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    Becoming emperor of the cultivation world will start with a first step as small and basic as becoming Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace. For that, he must steal the position away from the current Head Disciple. Luo Binghe will sabotage, upstage, and completely and utterly best him.

    The road to destroying everything and everyone who has ever wronged him, to becoming the highest ruler so that no one will ever have the right to control him ever again - it will start as simply as ruining Gongyi Xiao’s life.

    Compared to everything else he’s already done, this should be easy.

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    Luo Binghe brings all his skills of cunning and brutality to bear on Gongyi Xiao, Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace Sect. It… doesn’t go too well for him.

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    23 Oct 2025

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    Gongyi Xiao raises one hand - Luo Binghe can see how it trembles in the air - and drags it down his lower face, as if he’s physically trying to force a mask back into place. He blinks rapidly, swallows thickly.

    “This is better,” he says, and there’s a strained rasp to the edges of his words now. “This is better than-- than dying. I’m just put out of the way, where no one is ever going to see or hear from me again. I get to just live a quiet life. I don’t ever-- I don’t get to see Fu-shimei again. I don’t get to see Xie-shimei or Pan-shidi, or read the rest of the books in the library, or walk through the gardens, or-- but it’s not that bad. I’m just not relevant any longer. So what? Who wants to be relevant? I’m just not ever allowed to go back home--”

    His voice splinters so terribly that he has to stop talking, has to stop breathing for a long moment. He hangs his head, as if to try and hide his face.

    “Fuck,” he breathes. “Fuck, fucking shit. Goddamnit. This is such bullshit! I didn’t mean to get so attached!”

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    Luo Binghe doesn’t mean to reach out to Shen Qingqiu. It’s a combination of instinct, the force of habit, and sheer agonized longing that causes him to do it anyway. His physical body is safely ensconced in his rooms at Huan Hua Palace, where he has recently been accepted as a visiting disciple, but his mind—

    His mind is on Qing Jing Peak.

    He doesn’t even realize it isn’t one of his own dreams at first.

    or: while at Huan Hua, Luo Binghe keeps sharing dreams with his shizun, and it doesn't take long to notice that there is something very, very wrong with Shizun's dreamscape

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    27 Oct 2025

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    Gideon’s hood was down, her hair brushing Harrowhark’s cheek in an entirely offensive way as Harrow dragged them both down the hall to their quarters. Damn Gideon Nav for being so tall. Damn Gideon Nav for being built like a fucking brick

     

    Damn Gideon Nav for putting her life in Harrowhark’s hands, all because she asked

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    25 Mar 2024

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    Harrow wheezed and stumbled, tripping over one of Gideon’s dragging feet. Gideon groaned pitifully. Harrow’s stomach rolled. She fought down the urge to vomit.

    Damn Gideon Nav for putting her life in Harrowhark’s hands, all because she asked.

    Harrow was filled with the brutal urge to drop Gideon, to let her crumple onto the floor. To kick her while she was down. To punish her for daring to trust Harrow. Harrow was not a creature meant to be trusted. She was a cruel amalgamation of soul-swallowing ambition and bitter disregard for the lives of anyone standing in her way. She was born from brutality and lived by brutality. Gideon Nav knew better than anyone how vicious Harrowhark Nonagesimus was.

    Who but Gideon had endured Harrow’s violence their entire life?

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    Okay, so I'm the dragon. Big deal.

     

     

    A (limitless) love story for the (endless) ages.

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    28 Oct 2022

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    “Do you think you deserve this?” the Oldest Dream asks.

    Dokja is exhausted, miserable, shaky in his own skin. He’s so tired of being tired. “I’m starting to think I do,” he says.

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    11 Oct 2022

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    “You’re not here,” he said in icy realization.

    “No,” Joonghyuk said again.

    He expected Joonghyuk’s hand to lose the warmth, but he stayed exactly the same, as corporeal and solid as before, right down to those soft dark eyes, that full mouth.

    “You’re breaking my heart,” Dokja said, quietly honest for once.