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    While exorcising a haunting, Lan Wangji gets cursed with a brand of honesty, and is forced to speak his every thought out loud.

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    It wasn’t that Wei Wuxian didn't know how to say “no” to things.
    He was very good at all words, as a matter of fact. Speaking was one of his Top Things, and he resented anyone who would say otherwise. Wei Wuxian could say no whenever he wanted.
    It was just that. Why say “no” when “yes” was right there?
    “You want me to invent a what?” Wei Wuxian asked, excitement already ringing through his body.
    Lan Sizhui shot an anxious look at Lan Jingyi before answering. “A duplication talisman.”
    “Not for anything evil,” Lan Jingyi interjected suddenly. “We’re not going to do anything nefarious with it, you know, we just --”
    “Yes,” Wei Wuxian interrupted.
    “-- thought it would be helpful to … wait, really?”
    “Yes,” Wei Wuxian repeated, fingers already itching to get to work as the possibilities stretched out before him, an inviting new path brimming with opportunity.
    He smiled.
    Something, not quite fearful, but definitely apprehensive crossed over Lan Sizhui’s face as he wondered if they had just made a horrible mistake.

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    31 May 2025

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    “Don’t look, Lan Zhan,” Wei Ying says.

    Lan Zhan closes his eyes. He hears Wei Ying take the last few steps, and then there is a sound of heavy canvas being ripped apart, and when he opens them again, Wei Ying is in the painting—falling through grasping tendrils of black smoke, his hair whipping around his face and lashed across his neck, his limbs outstretched, his red robes tangled around his ankles. His mouth is curved into a thin smile, blood-smeared, determined and vicious.

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    Wei Ying spends his days trapped in a painting and his nights wandering Paris, trying to feel alive. Lan Zhan is his guard and keeper, tasked with returning him to his museum before it opens each morning. This is how they fall in love, in the moments between sunrise and opening hour.

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    29 May 2025

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    28 May 2025

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    Lan Wangji encounters a mysterious stranger on his rooftop.

    Alternatively, the Emperor of China has heard rumours of an intruder sneaking into the Forbidden City, a shadow that has eluded the best of his guards.

    (Alternatively, Wei Ying just really wanted a drink.)

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    12 Aug 2024