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    There's nothing dearer to the citizens of Ghost City than their Chengzhu.

    But unfortunately, their lord is a busy man, who keeps coming and going without rhyme or reason.

    So what can they do in order to make sure that he's around more often?

    Why of course, they must find him a wife!

     

    Somehow, Xie Lian ends up in the midst of all of this, but the poor god was only trying to pay off a debt, he swears!

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    24 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    Xie Lian, an omega crab scorned by other crabs for his small size, gazes at the famous alpha Emperor crab Hua Cheng across the docks, hoping to be like him someday. What he doesn't know is that when he is not looking, the Emperor crab gazes back.

    Note: This fic takes heavily from the short novel 'Emperor of Yancheng Lake' by Superpanda.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Xie Lian may only be a mermaid the size of a pencil, but that won't stop him from giving Space Marshal Hua Cheng a reason to live. This is a retelling of the novel ‘Transmigrated Into the Violent Boss’s Little Mermaid’ by 弦三千 but with TGCF.

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    24 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 13

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    The fallout of the previous month had hit Xie Lian like the downtown train. Memories, moments, wholly out of chronology but so immediate that she felt them like touches, like blows. Smooth lips on her neck– those same lips, curled in agitation. That dark, dark eye, aglow with passion and warmth– cold and disillusioned. A voice, low and rich as silk– hoarse with gravel and bitterness.

    Pale hands, soft in her hair– oh, pale hands, soft in her hair.

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    Hua Cheng and Xie Lian were supposed to be unbreakable-- and then they broke up. They even have the godawful haircuts to prove it. Now, they're miserably haunting their formerly beloved city as shadows of themselves, looking over their shoulders like hunted animals on the street. All their friends are mystified, and determined to get to the bottom of this impossibility... unless Fate herself beats them to it.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Here, now, love was flowing in abundance. It was all around, brightening the stars on this clear night, thrumming in the eager voices of the audience, ready to lift the soul from despair. It was surrounding the Crown Prince himself, illuminated by golden light onstage, gilding him– enclosing him–

    Xie Lian, who was sitting at the grand piano, its black surface polished to a nightmarish shine, with hands frozen over the keys and a deadweight in his gut– Xie Lian, who was realizing–

    He couldn’t do this.
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    Nearly a decade has passed since the disastrous night that marked the end of Xie Lian's career as a classical pianist before it had even begun. Now, having withdrawn from society almost completely, Xie Lian works as a piano instructor out of his studio apartment, nurturing a private love for music that has endured several lonely years.

    When a new student enters his world in the form of the striking and mischievous San Lang, Xie Lian is happy enough at the prospect of a friend- yet, as their relationship blooms alongside the ongoing spring, he will come to face the complexity of more bonds than one: that of his mysterious new companion, and of the creative passion he thought lost forever.

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