#rongye

山河令 | Word of Honor, Zhou Zishu/Wen Kexing, one-sided Ye Baiyi/Rong Changqing flashbacks, 25k words

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Set Between Episodes 36 and 37, Whump, Breaking Up and Making Up, Angst, Hurting Each Other's Feelings, Emotional Fallout, Reconciliation, Hopeful Ending

Wen Kexing’s smile faded. For a fleeting moment Zhou Zishu thought he had understood, despite his own wordlessness. After all, he was his zhiji—the one who knew him.

Or at least, he had once believed so.

Summary: Snowed in inside the World's Armory, Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing are forced to confront the consequences of their mutual deception.

Read on Ao3.

And if this broke your heart too much, here is the fun, light-hearted nsfw continuation:

a longing to ask the lone swan where it goes

山河令 | Word of Honor, Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu, Jing Beiyuan, Wu Xi, Zhang Chengling, 20k words

Additional Tags: Fluff and Smut, Resolved Sexual Tension, Sexual Frustration, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Attempted Seduction, Idiots in Love, Mutual Pining, First Time, Coming Untouched, Rimming, Sexual Overstimulation, Body Worship, Love Confessions

Finding their way back to each other was the easiest and the hardest thing they had ever done.

Summary: Zhou Zishu desperately yearns for Wen Kexing, but doesn't know how to ask for what he wants. Includes ridiculous attemps at seduction, an incredibly high amount of sexual frustration, and Jing Beiyuan coming to save the day.

These are the stories of some people, all more or less queer, that live their lives in the City, are all interconnected (either as friends or as rivals) and go through both fun and difficult times together.

This modern AU for several historical and/or wuxia c-dramas is set in some large globalised city adjacent to the Sinosphere, or at least with a very sizeable Chinese diaspora. I don't know enough about Taipeh, and Singapore is out of the question for reasons, so I'm just calling it The City and shall leave it at that. It has everything a city needs -- a university, high-rises, an IKEA, internet cafés, a gay scene, corruption in the building sector, an airport, and young edgy artists. It's hot there in the summer, very rainy in autumn (think typhoons, the way they tend to interrupt life in Japan) and temperate in winter. In this place, characters from

Word of Honor

The Untamed

A League of Nobleman

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Sleuth of Ming Dynasty

and some more that are a bit blink-and-you-miss it,

are living their modern, non-magical lives which I am following along in this series.

The main parts are "A Matter of Priorities" (Rong Changqing/Ye Baiyi from Word of Honor / Tian Ya Ke) and "Detoxify" (Li Lianhua/Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing from Mysterious Lotus Casebook), but everybody gets their moment in the limelight. Even Mo Xuanyu.-

For better yesterdays by @tbgkaru-woh