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    “Ah. Here is a young man transfixed. Do you like Hunt, sir?"
    "Do I like him?" Phil tore his eyes from the painting before him and marvelled at the stranger at his elbow. Like him? One might as well ask do you like Michaelangelo? Do you like Homer? Do you like the Alps?
     
    An art enthusiast with a talent for meteorology meets (arguably) the Finest Painter in England. But impressing your idol can be damned hard work, especially when he's all pride and prejudice, and you're all sensibility and no sense. Heavy weather ahead...

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    Hua Cheng shows Xie Lian his female form. They have some fun with it.

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    Xie Lian looks down, still a bit shy, then immediately back up, blushing. Hua Cheng’s face and voice are not the only things that are different, and she is not dressed modestly.

    “Like what you see, gege?” Hua Cheng asks teasingly.

    Xie Lian stares at a spot over her ear, which is as good as a yes. He’s never, ever been interested in breasts before. Why does he want to touch hers? Well, probably because they’re attached to his husband.

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    27 Aug 2025

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    "We've found the sower, Gongyi-shixiong," Binghe said. "Thank you for bringing assistance, but I won't presume to waste any more of this senior's time."

    The smile he gave Shen Qingqiu was…polite. Respectful.

    Disinterested.

    Shen Qingqiu stared at him, speechless. He'd been prepared for anger, or hate—it was no less than what he deserved—but this?

    What was this, even?

    In which Luo Binghe comes back from the Abyss with amnesia, and Shen Qingqiu is definitely relieved and not at all worried sick about him.

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    28 Jul 2025

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    "Sometimes,” Bel said, “I think that only I know what a wicked creature you truly are, Sophy."

    Christmas Eve, 1812: the Annual West Wycombe Soirée. The rooms are hot, the games tiresome, and the men utterly objectionable. Any discerning young lady would prefer the company of a friend to such a crowd, particularly when said friend is the most striking and spirited girl in the entire county. There is nothing so remarkable about that. Right? Right?!

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    17 Jul 2025

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    “Good morning, Dianxia,” Hua Cheng murmured, a hint of a smile returned to him by his own image in the mirror. He put down the brush next to the ornate pyxis of cinnabar clay and thoroughly checked his reflexion.

    The flex of his fingers on the mahogany handle of the brush, the drag of the bristles on his skin, the scrape of the lid encrusted with mother of pearl against the edges of the box as he closed it and the smear of rouge the movement always left on his fingertips were moments repeated slowly morning by morning, each a step in the ancient ritual of making himself worthy of his God’s gaze. The water that flowed through the fibers on the head of the brush ran tainted red as a blood sacrifice and the incense on Xie Lian’s altar burned.

    or: Hua Cheng prays to Xie Lian every day, sharing ordinary moments and heartfelt confessions with the beloved that cannot hear him.
    Coming out of the coffin in Yong'An Xie Lian starts to hear the loving and harrowing prayers of a devoted ghost.

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    12 Jul 2025