a susurrus of butterfly wings

hua cheng/xie lian [tgcf, 13k, rated m]

It started as an accident. Or as much of an accident you can call pure instinct. The sky is blue, water is wet, Hua Cheng flirted with the hot older teacher.

baby's first hualian (not counting a couple of wee drabbles/ficlets i've done before)... yayyyyyyy

ft. entomologist hua cheng, teacher xie lian, lots of pining, and an age gap for no reason (the reason is my primary audience is me always)

The entire court is looking for presents, and at first they try to get Fengqing to make recommendations, but those two are completely convinced that every question is from a spy acting on behalf of the other to get them to reveal their present so they can plot to get something better and so of course they will not say shit. At some point, a random official remembers he’s a Sword Guy and a freaking Martial God, so they finally chill like, oh yeah, we know what to do with those kinda guys.

"Last time, they spent eight hundred years running towards each other. This time, it only took an instant to fall into each other's embrace"