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    "Gege has been having dreams like this lately," he says, letting Xie Lian's hair slip through his fingers. Though he keeps his voice neutral, the concern is obvious in the lines of his face. Xie Lian reaches out to stroke the fold of his brow, doing his best to smile.

    "Have I been?" Xie Lian asks, as if he hasn't woken San Lang as well each time. San Lang's eyebrow twitches beneath his fingers. Xie Lian inclines his head a little, leaning into San Lang's touch. "Ah, there have been a few."

    "Is something troubling you?" San Lang asks, catching Xie Lian's hand in his own and pressing a kiss to each of his knuckles.

    "There's nothing," Xie Lian says, shaking his head. This he means honestly; there's at least no cause that comes to mind. "It's only an old memory, anyway. Nothing to get worked up about."

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    26 Dec 2025

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    The thing that has made the Ghost City so famous is its dangerous and eccentric founder and chief; Hua Cheng. He’s known to be both incredibly powerful and mercurial— he grants favors and destroys entire bloodlines purely on a whim. Many of the tales about him seem too wild to be true, but Xie Lian is counting on even a grain of truth.

    It’s said that among Hua Cheng’s vices is a particular weakness for virgins. In the most extreme stories, Xie Lian heard that he destroyed a bridal escort of over one thousand men to steal away the beauty they were protecting.

    True or not, this may be Xie Lian’s final hope in defending Xian Le. His own body is the most he has left to offer; that, and his spiritual power.

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  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    It starts as an innocent little question. But once Hua Cheng starts thinking of it, he can't seem to stop. After all, when Xie Lian had told people around that Hua Cheng looked like his son, it must have been a joke, right?

    Yet a part of him can't resist poking at the memory, once more.

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    25 Dec 2025

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    At the point where Xie Lian is struggling to breathe through the intense winds, he stops and turns his back to the source of it all. He squints to trace back his footsteps, but finds they’ve already faded into smooth snow drifts at the thirty foot mark.

    “…A lot of things out here can catch you off guard if you aren’t careful.”

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    23 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    Xie Lian is just trying to get his new floral business off the ground. But the ground has other plans, when he shows up to a fancy hotel covered in mud and is barred from the event space where he desperately needs to arrange thousands of dollars worth of wedding flowers. He's brought an extra suit, but his shoes are a lost cause. Well, they would be a lost cause were it not for the lucky shoe-shining he gets in an abandoned hallway.

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