NieYao Week 2026 - Interest check

He doesn't know how long it's been when he comes to, blindfold wet with his tears and then, oh, it's off, and Guangyao is nuzzling the space behind his knee, chest rising and falling in a steady rhythm. His mouth is bloody as if he'd been licking at his stumps like a thirsty hound and his hair is done in messy Nie braids and Mingjue starts crying again.

Words: 3,943 Genre: Drama/suspense Rating: NR (tr*nsphobia, body dysmorphia)

Pairing: NieYao Characters: Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Jin Guangshan, Meng Shi

Part of NieYao Week 2024! @nieyaoevents Day 2: Scars – voyeurism

Summary:

“A girl—”

Jin Guangyao’s face immediately broke out in pink blotches, breaths coming fast and ragged.

“—posing as a man is not permitted in Jinlintai. I thought I made myself clear upon our first meeting. But perhaps you are a eunuch after all, given your unmatured voice and effeminate appearance—”

To witness someone musing so casually about his body, as if he wasn’t in the room, was too much to bear. Jin Guangyao started hyperventilating, though he willed himself not to show it.

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Meng Yao does not really have the energy to move, so he lets Nie Mingjue handle his body and strip him to his inner robes, and then, undo his braids. The pulling at his hair crashes Meng Yao deep into his mind, nearly entirely cut off from the world, just floating there, and his eyelids droop.

Drew this very quickly for nieyao week day 1 daddy issues kink

Words: 5,587 Genre: Fluff/smut Rating: M (sexual content, roleplay)

Pairing: NieYao Characters: Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue

Part of NieYao Week 2024! @nieyaoevents Day 1: Braids – competency kink, praise kink

Summary:

“Really, what a shameless display that girl gave you, Zongzhu.”

Clan Leader Nie’s brow furrowed. “What do you mean?”

Did he really not notice? Meng Yao found that hard to believe. Then again, there were many things about Nie Mingjue that Meng Yao found hard to believe. “Zongzhu, that girl was clearly more interested in your attention than passing off some news.”

To the Meng Yao’s surprise, Nie Mingjue laughed, loud and hearty from his chest. Getting the feeling he was being belittled, Meng Yao’s hair rose on the back of his neck. He was ready to retort, when Nie Mingjue said, “Is that what you are worried about? Meng Yao, I have no interest in a random servant. It would be wrong of me to pursue a relationship with a disciple, whose position is lower than my own.”

“Zongzhu,” Meng Yao said, his voice quiet, “you and I are sleeping together because you took an interest in a random servant on the Hejian front.”

Nie Mingjue paled as he said it.

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If Nie Mingjue says it, then it must be true. Who put flesh on him? Jin Guangyao doesn't remember. He remembers that mama didn't, that she made him out of metal already in a human shape. So he tries to stay quiet, but it hurts so much and it burns all the skin and flesh off his body, and he can't help but sob.

i left the room destroyed

The inability to let go? The yearning?? Obsessed this trope gets me every time

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Silly bonus doodle:

There are Nie Mingjue's hands caging his body. Or perhaps his weight, as one of those hands comes up to hold Jin Guangyao down by the back of his neck. The position is painful, but what did he expect? He certainly wasn't waiting for any type of gentleness, of careful touch, when he did not resist Nie Mingjue dragging him to bed.

(Nie-zongzhu had mouthed at Meng Yao's neck before pulling up his arms, holding him there. Then, he had let go when he noticed that small flinch, something that Meng Yao was accostumed to ignoring. It is difficult to raise his right arm past the shoulder, but why would he be preoccupied with it?)

(Nie zongzhu held his face and asked, with eyes so sincere Meng Yao had found himself needing to look away, "How can I put you?")

Summary: Nie Mingjue goes to Langya for a meeting with Jin Guangshan, and also to check on his former deputy. However, no one seems to know a thing about him.

He finds Meng Yao alone with a Jin captain, piling up Wen corpses, gripping a Wen sword...

Nie Mingjue stops it before anything happens.

In which Nie Mingjue arrives early and comes up with a way to protect Meng Yao from the Jin.

Pairing: Nieyao

Characters: Nie Mingjue, Meng Yao, Jin Guangshan

Rating: T (might change)

So, my life being a dumspter fire didn't stop me from coming up with something for @nieyaoevents Nieyao Week!

Day 1. Prompt: fix-it

We wanted to remind everyone that we've got a Twitter and now a Bsky page of the event if you'd want to share your works out there as well!

An archive collection for the event is out on AO3 but it needs some small adjustments before we share the link

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