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ZYLBY48Week Day Five: Coming back to society to see everything has changed

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The next day, on a Saturday, Hong Yizhou leaves Yunjiang and travels back home for the first time in years, with only a bag pack and his wallet.
He leaves a message on the fridge, a short note that he will pick up the phone if Xiaojin calls, and sends an email to engineer Ding – she’s been trying to make him take a leave for months so he doesn’t expect her to protest.

"You like it?" Yunlan grins, taking the lollipop out of his mouth to do a little twirl. "You have to like it, I'm not getting changed."

ZYLBY48 Week - Day 4

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Luo Fei gives him a look. “I have a proposition for you.”

“No thanks, Luo-shu-shu, I prefer pretty girls.” Luo Fusheng faces Luo Fei with his hands in his pockets and his head tilted back challengingly.

Luo Fusheng watches Luo Fei’s knuckles turn white on the top of his cane, as though he’s thinking very hard about beating Luo Fusheng to death with it. “…I have a lead on a very old, very cold case,” he says, voice strained, “One that we both have some personal connection to.” His hand goes to his watch chain, then drops back down to his side.

ZYLBY48Week Day Four: Free Day - Crack Abomination
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The Reasoning Group liked to check phones and computers - hiding the electronics would certainly set them on a goose chase, making them confused enough to start turning against each other. The Reflection would love to witness that. Though there was plenty of interesting characters in the Apartment 11, the Reasoning Team was the brightest – their reactions the most dramatic, their ideas the most outrageous.

He reached out of his mirror and was in the middle of swinging his other leg through the frame, when there was a creak of the door opening, and he was faced with a tall man, munching on peanuts.

"Well, this is awkward," the man said, seemingly unbothered by the fact that there was someone leaving the mirror right in front of him. Bai Sanwan, the Reflection’s mind supplied: the one who was either brilliant or the worst tease on the team.

What was he doing here?

An exploration of the relationship between truth and lies.

As seen through the eyes of Chu Shuzhi.

ZYLBY48 Week - Day 3

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In February of 1950, a gentleman limps along to sneak into a hospital room under heavy guard.

ZYLBY48Week Day Two: Lost, Finding something lost along the way

"Once you look up to the skies and see what you can dream, but never reach, you’ll know. There’s a distance a man can cross between spaces and lives, between decisions and fate, a miracle. 
Will anybody ever see the miracle of becoming light when you are still alive?"
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Ma Fei is going through the hardest time of his life and he doesn't want a stranger to deal with the situation. He remembers a name from his past.

ZYLBY48Week Day Two: Adventure

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“Can we take one of the police cars?” Fusheng wonders out loud, and winces almost immediately after – Luo Fei probably won’t appreciate the suggestion to actually commit crime after he’s been accused of covering for Fusheng’s presumed one. “Yeah, stupid idea, don’t answer.”

ZYLBY48Week Day Three: Noir

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“Am I interrupting?” Qingeng replies, feigning concern. In the back of his mind, he wonders what his men would think if they heard him so soft-spoken and polite. They would probably flee in fear, expecting something terrible to happen.
The detective gives him an annoyed smile and gestures him inside.

ZYLBY48 Week - Day 2

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Driving up to his family's ski lodge on a couple's getaway, He Kaixin overestimates his navigation skills, to the chagrin of his boyfriend.

What if Shen Wei didn't realise until the wormhole that Zhao Yunlan and Kunlun were the same person?

Cover art for flamingwell's Clipped Wings podfic, based on our pod-together project.

Ballpoint pen, wax crayons, then black and white markers on cardboard.

Post-canon Shen Wei is trapped in a pillar. He has many obstacles to circle through and climb before he can fly home.

ZYLBY48 Week: Day 1

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Song Qingyuan thinks he’s got Qiao Yicheng’s type down – ambitious, energetic women with deceptively-doe like eyes who aren’t good for him.

But then there’s Mo Sanmei, and Song Qingyuan has to pinch himself to make sure he hasn’t started hallucinating. Song Qingyuan knows his best friend just has the worst luck. Sometimes problems are heaped upon him due to circumstances out of his control, and sometimes he digs himself into holes with no way out. Either way, it's a foregone conclusion that Qiao Yicheng is constantly silently suffering through some sort of crisis at any given moment.

And even so, somehow, Song Qingyuan had erroneously assumed that Qiao Yicheng would be spared the dubious effects of the most famous crisis of them all: the midlife crisis.

ZYLBY48Week Day One: Teacher

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Luo Fei could not, with perfect accuracy, say he was dating Xiao Lu’s English teacher. They just met up for tea, occasionally. Talked about their respective jobs, exchanged opinions about books, discussed the news. Friends did that. Even mere colleagues did that. Except…

"What're you doing?" A familiar, sleep-slurred voice asked.

A second later, Da Qing found himself looking at the too-close face of a human instead of his chosen prey. He heard the whisper of scurrying feet, and he knew his quarry had fled.

Da Qing growled as he straightened up, flicking his tail from side to side. "What did you do that for?"

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Or, there's a reason why Zhao Yunlan has the sleep habits of a cat.

Shen Wei picks his silk boxers off Zhao Yunlan’s bedroom floor. They’re stained to the point of being unwearable, a victim of last night’s activities.