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Hei Xiazi only went to the SID headquarters because he was bored, but the staff speculating about an overheard conversation between their chief and Wu Xie proves to be very very entertaining.
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This is a Bonus fic for the series. Doesn't make a ton of sense if read as stand-alone. At least some knowledge of this series AU required

He could smell the city below, immersed in night, as if all the urban hubbub were a single entity. An entity who slept and woke up unaware of its own inner world, ignorant of the outside world. His senses were sharpening, like a sword forged slowly, immersed in fire and water and polished on stone and then again, until the blade was perfect. Until the day he reunited with Shen Wei, he was a shapeless piece of metal, the remains of what had once been a sword. Currently, he was immersed in the fire again, trying to understand the heat around him.
Everything of meaning had remained if the Ghost King and the Mountain God were still there. He simply needed to re-learn how to reach it. That which dwelt inseparably from himself.
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(This work is part of a series, it can't be read as stand-alone.)

It takes all Zhao Yunlan’s will to stop himself in a fight with Shen Wei. To tame the burst before he says something he’s gonna regret later. They had to claw out this only chance at a normal life. There won’t be another one. But for someone who’s not used to talking things out, and make that two people, it’s hard to communicate in anger.

Fang Yuan draws in a shaky breath, hesitantly he tells Zhao Yunlan the truth, all of it.

The temperature in the interrogation room drops uncontrollably, ice crackling beneath Shen Wei's feet. He feels rage rolling inside him as he hears the words spilling out of the man's mouth.

Two little girls.

They kidnapped two orphan girls in Dixing, brought them to Haixing then sold them to a middle aged man.

Chu Shuzhi confronts Zhao Yunlan about the SID's new consultant.

What if Zhao Yunlan did not appear to save Shen Wei from the thugs? (Or save the thugs from Shen Wei)

Zhao Yunlan runs into his past lover Shen Wei where he least expects to. Things happen.

Zhao Yunlan has a conversation with the team after getting back his memory

Chu Shuzhi has always known he could never go back home.

He's never missed it, until now.

Zhao Yunlan never minded waking up alone in his bed, and after a fair share of one-night stands he’d had, he never expected it to hurt.

In which a blind Zhao Yunlan discovers an unforeseen side effect of visiting the dentist. (At least, that's the story he'll tell, when they ask how it happened.)

It has come the time for Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan to renew their marriage certificate. Zhao Yunlan wonders if Shen Wei wants to.

The Black-Cloaked Envoy had brought her to a boarding house.

(The Mirror Girl in Dixing.)

"I...went to bed at the dormitory?" Zhao Yunlan says hesitantly, like even he was not so sure himself.

"Zhao Yunlan...you don't live in a dormitory." A gorgeous woman with red lipstick and slightly above-shoulder-length hair tells him with a frown.

"I- what?" Zhao Yunlan blinks at them in confusion, looking back at Da Qing with urgency.

Da Qing's mouth parted slightly, staring at him with wide eyes, completely deep in thought.

Oh...Zhao Yunlan thinks he may know what happened.

"I...lost my memory, didn't I?" Zhao Yunlan looks around and the silence from everyone is enough of a confirmation on its own.

Most Dixingren living in Dragon City know him as Lan-gege, the guy who one of the first welcomed them in this unfamiliar realm and helped them get their bearings. Zhao Yunlan is very careful about keeping his identities separate, but it's all useless when the Black Cloak Envoy appears just as he is trying to evacuate a newly-manifested Dixingren from under the SID's nose.

After it's all over, Shennong's Bowl says goodbye to Kunlun and departs from Zhao Yunlan's father forever. But where does he go then?

Or: In which Shennong's Bowl gets a vacation, a mojito, and some gender, as a treat. Not necessarily in that order.

Shen Wei closes his eyes.