“If you died,” Huaisang started, not knowing quite where he was going with this. “I mean, you did die, da-ge, but if someone had killed you… what would you want to happen next?”
In the wake of Nie Mingjue’s death, Nie Huaisang realises how much he’s been left in ignorance. How could the artsy little brother be left to run their ancestral asteroid-mining clan? What other secrets are hidden in his san-ge’s past? And how should he get revenge?
Maybe having da-ge’s personality backed up on a server was supposed to help with all this. Maybe.
The task is clear, but Xue Yang is having trouble carrying it out.
Sometimes a man's old enough to know his own mind, even if his brother worries, even if his family are living in exile in a mass grave, even if the boy he's set on is an unstable necromancer who could kill them all. Even if he has a history of making dubious choices.
A vignette.
He really must have been a scholar, before the Meng Po Tang, he's certain of it. He's always thinking, calculating, plotting his next moves.
Jise Gui schemes, works and fights his way out of the Ghost Valley. It would go better for him if he knew who his worst enemy really was.
"I know, I know," Xue Yang interrupted. "You don't want to talk about it, and I'm not gonna make you, Daozhang, don't worry." He had the hem of Xiao Xingchen's wide sleeve between his fingers—just enough to draw him in by, to keep him aware of his friend's physical presence. "Just let me guess. You don't even have to tell me if I'm right, if you don't want to."
He would, though, Xue Yang was sure.
【The System was successfully activated! Role bound: Luo Binghe’s master, ‘Shen Qingqiu.’ Special challenge mode enabled: Alternate Universe #517, 'Eternal Youth'!】
Shen Yuan woke up in a new body, in a new world, smug with the knowledge that he was ready for whatever transmigration might throw at him. This lasted exactly as long as it took for the System to boot up, and for Shen Yuan to realise that his fellow humans, in this twisted AU of his favourite-least-favourite web novel, were strangely... aquatic. Oddly baby-faced, as if they'd just stepped out of a donghua. And there were other changes, too, which scared him in particular more than they would most of the characters in Proud Immortal Demon Way.
It's Vegas's first birthday since he and Pete have been together. The perfect occasion for him to meet Pete's grandmother.
these "by age 30" memes are very funny but the truth is that by age 30 you should have an animal people associate with you so when they don't know what to get you for your birthday they can default to something with the animal
—tweet by @AnnaGHughes
Xiao Xingchen left her mountain intending to understand and improve the world. Song Lan left her temple to travel with Xiao Xingchen and pursue their ideals together. Unfortunately, the world held more things in it than either of them was truly prepared for, including Xue Yang and Jin Guangshan.
Wen Ning and Wen Qing give themselves up to the Jin Sect.
Xue Yang was left for dead by the side of the road to a nowhere town—only when he was rescued did he realise he'd been dropped into the perfect revenge against his nemesis, Xiao Xingchen. Everything was going perfectly... until another exile from the Jin Sect wandered down that same road.
Canon divergence with Mo Xuanyu in Yi City, written for the Songxuexiao Exchange 2020.