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Seven drabbles written for MXTXGenWeek2020.
1. Character Study: Outsider POV (Xue Yang and Jin Guangyao)
2. Worldbuilding: Ghosts and Hauntings (Wei Wuxian in the Burial Mounds)
3. Friendship: Oaths and Promises (Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu)
4. Family (Liu Mingyan and Liu Qingge)
5. War (Jiang Yanli and Nie Huaisang)
6. Humour (Xue Yang and Su Minshan)
7. Trope Subversion: Arranged Marriage (Wen Ruohan, Meng Yao and Wen Qing)
Imported from Archive of Our Own. Original work id: 27841339.
Chapter 1: Character Study: Outsider POV
Xue Yang whistled as he stepped through the brass mirror. "I've been in the torture chambers of three major sects now, and this is the fanciest I've seen."
"You were never in the Unclean Realm's torture chamber, Chengmei," Jin Guangyao chided him, but there was a smile in his eyes. "You saw the Fire Palace before my time, too. I made certain improvements."
"I bet you did." He ran his fingertips along the blades of a strangely twisted mechanism, examined a complex assembly of ivory and cord.
Ignored for the moment, the body strapped to the table gnashed its teeth.