Mourning Wei Ying and trying to find out what his place should be in a world where he is dead, alpha Lan Wangji meets Song Zichen, a beta rogue cultivator who is searching for his own lost friend. Their friendship helps both of them, but the strictures of the cultivation world threaten it.
Chen Chou first met Xu Dong back when he and Zhang xiong were first preparing for the Capital Examination, when they all got drawn into the series of weird cases that led up to a failed coup and everyone in the capital nearly dying from a mist of red pollen.
Their relationship has only been like this since Chen Chou and Zhang Ping moved to Yiping County, though.
Chen Chou and Xu Dong's arrangement through the years, and how everyone else arranged themselves too.
Xiao Xingchen is normally the one doing the tying up, not the other way around, but his boyfriends have a surprise for him this morning and they're sure he'll like it.
There's got to be a way to bring back Wen Ning's consciousness, Wei Wuxian knows, and if he can't do it himself, then maybe Lan Wangji can help. Unfortunately for Lan Wangji and his suffering heart, he would do nearly anything for Wei Wuxian. Wen Ning did not get a say, because that's the root of the whole problem.
Some people build their own coffins to cope.
This isn't necessarily a good time for their partners or family, especially when no one knows what they're coping with.
A songxuexiao reincarnation AU.
Mobei Jun is big, Shang Qinghua is small. At least until they get their clothes off.
Xue Yang is alone in Yi City; he has Xiao Xingchen's body, his fragmented soul, and the fierce corpse of his erstwhile partner to kick around, but none of this is enough to stop him missing Xiao Xingchen himself. A late night gives him the idea for something that might help.
Xue Yang is apprenticing in demonic cultivation in the Burial Mounds; Wen Qing is trying to keep Wei Wuxian's body and soul together; Wei Wuxian is pretending that everything is all right when it clearly isn't. They all need to blow off a little steam.
Jin Guangyao's most loyal companion helps him relax after a stressful day.
"What's wrong, Jiang Cheng?" he asks suddenly, looking up from his bowl.
Jiang Cheng just meets his gaze, not even lifting an arm to convey, Where do you want me to start?
"You've been... staring at me, this whole evening, shidi," Wei Wuxian adds, more slowly. The colour in his cheeks didn't fade after the bath, and now, with the food and candles, the room's got stuffy and he's even pinker than before. It should look healthy but it only highlights the shadows under his eyes, so deep they look like grooves in the skin.
"No, I haven't," he says automatically, and shoves a meatball in his mouth.
Jiang Cheng meets up with Wei Wuxian after Baoshan Sanren restores his golden core, just as they planned. After this, surely things are going to go right, right?