#and then suddenly it's like heavy-hitting emotional moments and Huli and everything coming to a head and

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okay i was WAITING but my god, the viscerality of it!!!

Gao Bai hung transfixed in midair, writhing like a pinned beetle. His hands came up to scrabble helplessly – convulsively – at the red-smeared stone protruding from his chest. His lips worked, but it was not words that came out but blood, vomited with the last unspent air from shattered lungs, a brilliant crimson rush that bloomed and dripped down chin and cheek. He gave one convulsion, heaving against the stone as if to free himself, then relaxed, blankness drifted like clouds across the surface of his eyes. His hands fell away. His wide-splayed limbs twitched spasmodically – once, twice – then stilled.

Gao Bai was dead.

like this is an incredible description, but also: you didn't have to go THIS HARD!!

Intersection - Chapter 19

Fandom: DMBJ / The Lost Tomb Reboot

Relationships: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling/Liu Sang, established Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling, Iron Triangle

Summary: An alternate universe where five-year-old Liu Sang never escaped the human traffickers but was instead trained to have his special talents used by the highest bidder. Fifteen years later, the Iron Triangle are forced into a troubling collaboration.

Read Chapter 19 on AO3