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summary: “No one can be allowed to know,” Shen Qingqiu decrees. The clear, distinct way he speaks - like cracking a whip, Yue Qingyuan had once heard it described, and hadn’t been able to quite disagree although he had found it to be a touch harsh of a metaphor - sounds odd and a little disorienting, cloaked in his own voice. Yue Qingyuan’s voice. / Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan wake up in each other's bodies. They handle it poorly. ➜ svsss (pidw) qijiu bodyswap fic!! ➜ yqy: oh no, we need to get this fixed, pretending to be him would mean intruding into sqq's business 😧 sqq: nobody can know about this disaster, but at least I can use this opportunity to snoop and figure out what secrets yqy is keeping! ➜ anyway they're both extremely dysfunctional about each other and about their lives for many thousand words and it's great! as one of the tags says, "when having a toxic romance is an improvement from what you were doing before" that's the qijiu way!!! 🥰 ➜ 29k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>It’s a little ridiculous, really, the things that make Ming Fan happy. They’re so small. A single word of praise from a teacher; being picked first to shoulder a responsibility; a smile and a touch from Zhao De. It’s painfully obvious how Ming Fan feels about Zhao De, and it always has been. Ming Fan has a paper face, and can’t hide what he feels to save his life. Zhao De has always known. And honestly? He doesn’t particularly care. Or, no; it’s a little funny, actually. To be able to make him flush with happiness or wilt with disappointment with such very little effort, to always have him eating out of his hand and so eager to please. It’s too easy, really, but easy is fun sometimes. Useful, too, when he’s the Head Disciple of Qing Jing now. For as long as that might last. Maybe Zhao De should reward him for making himself so useful? / Zhao De shows Ming Fan a bad good time.</blockquote> ➤ yikes (complimentary) ➤ Ming Fan/OMC, where the OC is another disciple on Qing Jing Peak ➤ it's truly impressively horrible, the pov of this awful bully who manipulates Ming Fan into misery and encourages Ming Fan in all of his own worst bullying tendencies ➤ it's so well and believably done, and so compelling! ➤ mind the author's tags on this one, it means what it says. I enjoyed the fic a lot but it's not a pleasant fic! ➤ 13k words in length