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    Yue Qingyuan is suffering from a terminal illness. Shen Qingqiu intends to do anything necessary to prevent Yue Qingyuan from leaving him behind once more.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    During his trial at Huan Hua Palace, a disciple mistakenly puts the Diadem of Life's Purpose on Shen Qingqiu instead of the Diadem of Unsavory Truths! Shen Qingqiu must get through this trial with this minor truth-compelling artifact and then go on to fulfill his 'life's purpose' in order to remove the crown!
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    Title from the song The Place Where He Inserted the Blade by Black Country, New Road.
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    Shen Qingqiu smiled. He opened his mouth. This one's purpose is to make sure Luo Binghe grows up well, he went to say.
    That was not what he said.
    He watched as the words left his mouth, as his sect's faces dropped. Yue Qingyuan and Luo Binghe turned pale. Qi Qingqi, confused. Mu Qingfang, upset but not surprised. Liu Qingge and the various disciples, angry.
    "This one's purpose in life is to die."
    "What do you mean by that, shixiong?" Mu Qingfang asked softly.
    Shen Qingqiu quickly thought of a way to mitigate. Well, isn't everyone's purpose in life to die? Is that not the circle of life? He means to say.
    Instead, what comes out of his mouth is, "My sole purpose in life is to be murdered and allow those I have wronged to enact their revenge."

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Shen Yuan wakes up to the sound of crying.

    He lies there for a moment, feeling like cling film stretched too tightly over something pointy, in danger of tearing down the middle but holding on by his fingernails. It’s dark, it’s smelly and he is laying face down against a heated stone floor, or maybe it’s just some faux stone tiles for the nature aesthetic. It feels like his brain got replaced with moss or cotton or balled up, wet paper towels that’s coming apart. In the stretched out moment where he takes it all in, he decides this fucking place sucks, and he will never visit again.

    The crying is to his left.

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    Shen Yuan wakes up in the Ling Xi caves, and he is not alone.

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    20 Nov 2025

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    “My name is Yue Qingyuan,” he says, as if Shen Jiu is someone to be introduced to. His gaze on Shen Jiu is - intent, almost frighteningly so. Unblinking. “Are you really a servant here? Or a slave?”

    “Ah - I believe I can find that out for you--” Lord Xu is saying, already waving over his head servant, and Shen Jiu is so irritated that the man just seems to assume that Shen Jiu can’t answer for himself like he’s a dog or some other beast that he speaks up.

    “A slave,” he answers, and Yue Qingyuan nods as if this isn’t surprising.

    Then he turns towards Lord Xu and he says, “I will buy him.”

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    A rich and powerful cultivator meets a slave with nothing to his name, and decides to buy him on the spot. Why?

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    17 Nov 2025

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    There’s something building up inside Hua Cheng, a heap of troublesome desires. They’re inconvenient, shameful, crude. They make his straightforward nature complicated. They’d be better off sealed away forever, if it weren’t for one big problem.

    When Xie Lian kisses him hard enough, Hua Cheng slips into a trance.

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    06 Aug 2025