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    “I see you got out just fine, though,” Suki said, crossing her arms and watching the Fire Nation prince carefully.

    Zuko shrugged. “Fire benders have a natural tolerance to heat. Our skin doesn’t really burn.” He opened a drawer and found a small, dusty container of ointment and pulled it out. “It comes in handy when you’re always surrounded by fire.” When he turned around, he found the rest of the group watching him with expressions Zuko couldn’t quite place. He held out the balm to Katara, but she hesitated before taking it. “What’s wrong?” Zuko asked.

    Aang looked at him uncomfortably. “I don’t want to accuse you of being a liar, but…”

    “But what?”

    “Your face, man,” Sokka supplied with his usual grace.

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    The Veiled Soul-Seer was known for being able to grant a person's deepest desire. Luo Binghe went to her with the expectation that she'd deliver the kind, sweet Shizun he'd seen in the other world (the one married to that weak, unworthy version of himself). That was, after all, what Luo Binghe wanted most.

    So why did he wake up to find himself back in his fourteen-year old body, in the woodshed, as a disciple on Qing Jing Peak?

    Now his empire is gone, as is his harem, cultivation, and physical strength. He'll have to rebuild it all from scratch, and while knowing the future should speed things up significantly, acting like an innocent human child after hundreds of years of being an all-powerful demon emperor might be more difficult than he'd anticipated…

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    “What did they do?” Hua Cheng demands. Then, to the robbers: “What the fuck did you do to him?!”

    “San Lang, shh, don’t be mad. They tried to rob me, but they didn’t hurt me. Really! My face only looks like this because I fell into a rock!”

    Hua Cheng wilts: this is devastatingly believable.

    A pair of robbers accosts Xie Lian outside of Puqi Village. They were expecting an easy ransom from a rich husband. They were not expecting the wrath of Crimson Rain Sought Flower, or free relationship advice from the husband of the world’s leading expert in codependency. They got both.

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    “Do you sense any resentful energy around? I’ve sensed it here and there—mostly around the people I went to speak with today. I think it may have been leftover from the ghost’s original attacks.”

    Hua Cheng is quiet for a moment before replying, “I sense it everywhere.”

    Xie Lian shivers, even in the blanketed warmth of the summer evening, and Hua Cheng’s fingers tighten around his.

    “Gege doesn’t need to worry. Whatever is here, I won’t let it hurt him,” Hua Cheng says fiercely.

    Xie Lian and Hua Cheng travel to a small village to answer a sudden influx of alarming prayers; the ghosts they find there are more personal than they ever expected.

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    When it comes to something like this, there are a few important steps:

    First, Xie Lian makes sure that his husband is busy. Something like that makes it sound so terrible, but it’s not—it’s really not! It’s just that Hua Cheng can be overprotective, and if he saw this he would react poorly. Xie Lian would rather spare him that.

    Second, Xie Lian puts Ruoye away. The poor thing never wants to go. He has to tie it somewhere safe and placate it with gentle touches and soothing words. Even so, it still lashes its ends and strains after him until he leaves the room. It will cling too tightly when he returns.

    Third, Xie Lian goes somewhere quiet and familiar. It can be the armory, or their private baths, or even the shrine near Puqi Village. It is never their bedroom. It is never their cottage.

    Fourth, Xie Lian draws his sword.

    Fifthly, finally, Xie Lian takes a deep breath, closes his eyes, and carves his own skin open.

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