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    Xie Lian would do anything to give his people peace.

    The long war between Tiānjiè and Guǐ jiè had worn down both kingdom's resources, people, and spirit. In an effort for peace Emperor Jun Wu arranges a peace talk that somehow ends with the disgraced Prince Xie Lian traveling to Guǐ jiè to marry none other than King Hua Cheng.

    Now in Guǐ jiè former Prince Xie Lian finds not only a husband, new friends, and allies but information that would shatter everything he thought he understood. Will he be able to figure out who murdered his beloved parents so many years ago?

    Will he be able to put the pieces together before it's too late?

    Which will confuse him more? Figuring out the murder or figuring out his own feelings for his new husband?

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    24 May 2026

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    A canon-divergent AU where Xie Lian and Hua Cheng get together shortly after Wuming deals with the angry spirits attacking Yong'An. Involves "kidnapping" (but not really), actual kidnapping, misunderstanding, and shenanigans with a desperate Jun Wu. Written from Hua Cheng's perspective. Inspired by (and written with permission from) reddit user shiorihide, who posted details of a TGCF-themed dream they had. See original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tianguancifu/comments/1jb1keg/help_my_tgcfobsessed_brain_dreamed_the_whole/. Enjoy!

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    21 May 2026

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    After a prayer leads them across the mountains, Xie Lian and Hua Cheng's domestic life gets suddenly flipped upside-down. They find themselves chasing down a group of mysterious agitators from one end of the country to the next--putting out fires, saving civilians, trying to prevent an invisible force from cracking open the newfound peace of their world. Something sinister, and unfortunately familiar, is at work.
    Through all the turmoil, Xie Lian and Hua Cheng stick by each other's sides and combine their strengths to extinguish the last obstacle between them and their own version of "happily ever after."

    Or: Xie Lian and Hua Cheng go on an adventure to track down mysterious destructive ghosts.

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    21 May 2026

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    “My A-die is not a liar.” The fists clenched into tight balls, the beet red face turned down to the floor. “But maybe you are, and you lied to him.”

    Hua Cheng was about to scoff but then the child said the words that made him lose his shit for the rest of his life.

    “Maybe you are the liar, father.”

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    Hua Cheng is having a regular day at Ghost City when a young boy walks into the Den and asks for help to save his kidnapped father who is no other than the one Hua Cheng has been trying to find for centuries: Xie Lian. The catch? Hua Cheng is the other father and he has no memory of even meeting his beloved thirteen years ago to conceive the said child. Not only that, but Xie Lian is kidnapped and together they have to set on a journey to rescue him.

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    18 May 2026

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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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    16 May 2026