#devilsoup

[skijjiki]

tucks my hair behind my ear and blows u a kiss. ✒️

love you wifey!! <3

[arseniccabbat]

CABBAT... Holy shit its been FOREVER since we spoke last and I dont even know if you remember me (maybe the url/name Kittypoots/Poots rings a bell? idk :sob:) BUT i hope youre doing well nowadays! and if you dont remember me, no worries lmao it was a long time ago!

Hey!! Always nice to see old faces name sounds familiar tbh!! How did we meet it might ring a bell :00 either way hiii

[takethistoyourstardust]

moon, family, aaaaaand bouquet for both ahrora and giselle :o)

YIPPIE YIPPIE YIPPIE giselle's answer are regarding her as an adult/the second wol after rora retires.

🌙 MOON - what is your oc's greatest wish? how far are they willing to go for it?

Ahrora - Ahrora's wish is pretty simple; she just wants to explore anything she can get to. Her wanderlust truly is limitless. Even though she is the Warrior of Light to help people, she became and adventurer first so she could travel the realm. And now she gets to explore entire new worlds, and she won't rest until she's explored every single shard.

Giselle - Giselle's wish is to live up to the legacy she knows she has. Daughter of the Azure Dragoon and the Crystal Exarch, raised by the satrap of Radz-at-Han, and trained by the Warrior of Light. She's hyper-aware of it all, though she's not one for politics at all. She's also the oldest of her siblings, so just in general she feels a ton of expectations on her. So she wants to live up to them all, and be able to be proud of carrying the title of The Azure Warrior.

👪 FAMILY - what is their family like? what is your ocs relationship to them? does your oc have any siblings?

Ahrora - With how she defines family, that's like half the characters in the game, so zeroing in on her immediate chosen family, she has a dad (Xiao Song), a nb parental figure she refers to as her mom (Meihui Song, who's also her cousin), six younger siblings (all adopted by her parents), an older sibling (that's an older sibling bc of the world unsundered), and she considers Estinien's kids her own siblings too LMFAO. She's very close with all of the people she considers siblings, and is close with her adoptive parents too! As for biological siblings... her birth mother was far too sick to have another child, and her biological father never wanted to try again due to being convinced by his cult tribe that he's been cursed by Menphina, so she's an only child, a very unusual circumstance for a Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te. Her birth mother is dead (but Biyuan did love Ahrora), and her birth father is a RPR who can't ever be in contact with her because if he hears her voice it makes it a lot easier for his voidsent to posses him and make him lose control.

Giselle - Giselle is the daughter of Estinien and G'raha Tia, and was raised in Radz-at-Han by Estinien and Vrtra. She has four younger siblings, a sister who's 8 months younger than her and three brothers who are 5 years younger than her. She considers Ahrora an older sister, as Ahrora helped raise her and also trained with her when she expressed a desire to become an adventurer. She's close with her siblings, and is especially protective of her younger sister Divya. She considers Estinien, G'raha, and Vrtra her parents, though due to distance, she's a bit less connected to G'raha, despite carrying his first name as her last (and y'know being visibly a Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te). She pretends she's not aware that the circumstances of her birth wasn't a circumstance of love, because she knows they love her regardless.

💐 BOUQUET - create a bouqet for them! what do those flowers mean? are any of the flowers their particular favourite?

oh i am gonna be SO bad at this i SUCK at this bc i'm so specific with flowers. especially for rora bc a lot of flowers have a romantic meaning and rora is romance-repulsed.

Ahrora - Gerbera daisies (cheerfulness), chrysanthemum, cosmos (joy), and gardenia (hope/family).

Giselle - Gladiolus (strength), daffodil (hope for the future/new beginnings), and gardenia (hope/family).

[nacrelysis]

devilsoupe's characterization of shi mei in to love without consuming is absolutely fabulous because i didn't realize how funny shi mei could be when he's not masking.

but it's also devastating because at that means that this is how shi mei would have been able to live had he just had someone he could confide in. shi mei didn't have to live in disgust and fear, feeling increasingly cornered with the only tools his mother left him before dying in the same grotesque, tragic way that every butterfly boned beauty had. and will. and will. unless he does something.

there are a lot of circumstances affecting this. i still don't quite like hua bin'an. but thinking about it, the one difference that stands out the most to me in that canon divergence is this:

chu wanning knew.

xue zhengyong knew.

sisheng peak knew.

and of these people who did know, they chose to reach out. they chose to defy tianyin pavilion's "will of heaven" because heaven has got to be bullshit if it really does excuse the genocide and rape and trafficking of an entire fucking species.

they chose to help shi mei. and the thing is, the thing is, in canon, they probably would have too.

we can't blame shi mei for never telling them, not when we know how afraid he must have been.

but at the same time - oh. shi mei did not have to be alone in this world. shi mei did not have to slowly and increasingly chip away at his own morality, despite being a doctor, despite wanting to help people, because he could have had a choice.

he could have had a choice.

it didn't have to turn out the way it did.

but everyone in erha is a product of their circumstances and the abuse they have gone through, and isn't that the message? things could have been different - but the world has hurt itself for so long that these people have forgotten they could have been different at all.

[visenyathedarksister]

There is truly no bigger fandom related happiness than going back to a piece of media three years after you used to be completely obsessed with it only to find out your favorite fic author who captures your favorite characters and their dynamic exactly right has in the meantime prepared a whole 400k words long feast for you. I genuinely wish this experience on everyone

[limedumplr]

A fanfic book cover for @devilsoupe’s fic “When I Let the Water Take Me”

One of the best five I’ve read last year!! It’s a oneshot and absolutely worth the read! Here’s the link: https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/94918129

[rejectedfables]

read an excellent 2ha fic ("Cursed" by devilsoupe) wherein Chu Wanning gets hit by a fuck-or-die curse, and tries valiantly to choose "or die" because he doesn't want to make Mo Ran uncomfortable. Nothing could be more in character.

[shizunitis]

during my acceptance speech when i’m crowned emperor of the world the first person i’m thanking is shizun. the second is ao3 author devilsoupe

[kaesficrecarchive]

[mo ran x wanning]

here is my heart (coming 'round the bend) by martyrsdaughter (1/1 | 5,912 | E)

“I’d never put you out of your bedroom,” Mo Ran argues. His voice has dropped. He can’t help it. He would dare anyone to try thinking pure thoughts after being invited into Chu Wanning’s bedroom. Chu Wanning crosses his arms. “I wouldn’t be leaving, either.” (or: Chu Wanning's pull-out sofa breaks just as Mo Ran needs a place to stay, but his bed is big enough for two.)

(sharing a bed)

Dream of the Red Chamber by heartbeatangel (1/1 | 10,369 | M)

Mo Ran's one-night stand wakes up, takes one look at Mo Ran before bolting into the toilet and locking the door. “Get out,” comes his one-night stand’s muffled voice.

Mo Ran keeps running into his one-night stand.

(fwb au, enemies to lovers au, roommates au)

if your heart’s still open by fakeplasticlily (1/1 | 21,201 | M)

“See you around.” “Yes.” Another ache. Where’s around for you? Mo Ran doesn’t know anymore. He hasn’t seen him at all this past year, for all the times he’s whipped around to double-check every lean, dark-haired figure in white crossing the periphery of his vision. “Do you—” “We’re heading out,” the nurse calls out, cutting him off as they start to wheel the trolley towards the exit. “Yeah,” says Mo Ran. “See you,” he says, tearing himself away before he asks him something ridiculous. He doesn’t look back. (When first year orthopaedics resident Mo Ran sends a cardiology consult for a patient one morning, he isn't expecting it to reach the one person he's been trying all year to forget.)

(medical residents au)

Wide awake with a smile by XiaoSev (1/1 | 24,942 | M)

It seemed like the beautiful stranger from before had wandered into his room. It was almost too good to be true. But the little stain of his syrupy coffee was still stamped on his otherwise pristine sleeve, and he carried with him the same sweet, flowery scent that Mo Ran only caught a whiff of before. Plush lips, bitten a cherry red, a cute flush on high cheekbones and a pair of phoenix eyes, staring at him intently. It was as perfect as it could ever–

(office au)

sticky fingers by fakeplasticlily (1/1 | 26,734 | M)

The man tosses the towel unceremoniously back at Mo Ran’s chest, like he’s personally offended by it. And the fact that his hands had just been all over said chest barely minutes earlier, maybe.   “Please pack a box of egg tarts with extra custard filling, a box of red bean paste buns with extra syrup, a rice pudding with extra candied fruit garnish, and a box of osmanthus cakes with extra sweet pear jam.”   Mo Ran’s eyes grow progressively wider as he lists the items.    It’s him.   Not the suburban mother of four, not the elderly guy dealing with a midlife crisis, but quite possibly the hottest guy he’s ever seen. Who also happens to have the highest sugar tolerance Mo Ran has seen in a human being in his two years of running this bakery.

(bakery au)

boundaries of the body, confounded by lesbianspirals (3/3 | 26,753 | E)

It is in this moment, with Chu Wanning writhing and begging beneath him, their bodies slick with more than just sweat, that Mo Ran has to wonder how he got so lucky to have been given this second chance.

In which Chu Wanning is Mo Ran's T.A., they butt heads and things end disastrously, but years later they meet again unexpectedly. Hindsight is 20/20, and this time, there is something between them that is impossible to deny.

(modern au)

you can love me, if you really want it by devilsoupe (3/3 | 33,359 | M)

Chu Wanning comes to Sisheng Peak to try and fix the thin barrier to the ghost realm. He is assigned Mo Ran as a bodyguard. Neither of them are thrilled about it.

(bodyguard au)

Something Gold Can Stay by AcrossThePage (this_vulnerable_one) (10/10 | 51,090 | E)

Chu Wanning thought to himself, where was the sense in yearning? It was far more dignified to accept one’s loneliness than to hope for the impossible, to hope that something good would stay. As he stood, lost in his own thoughts, Chu Wanning heard the soft click of his apartment door opening. His breath caught in his throat. “Laoshi, Chu-laoshi,” Mo Ran called out, “I’m back.” Chu Wanning closed his eyes, his long and elegant lashes fluttering against his fair cheeks. OR Mo Ran is a lonely food science major. Chu Wanning is a lonely sociology professor. Food brings them together. As they cook, eat, and get to know one another, they slowly fall in love. I affectionately refer to this as “the caramel fic”.

(slow burn)

mutual agreement by tagteamme (1/1 | 66,696 | E)

Mo Ran falls into an unexpected arrangement with Chu Wanning.

Mo Ran knows for certain that Chu Wanning doesn’t like him, and never has. At most, he’s probably tired of being a repressed virgin in his thirties and Mo Ran just happens to be the most convenient and friendly person available. Or the best at wrangling his desire and taking control. Either way, he’s not quite sure what’s brought the two of them to this intersection.

(fwb au)

casually acquainted by tagteamme (2/2 | 75,786 | E)

Chu Wanning knows what he is and what he isn’t. And where he lacks in pleasantries and outward appeal, he makes up for in untouchable grace and dignity. It threatens to unravel once he meets a familiar face in an unfamiliar city.

“So quick to run away from me, Chu-laoshi,” Mo Ran says, voice gently teasing as Chu Wanning refuses to make eye contact with him. “After you came all the way from…” He trails off, waiting for Chu Wanning to let him know, but he sees the map open on Chu Wanning’s phone and grins wider. “You want directions?” Chu Wanning clears his throat, and shakes his head. He should say something— instead, he stays silent as he looks down at his phone and punches in the hotel name again. Happily, his phone tells him to try again when he has signal.

(escort au)

[bitterdevil]

hi i'm lili and this is where i talk a lot about my fantrolls and also vast error. specifically calder kerian. home of "the fish become grown ass man" au.

i follow back from @devilsoup basic dnfi criteria, but i'll block liberally.

[calicosoup]

ik i linked to this blog on my TH but i really dont use it so if u wanna ask abt my ocs or anything, i direct you to @bitterdevil for my fantrolls and @devilsoup for my regular ocs <3

[themothmancassettes]

@devilsoup

I love doing super mundane stuff in my day to day and all of a sudden I have the most heartwrenching, painful, angsty, traumatic, yet amazing and powerful idea to put my silly little characters in.

Then I sit down to do something with it and it vanishes💀

[vvienne]

RANWAN FIC RECS

Absolute Zero by jitterati

Pathologically solitary academic Chu Wanning left behind a life of research to enlist with the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps Jaeger team when giant monsters began to emerge from the Pacific ocean, eager to leave his personal entanglements behind him and join humanity's collective battle against the threat of extinction.

His goal is to build an artificial intelligence that will allow a pilot to operate a Jaeger mech solo - eliminating the need for pilot compatibility and the mortifying ordeal of being totally known by another person, a "neurological handshake" known colloquially as the drift.

He didn't expect his former students to follow him all the way to front line of the war against the kaiju.

Featuring lots of side character interaction, pining, yearning, questions on the nature of personhood, friendship between jerks, people coping badly with loss, snarky AI, and giant robots. Illustrations by Saika & Daru

Husky and his White Kitten Disciple by JustAMoon123

Within a lonely heart, the seeds of hatred start to grow.

-A 2ha Age and Role-Reversal AU.-

NOTE: This Story is Now E Rated!

[Before meeting Chu Wanning, Mo Ran had drawn his power exclusively from the Wood side of his dual Spiritual Root, and his Qi had always glowed green.

Now, only when in battle did it do so, with Bugui’s blade encased in a tyrannical green light.

Outside of battle, like when he set barriers of warmth; or made Crystal Butterflies to tease golden flowers; or cast a small array to keep a box of food warm, his Qi manifested with a gentle red glow.

Mo Ran’s Wood was destructive, while his Fire was protective.

Ah, Mo Weiyu, Mo Weiyu. Even your power betrays you.]

Burn, Pine, and Perish by moonqueenmaia

It’s been two days since Taxian-Jun’s last visit, and Mo Ran hasn’t touched Chu Wanning at all, beyond gentle and fleeting caresses. Chu Wanning decides to take matters into his own hands by surprising Mo Ran when he comes back to their home after a trip down the mountain.

it's no coincidence (it's a kitty-incidence) by lanzhan (gothguk)

There’s a white cat lounging in the middle of Mo Ran's bed.

to touch you with bare hands (even if it burns) by moonqueenmaia

Chu Wanning is a renowned professor of mechanical engineering at Sisheng Peak University. Beautiful, lonely, and talented beyond belief, he has spent his 32 years mostly by himself, silently and secretly yearning for affection and companionship. Yet Chu Wanning has resolved to himself that he will spend the rest of his life alone, no matter his hidden fantasies.

Enter Taxian-jun, an unruly, arrogant, and struggling student, fiery and domineering, who comes in and shatters the calm of Chu Wanning's life. They enter into an agreement, both burying their feelings underneath a storm of lust and lies. Yet amidst it all, something deeper may be helplessly and slowly blooming.

It is up to them to cultivate it, or destroy it for good.

cursed by devilsoupe

Chu Wanning and his disciples are sent to investigate an abandoned village, and Chu Wanning is hit with a curse.

Mo Ran was determined to treat his shizun respectfully in this life, but what choice does he have?

liar liar cock on fire by lofikv

I (32M) walked in on my roommate (23M) masturbating in our living room. Ever since then I couldn't erase the image of his penis in my mind but I found a sex toy online that is almost as big as him, so I bought it and tried it on myself so that I can imagine how he would feel inside me. I have also been romantically attracted to him ever since we started living together. How can I cope with this?

UPDATE: He caught me in the middle of an emergency.

(Absolute) Unit 311 by devilsoupe

Chu Wanning doesn't have a soulmark.

Neither does Mo Ran.

ducks entering highway by Sectionladvivi

Mo Ran finds out his well-respected, MILF-coded, tears-of-angels-tight-ass robotics professor moonlights as an erotic novelist. He immediately leverages this knowledge for an opportunity to play tonsil hockey.

to yearn by devilsoupe

Chu Wanning starts to cough up flowers. Taxian-Jun is angry. Chu Wanning is not allowed to die pining for someone else.

When it starts happening again in his second life, Mo Ran knows enough to worry.

from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom by Wildehack (tyleet)

Taxian Jun is the victim of a flower curse.

sticky fingers by fakeplasticlily

The man tosses the towel unceremoniously back at Mo Ran’s chest, like he’s personally offended by it. And the fact that his hands had just been all over said chest barely minutes earlier, maybe. “Please pack a box of egg tarts with extra custard filling, a box of red bean paste buns with extra syrup, a rice pudding with extra candied fruit garnish, and a box of osmanthus cakes with extra sweet pear jam.” Mo Ran’s eyes grow progressively wider as he lists the items. It’s him. Not the suburban mother of four, not the elderly guy dealing with a midlife crisis, but quite possibly the hottest guy he’s ever seen. Who also happens to have the highest sugar tolerance Mo Ran has seen in a human being in his two years of running this bakery. 

Hard to Love The Lonely Night by bloodsongs

Chu Wanning glares up at him, adjusting his women’s robes. “Still, why couldn’t you have been the wife instead?”

Coughing politely, Mo Ran looks to the side, avoiding his gaze. “Shizun’s skills with the illusion barrier far surpass this humble disciple’s, and, well…”

He doesn’t need to complete his sentence—it’s infuriating, but Mo Ran is now taller than him, broader than him, larger than him. Very much so. The young sapling he raised in Sisheng Peak is now a full-fledged tree, a man built like the mountains Chu Wanning has seen in his travels.

Chu Wanning and Mo Ran pretend to be a married couple visiting a small mountain town to investigate some suspicious disappearances. Mini Canon AU casefic. Contains spoilers up to Chapter 130 or so of the novel.

Purple Ink by jeejaschocolate

Chu Wanning is a robotics engineer who lives a life of isolation and loneliness, only partially due to his chronic illness. Eventually he gets so sick that he requires the help of a full-time medical assistant.

Of course, these days, all those jobs are given to CyberLife androids.

Chu Wanning resents the android they give him. From his fiery eyes to his long black hair, to his incomparable tenderness and consideration for Wanning’s feelings.

He resents him. All the way until he falls in love with him.

Fallen Flowers in Swallows' Nests by bloodsongs

You deserve better—I refuse to disrespect you ever again. I want to be better. I must be better.

But I don’t know how. I don’t know what to do.

I don’t know where Taxian-Jun ends and Mo-Zongshi begins.

I only know now that I cannot lie to myself: I want you so fiercely that I burn with it, I am consumed with the desire to make you mine and mine alone. To become one with you, feeling your fire twine with mine.

Or, Chu Wanning finds letters from Mo-Zongshi that were never shared with him.

These hitherto undiscovered letters cover a range of emotions that weren't present in the book he gifted his Shizun: contrition, yearning, and desire.

Counterpoint by senchafloat

Five years ago, Mo Ran was just a boy who loved playing piano—there were many things he didn't know. He didn't know how capricious and unforgiving the world of classical music could be. He didn't know just how lucky he was to have Chu Wanning as his teacher.

Five years later, Chu Wanning is now a renowned concert pianist, and Mo Ran is an upstart conducting student. When Chu Wanning shows up unannounced at his alma mater, Mo Ran has plenty of questions, along with a desire to prove his worth to his old teacher. But as it turns out, Chu Wanning isn't as invincible as he once seemed. As old secrets come up to the surface, the two of them are forced to reinvent the ways they'll make music together.

impatient to adore you by riverdanceeee

At some heartbreaking point in his life, Mo Ran accepted that Chu Wanning would never reciprocate his feelings, so he dealt with it as any other person would. He'd rid himself of his affection, respect their friendship, and learn to move on. But Mo Ran's affection runs too deep, and when any opportunity to spend time with Chu Wanning knocks on his door, he goes running to answer and accept. Even if it means he has to break up a potentially dangerous dog fighting ring.

To Bow Before A Willow Vine by bloodsongs

“I…” Mo Ran hadn’t thought that far. He shakes his head, lowering his head in deference, resting his forehead against Chu Wanning’s knuckles. "I'll do anything you want of me."

The silence stretches on for a beat too long.

"Anything?" Chu Wanning says eventually, tilting his head.

Written for 2Ha Week, Day 4: Reverse AU for the 0.5 timeline. When Chu Wanning storms Sisheng Peak and crowns himself the cultivation world's new emperor, Mo Ran trades his life for Xue Meng's. Contains spoilers for up to the end of the novel.

Call me by my name by rinsled05

When the man called Taxian-Jun arrives, years later, it’s the coming of a storm.

He sweeps into a dinner appointment between Chu Wanning and a client, clad in black, a smirk tugging at his mouth. Over the spark of irritation, Chu Wanning can’t help but admire his lean frame, the way his hair, cut rebelliously short, falls over smoldering, dark eyes. The way he towers over him, even when Chu Wanning rises to full height.

Chu Wanning’s heart races as Taxian-Jun leans in close, ignoring the shouts and gasps around them.

“Sakaki of Ran,” he purrs in their native tongue. “You’re mine.”

Chu Wanning lifts his chin. “I don’t know you.”

“You will,” Taxian-Jun says, and leaves.

In which Chu Wanning is a courtesan serving Chinese merchants in Nagasaki, Japan, and Taxian-Jun decides to make him his.

荷官牌型 ♠️ The Croupier's Hand by bloodsongs

In deep financial straits after losing his job as a teacher, a desperate Chu Wanning becomes a croupier at Sisheng's new casino.

The once sleepy town of Sisheng Peak grows busier by the day as the casino draws more and more tourists to their mountains. Consumed by his lingering regrets over the worst mistake of his life that destroyed his teaching career, Chu Wanning is too distracted to worry about anything else but his next shift, his next paycheck.

Except that's when Mo Ran, the reason Chu Wanning lost everything, returns to Sisheng Peak.

As the heir to the casino.

White Rabbit Club by minkit

Desperate to rid himself of a few pesky things called virginity and desire, Chu Wanning waltzes into a world he knows little about and right into the embrace of a mysterious stranger who reminds him of the student he's been dreaming about all year. The lust fueled dreams his student stars in are the very reason Chu Wanning applied to the sex club in the first place, and now he's desperate to get rid of these filthy impulses once and for all.

Congratulations, Chu Wanning, on your acceptance into the White Rabbit Club. We hope you enjoy your stay.

Risk and Restraint by purloinedinpetrograd

There is nobody Mo Ran works with who does not love him. He’s worked hard to cultivate this image while he climbs the corporate ladder at Sisheng, and it’s paid off in dividends. He’s in every WeChat group. He can call in favors with any division of any department. He can make even the tightest of deadlines relax their stranglehold on his team.

That is, there is nobody except, of course, Chu Wanning.

A Lingering Sweetness by theherocomplex

Chu Wanning is now all too aware of what he looks like: a dry stick of a man, never handsome, angular and cold and pale. A drab, short-tempered creature, as appealing as a splinter in one's foot. But Mo Ran looks at him as if he will never get his fill, and part of Chu Wanning thinks, What if —?

At the end of the line by PearlAquaBlue 

“So … I reckon someone thought you needed to loosen up a little bit. Now that you’re here, want to try it?”

Chu Wanning hangs up. Throws her phone on her pillow with a disgusted glare after it. Stands up and paces to the kitchen in long, angry strides. Her cheeks are burning. With trembling fingers, she grabs a glass and pours herself some water, gulping it down in one go. It doesn’t help much. She grips the kitchen counter tightly, then marches back into the bedroom to glare at the phone again. Her fingertips itch, and it’s as if some kind of magnetic force draws her closer and closer to her bed until her fingertips are but an inch away from that tempting black mirror. Before she knows it, she’s unlocked it unsteadily and pressed “repeat” on the last call.

“Welcome to Sisheng Peak – ”

“And what would that entail?” she asks, a little too breathless.

Let's Fall in Love for the Night by purloinedinpetrograd

Chu Wanning could only stare in horror as a large cloud of sickeningly yellow pollen rose from the field, blanketing the place where Mo Ran stood in a heavy fog. “Um,” he said lamely.

“Fuck,” Mo Ran cursed, and Chu Wanning didn’t even have the heart to chastise him for his coarse language, because he was too preoccupied wrestling the surge of fear at seeing his disciple disappear behind the haze of that indeterminately threatening dust.

A million terrible possibilities raced through his mind, each one more dramatic and gruesome than the last. His heart hammered against his ribcage, threatening to crack the bones. “Mo Ran,” he said slowly, “I think you should tell me what that does, now.”

Xue Zhengyong sends Chu Wanning and Mo Ran on a mission to find a specific ingredient for some concoction of his wife’s. Chu Wanning is torn between rejoicing at the chance to spend time alone with Mo Ran... and grieving over the very same thing.

But, well, it’s just flowers. What could go wrong, right? (Spoiler alert: it’s sex pollen.)

the day dawns in your hues by localshabba

2ha Week 2020 Day 1 prompt - Haitang

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Schoolteacher Mo Ran is having an ordinary day until he has an awkward encounter with the notoriously rigid school librarian, which leads to the start of something new.

Also features: flowers, dinosaurs and lots of tenderness and pining.

helping hands by verity

When Mo Ran was but a young, innocent, virtuous grad student—well, one of those things—she built that couch from a flatpack box with her own two hands. Over the years, the smell of polyester and cheap foam padding has given way to an equally aromatic blend of Chu Wanning's haitang blossom perfume, spilled coffee, and white lithium grease. Chu Wanning herself is always perfectly dressed without a stain in sight. Even right now, her head tucked onto one folded arm, the other loosely gripping her tablet, she looks so formal.

Mo Ran gently rests a hand on Chu Wanning's socked ankle where it peeks out of those tailored white trousers. She really should behave herself.

She really should... behave herself...

in plain sight by localshabba

Written for a prompt fill in the 2ha Kink Meme.

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"I have a surprise," Mo Ran breathed, coming to stand so close behind him that his breath landed on Chu Wanning's nape. Not touching Chu Wanning any other way, because he likes to make Chu Wanning lean back just a little bit, to seek out that contact himself.

"I think Chu-laoshi will enjoy it."

Chu Wanning is sure he agreed to the whole idea; he's just unclear on when. Things got hazy around the point when Mo Ran turned him around by the shoulders, got down on his knees and...well. Apparently he'd skipped breakfast that morning.

When he returned to his senses, his clothes were all neatly tucked into place, not a stain on them, and a charmingly pink sexual aid was nestled comfortably up his--ahem, inside him.

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Now available in Spanish!

casually acquainted by tagteamme

Chu Wanning knows what he is and what he isn’t. And where he lacks in pleasantries and outward appeal, he makes up for in untouchable grace and dignity.

It threatens to unravel once he meets a familiar face in an unfamiliar city.

“So quick to run away from me, Chu-laoshi,” Mo Ran says, voice gently teasing as Chu Wanning refuses to make eye contact with him. “After you came all the way from…”

He trails off, waiting for Chu Wanning to let him know, but he sees the map open on Chu Wanning’s phone and grins wider. “You want directions?”

Chu Wanning clears his throat, and shakes his head. He should say something— instead, he stays silent as he looks down at his phone and punches in the hotel name again.

Happily, his phone tells him to try again when he has signal.

The Right Hand of Light by gedsparrowhawk (FaceChanger)

Chu Wanning is asleep on the bed, clutching his hands tightly to his chest and curled in on himself. He’s still wearing the same robes he was in in the water prison. On the writing desk, a bowl of water and clean linen for bandages sit untouched, and a tub of bathwater has cooled without being used. Mo Ran sighs to himself. Wanning is truly hopeless.

He sits on the side of the bed and touches Chu Wanning’s shoulder. “Wanning,” he says. “Wanning, wake up.”

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Rare 0.5 tenderness, after the water prison.

nothing can consume you by tagteamme

Mo Ran’s violent history has never had to catch up to him.

It’s already embedded itself into him as scars on his body, as a tattoo on his forearm, as the lingering taste of blood in his sleep and finally, as the searing brand pressed against his chest before he’s thrown into the sea as punishment. He knows that this is where all his chances come to an end.

But as the deep fathom of the water swallows him up, something else saves him and pulls him to a tiny cove tucked away off the coast of an overlooked port town. When he wakes up under the care of a mythical creature wearing a familiar face, an even older and more distant past finally finds him.

[txjsmaid]

Angst + Hurt/Comfort - Ranwan

Canon Divergence a second chance - Xiao_Zhang - words: 16.6k, completed hard to love the lonely night - bloodsongs - words: 38.9k, completed the right hand of light - gedsparrowhawk - words: 4.9k, completed the waves come after midnight - serpentine - words: 10.2k, completed

Post Canon the kindest thing - AriWrote - words: 3.8k, completed in my head, reality fights - dionysouls - words: 9.2k, ongoing all of you - sandorara - words: 4.5k, completed catharsis - jitterati - words: 50k. completed I'd never lie to you - Keirara, ruoyee - words: 7.3k, completed pluck my strings all the way - serpentine - words: 9.9k, completed a never wilderness - sealdog - words: 4.8k, completed elusive - chubuns - words: 12.2k, completed

Modern AU armor up and say your prayers - inkburn - words: 5k, completed bend me, break me (love me) - StarryJohnny - words: 6.7k, completed a light rain - heartbeatangel - words: 2.6k, completed concerto - xnemone - words: 6.1k, completed you are a memory - devilsoupe - words: 12.1k, completed

Other AU palace AU your heart doesn't belong here - tinybeidou - words: 3.5k, completed

[girlucifer]

i ask only bc i know how much u love him. so howzabout lucifer (🤢) + 22

<3 @devilsoup

SOUP literally the worst thing about liking lucifer is your disapproval i'm so sorry </3 ty though for the request of the detested !!! have a wonderful weekend kisses

[sketch-guardian]

hrrrk i just stumbled across ur art and ur ocs and i hope u know how amazing they are like

idek how to pick a favorite bc I look at them and I'm like 🥺🥺🥺🥺

and ur art is so pretty!!!!! literally you can see so much of the characters personalities just in like,,,, one picture? i love it sm and i am giving u and all of ur ocs a big kiss

- @devilsoup (my om blog)

I'm so sorry for answering this late @gamertheybathwater , but after reading your lovely message I thought this needed more than a simply written reply, so I took a look at your Obey Me blog @devilsoup and tried to sketch your OC Bee! (Their name is Bee, right? I hope I'm not wrong😂🙈that would be embarrassing-)

This is a quick sketch, so it probably doesn't look very good, but I hope it's enough to show just how much I appreciated your nice words and support☺✨ so again thank you very much! From me and all of my ocs!

(Also, I read some of your work and it's really good😉)