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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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    30 Mar 2026

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    On Xie Lian’s hundredth birthday, a silver butterfly finds him: it is followed, shortly, by a fanged and feral ghost.

    Xie Lian is leery, at first, and draws his sword to keep the ghost at bay as it circles him. It’s really only logical! The ghost is a beast of a thing—tall and whipcord thin, with matted hair and blood-caked boots and tattered robes. This close to Mount Tonglu, Xie Lian can only expect that it’s in the middle of the centennial ghost slaughter; as such, it will naturally be more aggressive.

    Only, the ghost doesn’t attack him.

    Xie Lian and Hua Cheng meet several centuries early, and Xie Lian must learn to live with the wild ghost who's taken a keen interest in him.

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    25 Mar 2026

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    Xie Lian had never traveled in his dreams before now. Never opened his eyes and found a different bedroom, different people, a different life. But he had heard of this curse long ago. A curse about people who could glimpse opportunities, other lives. Their souls would travel as they slept.

    The only person he had known affected by it was a man whose wife had died. In his dreams, he saw her a thousand times, a thousand worlds where she had lived, and woke up in the world where she had not. Perhaps Xie Lian, too, had a traveler’s soul now, seeking out his Hua Cheng while he waited.

    But Xie Lian was not grieving. He was only waiting until Hua Cheng was back and he would have no need for dreams.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    For a fleeting moment, just before he opens his eyes, Chu Wanning feels as if things were just like how they used to be—he would wake up, find himself tucked into Mo Ran’s arms, the birds outside would chirp noisily, and everything would be right in this world again.

    But that isn’t his reality.

    Not anymore.

    After five years of marriage, Mo Ran and Chu Wanning are filing for a divorce.

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    27 Jan 2026

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    Hua Cheng has spent centuries searching for the missing God of Spring, never catching a glimpse of him in all the long years he has spent looking for him.

    And then one crisp autumn day, Xie Lian simply wanders into his territory, looking for a place to stay.

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    (Written for the TGCF Reverse Bang)

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    12 Dec 2025