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.
A silly sequel to a previous drabble!
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).