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    At sixteen Wei Wuxian is—through some strange twist of fate, or a nick in the layer between parallel universes, who knows—out of the blue confronted with that one incense burner dream one night.

    While his curious mind is left unable to stop poking at this new perspective on Lan Wangji, circumstances in the Cloud Recesses begin to change and Wei Wuxian is suddenly presented with life-altering opportunities.

    Maybe Gusu isn’t so bad after all?

    (Or alternatively: The fic where I get to give Wei Wuxian the academic scholarship he deserves while simultaneously getting him hitched early on.)

    This fic has a Spanish and a Portuguese translation! Please visit the links in the Notes of Chapter 1 to read!

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    04 Feb 2026

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    Shang Qinghua let out a long, shaky breath. “Right. Okay. Sure. No problem. I can work with that. That’s fine.” He shifted the baby in his arms, looking down at the tiny, squirming face, the damp lashes clinging together. “You hear that? As long as you make it to the sect, everything’s good. Easy quest conditions. No trauma required.”

    Luo Binghe made a faint snuffling sound, unimpressed.

    Shang Qinghua’s smile collapsed almost instantly. “Oh, gods, what am I saying?” He scrubbed a hand over his face, leaving another smear of drying blood. “I’m not qualified for this! I can barely keep myself alive half the time! You need—uh—you need a responsible, kindhearted woman from a humble background with good soup-making skills, not a chronically overworked peak lord-slash-spy!”

    The baby responded by making a small, gurgling noise that sounded alarmingly like agreement.

    “Don’t sass me,” Shang Qinghua muttered. “You’re, like, twelve minutes old.”

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    Just another fic where Shang Qinghua ruins canon and gains a son.

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    07 Dec 2025

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    A one in a billion chance, mostly known only because of legends, wings are for cultivators who are a shimmering diamond in a pig trough. Cultivators who work themselves to the bone in the face of all adversity and live and breath the adage of righteousness.

    Shang Qinghua isn’t that at all.

    In fact, he’s the exact opposite.

    (A compilation of my Wings!AU that I started over on tumblr and might/probably will add more to later).

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    04 Dec 2025

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    Shen Yuan wakes up to the sound of crying.

    He lies there for a moment, feeling like cling film stretched too tightly over something pointy, in danger of tearing down the middle but holding on by his fingernails. It’s dark, it’s smelly and he is laying face down against a heated stone floor, or maybe it’s just some faux stone tiles for the nature aesthetic. It feels like his brain got replaced with moss or cotton or balled up, wet paper towels that’s coming apart. In the stretched out moment where he takes it all in, he decides this fucking place sucks, and he will never visit again.

    The crying is to his left.

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    Shen Yuan wakes up in the Ling Xi caves, and he is not alone.

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    21 Nov 2025

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    Jiang Yanli hadn’t heard that arrogant tone from him in years and it irked her to hear it now, directed at her. She didn’t have to take that.

    Jin Zixuan was reeling back with a hand cradling his nose before she even realized that she’d punched him.


    When Jiang Yanli finds herself in the past after dying at Nighless City, she decides that some things need changing.

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    06 Nov 2025