#( interactions && yin yu )

[blooming-periwxnkle]

Yin Yu's donghua design actually got me into YinXuan in a very serious way. I'm not kidding, they look perfect beside each other.

Plus, their other ship name is the prettiest thing ever🥺

[muzsmocsing]

I have a headcanon that while Rain Master doesn't care about the intricacies of the Upper Court at all she is decently up to date on juicy gossip because of Shi Qingxuan. She comes over, gets tipsy off of house made liquor, and goes into Wendy Williams-esque monologues and Yushi laughs her ass off listening to it.

[yeyayeya]

Quan Yizhen and Lang Qianqiu should be besties

[proselles]

thing one and dumbass two

[coreofgold]

@irresistiibles for Yin Yu

"If I were to say that yesterday was modern and technologically advanced, how would you react?" Hua Cheng found that some people actually believed this was always in the past, so the ghost king just had to see if Yin Yu is one of those people.

[irresistiibles]

@rainbowmuses / yin yu & will

the heat had left him stuck shopping, not feeling like he could continue in the dark long clothes with how hot it had been, though yin yu was struggling to find something smaller and more modern that actually felt like something he might want to wear. “is this really what people wear for the summer?” he asked, looking at options that seemed to all be cargo shorts or something far too short to be appropriate.

[lavendaers]

@irresistiibles quan yizhen for yin yu

"shixiong!" yizhen called out as soon as he spotted the other, the corners of his lips turning up into a bright smile as he rushed forward. he didn't notice the looked from anyone around him, nor did he care. "i have something to tell you. i know i forgot and everything, but now i remember. jun wu killed me."

[saltyspecs]

Ough I’m almost done with tgcf (I’m on the last quarter of book 7) and man now I really want to reread no paths are bound. Yes I did read npab before I finished the series thank you for asking.

Just what I need right before a new quarter starts up

[tragcdysewn]

closed starter for yin yu!! ( @irresistiibles )

he'd been very sure he'd killed yin yu, but here the man was, standing in front of him like everything was normal. and while he'd seen people resurrect before, it's never quite normal to see. "my apologies, did you say something?"

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

Most iconic Xie Lian moments according to me

Contains spoilers!!!

"Xie Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry"

Keeping every memento of his worst time ever as a reminder of why being kind and forgiving is worth it

When he runs off after he gives Hua Cheng CPR that one time pretending he's looking for his hat

When he keeps roasting Xiao Ying's looks even as she's dying

When he was a prince and he was told his future looked dark and he said that can't be cause he only wears white

Eating food off the ground

Building his own temple, we love a girl boss

When he pet E'Ming like a little puppy after being explicitly told not to ever touch it under any circumstances

Putting Banyue in a pickle jar

When Wuming said he would follow Xie Lian to the death and Xie Lian went "youre already dead"

Breaking rocks on his chest for money

Being trampled to death as general Hua, doormat core

The whole Fangxin Guoshi arc, whew 🥵

Carrying around a big ass bag of scraps everywhere

When he became jealous of Hua Cheng's special someone not realizing the very obvious fact that he was Hua Cheng's special someone actually

Slapping tf out of Qi Rong for making fun of Hua Cheng being blind in one eye

Pretending he had no idea who Nan Feng and Fu Yao were

When Mu Qing and Feng Xin were freaking about how creepy the Ten Thousands Gods Cave was whilst he found it incredibly romantic

Being a bit too into pretending to be Hua Cheng's puppet on Mount Tonglu

Feeding into E'Ming's praise kink

When he disguised himself as a pregnant lady to be possessed by the evil fetus spirit and it worked

When he disguised himself as a woman so badly he looked hideous and needed help to not look like that

When he spent the entirety of the Xuan Ji capturing business in his wedding dress disguise, including meeting Pei Xiu like that

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts-

When his response to the sex pollen was to kill himself

"I do not worship god, i am god!"

Every single sweet and tender interaction with Hua Cheng's butterflies that everyone else is terrified of

When everyone ignored him in the communication array because he was cringe

Getting drunk on a tombstone with little ghost fire Hua Cueng after his life fell apart

Controversial but i think his calamity era was also iconic and very sexy

When Heaven's Eye said his lips are exuding evil energy and he turned bright red

And then later when Heaven's Eye said the evil energy is inside him and he immediately changed the subject

Recognizing literally everyone despite their disguises but keeping quiet about it not to embarrass them.

Calling Yin Yu boring and forgettable looking to his face

Defending Hua Cheng, evil ghost king, in front of the whole entire Heavenly Emperor

When he was working in the rice field with Hua Cheng and he kept staring

Being poor

Having ridiculously bad luck

Ascending three times

Big daddy issues even with his dad still alive

When his life had just fallen apart and he didnt know how much a lantern could cost because he had been ridiculously rich all his life

Holding up a massive temple from falling apart???

Kissing Hua Cheng for spiritual energy in front of literally everyone more than once

When he could hear rats talking???

Adopting children

Not iconic Xie Lian behaviors

His abhorrent cooking

Trying to kill himself???

[marshymeds]

About your idea "AU in which He Xuan believes Shi Qingxuan is dead, does not handle it well, and Paradise Manor has a mysterious new employee. Hua Cheng is losing his mind" Can you tell us more about it?

Absolutely. I’m simplifying a lot here, but essentially, this takes place several years post canon. Shi Qingxuan finds himself in a situation where he has to fend off a yao from some street kids, and he gets injured. Mortal or not, he has his convictions, and he would do his best to protect some innocent disadvantaged children. An injury was worth it, though it might’ve been a little more serious than he would have liked.

Somehow this ends up with everyone believing he died, and he’s not complaining! Sure, his friends are mourning, but it was going to happen at some point anyway right? At least this way Black Water, who he’s recently discovered is almost definitely stalking him, will get off his tail! He can live out the rest of his somewhat miserable but respectable life in peace and no threat of a bloodthirsty ghost king hanging over his head.

Only, he probably needs to hide out a bit, and he definitely needs to deal with this injury. He Xuan was notoriously hermetic, he definitely wouldn’t be in Ghost City—that was Hua Cheng’s territory! He’d just show up at Puqi Shrine, ask for help and beg Xie Lian to swear to secrecy and a good disguise, and he’d be off. Xie Lian nearly has a heart attack, but really he shouldn’t be too surprised at this point. He really doesn’t think this is such a great idea, but the former Wind Master seems very sure of it and he can’t bring himself to deny his friend in such a state. He agrees to take him to Ghost City and find him somewhere to stay.

Hua Cheng sees through it immediately of course. The only reason he doesn’t tell He Xuan right away is because Xie Lian asked him to respect Shi Qingxuan’s wishes, though he didn’t feel too great about it either. The next best thing was to give him a ‘job’ in Paradise Manor, and hope things would resolve in time. Yin Yu gets saddled with a new assistant he doesn’t want. Because, of course, He Xuan is in Ghost City. He’d been growing weaker, snd Hua Cheng and Yin Yu had gone through quite a bit of work to convince him not to just run off and close himself up on his island.

Shi Qingxuan revises his plan a bit in the hopes that he could—in pretending to be someone else—learn more about He Xuan. That was something that haunted him about their final interactions. He’d called for the wrong person, and he’d never gotten a chance to even learn who his best friend really was. Maybe now he had a chance to. He’d just help Yin Yu take care of him and slowly try to earn his trust again.

Only, He Xuan wasn’t just weak. He was dispersing. His final reason for remaining in this world had died, and there was nothing holding him there anymore but regrets he had no hope of mending anymore.

Tldr; Shi Qingxuan becomes a glorified hospice nurse to a ghost king who is far too happy to leave this world while desperately trying to find some way to keep him there. Lots of ghost trio content, lots of angst and lots of sickfic cliche moments ft both sides of beefleaf (dont forget that injury sqx had).

[coreofgold]

@irresistiibles for Yin Yu

"You !" Hua Cheng points to the strange man who seems to be following him around. "Do you have concealer or something?" They wanr to hide the scar on their neck so they can stop wearing ugly turtlenecks. . .though chokers are nice.

[irresistiibles]

@ofsvnlightt / astrid and yin yu event starter

"i'm done for the day." yin yu stated, spotting someone approach the graveyard. he had already put the shovel on his back, and was ready to head out, regardless of what was going on. "if you need more graves you'll have to wait for the next guy. otherwise i'd get out of here. it's not good to hang around the graves."

[irresistiibles]

"well there's a plague and knights who think it's honorable to charge at each other or danger whenever they can, so it makes sense the bodies keep coming." yin yu said, though he didn't sound particularly happy about it either. it was easy simple work, just as long as he didn't let himself think too much about it. "i'm sure you could get a job somewhere else if you wanted." he appreciated a little company while digging, but he certainly wouldn't blame the guy.

event starter for : @irresistiibles | ghost & yin yu

❝ i do not understand why i wanted to work with this ❞ being a gravedigger was tough. he was exhausted every day after the day finished ❝ does people die every day, it feels as it's getting too much sometimes. not death, but to dig ❞

[lavendaers]

@irresistiibles quan yizhen for yin yu

"shixiong!" he smiled when he spotted the other, rushing towards him. "are you- are you doing okay here? i know it's pretty.. weird."

[juicedpeachy]

I like to imagine that both Xie Lian and Hua Cheng are Terrible™ at normal human interaction. Xie Lian went from spoiled prince to lonely old man and is definitely autistic and he theoretically knows How To Act In Public but is just not great at executing that hence why he just doesn’t bring stuff he notices up until waaaaaay later. Plus he just thinks some social norms are dumb and just ignores them

Meanwhile Hua Cheng has next to no friends—and if you do consider He Xuan his friend, that dude is also completely not normal at all and thus a terrible example—Yin Yu is the closest he ever gets to an example of normal human interaction but for Hua Cheng, who has never really even been talked to like a regular person also had No Idea how to interact so he just says and does whatever the hell he wants

This of course, leads to the two having Insane interactions with one another and thinking they are entirely normal while others look at them like 😦