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    [Fic contains spoilers for the entirety of TGCF]

    So yes, technically Hua Cheng himself took the childbearing pill, and technically Xie Lian then… Fulfilled the other role necessary in that equation. A few times. But really, it was only a joke! It had all been in good fun. Something to make Xie Lian laugh and blush.

    This isn't what Hua Cheng intended.

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    Child-Bearing Pills from ghost city only work on ghosts, but they do work. Xie Lian and Hua Cheng find this out the hard way.

    [Hua Cheng M!Preg]

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    Xie Lian finds Yin Yu at the small reflecting pond behind Paradise Manor.
    "Yin Yu," he says gently, sitting next to him.
    "Your Highness."
    "Could you tell me what San Lang was like, before he found me again? How did you two meet?"
    Yin Yu looks down into the pond, watching the ripples distort his face.
    "It's a long story," he says quietly, and begins.

    Or: how Yin Yu met Hua Cheng, how the two of them met Black Water, and what Yin Yu learned about unconditional love and revenge along the way.

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    Xie Lian is getting married to his ghost, which is fine, it's whatever - or it would be if it didn't make Mu Qing keep thinking about a certain person--things! Just random things!

     

    Sometimes there’ll be a quality to the light in the mortal realm or a scent and he’s back there, like he never left: the cramped space beneath the window, the unraveling knit of a homespun blanket, a thumb pressing, light, at the pulse in his throat. Like that he’s back to being suddenly seventeen, the stupidest age imaginable. And he can prove, in short order, why that’s true.

     

    But he doesn’t go there; he stops at threshold, draws the door firmly shut over the last full evening of his mortal life. Only it’s been harder to do that lately, and he’s been catching glimpses of it in the tail of his mind’s eye. The bead of water at the corner of Feng Xin's lip, licked slowly away. The long, heavy-lidded stare...

     

    What's that you say? You want to read nearly 75k of Mu Qing Going Through It? Well, boy howdy, have I got great news for you...

    This fic is finished. All chapters will be posted by 2/15.

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    “He will be writing,” Mobeijun rumbled, “and he will stop. He will be talking, and he will stop. He will be listening, and then— he will stop.”

    His hand rose in an aborted movement that shifted into crossing his arms, and Mu Qingfang had the impression that the Northern King was, in fact, agitated.

    Shang Qinghua seems to be suffering from a very unusual malady. Mobeijun is concerned.

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    Riding courier along the long line of the Noldorin Siege, Celechwes of the Falas couldn’t help developing favorites among the strange, bright-eyed elves from the West. Namely, Fingon the Valiant, Prince of Dor-lómin, who always ran down the steps of his tower to fetch his own missives, who smiled with determination even on those days he didn’t smile with natural cheer; and Maedhros the Tall, stern Lord of cold Himring, who only seemed to smile at letters from his valiant cousin (and oh how it lit up his face).

    What was she supposed to do but try to help them fix their family’s stupid, Doom-tempting schisms?

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