Shattering at the Helm, Chapter 2
The second chapter is UP!! It's the shortest of the whole fic (2697 words), so I figured it made sense to post it the same week as the first chapter since I plan on posting every week on Thursday from now on!
In today's chapter, Di Feisheng takes some time to study Li Lianhua's meridians. He's not happy about what he finds.
Chapters: 2/26 Fandom: 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi, Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi Characters: Di Feisheng, Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi, Fang Duobing, Huli Jing (Mysterious Lotus Casebook), Wu Yan (Mysterious Lotus Casebook) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Post-Canon, Slow Burn, difanghua pre-slash, Li Lianhua | Li Xiangyi Lives, Grief/Mourning, Suicidal Thoughts, Nightmares, Flashbacks, Panic Attacks, Disability, Dissociation, Kissing, Sharing a Bed, Medical Procedures, Past Rape/Non-con, Past Child Abuse Summary:
Xiangyi's pulse beat steadily in his sleep. He was alright, for the moment. Well, Di Feisheng thought, as he prepared to fling more qi to shore up the seal over his Baihui acupoint and braced for agonizing pain that would have him wishing he knew how to scream from it, that makes one of us.
Read it here on AO3!
(and if you haven't seen the show, that's ok! I wrote a summary of it and linked to it in the notes of the first chapter so you can still follow along if you'd like!)
