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  1. Public Bookmark 39

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    Lu Guang’s conducting degree is one year away. All he has to do is stay the course: go to class, mark his scores, practice four hours a day, keep his technique flawless. Then he crosses paths with Cheng Xiaoshi—a naturally talented prodigy who plays violin like he’s breaking the rules on purpose. All tattoos, piercings, and a grin sharp enough to make Lu Guang forget himself.

    “You’re a pianist, aren’t you?”
    “Conductor.”
    “Pianist with a stick, then.”

    Idiot.

    He should be the opposite of Lu Guang’s type. But instead, he can't seem to get him out of his head, and suddenly the future he thought was fixed starts to shift under his feet.

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    05 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 95

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    Cheng Xiaoshi listens to the silence, watches as dust mites float across an apartment devoid of colour, impersonal and cold.

    There are worse fates in the world for those who live. But this on its own, for people like Cheng Jiawei, for people like Cheng Xiaoshi—this sort of loneliness is enough to be excruciating.

    "Lu Guang," Cheng Xiaoshi asks. "What does home mean to you?"

    He thinks of sandalled feet, the warm hands that had held him that quiet September night, and wishes he'd been brave enough to ask what exactly Lu Guang had meant by his words that day.

    If I left and the world went on, would anyone even notice me gone?

    In which a client's request forces Cheng Xiaoshi to confront the terrifying ordeal of what it means to love, grieve, and find your way home.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    Cheng Xiaoshi spends the next several minutes just staring at the photograph, his finger running gently down the curve of Lu Guang's sunlit features. His mother's voice sounds from the back of his head.

    The photograph is a window into the photographer's soul. Look, baobei, what does this photo tell you about the person who took it? What emotions do they feel?

    Attraction. Longing. Desire. It might as well be written in Sharpie over Lu Guang's face, big bold characters in Cheng Xiaoshi's handwriting.

    Fuck. He really has been blind.

    Over the course of a year, Cheng Xiaoshi learns to see what's been right in front of him this entire time. (Or, familiarity as a love language.)

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    25 Jan 2026

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    “...i’m sorry,” he says quietly. “i’m always telling you that you can’t change the past, but i couldn’t listen to my own words. i… had to try for you.”

    the clock chimes midnight, bringing them another day closer to september 13.

    (lu guang isn't like cheng xiaoshi: he'll collapse the universe trying to save just one person.)

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    24 Jan 2026

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    Shen Yuan had long ago resigned himself to the fact that he had transmigrated into an unimportant NPC. Which is why he is very confused when he is cursed into being an old man by a mysterious cultivator.

    Shen Yuan had never intended on adventuring in this life, because he knew the fate of nameless male characters who tried too hard to get involved in the plot, but he's going to have to at least try if he wants to break the curse. Or maybe he won't have to go too far. Afterall, everyone knows that the protagonist, Luo Binghe, is basically a cure-all when it comes to these things.

    Moving into Luo Binghe's castle won't be as simple as it sounds, though. It will involve deals with strange demons, side characters who are not where they belong, and a growing concern that Luo Binghe might not be the best person to marry Shen Yuan's sister.

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    15 Jan 2026