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Da Qing starts to move on with his life with a little help from a friend.

Shen Wei is very confused (it's all right; Zhao Yunlan is there to catch him.)

[podfic read by Kalakirya]

There's a light on the road
And I think you know
Morning has come
And I have to go

I don't know why, I don't know why
We need to break so hard
I don't know why we break so hard

But if we're strong enough
To let it in
We're strong enough
To let it go

- Let it All Go by Birdy and Rhodes

Shen Wei doesn’t invite Zhao Yunlan to the university’s Coming Out Ball. They go anyway, and the entire SID team goes with them.

Daqing watches Zhao Yunlan meet Professor Shen. He doesn’t remember the last time, but he can already tell this time will be a disaster.

Shen Wei remembers meeting Zhao Yunlan for the first time. There had been something different about him—about Kunlun. They’d all heard of the rumored Kunlun-jun, and with his name, the promise of an end to the conflict.
But he’d appeared suddenly, and strangely, alone.

Shen Wei sees the world a bit differently from everyone else, but it never mattered until he met Kunlun.

Basically just the "you're worth it" scene from Zhao Yunlan's perspective.

Zhao Yunlan goes to a society event, sees everyone else get to flirt with Shen Wei, and drags him home for some boning. Shen Wei is more than happy to go along with it.

“Who else from law school are you still in contact with?” Yunlan asks, curious.

“A couple of people,” Shen Wei says vaguely. “Longcheng is not a big city. It’s a pretty small legal community. You’re bound to run into some of them around.”

“And yet,” Yunlan says, tone light, “we’ve managed to go seven years without any contact at all. Imagine that.”

Shen Wei stares back evenly. “Yeah. Imagine that,” he echoes.

(Or, the one where they relearn their places in each other's lives. While pining.)

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There’s something satisfying and peaceful about taking the time to get everything ready before he starts cooking. When everything is chopped just right he places the wok on the stove. It's slightly dented and sits awkwardly on the burner, so he uses a purloined scrap of metal to steady it.

Kitty!

"Why," Zhao Yunlan gritted out, "would you give a ten-year-old a knife?"

From Zhao Yunlan, silence is deafening.

Forbidden love, Yunlan’s (great) ass, he’s going to marry Shen Wei, Dixing and Al Capone be damned.

(Alternatively, Shen Wei chooses a different persona to show the human world, Zhao Yunlan is the strangest Guardian the Dixing have ever seen, and they fall in love, anyway.

As it says on the tin.

Already Zhao Yunlan can feel him wanting to retreat, to put his walls back up and pretend this will all go away. It makes Zhao Yunlan hold on tighter, push closer, get right up in his face. If those walls have to be rebuilt, they can encompass both of them this time.

OR More scenes from Shen Wei's first day on the job

The fallout after the dust has settled.

To save his brother, a young Shen Wei pledges his allegiance to a Dixing warlord. He grows up to become the most feared general in the Dixing Uprising. But that is not his destiny. His destiny drops from the sky one day in the form of a strange Haixingren who saves his life and changes everything, most of all Shen Wei's heart.