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Yu Jinlan arranges another date for her nephew.

Shen Wei is hit by a moment of doubt about his relationship with Zhao Yunlan, thankfully Da Qing is there to help (and eat Shen Wei's food).

Shen Wei is asked to go take a look at something they find exploring the long abandoned parts of Dixing.

The Black Cloaked Envoy comes to Zhao Yunlan's rescue. Well, sort of.

Shen Wei introduces Zhao Yunlan to his friend.

Shen Wei can't let anyone see how exhausted he is.

It wasn't an unethical use of his power. Was it?

The trams of Dragon City are old, and new.

Shen Wei's POV, starting from him healing Zhao Yunlan's blindness with the Longevity Dial. When Zhao Yunlan finds Shen Wei cutting himself, he does not allow Shen Wei to leave his apartment. Instead, they find out that skin-to-skin contact reduces the effects the Light Energy has on Shen Wei. They go from there.

"If you cook for Professor Shen on your own, you'll burn down the building. Again." With a quick shake of his fur, Da Qing jumped down from the table and stood up in human form. He gave the ingredients gathered on the countertop a disdainful look. "What are you even trying to make? I'm pretty sure Professor Shen isn't going to want coffee noodles."

In which Zhao Yunlan attempts an... interesting... recipe to show his appreciation to Shen Wei.

Shortly after his return from YOHE, Zhao Yunlan finds his hair has stayed long -- and hard to manage. Shen Wei helps him out.

“You’re asking about my power.”

Zhao Yunlan gestures impatient confirmation with a thin trail of cigarette smoke. He’d told the Envoy what he needed; if Chu Shuzhi’s is a wildly destructive ability, Zhao Yunlan will have to risk offending the Envoy and request a replacement. Preferably someone without a doll so palpably eerie that its mere proximity makes Zhao Yunlan’s neck prickle.

Da Qing's perspective on the hunt for the killer in a seedy bar, as well as background on the case. Remix of the clever and delightful fic Happy Hour by missingnowrites.

Shen Wei—no, the Black-Cloaked Envoy in the professor’s clothes—shouted, “Catch her!” With no sense of how it had happened, she was in Zhao Yunlan’s embrace. He was here. She was safe. He might be blind, but his arm was around her, he was patting her shoulder and letting her lean against his body and feel his warmth.

Zhao Yunlan finds a cat in a tight spot and, naturally, rescues it.

“Do you think anyone can tell?” Changcheng leaned in to whisper to Chu Shuzhi. His wig tickled Chu Shuzhi’s ear.

Ye Huo is recovering in Dragon City Hospital after the events of episodes 19 and 20. By himself, of course—what other way is there?

A brief conversation between Jiajia and Li Qian about withdrawn publicity for an event described in tehfanglyfish's unnervingly accurate rendering of grad-school life, The Tiniest Heipaoshi."

N.B.: Read The Tiniest Heipaoshi first!!! This ficlet contains spoilers for it.

“But you’d be hard-pressed to deny that there’s what we like to call a profile here. A victim profile. One which you match with, to quote Lin Jing, 92% overlap. One of them even had fish in his office,” he says, almost accusatorily, thumbing at Shen Wei’s fish tank.

Shen Wei looks at the fish tank, then back at Zhao Yunlan. “I’m not sure I’m following the significance of this.”

OR: Faced with a string of murders targeting university professors much like Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan assigns himself to keep Shen Wei safe. Shen Wei cannot seem to convince the man that he does not require a bodyguard.

Guo Changcheng is away for a week visiting family. Chu Shuzhi doesn't miss him; he's just grumpy because his normal routine has been disrupted.