stories for life

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1) What’s left to chance. ✔️🦋1️⃣✨

[word count: 7.2k]

By nyavericked

Summary: "Five times Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi meet, and one time neither of them want to leave.”

Every now and then, not because he's trying on purpose or anything, Cheng Xiaoshi worries about what it'd mean to mess up the timeline - and by extension, everything that they've ever known. Like, what if they never met? For whatever reason, Lu Guang seems less concerned, which is pretty annoying.

... Except for when it isn't. Must be nice to be that certain of something, especially when 'something' is them.

in which Lu Guang always knows what's going on somehow, Cheng Xiaoshi hopes someone had a fun one night stand, and fate doesn't feel so scary if it leads to them two.

📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷

2) Spinning silk ✔️🦋♦️❤️(😭)

[word count: 52.2k]

By LadyCharity

Summary: “Wouldn’t you like,” Liu Xiao said, “for your efforts to save your partner to not be in vain?”

As his secret threatens his sanity and relationship with his friends, Lu Guang joins forces with Liu Xiao to save Cheng Xiaoshi's life. Meanwhile, Qiao Ling is done pretending, and Cheng Xiaoshi is beginning to understand

In which the love mattered.

✨A rollercoaster ride of emotions. Peak.

Honestly on a side note: Read all of her works bc she has a whole buffet that once you get a taste you’re sure to devour all.

📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷

3) Instinct (2pt series) 🔘♦️🦋✨

[word count: ~42.6k]

By JordannaMorgan

Summary: Hired to solve a wealthy client’s personal mystery, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang discover there are even darker powers in the world than they realized… and the damage left in the fallout will not be easily fixed for anyone.

✨Case fic. Absolutely love the way Cheng Xiaoshi’s power was depicted here. Great insight on character studies. *holds you at gunpoint* read it.

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4) You are as beautiful as the day I lost you ✔️1️⃣

[word count: 4.3k]

By Viha_of_the_Valley

Summary: Being a superhero wasn’t easy.

It wasn’t just the battles against villains with impossible strength or the relentless pursuit of justice in a world that seemed to teeter on the edge of chaos. It was the weight of expectations, the constant pressure of being more than human, of having to always be brave, selfless, and strong when every fiber of your being screamed for a break.

He didn’t sign up for the loneliness that came with wearing a mask, the distance it forced between him and the people he cared about.

No one told him about the sacrifices—the birthdays he’d miss, the friendships he’d let slip away, the quiet moments of normalcy that would become luxuries.

But who was he to complain? He didn’t have that privilege. Because a superhero shouldn’t show weakness. Because a superhero is a pillar for the people, meant for them to lean on.

And he was the only superhero of his city.

He was known as Spider-Man. The only one to ever exist.

At least that's what he thought until he stood, staring at the same familiar suit standing opposite to him.

Spider-verse. 🫣

📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷

5) Cross the line, be mine ✔️1️⃣😭❤️

[word count: 7.1k]

By streetlights

Summary: “I’m sorry. This isn’t fair, but I don’t know how I feel about you yet. I can’t make any promises. Can you wait for me?”

Cheng Xiaoshi throws him a languid smile. “Of course. Don’t you know? I’m pretty good at waiting for people.”

In the original timeline, Cheng Xiaoshi falls first. Many timelines later, he’s still waiting.

✨Deliciously painful. I’m a masochist for this one.

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6) This black sun revolves around you ✔️1️⃣❗️❤️

[word count: 24.9k]

By seasandseances

Summary: Lu Guang did not consider himself selfish by nature, except in one way.

Or:

A woman is stabbed at a nearby idol concert, surrounded by hundreds of unreliable witnesses, and Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang may be the only two who can help. But Lu Guang is struggling to adapt back to their business - especially when it involves Cheng Xiaoshi running headfirst into dangerous situations alone. (Set, chronologically, after the season 2 finale.)

Its Jealous Lu Guang is to thrive for.

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7) Delicate Matters 🔘♦️✨

[word count: ~47.7k]

By <Anonymous> writer.

Summary: - Nobody knew Lu Guang was an omega this time around.

a.k.a. I give Lu Guang way too many issues, across-timeline longing, an addiction to drugs due to constant rejection of his omega-self, and an unnecessary amount of stress.

Yet I also give him Cheng Xiaoshi who may (or may not) solve some of these problems.

[Gen/no smut, A/B/O, Non-traditional, Bad writing FLUFF!!]

✨Angsty Fluff. But fluff nonetheless.

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8) Small world, Long shadows ✔️1️⃣❤️😭

[word count: 20k]

By FingerCracc

Summary: “I know you,” Cheng Xiaoshi says. “I can tell when you’re not okay.”

Lu Guang is quiet for a long time. He holds his mug in both hands and lets out this shaky breath like the world is ending. “On September thirteenth, just after midnight,” he starts, “you will be shot, and you will die.”

In which Cheng Xiaoshi dies five times, living is a team sport, and Lu Guang learns what it means to love someone.

✨ANGST Advice: don’t pull a all-nighter with this one. (Maybe do) you may end up a zombie. It’s a magnificent shit.

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9) Wouldn’t mind being yours ✔️1️⃣❗️

[word count: 12.2k]

By UsraMajorStories

Summary: The link between them was only supposed to be present during dives.

But when Lu Guang goes quiet for a little too long, and Cheng Xiaoshi panics, they find that their powers are able to do more than they originally thought.

(Or in other words, their powers literally telling them to just kiss already, at the very least, if not bang).

Really like how the Link here works. Basically they are telepathic and ends up hearing the other’s mutual desires and bangs.

📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷

10) time flies, we stay ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 9.4k]

By izayas

Summary: “...i’m sorry,” he says quietly. “i’m always telling you that you can’t change the past, but i couldn’t listen to my own words. i… had to try for you.”

the clock chimes midnight, bringing them another day closer to september 13.

(lu guang isn't like cheng xiaoshi: he'll collapse the universe trying to save just one person.)

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11) my attention for you (even if it’s not what you need) ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 9.09k]

By jasmineteas

Summary: There’s nothing wrong with how Cheng Xiaoshi chooses to display his affection, really, it’s just that Lu Guang is overwhelmed and also a little terrified by the mere intensity of it. Qiao Ling doesn’t even seem to notice that anything’s changed, so maybe he’s the one being weird about it at all.

Or: Cheng Xiaoshi is showing symptoms of being in love and Lu Guang doesn’t know what to do with himself.

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12) howling tides ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 2.4k]

By LadyCrimsonAndBlack

Summary: The rules, when Lu Guang recites them, are this:

1. You only get 12 hours.

2. Follow my lead and change nothing.

3. Past and future, just let them be.

Most of the time, Cheng Xiaoshi obeys.

Lu Guang doesn’t.

(Or, Lu Guang tries to save Cheng Xiaoshi, again and again and again.)

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13) Like the moon embracing the sun ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 12.5k]

By snowstormburning

Summary: After coming home from the hospital Lu Guang is left with the uneasy knowledge that nothing about this timeline seems to be as it should.

Least of all his relationship with Cheng Xiaoshi.

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14) In the quiet of the night(tranquility)✔️1️⃣🦋

[word count: 717]

By Mirai785

Summary: It was quiet, long past midnight, but Lu Guang was still lying awake, staring at the ceiling. It was one of those nights when everything was just too much, the memories of long past timelines, the nightmares haunting him, the weight on his shoulders just a bit too heavy to bear.

It was quiet, apart from the soft breathing from the lower bunkbed. Cheng Xiaoshi was fast asleep, for once not stirring with bad dreams tormenting his mind, and it was a soothing sound.

But it wasn't enough.

Short one-shot

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15) Falling in love the photo shop ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 28.7k]

By BigDangoFamily

Summary: Cheng Xiaoshi spends the next several minutes just staring at the photograph, his finger running gently down the curve of Lu Guang's sunlit features. His mother's voice sounds from the back of his head.

The photograph is a window into the photographer's soul. Look, baobei, what does this photo tell you about the person who took it? What emotions do they feel?

Attraction. Longing. Desire. It might as well be written in Sharpie over Lu Guang's face, big bold characters in Cheng Xiaoshi's handwriting.

Fuck. He really has been blind.

Over the course of a year, Cheng Xiaoshi learns to see what's been right in front of him this entire time. (Or, familiarity as a love language.)

✨This is like the Shiguang classic. If you’ve been in the fandom for long enough you might have already read it. We all start with this one.

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16) Coming back to life (isn’t what he expected at all) ✔️1️⃣🦋😭

[word count: 8.6k]

By animegoli

Summary: "But enough about that," Qiao Ling says, "How are you feeling?”

Lu Guang shakes his head. “To be honest, I can’t really tell."

It hurts. He wants to close his eyes and sleep for at least a week. But it’s all so fuzzy it feels more like an out-of-body experience and he has more important things to worry about.

Mainly: “Where’s Cheng Xiaoshi?”

Qiao Ling grimaces. “He… well, he’ll be here soon. Captain Xiao Li said he has to get a few more things in place before he can bring him over.”

Lu Guang narrows his eyes. “Bring him over from where?"

S2E3 tag in which Cheng Xiaoshi rushes back to Lu Guang after Red-Eyes appears in the hospital, and the boys finally get a moment to process everything that has happened.

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17) The first time ✔️1️⃣😭

[word count: 3.3k]

By choucobos

Summary: Lu Guang (stupid, foolish, and naïve, but not for much longer) looks at the photo. He listens to his heartbeat, the reliable ticking of the clock that can save Cheng Xiaoshi. Bringing his hands up in front of him, he takes a deep breath.

He dives back in time.

Lu Guang and diving back in time.

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18) Exit Wounds ✔️♦️❤️

[word count: 6.3k]

By Snowstormburning

Summary: Lu Guang has always known more about their powers than Cheng Xiaoshi does. But after everything that's happened Cheng Xiaoshi thinks it's about time Lu Guang shares what he knows.

He gets a lot more than he bargained for.

(or; Cheng Xiaoshi finds out.)

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19) The sun that warms the moon ✔️♦️🤣

[word count: 44.9k]

By ChiiyaNakahara

Summary: Their first meeting was purely accidental—a random collision in the middle of campus. But for Xiaoshi, it became the beginning of a small obsession with Lu Guang. Even though Lu Guang kept his distance and remained cold, Xiaoshi couldn’t shake off his curiosity.

On the other hand, Lu Guang saw Xiaoshi as a nuisance—someone too loud, too reckless, and too chaotic. But over time, he began to notice another side of Xiaoshi: the sincerity behind his clumsiness, the genuine kindness in his actions, and the courage to keep trying even after being rejected.

So, how will their story turns out?

✨Fluff ‘n fun College au shenanigans. Also good humour(🤣) ft. Veifei.

📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷

20) Unrestrained ✔️1️⃣❗️

[word count: 7.09k]

By ToastGarden(ToastOfEden)

Summary: When Cheng Xiaoshi suggests using their powers to revisit a moment from their past, Lu Guang reluctantly agrees. But as it turns out, inhabiting Lu Guang's body while watching his past self make bedroom eyes is a lot more overwhelming than he anticipated.

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21) Click!🔘♦️❗️

[word count: ~9.4k]

By ToastGarden(ToastOfEden)

Summary: When Cheng Xiaoshi finds a dog training clicker and claims it as his new fidget toy, Lu Guang decides to teach his impulsive roommate a lesson. For the bit, of course.

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22) Dormiveglia (FanComic) 🔘♦️❤️

By intothefrisson

Summary: "That cough still sounds awful...Did you take any cold medicine?"

"Don’t need to, I don’t have a- *cough cough cough cough*"

"Dunno man, sounds like a cold..."

"No, it’s not. And we are too broke for cold medicine."

"I think it’s very inspiring that you believe pure denial can conquer the common cold. I’ll take a leaf out of your book when I inevitably catch it. "

"Idiots can’t catch colds."

When Lu Guang contracts Pneumonia, the fever dreams have him convinced he's drowning, and Cheng Xiaoshi would do anything to make him feel better.

(This is a fancomic for Link Click and will have Season 2 major spoilers! Written Pre-Yingdu Chapter, and Pre-Season 3)

✨also available on Tumblr @intothefrisson Dormiveglia-master-post

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23) cause I love the small things that you do ✔️1️⃣

[word count: 8.4k]

By miyasjacket

Summary: Lu Guang is starting to believe that something is wrong. Wrong with him.

Wrong, how? He asks, but he’s not stupid— he feels it each and every time, feels the way how his heart thuds in his ears, feels the sudden breathlessness and forgotten words, feels how every nerve in his body tightens, feels his blood run hot, and he always, always only feels that way around—

He hears a loud pop and fizzing sound coming from the kitchen, acquainted by an ear-splitting and unrestrained “Fuck!”

Wrong like that.

Lu Guang has never been so thankful that the shop is closed.

Or, Lu Guang as he struggles with the guilt and denial of falling in love with his best friend.

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24) With you to the end of the line ✔️1️⃣

[word count: 300]

By ghostout

Summary: “You've gotten better at it,” he says, “At confessing.”

“How so?”

“You used to be more anxious.”

Now it's just Lu Guang whose heart starts racing when he hears Cheng Xiaoshi talk about spending the rest of his life with someone.

📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷

25) Leverage ✔️♦️💀❗️✨

[word count: 13.2k]

By neoqueenserenity (my beloved)

Summary: “I…” Xia Fei’s mind scrambled for ideas, panic propelling his mouth to move, “I want him to myself.”

Vein smiled in undisguised interest.

“Alright. But on one condition,” Vein brought their bodies together, taking Xia Fei’s chin in one hand, “You’ll have to give us a show.” Vein’s voice was soft, but Xia Fei could feel the dangerous tremor that buzzed beneath, “He is leverage, you understand?”

Xia Fei did not shake, and he held Vein’s gaze as firmly as he could.

“There’s no point in dangling him in front of Lu Guang if we’re not doing something that will make him talk, is there?”

He understood the threat within the request. If Xia Fei did not take action, Vein would.

“Yes,” Xia Fei nodded, unblinking, “I understand.”

One month after the Bridon arc, Liu Xiao and Vein kidnap Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang, intending to torture them into spilling information on their interference with the current timeline. Liu Xiao gives Vein and Xia Fei only one order: they can do whatever they want to Cheng Xiaoshi, as long as it gets Lu Guang to talk.

✨💀*crawls back from the dead* it’s dead dove. What else do you want me to say?

Wait- okay no. Fair warnings needed.

Shifei+Veifei+Shiguang centric.

Rape/non-con elements

This is for a very specific audience. So please for the love of god, FOLLOW THE ADDITIONAL TAGS AND WARNINGS CAREFULLY.

It’s gonna wreck ya with the conflicting feelings.☺️

Cute Xia Fei though. And Bloodthirsty Lu Guang.

I’m adding this here ‘cuz it’s MY rec list and I liked it. So— *gets shot again*

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26) No good deed goes unpunished 🔘♦️💀

[word count: ~8.6k]

By FicTheCreator

Summary: This mission wasn’t going to pleasant.

They both knew that going in.

But if Lu Guang had known…if he’d known how wrong it’d go…he would’ve never let Cheng Xiaoshi so much as touch that photo.

Or,

Mr. Xiao and a client come to them with a photo. The problem? The photographer is connected to a crime ring. Which one? That's what they want to find out. Additional problem: the photographer is fated to die. But still, Cheng Xiaoshi wants to try. He doesn't want to let such dangerous people walk free.

Well, as long as he claps out in time, it should be fine.

...right?

(PS I don't go into excruciating detail with the violence, but Dead Dove is Dead Dove, please read at your own discretion)

✨💀please stop staring at me like that. I’m unhinged and deranged.

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27) Red thread (Veifei) 🔘♦️✨

[Word count: ~32.5k]

By Saye_Eri

Summary: This is about Xia fei and Vein, BEFORE Yingdu happened. Their progression since the first meeting of sorts.

This might have a dramatic plot... Or not. I will let it flow. (The future is unknown ehehe)

✨yeah I’m cheating here a little. But This one’s really GOOD!

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28) Ghosts in Everything ✔️1️⃣😭

[word count: 4.4k]

By FingerCracc

Summary: “No,” Lu Guang murmurs. He stares at his hands, and all he sees when he closes his eyes is his palms covered in blood. Cheng Xiaoshi’s slick fingers weakly gripping his own. In this timeline, there is no blood. Nothing has happened that should, and everything has happened that shouldn’t. “It isn’t that,” he finishes.

Silence. An inhale. “Isn’t it?” Cheng Xiaoshi asks. A moment passes. “I told you I loved you, and I’ve never seen you look so sad.”

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29) Impermanence ✔️1️⃣✨

[Word count: 7k]

By FingerCracc

Summary: They're orange roses, six of them in a ring around a bit of baby’s breath, a piece of leather fern tucked in the back like an afterthought. Cheng Xiaoshi comes back from whatever errands he’d been running and sets the bouquet on the counter.

“What is this?” Lu Guang asks, eyeing the flowers.

“For you,” Cheng Xiaoshi says simply.

Cheng Xiaoshi buys Lu Guang flowers. Lu Guang can't ignore whatever's between them anymore.

✨on a fair note: read all of their works. They’re all *chef’s kiss*

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30) I sleep so I can see you, ‘cause I hate to wait so long 🔘♦️✨

[word count: ~15.6k]

By emerald_mage23

Summary: Lu Guang had chosen to live for Cheng Xiaoshi a long time ago. It was the first time he’d seen him die. Maybe even before that. If you think about it too long, living for someone else's sake is a pretty foolish thing to do, but it's a little more complicated than that. Living for someone else is both a selfish and selfless act. Selfless in that you put the safety and wellbeing of that other person above your own. Selfish in the fact that you can’t live without them.

Just a little something to feed my Shiguang obsession.

📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷⏳⚙️📷

31) Forget-me-not my dear 🔘♦️

[word count: ~11.9k]

By AgustAce

Summary: Yeah, you held me the whole way through When I couldn't say the words like you. I was scared, indigo, but I wanted to,

Cheng Xiaoshi develops a case of Hanahaki after he thought Lu Guang died from the stabbing (S2E1)

It sparks up again after they get discharged from the hospital (S2E12)

Will Lu Guang find out before it's too late? Can he save him this time?

✨Hanahaki GUYS!

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32) swallow it all down ✔️1️⃣❤️

[word count: 3.8k]

By NbZo

Summary: "In the future, I'll probably have to fight you physically, not verbally!" Cheng Xiaoshi had joked, then.

Cheng Xiaoshi finds out, and Lu Guang tries to hold himself together

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33) back to the old house ✔️1️⃣🥲

[word count: 2.5k]

By celydes

Summary: Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang catch up for drinks a few years after Cheng Xiaoshi’s wedding. Cheng Xiaoshi is curious about his friend’s own love life.

“You know, Lu Guang…. How come you never married?”

Lu Guang looked up, a little blindsided by the question. “What?”

Cheng Xiaoshi swirled his drink between his fingers, then set it down on the table. “I was just thinking. We’ve known each other… ten years now? No one caught your eye?”

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34) Old fashioned 🔘♦️

[word count:~6.9k]

By classifiedcasestudy

Summary: Cheng Xiaoshi has deciphered numerous things today.

1. Lu Guang does not take bribes.

2. He also does not appreciate grand gestures.

3. ...Or unsolicited labor.

4. Or Cheng Xiaoshi, apparently.

These revelations come to him slowly, piece by piece, like the slow, painful unraveling of a very unfortunate mystery novel.

or: cheng xiaoshi and lu guang fall in love like young adults should (without the very real threat of pending doom)

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35) out of touch ✔️1️⃣

[word count: 4k]

By slagpoet

Summary: “Eat slowly,” Lu Guang says. “Do you want some water?”

He doesn’t get some water, doesn’t need it, not when his throat is a barren desert and Lu Guang the only oasis he needs. He eats, slowly, as he’s told; eats all of it and more and can’t help but wish for a hand to hold his. For a mouth to ask, do you need anything else? For his own to answer, can I just have you instead?

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36) heartbeats ✔️1️⃣

[word count: 767]

By Northwind

Summary: Four things Cheng Xiaoshi noticed about Lu Guang and his habits around heartbeats, and the one time he understood

Or: Lu Guang isn't as subtle as he thinks he is, Cheng Xiaoshi is more observant than people give him credit for

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37) There will be a fire when it all unfolds ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 3.4k]

By Northwind

Summary: He paused in the doorway, taking a deep breath. "I will be back" he said, louder, clearer. To hit the point across that no, he wasn't leaving. He was only giving him the requested space, even if it pained him to, memories stained in red dancing before his eyes.

But if space was what he wanted, who was he to deny him?

OR: A revelation, a confession and a fire. Not in that order

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38) Memoriam ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 7.7k]

By JordannaMorgan

Summary: Even for those who have no powers, photographs are powerful things.

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39) self-fulfilling prophecy ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 7.2k]

By almostalemon

Summary: What if he really had done it this time? What if Qiao Ling was finally fed up with how much of a fuck-up he was?

What if his mistakes messed up Lu Guang's life, too?

He couldn't bear the thought.

All siblings fight, but Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi took it a bit far this time. Lu Guang has no idea how to handle any of it.

✨good sibling fights.✨

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40) three regrets one solution ✔️♦️✨

[word count: 11.7k]

By Aioke

Summary: Cheng Xiaoshi’s vision blurred in and out as a silhouette of blinding white came into view, staring down at him. He thought it was the sun at first.

But Lu Guang’s voice rang in and out of his ears. “…Killing yourself.”

What was he saying?

The last words he heard before passing out came from Lu Guang’s mouth, as he moved too close and placed his palm over his eyes to shield him from the blinding sun.

“Too nice.”

Where Lu Guang fails to save Cheng Xiaoshi, the excessive diving finally wears him down and they both die. Lu Guang becomes a demon and Cheng Xiaoshi, a fallen angel. But even in death Lu Guang is unwilling to move on.

✨Demon/angel au

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41) what’s left to chance ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 7.2k]

By nyavericked

Summary: "Five times Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi meet, and one time neither of them want to leave."

Every now and then, not because he's trying on purpose or anything, Cheng Xiaoshi worries about what it'd mean to mess up the timeline - and by extension, everything that they've ever known. Like, what if they never met? For whatever reason, Lu Guang seems less concerned, which is pretty annoying.

... Except for when it isn't. Must be nice to be that certain of something, especially when 'something' is them.

in which Lu Guang always knows what's going on somehow, Cheng Xiaoshi hopes someone had a fun one night stand, and fate doesn't feel so scary if it leads to them two.

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42) One and a million days in the hospital ✔️1️⃣😭

[word count: 12.2k]

By Governess_Gaia

Summary: He is going through an awkward transition: from the days when everything was filled with fear and countless risks, but he also oversaw what exactly would occur, to the days when his mind declares unfathomable because of the beautiful mundanity of it all, but he doesn’t have a drop of omniscience, instead merely predictions about what’s to come. He is no different than a small ocean wave, violently getting swayed between the waters far away and the wet sand. Ebb and flow. Coming and passing. Passing and flowing. He can’t truly settle anywhere. He can’t truly be happy anywhere. Because he doesn’t belong anywhere anymore.

A month after Qian Jin’s arrest and Li Tianchen’s disappearance, Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi continue to share a hospital room while slowly recovering from their injuries. Lu Guang tries to process the peaceful, mundane, yet completely unfamiliar hospital life with Cheng Xiaoshi by his side, making him recall and forget his previous regrets.

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43) stop thinkin’ ‘bout it ✔️♦️❗️💀❗️

[word count: 20.3k]

By Lunar_spice

Summary: Cheng Xiaoshi notices that Lu Guang has been stressed lately. On a whim, he offers to hypnotize Lu Guang to help him relax.

It works a little too well.

DEAD DOVE: DO.NOT.EAT.

✨💀 my. God. Do. Not. Question. Me.

This one is for a very very specific audience. (Idk how i ended up there)

FOLLOW THROUGH THE TAGS 🙏

Mutual Rape/non-con.

Hypnosis (which is a rare finding here) and Hypnotisation, manipulation, mind control.

It starts out sweet ‘n innocent but later it gets a little lot outta hand for Cheng Xiaoshi.

Extreme conflict to ruin your braincells.

And don’t judge me guys. I’m good, i swear— *gets stabbed*

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44) Stolen memories ✔️♦️

[word count: 23.7k]

Series: part 1 of Lost and Found 🔘

By NoControl0913

Summary: Haunted by his past failures, Lu Guang searches for a way to stop the inevitable death of his best friend, the person he loves most. With a new lead, he hopes to finally put the gruesome past behind them. In the process, he finds his actions may have altered more than just the death node he was targeting. Will his plan finally change the past to save Cheng Xiaoshi, and in the process, the relationship between them?

Notes:

- This work is intended to be read as part 1 in a 2 part series, but can be read as a stand alone.

- If reading as a stand alone, fInal chapter of work is optional (alternative ending)

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45) Confidential ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 3.2k]

Mini series: of Shiguang High school diaries.

By possiblyinmichigan

Summary: A selection of Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi's diary entries for some days of April.

1) “It was all because I met this boy.”

Or: Lu Guang makes a friend that's prone to roughhousing.

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2) “Just thinking— what if I'm way too funny to be attractive to him? He won't even take me seriously if I confess! As I'm joking..”

or: Cheng Xiaoshi's always getting whatever he works for. For the first time, he faces a challenge he didn't expect: making the cute new guy smile.

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46) slow down you crazy child ✔️1️⃣✨

[word count: 4.5k]

By Mysterialistic

Summary: Lu Guang is obsessed with using his power to dive back in time and save Cheng Xiaoshi from his tragic fate. Yet, despite his repeated attempts, destiny always finds a way to stop him.

After another of Cheng Xiaoshi's funerals, he decides to take one final dive into the past. What he didn't expect was to be forced to confront the reality of his actions.

[Or my crazy theory that the Cheng Xiaoshi from that basketball flashback in episode 3 also comes from the future].

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47) Did we kiss cause it was dark? ✔️♦️✨

[word count: 11.8k]

By good_vs_evo

Summary: Once their world settles down, returning to normal, Lu Guang finds that he has a whole new problem to deal with. Feelings.

— ❤︎₊ ⊹ —

The five times Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi kissed in the dark, and the one time they talked about it. (+ a bonus chapter!)

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48) Nothing tastes better than love (except for actually good food) ✔️1️⃣✨🤣🦋

[word count: 3.8k]

By Luner_spice

Summary: When Cheng Xiaoshi is too busy and can’t cook, Lu Guang offers to pick up the slack.

Cheng Xiaoshi soon regrets ever letting Lu Guang anywhere near the kitchen.

Or, Lu Guang duel-wields cooking un-prowess and his intelligence like a fucking pro.

✨Lu Guang isn’t just band from the kitchen, he is morally forbidden to be anywhere near its vicinity.

Good humour.

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49) Quiet in your applause 🔘♦️✨🤣

[word count:~5.2k]

By RoXEMM3

Summary: Lu Guang didn’t sign up for this.

He could have been cramming for uni exams. Or rotting on the couch watching shitty fantasy dramas with plot holes the size of Jupiter. Instead, he's here—pressed against a barricade beside a screaming Qiao Ling while her favorite band thrashes on stage just inches away. Honestly? Not his scene.

But the lead singer? The one with too many rings, a smirk like sin, and a voice that could split him in half? Pardon his ego, but he was definitely giving him bedroom eyes.

He guesses he didn’t exactly hate that part.

Or: Shiguang band AU

✨ will make you cackle fs. Canonical (in the sense of this fic) K-drama coded. Qiao Ling & Lu Guang friendship (humour). Past Xiaoguang 👀

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50) Paper beats rock ✔️1️⃣❗️✨

[Word count: 4.8k]

By crazyrandomhappenklance

Summary: They had been friends since high school, but Cheng Xiaoshi had fallen in love with Lu Guang even before he’d found the courage to invite him to join their game on the basketball court; before fate had cursed them with their secondary genders. Lu Guang had made it clear how he felt. When he’d presented as an omega, he’d shut down every suggestion of ‘finding a mate’.

Cheng Xiaoshi wished he could confess. However, he thought that doing so would make him look like every other hormone-driven, omega-obsessed alpha out there, and that felt like a betrayal of their friendship.

Then one day, Cheng Xiaoshi returned home early and sensed something was amiss...

Cheng Xiaoshi moved swiftly to the door and pushed it open, and as he did so, a wash of Lu Guang’s sweetened scent hit him.

There on his bed, Lu Guang lay half-dressed and curled in on himself, surrounded by heaps of Cheng Xiaoshi’s clothes. Cheng Xiaoshi stared as Lu Guang brought one of his black shirts to his face and inhaled its scent.

His shirt. His scent.

Lu Guang moaned as he exhaled, quietly groaning into the fabric, “Xiaoshi…”

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51) Even if ✔️♦️😭

[word count: 10.1k]

By LadyCharity

Summary: The first time they had this argument, Lu Guang was still only nineteen years old. He and Cheng Xiaoshi muddled through their abilities with curiosity and bravado. The only thing Lu Guang was afraid of was drowning, and it was abstract.

But this was their argument, the second time.

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52) Evanescent Emberglow ✔️1️⃣

[word count: 16.1k]

By Kamereon

Summary: The city's night hummed, a low thrum distinct from its daytime roar. Lu Guang hadn't intended this. The late hour, camera in hand, the city viewed through glass instead of felt—none of it was his choice. Cheng Xiaoshi, with his usual insistence nevertheless had dragged him out anyway.

Or in which Cheng Xiaoshi encourages Lu Guang to join him for some night photography. Turns out 'perspective' might just be another word for 'feelings'.

✨confession through photographs shenanigan. Peak Tsundere Lu Guang.

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53) Tides of Light 🔘♦️✨

[word count: ~16.1k]

By <Anonymous> writer

Summary: Despite the danger, the merman is still beautiful, and Cheng cannot take his eyes off of it. He follows the curve of its body with his gaze back to the water, and in it, he sees...

A tail.

-✧-

Or; I was thinking about the diving powers being literal, and it somehow evolved into Mermaid AU. Cheng gets to dive into real water this time :D yay :D

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54) I will wait for you 🔘♦️

[word count: ~23.3k]

By M34GS

Summary: Merfolk and humans discovered each other many years ago. In an effort to bridge the gap between their people and encourage good relationships, a program was developed where merpeople can go to live on land with a human host, and humans can go to live underwater with a mer host, for a handful of years.

Lu Guang has nothing to lose and no one to miss him when he signs up to live on land. He wants to learn about life above, and see if maybe there's something better than where he comes from. He wasn't expecting to become enamoured with his human host, Cheng Xiaoshi.

✨Mermen AU! 🧜🏼‍♂️

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55)What it means to stay ✔️1️⃣😭✨

[word count: 5k]

By FingerCracc

Summary: “I love you,” Cheng Xiaoshi says, and waits. There it is: a hitch of breath, a body going stiff. He smiles. “Do you think we were meant to be in the same story?”

“Obviously,” Lu Guang tells him. “Us more than anyone.”

Cheng Xiaoshi on Lu Guang, love, beginnings, and belonging.

May/will update with more in the future because it’s not my fault this fandom has so many active talents.

Hope this helps to navigate through the fics even if it’s a little bit.

Ngl, this took longer than expected and much hell to edit.

Hope yall ENJOY!