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A contemplation on the state of Dixing.

Lin Jing is good at his job.

Shen Wei pays a visit to a particular cave in Dixing that legends speak of.

Shen Wei has a judgement to make. Zhao Yunlan just wants to understand his family. Drama with Quiet Angst, I-3

Zhang Shi opened the door quickly, at his knock, brows rising as she saw both of them waiting. "Did something come up at the Division?"

"No." Shen Wei let the weight of his responsibilities settle over him, and saw the reflection of it in the half step back Zhang Shi took. "Things have come to my attention that must be addressed."

Shen Wei could give a number of reasons why he wanted to avoid Kunlun's incessant invitations to spar.

Professor Ouyang's work isn't through causing trouble, and everyone finds out why injuring Zhao Yunlan is an extremely bad idea. The Minster finds out a lot of things no one bothered to tell him earlier, and possibly wishes he hadn't taken the job. Drama with a Pinch of Action, Romance Of Course, I-4

Shen Wei enjoyed the quiet times in his life, the times when he had no miscreants to chase down; when the humans were calm, not indulging in wars of conquest or moving their seat of government again; when his chosen profession had no crises and he could let himself be soothed by completing the small, daily tasks. He enjoyed those times very much, but he didn't take them for granted.

“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.