19 Works in The Year Xie Lian Waits for Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
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Who do we call at the edge of night? by lyth4
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
17 Oct 2025
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"Ship-Sinking Black Water."
"Your Highness." He Xuan gave a courteous nod in acknowledgement.
"May I?" He pointed to the empty seat on the bench.
Xie Lian nodded, curious to hear what reason had brought the supreme here.
He Xuan sat down next to him, staring up at the stars.
"It's strange, how different it is when he isn't around," he said into the night.
While Xie Lian is waiting for Hua Cheng's return on Mount Taicang, he gets a visit from another supreme ghost king.
A short study of how Xie Lian's and He Xuan's friendship post-canon might begin.
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brittle silence by intheeveningsunrise for ranboo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Sep 2025
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“Nobody’s heard from you in a while,” he says, irritated. “We wanted to check you weren’t dead or something.”
Xie Lian laughs. “Don’t be silly! I can’t die while—” and then he pauses mid-sentence, brows furrowing together, fingers ghosting over the unmarred skin of his neck. “Oh, of course. No, no, I’m not dead. I’m fine. Why don’t you both stay for tea?”
He doesn’t think they’ll accept, really—and Xie Lian isn’t actually sure he has any tea, but he’s once again surprised when they both reply in unison with a decisive, “Yes.”
“Oh!” and his smile feels less brittle this time, chest a little warmer as he claps his hands together. “Come inside, then!”
OR Xie Lian struggles to live in silence while waiting for his beloved to return. Mu Qing and Feng Xin keep him company - and some long, almost forgotten half-secrets fall out of place.
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Under the light of the moon, I wait as I ponder, do you ever think of those left behind? by card__reverse
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 호텔 델루나 | Hotel Del Luna (TV), 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Audio Drama), 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Webcomic), 魔道祖师Q | Módào Zǔshī Q (Cartoon), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Webcomic)
26 Aug 2025
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"Like chasing after that moon
My thirsty heart remains unsatisfied"
- Shinonome Akito, GekkouThose who've nearly escaped death, or have fell into a coma would speak of a Hotel del Luna, located at the heart of Seoul. A frightful hotel of ghosts, spirits and poltergeists with its frightful, tyrannical white-robed president, who's rumored to even scare the Ghost Kings that rule the underworld. It's become a sort of fun urban legend amongst hotel workers around the world, discussed in late night shifts, whispered amongst colleagues as they drink out.
On the other side of the continent, was a blissfully clueless Wei Wuxian, whose life turned upside down with a letter from said mythical president.◈◈◈
Basically, a Hotel del Luna au for TGCF and MDZS.
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Loneliness is a Bitter Companion. by darke_faerie
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
29 Jun 2025
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Xie Lian finds himself struggling with loneliness whilst he waits for Hua Cheng to return and his spiralling thoughts start to take over...
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the only payoff by heart_to_pen_to_paper
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 May 2025
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Feng Xin swallows. “Not to imply that Your Highness isn’t—” Faithful would be the absolute worst word to use, but he can’t think of any other, so he just skips the rest of the sentence entirely. “No one could doubt Your Highness’s regard for Crimson Rain.” Unfortunately. “But… is it the same kind of regard that Crimson Rain holds for Your Highness?”
Feng Xin and Xie Lian talk about faith.
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Of Gods, Ghosts and a Garden of Crimson Flowers by Shiqingxuan_no1
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
04 Apr 2025
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As the wind took away yet another drop of dew on the grass, Xie Lian no longer thought of Hua Cheng dissappearing into butterflies. Shi Qingxuan no longer thought of their dissappearing godhood. At least on these days, they had a supportive friend. Two otherwise lonely souls found solace in each other's company.
And in an ocean of flowers.
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Xie Lian was used to being alone. He will stay alone, waiting for Hua Cheng's return to him. Or so he thought.
The former Wind Master will never allow it.
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Loneliness Leads To Kisses by CursedFroggy4
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
30 Oct 2024
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During the one year wait for Hua Cheng to come back, He Xuan visits Xie Lian on Mount Taicang
They do more than just chat
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The Ones Left Behind by parad0xspace
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Oct 2024
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Before Hua Cheng vanished into a cloud of butterflies he handed Xie Lian a pearl and asked him to take good care of it because it was important to him. Over the course of the year, Xie Lian gets to know He Xuan, and learns exactly why Hua Cheng finds him so important.
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Waiting on Flowers to Bloom by Saggiaram
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
20 Jun 2024
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During the year of Xie Lian waiting for his beloved Hua Cheng, many things happen. Some good, some no so much, but what's clear is Xie Lian misses Hua Cheng.
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Waiting by 12frogsinatrenchcoat
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 May 2024
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Since Hua Cheng disappeared, Xie Lian has been struggling to continue on. He tries, because he knows that is what Hua Cheng would want. This is about a day where he finds himself spiraling.
Warning! Discussion about difficulty eating, weight loss and overall mental health issues.
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here everything is quiet by moonsteps
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
18 Oct 2023
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It’s just mindless work, watching over Hua Cheng’s spirit as he slowly attempts to recuperate back to his former glory.
It only becomes a problem when Xie Lian gets involved.
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Accidentally Edible by longlosttimelady
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Jan 2023
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With his cursed shackles gone, Xie Lian discovers that he might be able to actually make edible food.
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The Shade Of A Cloud, The Song Of A Thought by loreofkore
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Aug 2022
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I see you. I see the day you would come to me and scattered pieces of distance would not stand between us. I don’t know how to tell you that I can’t sing a single word without imagining the shape of your voice, flowing through every syllable with a gentleness I never cared to afford myself. Perhaps you could show me, and perhaps we could sing together; and it could be a song we sing during storms, a song of love and comfort, born in the softest night when the world was quiet and the breeze gently pulled the fallen petals into her arms dancing down the road that patiently waits for your steps, along rivers that await your reflection.
There will be a thousand nights alone and a thousand nights together. There is an eternity to love.
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A Different Kind of Warmth by k_lynn
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Jun 2021
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“Can I ask one more thing of you?”
“Of course, your highness,” Mu Qing said.
The lack of hesitation in his answer made Xie Lian relax a little. “Will you stay?” he asked. “Tonight? I don’t… I don’t think I can be alone with my thoughts right now.”
He’d been alone for so long. He’d thought he was used it. This time, the prospect spanned out before him like a yawning chasm, and he just couldn’t.
Mu Qing blinked at him. He opened his mouth, closed it, and then blew out a sharp sigh through his nose. “Of course. I’ll stay.”
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time, mystical time (cutting me open, then healing me fine) by moonbots
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 Jan 2021
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There is nothing for him to do but wait. San Lang had waited for him, for eight hundred years, patiently and relentlessly, his faith in Xie Lian unwavering and constant like the sunrise in the east. Xie Lian muses that perhaps, without San Lang’s devotion, his love, he would have faded away, like any other god cast away to obscurity.
And now, it is his turn. Xie Lian will bear the bitter winter of being alone, wrap himself up in the memory of San Lang’s warm eyes the same way he curls his hand around the crystal ring hanging from his neck, and he will endure, for the sake of his beloved. However long it takes, he will wait for San Lang.
or: xie lian, the shape of loneliness and three conversations on mount tai cang.
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Where I Go, Little Feet Follow by wired_tired_and_maybe_inspired
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Dec 2020
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Somewhere along his years he had taken to hiding things within the weaving of his hat. Not big things, just scraps of ink splotched ribbons and eight cords.
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It was another successful day of collecting scraps, and Xie Lian was trudging back to Puqi Shrine. He saw a figure standing at the gates. A familiar figure, that he saw last a year ago.
Or so he hoped.
(A short retelling of their reunion.)
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爱你穿越时间 - Loving You Transcends Time by candiedillusions
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
18 Dec 2020
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In the days that pass, Xie Lian waits. He keeps busy, answering prayers that have started to trickle in, tending to his little shrine in Puqi village whenever he can, planting trees and a little garden, building little slices of a home that he hoped Hua Cheng would appreciate. There’s always something to do, something to improve on, and Xie Lian has got nothing but time.
In the still of the nights, Xie Lian writes.
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Or, 5 letters that Xie Lian writes to Hua Cheng in the year he was gone, and the 1 letter that Hua Cheng writes back.
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always dreaming of you by iuniore
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Aug 2020
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Xie Lian knows himself to be in a dream by how hazy the edges are.
or: Xie Lian waits a very long year for Hua Cheng to come home.