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    In the end, the death of the Yilling Patriarch was a simple thing.
    There was no valiant siege to capture him. Nor a cloud of darkness to herald his arrival.
    Just a man in threadbare robes who walked almost unnoticed up the steep stairs of Koi Tower to kneel in the center of the crowded Glamour Hall.
    "I am here to turn myself in…. For the murder of Jin Zixuan."

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    07 Nov 2024

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    “Sect leader Jin, you sent word that you wanted Wen Qing and Wen Ning to surrender themselves to you, but we both know that it is really me that you wish to punish. I will make you a deal, guarantee the freedom and safety of the Wen Remnants and I will surrender to you for whatever punishment you desire and disband my army.” He took a deep breath before he added the one item he hoped would prove irresistible. “I will also surrender the Stygian Tiger Seal.”

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    What if Wen Qing did not manage to knock out Wei Wuxian when she went off to surrender to Jin Guangshan.

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    31 Oct 2024

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    The Wens are safe, the tiger amulet is out of Jin Guangshan's hands, and Wei Wuxian is going to cooperate when Hanguang Jun puts him down like a rabid dog. It's not the end to his story he wanted, but it's one he can accept.

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    27 Oct 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 82

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    “Have you heard the rumors, Wei Wuxian? Do you know what I’ve been doing these past sixteen years since your death?” He asks calmly.

    His brother flinches, but he does answer, “Kidnapping every demonic cultivator you can find, and bringing them back to Lotus Pier to torture and kill them.”

    Jiang Cheng snorts. Those are indeed the rumors, “You really just believe everything you hear, don’t you? Idiot. Do you really think so little of me?”

    What if Jiang Cheng was hunting down those demonic cultivators to different ends? What if he figured out about the golden core transfer a decade before Wei Wuxian’s return?

    Their conversation at the inn goes a lot differently.

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    05 Oct 2024

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    College went something like this: wake up, get ready, get to campus, do just about nothing all day, still end up swamped with work in the evening, forget he had plans, forget he needed to buy groceries, go to get them, run into someone, forget what he was doing, go and help a random person with a haunting problem, come back home to his excruciatingly small apartment to feed his fish, find a bunch of voicemails on his phone, pass out on the couch, wake up at midnight to get a snack, go back to sleep, then wake up again for real and be late for class. Do it all again.

    Sometimes he ran into Lan Wangji. Sometimes he also got stabbed.

    (or: without a core or a stable mind, things are just thrown about in a whirlwind when he is injured on campus and must deal with all the complications that come with it.)

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    01 Oct 2024