#hualian fic rec

[emotionaldisaster909]

for the new chapter of “A Long and Slow Recovery” by @ardenrabbit

[silentheiss]

Hua Cheng crouches down in front of the jam selection and is lost in thought, until a soft touch against his thigh startles him. There’s a small, pudgy hand clutching at his pants.

“Hello?” Hua Cheng looks at the small, curly child and can’t suppress a smile.

“Noods.” The kid says, voice quiet but sure.

“Okay.” Hua Cheng lets out a laugh.

Or,

Xie Lian has three kids, two jobs and not a minute to spare.

Hua Cheng has no kids, lots of time and a crush.

[dancing--in--therain]

Don't hurt yourself for me darling (I'm not worth it) - DeathByBooks - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

Pairing : Hua cheng/ Xie lian

Hurt/comfort, Xie lian gets stabbed (a little), Hua cheng spirals, canonical low self esteem of Hua cheng, Xie lian gets injured protecting Hua cheng

[hua-liansimp]

If you love heart-shatteringly painful hualian angst and absolutely satisfying hurt/comfort you need to read The Wind Is Gentler Than My Lips by kianspo on ao3.

[finitepeace]

TGCF season 2 brought me here

Watched second season of TGCF animation. Can't wait for third season so here I was <reading hualian fics>

The Care and Keeping of Your Sentient Saber by pengiesama | 1.9k words | E-ming is a very tender and sensitive sword, and needs lots of love and attention that only one person is qualified to give. Hua Cheng is a very tender and sensitive demon, and needs lots of love and attention that only one person is qualified to give. Xie Lian is very qualified, and a very, very busy man.

To each his day is given by Naamah_Beherit | T, 2.9k words | A story of how Xie Lian got caught in a ruse meant to pacify a certain ghost king and ended up with a husband.

[concealedrecs]

Fic: we’re after the same rainbow’s end

Author: Naamah_Beherit

Fandom: Heaven Official’s Blessing

Pairing: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian

Rating: Mature

Length: 57939

Recommendation: normally I like to give a reason or something but this time, I will just use a quote:

“And how did that make you feel?” she asks. “To want something for yourself?”

Implications of her words hit him like a truck. He reels from them, thrown adrift into a storm for a moment it takes him to gather his bearings and come ashore just as the clouds begin to clear.

“Calm,” he says, sighs, and smiles.

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

This post is getting a lot of traction so I thought I’d introduce you all to one of my favourite fics that deals with this concept perfectly. It’s ’Til our compass stands still by @edenwolfie and it is genuinely one of my favourite things ever go read it! https://archiveofourown.org/works/43583058/chapters/109582407

My friend was watching the show for the first time and they brought up a misconception that I think we see a lot in fandom. So I want to talk about The Gamblers Den and specifically this scene in particular:

My friend genuinely wondered what Hua Cheng would do and then when they heard his explanation they were even more confused:

They basically messaged me saying, wait Hua Cheng would have made the bet. He bets people’s lives and some how Xie Lian is okay with that. How???

And to anyone else who’s thinking the same thing or falling for the Demon King vibe Hua Cheng is trying to sell here I am here to tell you, you have all been duped.

What’s import to understand is that Ghost City actually came from making one of Xie Lian’s ideas work:

Xie Lian is talking about a specialised market here, a place where the common people couldn’t just stumble into without reason and that’s what Ghost City is and The Gambers Den is the foundation of it. While Xie Lian didn’t say hey go gamble, Hua Cheng is taking a risk and playing into his greatest strength and then showing of for his crush is the most dramatic way possible when talking about it.

For Hua Cheng the house always wins! Literally. Or at least what he wants the bet to be will always happen. His luck is just that good. If the gambler wins it’s genuinely because Hua Cheng let him.

In the Den he is acting as Judge and Jury with Xie Lian as his moral code but he can’t just turn down the deals. If he does then these people could go to less safe options (looking at you Qi Rong) to get what they desire which negates the reason he built Ghost City in the first place.

Hua Cheng has to let these people play by his rules if he wants to follow his Gods wishes. So he has to be creative and look at loop holes, phrasing and Xie Lians most important teaching finding the third path.

For this moment specifically giving the options I think Hua Cheng would have taken the 20 years of his daughter’s life. Why you may ask? Well the phrasing is easier to manipulate. While the eradication of his competitors is pretty well laid 20 years of his daughters life is pretty vague.

Option 1) Hua Cheng could take her away from her shit father and put her in an apprenticeship and marry a man of her choosing since her hand is now her own to decide since Hua Cheng doesn’t want it.

Option 2) She has to work in Ghost City for 20 years and is married to Yin Yu in name only (because Hua Cheng can’t have a wife at all or he won’t win Gege) then gets pleasantly divorced and giving a severance payment after 20 years.

Option 3) He could decide life is a vague term and after she dies she has to spend 20 years in Ghost City and matchmake a future marriage between her and another ghost.

Option 4) He could decide what she has to do with the next twenty years of her life which could include an actual good marriage and education. Where she has to worship his shrine and be only his devotee for 20 years.

Option 5) He can literally say I’ll collect when I decide and never cash in.

He can do anything because the wording is so fluent and for Hua Cheng debater and Civil God Killer it’s probably easy. He’s not a demon king, he’s a crafty trickster spirit basically a fae lord.

He’s playing the system and he’s winning that’s what Xie Lian figured out and why he supports it. He knows Hua Cheng well enough even back then to trust that he would make the right decision because he believes in Hua Cheng and he’s right too.

[mossymage]

The first seedling 🌱🍅

[artingstarvist]

So, I drew more fic fanart haha. It was hard to pick one scene so... it got away from me lmao.

These are all scenes from @illuminatedferret's Wulianverse series, specifically "the light streams out"

If you're a big fan of post-100 swords XL trauma and soft wulian this is def the series for you haha.

[emotionaldisaster909]

for the new chapter of “A Long and Slow Recovery” by @ardenrabbit

[emotionaldisaster909]

.)

.) i’m bout to go reread alasr-

"I deserve whatever punishment I get, and I cant die anyways. so why not put all the blame on me?" hearing this line and knowing Exactly what kind of punishment he got ....

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

Y'all I love this fandom, I just read a tgcf AU fic about Black Water meeting Xie Lian, recognizing him as the giant-ass statue in the Kiln, and freaking the fuck out bc he assumes that it must be the embodied spirit of Mount Tonglu itself come to haunt him

[silentheiss]

Xie Lian opens the door to room 84B with a smile on his face. He swore to himself years ago that he’s not going to cry here. Not going to bring even a drop of misery to Hua Cheng’s space.

“Hello, San Lang.” He says, walking to the chair he considers his. He’s the only one who sits there, so he’s not so far off. “It’s nice to see you.”

Hua Cheng is in coma, so it’s Xie Lian’s turn to wait.

[dancing--in--therain]

Soo I just started this new hualian role reversal fic......

[mjldx7]

What if...

What if Xie Lian had a panic attack due to the coffin scene in the Blackwater Arc?

Xie Lian, our lovely MC in tgcf was trapped in a 3-layered-coffin for a 100 years. Alone, with a stake through his heart, not even air likely able to get through.

During the Blackwater arc when Xie Lian and Hua Cheng were in that coffin and that coffin was sealed Xie Lian got reminded of all those years he was trapped; alone, in pain, not able to breathe properly. Like what would happen then?

Xie Lian having a panic attack would of course cause Hua Cheng to worry, thinking of every reason why and drawing up of course how he was trapped by Lang Qianqiu. Hua Cheng would try to calm him down likely to no avail.

"Your Highness, it's alright! You're safe, you're not in Yong'an. You're safe here with me..."

Words falling onto deaf ears, Xie Lian in a state of mind where to him it only seemed as if he was trapped. Phantom pain from the stake going through his heart. Again, and again, and again.

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Inspired by capyshota's fic: Heart-shaped sprouts.

You can find it here.

Click on the image for better quality.

(I don't know why this was so incredibly hard to make aaaaaa)

[ID: TGCF fanart of Xie Lian, shirtless, sitting on bales of hay inside a wooden barn. He's wearing white sweatpants and has his bamboo hat tipped behind his head, and he smiles at the viewer while holding a water bottle, slightly flushed and sweaty. Image one zooms in more on Xie Lian. End ID]

Thanks @nebulations for the description ^u^