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    After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.

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    06 Dec 2025

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    “My name is Yue Qingyuan,” he says, as if Shen Jiu is someone to be introduced to. His gaze on Shen Jiu is - intent, almost frighteningly so. Unblinking. “Are you really a servant here? Or a slave?”

    “Ah - I believe I can find that out for you--” Lord Xu is saying, already waving over his head servant, and Shen Jiu is so irritated that the man just seems to assume that Shen Jiu can’t answer for himself like he’s a dog or some other beast that he speaks up.

    “A slave,” he answers, and Yue Qingyuan nods as if this isn’t surprising.

    Then he turns towards Lord Xu and he says, “I will buy him.”

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    A rich and powerful cultivator meets a slave with nothing to his name, and decides to buy him on the spot. Why?

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    15 Nov 2025

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    Luo Binghe stays up until the moon dips below the horizon. He thinks of his long-dead Shizun. He thinks of the other world. Fingers through his hair, a soft voice. He thinks of being held close while he sleeps.
    He wants.
    It feels like his ribs are cracking to make room for something his chest never grew to accommodate.
    He feels the whispering of Xin Mo in his mind.
    For the first time in a long time he thinks, maybe the whispers are right.
    He could unmake the world if he wanted. He had already remade it once. Could he not do it again? Remake it the way he wishes.
    Couldn’t he start again?

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    Luo Binghe sees a future where he is loved and becomes desperate to achieve it. Using Xin Mo, he cuts a hole in space-time to go back and change his past so he can have his perfect future.
    But some some things are not easily altered.
    Written for the Scum Villain Big Bang

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    05 Aug 2025

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    Since the tender age of 9, Jiang Cheng has been convinced there is something growing within his chest.

    He fancies it might be a rose bush, full of thorns that poke his lungs everytime his father praises Wei Wuxian while his mother compares his lacking skills to his adopted brother and his sister dotes on the older boy, first and foremost. Or maybe it's a cactus, one that parches his throat dry with a hacking cough when all his friends favor the cooler Jiang sibling and dismiss his minuscule insecurities. But sometimes he contemplates if it's poison ivy wrapping tightly around his esophagus, causing uncomfortable irritation when his childhood crush, flawless Lan Xichen doesn't notice him the way Jiang Cheng notices everything about the older boy.

    He might not be certain what it is, but all he knows is that he is growing something so magnificent and indescribable.

    And it hurts.

    Yet no one believes him when he mentions the pain, when somedays the basic skill of breathing doesn't come easy. He catches the eye rolls, hears the scoffs, fumes at the blatant teasing, and clams up at the scolding he receives for his "exaggeration".

    Though perhaps his imagination wasn't too far off the mark.

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    07 Jul 2025

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    In the wake of new, devastating revelations about Jin Guangyao, Lan Xichen is left reeling and adrift once more. Thanks to Jiang Wanyin’s unexpected kindness, he begins to find a measure of solace and healing in Lotus Pier. When his regard for the other man deepens into something more tender than friendship, Xichen finds himself grappling with feelings he never expected to have, uncertain if they can ever be returned. The last thing he expects is to be confronted with yet another horrifying secret—one that threatens to shatter them both beyond repair.

    Sequel to 'through constant pained disgrace.' Xicheng endgame.

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    25 Jun 2025