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There was no point in coming home early, just as there was no point in going home at all. Now, alone there, Zhao Yunlan thought about that and how he had been so angry about the situation for so long that he hadn't even tried to figure out how his spouse's embrace and kiss felt.
His spouse. Not anymore.
He was gone away.
Not because he said he wanted to leave, but because Zhao Yunlan told him to go. He had told Wu Xie that that damn deal between their families was stupid and that Wu Xie should go away and have his own life, because here, where he hadn't chosen to be, he would never have anything to call happiness. But now Zhao Yunlan wondered if he might not have tried to find some happiness with the spouse who was once his. Perhaps it was his fault more than anyone else's for all the tears he had seen Wu Xie shed.
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(All the fics in this series are stand-alone)

A short and sweet: post Guardian/Zhenhun - somewhere in the future- Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are abroad on a very formal business trip, which involves certain dress codes and Shen Wei takes the opportunity to treat himself and rent a diamond necklace. Zhao Yunlan wants to convince his husband to keep said necklace in classic Zhao Yunlan style.

Vaguely, Zhao Yunlan notes that he is already slightly tipsy and perhaps he doesn't actually need this drink. He's here for surveillance, after all. That's also the main reason he doesn't try to slip the bartender his phone number. Well, that, and the fact that there's something…odd about this bartender.

Tucked away in a corner of Florida, there's a tower block that among anything else, isn't that physically beautiful or well built, but the oddly sized apartments are cheap to live in, and the tenants are as expected, so bit different from your average Florida man. Where else would there be a unified group of introverts, the laziest local Pd imaginable, a coffee shop run by a narcissistic owner, and a bunch of weirdos?

Oh yeah, they're all American Chinese too, which means the arguments tend to be in mandarin as well as English. It's mad in the unlucky block, absolutely crackers!

Boya hates his neighbor for being happy, Zhan Yao can't stand his exercise addicted neighbor and his all night training, and Shen Wei has no issue with his fellow resident, unless obliviousness counts as a probable cause for concern. They all drink far too much overpriced coffee, think about revenge too much, yet somewhere along those lines they learn to live with each other.

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A chance meeting in a forest leads Prince Zhao Yunlan down a path filled with kindness and love, but also into a dangerous political web he much rather avoid. Shen Wei hopes to keep the secret of who he really is from ever seeing the light of day.