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Yuuri Katsuki has been betrothed to the High King's son, Victor, since he was just a child; furthermore, as an omega, he's forbidden from practicing magic in combat. For years, he's been able to put off the former because the Prince was traveling abroad, and gotten around the latter by practicing with his mentor in secret.
Now Victor Nikiforov has finally returned home, and Yuuri is being summoned to the capital for their wedding. He needs a plan to put off marriage long enough to find a way to break the betrothal, while keeping his practicing from being discovered.
If only the Prince didn't have other ideas.
(Or, the swords-and-sorcery arranged marriage AU. Updates weekly.)
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10 Jan 2026
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It’s become a game, of sorts, to anyone privy to the fact that the pattern exists in the first place: ask Victor out at the beginning of the month, date for however many days are in that month, and wait for the end to come and for Victor to say, always: I couldn’t fall in love with you. Let’s break up.
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- 9/9
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06 Jan 2026
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The skating season continues (as skating seasons are wont to do), while Victor and Yuuri negotiate the shifts in their relationship, their careers, and their home rink.
Sometimes, things even go as planned.
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- Part 1 of The Next Level 'Verse
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- 43/43
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31 Dec 2025
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“Back then,” Yuuri asks. “Did you love me?”
The cigarette hangs low, tucked between Victor’s lips. The end glows steadily orange, devil eyes on a coal-black night.
(Some ghosts of your past you leave well alone.)(Or: the powered assassins AU in which betrayal comes first, forgiveness second, and love was always somewhere in the equation.)
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- Part 1 of shoot to thrill
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- English
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- 43,285
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- 10/10
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28 Dec 2025
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In which Yuuri spends a 25 hour flight next to Victor Nikiforov, skating legend, and feels it might simultaneously be the best and worst thing that has ever happened to him.
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- 3/3
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19 Dec 2025
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AU. Before the Grand Prix Final starts in Sochi, Yuuri finds Victor's phone. He returns it--and hijinks and heavy flirtation ensue.
(Just about everything that happens at the Sochi GPF happens here, so if something that happens there might bother you, check the tags?)
Now with bonus epilogue!
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Yuuri hated looking at pictures of himself. His hair had started sticking up again. And he had that horrible star-struck smile on his face. Plus, he was blushing, and blushing always made him look so young.
“Aaaaaah.” Yuuri winced. “I look so…”
Victor winked at him. “Cute!”
Before Yuuri could protest, Victor dropped the photo into Instagram and started typing a caption.
My champion! I thought I lost my phone this morning, but look who returned it? Our very own…
Yuuri watched as Victor’s agile thumbs (so agile, and no, he was not going to think about what else Victor could do with them) stopped moving. That fan-struck part of him that had been screaming mentally in the back of his mind came to a slow halt.
Victor didn’t know his name.
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17 Dec 2025
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Yuuri wakes up in Victor’s room the night after the Sochi Grand Prix Final banquet. Did they sleep together? No. Instead, last night, Drunk Yuuri taunted Victor that he hadn’t earned the right to get in his pants…and spelled out exactly what Victor would have to do to get there.
Now, Victor intends to do everything on that list…
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“The conversation,” Victor says, “went something like this. You said I wasn’t getting in your pants that easily.”
Victor says this in a normal tone of voice. Anyone could hear him. Yuuri looks around, but if anyone is paying attention, they’re pretending not to.
“Naturally, I asked what I would have to do to get in your pants.”
“Ah.” Yuuri blushes. “How embarrassing. What do you mean, naturally? Why would you ask that?”
Victor tilts his head. “Because I want to get in your pants. I thought that much was obvious by now.”
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Note: Yuuri is not in a great headspace post Sochi Grand Final, and this fic necesssarily touches on mental health issues so please check the tags.
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- 8/8
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Bookmarked by riverwave
16 Dec 2025
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Aoyagi's lips parted in a sigh, and for a brief second, Viktor saw a wistful expression beneath the fine-edged veneer – fleeting and transient as a cherry blossom in bloom. There was so much unspoken that Viktor wanted, now more than ever, to take the man with him. Bring him home and far away from this glittering world of luxury and waste.
Victuuri historical AU in 1800s, Edo, Japan. Yuuri is Aoyagi, a high-ranking male courtesan, and Viktor falls hopelessly in love.
-Spanish translation by Cilenita79: here
-Russian translation by Sheally: here- Language:
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11 Dec 2025
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But Monsters Are Always Hungry, Darling by iruutciv, Orchids_and_Fictional_Cities
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
22 Dec 2022
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“You do this, you do. You take the things you love
and tear them apart
or you pin them down with your body and pretend they're yours.
So, you kiss him, and he doesn't move, he doesn't
pull away, and you keep on kissing him. And he hasn't moved,
he's frozen, and you've kissed him, and he'll never
forgive you, and maybe now he'll leave you alone.”A brutal murder on Christmas Eve abruptly pulls one Detective Nikiforov out of a holiday he was just starting to tolerate, and forces him to come to terms with demons he's been pretending not to see. On that same night, a man walks into a bar and waltzes into his life, lighting a spark that grows into a monster of its own.
[ fic + art collab with iruutciv ]
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- English
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- 309,014
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- 22/22
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- 5
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- 2,146
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16 Nov 2025
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The year is 1942, and Europe is at war. Captain Victor Nikiforov, an intelligence operative for the NKVD, has been trapped in Berlin by the German invasion of the USSR. Posing as a Nazi industrialist, his days are spent charming information out of Axis diplomats to try and keep the Red Army fighting another day.
Yuuri Katsuki, a foreign-educated bureaucrat in the Japanese Embassy, has secrets of his own concealed beneath his unremarkable demeanour. When he uncovers Victor’s real identity, it will alter the course of both of their lives forever.
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- Part 1 of Birdsong
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,622
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 1,464
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06 Nov 2025
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A Practical Guide to Winning the Olympics (Dos and Don’ts) by Anna (pineconepickers)
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
28 May 2018
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When pair skater Yuuri Katsuki’s career comes to a scandalous end, he does not expect the retired pair skating legend Viktor Nikiforov to suggest that they compete together. But taking on a new skating partner is full of trial and error, and the skating world doesn’t know how to react when the Katsuki-Nikiforov duo, against all odds, starts doing well. The last thing either of them should do, as they strive for their last chance at greatness, is to fall in love. Yuuri knows he is damaged goods, and Viktor knows his body is starting to fail him. They have competitions to survive and medals to win. No, falling in love is out of the question; they’re just very good friends. And even if Viktor felt something, he’d never act on it, and even if Yuuri happened to be hopelessly in love, he’d be mortified if Viktor ever found out.
“Well,” Viktor said, “let’s summarise: I’m pushing thirty, have a bad ankle, and haven’t skated competitively in three years. You’re barely out of a doping scandal, coachless, and on the JSF’s blacklist. Hell, Yuuri – we might as well go for it, then. What on earth do we have to lose?”
When Viktor put it like that, it seemed to make an awful lot of sense.
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- 4/4
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Bookmarked by riverwave
03 Oct 2025
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Victor learns Japanese while in Hasetsu. He doesn't tell Yuuri, and things get dicey when he overhears Yuuri and Mari talking about him in Japanese. Repeatedly.
(The subtitle of this fic should be: Victor Nikiforov really needs a hug. Luckily, he gets one. Eventually.)
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“No,” Victor says, skating up to Yuuri on the ice, “you have to push all the way from here, or you’ll never get the height you need for that axel.” He sets his hand on Yuuri’s ass, tracing the muscle group he’s referring to. “Not here.” He taps Yuuri’s thigh. He doesn’t know the words for the muscles in English, only knows how to show him.
Yes, technically he’s grabbing Yuuri’s ass, but how else is he to communicate?
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- English
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- 50,245
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- 7/7
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18 Sep 2025
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Rotting Waters by yabancreations
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Jul 2025
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The story of Heavenly Damnation continues!
During the mid-autumn festival, a fateful encounter allowed Hua Cheng to take his all-time idol, Xie Lian, away from the grasp of Immortal Records —the most important label for rock and metal music in the country— who were trying to coerce him into signing up for a nightmare. Retreating with him and some members of his own band to a vacation home away from the Capital, Hua Cheng now must make the best out of the couple of days they’ll spend together to gather what he needs in order to save Xie Lian’s music. The task isn’t easy: Hua Cheng can’t tell Xie Lian about his plans without breaking his trust and scaring him away, there are more interests at play, and back in the Capital, Jun Wu loses no time summoning Feng Xin and Mu Qing, Xie Lian’s former bandmates and friends, to set a snare in which he can catch Xie Lian as soon as he returns. Dishonest debts, broken feelings and stolen songs start to surface in the muddled waters.
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- Part 2 of Heavenly Damnation
- Language:
- English
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- 41,535
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- 6/11
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03 Sep 2025
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Treasure Hunting in the Clouds by yabancreations
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Feb 2025
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Hua Cheng’s flight gets off to a bad start when the airline arbitrarily gives half of his first class couple’s pod to a stranger. To add insult to injury, he arrives back to his seat only to find that the intruder has mistaken Hua Cheng’s jumper with the plane’s pyjamas! Before he can kick up a fuss, though, something in this man’s face strikes him as familiar…
Wait a second, isn’t this the super cute guy from the last video that Hua Cheng watched while at the lounge before the flight?
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- 6/6
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03 Sep 2025
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Where Embers Lie by Elu_ri
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
07 Oct 2025
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They meet in a bar. It should’ve ended there.
But nothing is simple—not with the Wens tightening their grip on the city, not with lines blurring between allies and enemies, and certainly not when a one-night stranger becomes something much harder to walk away from.---
Please check each chapter header for any necessary warnings.Series
- Part 1 of Where Embers Lie—Xicheng Detective AU
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31 Aug 2025
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Body in Janitor’s Closet, Heart in OR by RuskyDiamond
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
12 Sep 2025
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! INDEFINITE HIATUS - LAW SCHOOL !
NSFW Chapter Guide: 9, 11, 14, 21, (TBA)
Pei Ming's head snapped up. "Wait, seriously? You were a neurosurgeon?"
Xie Lian nodded. "Yes. At Wuhan Union Hospital for several years."
"And now you mop floors?" Pei Ming asked incredulously.
"Yes, now I mop floors,” Xie Lian replied with a faint smile. “And I'm perfectly content doing so."TL;DR:
Disgraced ex-neuro surgeon Xie Lian becomes a janitor, tries not to have a breakdown, accidentally starts helping again via sticky notes, gets railed by a hot trauma surgeon, and then gets blackmailed into hospital embezzlement.It’s fine. He’s fine. Everything is very normal and fine.
This fic contains:
– brain-breaking sex and brain-putting-back-in-afterward sex
– Catholic levels of guilt
– moral rot in the healthcare system
– Texaco Mike
– medical surgeons as a metaphor for godhood
– and one man’s slow descent into bureaucratically sanctioned hellNOTE: Smut scenes are modular, meaning you can read them, skip them, or come back to them later (for research, obviously). They're my magna opera, but you won’t miss any essential plot by skipping them.
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15 Aug 2025
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That Can Be Arranged by kianspo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 Dec 2025
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"You're selling me for money? Your own child?"
A modern arranged marriage AU. Xie Lian's family's business is on the verge of failing. Hua Cheng has money and a horrible reputation. A match made in heaven? Well, it's certainly been made somewhere... Are reluctant marriage partners the next power couple or a train wreck waiting to happen? Spoiler: they're Hualian, so likely both?
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- 179,737
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- 23/23
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07 Aug 2025
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His gaze went back towards Lan Xichen’s cold, stone-like features. He could feel the frown on his face deepen and he clasped his hands in front of him again leaning on the table as he considered what he should do. He took a deep inhale trying hard to think of something, anything to ease his conscience that he wasn’t forcing this man into marriage when he wasn’t ready, but also that didn’t hurt the Jiang sect.
“Doesn’t the Lan clan have strict courting requirements?” He says after a while looking over the Lan elders and sect leader.
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Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen have been betrothed for 10 years and everything is finally aligning for the sects to proceed. But in order to stop what feels like a forced marriage the Jiang alpha suggests he courts the Lan omega to stall and give the older male time, only to end himself up having to follow the Lan sect's rigid and detailed courting process because of it.
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- 15/15
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02 Aug 2025
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Paper Memories (Part Two) by starvingwritist
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Nov 2025
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This is the sequel to "Paper Memories (Part One)." This is Part Two of Two.
Part Two is about Faith and Forgiveness.Xie Lian has found himself in a rather unusual and dire situation.
Not only does he have two amnesiac ghost kings cooped up in his shrine, but Hua Cheng has mysteriously regressed into the form of a child. While Xie Lian is determined to return his Beloved's memories, he also has the help of Shi Qingxuan who is equally driven to restore and confront the person he once considered his best friend. It will be up to the two of them to track down the powerful memory-eating steam spirit who has done this, and with any luck, find a way to return all that has been stolen away by her. This includes Xie Lian’s own lost memories. What could have driven him to nearly commit genocide?
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- Part 8 of (NFNF) Coffin Rescue AU
- Language:
- English
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- 161,769
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- 24/40
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19 Jul 2025
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33 Ghosts by AnimationAspiration
Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Jan 2026
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Bookmarked by riverwave
02 Jul 2025