#2ha ficlet

[unforth]

another of my #fanprompt fills for @xieliansbignaturals prompt thingy on Mastodon.

Fandom: 2ha. Ship: Ranwan. Tags: modern AU, flirting, idiots who need to use their words.

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"Make sure you file your incident report."

Chu Wanning's tone was dignified and flat, as usual, but Mo Ran recognized the dig; why else would he have waited until Mo Ran was walking away, nearly at the door, nearly escaped from his damnable office?

"I will," Mo Ran snapped, glancing over his shoulder...to see Chu Wanning was, unmistakably, staring at Mo Ran's ass, his ears flushed pink.

Ah, Mo Ran thought, so THAT's the score.

Turning, Mo Ran strode back into the room. Chu Wanning sat stiff-backed and taut, but Mo Ran didn't stop his approach, not until he was so close that he could breath huskily into Chu Wanning's ear, "I'll submit it to you personally, yeah?"

And then, with a barked laugh, he turned and strolled away. He'd accomplished enough for one day. Let Chu Wanning stew over what THAT meant...fuck knew, he'd kept Mo Ran guessing long enough, but finally, Mo Ran understood what Chu Wanning wanted.

[corduroyserpent]

Idk if you've read erha but i thought you might enjoy this thought I had: Zhuzhi-Lang would quickly become attached to Chu Wanning. Nevermind that Tianlang-Jun is Xue Zhengyong but with way more free-time and looser morals, Zhuzhi-Lang would take one look at the guy sitting quietly while everyone else parties and feel some sort of kinship. He'd see the nervous glances people throw him when he stands from his seat and admire his apparent fearsomeness. He'd be caught out in the cold one day and devote himself to Chu Wanning for lending him his cloak like he isn't prone to getting sick. Zhuzhi-Lang would fall for Chu Wanning's unintentional wiles just like all three of his disciples and it would be the end for him.

Also, Tianlang-Jun and Xue Zhengyong would have a great time together. Birds of a feather of whatever.

i absolutely love 2ha! and this gave me such powerful brainworms that i wrote a little zzl & cwn ficlet about it I HOPE THAT'S OKAY

Chu Wanning’s hands are red from the cold. It is not the first thing Zhuzhi-Lang notices once he has poked his head free from the soft white cloak that had been tossed over him—that honor goes to the intensity of Chu Wanning’s eyes—but it is the most pressing. Low temperatures can be harmful to humans. And it’s been snowing all night.  “Chu-zongshi is too kind.” Zhuzhi-Lang swiftly slides the cloak from his narrow shoulders. He doesn’t wish to lose the warmth but he’s a heavenly demon; the cold may be an inconvenience, especially being part serpent, but he can manage. He’s always been able to. “This humble one is grateful for your consideration but there’s truly no need.” “You don’t want it?” Chu Wanning makes no move to take the offered cloak. His expression grows a touch cooler. “Is it the wrong color?” Zhuzhi-Lang blinks. While it’s true that he tends towards wearing black, he doesn’t dislike white. But that doesn’t matter at the moment! The longer they stay out here pushing a cloak back and forth, the higher the chance of Chu Wanning getting sick from the weather.  “It isn’t that I don’t want it,” Zhuzhi-Lang assures. He subconsciously presses it to his chest. It’s so soft. “Then wear it. Sect Leader sent word that he and your uncle won’t be back for another hour. If you continue to wait out here, you’ll freeze to death.”   “But what about you?” “What about me?” Chu Wanning sniffs. The tip of his nose is terribly red. “Won’t you be cold?” “It’s only a brief walk to the Red Lotus Pavilion. A little snow won’t kill me.” Chu Wanning turns to leave. Then, face stern, he takes the cloak and flips it around to drape it over Zhuzhi-Lang’s shoulders. He nods once, the motion tinted with a slight awkwardness. “Good night.” Zhuzhi-Lang watches him head off into the snow. To be sensitive to the cold and still give away his cloak…what incredible kindness. Zhuzhi-Lang burrows into the gifted warmth, pulling it tighter around him, and thinks about how he might begin to repay Chu Wanning. 

and then zhuzhi-lang accidentally becomes mo ran's new worst enemy asdfgjkl

[silverstark]

A White Lie Extra

Surprise for 520, aka “Chinese Valentine’s Day”

Ficlet for A White Lie, a 2ha / The Husky and His White Cat Shizun au where Xia Sini claims to be Chu Wanning’s son. Read it on Ao3 (Registered Users Only). SPOILERS FOR FULL NOVEL.

Auuthor’s Note: This doesn’t necessarily fit into the “canon” of A White Lie because I didn’t think it over carefully enough to see if it messes anything up in my plot. However! I wanted to write something to celebrate 520.

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Mo Ran woke up early so he could go check on his recovering shidi first thing in the morning. Having reassured himself that the child was looking well, he wrote a note of explanation for his absence.

‘I’ll be back soon to give you medicine! I will be with Shi Mei for a little while.’

It was just a precaution: Xia Sini was still fast asleep, and the medication would make him less likely to wake up early. Chu Wanning had always woken up very late when he was sick. Mo Ran expected that Xia Sini would take after his father, as he did in so many other regards.

Mo Ran laid the note upon Xia Sini’s latest boring book. This one was about rare poisons. Mo Ran could only approve of Xia Sini finding a safer way to pursue his ‘win at all costs’ drive than through sword-fighting, so he did not plan on asking about his interest in the subject. He then snuck quietly out of the room and shut the door behind him.

Shi Mei was surprised to see Mo Ran.

“Good morning, A-Ran.”

“Good morning, Shi Mei,” he replied brightly.

“Do we have early morning training today? I must have forgotten,” Shi Mei said apologetically.

“No, no,” Mo Ran said. “It’s nothing related to training.”

Shi Mei’s expression changed. He looked faintly awkward.

“Oh? Then…”

He stopped himself as he realized that he almost asked a rude question.

“I hope I didn’t wake you up early,” Mo Ran said hurriedly.

“No…”

Indeed, he was fully dressed with his hair in near order. It seemed he had been quietly studying in his room, as Mo Ran had expected.

Mo Ran sighed in relief. “I’m glad. I was just hoping to ask you something…”

Here Mo Ran hesitated and scratched his head a little diffidently. Shi Mei seemed unusually reserved. Mo Ran had never interrupted his morning studying before to avoid inconveniencing him. Now he had, and on top of that, he was going to ask him another favor. He wondered if he should check whether Shi Mei had the time before asking him for the favor, or else Shi Mei might agree purely out of politeness.

Shi Mei watched him and suddenly lowered his gaze.

“Want to come inside?” he asked quietly.

“Huh?”

Shi Mei rarely invited Mo Ran into his room. Mo Ran hadn’t been expected to be invited in today of all days.

“So we can speak privately,” Shi Mei said.

“Oh! Thank you, but I don’t really have time,” he said apologetically.

Shi Mei’s eyes widened slightly. Mo Ran couldn’t remember the last time he had declined an invitation to spend time with Shi Mei. Usually he wanted to stick to Shi Mei like sticky candy, as close as Shi Mei would permit, every moment he could get.

Mo Ran explained, “I have to— actually, that’s what I wanted to ask. If you have time.”

“What is it?” Shi Mei asked, puzzled.

“Will you teach me how you make wonton soup?”

Shi Mei blinked in surprise. Then he looked at Mo Ran with an expression like dismay. Mo Ran didn’t understand it until he remembered his poor timing.

“You don’t have to make it with me. If you tell me how you make it, I can just try it on my own.”

“…Why do you want to learn how to make wonton soup?”

“Little Shidi is hurt. I was thinking yesterday, that when I’m hurt, wonton soup always makes me feel better. I want to try to make Little Shidi wonton soup before he wakes up.”

Shi Mei frowned and seemed thoughtful, even a little uncomfortable. Mo Ran blinked at him in confusion. He didn’t understand why Shi Mei didn’t seem to want to want to share the recipe.

“I thought Shidi didn’t like spicy food.”

“I’ll make it without chili for him.”

Shi Mei hesitated another moment. Mo Ran gazed at him in befuddlement, trying to figure out what the problem was.

“Do you…want to keep the recipe a secret?” Mo Ran wondered.

Shi Mei held out another moment before sighing in resignation.

“Shizun will have to forgive me,” he said quietly.

“Um. What does Shizun have to do with this? It’s not like it’s his recipe,” Mo Ran said, laughing a little at the idea of Chu Wanning’s cooking skills.

“It is,” Shi Mei said.

“Hahahahaha!”

Shi Mei watched him laughing. Mo Ran waited for him to drop the serious expression, but as time went on and Shi Mei failed to crack a smile, Mo Ran faltered. Then he stopped laughing entirely.

There was a tired look in Shi Mei’s eyes. The joke had been out of character; perhaps it was his way of distracting Mo Ran from something that was troubling him. Perhaps he had invited Mo Ran in wishing to tell him and unburden himself.

“What’s wrong?” Mo Ran asked gently.

“…Nothing.”

Mo Ran tsk’d and took Shi Mei’s hand intending to lead him into the room so they could talk privately. Shi Mei allowed it.

“Tell me,” Mo Ran urged once the door was closed.

“There’s nothing wrong,” Shi Mei said. “It’s only that I can’t teach you that recipe.”

“That’s okay,” Mo Ran said. “I shouldn’t have asked you out of the blue like that. But that can’t be the only thing that’s wrong. It’s not like you to make jokes at Shizun’s expense.”

“…”

Shi Mei gazed at him with an unreadable expression. Mo Ran looked back at him sincerely, hoping that Shi Mei would see how much Mo Ran cared about him.

“That was not a joke,” Shi Mei said. “It really is Shizun’s recipe. He’s the one who has been making wonton soup for you. I didn’t tell you because he asked me to keep it a secret.”

Mo Ran stared first in disbelief, and then in horrified realization.

“Mo Ran?” Shi Mei asked.

His voice sounded far away. Mo Ran was far away.

Before, he couldn’t think of the wonton soup without feeling a warmth that seeped deep into his bones. And now, he was remembering those wontons rolling across the floor, thrown away by Mo Ran’s own uncaring blow. He remembered the expression on Chu Wanning’s face after. He remembered his own satisfaction in the vindictive cruelty.

“Mo Ran?” Shi Mei asked again.

He sounded concerned. Mo Ran gulped and tried to pull himself together. He couldn’t have a breakdown in front of Shi Mei without explaining.

“Ah, so it wasn’t a joke,” he said with an attempt at a smile. It crumpled into a grimace.

Shi Mei sighed. “Shizun feared that you would react like this. That’s why he didn’t want you to know…”

Mo Ran again remembered the look on Chu Wanning’s face after Mo Ran had strewn his wontons across the floor. Chu Wanning had feared his reaction. But he couldn’t have known…

Mo Ran sucked in a breath. He repeated to himself that he couldn’t have a breakdown in front of Shi Mei.

“Don’t worry,” Mo Ran said. “I won’t tell him.”

He didn’t have time for a breakdown right now. He had to go start making the soup if he wanted it to be ready before Xia Sini woke up. He muttered some polite farewell to Shi Mei and hurried to the kitchens.

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Cooking always settled Mo Ran’s spirit somehow. Cooking for someone he loved was even better. He put special care into every step. He knew very well that he could not fix the mistakes he had made in his past life. What was done was done. But…perhaps he could do better in this lifetime. He wanted to do better by Xia Sini.

The soup was beautifully made. It was nothing compared to the soup Shi Mei had brought him just when he had desperately needed it. The soup that Chu Wanning had made for him and sent to him just when he had desperately needed it. Mo Ran remembered his overwhelming gratitude and the spark of love that had flared in the wreck of his heartache over the way Chu Wanning had treated him. He didn’t know what to make of this now. He didn’t know how to feel towards Shi Mei or Chu Wanning now.

The only thing that was clear was his feeling upon walking into Xia Sini’s room to offer him the wonton soup. Xia Sini was sitting up now seemingly reading the note Mo Ran had left. He startled at Mo Ran’s arrival and tossed the note like he was embarrassed to be caught reading it. Mo Ran grinned, feeling his heart light up with warmth and affection.

“You woke up early,” he noted.

Xia Sini looked at him warily. Mo Ran was a little surprised that he didn’t make some cranky comment.

“Does your wound hurt? Don’t worry, I’ll give you medicine soon, as I promised,” he said cheerily.

“It does not hurt,” Xia Sini quickly denied. “You can take that away.”

He gave the soup bowl a disgusted glare as he spoke. Mo Ran laughed.

“Won’t you even give it a taste? Your shixiong worked hard to make this!”

Mo Ran placed the tray close to Xia Sini and uncovered the bowl to reveal the soup. Xia Sini stared at the contents.

“What? Don’t you like wonton soup? I promise it’s not spicy.”

Xia Sini didn’t look up.

“You…you made me wonton soup?” he asked uncertainly.

“Of course! Little shidi needs good food to recover.”

“…”

Xia Sini said nothing and made no move to pick up his chopsticks. Mo Ran looked at him in concern, but his lashes were low over his eyes and Mo Ran couldn’t read his expression.

“Do you really not like it? I can go get you something else...”

Mo Ran was a little worried. He would have no time to make something good before Xia Sini got hungry. It would have to be some plain, boring congee.

“No, don’t take it away,” Xia Sini said. “I like it.”

“Oh,” Mo Ran said, relieved. “Then what’s wrong?”

“Nothing is wrong. It’s just that no one has ever taken care of me like this.”

Mo Ran’s heart ached to hear those words. He had suspected it, but now he knew it was true. He reached out and gently patted Xia Sini’s hair. He didn’t understand how it could be that no one had cared for this precious, clever, kind child.

Xia Sini looked up at his touch and finally met Mo Ran’s eyes.

“Thank you, shixiong,” he said sincerely.

Mo Ran smiled even has his heart broke open, overfilled with affection. Light spilled out through the cracks.

“I said I would take care of you, didn’t I?”

Xia Sini blinked and stared. He said nothing, but Mo Ran thought he saw something small and fragile lighting up in his eyes. Mo Ran tucked a strand of hair behind Xia Sini’s ear.

He cleared his throat before speaking to be sure that it wouldn’t break.

“If you want to show your gratitude, you better start eating before it gets cold,” he chided.

Xia Sini lowered his head and obeyed. There was a little smile on his face. Mo Ran couldn’t look away from it.

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#5

if I see one more bonecoin advertisement I'm going to lose it

10 notes - Posted February 12, 2022

#4

2ha things that made me scream /pos list

spoilers below~

"Shizun, please pay attention to me." but the original chinese. if i'm getting this right it meant more along the lines of "please acknowledge that I exist"

"Ge, we don't have a shizun anymore" Although this whole scene broke my heart, and probably everyone else's too, the fact that it was Xue Meng who said it-

“You don’t even have to compare yourself to Mo Ran. You can’t even compare to Xu Shuanglin. At the very least, he still had feelings and dared to admit it. He’s not like you, Hua Binan.” you fucking go shizun. although I did really like hua binan, and I nearly cried when he died, it was wonderful to see shizun take a stance.

“I want to do better too, so that I won’t feel too dirty to stand before you, so that at least I’ll be able to lift my head in front of you. But I...I can’t catch up to you..." Mo Ran bb boy forgive yourself pls. You are good enough and your Shizun sees you.

Anyways this was sitting in my drafts for a while and it's still making me insane so <3

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#3

i laugh knowing that as soon as yosano's episodes come out the bsd fandom will rip tear murder me bc they're gonna be sobbing over her backstory and i'm gonna be sexualizing mori in his military uniform so hard-

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#2

I actually wrote something! It is religious trauma filled!

It's vaguely Fyozai, but not,,, romantic? More than platonic, not quite queerplatonic, definitely not romantic.

a short little ficlet ft. a prison conversation

16 notes - Posted May 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I think us aromantics should get swords on valentine's day

yk. as a treat

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[unforth]

...okay I lied in my comment, I will answer, but like. Please don't ask me about them. I honestly cannot face that right now. I feel so guilty about how many projects I have in the works and how many ideas I've had since that I haven't even written down. I've hardly written in like a year and half so I don't even remember what half these are. I've added fandom and ship, when I remember, in parens at the end, and also if I actually posted some of it.

Cold Spring Caves Porn Outline (cql, wangxian)

Distant Shores (yoi, viktuuri)

Down to Ash (spn, denny)

Drabble 1-7-22 (yes I literally have a drabble in my WIP folder)

Gregolai ficlet (agoh, Gregolai)

Guardian Bingo (zhenhun, weilan)

HBCS Pitch (original fic, mlm poly)

Hualian a Year in a Relationship Story Idea (tgcf, hualian)

Hualian AU (tgcf, hualian)

idek have some words (yes that's literally the title)

kink meme 7/27 (I think it's spn, destiel but I'm not sure)

Kissing Shenanigans Junior OT4 (cql, Juniors OT4)

modern wangxian twit fic (cql, wangxian)

omega wwx heat auction wip (this one at least is on AO3) (cql, wangxian)

PGD draft 1 (spn, destiel)

PPB Chapter 1 (spn, destiel)

Prostitute x Prostitute WangXian (cql, wangxian)

Ranwan A/B/O Outline (2ha, ranwan)

Speared (spn, destiel)

Tangled Roots (spn, destiel)

tattoo parlor au twit fic thing (I think it's cql, wangxian)

Tentacle LWJ Outline Idea (cql, wangxian)

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3 (spn, deanjimstiel)

Thursday's Angel (also on AO3) (spn, destiel)

Under the Bridge (spn, destiel)

Untitled Viktuuri Fic (yoi, viktuuri)

Useless Hualian Story Idea (tgcf, hualian)

Wangxian Soulmark AU wip (cql, wangxian)

Weilan outline (zhenhun, weilan)

wen qing lives (also on AO3) (cql, chengqing)

I might have posted some others of these but I don't feel like looking through to figure it out.

(tagging no one)

Fic WIP Titles

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

tagged by @dragongirlg-fics last week and finally getting around to it

Avengers in the Burial Mounds

Bee Birthday - Solidaritea

Chengxian sweetness

Doctor of Demonic Cultivation

glorious and strange*

Horrible Teens

ILU Ladies Squad*

Jiang Yanli | Li Shuitian

JYL/LWJ betrothal

Kisses!

letters wnx

LWJ is decidedly not three

Matchmaker Matchmaker Plz Stop

Multipoint time travel

phoenix mountain reverse

Qin Su's Slutty Adventures*

Scum Villain Fusion

Taking MXY for a Ride*

The Back to the Future Job

wangningxian epistolary

WangNingXian ghostie

Wen Ning Feels

WEN SIBS LIVE AU*

WNX Soft Dom WN

Zhancheng Magic Boyfriend Journal*

*fic is/will be/was intended to be co-written

Some of these are much more... active than others. 😅 I am not tagging that many people, so if you'd like to play, consider this your invitation!

[evehere]

eve, hi! your 2ha-qws au is so so good! mo ran's regret and his thoughts of the underworld ("Maybe then he’d reach the underworld mostly intact, and he wouldn’t scare Chu Wanning too much when he saw him." my heart) are amazing. cwn's not even there and you can really feel based on mr's thoughts how much he sacrificed for mr. it's heartbreaking. i'm really happy you did a little fic with your idea. if you ever do more, i'll just have to sit and wait excitedly!

Hi, Lu! I’m glad you liked my qws-au! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟI’m testing it out, since I’m writing something larger, but I couldn’t resist to writing it. Like, the busier I am in rl, the more inspiration I get OvO It has come to the point it has a more complete outline and a title (which means, unfortunately for my schedule, that I’m going to write this, albeit slower and in shorter segments).

I have named it “Yearning unwittingly breaks the willow branch” (无令长相思，折断杨柳枝), the phrase the fox demon tells Mo Ran when he hands him the box with Jiangui. Let’s leave it at yearning willow for short 😂

Willow branches in Chinese poetry, particularly broken ones, means “regretful parting”. It basically comes to “to yearn for the wrong person will lead to bitter partings”, which is 2ha and this fic summed up in 10 neat characters XD

I have a second chapter written, which I’ll probably post here this weekend, and it has enough length now (for my own standards) to be posted to ao3, which I’ll do this weekend as well.

I can’t stress enough how thankful I am for the interest you and other readers have taken into this fic! It’s really encouraging to find people that like what you write, so you have my eternal gratitude °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

As thanks, I offer you a ficlet. I hope you like it!

Yearning willow masterpost here 🍃

Mo Ran 2.0 (1)

“Who are you?”

“What do you mean, Wanning?” Mo Ran laughed, though his voice was constricted under the weight of his husband.

If anyone entered Honglian House now, they’d be taken aback by the sight. Or rather, they’d start preparing for the funeral of the marquis’ husband.

Mo Ran was lying on his back on the bed, his arms pinned tightly at his sides by Chu Wanning’s legs. Said man was striding his abdomen, a hand clutching a handful of Mo Ran’s hair, and the other one pressing a sharp dagger in his neck.

But Chu Wanning didn’t care, because this man wasn’t his husband.

“You’re not Mo Ran,” he said in a cold, sharp voice. “Who are you? A Northern spy? Or an Eastern assassin? What have you done with him?”

The man was wearing his husband’s face alright. He pulled tentatively at his hair, but it was rooted firmly in the scalp—the hair was real then. He examined his neck meticulously, but found no marks of a mask, nor trace of make-up.

However, Chu Wanning had read about the magic some Northern tribes practiced, of the many tricks Eastern kingdoms knew of espionage. He didn’t need to know what had been used exactly, because something was terribly amiss.

Instead of an answer, he stared at him with those dark eyes, with an almost purplish quality to them. So similar to Mo Ran’s, and yet, not his.

Mo Ran never looked at him with such tenderness.

He’d have never stood still under Chu Wanning like he was now. The real him would have thrown him down by now—gods knew Mo Ran had that strength—maybe even slapping or punching him, and he’d order Chu Wanning to kneel in the shrine to repent for his disrespect towards his husband. All of those would have been more agreeable behaviour, because it would be ordinary.

“Why do you think I’m not him?”

Chu Wanning sneered.

“You didn’t do your investigation very well,” he said, pressing the dagger more firmly against his neck and extracting a drop of blood. “Mo Ran doesn’t come to Honglian House on his own accord.”

The rest of it was too embarrassing to tell to an outsider, and much more to one that didn’t know the actual state of the relationship between them. He cooks sometimes, Chu Wanning thought, but never makes a portion for me. He would have never called a doctor to attend to me, nor would have him come to my bedside to see me.

If it was in his fancy, he’d have just taken Chu Wanning, doctor’s orders and his own agreement be damned.

Quick as lightning, Chu Wanning pressed down with his thighs when he felt him trying to extract a hand.

“Don’t move!” He snarled.

His legs trembled with the effort, and his knees protested under him, despite being supported by the soft mattress.

“Okay, okay,” the impostor acquiesced, relaxing under him. “See? I’m not moving. Don’t overexert yourself, you’re still recovering, okay?”

There was worry in his voice, Chu Wanning realised, his hand twitching where he was grasping his hair.

“What have you done with Mo Ran?” He asked again after a moment, trying to recover his senses.

If he spent a moment longer with this impostor that had Mo Ran’s face and voice, he’d go mad.

The impostor merely looked at him with a helpless gaze.

“I’m really not some impostor,” he said. Before Chu Wanning could say anything, he continued, “let’s see, what can I tell you to make you believe me?” He was deep in thought for a second. “Ah! You have a blade scar in your chest, just above your heart!”

Chu Wanning pondered on that, but shook his head almost immediately.

“You could have seen that when I was unconscious.”

Unnerving as it was, it seemed the impostor wasn’t in the slightest bit nervous, even though Chu Wanning hadn’t relaxed his hand on the dagger on his neck all this time. He merely looked at the canopy over them, as if he was being asked a question over tea.

“I remember…” he said, his voice much lower than before. “I remember that in our wedding night, we were like this, with Wanning on top of me.”

…

Like a cat bristled with water, Chu Wanning jumped backwards, jolting to the corner of the bed. The dagger fell on the floor resoundingly, and Mo Ran sat on the bed, smoothing out his rumpled clothes, with a boyish smile with dimples. The smile felt apologetic, and somewhat guilty, but Chu Wanning was too flustered to process that.

He…

He had to be Mo Ran. Only Mo Ran knew.

For all he had been a scoundrel since they married, he didn’t talk about the matters of the bedroom. Not to him, not to anyone.

Besides, in the months after their marriage, he had let many people believe he had gone directly to Mu Yanli’s room straight after the banquet, instead of coming to Chu Wanning’s first and then leaving for hers.

The night of his wedding. It was an unpleasant memory, and he pushed it far to the back of his mind.

He smoothed his own clothes as well, but kept himself in the far corner of the bed. For now, he should focus on what he could manage.

“You let me put a knife to your neck,” he said, incredulity swarming his features and his voice.

For much less he had been ordered to kneel in the shrine. However, the present Mo Ran didn’t show any indications of wanting to punish him. The young man picked up the dagger from the floor and put it on the low table in front of them.

The tray with food Mo Ran had brought was on top of the table. The food was still warm, still steaming—Chu Wanning’s attack had taken a short time. Mo Ran picked up the bowl of congee with minced sea bass and green onions and a spoon, and sat back on the edge of the bed, offering a spoonful to him with a bright smile.  

“I know my Wanning would never hurt me.”

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Honglian (红莲) means “red lotus”. It was the name of Chu Wanning’s pavillion in the novel.

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[kukuandkookie]

Maybe I’ll upload this to my Ao3 sometime but for those who didn’t know, I’m writing (and occasionally doodling!) kiss prompts on my Twitter.

This one’s for Ranwan!! 🥰

[baoshan-sanren]

Evehere is posting a series of 2ha ficlets that are from a "The wife is first" AU and it's so good! Since I knew you've read both stories, I thought you might like it!

Thank you! I will definitely check that out 🥰

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Name: betts

Fandom(s): currently dipping my toes into the danmei waters, namely mxtx but i hope to read 2ha and some others soon. mostly obsessed with tgcf. 

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Most Popular One Shot: bucky barnes has his shit together (and other lies he tells himself)

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Favorite Story You’ve Written So Far: i really don’t know. i’m in a weird place where everything i’ve written feels Just Okay and nothing stands out anymore as something i’m proud of

Fic You Were Nervous to Post: posting things doesn’t usually make me nervous

How do you choose your titles?: usually i have a title planned going into a project, but sometimes i read through my favorite poems/songs and pick out a line i think will make an apt title

Do you outline?: i have like a 14-step writing process that sometimes i throw away entirely depending on my mood, but yes in the full process there are 3 different outlines i complete before i start writing

Complete: i have 80 completed fics posted to ao3 

In Progress: oof. 8 fic wips that i would really like to finish

Prompts?: i haven’t opened prompts for a long time. and i’m not sure i will again any time soon, because i’m working on so many other things

Upcoming Work You’re Most Excited About?: probably my 2 hualian aus, but i’m also excited to finish the chengqing femdom fic and the banker au

tagging @aeriallon @ald0us-huxley @star-sky-earth @valkyrhys

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Three sentence fic meme

Drop me a comment or ask with a trope or setting or kink or whatever, and a ship for any fandom you've seen me interact with (I'm in too many to list rn but like mxtx, 2ha, a few priest fandoms, other danmei, spn if you feel you must lmao, star trek, many others) and I'll write a more or less 3 sentence ficlet.

Thanks for prompts in advance!

[ammoniium]

Crack ship for a Scum Villain and 2ha Modern AU @dreaming-fireflies and I are collabing on! You can find the companion ficlet here:

https://twitter.com/rinsled05/status/1254771302667149312?s=20 More ficlets from the same universe:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23036371/chapters/55089346

[tiptoe39]

have a half-baked kissy ficlet for 2ha, my virgin offering to the fandom.

discreetly

"But the intimacy between them no longer stopped at holding hands. They would passionately kiss in the alley behind Grandma Meng's Hall, and after nightfall, they would go to some deserted forest and rub their ears together." -2ha, Chapter 185, machine translation

Chu Wanning never thought his life would be like this.

He never even imagined it. Even when the wanting was at its greatest, when he had to shut himself away to keep from losing his mind to the wildness inside him, he never dared to dream that Mo Ran would love him as hopelessly and passionately as Chu Wanning loved him. It was a love, he thought, that would never make itself known. He would live suffering, driven by will alone to make it through the lonely nights, the agonizing moments when a smile or a touch left him burning up inside. It would be painful, but he would endure.

But this ... this now, is ...

Mo Ran finds him on the way to breakfast. "Shizun," he'd say, ruddy-cheeked and bright-eyed in the morning light. "Before you eat, come with me around the corner. I want to show you something."

The first time, Chu Wanning genuinely thinks there's something he's meant to see. But when they turn the corner, tucking themselves behind a small shed, Mo Ran presses him against the wall and kisses him. Hot, damp lips against his own. Chu Wanning's mouth falls open, silently pleading. Mo Ran licks into him vigorously. Every nerve in Chu Wanning's body lights up. He reaches out to grab Mo Ran's robes and clings tightly to him.

"What did you want to show me?" he manages to say between hurried breaths.

Mo Ran rubs the back of his head and toes the ground. "I just actually wanted to kiss you this morning," he admits.

After that, Chu Wanning knows. But he still goes with Mo Ran, every single time.

Shizun, help me with my sword form. Shizun, let me help you carry that back to the Red Lotus Pavilion. Shizun, just one moment of your time in private. Shizun, I'll be practicing in the back woods near the river, just so you know where I am.

Each time, Chu Wanning ends up panting, flushed, hair disheveled, lips kiss-swollen and sensitive. Mo Ran grins at him. His heart pounds. All he wants is to grab Mo Ran by the back of the neck and to pull him into another kiss. But each time, he's too embarrassed to do so. He curls his fingers close to his sides and does his best to look unmoved.

It's useless. Mo Ran knows. He's tasted it in every kiss.

There's no dissuading Mo Ran, and there's no taming his own unruly heart, so Chu Wanning figures he might as well be cooperative. Today, he waits behind the dining hall, where Mo Ran has dragged him many times to kiss and embrace him before or after meals. This time, he might as well just skip the dragging part and wait here for him.

Mo Ran's voice echoes loud from inside the hall. "Shizun?"

Chu Wanning rubs his temple. Discretion is not one of Mo Ran's specialties.

"Shizun ... excuse me ... have you seen my Shizun?"

It's embarrassing. Now everyone in the dining hall is aware that Chu Wanning isn't in the room. Any minute now, someone will look out into the alleyway and find him, and then he'll have to explain himself. It's a disaster. He should just leave.

He stays anyway.

Mo Ran's voice, coming from outside the dining hall now: "Shizun!" What is he, just howling at the moon at this point? Chu Wanning is irked. But he waits for Mo Ran to come around to the side of the hall, then peek into the alleyway.

"Shiz--" he starts.

Chu Wanning shushes him with a hiss and a glare.

Mo Ran cuts himself off and walks with big galloping strides toward Chu Wanning. "Shizun," he says in an exaggerated stage whisper, "what are you doing out here?"

Idiot. "What does it look like I'm doing?"

"Uh." Mo Ran looks around. "I'm not sure. Is this a new method of cultivation?" His gaze returns to Chu Wanning, and there's hurt in his eyes. "Shizun ... are you avoiding me?"

"No, I'm not avoiding you," Chu Wanning snaps. "I'm waiting for you."

"You're..."

"This is where we always end up, anyway." It's not worth the extra words of explanation, but Chu Wanning finds his tongue looser of late. The influence of this man, who speaks his feelings so freely.

"So..." Mo Ran is still putting it together. "So you came here ... first?"

Chu Wanning wants to call him a moron and walk away. He wants to flick his sleeves and turn on his heel and make himself scarce. But most of all, he wants Mo Ran to stop thinking and kiss him already.

After a minute, he loses patience, grabs Mo Ran by the arms, and hauls him in.

Mo Ran makes a surprised sound against his mouth, but a moment later, he remembers himself and throws his arms around Chu Wanning, holding him close. So much warmth, all of a sudden everywhere, and Chu Wanning is dizzy, mouth open, letting Mo Ran lick into him hungrily. His hands are fists against Mo Ran's arms, clutching his robes. Chu Wanning moans into the kiss. He's underwater, the rest of the world silent against the sound of his own hurried breathing and Mo Ran's soft groans, and he's never before wanted so badly to drown.

They could get lost in each other like this. It would be so easy. They could kiss like this all day. Chu Wanning is frightened by how much he wants that.

It scares him awake. The world comes back into focus. He pulls away, aware suddenly of the midsummer breeze, the sounds from the dining hall. It takes a few tries to gasp in enough air to speak.

"That's enough," he spits out. "Let's go eat."

Mo Ran won't let him go. "Shizun," he says, sounding dazed, with a low, ragged edge to his voice. "You wanted to kiss me first?"

"Discreetly," Chu Wanning corrects.

"You wanted to kiss me discreetly?" He's stuck on the "you wanted to kiss me" part, Chu Wanning can tell. He's beaming and grinning, and the whole picture is heartrendingly charming. Mo Ran is equal parts dangerous beast and delighted child, and Chu Wanning, to his own dismay, loves both halves equally.

"Now let's eat," Chu Wanning presses emphasis onto the words.

But Mo Ran still doesn't let go. "One more time," he pleads. "Discreetly."

What is he supposed to do with that? He doesn't have the heart to refuse. Chu Wanning sighs, tips his chin up, and lets himself be kissed to distraction one more time.

[evehere]

2ha QWS-AU

I decided to try my hand at this AU! Hope you'll like it!

You can find the masterpost here. There's no need to have read QWS (Wife is First) or watched Minglan before, though I really recommend them (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

Spoilers of 2ha, but not of QWS or Minglan.

Warnings: character death, knife, blood.

Mo Ran 1.0

Mo Ran’s execution

Mo Ran made no move to dodge the stones thrown at him. One hit his eyebrow, and blood dripped down his face.

There was a flare of pain. But it didn’t hurt.

Nothing hurt since Chu Wanning had breathed his last.

Stones and rotten vegetables continued to rain over him, as people shouted around the cart Mo Ran was being carried in. The cart was a cage with wheels, letting everyone see the proud Taxian general reduced to this sorry, pathetic state, with his head and hands bound in a cangue and kneeling in repentance.

The fearsome, all-powerful general, Hero of the North, Marquis of Nanping.

A tiger without claws and teeth.

“Wasn’t he the one who drove the northern barbarians out of our lands?” A woman said in the crowd, asking his husband with a hand on his arm. “That didn’t count for something?”

“Not anymore,” he answered, spitting on the floor, “not since he tried to overthrow the emperor.”

I didn’t, Mo Ran wanted to say. I didn’t do it, someone framed me.

Yet what would he get saying it? Would Chu Wanning come back from the dead?

If there was a way to bring him back, Mo Ran would do anything. He would let them parade him like this fifty times if it was necessary. Chu Wanning had been the most innocent party of all this plot someone had staged to bring Mo Ran down. To this day, Mo Ran still didn’t know who to blame. Who to hate.

Who was he trying to trick? The fault for this whole situation and Chu Wanning’s death, ultimately, lay in him.

But hate was more easy to manage. Sometimes, regret and shame threatened to gobble him whole when he remembered the last eight years. He had spoiled his concubines and neglected his lawful husband, letting him have the worst kind of life for a proud and soft-hearted man. The worst sort of man for the schemes and plots that lurked in a household like Mo Ran’s.

Chu Wanning should have left him behind, like his concubines and servants had done. Mo Ran wouldn’t have blamed him.

“Have you seen him?” A scholar admonished his child, a big eyed boy no older than five. “Be an upright man, never act like this beast.”

The child merely nodded his head, struggling to understand what Mo Ran had done to deserve such treatment from the public. They were throwing dirty things at him! That was a rotten egg splashed on the man’s back!

“Traitor! Bastard!”

“Worse than pigs and dogs!”

“I hope you die a horrible death!”

The last one almost sparked a bit of amusement in Mo Ran. After all, he was on his way to a horrible death, paraded through the city, all the way from the imperial prison to the execution ground. This parade should serve as a reminder and a warning to all citizens, the soldiers had said.

Though it was more likely just a good way to dispose of their spoiled food.

Something hit him on his temple. Mo Ran looked down. It was a carrot, wrinkled and soft. What a waste, Mo Ran thought. It was overripe, but mostly good. He would have given everything to have something like this to bring to Chu Wanning in his last days, when they either got a broth that was merely muddy water or a mouldy bao for the two of them every couple of days.

It was funny, Mo Ran concluded, with no trace of hilarity. When he was the influential and wealthy Taxian general, with the world at his feet and whatever riches he desired at the grasp of his hand, he had given nothing to Chu Wanning. Well, nothing if you didn’t count eight years of suffering and grievances. It was much later, when he had lost everything, that he wished he had given Chu Wanning more.

Even if just to improve his health.

Perhaps, if Chu Wanning had been more selfish, he wouldn’t have died, Mo Ran ruminated. Maybe he’d have demanded Mo Ran to give him what he was allotted to as the husband of a Marquis, and his health would have been better when Mo Ran’s household collapsed. Maybe he’d have never entered the prison to be with his husband, for a crime he had nothing to do with. Maybe he wouldn’t deceive Mo Ran and let him have all the food when it got scarce.

Baobei, it was my fault, Mo Ran thought often. He hoped Chu Wanning could get a swift passing in the underworld and get a good reincarnation. Was the underworld a cold place? He wondered. Chu Wanning hated the cold.

No matter. He’d find it out soon.

When one was lost in their own thoughts, time flied. In no time, they were already at the execution grounds, a tall and thick post in the middle of a dusty arena. People surrounded the place, eager to observe how they carried out the execution of the infamous Taxian general.

Lingchi. The death by a thousand cuts.

Mo Ran let the executioners tie him to the post, offering no resistance. Briefly, he asked himself if it would be long. When the sentence arrived at his cell, he had already lost all his money and power, so he couldn’t pay the executioners to make a first cut in his neck, letting him bleed out quickly. Besides, he hadn’t really cared at the time, too busy letting his grief swallow him whole.

Chu Wanning had died the day before.

As he was tied, the executioner brought out an imposing knife, as long as his forearm, and dipped the blade in salt water.

“It will be quick,” the man said gruffly. “General Xue paid for a swift death.”

Xue-bofu, Mo Ran realised with a startle.

After his imprisonment, Xue-bofu and Xue Meng had really exerted all efforts to get them out, but to no avail. Mo Ran had felt an intense guilt for his estrangement and disrespect towards them in the last years. When he had fallen to his darkest, only Nangong Si, his wife Ye Wangxi and the Xue family had stayed with him.

A quick execution must have cost his uncle dearly as well, he sighed. He was thankful it was the last time he’d imposed on them like this.

Mo Ran’s numbed senses took a while to feel the first cut.

It was a lick of fire, heated and intense on the front of his thigh. His nerves caught on the fire seconds later, every inch of skin burning and in pain. His leg trembled, and he knew he’d have fallen if they hadn’t tied him to the post. He didn’t scream, he still had that pride.

Distantly, he felt the blood trickling down his leg.

The next one was on his chest, and another one on his shoulder. A sliver of his old impatience and ire flickered up, and he threw a dark look to the executioners. Wasn’t it supposed to be quick?

One of them shivered under the weight of his gaze, but the other, the one holding the knife, merely shrugged with an impish smile.

“Lord Mo must understand this humble one…” he whispered, holding in a snicker. “It’d look suspicious if we made it too quick and this humble one would get into trouble.”

Bah. Mo Ran merely closed his eyes and turned his head the other way. It wasn’t as if he could actually do anything about it. Let Xue-bofu ask him for a refund once Mo Ran was dead.

Though it didn’t ease his disappointment at the loss. He had allowed himself a bit of hope that he’d die before they degraded his body to the utmost. Maybe then he’d reach the underworld mostly intact, and he wouldn’t scare Chu Wanning too much when he saw him.

Given the circumstances, it’d be best if the deities sent him directly to hell, instead of letting his husband see his wretched state.

Finally, when Mo Ran had lost count and his forehead was covered in sweat, the executioner reached his knife to Mo Ran’s neck. Probably he found disappointing that he didn’t scream and decided to end things before lord Xue could complain to him.

As the blood covered him, Mo Ran was freezing. He was cold before, but now the chill bit into his flesh and seeped into his bones. He could feel his heart beating frantically in his chest, and his breathing catching up, trying to get more blood flow to his body. At least he was no longer in pain.

His eyelids weighted a lot. Soon, he had trouble opening his eyes, and the blood loss made him dizzy and sleepy.

Well. It wasn’t as if he wanted to open them again.

Wanning… it was my fault… will you forgive me?

You were a man of unmeasurable genius and grand ambitions… yet you had to spend your days locked up in the manor, like a forgotten toy in a corner.

I’m sorry…

If there’s a next life…

I will make it up to you.

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Cangue: it was a device designed for public humilliation and punishment in Ancient China (and not so ancient times too). It's a must in c-dramas.

Bofu (伯父): uncle, especifically, father's elder brother. Remember Lan Zhan's shufu? That's your father's younger brother. Chinese genealogy 😂

Lingchi (凌迟): it's literally "death by a thousand cuts". People did pay executioners to make a cut on the prisoner's neck, asking for a quick death.

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New 2ha fic idea (who I’m lying, it’s been living rent free in my head since I read 2ha)

Mainly QWS-AU (backstory from The Story of Minglan), set.... sometime around the Song Dynasty, like Minglan, probably?

EDIT: There is now a masterpost and several ficlets here. 🍃

Mo Ran, the powerful, tyrannical Taxian general, is brought to the court for his crimes against innocents and for trying to rebel against the emperor. He’s sentenced to death. The people in his household can’t escape: enslavement for the women, death penalty or exile for the men.

However, in the immense harem of this general, there’s only Mo Ran’s husband left. The servants and the other concubines, both male and female, have long escaped since the imperial edict for Mo Ran’s arrest had arrived to the manor. Some had even provided the court with more evidence to escape their prosecution (将功折罪, to atone a crime with good deeds).

The general’s husband is no other than the previously renowned military and martial genius Chu Wanning. Since he had married Mo Ran, he had disappeared from the public eye, presumably his husband had forced his retirement.

For his past merits, he’s offered a pardon from the emperor himself, but Chu Wanning merely says: “Husbands should be as of one body, share both the sweetness and the bitterness (同甘共苦), in glory and failure.” Stubbornly, he gets himself in the same cell where Mo Ran was imprisoned. Said man is looking at him like he can’t believe what he’s doing.

The emperor is enraged: “don’t think that because you saved the country once you’re above the law!” Since Mo Ran was handed the capital punishment, and all his close relatives were involved, without the emperor’s pardon, Chu Wanning is to be sentenced along with Mo Ran.

Chu Wanning had saved the country in a mission in which he worked with Shi Mei, Mo Ran’s first husband. In said mission, Shi Mei dies. Mo Ran blamed Chu Wanning for the death of his husband, having witnessed how Chu Wanning left the scene where Shi Mei was gravely injured. However, for political reasons, the emperor issues an imperial edict for the marriage between Mo Ran and Chu Wanning a year later.

For all Mo Ran hates the situation, he can’t escape from it either. Instead, he forces Chu Wanning to retire, takes uncountable concubines and reduces his authority in the house to nothing. After 8 years of mistreatment, Chu Wanning’s health is frail when Mo Ran is imprisoned. In prison, they get to know each other and Mo Ran learns that Shi Mei’s death wasn’t Chu Wanning’s fault, and that somehow, in the years they had been married, he had fallen in love with his husband.

Chu Wanning dies in prison. Mo Ran is executed not long after, promising a better life for Chu Wanning in their next reincarnation.

Instead, Mo Ran wakes in the past: in the 5th year of his marriage with Chu Wanning.

Come in a doting Mo Ran, who has to make sure he isn’t accused and sentenced this time around, a confused Chu Wanning (who are you and have you done with my husband?) and a harem full of concubines with their own goals.

Taxian General: 0.5 Mo Ran. Imprisoned general: 1.0 Mo Ran. Reincarnated: 2.0 Mo Ran 😂

I’m currently writing another plot-heavy fic, so I’m keeping this here first. If I write it anytime soon it’ll be in ficlets, probably.

Edit: I wrote a first part here!

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Fandoms I'll write for (in vaguely alphabetical order):

Fandoms in Bold are those I'm currently most interested in/active in/invested in/wanting to write.

2ha (The Husky and His White Cat Shizun)

Babylon 5

Check Please

Disney (almost any of movies, including Pixar; I'm familiar with but won't write for most Disney Jr titles, too)

Doctor Who (9th and 10th Doctor specifically)

DMBJ (books 1 - 6, UN, TLTR)

The Elenium (book series by David Eddings)

Fake

Final Fantasy 7, 9, 10, or 12 (esp. 12)

Firefly

Fushigi Yuugi

Golden Stage

Guardian (show or book)

Gundam W

Hercules

Horatio Hornblower (BBC 90s show version)

Jane Austen (all except Northanger Abbey)

Leverage

Love Nikki

MCU (movies only, have seen most of them; Deadpool also okay, and non-MCU Spiderman; haven't seen Venom)

Miraculous Ladybug (but I've only seen 2.5 seasons)

The Muppets (esp. the original show and movies)

MXTX Fandoms (MDZS, TGCF, SVSSS)

Psych

Rurouni Kenshin

Sherlock Holmes (books or Jeremy Brett version)

Slayers

Star Trek (ToS, TNG or DS9)

Star Wars (movies only, excluding Solo)

Supernatural

Those Years in Quest of Honor Mine

Thousand Autumns

Tokyo Babylon

Voltron

Wheel of Time (I've read through...11? and seen part of s1)

The Witcher (I've only seen s1)

Word of Honor (including Qiye)

Xanth (mostly Bink generation)

Xena

Yuri on Ice

Note 1: I am NO LONGER WRITING HARRY POTTER FIC I'm sorry I tried to separate the fandom from the author but she's just being so awful that I can't in good conscience be involved in anything related.

Note 2: I haven't been "actively" in a lot of these fandoms for many years, and so I can't promise to remember every canon character or event, but I'm always willing to try, especially if it's only for a ficlet.

Otherwise, if it's not on the list, you can still always try. I'm old. I've been a fan of a lot of things over the years.

I am a multishipper and tend to be open to anything except incest and villain x hero (ie Samifer in SPN, Xuexiao in MDZS) - no judgement, you do you, I'm a pro-shipper, I just don't want to write that stuff. But, if you really want to get into the nitty-gritty of what I will and won't write for each, I tried to make a semi-exhaustive list. (read more)

I'll write most ships, and honestly, you can always try me on anything - you won't offend me, I just may opt not to write it. Fandoms are in vaguely alphabetical order.

A few general notes:

I will virtually never write incest (as in literal blood relatives - adoption, raised together, known each other since childhood, none of that is incest) EXCEPT for twincest (idk brains are weird I can brain it for twins, I think because somethingsomething power dynamics)

I don't write RPS except for Yizhan.

Generally, I don't like shipping villains, especially villains x heroes, and especially if the villain committed extreme violence and/or sexual violence and/or massive mental manipulation against the hero in question. (I know that their relationship can be super different in AUs or if events diverge I'm just not personally comfortable with it anyway. See again: brains are weird).

I usually avoid intergenerational shipping (for example, a parent and their kid's friend) because, again, somethingsomething power dynamics.

I'll write underage, but again, I sometimes have power dynamic concerns, and I tend to prefer not to write CANON underage (like, I'll age up or age down characters, but if they're underage in canon I'm often less comfortable with it.)

Other than that - I'll try almost anything. This is NOT a list of what I ship, but instead a list of what I don't ship for any given fandom:

* 2ha: fuck Shi Mei. Not literally of course, but I really ain’t out here shipping Shi Mei with literally fucking anyone. Other than that I think I’m mostly game? Though I don’t remember some of the side characters that well, there were just too many names in that one big reveal about Xue what’s-his-name and Luo something-or-other.

* Check Please: I basically only write Zimbits. I’d try other things, especially with Shitty, but no Kent Parson at all please.

* DMBJ: I haven’t seen Mystic 9 yet so I don’t know those characters and can’t write for them yet; stick to folks in UN and TLTR and I’m probably good for most stuff? Except Wu Sanxing, and the villains, big ol’ nope. I'm also part-way through Sha Hai, and I can write those characters (not Wang Can, haven't met him yet) but again I'd rather avoid intergenerational ships.

* Guardian: I see Chuguo more familial/brotherly, and I haven’t really thought about other ships but idk try me? It’s fun to experiment.

* Leverage: anyone in the team x anyone else in the team, I’m game.

* MCU: No HTP, and I'd really rather avoid most of the villains, but I'm open to basically any hero x any hero. I do ship Thorki.

* MDZS: no Xuexiao or really any Xue Yang ships (though I think I’d be okay with Xueyu). No Lancest, Niecest, Wencest, or Jiangcest. I’m a little reluctant on most Jin Guangyao ships too tho I’ll do 3zun and variations there on. As I mentioned, intergenerational stuff often makes me uncomfortable so tend to avoid older folks x juniors but I’ll ship the juniors together and depending on the ship I’d probably be willing to try?

* SPN: no Wincest or Samifer or Lucifer x anyone. I tend not to ship villains in general. I prefer a ship with either Dean or Cas or both but I’m open to Sam ships too.

* Star Trek: No Gul Dukat or Kai Winn. They should suffer alone. No Voyager or later series, I just haven’t seen them so I don’t know the characters. Other than that...idk try me? I haven't written much shippy stuff for Star Trek so I don't have many strong opinions yet.

* Star Wars: mostly I ship JediStormPilotRose and permutations there of but idk I’d try other just about anything other than villains and LukeLeia. I am not familiar with Clone Wars or the Mandolarian and have only seen the movies (not Solo).

* SVSSS: other than family/relatives (like Tiankang jun x Luo Binghe) I can’t really think of any no’s? Im especially a proponent of Shen Qingqiu/Yuan harem rights. I’d rather not write Shen Jiu or Original Luo Binghe but…eh, I’m open.

* TGCF: …I kinda don’t get Qiurong but I’d be willing to try? But otherwise I think I’m good. I’d even be willing to do Bai Wuxiang ships as long as it’s understood it’s gonna be dark as fuck. No Xianle cousins as a ship. I think I’d struggle with Qi Rong in general but I’d give it a go. No Shicest.

* Thousand Autumns: until I reread and get a better sense of the side characters I’m pretty Yanshen only.

* Voltron: I don't ship Lance with anyone, mostly because his fandom led me to hate him. I also don't really get Lotor ships. I'm mostly interested in Keith, Allura, and Shiro.

* Word of Honor: note I haven’t read TYK yet, but I’m open to virtually anything I guess? I’d prefer no Zhang Chengling x older folks. I favor Caoxiang, Wenzhou and Wenzhouyi. I've also read Qiye; I can't really think of any solid nos for that except maybe Helian Pei, Helian Qi, and/or Helian Zhou x like...anyone. Fuck those guys in no fun ways.

* Yuri in Ice: I don’t really like Otayuri, Yuri’s just too young for me to personally be comfortable shipping him. But the older folks I’m pretty open to multishipping them.

(if you're wondering about ship restrictions for fandoms not listed here just drop me an ask; I just thought these were the ones people were most likely to care about/I was most interested in writing in general).

[evehere]

Yearning willow: masterpost

This is mainly for organisational purposes! (and so I can just link a masterpost each time I post a new chapter/excerpt without adding lots of links).

Warning: spoilers of 2ha.

Yearning unwittingly breaks the willow branch |

无令长相思，折断杨柳枝

The main outline of the story is here! Please note that some things may change as I develop the plot.

Trigger warning: 2ha warnings applies (especifically, explicit content, noncon/dubcon, gore, corporal punishment, torture).

Posts about background: Nanping-fu

Content:

Mo Ran 1.0: the execution

Mo Ran 2.0: rebirth

Chu Wanning 0.5: the first meeting

Chu Wanning 0.5: learning how to write

Chu Wanning 0.5: Shi Mei

Mo Ran 2.0: a repentant husband

Chu Wanning 0.5: unsolicited feelings

Mo Ran 2.0: Ji Baihua

This has been also taken to ao3! I’m now posting the same chapter both here and on ao3.

Ficlets posted out of order:

Mo Ran 2.0: “you’re not Mo Ran”

Buy me a kofi!

Reminder that the 3 timelines are:

0.5: their first life together, in which Mo Ran and Chu Wanning are forced to marry. They are married for eight years.

1.0: Mo Ran and Chu Wanning are imprisoned together. Many things come to light and Mo Ran finally realises something about himself. However, Chu Wanning dies during their imprisonment.

2.0: Mo Ran comes back to life at the end of their fourth year of marriage. Our dumb husky has made up his mind to utterly spoil his white kitty.