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    Our tale begins with Xie Lian hiring an escort to help him deal with an “unspeakable affliction” after a disastrous breakup forced him to leave college and return to his hometown.

    Hua Cheng (or Wuming, as he is called when we first meet him) isn’t really interested in helping people—he just wants to get paid. If the situation with a client seems too complicated to deal with, he has no problem walking away. But for some reason he can’t explain, he feels compelled to help Xie Lian.

    The two find themselves very quickly drawn to one another, but nothing in life is easy, especially when it comes to love.

    Xie Lian is struggling to forget about the demise of the relationship that ruined his life—a struggle complicated by the fact that his ex may or may not be stalking him.

    Meanwhile, Hua Cheng is busy running from a past that will soon catch up to him with deadly consequences.

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    24 May 2026

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    “Good morning, Dianxia,” Hua Cheng murmured, a hint of a smile returned to him by his own image in the mirror. He put down the brush next to the ornate pyxis of cinnabar clay and thoroughly checked his reflexion.

    The flex of his fingers on the mahogany handle of the brush, the drag of the bristles on his skin, the scrape of the lid encrusted with mother of pearl against the edges of the box as he closed it and the smear of rouge the movement always left on his fingertips were moments repeated slowly morning by morning, each a step in the ancient ritual of making himself worthy of his God’s gaze. The water that flowed through the fibers on the head of the brush ran tainted red as a blood sacrifice and the incense on Xie Lian’s altar burned.

    or: Hua Cheng prays to Xie Lian every day, sharing ordinary moments and heartfelt confessions with the beloved that cannot hear him.
    Coming out of the coffin in Yong'An Xie Lian starts to hear the loving and harrowing prayers of a devoted ghost.

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    13 May 2026

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    Hè Xuán rolls his eyes and slumps further down in his seat. Honestly. His presence isn’t even noticed or needed.

    “That’s very sweet,” Xiè Lián laughs, the sound making Huā Chéng’s face light up like Christmas. “But I need to know if you’re in pain so I can tell the nurse.”

    “You’re not my nurse?” Huā Chéng asks, then frowns at himself. “Of course not, he’s an angel, you idiot.”

    [Post-surgery Huā Chéng suffers temporary memory loss, hits on his husband, mourns that he's married, and has his mind blown.]

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    10 Apr 2026

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    "From what I know of these kinds of arrangements, I'm supposed to provide financial support to you while you provide me with my desired level of companionship," Hua Cheng explained, "I'm not asking for anything intimate. And you're under no obligation to give me anything I do ask of you. I only want what you're comfortable with, okay?"

    "Okay," Xie Lian responded, completely taken by this authoritative yet compassionate side of Hua Cheng.

    "I know that you don't expect gifts, but there is nothing that would make me happier than buying you nice things and seeing your breathtakingly beautiful smile when you receive them," Hua Cheng grinned as Xie Lian tried to stifle the smile such sweet words elicited, "There it is. You wouldn't begrudge me such a simple pleasure, would you?"

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    AKA: The one where Xie Lian seeks financial aid from a pretty older man and soon learns things about himself.

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    03 Apr 2026

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    Xie Lian wakes up on the morning of his birthday feeling old, broken, and like nothing worth celebrating. He is a god more fit to be spit on.

    Hua Cheng has some very, very intense feelings about this. But would sharing them drive Xie Lian away?

    The Hurt of a [Hurt & Fluff Xie Lian Birthday]

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    16 Mar 2026