LINKDING

<blockquote>it would be neat if sometime post-canon zzs fucked up his recreational memory-altering drug use and wkx woke up the next morning to mid-tianchuang!zzs, to everyone’s extreme distress</blockquote>

<blockquote>Zhou Zishu gets drugged, gets rescued, gets fucked better by Wen Kexing, and thinks about the fact that he has things to live for, in approximately that order.</blockquote> Author's note:<blockquote> "i bet i can convey the extent to which wkx is having a bad time from the pov of the person who's too high to function" i said, putting on my finest clown nose</blockquote> ➤ REALLY GOOD at that actually!! And also at the horrible headspace zzs is in!

<blockquote>“Lao Wen has beautiful hands,” Zhou Zishu says, the same way he says the sun is bright today, or this river doesn’t run too deep, just another one of Zhou Zishu’s straightforward observations about the world. A-Xu’s observations always have a simple action on their heels: if the sun is bright, they should bask in it; if the river isn’t too deep, they ought to cross it. If Lao Wen’s hands are beautiful — Grief, pain, and fingering your impossible lover to sleep.</blockquote> ➤ living with chronic pain and the knowledge that one of you is going to die too soon

<blockquote>The Window of Heaven captures the Ghost Valley's master. Zhou Zishu is put in charge of interrogating him. But Wen Kexing has a plan of his own…</blockquote> ➤ Love the thing where someone enters a marriage they didn't want, but takes their marriage vows seriously and is now on the side of their spouse. And even more so when the spouse knows this about them and planned it on purpose! Always delightful!!