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Back when Zhao Yunlan was still in college, Shen Wei starts teaching a qigong/neigong/tai chi (he has a class on each and then exercises from each) activity at school, after a fellow professor saw him doing an exercise one day and suggested it and then there was interest from his students and then he's suddenly in charge of multiple classes of it.

And then Zhao Yunlan tries to sign up.

The thought hit Chu Shuzhi like a black energy-reinforced punch. Could Shen Wei be the Lord Envoy's man? Had he been sent, like Chu Shuzhi, to interact with the SID more closely than the Black-Cloaked Envoy himself could or would?

Chu Shuzhi and Shen Wei, before and after the trip to Dixing to look for the Dijun Register.

Wu Xie is trying to find the perfect Valentine's Day gift for Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan thinks everything is going perfectly well.
So why is Shen Wei crying?

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Or where Shen Wei has a little surprise about his Dixing culture on Valentine's Day.

While working as the Time Engraver, Ye Zun is feeling isolated.

"I don't need any gifts, you here are enough."

Zhang Qiling shows up at the Special Investigations Bureau post his ten years behind the Bronze Gate, worried about Zhang Family Amnesia otherwise called loss of soul. It turns out Shen Wei knows exactly what happened to the Zhang clan to have them guard the Bronze Gate and that Houtu's Great Seal was sealing the same place that was behind the Bronze Gate.

Give him two damn minutes. He'll be fine.

Shen Wei never wanted to be an Emperor, but on the anniversary of the peace deal he finds his missing lover Kunlun once more.

It hadn’t occurred to Zhao Yunlan that Shen Wei, ten-thousand-years-old and counting, might be physically different from other Dixingren.

At night, in moments like these, Zhao Yunlan feels his love for Shen Wei like a physical thing.

Or, an ode to Shen Wei because Zhao Yunlan is many things, and one of those many things is a complete and utter sap when it comes to Shen Wei.

Zhao Yunlan doesn't mean to keep buying the Black Cloaked Envoy bear trinkets.

Podfic of Bear Necessity by tinypinkmouse.

Zhao Yunlan doesn't mean to keep buying the Black Cloaked Envoy bear trinkets.

After going through it all, just Shen Wei wanting to embrace his Zhao Yunlan like his youthful heart had intended.

The soul is like a violin string; it
makes music only when it's stretched.

Shen Wei often wonders what would've happened if he died. If they both died. If Ye Zun wasn't defeated. Things would be much darker. Dixing wouldn't have light and both the people of Dixing and Hixing would be in danger.

or

Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei suffer from PTSD and sometimes things get a little tough.

In which Shen Wei survives. He has to. His didi is counting on him.

Of all the things his brother could do, he fell in love with a human. One that fell off his boat and needed rescue, nonetheless. When Shen Wei asks Ye Zun to come along and meet his human, Ye Zun reluctantly agrees.