#li Xiangyi

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[wip wednesday] MLC fic snippet

soooo I'm not dead I just got eaten by a videogame, but I've been slowly chipping away at a new fic (all the old fic is still being written, too, never fear).

have a snippet from a time travel dfs/lxy thing I've been rolling around. li xiangyi wanders into the future, di feisheng is searching for li lianhua and—finds him, in the strangest way. angst and smut ensue.

Di Feisheng comes up from the kiss as if from a prolonged dive, his breathing echoing in his ears, struggling to get his bearings. Li Xiangyi has dug insistent hands into his hair, a fist curled at the nape of his neck. A tight grip, keeping him there. Would Li Lianhua have kissed like this, with such fervent hunger? That thought will close over his head like black water, if he lets it. He pulls Li Xiangyi close enough to feel his heaving gasps against his own chest. "Tell me," he says, perhaps more bluntly than is needed. "Have you ever fucked before?"

He sees Li Xiangyi's eyes widen in surprise before he averts them. Then, "A—a girl in a music house, once. She played the guzheng. Beautifully." Di Feisheng stifles a spark of irritation. "I do not want to hear about girls or their guzheng, Li Xiangyi. Have you been taken?" "Is that what you want, Di-mengzhu?" That tone is familiar, the haughty lilt that cuts through Li Xiangyi's fluster. "To fuck me like a wife?" This audacity is a thing Di Feisheng remembers, ten years later. Li Xiangyi fought like he could not be caged, could not be cornered. Even on his knees, he looked up with the gaze of a conqueror. "No, because you're not a wife, mine or otherwise, and I do not fuck women. I can take you like a man is taken." "Oh." Li Xiangyi blinks his spring-dark eyes. Li Lianhua's eyes. No fight in them now, no fire of victory. "Then what are you waiting for? You already took off my clothes." He was soaking wet from the rain, but Di Feisheng doesn't say that. Rather, he tugs on the soft thread of teasing in Li Xiangyi's voice and decides it holds. When Di Feisheng kisses him again, Li Xiangyi sinks into it anew, his hands tearing at the clothes still between them. He does kiss like he fights, like he can't conceive of losing, like the messy slide of their mouths is his only purpose for existing. What if, says that cruel voice Di Feisheng thought he'd smothered long ago, the one that speaks only in the echoes of things lost. What if you had done this ten years ago? What if you'd kissed him then, when he looked at you across your blades and your heart almost stopped? Di Feisheng gasps against Li Xiangyi's bare throat. The smell of sweat and rainwater on his skin. Strands of hair cling to his shoulders. He's shed the robe Di Feisheng wrapped him in, but his shivers do not come from the coolness of the room. Di Feisheng pushes him from his lap. In the twilight, he seems more shadow than flesh: lean arms, slender throat, the still-wet tumble of his hair. The words nearly stick in Di Feisheng's mouth. "Get on your hands and knees."

tbc

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[qilingxiong]

[shenzhiheng]

Fanghua + Calling for A-Fei (and the one time it wasn't needed)

[qpjianghu]

Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful... or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other? [insp]

Li Xiangyi & Li Lianhua | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

For @mysteriouslotuscasebookweek prompt, Day 4: grief

[lianhuajing]

[mutantfactor]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook | pov: there are only 2 beds

[howdaretrashships]

You used to be quite arrogant and very talented. You made a lot of friends, but few of them were true friends... Later something big happened and you ended up all alone.

[tiny-breadcrumbs]

[where-the-water-flows]

ok so I keep coming back to an au where like.

Instead of faking his death, Shan Gudao fakes Li Xiangyi's death, and still blames the Jinyuan alliance for it.

(and, because, y'know, what's the point of winning if you don't have anyone to see it, stashes poor Li Xiangyi in a convenient dungeon somewhere. if you don't start with your own captive audience, a shidi is fine.)

Shan Gudao thus becomes the head of the Sigu Sect, bc...like, he is second in command, and now he's got 1)prestige and 2)time to work on his ultimate goal of Becoming Emperor Of Everything Ever. Probably does the occasional 'expedition' to 'search' for his beloved shidi's 'missing body', by which I mean go and update poor captive Li Xiangyi on whatever new terrible step in the 'take over the world plan' he's up to, and/or do a bit of torture, psychological or otherwise.

Di Feisheng, on the other hand, is fully losing his shit trying to work out what in the actual fuck happened to Li Xiangyi, because someone has clearly murdered him. And on the one hand, he's now, kinda, the top of the jianghu, and on the other, he hasn't exactly earnt that, has he, and winning by default doesn't fucking count, that's not skill, that's random luck.

And sure, literally everyone in the damn world is out for his head because of the whole ' "murdered" Li Xiangyi' thing, but that's 1)more fights to test his skill in 2)not the point, he has to find out who Really murdered Li Xiangyi, if that means mowing through every idiot stupid enough to get in his way when he can't just lay low, so be it. (A surprising number of people are thrown off by a mask.)

all of which is to say: in this world the kinda sketchy and mysterious guy wandering the jianghu on a quest to find a corpse that Fang Duobing latches onto is Di Feisheng, who-- is initially tolerating this idiot in part because he's Li Xiangyi's disciple, which means he has just as much interest as Di Feisheng does in working out what the fuck actually happened a decade ago, and in part because --

well. ten years of looking for a dead man, let alone a famous dead man like Li Xiangyi, is an awful long time to find nothing at all. a suspiciously long time, really, like there's not actually a dead man to find.

like Li Xiangyi is still alive.

[miaoyincourt]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Li Lianhua/Yi Xiangyi & Di Feisheng 9/?

MLC 1 | MLC 2 | MLC 3 | MLC 4 | MLC 5 | MLC6 LLH 1 | LLH 2 | LLH 3 FDB 1 | FDB2 DFS 1 | DFS 2| DFS3 JLQ 1 JLQ 2 | JLQ 3 FEIHUA 1 | FEIHUA 2 | FEIHUA 3 | FEIHUA 4 | FEIHUA 5 | FEIHUA 6 | FEIHUA 7 OT3

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Commission for @the-wintry-mizzenmast

[pastelcheckereddreams]

I built one of the Mysterious Lotus Casebook model scenes!

You may remember that I built the Lotus Tower model kit last year, and made some modifications to it:

(More about new additions to that model in another post!)

So it's probably no surprise that I also an addition of my own to this kit in the form of some tiny model lights. I love the idea that they could be fireflies accompanying Li Lianhua down the river or souls escorting him to reincarnation.

Progress pics below:

You may be able to guess from its size, that this model came together pretty quickly. Assembling the table together with both the boat and LLH was the trickiest bit:

I love all the small details, though, even if the curves were quite intimidating.

In order to wire it up with the tiny lights, I actually made very little irreversible changes to the model itself.

The base is a hollow space, as you can see bellow, so I used a hole that was intended to hold one of the lotuses to instead thread the lights up through the base to the scene. The lotus in question was meant to be positioned behind the boat, and so wouldn't actually be seen at all - perfect for hiding most of the wiring.

Then, in order to secure the battery pack to the back of the model, I cut off a small portion of one of the tabs that help fit the bottom piece in place. This effectively made a hole right at the bottom of the model for the wires to pass through. And that was all it took!

I stuck everything down with tape so it can be removed easily and without damage should I want to remove the lights at all, or make my messy wiring more respectable 😅

I'm really pleased with how it turned out!

Although you can see the wires around the boat when the lights are off, when the lights are on it pretty much achieves the floaty, ethereal effect I was going for:

[purplexedhuman]

"Do you think my master might be in hiding, under an alias?" — Fang Duobing to Li Lianhua, who is in fact his master who's in hiding under an alias

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (莲花楼) Episode 21

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