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Shen Wei copes with the ten thousand years that never happened. Zhao Yunlan helps him.

Wang Meng lived in a constant state of being so done with his laoban. But nothing was so bad that it couldn't get worse. Even if he had a fancy western restaurant to pretend he could relax for a few hours.

Wu Xie has a habit of ending up in situations that lead to trouble. This time the trouble leads him right to Special Investigations Department's Headquarters. What a way to meet his boyfriend's other partner, the one and only Chief Zhao Yunlan.

Two years after Shen Wei’s death, Zhao Yunlan is still mourning his husband when SID receives an unusual request from the Iron Triangle.
In the desert, a tomb displayed traces of non-human cultures, leading the Iron Triangle to conclude: Ancient Tribes, but which one? Looking for someone who knew about that, this led them to a man who has lived under grief and hopelessness. In the profiles, the face that always haunts Yunlan’s thoughts is right in front of him, in a photograph. To see that face again and make sure that person, Wu Xie, has nothing to do with Shen Wei, he accepts the job as a pretext. But he isn't prepared to really face Wu Xie and everything he is.
He’s taken to the past, to the time he still ruled the mountains, where many things were not what he believed them to be, the dead were alive and the living told lies. When gods from other worlds intervened and changed a story he thought he knew.
Between looking for similarities and seeing differences, Yunlan inevitably falls for one thing unique to Wu Xie: his smile. And the familiar fire in his eyes.
Could the key to his broken heart also be the key to his true self and the whole mystery behind the tomb?

"What—" the man muttered, before a surge of pain made him groan and fold in on himself.

"Let me take it," Shen Wei said gently, reaching for him. It was not so much a request as a courtesy; he didn't want to alarm the man. He didn't know what had happened here, but he could guess. Humans were predictable.

Zhao Yunlan didn't get sick anymore. So what was this odd itching feeling between his shoulder blades?

"You okay? You look like a dog with fleas," Da Qing commented, hopping up on the table and eyeing him, his tail twitching.

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"Something is happening in the mountains. Manipulating the feng shui. We will have to go in person, to be certain."

Static electricity built in the air, making their hair stand on end, and then disappeared abruptly.

After all this, the two men who stepped forward through the smoke were, to Wu Xie's eyes, surprisingly normal.

Zhang Qiling was staring at them with great intensity, and then made an odd gesture, a kind of archaic bow, it seemed to Wu Xie. More surprisingly, one of the two men acknowledged it, returning what was clearly a matching but different gesture. "Do you know them?"

The two men were looking at them—especially Zhang Qiling—with interest, and the one with glasses answered, "We haven't met, but you recognize us."

Kunlun jun stepping out from Shen Wei's painting

Wang Zheng joins the Guardian Order and considers her name.

Zhao Yunlan asks the question we've all been wondering.

A dead man, a locked prison cell, a complete lack of physical evidence, and a strangely confused medical examiner. None of these things were good, and combined together, they were going to be an incredible headache for investigators. And yet, somehow, when the order to drop the case was delivered to Luo Wenzhou, he wasn't happy about it. What was this obscure division that had the authority to make such a command?

Meanwhile, at SIB, it's business as usual for Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei—when there's no crime on the part of the ghost in question, it's all a matter of negotiating the gap between human and supernatural justice. Business as usual. Well—almost business as usual. There is something a bit odd about the most recent case...

Note: This story does contain spoilers for Lost in the Stars (the 2023 movie with Zhu Yilong). 

Chu Shuzhi finds a shop that grants wishes. He went in expecting smoke and mirrors, and perhaps to be down 50 yuan spent on crystals or snake oil. He did not expect Zhao Yunlan or Shen Wei to actually be magic, nor to find that wish granting is as profitable a business as they claimed. He definitely did not expect Guo Changcheng. Or to make a wish on his behalf.

A credible threat to Dragon City's Museum of Art has Zhao Yunlan playing babysitter. It's not all boring though, as Professor Shen Wei stops by with his students and then something goes missing.

Zhao Yunlan quickly comes to terms with his feelings for a thief as he spends more time with Shen Wei.

Not even the Hallows can stop time. But they can bend it, twist it, stretch a second into eternity. He doesn't need an eternity. One more second is enough.

Happens during Chapter 75 of the webnovel, which is the first time Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan have sex.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD if you haven't gotten this far in the novel.

Enjoy the spiciness!

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.)

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.