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A digital painting of a pale woman with bright white hair and frost running up and down her bare arms.



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    “Don’t look so sad,” Shen Yuan scolds him. “I’ll be seeing you tomorrow, won’t I?” 

    “Y-yes, Laoshi,” Luo Binghe says, staring up at him with starry eyes. Shen Yuan makes himself take his hand away, before someone sees. People could get the wrong idea. “I’ll be here!” 

    “Good,” Shen Yuan says. “Now, go off, you. Shoo!” 

    Luo Binghe nods obediently, then scampers off. Such a sweet child! Shen Yuan watches him go with satisfaction, then goes to his car to drive home, alone. Luo Binghe has to walk home on his own, since the person running his group home doesn’t have the time or willingness to drive him. It would be so easy and simple for Shen Yuan to drive Luo Binghe home himself, let the poor kid sit inside of a nice heated car instead of having to freeze on his way home and walk his thin soles even thinner - but no. He can’t. 

    He promised the principal that he’d stop. 

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    Shen Yuan has a favorite student.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Shen Yuan never expected to take on a disciple. He was content traveling from village to village, vanquishing demons where the larger sects couldn’t be bothered to.

    Luo Binghe never expected he would leave Qing Jing Peak. He could endure the beatings and the bullying, as long as he could become strong.

    And then they met each other.

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    After escaping the Qiu house, where his brother abandoned him, wandering cultivator Shen Yuan finds Luo Binghe on the brink of death after being abandoned by his sect and decides to train him.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    Shen Qingiqu has many complaints about his transmigration. If his shitty System let him submit complaint tickets, he would never stop writing them! From the moment he arrived, he has been forced into a glitchy, uncooperative shell, with the voice of the Scum Villain in the back of his head. But thoughts are just thoughts, and they can be ignored easily enough. Or, used to his advantage! What better way to avoid OOC point deductions than to base his responses on the man himself, right?

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    In a moment of overconfidence, a transmigrator says precisely the wrong thing to precisely the wrong man.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    The light still doesn't make sense against his eyes, but he thinks he remembers something like color. There is a lot of color around him, and he is able to discern white and black and a great deal of something else. It's a breathtaking splash of vivacity on a new canvas, where there had been no canvas at all for so many eternities. It is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.

    Red, Xie Lian finally names it.

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    In a disorienting turn of luck, Xie Lian is rescued from State Preceptor Fangxin's coffin. He recovers his other senses in good time, but his sight is taking longer to return—decades with no exposure to light have weakened his capacity for it.

    His benefactor and worshiper, a wealthy and eccentric ghost named Hua Cheng, hasn't left his side for months.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    Xie Lian's last believer is so fervently devoted to him that he seems to think mostly in the form of prayer. That is a terrifying prospect. Xie Lian has never heard of such a case before, not even in hypotheticals, and he finds himself hoping, for his believer's sake, that there is some other explanation for this phenomenon.

    Whatever the reason, a low stream of his believer's thoughts hum in the back of Xie Lian's consciousness.

    His believer does not seem to be aware of it.

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    When Xie Lian ascends for the third time, he is welcomed back to godhood with prayers that he hadn't expected: an ongoing stream of thought from his sole remaining believer. He gathers quickly that this believer is very old, very powerful, and very, very much in love with him.

    For his believer's sake, Xie Lian can cast a spell to shut the prayers out—but only if he has access to spiritual energy.

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    18 Jun 2026