LINKDING

summary: She'd never been anyone's favorite before he'd told her that, the lesser daughter of a prestigious family that had enough heirs and spares that she could be given away and the act called an honor. It was a scary but lovely thing to be the best, the most loved. When she'd heard those words she'd clutched them to her chest and hoped she'd never prove them false. That did not mean that she did not hate him, too. // OR: Ning Yingying loves her shizun; she loves Binghe, too. These things come into conflict, whether she wants them to or not. ➤ an svsss fic set in the original PIDW, about Ning Yingying ➤ and holy shit this fic is so good, so everything I didn't even know to hope for from a fic about pidw nyy, I am all emotions?! ➤ the complexity of nyy's relationships with sqq and lbh, the mix of love and hate, the way she doesn't feel able to do anything but to witness and to go along with how things are ➤ and seeing the awful things that happen through her eyes.....it's so powerful and bleak and believable ➤ I adore this fic, I'm just absolutely blown away by it ➤ 9k words

<blockquote>"I'm sorry I mocked you, yesterday," Ning Yingying says at last. "About giving the demoness a shot with you. I am forced to admit we can maybe learn something from the way you do things." "The way I do things," Liu Mingyan repeats. "You mean not having sex?" "Yeah," says Ning Yingying. Liu Mingyan is unsure how to feel about "not having sex" being one of her defining characteristics. She never set out for it to happen, although it is true that she didn't set out for it to not happen, either. All she knows is she is entirely uninterested in sex with Binghe, and that is apparently enough to make her unique.</blockquote> ➤ awww I love this!

<blockquote“Idiotic. Foolish. Beyond help. Truly, a waste of my time!” In a flash he slammed his closed fan over Luo Binghe’s mouth, cutting off the litany of pleas as well as splitting his bottom lip. “If you have ears, listen.” Luo Binghe was too afraid to make a sound. But he had ears, so he listened. “Lesson one...” / In this universe, Shen Qingqiu communicates his intentions slightly better than he did in PIDW. Luo Binghe still misunderstands—but the result is somewhat different.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Emperor Luo Binghe goes looking for a Shen Yuan of his own. The one he finds has yet to fully ripen, but Luo Binghe is used to turning adversity into advantage.</blockquote> ➤ note the tags on the fic!

<blockquote>ok but like PIDW ning yingying has like, 50 demon girlfriends, right. think about it. plot demands nyy be kidnapped for binghe to rescue. plot also demands binghe be brought into contact with sexy evil demonesses to seduce and then marry. thus, nyy is kidnapped by sexy evil demonesses, at least once every few months. she's a PRO by now</blockquote>