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    For centuries, commoners and aristocrats alike have flocked to the capital for the Imperial Examinations. Thousands and thousands of young men dream of reading their names on the Golden Placard, promising wealth and status at the heart of the empire.

    This year, the stakes were higher than ever: Emperor Lan had declared that the first-ranked scholar would win not only a coveted spot in his cabinet, but also the hand of Princess Lan Zhan.

    In hindsight, Wei Ying probably should have considered that before dressing up as a man and taking the exam under her brother's name. In her defence, how was she supposed to know that all these other young gentlemen-scholars were so dumb?

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    (WLW Wangxian Week 2025, Day 4: Arranged Marriage/Royalty)

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    04 Mar 2026

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    Escape or death.

    The first explosion rocks the complex scant minutes after he leaves the room, Xue Yang's boredom finally winning out over Jin Guangyao's insistence at their attendance. Wei Wuxian has only the breath of a moment to wish fleetingly that he had set the timer a bit longer. The first charge is set as far from the conference and attendees as possible, to be the most confusing. A second goes off in the opposite direction, then a third, further south.

    Everything erupts into movement, the guards scrambling at the explosions, the guests starting to emerge from the hall in a clump of confused, controlled panic as the charges continue to detonate. It’s now or never.

    Escape or death.

    He flees.

    Taken at the end of the Sunshot War and forced into servitude to the Jin, Wei Wuxian makes a desperate escape attempt during a Federation conference. Though the universe (and his family) think he's dead - that he has been dead for 13 years - he has no choice but to try to escape. To find his freedom, to stop the Jin, and maybe to prevent another war.

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    03 Mar 2026

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    “You know what?” Wei Ying said. “I think we should be friends.”

    “Vulcans do not have friends,” said Lan Zhan. He was staring very determinedly at the screen in front of him.

    Wei Ying frowned at him. “That can’t be right.”

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    28 Feb 2026

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    Nobody said traveling through time would be easy — nothing Wen Kexing has done has ever been easy — but A-Xu was dying. He was going to die.

    If Wen Kexing could not save his A-Xu in the life they shared together, he would save him elsewhere in the past. And then some other version of them could live on, while this A-Xu and this Wen Kexing would stop existing. Would become something that never existed at all. If Wen Kexing did this right, he would die one day after — and some twenty years earlier than — his husband.

    Only, A-Xu died and Wen Kexing didn't stop existing.

    (Only — maybe A-Xu didn't die.)

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    16 Feb 2026

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    What everyone knows but no one acknowledges about Gusu Lan’s famed intersect cultivation lectures is that its true purpose is to allow the next generation of cultivators to make advantageous matches.
    What Lan Wangji knows that he is expected to find and marry someone his sect will approve of before classes end - a partner whose animal instinct will align with the Lan dragons' notoriously monogamous traditions and who will provide the Lans with a politically useful alliance.
    What he cannot acknowledge is the truth - that foxes are known to be seasonal monogamists who take each mate for a single season only; that he has fallen in love with Wei Wuxian, against what should be possible given their incompatible natures; that Wei Wuxian might be courting him too, despite the odds; and that if he bows to their mutual attraction, marrying him can only lead them both to misery.

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    15 Feb 2026