"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.
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.
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.
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.
A silly sequel to a previous drabble!
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 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.
Xue Yang is sewing. In the indecisive light of a single candle, the seam he's reinforcing wavers back and forth, merging with his fingertips until the stab of the needle separates them suddenly out: the thing that bleeds and hurts, and the thing that lets the sharp point pass through and through it, apathetic.
A character study of Xue Yang and his sewing skills, through the years in Yi City.
The weather's getting colder, so Xue Yang makes a healthy warm drink for Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing at the coffin home in Yi City. What they don't know won't hurt them (for now).