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’Til our compass stands still by edenwolfie
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Jul 2023
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After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.
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- Part 1 of Compass + Extras
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- 11/11
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10 Jul 2026
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the cat distribution system by ScarlettStorm
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
22 Aug 2025
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Wei Wuxian didn’t imagine acquiring a cat like this, nor did he imagine acquiring a fluffy white cat that, even covered in dirt and debris and clutched to a four-year-old’s chest like a teddy bear, manages to give the impression it’s judged his entire life and found it deeply wanting.
“Uh, A’Yuan,” he asks slowly, just in case this is a hallucination. “Who’s this?”
“A cat,” A’Yuan says proudly, leaning his round cheek against the top of the cat’s head, while the cat continues to look at Wei Wuxian like he’s wearing week-old clothes covered in food stains.
Or: Wei Wuxian gets a cat, and then a boyfriend, both of which are a surprise.
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- English
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- 38,367
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28 May 2026
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It's like she tells Kaede: Lord Sesshomaru might not be predictable, but he's dependable. Any day now, he'll come back to the village and they can be together again. Right? A story about watching and waiting, almosts and should-haves, and what happens when the waiting is finally over. Sess/Older!Rin, other canon pairing cameos.
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08 Jan 2026
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“You do not wish to marry this man,” Sesshoumaru said.
“I promised him I would.”
“A simple slip of the tongue should not bind you for life.”
Rin picked at her fingernails. “It wasn’t--it wasn’t impulsive. I thought about it.”
She had thought about four motherless children who seemed to thrive when she gave them attention. She’d thought about a lonely man struggling to juggle his responsibilities to the village and his responsibilities at home. She’d thought about how Daisuke was well-liked, well-respected, and quietly pitied among the villagers.
She’d thought about how much lighter burdens became when they were shared.
And she’d thought about that youkai.
“You have no wish to be his wife.”
Sesshoumaru had never had this much to say about husbands and wives before.
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When Rin stumbles into an unwanted engagement with a human villager, Sesshoumaru's solution is to abduct her. Hopes quickly dashed that this is the grand romantic gesture she's been longing for, Rin will have to fight for her future.
What does she want, and what is she willing to sacrifice to get it?
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06 Jan 2026
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A Beginner's Guide to Seducing Your Sugar Daddy by GabzJones for XieLians_2nd_Strongest_Soldier
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
05 Apr 2025
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"From what I know of these kinds of arrangements, I'm supposed to provide financial support to you while you provide me with my desired level of companionship," Hua Cheng explained, "I'm not asking for anything intimate. And you're under no obligation to give me anything I do ask of you. I only want what you're comfortable with, okay?"
"Okay," Xie Lian responded, completely taken by this authoritative yet compassionate side of Hua Cheng.
"I know that you don't expect gifts, but there is nothing that would make me happier than buying you nice things and seeing your breathtakingly beautiful smile when you receive them," Hua Cheng grinned as Xie Lian tried to stifle the smile such sweet words elicited, "There it is. You wouldn't begrudge me such a simple pleasure, would you?"
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AKA: The one where Xie Lian seeks financial aid from a pretty older man and soon learns things about himself.
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- Part 1 of Sugar Daddy Chronicles
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25 Dec 2025
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The Best Way to One-Up your Rival (May have Side-Effects) by viari9
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Jan 2024
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Xie Lian hadn’t given up. “It’s alright, though! We’ll just have to find something else for you to be worshipped for!”
Mu Qing looked at Xie Lian quizzically. “Something else?”
“Just like how Feng Xin became the God of Pleasure by a misunderstanding, you could also find a secondary domain of worship! Something that ghosts need or want...”
“Like what?”
Xie Lian cleared his throat lightly before he suggested, “How about becoming a God of Style?”
After losing one too many spars, Mu Qing finds out that—due to new worshippers of Ju Yang in Ghost City—Feng Xin's divine power had become ever-so-slightly stronger than Mu Qing's. Mu Qing's solution? Build a following in Ghost City, too: bigger and better than Feng Xin's. The issue? Ghosts don't care for martial arts or war at all! Mu Qing would have to find something else to be worshipped for.
Thus begins Mu Qing's life as Xuan Zhen: the God of Beauty.
Feng Xin thinks he might die.
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- 30,491
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- 7/7
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17 Dec 2025
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Thousand Gold Come-And-Go Stew by VampireFaun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Sep 2022
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When Hua Cheng loses all his memories of Xie Lian, afflicted by a tricky curse, there’s only one way to get them back: Xie Lian has to get Hua Cheng to kiss him.
It shouldn’t be too difficult, right?
Xie Lian has a plan.
“Greetings, Chengzhu,” Xie Lian said. “Apologies for the intrusion. Actually, I’ve been gifted to you by the heavens as a…”
His voice caught.
“I mean, to—”
Xie Lian’s cheeks suddenly felt hot, and his palms grew damp under the rope binding his arms together. Beneath Hua Cheng’s piercing stare from above, he lost his cool.
“As your,” he stammered. “Um, as—well—if you want, I’ve been sent to you as—I’m here to be your—”- Language:
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15 Dec 2025
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The Heavenly Emperor Turns Red; A Ghost King Delights by Besitzt_Fics (Billxbesitztxmeinxherz)
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
15 Jul 2021
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As Heavenly Emperor, Xie Lian’s schedule has grown hectic with the dealings of the Court and balancing the politics that come with the job. At the same time, Hua Cheng is left to his own devices when admiring whispers start spreading about the Ghost King’s good looks. Xie Lian doesn’t want to admit it but he finds himself feeling a little jealous… and possessive.
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He wished he could touch Xie Lian in that moment and he huffed, hands twitching in their restraints behind his back.
“Dianxia,” Hua Cheng praised, shaking, “Dianxia feels so good.”
Sighing, Xie Lian tipped his head forward and murmured, “Shh, I’m in control tonight.”
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08 Dec 2025
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Sweet Offering, Open Up Your Arms by VampireFaun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Nov 2021
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In order to make a simple altar, Hua Cheng needs at least three things: a plate to hold offerings, a meditation cushion, and a divine statue. They should be fine objects, rarities, treasures fit to be used for worship.
But why waste time on such trash, when one silly little god can take the place of all three?
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- English
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- 12,059
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 237
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07 Dec 2025
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what i want from you is sweet by VampireFaun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Apr 2023
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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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- English
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- 82,262
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 5,349
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06 Dec 2025
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My Name On Your Lips by Besitzt_Fics (Billxbesitztxmeinxherz)
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
11 Feb 2021
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At age twenty-eight, Xie Lian is a graduate student whose whole life has been focused around his studies and not left a lot of time for dating. Sexually frustrated and a little curious, Xie Lian forces himself out his shell to call up a phone sex hotline. He’s surprised when he’s matched with an operator named Wu Ming who he immediately clicks with… and who also sounds a lot like this guy he just met on Grindr.
- Language:
- English
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- 29,609
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- 3/3
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- 252
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02 Dec 2025
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Glimmer In The Water by Besitzt_Fics (Billxbesitztxmeinxherz)
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
30 Apr 2021
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Xie Lian was the reigning champion of the Hainan International Surf Competition until a particularly devastating wave crushed his dream and chance for an eighth consecutive title. Emotionally hurt, angry, and frustrated, Xie Lian takes to a remote island off the coast to find the perfect training beach to hone his craft. But, he discovers more than the perfect wave when he comes across an otherworldly creature of the depths.
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- English
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- 4/4
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- 182
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01 Dec 2025
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Bound to Another by the Highest Heavenly Official by fyredancer
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Jan 2025
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Hua Cheng has issued a wave of fresh challenges to so many heavenly officials, his rampage may well wipe out the heavens. Ling Wen is sent to ask the calamity what could get him to stay his hand this time, and receives an impossible request - the hand of the Crown Prince of Xianle, long since disappeared from the realms.
Xie Lian was minding his own business six hundred years post-banishment when the bun he salvaged was knocked from his hands into the dirt. Swept up to the heavenly court, he's asked if he is willing to put himself on the line for the sake of peace between heaven and ghost realms.
Faced with a situation neither of them could have expected in their lifetimes, what are a ghost king and twice-banished god to make of their most implausible arrangement?
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- English
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- 68,556
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- 10/10
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- 490
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- 2,106
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29 Nov 2025
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take my hand and lead me, breathless, to tomorrow by Natterina
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Webcomic)
24 Apr 2024
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Lacking inspiration and tired of life in the city, Hua Cheng signs up for a rural farming initiative and goes to Puqi Farm with the expectation of nothing other than learning about tending sheep and growing potatoes.
He'd never expected to find love in the eccentric farmer he's staying with. When the summer starts fading into autumn, he questions whether he has the strength to leave the paradise he's found.
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- English
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- 75,951
- Chapters:
- 16/16
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- 887
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- 2,689
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26 Nov 2025
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one delicate footstep through all of hell by Natterina
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Webcomic)
13 Aug 2022
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The God of Spring meets the Lord of the Dead, and decides to take his future into his own hands.
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It would almost be comical to watch Mu Qing advancing as Xie Lian tests how fast he can fucking chew, if the stakes weren’t a choice between Xie Lian moving between realms as he pleases and being trapped here for the rest of his immortal life.
Mu Qing comes to a stop in front of the God of Spring, wrenching the pomegranate out of his hand at the same moment that Xie Lian smiles and opens his mouth.
Empty.
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- Part 1 of Hualian Greek Myth AUs
- Language:
- English
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- 42,042
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- 3/3
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- 1
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- 242
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- 3,689
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- 1,142
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24 Nov 2025
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There is a knot of tension tucked beneath Xie Lian’s left shoulder blade, and he cannot get rid of it.
Xie Lian makes martyrdom habitual. Hua Cheng disapproves.
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22 Nov 2025
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The Heart Remembers by UmbraSoleil
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
13 May 2021
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Xie Lian was once the beloved prince of XianLe — treasured by his people for his benevolence, intelligence, and martial might. Then, four years ago, a rebellion happened.
Now, the formerly revered prince is little more than an object of royal gossip, a failure in the eyes of his people kept securely hidden away within the confines of the royal palace.
Still, it should have been foreseen that Xie Lian couldn’t stay hidden away forever. After sneaking out and having a chance encounter with a man on the streets, one who seems rather interested in him, Xie Lian slowly awakens to the reality of both of their pasts and the rekindled building hostility within his kingdom.
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- 4/4
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20 Nov 2025
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A Vulpine Deception by UmbraSoleil
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
14 Jul 2021
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Perhaps Xie Lian shouldn’t have gone into those cursed woods in search of that spirit. After all, many who enter the woods are known to be turned into spirits themselves, never to leave…
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“A fox spirit isn’t above using trickery to obtain what it wants.”
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- 1/1
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- 162
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20 Nov 2025
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A Dragon’s Dance by UmbraSoleil
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
20 Apr 2021
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Xie Lian, the former merman Crown Prince turned scavenger, has a close encounter with a creature he never expected to meet.
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Mermaid!XL accidentally initiates a courtship dance with the dragon who has secretly been trying to court him for several hundred years.
- Language:
- English
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- 9,213
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 94
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- 4,543
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19 Nov 2025
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Upon Weathered Bluffs by UmbraSoleil
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
03 Jul 2021
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The village Hua Cheng lives in has a peculiar legend associated with it; even though the sea was forever tepid and calm, you were never to swim in its waters, lest you be pulled down and drowned by one of the mermaids who patrol its depths. When he was a child, Hua Cheng almost met that same end.
Intending to slay one of the beasts and claim the bounty set on its head, Hua Cheng soon finds himself hopelessly drawn to the wanted merman and, in time, begins to uncover the true history behind his village and the curse which plagues it.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 77,970
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 1
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- 275
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- 2,006
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- 42,444
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19 Nov 2025