#xiaoguang

[saintsangsue]

he is H4H (Hatman4Hatman)

[thecollectibles]

Hunt Demon Hunter by XiaoGuang Sun

[melodious-tear]

"That smile is as fake as a store mannequin's. He smiles like this. Is it creepy?" - The first shot ep. 5

[twofunerals]

THE FIRST SHOT (2024) 雪迷宫 "Xiao Bei, you're in your thirties. Why are you still acting like a kid?"

[lunarriviera]

new year's letter from halan, january 1998

dear everyone, hello, it is i, captain zheng bei of the halan public safety bureau anti-narcotics task force. things are going well however there have been a few challenges this winter so i thought i would take this opportunity to update you on our progress here in halan.

first of all there's xiaoguang and nan nan. everyone is really happy that xiaoguang sat up again and started talking and getting better, me most of all. i might have cried a little and i definitely hit him. the weird thing is he speaks exclusively cantonese now and we're not sure why but hopefully nan nan's cantonese will get better so they can communicate. gu yiran says it doesn't really matter because they could never actually communicate in the first place and i don't want to say gu yiran is right but just in this one specific instance he might have a point. anyway nan nan seems happy and they sing a lot. and make other noises as well but we aren't going to talk about those.

zhang xueyao is also doing well, she has some kind of boyfriend but she won't let us meet him and i find that somewhat distressing. i'm worried if he is ugly or maybe has two heads. or what if he's really tiny. maybe he's only like 150 cm tall and she just beats him up all the time, something that would not be good for a police officer to do. on the other hand she seems a lot calmer and doesn't chase guozhu around the office anymore trying to kick him, so i guess it's been good for her. again gu yiran claims that the boyfriend is probably completely normal and just afraid of us but i don't know why that would be true. we're only cops, there's nothing scary about any of us?

ding guozhu has not changed in any way whatsoever, he has knitted eight sweaters this winter and at this rate the only one of us who doesn't have a sweater is me. that's because i don't wear sweaters because i never get cold. i only wear t-shirts even when it's -30ºC which it is right now. gu yiran on the other hand is wearing three sweaters at this very moment in his lab but i can still hear him bitching. i told him when he wears three sweaters at once he looks fat and he told me my head is fat. i told him his head is stupid and he looks stupid and then he told me i am an unmitigated idiot and then we wound up in a supply closet in the hallway and then some other stuff happened. when we came out of the supply closet somehow i was wearing one of guozhu's sweaters. surprisingly it is very soft and kind of nice, and guozhu made it red, my favorite color, and tried to give it to me so maybe i will keep it after all.

then there's uncle. he went on vacation with his granddaughter to hangzhou and they never came back. i think he likes it there, he keeps sending us photos of them by the lake eating sugar pastry in shirt sleeves and smiling. we have all started using email now and uncle likes it the most because he says he doesn't have to waste money on postage anymore. gu yiran tried to explain to him that electricity and telephone usage also cost money but uncle says he's already paid for those so it doesn't count. anyway he keeps sending very large photos that clog up the office inbox for several hours while they download. sometimes there's a lady in the photos, i keep asking him who that is but he never answers. gu yiran says when he feels like telling us about her, he will. here's an old picture of him with gu yiran because it's how i like to think of him, still here with us.

ma and ba are fine and nan nan finally talked them into closing the restaurant one day a week to take some rest. they are saying they might go visit uncle in the spring, or go to shanghai. they are a little bit upset that gu yiran and i moved out, but they also like having nan nan out of their apartment so that worked out okay after all.

i guess that's the big news, that gu yiran and i moved to a new place. it was sad to leave the building but after the incident with the wall we figured it was probably time. i explained to ma and ba how the hole was only an accident but it was still a very big hole so they were right to be upset, we all worked very hard one weekend to tear the wall down and replace it with a better one. the hole wouldn't even have happened if gu yiran and i hadn't had a fight, but we did, and then we weren't speaking so he went home to do his experiment in the apartment instead of in the lab, and there was sort of an explosion. but it was really my fault, because if i hadn't called him an arrogant cocksucker we wouldn't have fought. on the other hand if he hadn't gone after six drug dealers in the chicken van by himself with nothing but a baseball bat and some sock bombs then i probably wouldn't have called him that. so i guess maybe we were both to blame.

the good news is our new apartment is very solid and sturdy, we found this out on the first night when we walked in the front door and gu yiran threw me bodily up against the wall and proceeded to [redacted] me. he says that as a true scientist he has to keep conducting ongoing tests to ensure the structural integrity of our domicile and i'm not entirely sure what that means but as long as he keeps slamming me up against things honestly does it really matter.

here he is studying and looking very handsome and also cute. when he catches me taking photos of him studying, he hits me and tries to get the camera away from me, i don't mind because when he starts hitting me it's sort of funny and also easy to tickle him. it turns out gu yiran is very ticklish, and when he starts laughing and his glasses fall off and his hair gets messed up he looks even cuter and then we usually forget about studying or taking pictures or hitting or tickling.

well that's about all the news from halan. there are always new drugs and new dealers trying to make money off them so we stay pretty busy. director gao says i can't say anymore about that because it's official police business but i will tell you that even though we have a new office and a bunch of new recruits from the academy, i still miss the old cafeteria, and uncle bringing noodles and bao for the team.

PS gu yiran says he wants to get a cat. at first i wasn't sure it was a good idea considering his track record with houseplants, but then i thought about it and decided i don't mind being the one who mostly takes care of the cat. after all i do a pretty good job with xiao ran.

[xinyuehui]

I thought you said you wanted it to be fast?

不良執念清除師│Oh No! Here Comes Trouble

[hidey-writes]

wip wednesday

“Ran-ge,” Xiaoguang starts. Gu Yiran looks up, warily. “Ran-ge, does that mean I have to give both of you the shovel talk?” Xiaoguang sounds genuinely conflicted about the idea, but he’s looking at Gu Yiran again, hands earnestly thrust in his shorts pockets. “It’s a lot to put on me, but it’s not like you have someone else to do it for you here in Halan, right?” Gu Yiran, who had started out hiding his smile, finds himself unexpectedly touched, even as his smile fades. But it’s an unnecessary offer. “I appreciate it, Xiaoguang,” he says, hands folded carefully in the blankets of Zheng Bei’s bed, “but there’s no need for you to. I’m not— it’s not what you think. I’m not planning to do anything.” There won’t be anything to act on, when the case inevitably closes next week and Gu Yiran leaves Halan. Xiaoguang is staring at him, but in the end it's Gu Yiran who looks away first.

i have secret designs on a xiaoguang & gu yiran bromance in this fic ... we shall see if it comes to fruition. i just really really like the idea of xiaoguang's loyalty and protectiveness showing up for gu yiran now that he's accepted him as a bro, yknow?

[hideyseek]

ahahahaha i'm obsessed w/ this running joke in the show that the task force in sheng city is copying what our team in halan is doing ... down to having the other members of the sheng city task force look like OUR GUYS!

[extraordinarilyextreme]

this scene from 棋魂 ep. 34 but as fanghua bc oh my fckn god 😭😭😭

Is it because I didn't learn well enough? How could you leave just like that? I already have not seen you in a very long time. Is it that, in order to see you again, I have to wait another ten years?

(also booo to 🥝 subtitles lol)

[fangcaodi]

I can’t believe Xiaoguang made a tape of him singing her favorite Cantonese songs 😭 He’s so cheesy that it’s endearing.

[saintsangsue]

[thecollectibles]

Art by XiaoGuang Sun

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Lineage W - Aden Head Guard by XiaoGuang Sun

[twofunerals]

THE FIRST SHOT (2024) 雪迷宫 "We don't have time for your lessons." "You're solving drug cases. You have to know about drugs and chemistry first."

[lunarriviera]

pins and needles (4.5k, gen) by nanimono_da fandom: 雪迷宫 | The First Shot (TV) warnings: no archive warnings apply relationships: Gu Yiran/Zheng Bei, Zhao Xiaoguang/Zheng Nan characters: Zhao Xiaoguang, Zheng Nan, Gu Yiran, Zheng Bei tags: post-canon

He tried not to be afraid, weaving a path several paces behind in the dark, out of reach of street lights. Near the edge of town, Xiaoguang, nervous as hell by then and about ready to attempt to drag Bei-ge home despite their size difference, fumbled when they stopped at a row of trash bins. He watched silently while Bei-ge pulled a glass bottle from his pocket and balanced it carefully on the metal lip of one of the rusty, filthy boxes, then turning to sit in the dirt. Xiaoguang waited, breathing through his mouth to avoid the smell. Bei-ge noticed him eyeing the soda and shook his head. "I don't want—it would be bad luck." After a few minutes, he picked it up again and poured some out onto the ground, downing the rest with effort as if it was bitter before replacing the bottle in its spot. If it was bad luck, why was he drinking it?

» read it on ao3

okay look y'all i'm going to try to be very cool here but the truth is i have ZERO CHILL about this fic, only our THIRD first shot fic in english; it's by the magnificent @omaenanimonoda and she's such a freaking good writer pls how do i even word. it's like another ending to the drama we somehow didn't get—you will laugh, you will cry, you might throw things, there are gutwrenching moments and lush soft ones, there were two sentences in particular that made me put my face into my hands and scream gently, i can't wait for you to read this.

[xinyuehui]

...and they are next-door neighbours

不良執念清除師│Oh No! Here Comes Trouble