The face beneath the mask
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Maybe today by Hyde_DualDomination for EleganttBarbara
Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
02 May 2025
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Many times he had tried not to go back, telling himself that he had already satisfied all his sexual curiosities, that he did not depend on it. That he would not become a slave to it as once - he now realized - he had been a slave to the hunger. And 'staying' implied permanence. He had no intention of staying there, in the human world, with that person, or even alone. He also had not, before, possessed any intention of anything other than 'knowing what sex felt like', just once, just enough to try to understand types of emotions that he seemed incapable of, but that his brother possessed. Just enough to disturb a little of the spiritual peace of that man, who perhaps had failed to be a monk - or perhaps never had tried.
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- Part 1 of The face beneath the mask
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As if we were finally lucid by Hyde_DualDomination for Amedia
Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
22 Jul 2025
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Although Mianmian existed under different conditions now, it didn’t mean he would let go of (most of) his obsessions and settle with a Buddhist cultivator, of all people. Still, there he was, quietly breathing the scent of incense lit under a Buddha statue, barefoot and dressed in one of Lin Jing's loose white t-shirts and simple cotton pants, observing the starry sky through the open balcony door slowly turning into a cloudy sky, while his (maybe) partner was (supposedly) meditating, sitting on the living room rug.
He could handle 'that' - his own mind. Not like before, when he couldn’t even see how much he had lost himself in the blurry line between the truth of all that unfairness and the tricks of his flawed heart.Series
- Part 2 of The face beneath the mask
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He who loves the light by Hyde_DualDomination for Amedia
Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
27 Oct 2025
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In his conclusion, he was truly inadequate, not because he was unworthy. It was just that he didn't understand the value, until he finally saw someone with a heart. He now lived in the light of that, in the soothing presence of that someone. Two and a half years had passed, and it had been a long time since he'd left.
Of the habits Gui Mian had acquired after he admitted to himself that he, in fact, lived in that place, perhaps the ones that seemed simplest to the eye were the ones that held the greatest meaning.*This story can be read as either Stand Alone or a Sequel to the previous fics in this Series
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- Part 3 of The face beneath the mask