six months. In all that time, Mu Qing has never quite known if he's in love.

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    11 May 2026

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    Mu Qing gets cursed to only tell the truth. Feng Xin learns some things. (So do hualian)
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    “A truth curse?” he repeats uncertainly. He’s never heard of anything like that before.
    “Mn. I can control what I say for the most part, but I can’t say anything that’s not the absolute truth.”
    Feng Xin considers this. “It could be worse.”
    Mu Qing’s head snaps up, and he fixes him with a glare. “It could be better. I could be not cursed at all.”

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    09 May 2026

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    For many years, Shang Qinghua stubbornly avoided the little itchy place in his brain that went “you know, here’s an idea.” And like, not gonna lie, that kind of sucked, because his brain kept itching and itching. Creativity wasn’t exactly opt-in and opt-out, you know?

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    12 Apr 2026

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    Linguang-Jun ruins everything. He always does; it is his habit. When Mobei Li was eight he found some way, bribes, threats, or blackmail, to convince his tutor to attempt to put a knife through his back; he stopped attending lessons. When he was ten, he poisoned his favorite food, leading him to be terribly ill and nearly lose his life; he stopped eating it. When he was sixteen, he poisoned his horse in the presumed hope that it would buck him off and trample him during its death throes; he stopped riding horses.

    The need for caution and survival dictates that he must cover every weakpoint, close off any avenue for another underhanded attempt at his life. Shaving his life smaller and smaller, making himself silent and unreadable, never betraying a preference or inclination that might be noted and exploited. The only way to avoid having the things he likes most used against him and thus ruined is to avoid showing that he likes them at all. 

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    Mobei-Jun overhears a conversation between his uncle and his servant.

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