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  1. Public Bookmark 30

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    Xie Lian lets out a short noise, eyes widening when he sees the goods. On the shelves are neatly arranged body parts – first an ear, then fingers, then hands, one, two, three, four. An arm severed by the shoulder. He pulls down the other sheets and finds more of the same: mostly minor extremities, toes and fingers, but full feet and a few tongues too. They are all neatly severed, looking almost cured where they've been cut from the body. All of them look identical, and when he picks one of the hands up – Hua Cheng lets out a strangled noise behind him – it flips and twists easily in his grip, free of the paralysis of death.

    "They're all from the same person," Xie Lian muses, studying the hand he's holding. "And they're preserved, or perhaps preserving themselves…? They don't have much spiritual energy, but–"

    "Gege," Hua Cheng chokes out, "they're you."

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    25 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 63

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    When a heavenly official provokes Hua Cheng to violence in one of his less conventionally attractive forms, Xie Lian’s reaction is hardly what he expected.

    Or: Xie Lian is determined to prove that there isn’t a single form Hua Cheng can take that’s too hideous to be kissed. He's mostly right.

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    22 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 87

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    Xie Lian lifted his head from Hua Cheng’s chest and Hua Cheng opened his eye to see his sleepy and confused look. “San Lang?”

    Hua Cheng tried to say something, to reassure Xie Lian that he was okay, that he didn’t need to be concerned. But he couldn’t speak. His throat, pierced by an arrow. Drowning in his own blood. All that came out was another pained whimper.

    So much for pretending to be fine. Xie Lian was wide awake in an instant. He breathed out sharply and lifted a hand to cup Hua Cheng’s cheek, a worried look on his face.

    “Oh my love, why didn’t you wake me up?”

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    Hua Cheng has a bad pain day. There is a soft blanket.

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    10 Aug 2025

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    When Hua Cheng touches a cursed object, he de-ages to the day his mother died. Confronted with uncomfortable aspects of his husband’s childhood, Xie Lian takes care of a baby Hong-er, determined to make up for the past.

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    09 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 97

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    He at last identified what was dangerous in her laugh. It sounded like bells, like the lower version to the jangling of her boots, and he had so come to associate that sound with Hua Cheng being devastating. Her clever fingers removed her inner robe from her shoulders next, letting the fabric pool at her waist and exposing so much pearlescent skin he thought he might faint. 

    "I asked if gege would like to touch. Or would he prefer to digest solely with his eyes?" 

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    08 May 2025