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Red by CerysBlackheart, Charis (CerysBlackheart)
Fandoms: 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Webcomic), 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Mar 2026
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Our tale begins with Xie Lian hiring an escort to help him deal with an “unspeakable affliction” after a disastrous breakup forced him to leave college and return to his hometown.
Hua Cheng (or Wuming, as he is called when we first meet him) isn’t really interested in helping people—he just wants to get paid. If the situation with a client seems too complicated to deal with, he has no problem walking away. But for some reason he can’t explain, he feels compelled to help Xie Lian.
The two find themselves very quickly drawn to one another, but nothing in life is easy, especially when it comes to love.
Xie Lian is struggling to forget about the demise of the relationship that ruined his life—a struggle complicated by the fact that his ex may or may not be stalking him.
Meanwhile, Hua Cheng is busy running from a past that will soon catch up to him with deadly consequences.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 333,392
- Chapters:
- 45/?
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- 1
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- 3,232
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- 1,838
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03 Jun 2026
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The Prince Of The Nation by Shimei_Xie
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
31 May 2026
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Hua Cheng is a child. He believes in God. Because God is everywhere: he sings on TV, smiles on advertising banners, poses for magazines, and winks from others’ T-shirts. Hua Cheng thinks that since God is everywhere, his prayers can’t be unheard.
Hua Cheng grows up. He still believes in God. However, now he understands that God is loaded with work in the capital and does not hear the prayers offered to Him. So Hua Cheng doesn’t ask for anything anymore. He knows that he will not get an answer.
He knows, and yet for some reason God begins to answer him.
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Hua Cheng works in the same agency as his lifelong celebrity crush. After one sudden encounter and a tiktok he seems to have caught Xie Lian's interest. Shenanigans ensue...Bookmarked by most-devoted-believer (kasterborous13)
01 Jun 2026
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making waves in pitch black sand by butchgoth (GremlinGirl)
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 Dec 2020
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The water was so shallow as to provide a mostly unobstructed view from above. And the cave roof did let in some light from uneven stones, so there was no real darkness to protect him. The light reflected off the surface of the water and sent blue and yellow reflections back onto the cave walls. “You don’t have to be afraid of me. I’m not gonna hurt you.”
“I am not afraid,” He Xuan hissed, hand tightening to his knife.
Water splashed as the human kicked his feet in the shallows. “So you do speak. I was wondering if you didn’t speak my language, and if I had gone mad thinking you said something to me when you dragged me onto shore.”
He Xuan’s eyes narrowed, tail resting amongst the silt in the cave’s bottom. “If I had known you would stalk me, I wouldn’t have bothered. The world with one less human in it is a better place.”
“Have to agree with you there.” The water splashed, vibrations traveling through as the human kicked his legs. He Xuan swam to the side and peered around the rock. The human’s eye fell on him, but he was hidden enough not to show too much of himself. “You don’t have to keep hiding. I promise I won’t hurt you.”
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ghost house heart by IceImagines
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
24 Dec 2022
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Something has been following Xie Lian. He can’t see it, but he knows it’s there.
He knows Hua Cheng is hiding something.
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No Paths Are Bound by Cataclysmic_Calamity
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Sep 2022
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Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.
Faith.
His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.
"I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.
I remember you.
I remember you.
I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.
(A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)
(MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE)
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- Part 1 of MXTX - Retellings
- Part 1 of No Paths Are Bound + Extras
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- Chapters:
- 152/152
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03 May 2026
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Jingwei Tries To Fill the Sea by kianspo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
30 Jul 2024
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'After I Married A Disabled War God As My Concubine' AU. Hua Cheng, the undefeatable general of Yong'an army, is captured by Xianle forces at last. His punishment is to have his legs and meridians broken and be married off as a concubine to the notoriously spoiled and rotten crown prince. Hua Cheng has no desire to die. He needs to find out who betrayed him and then to erase the corrupt kingdom of Xianle off the map. For that, he has to survive this mockery of a marriage first.
But is the prince really everything they say he is?
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- English
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- 112,063
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- 16/16
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22 Apr 2026
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feeling lonely even though you’re right beside me by livinginaworldofnoise
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
30 Mar 2026
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"San Lang doesn't remember me."
Mu Qing appears to take this in and then shrugs. "Kill him."
"Mu Qing," Xie Lian says, very patiently. "He's my husband."
"All the more reason, if you ask me."
OR: obligatory amnesia au ft. married hualian, their cats, and potentially a magical curse or two
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- Part 1 of amnesia au + extra
- Language:
- English
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- 121,860
- Chapters:
- 28/28
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11 Apr 2026
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That Can Be Arranged by kianspo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 Dec 2025
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"You're selling me for money? Your own child?"
A modern arranged marriage AU. Xie Lian's family's business is on the verge of failing. Hua Cheng has money and a horrible reputation. A match made in heaven? Well, it's certainly been made somewhere... Are reluctant marriage partners the next power couple or a train wreck waiting to happen? Spoiler: they're Hualian, so likely both?
- Language:
- English
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- 179,737
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- 23/23
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- 2,188
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- 116,212
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04 Apr 2026
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leave me alone (this isn't quite what i meant) by uponasoapbox
Fandom 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Jan 2025
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01 Apr 2026
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all these renewals for a moment with you by riverdanceeee
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
16 May 2022
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After Hua Cheng is called in to do a rather simple task at a rather decrepit home, he finds himself replacing more than just the carpet in Xie Lian’s home—for example: the stove, the cabinets, the walls, the roof, and his heart (in Xie Lian’s hands).
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 116,199
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 848
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- 6,409
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- 151,434
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24 Mar 2026
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A Long and Slow Recovery by ardenrabbit
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
26 Dec 2024
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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.
- Language:
- English
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- 151,947
- Chapters:
- 25/?
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 4,449
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- 10,774
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- 3,113
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23 Mar 2026
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stick and poke by linananas
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
19 Feb 2026
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Xie Lian has been giving people tattoos and piercings for five years now, but he's never seen someone look as breathtaking as this client who tells him to call him "San Lang". He's also never seen someone react so beautifully to the pain of it.
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22 Mar 2026
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We Sleep But Fail To Dream by GhostTour
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Jan 2025
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After Hua Cheng disappears in a flurry of silver butterflies, Xie Lian waits for his return. Rumours whisper across the land. Crimson Rain Sought Flower has returned and is ruling over Ghost City. And he doesn't remember Xie Lian at all.
“Did daozhang think he could come here, flash his enchanted eyes, and pull one over on the Ghost King?” Hua Cheng coos.
Xie Lian’s teeth begin to chatter. “My enchanted…my…aha—”
“I have never seen a performance quite like it in all my long years. Daozhang must be very experienced in getting his way just by fluttering his long lashes. But is he truly foolish enough to believe this act will work on me? Does he think I will fall for his tricks?”
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ
Or: Hua Cheng is cursed and has no memory of his beloved. Xie Lian takes a job in Ghost City to try to get Hua Cheng to fall in love with him again before he dissipates.
Russian translation now available, by the incredible Kora_L
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- Part 1 of We Sleep But Fail To Dream + Extras
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 83,736
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 2,492
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- 6,734
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- 1,818
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- 141,828
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15 Mar 2026
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I Like You At Your Saddest by GhostTour
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
01 Jun 2024
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After Xie Lian’s disastrous 2nd ascension, ruinous bastard Jun Wu locks him in the Palace of Divine Might. Rumours spread about what Jun Wu does to the Flower Crowned Martial God—rumours spread that Jun Wu is actually Bai Wuxiang.
Banished once more, with six cursed shackles, Xie Lian abruptly changes his cultivation path so nothing more can be taken from him. He hides. He evades. He becomes a shadow. Jun Wu spends 800 years searching, searching, searching, but Xie Lian has vanished without a trace.
Now, a group of Heavenly Officials turns to the Crimson Rain Sought Flower for aid in destroying the prince's cursed shackles. But how can Xie Lian concentrate on defeating Jun Wu with the gaze of the beautiful Ghost King carefully pinning him down?
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Or: Xie Lian has six cursed shackles, and a small team of heavenly officials enlist Hua Cheng to save him from obsessed Jun Wu, as one-by-one Xie Lian's deepest traumas are unearthed.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 81,102
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 1,256
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- 4,426
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- 1,076
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- 81,749
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14 Mar 2026
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You Fall Within My Reach by GhostTour
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
10 Sep 2024
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It has been millennia since Xie Lian’s second banishment.
Millennia since Hua Cheng—the scourge of Heaven, the Crimson Rain Sought Flower, the Supreme Ghost King—slaughtered 33 gods and turned his demonic gaze on the banished Flower Crowned Martial God.
Xie Lian has eluded the Ghost King at every turn. For centuries. Hiding is all he knows. He’s gotten very good at hiding.
Podfic available, performed by the dazzling and divine EchoandtheVaskians *ugly cries*
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 85,585
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 1,558
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- 4,039
- Bookmarks:
- 1,008
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- 81,552
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14 Mar 2026
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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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 178,721
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Comments:
- 2,324
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- 12,341
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- 4,854
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- 372,822
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14 Dec 2024
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never say forever by emptypockets for kasterborous13
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who
26 May 2022
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The pessimist on her shoulder is once again urging her to run. Take Yaz’s hand, and leave the Master to his handpicked fate.
But she can’t.
So she doesn’t.
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The Master captures the Doctor and Yaz under the guise of malice, or revenge - or perhaps something else.
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23 Jun 2022
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"The Doctor wilts under the realisation that she’d caused this; she’d avoided them for long enough for frustration to build and build like a dredged up water pipe, ready to burst. The bolts are loosening and water has started seeping through the wallpaper."
"She thinks kings could kneel for a gaze like that. All sorrow and sympathy, a readiness to fix the unfixable. Her hearts break so much that it seeps into her stare, shards like the gold in the green. Catching her eye keeps Yaz fixed in it – she is suspended there, counting every golden crack in the quiet that passes. Unable to do anything but acknowledge it, confront the sheer power of her sadness."
[A rewrite of 12x3: Orphan 55, told from both perspectives]
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29 Oct 2021
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every now and then (come and take my hand) by sondersoft
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
26 Oct 2021
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It’s never usually like this.
The Doctor would class a three day trip as a long adventure. They have been Saskia and Julie William-Singh for two months.
So, no, it’s never usually like this.
In a sleepy coastal town on the shores of southern England, Yaz and the Doctor slip into the lives of two missing women they're trying to follow. Yaz finds she likes it more than she should.
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27 Oct 2021
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dance with me by fluffysfics for ThoughtsCascade, Raindropsonwhiskers
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
04 Dec 2020
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The Doctor has done her best to avoid thinking about gender too much this time around. Trust the Master to go bringing it up without any warning.
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11 Oct 2021