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Shen Wei reaches out to pull Zhao Yunlan close to him, hoping to shield him and pass it off as quick reflexes, but it happens just a moment too late. Before he can stop it, the man’s pen-knife slices into Zhao Yunlan’s arm with one sharp strike.

“Perhaps we could call it a draw,” Lao Xie said in a bone-dry voice. “I, too, have suffered.”

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Or: Shen Wei introduces Zhao Yunlan to his tailor.

Zhao Yunlan has had a Very Long Day, and Da Qing has left him a present.

Zhao Yunlan doesn't quite understand how things in the ancient past can be so different from what he'd thought.

Zhao Yunlan doesn't quite understand how things in the ancient past can be so different from what he'd thought.

[Podfic of my own work.]

“His eyes are creepy. They suck in light, like black holes,” says Da Qing when their host has gone to prepare some food.

“No, no, that’s not it. They’re more like - like a night sky, when it’s clear and there’s no moon, but the stars are shinning. Like that Van Gogh painting,” answers Zhao Yunlan.

Da Qing looks at him with judgmental eyes and sighs, long-suffering.

“We are going to be brutally murdered,” decides Da Qing. “And it’s going to be because you were thinking with your dick.”

shen wei has never really enjoyed storms, but maybe this one will finally bring something good

Shen Wei's identity is revealed to his students in the most dramatic way possible.

(No grad students were harmed during the writing of this fic.)

Lin Jing sets out to squash some rumours at the university, but things get out of hand. (Set late in episode 3.)

Da Qing has regained his memory, but he's still putting together the pieces.

Early in their relationship, Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei talk about coming out to the SID.

Shen Wei is, to Zhao Yunlan's deep and abiding regret, a very suspicious person and Zhao Yunlan's personal pick for the identity of famed assassin Heipaoshi – and after The Hotel Incident last year Zhao Yunlan has a new personal rule that he doesn't sleep with suspects, no matter how attractive they are.

“You’re supposed to be an adult—” Startled at the tone, Shen Wei looks up. He had seen Zhao Yunlan moving towards him from the corner of his eyes. Had counted on it, when he had purposefully pricked his finger on one of Lin Yusen’s traps to show Zhao Yunlan this “proof” of his normality. But he had been preparing to deal with Zhao Yunlan’s curiosity, to head off any suspicions he may have about the veracity of the display, not—

Not the look of concern, brushed over with a layer of frustration, which morphs quickly into awkwardness when their eyes meet.

Never had Shen Wei known such enjoyment, in fulfilling the duties a demonic contract required.

The friendship of Shen Wei and Ying Chun, in four scenes.

They are in the meats section of a supermarket in Spring City, watching Xi Xiaoyan order a whole duck, when Zhao Yunlan pulls him away. Shen Wei turns to look at him as he is dragged by the elbow to the next aisle over, clutching the shopping basket they are using to blend in in one hand.

“Let her be,” Zhao Yunlan says, “it’s the Reunion Festival.”

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Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan and Zhao Xinci on the Reunion Festival, the year after the final confrontation in Dixing.

Li Qian spent her first day at the SID listening to Lin Jing and Zhu Hong explain about dark energy, the Dixing and Yashou people, and the history of the Hallows she’d been hired to help research. It was a dizzying brain dump of information, and even so, it wasn’t until late afternoon that the subject of the Black-Cloaked Envoy came up.

Da Qing hangs over the back of the couch and stares as lao-Zhao toes off his boots. “What did you say?”

“I’m going to a faculty schmoozefest as Professor Shen’s date.” Lao-Zhao scans the chaos next to the bed. “Have you seen my brown jacket?”

Zhao Yunlan blinks into bright sunlight, thoroughly disoriented.

It's pure chance that one day Ya Qing flies over this part of the city and not another. It's pure chance that she stops on this tree branch in this park, in sight of a large stone circle, and not somewhere else altogether. It's pure chance that it's the Black-Cloaked Envoy she finds, and not Zhu Jiu instead.