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loose digital sketch done in an ink-brush style of Di Feisheng from Mysterious Lotus Casebook looking down pensively



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  1. Rec 9

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    “Thank you, Lan-daren.”

    It reminds Lan Jue, oddly, of the zongzi. There had been so many young men clamouring for his attention, his patronage – each of them more lavish and overinflated in his expectations than the last. Zhang Ping had arrived with a basket of zongzi simply as a thank you, nothing more. The sincerity had been almost aching. Lan Jue feels that now, as Zhang Ping thanks him. It makes something flutter in his stomach, a sensation like flower petals buffeted by the wind.

    OR: Three years after the downfall of the Dowager Empress, Zhang Ping returns to the capital to take up a new position. Lan Jue is forced to reckon with the fact that Zhang Ping may not have been the only one responsible for his numerous near brushes with death.

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    25 Apr 2026

  2. Rec 53

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    Once the serpent is sealed, they wander.

     

    Boya tells himself that they are hardly shirking their duty. The most important aspect of their work – the offering of help, the rooting out of evil – they continue to pursue with a vengeance. But there are no politics. No paperwork. No stultifying routines. Just himself and his companion, wending their way from one village to another, as though they were a pair of wandering cultivators. It’s decadence. It’s bliss.

     

    The members of Boya's temple are celibate. Qingming is not. It becomes necessary to discuss the matter.

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    22 Apr 2026

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    ahh <3

  3. Rec 8

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    Boya and Qingming exchange letters.

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    22 Apr 2026

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    lovely!!!

  5. Rec 29

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    “Do you think… does Tang Fan need more money?”

    Dong-er looks up at him incredulously. “Who doesn’t need more money, Sui-dage?” she asks, in that wide-eyed way of hers. And he remembers that he is speaking to someone who, unlike himself, grew up always short of her desires, always hungry. She and Tang Fan: a household of unfilled bellies; a household of innocents.

    OR: In which Sui Zhou learns that Tang Fan writes erotica to pay his bills, draws some conclusions, and makes some mistakes.

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    21 Apr 2026