ARCHIVE OF DIXING | English 镇魂 Guardian Fanworks Directory

When they had been filming Guardian, Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu had become inseparable and had spent a large amount of their time together. Despite their clear mutual attraction, nothing had happened between them however. Only a few touches, maybe a few kisses. Okay, more than a few kisses, but the point remained regardless: nothing had happened. After filming had ended, they'd both been whisked far away to different places to work on their next projects. They had never talked about what hadn't happened that summer or discussed the little that had or could happen. That is, until they started to share the same dream, a dream startlingly similar to a certain novel extra in the heart of a valley, where a plum tree stood guard before a small hut.

"Stay," he says, and gently presses down until Zhu Yilong's forehead is resting on his shoulder. "Stay," he says again, quieter. There's still a tension to Zhu Yilong that he doesn't like. "Your body stays here," he murmurs close to his ear. "Your mind can go wherever."

- or, Bai Yu and Long-ge figure things out together. They also shoot a drama on the side.

A tired Zhu Yilong goes home.

“It was an accident, Xiao Bai. Accidents happen all the time, to regular people with regular jobs.”

“Regular people don’t choose to do their own stunts, Long-ge. Maybe we should have become accountants instead. Or librarians.”

Yunlan rubbed his forehead in frustration, "... one last question. How... how old are you?"

Shen Wei started biting his lower lips, suddenly nervous by the question. He looked at his fingers, "I'm... I'm 8 but I'm good with the sword, Kunlun, give me one chance!"

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Standing outside in the freezing cold, late into the night at the end of finals week, with about two hours of sleep on his clock, Zhu Yilong wondered why he let Bai Yu get away with everything.

[Sundial Exchange 2021]

Idyllic afternoons, caught in a lover's arms.

[Sundial Exchange 2021 - Art]

In which Zhu Yilong - CEO, Sexual Pleasure Innovator, Industry Disruptor - is called on for tech support to Bai Yu. Bai Yu, the porn star that Zhu Yilong's company has just hired to promote their latest innovation.

What could possibly go wrong?

Between photoshoots and events, they haven't seen each other for weeks. Zhu Yilong thought he was doing fine.

He doesn’t realise he's walking until he bumps into Bai Yu.

"I am a straight man for sure but when touched on my arse, I get hard as fuck too." Said Zhao Yunlan.

And Shen Wei seems to get aroused when he touches a very certain butt... Very, very aroused...

A bad dream and the last episodes of a show where the main character died wasn't the best combination. Zhu YiLong learnt that the hard way. Good for him, Xiao Bai never left his side.

‘This is our real school. This is the reason why our parents sent us here - or whatever’s left of it, anyways.’

‘You? The night class?’

‘Mhm’ Bai Yu nodded, expertly unfolding the bristle bamboo scroll and showing it to Zhu Yilong. Barely readable in its ancient characters and strange strokes, it said ‘Musings on Immortality’. Zhu Yilong held his breath for a long moment, but still couldn’t do more than stare.

‘We are the descendants of priests and witches and cultivators’ he announced, gesturing at the group of them with barely contained pride.

‘Which one are you?’ Zhu Yilong asked Bai Yu, his quiet voice bleeding out in the tense silence without an echo.

Zhu Yilong held Bai Yu’s gaze, and Bai Yu laughed, throwing an arm around his shoulder.

‘Which one do you think?’

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Or: The ZhuBai Dark Academia AU that exactly one person asked for, affectionately and alternatively titled: "Bai Yu has Some Kind Of Dark Secret and Long Ge is Just Being Hot" and "The Zhubai Monster Fic Without Monsters"

Someone sold them out, someone high up. Someone confident that neither of them would survive - or else someone so certain of their own power and position that they don't fear retribution.

Zhu Yilong hesitates for a moment. It really has been a long time. The close relationship he'd had with Bai Yu is long gone. The last time they’d seen each other, they’d parted without a word—a silent agreement they would meet again, which they’d reneged on for an unknown reason. Perhaps their relationship had run its course back then.

In a nightclub, Zhu Yilong randomly runs into someone he used to hook up with.