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“Why do you hate me so much?”

The question spills from his lips despite his own reservations. It hangs in the air between them, feeling like it could be a sword of damnation or a bridge and Shen Wei has no idea which one he wants it to be. He doesn’t even know why he returns here day after day, pleading and begging at the foot of an elaborate prison with a person he once knew was his brother.

Or,

Five times Shen Wei sought his brother out, and one time Ye Zun did.

Shen Wei groaned. "Is this still about the phone —"

Four people are wakeful at night. Shen Wei thinks about Ye Zun. Zhang Shi thinks about her new life. Ya Qing thinks about Zhu Hong. Zhao Yunlan thinks about his own past. Drama, Character Study, I-3

Shen Wei leaned with his head propped on one hand and watched Yunlan sleep. Watched, on another level, the deep weight of him reach out to the world around them, touch the weave of the world with the same soft affection as he'd always had.

Watched how the brightness of Yunlan's potentiality reached out to Shen Wei, in particular, now.

Sequel to In darkness buried deep

Zhao Yunlan tries to shield Shen Wei from the demands of both Haixing, where an arsonist is challenging the SID, and Dixing, where the Regent is questioning his fitness for the role of Envoy. Something has to give...

Even Shen Wei’s self-control has its limits.

Zhao Yunlan comes along on a(nother) mission.

(Takes place after Chapter 18 of the series and contains spoilers up to that point of the story.)

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Shen Wei gets impatient and decides a desk is just as good as a bed, for somethings. Zhao Yunlan has to agree. Porn with Characterization, I-4

Yunlan slumped a little deeper into his desk chair and flipped to the next page of the long-and-only-getting-longer file on what he could only call Dixing tourism requests. Someone down there, and he darkly suspected the Regent, had declared that final decisions on who could come garden-viewing or shopping or whatever could only be made by the human Ministry, who had promptly passed the question on to the SID.

And yet more crack mix to flail to! Through chapter 18.

The most annoying thing about Shen Wei's strategy—or lack thereof.

The SID introduce Dixing to the police as ordinary citizens. The Supervisory Bureau may be having heart attacks in the background. Drama, Humor, Romance, Fluff, I-4

The first official visitor from Dixing had flown straight past “visitation” to a trial of citizenship, and Zhu Hong personally thought it had been planned to stress-test Minister Guo’s nerves. It would have done hers, too, if she hadn’t already known the whole thing was a put-up. As it was, she stood straight and serious beside the middle-aged police lieutenant who’d been assigned as her oversight partner, and carefully bit back her smirk when the gateway between realms misted into visibility and the man startled back.

“Is that it?” Tan Xiao asked eagerly, from behind them.

“Be patient, Mr. Tan,” she admonished. “She’ll be here in a moment.”

Shen Wei helps an ailing Zhao Yunlan home. (Set during an AU episode 8.)

Shen Wei was overjoyed to hear that more Dixingians from before the meteor strike had woken up. Then he went to visit them in Dixing.

“We can’t make a habit of this,” whispered Shen Wei, so close that the words puffed against Zhao Yunlan’s lips.