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    At seven years old Wei Ying is sure of two things. One day he will die and see his parents again, and the only person in the entire world that can be trusted is himself. At least, he thinks he knows these things to be true. The facts start to get fuzzy between the dogs chasing him, to the men in white and red shielding him from both the dogs and the blistering cold rain.

    The facts get even more fuzzy when Xie Lian, the man in white, offers him a once in a lifetime opportunity. The opportunity to be the disciple of a rogue cultivator, just like his mother.

    At seven years old Wei Ying is sure he's in this life alone. As he grows, he learns that he is wrong.

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    'With age comes mortality.'
    Wei Wuxian had always scoffed at that saying, missing the point. He didn’t think himself immortal or invincible but that had never been the true meaning of the saying. Most young people will always cling to the hope that things will turn out okay because that is what they are taught in every fairy tale they have ever read. They cling to it so tightly that it forms a security blanket, protecting them from the very present reality that death could be looming just ahead of them.
    "Choose your battles."
    There was facing danger for the sake of duty and then there was seeking it out.
    The duty of a cultivator was to protect the common people from the dangers that they weren’t equipped to face. But there was no one to protect here but himself.
    "Choose your battles wisely, Wei Ying. You never know when they could come seeking you instead."
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    Wei Wuxian's time in the Burial Mounds and the things left unsaid.

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    There’s something building up inside Hua Cheng, a heap of troublesome desires. They’re inconvenient, shameful, crude. They make his straightforward nature complicated. They’d be better off sealed away forever, if it weren’t for one big problem.

    When Xie Lian kisses him hard enough, Hua Cheng slips into a trance.

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    05 Mar 2026

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    “Well—maybe you’ll get lucky, and Lan Wangji won’t like you at all. Then he might send you home and keep up his part of the deal anyway!”

    Nie Huaisang meant it as a joke, but Wei Ying sees potential.

    After all: if there’s one thing he’s learned in the months since the engagement, it’s that he is utterly unsuitable for a place like the Cloud Recesses.

    All he has to do is act like it.

     

    (...After a century of war, the great sects are looking to make peace by the most common means: marriage. When Wei Wuxian is promised to the Lan Clan, it is thought to be a grave insult.

    Things do not turn out the way anyone expects.)

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    Xie Lian blinked, wanting to comprehend but failing to. “I have no enemies. What have I ever done to them?”

    A look equally fond and forlorn overtook the State Preceptor. His gaze receded, but a small smile touched his mouth. Xie Lian no longer felt like his master was looking at him, but rather, somewhere unreachable.

    “In this world,” the State Preceptor said, “as long as there are those blessed with fortune and those cursed without, not every person can be called a friend.”

    Born under auspicious stars, the Crown Prince of Xianle walks the fickle line between divinity and devastation. After an insurrection leaves Xie Lian cursed, he abandons his previous cultivation to forge a new path toward ascension.

    [Or, Xie Lian does not ascend as a martial god at 17. This action will have consequences.]

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    28 Feb 2026